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ArticlesINTERNATIONALIZING MANUFACTURING SMEs IN A DEVELOPING REGION: AN EXHAUSTIVE CDA-BASED EXPLORATORY APPROACH
Rafi Javed Qureshi, Iftikhar Hussain
Internationalization of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in developing economies is a hybrid strategy where reactive remedies and proactive styles of inward/outward operations is sought by innovative and risk seeking entrepreneurs. Exporting remai…
15 Aug 2020- Articles
RE-DESIGNING AND OPERATIONAL ANALYSES OF THE SEDIMENT TRANSPORT CONTROL IN IRRIGATION CANAL NETWORK
Saman Shahid, Shahid Ali, Muhammad Abdullah Ahmad, Sarfraz Munir
The purpose of this research was to improve the existing design of the irrigation canals in Punjab. The design of an entire canal network is a tiresome and laborious work, where engineers spend months to design canals. Over the years, engineers and agric…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
GENERATORS MAINTENANCE SCHEDULING USING HARMONY SEARCH ALGORITHM
Laiq Khan, Sidra Mumtaz, Kamran Javed, S.W. Shah, M.I. Khan Babar, S.R. Akbar
Music-based harmony search algorithm is a relatively new meta-heuristic technique. It is used to solve multi-objective optimization problems. Generators maintenance schedules (GMS) play the most significant role for the economical and reliable operat…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
ROLE OF MN ATOMS ON TENSILE PROPERTIES OF LIGHT WEIGHT CHQ STEEL
Shahid Hussain Abro
Alloying elements always play a crucial role in any steel grade to change the mechanical properties and each element plays his role. The present work has been performed to reveal the role of Mn atoms on tensile properties of experimental steel.…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
DESIGN OF FIXED ORDER ROBUST CONTROLLER USING H∞ -NORM AND EVOLUTIONARY TECHNIQUES: COMPARISONS AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
Faizullah Mahar, Syed Saad Azhar Ali, Abid Karim
Robust controllers obtained using H∞ control theory usually have much higher order than that of the plant and it is complex in nature as well. Moreover, in these design methods the order of controller cannot be fixed a priori to control law des…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
DETERMINISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS AND SELECTION OF TIME HISTORIES FOR DYNAMIC ANALYSIS FOR A SITE IN SWABI
Muhammad Waseem, Irshad Ahmad, Muhammad Asif Khan
Pakistan lies in one of the most tectonically active regions of the world. The latest destructive 2005 Kashmir earthquake of magnitude 7.6 struck the northern part of Pakistan which caused death toll of about a hundred thousand people and monitory lo…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
AN SVC BASED POWER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT MODEL FOR CONSUMERS CONNECTED TO WEAK BUSSES IN DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS
Faheem Ali, Muhammad Amir, Muhammad Iftikhar Khan, Muhammad Naeem Arbab, Abdul Basit, Muhammad Kashif Khan et al.
Power quality is a major concern considering weak bus systems. In order to improve power quality, residential consumers go with voltage stabilizers as a cheap solution consequently overstressing weak busses. Industrial consumers use other alternatives lik…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS OF ISLAMABAD
Rashidullah, Irshad Ahmad
Seismic Hazard Analysis (SHA) is carried out for the city of Islamabad using both deterministic and probabilistic approach. Earthquake catalogue compiled by National Engineering Services Pakistan (NESPAK) for the period of (1505-2006) has been used.…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
A METHOD OF DATA MINING FOR SUSTAINABLE HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION
Muhammad Shaheen, Muhammad Shahbaz, Zahoor ur Rehman, Sajid Mehmood
Sustainability needs balance in ecology, economy and social justice. The world in this century is badly suffered by unsustainable development causing recession crisis, manpower crisis etc. Energy is vital for economy of a country so it has sound impa…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
MACROSCOPIC SPRAY CHARACTERISTICS OF DIESEL AND BIODIESEL-DIESEL BLEND: AN EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON
Asad Naeem Shah, GE Yun-shan, HE Chao
The qualitative aspects of the fuel spray particularly spray length and cone angle play a significant role not only in the temporal sequence of clean and efficient combustion, but also in the control of engine exhaust emissions and efficiency optimiz…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
RELIABLE MULTICAST IMPLEMENTATION IN JAVA
S.W. Shah, M.I. Babar, L. Khan, M.N. Arbab, H. Ullah, R.A. Syed
This paper describes the implementation of reliable group communication in Java. The underlying delivery mechanism for multicast is presently based on User Datagram Protocol (UDP) that provides a “best effort” delivery service. Best effor…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
DYNAMIC MODELING AND CONTROLLER DESIGN FOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
Arshad Habib Malik, Aftab Ahmed Memon, Muhammad Rafiq Khan
Higher order mathematical modeling and discrete fast output sampling control synthesis for PHWR (Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor)-type nuclear power plant is presented in this paper. The nonlinear dynamic model of PHWR power reactor is developed base…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
DEVELOPMENT OF FLOOD DISCHARGE MODELS USING GIS
Usman Ali Naeem, Hashim Nisar, Habib-ur-Rehman, Naeem Ejaz
Hydrological command of waterway system has been altering beneath the crash of mutually environment disparity and human actions in the overall milieu. With the advent of technology it is now possible to model the complete resource allocation of any h…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
DYNAMICS OF URBAN SPATIAL GROWTH AND PLANNING: A CASE STUDY OF PESHAWAR
Mohammad Aslam Khan, Samiullah, Zulfiqar Ali
This paper traces the spatial growth of Peshawar, one of the major cities of Pakistan. Data and information for the study were collected from historic maps, documents and satellite images. The analysis shows that the city has been growing at a rapid pace…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
GPS ASSISTED HANDOFF IN OVERLAPPING IPv6 WLAN WITH MULTIPLE CoA
Farah Mahmood, Mohammad Inayatullah Babar, Syed Waqar Shah, Hamid Ullah, Riaz Akbar Syed
With the evolution of wireless networks and the unique features of mobile IPv6 it has become possible to utilize network services at remote location. However the handoff issues due to mobility can lead to serious delays. In this paper we present a un…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
CHARACTERIZATION OF CERAMICS WALL TILES USING LOCAL TALC AS A FLUXING AGENT
Iftikhar Ahmad, Sahar Noor
Talc, a magnesium silicate mineral, is abundantly available in Pakistan. Internationally talc is used with other raw materials to produce wall tiles. But due to difference in mineralogical locations of the local talc and other raw materials, a local…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
MATERIAL HANDLING COST CONSIDERATION IN PROCESS PLAN SELECTION FOR RECONFIGURABLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM
Sajid Ullah Butt, Aamer Ahmed Baqai, Syeda Naela Fatima, Hasan Aftab Saeed
In today’s market, ever-changing products and demands are major concerns for every manufacturer. Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS) are so designed as to have customized flexibility and cost-effective reconfiguration whenever a design change in p…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
MACROSCOPIC MODEL ON DRIVER PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR AT CHANGES IN TRAFFIC
Zawar Hussain Khan, T. Aaron Gulliver, Khizar Azam, Khurram Shehzad Khattak
A model is presented which can accurately characterize macroscopic traffic evolution. This model is based on analogies with the ideal gas law. A traffic constant is proposed which considers both physiological and psychological driver behavior. Physio…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
AN EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM FOR JOB-SHOP SCHEDULING
Adnan Tariq, Iftikhar Hussain, Abdul Ghafoor, Sahar Noor
It has been a general perception that the hardness level of job-shop scheduling problems is comparatively high and that is why effective, efficient and accurate procedures for scheduling are required to substantiate its usefulness. Therefore, in this…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
A PARALLEL DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN CODE FOR COMPRESSIBLE FLUID FLOWS ON UNSTRUCTURED GRIDS
Amjad Ali, Hong Luo, Khalid Saifullah Syed, Muhammad Ishaq
A parallel discontinuous Galerkin code based on a Taylor series basis for the compressible Euler equations on unstructured meshes is presented. The parallel numerical method is capable to efficiently simulate the flow physics of the problems consider…
15 Aug 2020