Category Archives: Publication

PLANNING MALAYSIA

PLANNING MALAYSIA

Exciting news! Our latest journal paper titled “Late Strata Titles Delivery: Insights and Impact To High Rise Housing Development” has just been published in the Planning Malaysia Journal (Volume 21, Issue 1, 2023). This paper delves into the implications of delayed strata title delivery on high-rise housing development, providing valuable insights for the field. If you’re interested in reading more, check out the link below to access the full paper. Thank you for your support!

Link to the paper: https://www.planningmalaysia.org/index.php/pmj/article/view/1246/928

#housingdevelopment #stratatitles #planningmalaysiajournal #publication #research #insights #impact #highrise #architecture #construction #propertydevelopment

PUBLISHED AND WE GOT IT OPEN ACCESS (FOR FREE)!

PUBLISHED AND WE GOT IT OPEN ACCESS (FOR FREE)!

Successfully published our research paper in volume 41 for the third edition this year (2023). The interesting part of our study this time is we observe the habits of litter in the community. Quite surprised with the amount of litter we collected within our research area. With the help of geospatial analysis techniques, we can see trends. 

However, research is only an instrument for studying the effects of this waste. But the most important thing is the attitude to keep our place clean. Please don’t litter everywhere, guys. We talk about the SDGs, the Sustainable City, the Green Life, etc., but it is useless if there is no right “litter” attitude. It all starts with you (and me).

Title: Within cluster pattern identification: A new approach for optimizing recycle point distribution to support policy implementation on waste management in Malaysia.

Journal: Waste Management & Research

Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/0734242X221123489

Quartile: Q2

 #community #research #help #sustainable #wastemanagement #gis #geographicinformationsystems #spatialanalysis #litter #sdg #openaccess #highereducation 

JOURNAL ARTICLE SHARING

JOURNAL ARTICLE SHARING

This is our first journal publication of this year. The concept of the city with an infrastructure of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) embraces several definitions depending on the meanings of the word “smart” which include: intelligent city, smart city, knowledge city, ubiquitous city, sustainable city, and digital city. Many definitions of the city exist, but this study explores which one has been universally acknowledged. From the literature analysis, it emerges that the term smart city is the most used in the articles to show the smartness of a city. This paper shares exploration of the research from the seven main website digital databases and journals focusing on the smart city from January 2015 to February 2020 to: (a) Time research, to examine the causes of the smart city phenomenon and other concept literature in the last five years; (b) Review of words, to see how and where the smart city specification and relation of different definitions are implemented; (c) Geographical research to consider where smart cities’ greatest concentrations are in the world and determine if Malaysians are interacting with the smart city; and (d) How many papers are published in all of Malaysia from 2015 to 2020 about smart cities. Three steps are followed to accomplish the aim of this study: (1) The analysis which covered a systematic literature review search strategy to gather a representative sub-set of papers on the smart city and other definitions utilizing GoogleScholar, Elsevier, Scopus, ScienceDirect, IEEEXplore, WebofScience, and Springer between January 2015- February 2020; (2) The formation of a bibliometric map based on the bibliometric evaluation using the mapping technique VOSviewer to visualize differences; (3) VOSviewer application program to build initial clusters. The bibliometric analytical findings targeted the word harmony.

Journal name: World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology

[Urban and Civil Engineering]

Online ISSN : 1307-6892

Articles link:

https://publications.waset.org/10012899/pdf

 #technology #digital #engineering #research #communication #strategy #sustainable #science #smartcities #infrastructure #formation #civilengineering 

MALANG NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, INDONESIA – LECTURE SERIES 

MALANG NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, INDONESIA – LECTURE SERIES 

Sharing an info. I have been invited to deliver a lecture series on Geographic Information Science (GIS) at Malang National Institute of Technology, Indonesia.

The interesting thing about the pandemic is that we don’t need a passport or air tickets to travel. Everything is virtual.

Thank you to the organizing committee for inviting and giving me the opportunity to share some of the knowledge I have to the geodesy students there.

“Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.” – Richard Stallman

#lectureseries #itnmalang #malang #gis #gist #gisc #utm #lecture #highereducation #sharingknowledge #geodesy

GSCAEE 2021 Keynote Talk – DONE

GSCAEE 2021 Keynote Talk – DONE

It was a pleasure to team up with other keynote speakers at the Global Summit of Civil, Architecture, and Environmental Engineering 2021 (GSCAEE2021).

Here are the speakers during my keynote session:

Title: Structural Fire Engineering: A Growing Need for Innovation.
Cristian Maluk, The University of Queensland, Australia

Title: Deep learning and its Applications in Construction.
Mehrdad Arashpour, Monash University, Australia

Title: Recent Trends of 3D City Modeling in Built Environment.
Uznir Ujang, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

Title:Innovative Strategies for Enhancing Fire Performance of High Performing Materials and Structural Systems.
Venkatesh Kodur, Michigan State University, USA

Title: Hurricane Risk Mitigation in a Changing Climate.
Ning Lin, Princeton University, USA

Congratulations and thank you to GSCAEE 2021 organizer The Scientist and MDPI Building Journal for inviting me as a keynote speaker at this summit. It is the most well-organized online conference to date.

I was informed next year, GSCAEE 2022 will take place in Copenhagen Denmark. If things go back to normal, I plan to be there. I am excited to visit my old house there again.

#gscaee2021 #keynote #talk #3dcitymodeling #3dgis #barcelona #spain #utm

KEYNOTE TALK – GSCAEE 2021

KEYNOTE TALK – GSCAEE 2021

Colleagues and researchers,

Just to share the link of my keynote talk. Its a keynote talk at the Global Summit on Civil, Architecture, and Environmental Engineering 2021 (GSCAEE 2021) on July 21st, 2021 at Barcelona Spain (01:00pm CEST GMT +1). This event is organized by The Scientistt and MDPI Buildings Journal (Switzerland).

The keynote talk entitled: “Recent Trends of 3D City Modelling in Built Environment“

https://www.thescientistt.com/civil-structural-environmental-engineering/

Feel free to share this link with your research colleagues.

Many thanks.

#research #3dcitymodeling #3dgis #3ddata #keynotespeaker #gis #builtenvironment #gscaee2021

3D City Model of UTM

3D CITY MODEL OF UTM

We wish to share our journal paper “Virtual 3D Campus for Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)” has been accepted and published in the ISPRS Journal Special Issue “Virtual 3D City Models”. The editor for the journal is Rudi Stouffs (National University of Singapore – NUS), and Wolfgang Kainz (University of Vienna) as the Editor in Chief of this journal. It is a 2.239 Impact Factor journal with a 3.8 Scopus CiteScore (Q2 Journal).

Here is the link for the paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/10/6/356/htm

You may share the journal paper with your friends and colleagues for their reference.

Happy reading!

#research #university #publication #university #science #published #education #3Dcitymodelling #3dgis #gis

HIGHER EDUCATION INTEGRITY

HIGHER EDUCATION INTEGRITY

No matter where we are, integrity is a reflection of one’s personality. Even in the higher education, integrity in scientific writing to convey scientific facts is important.

Mentioning my previous post, I was asked by the World Health Organization – WHO Bulletin to evaluate an article to be published in the forthcoming Bulletin. The article is related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

I have found that the article plagiarized and almost 70% of the results were taken from other sources without any accurate reference.

It is hesitant for me to write to the editor and state my suggestion that the article should not be published. But somehow I believe that right facts are important in ensuring the integrity of the scientific world for the better.

“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.” – Bob Marley

#integrity #highereducation #academicresearch #university #researchers #covid19 #pandemic2020

World Health Organization (WHO) Request

 

I am astounded when I got an email from the World Health Organization or WHO. They ask me to review their article about COVID-19 pandemic for WHO newsletter.

I’m really surprised because I’m not a medical doctor who specialises in this field of pandemics. But after looking at the article, my opinion is needed from the aspect of spatial/space sciences included in the article.

It’s an honour for me to accept this invitation. Given the relatively short review duration, I do understand the urgency for it and will try to give my scientific review and opinion to the best of my knowledge and experience.

From my initial point of view, the article have an impact in terms of analyzing COVID-19 spreading among humans in confined spaces.

Let us all fight this COVID-19 pandemic together!

-Uznir Ujang (Malaysia)

#3dgis #gis #covid19research #covid19pandemic #covid19 #spatialanalysis #research #academicresearch #researchers #highereducation #university

Writing a Journal

WRITING A JOURNAL

It was a success a while back when we successfully published a manuscript in this journal. It can be difficult if you don’t have the experience of writing a #journal #manuscript.

But it was a bit of a shock when the manuscript was being the #mostdownloaded #GIS paper in the journal for many years. At that time, the term “open access” was still very relatively uncommon. Each year, appreciation email was sent from the Editor regarding the most downloaded paper of the journal.

Many years later, the #experience of publishing a journal remains a memory. The intention to start writing the manuscript was to share our research works with other #researchers around the world.

“It’s #publish or #perish”

#academicresearch #highereducationresearch #journals #scientificresearch #openaccess #writing #published