IJACSA Vol. 7 Issue 10 (2016)

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Encryption Algorithms for Color Images: A Brief Review of Recent Trends

Author 1: Anuja P Parameshwaran Author 2: Wen-Zhan Song

The recent years have witnessed rapid developments in the field of image encryption algorithms for secure color image processing. Image encryption algorithms have been classified in different ways in the past. This paper reviews the different image encryption algorithms developed during the period 2007-2015, highlighting their contrasting features. At the… Read full abstract & cite →

RGB HIS CMY Chaotic cryptosystem wavelets affine transforms and visual cryptography

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2016.071001 PDF

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Characterizing the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign using Twitter Data

Author 1: Ignasi Vegas Author 2: Tina Tian Author 3: Wei Xiong

This paper models the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign in the context of Twitter. The study analyzes the presidential candidates’ Twitter activity by crawling their real-time tweets. More than 16,000 tweets were observed in this work. We study the interactions between the politicians and their Twitter followers in the retweet and… Read full abstract & cite →

Twitter social networks data mining

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2016.071002 PDF

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Pentaho and Jaspersoft: A Comparative Study of Business Intelligence Open Source Tools Processing Big Data to Evaluate Performances

Author 1: Victor M. Parra Author 2: Ali Syed Author 3: Azeem Mohammad Author 4: Malka N. Halgamuge

Regardless of the recent growth in the use of “Big Data” and “Business Intelligence” (BI) tools, little research has been undertaken about the implications involved. Analytical tools affect the development and sustainability of a company, as evaluating clientele needs to advance in the competitive market is critical. With the advancement… Read full abstract & cite →

Big Data BI Business Intelligence CAS Computer Algebra System ETL Data Mining OLAP

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Diagnosing Coronary Heart Disease using Ensemble Machine Learning

Author 1: Kathleen H. Miao Author 2: Julia H. Miao Author 3: George J. Miao

Globally, heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women. One in every four people is afflicted with and dies of heart disease. Early and accurate diagnoses of heart disease thus are crucial in improving the chances of long-term survival for patients and saving millions of… Read full abstract & cite →

accuracy adaptive Boosting algorithm AUC classifier classification error coronary heart disease diagnosis ensemble learning F-score K-S measure machine learning precision prediction recall ROC sensitivity specificity

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2016.071004 PDF

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Backstepping Control of Induction Motor Fed by Five-Level NPC Inverter

Author 1: Ali BOUCHAIB Author 2: Abdellah MANSOURI Author 3: Rachid TALEB

In this paper we will present a contribution to the backstepping control for induction motor (IM) based on the principle of Field Orientated Control (FOC). This law is established step by step while ensuring the stability of the machine in the closed loop, by a suitable choice of the function… Read full abstract & cite →

Backstepping control Five-level NPC inverter Field orientated control Induction motor

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On Standards for Application Level Interfaces in SDN

Author 1: Yousef Ibrahim Daradkeh Author 2: Mujahed Aldhaifallah Author 3: Dmitry Namiot Author 4: Manfred Sneps-Sneppe

In this paper, authors discuss application level interfaces for Software Defined Networks. While the Application Programming Interfaces for the interaction with the hardware are widely described in Software Defined Networks, the software interfaces for applications received far less attention. However, it is obvious that interfaces to software applications are very… Read full abstract & cite →

SDN REST API Northbound interface application

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2016.071006 PDF

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Impact of Domain Modeling Techniques on the Quality of Domain Model: An Experiment

Author 1: Hiqmat Nisa Author 2: Salma Imtiaz Author 3: Muhammad Uzair Khan Author 4: Saima Imtiaz

The unified modeling language (UML) is widely used to analyze and design different software development artifacts in an object oriented development. Domain model is a significant artifact that models the problem domain and visually represents real world objects and relationships among them. It facilitates the comprehension process by identifying the… Read full abstract & cite →

Domain Model UML Experiment Noun Phrasing Technique Category List Technique

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2016.071007 PDF

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A New Selection Operator - CSM in Genetic Algorithms for Solving the TSP

Author 1: Wael Raef Alkhayri Author 2: Suhail Sami Owais Author 3: Mohammad Shkoukani

Genetic Algorithms (GAs) is a type of local search that mimics biological evolution by taking a population of string, which encodes possible solutions and combines them based on fitness values to produce individuals that are fitter than others. One of the most important operators in Genetic Algorithm is the selection… Read full abstract & cite →

Genetic Algorithm Traveling Salesman Problem Genetic Algorithm Operators Clustering Selection Operator

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2016.071008 PDF

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Automatic Detection of Omega Signals Captured by the Poynting Flux Analyzer (PFX) on Board the Akebono Satellite

Author 1: I Made Agus Dwi Suarjaya Author 2: Yoshiya Kasahara Author 3: Yoshitaka Goto

The Akebono satellite was launched in 1989 to observe the Earth’s magnetosphere and plasmasphere. Omega was a navigation system with 8 ground stations transmitter and had transmission pattern that repeats every 10 s. From 1989 to 1997, the PFX on board the Akebono satellite received signals at 10.2 kHz from… Read full abstract & cite →

Auto-detection Satellite Signal processing Wave Propagation Plasmasphere

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A New Methodology in Study of Effective Parameters in Network-on-Chip Interconnection’s (Wire/Wireless) Performance

Author 1: Mostafa Haghi Author 2: Kerstin Thurow Author 3: Norbert Stoll Author 4: Saed Moradi

Network-on-Chip (NoC) paradigm has been proposed as an alternative bus-based schemes to achieve high performance and scalability in System-on-Chip (SoC) design. Performance analysis and evaluation of on-chip interconnect architectures are widely considered. Time latency and throughput are two very critical parameters which play vital role to improve the system performance… Read full abstract & cite →

network on chip on-chip interconnection buffer size virtual channel subnet

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Determining the Types of Diseases and Emergency Issues in Pilgrims During Hajj: A Literature Review

Author 1: Shah Murtaza Rashid Al Masud Author 2: Asmidar Abu Bakar Author 3: Salman Yussof

Introduction: Every year 2-3 million pilgrims with different background and most of them are elderly from 184 countries in the world congregate in the holy place ‘Haram’ at Makkah in Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj. During the pilgrimage, they come across a great deal of rough and tough environment, physical… Read full abstract & cite →

Hajj pilgrims health communicable diseases non-communicable diseases emergency

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Energy Efficient Routing Protocol for Maximizing Lifetime in Wireless Sensor Networks using Fuzzy Logic and Immune System

Author 1: Safaa Khudair Leabi Author 2: Turki Younis Abdalla

Energy limitations has become fundamental challenge for designing wireless networks systems. One of the important and interested features is network lifetime. Many works have been developed to maximize wireless sensor network lifetime, in which one of the important work is routing. This paper proposes a new adaptive routing technique for… Read full abstract & cite →

routing fuzzy logic artificial immune system network lifetime wireless sensor networks

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A System Framework for Smart Class System to Boost Education and Management

Author 1: Ahmad Tasnim Siddiqui Author 2: Mehedi Masud

The large number of reasonably priced computers, Internet broadband connectivity and rich education content has created a global phenomenon by which information and communication technology (ICT) has used to remodel education. E-learning can be explained as the use of available information, computational and communication technologies to assist learning practice. In… Read full abstract & cite →

E-Learning smart class system quality education higher education enhanced education

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A Coreference Resolution Approach using Morphological Features in Arabic

Author 1: Majdi Beseiso Author 2: Abdulkareem Al-Alwani

Coreference resolution is considered one of the challenges in natural language processing. It is an important task that includes determining which pronouns are referring to which entities. Most of the earlier approaches for coreference resolution are rule-based or machine learning approaches. However, these types of approaches have many limitations especially… Read full abstract & cite →

Coreference resolution Anaphora Alternative Approach Arabic NLP morphological features

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User Intent Discovery using Analysis of Browsing History

Author 1: Wael K. Abdallah Author 2: Aziza S. Asem Author 3: Mohammed Badr Senousy

The search engine can retrieve the information from the web by using keyword queries. The responsibility of search engines is getting the relevant results that met with users’ search intents. Nowadays, all search engines provide search log of the user (queries logs, click information besides browsing history). The main objective… Read full abstract & cite →

component Information Retrieval Search Engines Users’ Search Intents Search Log and Browsing History

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2016.071015 PDF

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A Multi-Task Distributed Vision System Embedded on a Hex-Rotorcraft UAV

Author 1: Nadir Younes Author 2: Boukhdir Khalid Author 3: Moutaouakkil Fouad Author 4: Hicham Medromi

In this paper, are presented the general architecture and implementation of a multi-task distributed vision system designed and embedded onboard a Hex-Rotorcraft UAV. The system uses multiple cheap heterogeneous cameras in order to perform various tasks such as: ground target pedestrian detection, tracking, creating panoramic images, video stabilization and streaming… Read full abstract & cite →

multi-agent architecture image processing real-time systems target detection panoramic images target following unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) vision systems

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Trending Challenges in Multi Label Classification

Author 1: Raed Alazaidah Author 2: Farzana Kabir Ahmad

Multi label classification has become a very important paradigm in the last few years because of the increasing domains that it can be applied to. Many researchers have developed many algorithms to solve the problem of multi label classification. Nerveless, there are still some stuck problems that need to be… Read full abstract & cite →

Challenges Correlations among labels Multi Label Classification

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AAODV (Aggrandized Ad Hoc on Demand Vector): A Detection and Prevention Technique for Manets

Author 1: Abdulaziz Aldaej Author 2: Tariq Ahamad

Security is a major concern that needs to be addressed in Mobile Adhoc Networks because of its vulnerable feature that includes infrastructureless environment, dynamic topology, and randomized node movement making MANETs prone to various network attacks. Synergetic attacks have raucous effects on MANETs as compared to particular single attack. Various… Read full abstract & cite →

MANET AODV Grayhole Blackhole

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Named Entity Recognition System for Postpositional Languages: Urdu as a Case Study

Author 1: Muhammad Kamran Malik Author 2: Syed Mansoor Sarwar

Named Entity Recognition and Classification is the process of identifying named entities and classifying them into one of the classes like person name, organization name, location name, etc. In this paper, we propose a tagging scheme Begin Inside Last -2 (BIL2) for the Subject Object Verb (SOV) languages that contain… Read full abstract & cite →

IOB tagging BIO tagging BILOU tagging IOE tagging BIL2 tagging NER for Resource-poor languages

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Symbolism in Computer Security Warnings: Signal Icons & Signal Words

Author 1: Nur Farhana Samsudin Author 2: Zarul Fitri Zaaba Author 3: Manmeet Mahinderjit Singh Author 4: Azman Samsudin

Security warning is often encountered by the end users when they use their system. It is a form of communication to notify the users of possible consequences in the future. These threats have always been evolved with the advancement of technologies. The attacks threaten the end users with many harmful… Read full abstract & cite →

security signal icons signal words usable security usability warning

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Cross Site Scripting: Detection Approaches in Web Application

Author 1: Abdalla Wasef Marashdih Author 2: Zarul Fitri Zaaba

Web applications have become one of the standard platforms for service releases and representing information and data over the World Wide Web. Thus, security vulnerabilities headed to various type of attacks in web applications. Amongst those is Cross Site Scripting also known as XSS. XSS can be considered as one… Read full abstract & cite →

Web Application Security Security Software Security Security Vulnerability Cross Site Scripting XSS Genetic Algorithm GA

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A Parallel Fuzzy-Genetic Algorithm for Classification and Prediction

Author 1: Hassan Abounaser Author 2: Ihab Talkhan Author 3: Ahmed Fahmy

One of the top challenging problems in data mining domain is the distributed data mining (DDM) and mining multi-agent data. In distributed environment, classical techniques require that the distributed data be first collected in a data warehouse which is usually either ineffective or infeasible. Hence, mining over decentralized data sources… Read full abstract & cite →

Fuzzy Classification Rule-Base Fuzzy Logic System (FLS) Genetic Algorithm Distributed Data Mining (DDM)

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Web Accessibility Challenges

Author 1: Hayfa.Y. Abuaddous Author 2: Mohd Zalisham Jali Author 3: Nurlida Basir

Despite the importance of web accessibility in recent years, websites remain partially or completely inaccessible to certain sectors of the population. This is due to several reasons, including web developers’ little or no experience in accessibility and the lack of accurate information about the best ways to quickly and easily… Read full abstract & cite →

component Website Accessibility Disabilities Accessibility challenges WCAG 2.0 Accessibility automated tools

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Tri-Band Fractal Patch Antenna for GSM and Satellite Communication Systems

Author 1: Saad Hassan Kiani Author 2: Shahryar Shafique Qureshi Author 3: Khalid Mahmood Author 4: Mehr-e- Munir Author 5: Sajid Nawaz Khan

Due to their smaller size and light weighted structures patch antennas are accustomed in modern communication Technology. With additional size in reduction, micro strip antennas are commonly used in handsets, GPS receivers etc. This paper presents a novel design of fractal shape patch antenna using U-slot on patch and defected… Read full abstract & cite →

miniaturization directivity gain slots Bandwidth VSWR

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Strength of Crypto-Semantic System of Tabular Data Protection

Author 1: Hazem (Moh'd Said) Abdel Majid Hatamleh Author 2: Hassan Mohammad Author 3: Roba mohmoud ali aloglah Author 4: Saleh Ebrahim Alomar

The strength of the crypto-semantic method (CSM) of text data protection based on the use of lexicographical systems in the form of applied linguistic corpora within the formally defined restrictions of selected spheres of applied uses has been analyzed. The levels of cryptographic strength provided by the crypto-semantic method of… Read full abstract & cite →

cipher key cryptographic data protection crypto-semantic lexicographical systems

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New Speech Enhancement based on Discrete Orthonormal Stockwell Transform

Author 1: Safa SAOUD Author 2: Souha BOUSSELMI Author 3: Mohamed BEN NASER Author 4: Adnane CHERIF

S-transform is an effective time-frequency representation which gives simultaneous frequency and time distribution information alike the wavelet transforms (WT). However, the ST redundantly doubles the dimension of the original data set and the Discrete Orthonormal S-Transform (DOST) can decrease the redundancy of S-transform farther. So, this paper aims to propose… Read full abstract & cite →

MRA Stockwell Transform DOST DWT speech enhancement

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SDME Quality Measure based Stopping Criteria for Iterative Deblurring Algorithms

Author 1: Mayana Shah Author 2: U. D. Dalal

Deblurring from motion problem with or without noise is ill-posed inverse problem and almost all inverse problem require some sort of parameter selection. Quality of restored image in iterative motion deblurring is dependent on optimal stopping point or regularization parameter selection. At optimal point reconstructed image is best matched to… Read full abstract & cite →

Image deblurring stopping point Point Spread Function Second derivative like measure of enhancement

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Real Time Monitoring of Human Body Vital Signs using Bluetooth and WLAN

Author 1: Najeed Ahmed Khan Author 2: M. Ajmal Sawand Author 3: Marium Hai Author 4: Arwa Khuzema Author 5: Mehak Tariq

The technology of telemedicine is emerging and advancing day by day, it is capable of taking the field of healthcare to a whole new level of personalization. A person can keep a close check on his/her health's critical signs and can receive suitable feedback if required,- to help maintain the… Read full abstract & cite →

Telemedicine smartphone Vital signs remote locations photoplethysmography e-health medical telemetry

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Analyzing Distributed Generation Impact on the Reliability of Electric Distribution Network

Author 1: Sanaullah Ahmad Author 2: Sana Sardar Author 3: Babar Noor Author 4: Azzam ul Asar

With proliferation of Distribution Generation (DG) and renewable energy technologies the power system is becoming more complex, with passage of time the development of distributed generation technologies is becoming diverse and broad. Power system reliability is one of most vital area in electric power system which deals with continuous supply… Read full abstract & cite →

Distribution Generation Electric Power System Reliability Wind Turbine Generator Interruptions Reliability Assessment

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An Efficient and Robust High Efficiency Video Coding Framework to Enhance Perceptual Quality of Real-Time Video Frames

Author 1: Murthy SVN Author 2: Sujatha B K

Different level of compression on real-time video streaming has successfully reduced the storage space complexities and bandwidth constraints in the recent times. This paper aims to design and develop a novel concept towards the enhancement of perceptual quality of a real-time video frames. The proposed model has been experimented considering… Read full abstract & cite →

H.265 HEVC Video Coding Compression

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Time-Saving Approach for Optimal Mining of Association Rules

Author 1: Mouhir Mohammed Author 2: Balouki Youssef Author 3: Gadi Taoufiq

Data mining is the process of analyzing data so as to get useful information to be exploited by users. Association rules is one of data mining techniques used to detect different correlations and to reveal relationships among data individual items in huge data bases. These rules usually take the following… Read full abstract & cite →

MDPREF Algorithm Association Rules mining Data partitioning Optimization (profitability efficiency and Risks) Bagging

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On the Improved Nonlinear Tracking Differentiator based Nonlinear PID Controller Design

Author 1: Ibraheem Kasim Ibraheem Author 2: Wameedh Riyadh Abdul-Adheem

This paper presents a new improved nonlinear tracking differentiator (INTD) with hyperbolic tangent function in the state-space system. The stability and convergence of the INTD are thoroughly investigated and proved. Through the error analysis, the proposed INTD can extract differentiation of any piecewise smooth nonlinear signal to reach a high… Read full abstract & cite →

Nonlinear tracking differentiator PID Nonlinear mass-spring-damper Lyapunov theory Measurement noise

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Automated Imaging System for Pigmented Skin Lesion Diagnosis

Author 1: Mariam Ahmed Sheha Author 2: Amr Sharwy Author 3: Mai S. Mabrouk

Through the study of pigmented skin lesions risk factors, the appearance of malignant melanoma turns the anomalous occurrence of these lesions to annoying sign. The difficulty of differentiation between malignant melanoma and melanocytic naive is the error-bone problem that usually faces the physicians in diagnosis. To think through the hard… Read full abstract & cite →

component Pigmented Skin lesions Color Space Bounding box local range SVM local range KNN ANN Experimental models

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Improved Association Rules Mining based on Analytic Network Process in Clinical Decision Making

Author 1: Shakiba Khademolqorani

Association Rules Mining is one of the most important fields in data mining and knowledge discovery in databases. Rules explosion is a problem of concern, as conventional mining algorithms often produce too many rules for decision makers to digest. In order to overcome this problem in clinical decision making, this… Read full abstract & cite →

Clinical Data Mining Clinical Decision Making Association Rules Mining Analytic Network Process

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A Novel Position-based Sentiment Classification Algorithm for Facebook Comments

Author 1: Khunishkah Surroop Author 2: Khushboo Canoo Author 3: Sameerchand Pudaruth

With the popularisation of social networks, people are now more at ease to share their thoughts, ideas, opinions and views about all kinds of topics on public platforms. Millions of users are connected each day on social networks and they often contribute to online crimes by their comments or posts… Read full abstract & cite →

sentiment analysis Facebook cybercrime emoticons

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Medical Image Fusion Algorithm based on Local Average Energy-Motivated PCNN in NSCT Domain

Author 1: Huda Ahmed Author 2: Emad N. Hassan Author 3: Amr A. Badr

Medical Image Fusion (MIF) can improve the performance of medical diagnosis, treatment planning and image-guided surgery significantly through providing high-quality and rich-information medical images. Traditional MIF techniques suffer from common drawbacks such as: contrast reduction, edge blurring and image degradation. Pulse-coupled Neural Network (PCNN) based MIF techniques outperform the traditional… Read full abstract & cite →

Medical image fusion pulse-coupled neural network local average energy non-subsampled contourlet transform

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Dynamic Inertia Weight Particle Swarm Optimization for Solving Nonogram Puzzles

Author 1: Habes Alkhraisat Author 2: Hasan Rashaideh

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) has shown to be a robust and efficient optimization algorithm therefore PSO has received increased attention in many research fields. This paper demonstrates the feasibility of applying the Dynamic Inertia Weight Particle Swarm Optimization to solve a Non-Polynomial (NP) Complete puzzle. This paper presents a new… Read full abstract & cite →

Non-Polynomial Complete problem Nonograms puzzle Swarm theory Particle swarms Optimization Dynamic Inertia Weigh

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Conceptual Modeling in Simulation: A Representation that Assimilates Events

Author 1: Sabah Al-Fedaghi

Simulation is often based on some type of model of the evolved portion of the world being studied. The underlying model is a static description; the simulation itself is executed by generating events or dynamic aspects into the system. In this context, this paper focuses on conceptual modeling in simulation… Read full abstract & cite →

events flow conceptual modeling simulation diagrammatic language

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Performance Improvement of Threshold based Audio Steganography using Parallel Computation

Author 1: Muhammad Shoaib Author 2: Zakir Khan Author 3: Danish Shehzad Author 4: Tamer Dag Author 5: Arif Iqbal Umar Author 6: Noor Ul Amin

Audio steganography is used to hide secret information inside audio signal for the secure and reliable transfer of information. Various steganography techniques have been proposed and implemented to ensure adequate security level. The existing techniques either focus on the payload or security, but none of them has ensured both security… Read full abstract & cite →

Steganography LSB Steganalysis Parallel Pipelining Processing Efficient Real time Security

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A Hybrid Algorithm based on Invasive Weed Optimization and Particle Swarm Optimization for Global Optimization

Author 1: Zeynab Hosseini Author 2: Ahmad Jafarian

In this paper, an effective combination of two Metaheuristic algorithms, namely Invasive Weed Optimization and the Particle Swarm Optimization, has been proposed. This hybridization called as HIWOPSO, consists of two main phases of Invasive Weed Optimization (IWO) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). Invasive weed optimization is the nature- inspired algorithm… Read full abstract & cite →

Invasive weed optimization Particle Swarm Optimization Global optimization Hybrid algorithm

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A New Internal Model Control Method for MIMO Over-Actuated Systems

Author 1: Ahmed Dhahri Author 2: Imen Saidi Author 3: Dhaou Soudani

A new design method internal model control is proposed for multivariable over-actuated processes that are often encountered in complicated industrial processes. Due to the matrix that is adopted to describe over-actuated system is not square, many classical multivariable control methods can be hardly applied in such system. In this paper… Read full abstract & cite →

internal model control (IMC) over-actuated multivariable system inverse model method of virtual outputs disturbances rejections stability state error

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Inter Prediction Complexity Reduction for HEVC based on Residuals Characteristics

Author 1: Kanayah Saurty Author 2: Pierre C. Catherine Author 3: Krishnaraj M. S. Soyjaudah

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) or H.265 is currently the latest standard in video coding. While this new standard promises improved performance over the previous H.264/AVC standard, the complexity has drastically increased due to the various new improved tools added. The splitting of the 64x64 Largest Coding Unit (LCU) into… Read full abstract & cite →

HEVC inter prediction early termination scheme complexity reduction prediction residuals

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Recovering and Tracing Links between Software Codes and Test Codes of the Open Source Projects

Author 1: Amir Hossein Rasekh Author 2: Amir Hossein Arshia Author 3: Seyed Mostafa Fakhrahmad Author 4: Mohammad Hadi Sadreddini

One of the most important controversial issues in the design and implementation of software is the functionality of the designed system. With impressive efforts of different software teams in the field of the system, the primary concern of the developers is its proper and error free functioning of the whole… Read full abstract & cite →

Unit Testing Source Code Similarity Software Engineering Open Source Data Mining

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Software Requirements Conflict Identification: Review and Recommendations

Author 1: Maysoon Aldekhail Author 2: Azzedine Chikh Author 3: Djamal Ziani

Successful development of software systems re-quires a set of complete, consistent and clear requirements. A wide range of different stakeholders with various needs and backgrounds participate in the requirements engineering process. Accordingly, it is difficult to completely satisfy the requirements of each and every stakeholder. It is the requirements engineer’s… Read full abstract & cite →

software requirements requirements engineering requirements conflicts

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Time Emotional Analysis of Arabic Tweets at Multiple Levels

Author 1: Amr M. Sayed Author 2: Samir AbdelRahman Author 3: Reem Bahgat Author 4: Aly Fahmy

Sentiment and emotional analyses have recently become effective tools to discover peoples attitudes towards real-life events. While Many corners of the emotional analysis research have been conducted, time emotional analysis at expression and aspect levels is yet to be intensively explored. This paper aims to analyse people emotions from tweets… Read full abstract & cite →

Emotional Analysis Sentiment Analysis Cluster-ing Two-Step Classification Time Analysis

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Towards Multi-Stage Intrusion Detection using IP Flow Records

Author 1: Muhammad Fahad Umer Author 2: Muhammad Sher Author 3: Imran Khan

Traditional network-based intrusion detection sys-tems using deep packet inspection are not feasible for modern high-speed networks due to slow processing and inability to read encrypted packet content. As an alternative to packet-based intrusion detection, researchers have focused on flow-based intrusion detection techniques. Flow-based intrusion detection systems analyze IP flow records… Read full abstract & cite →

IP flows Multi-stage intrusion detection One-class classification Multi-class classification

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Unsupervised Morphological Relatedness

Author 1: Ahmed Khorsi Author 2: Abeer Alsheddi

Assessment of the similarities between texts has been studied for decades from different perspectives and for several purposes. One interesting perspective is the morphology. This article reports the results on a study on the assessment of the morphological relatedness between natural language words. The main idea is to adapt a… Read full abstract & cite →

Arabic Language Computational Linguistics Morphological Relatedness Semitic Morphology Unsupervised Learning

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FNN based Adaptive Route Selection Support System

Author 1: Saoreen Rahman Author 2: M. Shamim Kaiser Author 3: Mahtab Uddin Ahmmed

This paper presents Fuzzy Neural Network (FNN) based Adaptive Route Selection Support System (ARSSS) for assisting drivers of vehicles. The aim of the proposed ARSSS system is to select path based on shortest possible time. The proposed system intakes traffic information, such as volume to capacity ratio, traffic flow, vehicle… Read full abstract & cite →

GPS Fuzzy Neural Network Path delay Signal Point Delay Webster Delay Formula

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Comparison of Inter-and Intra-Subject Variability of P300 Spelling Dictionary in EEG Compressed Sensing

Author 1: Monica Fira Author 2: Liviu Goras

In this paper, we propose a new compression method for electroencephalographic signals based on the concept of compressed sensing (CS) for the P300 detection spelling paradigm. The method uses a universal mega-dictionary which has been found not to be patient-specific. To validate the proposed method, electroencephalography recordings from the competition… Read full abstract & cite →

Biomedical signal processing Brain-computer interfaces Compressed sensing Classification algorithms Electroencephalography

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A Frame Size Adjustment with Sub-Frame Observation for Dynamic Framed Slotted Aloha

Author 1: Robithoh Annur Author 2: Suvit Nakpeerayuth

In this paper, a simple frame size adjustment of dynamic framed slotted Aloha for tag identification in RFID networks is proposed. In dynamic framed slotted Aloha, the reader is required to announce the frame size for every frame. To achieve maximum system efficiency, it is essential to set the frame… Read full abstract & cite →

anti-collision tag identification RFID Framed slot-ted Aloha frame adjustment

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Evaluating Mobile Phones and Web Sites for Academic Information Needs

Author 1: Muhammad Farhan Author 2: Malik Muhammad Saad Missen Author 3: Nadeem Akhtar Author 4: Muhammad Ali Nizamani Author 5: Amnah Firdous Author 6: Hina Asmat

In the last decade, there has been an exponential growth in use of mobile phones among people. Smart phone invention has digitized life of a common man especially after introduction of 3G/4G technology. People are used to use Internet on the move because of this advancement in technology. This advancement… Read full abstract & cite →

Usability Engineering Smart Phones Academic information need

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Feasibility Study of Optical Spectroscopy as a Medical Tool for Diagnosis of Skin Lesions

Author 1: Asad Saf Author 2: Sheikh Ziauddin Author 3: Alexander Horsch Author 4: Mahzad Ziai Author 5: Victor Castaneda Author 6: Tobias Lasser Author 7: Nassir Navab

Skin cancer is one of the most frequently en-countered types of cancer in the Western world. According to the Skin Cancer Foundation Statistics, one in every five Americans develops skin cancer during his/her lifetime. Today, the incurability of advanced cutaneous melanoma raises the importance of its early detection. Since the… Read full abstract & cite →

Melanoma Classification Supervised Learning Computer–Aided Diagnosis Machine Learning Optical Spec-troscopy

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2016.071052 PDF