MICROFACIES AND DIAGENESIS OF LATE JURASSIC - EARLY CRETACEOUS INNER SHELF - OOLITIC SHOAL DEPOSITS OF MONTE SACRO SEQUENCE (GARGANO PROMONTORY, ITALY). Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

STUDY OF COBALT DOPED TITANIUM NITRIDE AND CHROMIUM DOPED TITANIUM NITRIDE THIN FILMS GROWN BY RF/DC MAGNETRON SPUTTERING. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

ADVANCED HELIOSTAT ELECTRICAL DRIVE SYSTEM FOR CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER TOWER. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

CARBON NANOSTRUCTURE-BASED MATERIALS FOR REMOVAL OF ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS FROM WASTEWATER. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

TWO-WHEELED SINGLE-TRACK VEHICLES SELF BALANCING SYSTEM AND CONTROL DESIGN. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Asymptotic Behavior and Stability for Some Generalized Fractional Differential Equations. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis of Apps Reviews Using Supervised Machine Learning. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN SAUDI ARABIA. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Solar Assisted Ion Transport Membrane (ITM)/Multi-Hole Burner System for Zero-Emission Power Generation. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Defect detection in PV solar cell images using local feature and texture feature extraction. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

A DECISION MAKING ALGORITHM TO OPTIMIZE THE MULTI-ORDER LINES IN PICKUP AND DROP DELIVERY PROBLEMS. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

OPTIMAL ECONOMIC PRODUCTION QUANTITY MODEL FOR A CNC NIBBLING PROCESS. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Real-Time Advisory Hole-Cleaning Model. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS OF PROMINENT METAHEURISTIC ALGORITHMS. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

PARAMETRIC COST ESTIMATION OF INDUSTRIAL STEEL STRUCTURES IN KSA USING MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

RECOGNITION OF PRINTED ARABIC-ENGLISH TEXT. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

BUCKLING AND VIBRATIONAL RESPONSE OF ADVANCED FUNCTIONALLY GRADED SANDWICH PLATE RESTING ON VISCOELASTIC FOUNDATION UNDER HYGRO-THERMAL ENVIRONMENT. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Development of Self-compacting Concrete utilizing Silico Manganese Fume. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Joint Multi-Objective Production Scheduling and Maintenance Planning Model for Green Environment. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Evolutionary Algorithms for System Identification. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

A NOVEL KERNEL LEAST MEAN SQUARE ALGORITHM BASED ON WEIGHTED GAUSSIAN KERNEL. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

A MULI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING MODEL FOR THE SELECTION OF HAULING EQUIPMENT IN EASTERN PROVINCE IN SAUDI ARABIA. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Trust Modeling for IoT Environments. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

A SIMULATION STUDY OF THE DRAW SOLUTION SEPARATION SYSTEM IN FORWARD OSMOSIS DESALINATION. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Electrocatalytic Dehalogenation of Disinfection By-products from Water Samples Using Conductive Metal Organic Frameworks. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Development of a Hyper-Resolution, Physically-Based, Distributed Hydrologic and Water Quality Model for the City of Makkah, Saudi Arabia. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

OPTIMIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES IN HYBRID RENEWABLE POWER SYSTEM. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

EARLY - TARDY SCHEDULING PROBLEM WITH ENERGY CONSUMPTION CONSIDERATION. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF PREMIXED OXY COMBUSTION IN A GAS TURBINE MODEL COMBUSTOR ADAPTING MULTI-HOLE BURNER COMBUSTION TECHNOLOGY. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

INVESTIGATION OF WAVE PROPAGATION IN ADVANCED FUNCTIONALLY GRADED CERAMICMETAL PLATES WITH POROSITIES RESTING ON VISCOELASTIC FOUNDATION. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Atomistic Simulation of Hydroxyethyl Cellulose (HEC) for Enhanced Oil recovery applications. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

EVALUATION OF FOAM SUPER-CRITICAL CO2 INJECTION IN THE COMPOSITE LIMESTONE CORE USING NEW MULTIPLE FRACTURE SYSTEM. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

DDS-BASED NONLINEAR MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM NAVIGATION PLANNING AND CONTROL. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

GRAPHENE-BASED MEMBRANES FOR ENHANCED PERFORMANCE OF WATER PURIFICATION. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Two-Dimensional Direction of Arrival Estimation using Sparse Arrays. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

CRUDE OIL-IN-WATER NANOEMULSIONS STABILIZED BY BIOSURFACTANT: STABILITY, RHEOLOGICAL, INTERFACIAL TENSION, ZETA POTENTIAL, AND SIZE MEASUREMENTS STUDIES. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Ni-Doped-Bi-O Supported Catalysts for Selective Oxidative Dehydrogenation of N-Butane to Butadiene. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

CONDITION-BASED MAINTENANCE (CBM) OPTIMIZATION FOR MULTI-COMPONENT SYSTEM CONSIDERING MULTIPLE DEPENDENCIES. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Synthesis, Characterization and Modification of Ferrierite (FER) Catalysts for CO2 Reforming of Methane. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Integrated Economic Dispatch and Automatic Generation Control for a Grid with High Penetration of Renewable and Energy Storage. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Membrane Distillation for Water Desalination - Theoretical and Experimental Investigations. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Vibration Analysis of Rotating Tapered Timoshenko Beam Using Fourier-p Superelement. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

TOWARDS WATER SUSTAINABILITY: UTILIZING OILFIELD PRODUCED WATER IN FORMULATING OIL AND GAS STIMULATION FLUIDS THROUGH INCORPORATION OF CHELATING AGENTS. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

OPTIMAL COORDINATION OF TIME DELAY OVERCURRENT RELAYS FOR POWER SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Fractional Order Sliding Mode Control of Quadrotor Slung-Load Systems. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

HIGH ACCURACY VISIBLE LIGHT POSITIONING BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING WITH MODIFIED PATHLOSS MODEL. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

HYGRO-THERMO-MECHANICAL BENDING BEHAVIOR OF ADVANCED FUNCTIONALLY GRADED CERAMIC METAL PLATES RESTING ON VISCOELASTIC FOUNDATIONS. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Generalized Exponential Time Differencing Methods for Fractional Reaction-Diffusion Models. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

BLIND CONTRAST-ENHANCED IMAGE RANKING USING CONTRAST METRICS AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

EFFICIENT EQUALIZATION OF NONLINEAR MULTICHANNEL SYSTEMS. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NANOCRYSTALLINE BISMUTH TELLURIDE BASED SURFACES FOR THERMOELECTRIC APPLICATIONS USING ADVANCED PULSED LASER DEPOSITION. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

MIMO HAMMERSTEIN MODEL IDENTIFICATION BASED ON PSOGSA. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

SYNTHESIS OF IRON AND COBALT CONTAINING IONIC LIQUIDS AND THEIR APPLICATION IN MICROEXTRACTION AND ADSORPTION. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

SEDIMENTATION ON THE SLOPE OF THE AL_WAJH CARBONATE PLATFORM (RED SEA, SAUDI ARABIA). Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Kalman Particle Filter. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

MODIFICATION OF MEMBRANES BY INCORPORATING TIO2-GRAPHENE OXIDE FOR ENHANCED WATER PURIFICATION PERFORMANCE. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

MODELLING AND CONTROL OF MULTITERMINAL DC GRID FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY INTEGRATION. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

EVALUATING POTENTIAL OF DATE-PALM BIOCHAR FOR ARSENIC REMOVAL FROM WATER, COUPLED WITH SPECTRAL-INDUCED POLARIZATION (SIP) FOR REAL-TIME MONITORING. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

CONFIGURATION AND PROTOCOL SETTING FOR INTERNATIONAL LOAD SHARING SYSTEM IN MANUFACTURING AND ITS CHALLENGES IN CONTEXT OF INDUSTRY 4.0 (I4.0) AND INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS (IIOT). Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

DISCOVERY OF THERMOELECTRIC INORGANIC HALIDE PEROVSKITES MATERIALS USING MACHINE LEARNING. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION AND FINITE ELEMENT MODELING OF PULSE FRACTURING. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

SHORT-TERM SPATIOTEMPORAL CRASH PREDICTION AND MODELING – APPLICATION OF DEEP LEARNING AND HYBRID MODELS. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

HAND GESTURE SEGMENTATION AND SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION USING DEEP LEARNING. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

"ALTERNATE CYCLOCOPOLYMERIZATION: SYNTHESIS OF A NOVEL CLASS OF IONIC POLYMERS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS”. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

A BUSINESS DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPH APPROACH FOR PHARMACEUTICAL APPLICATIONS. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

MICROGRID ENERGY MANAGEMENT USING DEEP Q-NETWORK REINFORCEMENT LEARNING. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

DEVELOPED THERMO-HYDRAULIC MODEL OF DIRECT STEAM GENERATION WITH RELIABLE TWO-PHASE FLOW CONSIDERATION. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Development of Oil-Well Cement Formulations for CO2-Rich Environment Relevant to Geologic Carbon Sequestration. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

PERFORMANCE OF MID L-BAND PHOTONIC MILLIMETER WAVES FOR 5G FLEXIBLE HETEROGENEOUS ACCESS NETWORKS. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Production Enhancement Using CO2-Rich Flue Gases. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Persistent Homology and Its Applications. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Goal-oriented Requirements Language (GRL) Bad Smells Detection. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

ROLE OF ROCK MINERALOGY AND OIL COMPOSITION IN WETTABILITY ALTERATION OF CARBONATE RESERVOIRS BY SUBCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Cloud-based FPGA custom computing machines. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

A SOFTWARE PROGRAMMABLE MEMORY ARCHITECTURE FOR DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS (DNN). Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

A DYNAMIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM PLANNING MODEL CONSIDERING NON-WIRE ALTERNATIVES. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Privacy-preserving Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Using Deep Learning Techniques. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

FUZZY BASED MODELING FOR COST OVERRUN RISK IN SAUDI ARABIA’S CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

LOCALIZATION TECHNIQUES IN WIRELESS GEOPHONE NETWORKS FOR HIGH- DENSITY SEISMIC ACQUISITION. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Lanthanum zirconate with a rare earth element (Cerium oxide (CeO2)) as a promising candidate for thermal barrier coating Rayed. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

REAL-TIME ESTIMATION OF LOST CIRCULATION RATE WHILE DRILLING USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

UAV-Based Relaying Network: Performance Evaluation and Security Enhancement. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Dynamic Modeling, Analysis, and Control of a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Coding Based Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution Network. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

COOPERATIVE AND COORDINATED CONTROL OF MULTIVEHICLE SYSTEMS. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Oil Flow Rate Estimation for High GOR Producers Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Saddle Point Systems in Optimization. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Detecting Game Bugs Using Genetic Algorithms And Reachability Analysis Of Colored Petri Nets Models. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

SELECTION AND OPTIMIZATION OF DEMULSIFIER BASED ON PHYSIO-CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF EMULSION. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Design and Simulation of Steam Membrane Reforming Process for Hydrogen Production. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

UTILIZATION OF STABILIZED RAMMED EARTH IN EASTERN SAUDI ARABIA FOR CONSTRUCTION OF LOAD BEARING WALL. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

LITHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF GLACIAL DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT AND ITS CONTROLS ON RESERVOIR PROPERTIES. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

TWO-LEVEL METHOD FOR IMAGE DEBLURRING PROBLEM. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Software Defined Networking Approach for 5G Core Network. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Uncertainty Analysis of Direct Arrival Picks: Applications in Eastern Saudi Arabia. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

DEVELOPMENT OF ULTRACAPACITOR BASED ON SEMICONDUCTOR-PEROVSKITE CORE-SHELL ELECTRODES. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Decay Rates of Some Weakly Dissipative Wave Equations, Theory and Numerics. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF FREQUENCY REGULATION SCHEME FOR MICROGRIDS. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

OPTIMIZATION OF CONDITIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CONTAMINATED WATER USING CARBON-POLYMERS COMPOSITE. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

HIGH-RESOLUTION MECHANICAL STRATIGRAPHY OF LATE JURASSIC CARBONATE MUDROCKS, SAUDI ARABIA. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Design of Soft Error Tolerant Digital Circuits. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Classification of TGRL inter-actor dependencies. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

DIAGENETIC AND PETROPHYSICAL EVALUATION OF THE TOARCIAN UPPER MARRAT FORMATION IN CENTRAL SAUDI ARABIA. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

DESIGN DELAYS IN BUILDING PROJECTS: INVESTIGATION AND MITIGATION. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Effects of Cement, Lime, Cement Dust, Fly Ash and Silica Fume on Asphalt Mixtures. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Evaluating the Robustness of Deep Learning Models for Time Series Classification. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

A generalization of Ahlfors-Schwarz Lemma. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

DEVELOPING FORMWORK LABOR PRODUCTIVITY STANDARDS FOR BUILDING CONSTRUCTION IN THE EASTERN PROVINCE OF SAUDI ARABIA. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

(2021) Multiple-Objective Optimization of District Cooling System (DCS). Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Experimental and Numerical Modeling of the Behavior of Ultra High-Performance Concrete Slabs Under Impact Loads. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

DESIGN FOR REPURPOSING: FRAMEWORK, TOOLKIT, AND LCA. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

ROBUST ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR DUCK CURVE HANDLING. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

ON A CONSERVED PHASE-FIELD SYSTEM WITH NO GROWTH ASSUMPTION ON THE NONLINEAR TERM. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Investigation of The Effect of Quenching and Partitioning Processing on API Graded Steels. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

IIoT based framework for large-scale distributed smart farms. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

PASSIVE SEISMIC EVENT DETECTION IN THE GRONINGEN AREA USING DEEP LEARNING. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

DETECTION OF FALSE DATA INJECTION ATTACKS AGAINST OPTIMAL POWER FLOW IN POWER SYSTEMS. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

FABRICATION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF NOVEL ALL-SOLID-STATE PEROVSKITE ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS FOR INTEGRATED ENERGY HARVESTING AND ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES. PhD thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

INTERFACIAL BOND BEHAVIOR BETWEEN ULTRA HIGH-PERFORMANCE CONCRETE (UHPC) AND DIFFERENT CONCRETE SUBSTRATES. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

HYDROPHOBIC AND ANTIMICROBIAL COATINGS FOR HVAC WATER COOLING TOWERS. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

"SYNTHESIS AND APPLICATION OF CYCLOPOLYMERS CONTAINING CHELATING MOTIFS OF B-AMINOETHYLIMINODIACETIC ACID”. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

FUNCTIONALIZED POLYMER-BASED MATERIALS AS SCALE AND CORROSION INHIBITORS. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

THE INVESTIGATIONS ON THE MODIFIED Y-ZEOLITE BASED FCC CATALYST: EFFECT OF ZEOLITE TO MATRIX RATIO. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

FLEXURAL STRENGTHENING OF CORRODED REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS USING HYBRID SYSTEM. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Hybrid Battery-Supercapacitor Storage System for Power Quality Enhancement in Microgrids. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Software-Defined Aerial Networks in 5G: A Data-Centric Publish/Subscribe Approach to Hierarchical Distributed Controllers. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

The Role of Thermophilic Bacterial Strains in Aerobic Wastewater Treatment. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

FIRST ARRIVAL PICKING USING TWO DIFFERENT METHODS: MDPE AND DBSCAN. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Sputtered bismuth trioxide(Bi2O3) thin films. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

The Heterogeneity and statistical analysis of Porosity and Permeability in Jurassic Carbonates in Central of Saudi Arabia. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Hierarchical Attention Network Architecture Improvement for Cloze-Style Question Answering. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

SOLAR POWERED HYBRID ADSORPTION DESALINATIONCOOLING SYSTEMS. Masters thesis, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.