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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
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
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
TECHNO-ECONOMICS OF UPS SYSTEM AS BACKUP POWER SOURCE DURING LOAD SHEDDING
Uzma Nawaz, Muhammad Iftikhar Khan, Muhammad Naeem Arbab
The energy crises in Pakistan of the last two decades has forced electricity consumers to use backup power sources based on portable generator sets and Un-interrupted Power Supply (UPS) devices. In order to maintain continuity of supply to basi…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
DYNAMIC MODELING AND STARTING BEHAVIOR OF A SMALL HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINE
Sikandar Khan, Afzal Khan, Muhammad Tahir Khan, Muhammad Ali Kamran, Abdul Shakoor
Small, stand-alone wind turbines are a possible solution to the energy requirements of remote areas in Pakistan. However except for the coastal areas, wind speeds available in various areas of Pakistan are low to medium, especially in the northern ar…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
APPLICATION OF LABELLED K MEANS CLUSTERING FOR GIS CONTRACT AUTOMATION
Muhammad Shaheen
K Means Clustering is an unsupervised classification technique which is suitable for the dataset which do not have any class labels. The absence of labels constrained its application on different text data sets. Labelled K Means clustering generate label…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
KNOWLEDGE BASE TECHNOLOGIES AS A NEW PARADIGM IN DATA DRIVEN MANUFACTURING SYSTEM
Abdul Shakoor, R.A. Sayed, Khizar Azam
The maximization of prospects for substantial benefits and projecting the industry to fulfill the competitive needs in globally oriented business environment requires wide-ranging information based decision support system. The knowledge sharing frame…
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
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
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
HAND-EYE COORDINATION FOR OBJECT GRASPING TASK OF HUMANOID ROBOT (BHR-02)
Altaf Hussain Rajpar, Abdul Hameed Memon, Mohammad Akram Shaikh, Weimin Zhang
Hand-eye coordination play vital role in object grasping task of humanoid robot. A method proposed for hand-eye coordination addresses four distinct problems i) Integration of vision control and motion control ii) hand-eye coordinate transformation i…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
A SURVEY ON AUTO-CONFIGURATION MECHANISMS FOR MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORKS (MANETS)
Shahrukh Khalid, Athar Mahboob
Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) are infrastructure-less networks. Moreover, due to inherent characteristic of mobility of nodes, network merging and partitioning, issues and problems of MANETs are peculiar in nature. Current networking software stack…
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
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR MACHINE TYPE COMMUNICATION AND INTERNET OF THINGS IN MOBILE NETWORKS
Ahmad Khan, Yasir Mehmood
Due to the paramount importance of Machine Type Communication (MTC) in many fields, massive increase in (MTC) data traffic is anticipated in future. Different wireless communication technologies can be used for interconnecting MTC devices (MTCDs), bu…
15 Aug 2020 - Articles
MITIGATING CO2 EMISSIONS OF ACADEMIC BUILDINGS IN PAKISTAN USING ENERGY CONSERVATION TECHNIQUES
Shakil Rehman Sheikh, Zafar Ullah Koreshi, Nouman Ghafoor, Muhammad Shahid Khalil, Muzzamil Ghaffar
Energy use data of the sample school was gathered from available records as well as measured using an in-house developed metering device that recorded the electric consumption data on hourly bases. Building energy simulations were also carried out using T…
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
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
EVALUATING THE SOCIAL ASPECT OF SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION FOR PAKISTAN VIA ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS
Sikandar Bilal Khattak, Iftikhar Hussain, Rashid Nawaz
Sustainable Development, sustainability and sustainable construction are not synonymous to each other. In the past decade researchers have presented models for sustainability and identified factors for different countries. Most of the definitio…
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
NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF MEANDERING OPEN CHANNEL FLOWS
Usman Ghani, Naeem Ijaz, Daulat Khan
Flooding occurs worldwide and causes huge loss to human life and property. There is an ever increasing danger of floods due to global warming. The overbank flow studies are important for understanding flow behavior and bed shear stresses during flood…
15 Aug 2020