IJACSA Vol. 9 Issue 10 (2018)

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Coronary Heart Disease Diagnosis using Deep Neural Networks

Author 1: Kathleen H Miao Author 2: Julia H. Miao

According to the World Health Organization, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the top cause of death worldwide. In 2015, over 30% of global deaths was due to CVD, leading to over 17 million deaths, a global health burden. Of those deaths, over 7 million were caused by heart disease, and greater… Read full abstract & cite →

Cardiovascular disease heart disease coronary artery disease classification accuracy diagnosis diagnostic odds ratio deep learning deep neural network machine learning F-score global health public health K-S test precision prediction prognosis ROC curve specificity sensitivity

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.091001 PDF

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Human Related-Health Actions Detection using Android Camera based on TensorFlow Object Detection API

Author 1: Fadwa Al-Azzoa Author 2: Arwa Mohammed Taqia Author 3: Mariofanna Milanovab

A new method to detect human health-related actions (HHRA) from a video sequence using an Android camera. The Android platform works not only to capture video images through its camera, but also to detect emergency actions. An application for HHRA is to help monitor unattended children, individuals with special needs… Read full abstract & cite →

Android camera TensorFlow object detection API emergency actions detection accuracy

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.091002 PDF

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Isolated Automatic Speech Recognition of Quechua Numbers using MFCC, DTW and KNN

Author 1: Hernan Faustino Chacca Chuctaya Author 2: Rolfy Nixon Montufar Mercado Author 3: Jeyson Jesus Gonzales Gaona

The Automatic Speech (ASR) area is defined as the transformation of acoustic signals into string words. This area has been being developed for many year facilitating the lives of people so it was implemented in several languages. However, the development of ASR in some languages with few database resources but… Read full abstract & cite →

Automatic Speech Recognition MFCC DTW KNN

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RASP-FIT: A Fast and Automatic Fault Injection Tool for Code-Modification of FPGA Designs

Author 1: Abdul Rafay Khatri Author 2: Ali Hayek Author 3: Josef Borcsok

Fault Injection (FI) is the most popular technique used in the evaluation of fault effects and the dependability of a design. Fault Simulation/Emulation (S/E) is involved in several applications such as test data generation, test set evaluation, circuit testability, fault detection & diagnosis, and many others. These applications require a… Read full abstract & cite →

Code generator Fault emulation Fault injection Fault simulation Instrumentation Parser

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.091004 PDF

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A P System for K-Medoids-Based Clustering

Author 1: Ping Guo Author 2: Jingya Xie

The membrane computing model, also known as the P system, is a parallel and distributed computing system. K-medoids algorithm is one of the most famous algorithms in partition-based clustering algorithms, and has been widely used in data analysis and modern scientific research. Combining the P system with the k-medoids algorithm… Read full abstract & cite →

P systems Clustering K-medoids-based clustering Membrane computing Parallel and distributed computing

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Emotional Changes Detection for Dementia People with Spectrograms from Physiological Signals

Author 1: Zeng Fangmeng Author 2: Liao Peijia Author 3: Miyuki Iwamoto Author 4: Noriaki Kuwahara

Due to aging society, there has recently been an increasing percentage of people with serious cognitive decline and dementia around the world. Such patients often lose their diversity of facial expressions and even their ability to speak, rendering them unable to express their feelings to their caregivers. However, emotions and… Read full abstract & cite →

Emotion classification people with dementia EEG and ECG spectrograms CNN

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.091006 PDF

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The User Behavior Analysis Based on Text Messages Using Parafac and Block Term Decomposition

Author 1: Bilius Laura Bianca

Tensor decompositions represent a start for big data analysis and a start in reduction of dimensionality, object detection, clustering and so on. This paper presents a method to study the behavior of users in the online environment and beyond. A beginning for analyzing this type of data is uniting the… Read full abstract & cite →

Parafac decomposition block term decomposition clustering

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Artificial Intelligence based Fertilizer Control for Improvement of Rice Quality and Harvest Amount

Author 1: Kohei Arai Author 2: Osamu Shigetomi Author 3: Yuko Miura

Artificial Intelligence: AI based fertilizer control for improvement of rice quality and harvest amount is proposed together with intelligent drone based rice field monitoring system. Through experiments at the rice paddy fields which is situated at Saga Prefectural Research Institute of Agriculture: SPRIA in Saga city, Japan, it is found… Read full abstract & cite →

Nitrogen content protein content rice paddy field remote sensing regression analysis rice crop quality harvest amount fertilizer

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.091008 PDF

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Determination of Weighting Assessment on DREAD Model using Profile Matching

Author 1: Didit Suprihanto Author 2: Retantyo Wardoyo Author 3: Khabib Mustofa

Web application creators often get lack understanding of security threats that can occur in applications that are made, while security threats can create new problems that are more complex. These security threats will pose risks and can even result in large losses. Determining the risk ratings on a web application… Read full abstract & cite →

DREAD risk assessment profile matching

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Dynamic Weight Dropping Policy for Improve High-Priority Message Delivery Delay in Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Network

Author 1: GBALLOU Yao Théophile Author 2: GOORE Bi Tra Author 3: Brou Konan Marcelin

Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Network (VDTN) is a special case of Delay-Tolerant Network (DTN) in which connectivity is provided by movement of vehicles with traffic prioritization to meet the requirements of different applications. Due to high node mobility, short contact time, intermittent connectivity, VDTNs use multi-copy routing protocols to increase message delivery… Read full abstract & cite →

Vehicular delay-tolerant network dropping policies traffic differentiation message weight high priority message

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Normalization of Unstructured and Informal Text in Sentiment Analysis

Author 1: Muhammad Javed Author 2: Shahid Kamal

Sentiment Analysis is problem of natural language processing which deals with the extraction and analysis of public sentiments shared about target entities over microbloging websites. This field has gained great attention due to the huge availability of decision making textual contents. Sentiment Analysis has enormous application areas such as; Market… Read full abstract & cite →

Informal normalization opinion mining roman sentiment analysis text preprocessing

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Development of Purchasing Module for Agriculture E-Commerce using Dynamic System Development Model

Author 1: Rosa Delima Author 2: Halim Budi Santoso Author 3: Novan Andriyanto Author 4: Argo Wibowo

Trading model has been changing since the vast implementation of Information and Communication Technology in every sector. This model is known as e-Commerce. Unlikely, there is still limited company which specifically trades agriculture product. Agriculture e-Commerce is known as a platform to buy and sell some agriculture products. Agriculture e-commerce… Read full abstract & cite →

Agricultural e-commerce dynamic system development method DSDM purchase module

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Formalization of UML Composite Structure using Colored Petri Nets

Author 1: Rao Sohail Iqbal Author 2: Ramzan Talib Author 3: Muhammad Awais Author 4: Haseeb Ur Rehman Author 5: Wajid Raza

Design specification and requirement analysis, during development process involved in transformation of real world problems to software system are subjected to severe issues owing to involvement of semantics. Though, for design and specification of object-oriented systems, Unified Modeling Language (UML) is now recognized as standard language however, its structures have… Read full abstract & cite →

Design specification UML (Unified Modeling Language) semantic transformation deadlocks

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Tracking Systems as Thinging Machine: A Case Study of a Service Company

Author 1: Sabah S. Al-Fedaghi Author 2: Yousef Atiyah

Object tracking systems play important roles in tracking moving objects and overcoming problems such as safety, security and other location-related applications. Problems arise from the difficulties in creating a well-defined and understandable description of tracking systems. Nowadays, describing such processes results in fragmental representation that most of the time leads… Read full abstract & cite →

Tracking systems system documentation system control abstract machine conceptual model thinging

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A Novel Rule-Based Root Extraction Algorithm for Arabic Language

Author 1: Nisrean Thalji Author 2: Nik Adilah Hanin Author 3: Walid Bani Hani Author 4: Sohair Al-Hakeem Author 5: Zyad Thalji

Non-vocalized Arabic words are ambiguous words, because non-vocalized words may have different meanings. Therefore, these words may have more than one root. Many Arabic root extraction algorithms have been conducted to extract the roots of non-vocalized Arabic words. However, most of them return only one root and produce lower accuracy… Read full abstract & cite →

Root stem rules affix pattern corpus

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Runtime Reasoning of Requirements for Self-Adaptive Systems Using AI Planning Techniques

Author 1: Zara Hassan Author 2: Nauman Qureshi Author 3: Muhammad Adnan Hashmi Author 4: Arshad Ali

Over the years, the domain of Self-Adaptive Systems (SAS) has gained significant importance in software engineering community. Such SAS must ensure high customizability and at the same time effective reasoning to meet their objectives by meeting end-user goals more effectively and efficiently. In this context, techniques related to Automated Planning… Read full abstract & cite →

Self-Adaptive Systems (SAS) reasoning requirement engineering AI planning CARE framework runtime reasoning of requirements

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Design of Strategic Management System for Northern Border University using Unified Modeling Language

Author 1: Shahrin Azuan Nazeer

All organizations engage in the strategy management process either formally or informally. Strategy management is used to refer to the entire scope of strategic-decision making activity in an organization to ensure its continuous success. Hence, a strategic management system is viewed as an important tool for strategy management. Northern Border… Read full abstract & cite →

Strategy management strategic management system object-oriented analysis and design unified modeling language

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The Design and Evaluation of a User-Centric Information Security Risk Assessment and Response Framework

Author 1: Manal Alohali Author 2: Nathan Clarke Author 3: Steven Furnell

The risk of sensitive information disclosure and modification through the use of online services has increased considerably and may result in significant damage. As the management and assessment of such risks is a well-known discipline for organizations, it is a challenge for users from the general public. Users have difficulties… Read full abstract & cite →

Risk analysis security behavior BFI correlation

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ABJAD Arabic-Based Encryption

Author 1: Ahmad H. Al-Omari

The researcher introduced an enhanced classical Arabic-based encryption technique that is essentially designed for Arab nations. The new algorithm uses the shared key technique where the Keyword system Modulus is employed to add randomness and confusion to the table of alphabets being used. The results proved that the technique is… Read full abstract & cite →

Arabic-based cryptography classical encryption Arabic language encryption shared key keyword

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Negotiation as a Collaborative Tool for Determining Permissions and Detection of Malicious Applications

Author 1: Rabia Riaz Author 2: Sanam Shahla Rizvi Author 3: Mubashar Ahmad Author 4: Sana Shokat Author 5: Se Jin Kwon

In Android OS users find it very difficult to understand and comprehend its permission mechanism. Frequently, users tend to ignore permission negotiations dialogs during installation of an application. Users, who pay attention to the permission negotiation dialogs, find it tough to comprehend the description and evaluation of permission procedure. They… Read full abstract & cite →

Collaborative learning intrusion detection mobile applications information security web based learning

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Assessment of Groundwater Vulnerability to Pollution using DRASTIC Model and Fuzzy Logic in Herat City, Afghanistan

Author 1: Nasir Ahmad Gesim Author 2: Takeo Okazaki

Groundwater (GW) vulnerability maps have become a standard tool for protecting groundwater resources from pollution because, from one hand groundwater represents the main source of drinking water, and on the other hand high concentrations of human activities such industrial, agricultural, and household represent real or potential sources of groundwater contamination… Read full abstract & cite →

Afghanistan DRASTIC de-fuzzification groundwater modeling vulnerability herat

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CryptoROS: A Secure Communication Architecture for ROS-Based Applications

Author 1: Roham Amini Author 2: Rossilawati Sulaiman Author 3: Abdul Hadi Abd Rahman Kurais

Cyber-attacks are a growing threat to future robots. The shift towards automatization has increased relevance and reliance on robots. Securing robots has been secondary or ternary priority and thus robots are vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Securing robots must become an essential (built-in) part of the design rather than being considered as… Read full abstract & cite →

Robotics ROS cyber security cryptography access control

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Decision Support System: Findings and Comparison

Author 1: Ayman G. Fayoumi

Nowadays, regardless of the popularity and credibility of Decision Support Systems (DSS), measuring the efficacy of the decisions taken by the DSS is yet to be proven. As previous works identifies the complexities involved in measuring the efficiency of DSS, most of the time DSS efficiency is case dependent. The… Read full abstract & cite →

DSS effectiveness of decisions framework measurement phase

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A Study of Mobile Forensic Tools Evaluation on Android-Based LINE Messenger

Author 1: Imam Riadi Author 2: Abdul Fadlil Author 3: Ammar Fauzan

The limitation of forensic tool and the mobile device’s operating system are two problems for researchers in mobile forensics field. Nevertheless, some kinds of forensic tools testing in several devices might be helpful in an investigation. Therefore, the evaluation of forensic tool is one gate to reach the goal of… Read full abstract & cite →

Forensic investigation mobile evaluation performance

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Moving from Heterogeneous Data Sources to Big Data: Interoperability and Integration Issues

Author 1: Mohamed Osman Hegazi Author 2: Dinesh Kumar Saini Author 3: Kashif Zia

Heterogeneous databases now facing an emerging challenge of moving towards big data. These databases are adhoc polyglot systems, complex, and NoSQL tools which are semantically annotated. Integration of these heterogeneous databases becoming very challenging because of big data analytics is integrating human and machines contexts. In this paper, an attempt… Read full abstract & cite →

Heterogeneous databases interoperability integration big data analytics and intelligence

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An Evaluation of the Proposed Framework for Access Control in the Cloud and BYOD Environment

Author 1: Khalid Almarhabi Author 2: Kamal Jambi Author 3: Fathy Eassa Author 4: Omar Batarfi

As the bring your own device (BYOD) to work trend grows, so do the network security risks. This fast-growing trend has huge benefits for both employees and employers. With malware, spyware and other malicious downloads, tricking their way onto personal devices, organizations need to consider their information security policies. Malicious… Read full abstract & cite →

Bring your own device access control policy security

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Model Development for Predicting the Occurrence of Benign Laryngeal Lesions using Support Vector Machine: Focusing on South Korean Adults Living in Local Communities

Author 1: Haewon Byeon

The disease is a consequence of interactions between many complex risk factors, rather than a single cause. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a disease prediction model by using multiple risk factors instead of using a single risk factor. The objective of this study was to develop a model for… Read full abstract & cite →

Support vector machine SVM dysphonia voice disorder prediction model risk factor data mining

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Construction Project Quality Management using Building Information Modeling 360 Field

Author 1: Phong Thanh Nguyen Author 2: Thu Anh Nguyen Author 3: Tin Minh Cao Author 4: Khoa Dang Vo Author 5: Vy Dang Bich Huynh Author 6: Quyen Le Hoang Thuy To Nguyen Author 7: Phuong Thanh Phan Author 8: Loan Phuc Le

A quality management process plays a vital role in the success of engineering and construction projects. The management process needs to be effective and efficient if projects are to be completed on time and within the project’s budget. Many construction projects’ quality management processes are paper-based, which makes them time-consuming… Read full abstract & cite →

BIM 360 field cloud computing project management quality management

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Task Scheduling Frameworks for Heterogeneous Computing Toward Exascale

Author 1: Suhelah Sandokji Author 2: Fathy Eassa

The race for Exascale Computing has naturally led computer architecture to transit from the multicore era and into the heterogeneous era. Many systems are shipped with integrated CPUs and graphics processing units (GPUs). Moreover, various applications need to utilize both CPUs and GPUs executive resources, as many of their unique… Read full abstract & cite →

Exascale computing heterogenous computing task scheduler framework

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Heterogeneous HW/SW FPGA-Based Embedded System for Database Sequencing Applications

Author 1: Talal Bonny

Database sequencing applications including sequence comparison, searching, and analysis are considered among the most computation power and time consumers. Heuristic algorithms suffer from sensitivity while traditional sequencing methods, require searching the whole database to find the most matched sequences, which requires high computation power and time. This paper introduces a… Read full abstract & cite →

Database sequence comparison dynamic programming FPGA

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Convolutional Neural Network Hyper-Parameters Optimization based on Genetic Algorithms

Author 1: Sehla Loussaief Author 2: Afef Abdelkrim

In machine learning for computer vision based applications, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is the most widely used technique for image classification. Despite these deep neural networks efficiency, choosing their optimal architecture for a given task remains an open problem. In fact, CNNs performance depends on many hyper-parameters namely CNN depth… Read full abstract & cite →

Machine learning computer vision image classification convolutional neural network CNN hyper parameters enhanced E-CNN-MP genetic algorithms learning accuracy

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E2-Invisible Watermarking for Protecting Intellectual Rights of Medical Images and Records

Author 1: Kavitha K. J. Author 2: Dr. B. Priestly Shan

In today’s digital era, practice of telemedicine has become common which involves the transmission of medical images and Myhealthrecord (MHR) for higher diagnosis in case of emergency and maintaining integrity, robustness, authentication and confidentiality of such patient’s data becomes necessary. Many works has shown that the digital watermarking is one… Read full abstract & cite →

Myhealthrecord SVD IWT RSA QR code encoding

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A Hybrid Background Subtraction and Artificial Neural Networks for Movement Recognition in Memorizing Quran

Author 1: Anton Satria Prabuwono Author 2: Ismatul Maula Author 3: Wendi Usino Author 4: Arif Bramantoro

Movement change beyond the duration of time and the variations of object appearance becomes an interesting topic for research in computer vision. Object behavior can be recognized through movement change on video. During the recognition of object behavior, the target and the trace of an object in a video must… Read full abstract & cite →

Movement recognition computer vision Quran memorization movement background subtraction back propagation artificial neural networks

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Evaluation of Distance Measures for Feature based Image Registration using AlexNet

Author 1: K. Kavitha Author 2: B. Sandhya Author 3: B. Thirumala Rao

Image registration is a classic problem of computer vision with several applications across areas like defence, remote sensing, medicine etc. Feature based image registration methods traditionally used hand-crafted feature extraction algorithms, which detect key points in an image and describe them using a region around the point. Such features are… Read full abstract & cite →

Distance measures deep learning feature detection feature descriptor image matching

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Greedy Algorithms to Optimize a Sentence Set Near-Uniformly Distributed on Syllable Units and Punctuation Marks

Author 1: Bagus Nugroho Budi Nurtomo Author 2: Suyanto

An optimum sentence set that near-uniformly dis-tributed on syllable units and punctuation marks is important to develop a syllable-based automatic speech recognition (ASR). It is usually extracted from a mother set of millions of unique sentences using Modified Least-to-Most (LTM) Greedy algorithm. The Modified LTM Greedy is capable of minimizing… Read full abstract & cite →

read-speech corpus optimum sentence set syllable punctuation marks Modified Least-to-Most Greedy

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Data Governance Cloud Security Checklist at Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Author 1: Kamariah Abu Saed Author 2: Norshakirah Aziz Author 3: Said Jadid Abdulkadir Author 4: Noor Hafizah Hassan Author 5: Izzatdin A Aziz

Security checklist is an important element in measuring the level of computing security, especially in cloud computing. Vulnerability in cloud computing become major concern because it will lead to security issue. While security awareness and training can educate users on the severe impact of malware, implementation on data governance and… Read full abstract & cite →

IaaS security checklist guidelines threats cloud computing

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An Investigational Study and Analysis of Cloud-based Content Delivery Network: Perspectives

Author 1: Suman Jayakumar Author 2: Prakash .S Author 3: C.B Akki

The content management includes a major technical strategy in the network paradigm of the internet which is called a Content delivery network. The design and the deployment of the CDN shall ensure optimal Quality of services (QoS). This paper aims to brief the taxonomy of the CDN along with its… Read full abstract & cite →

Content delivery network cloud computing distribution network mobility scalability distribution

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Adapted Speed Mechanism for Collision Avoidance in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks Environment

Author 1: Said Benkirane Author 2: Ahmed Jadir

The disrespect of the safety distance between vehicles is the cause of several road accidents. This distance cannot certainly be estimated at random because of some physical rules to be calculated. The more speed gets higher, the more stopping distance increases, mainly in danger case. Thus, the difference between two… Read full abstract & cite →

VANET multi-agent systems safety distances stopping distance JADE framework

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Software Components’ Coupling Detection for Software Reusability

Author 1: Zakarya A. Alzamil

Most of the software systems design and modeling techniques concentrates on capturing the functional aspects that comprise a system’s architecture. Non-functional aspects are rarely considered on most of the software system modeling and design techniques. One of the most important aspects of software component is reusability. Software reusability may be… Read full abstract & cite →

Software component coupling software component dependence software component reusability components interdependence components dependence testing

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Analysis of Coauthorship Network in Political Science using Centrality Measures

Author 1: Adeel Ahmed Author 2: Muhammad Fahad Khan Author 3: Muhammad Usman Author 4: Khalid Saleem

In recent era, networks of data are growing massively and forming a shape of complex structure. Data scientists try to analyze different complex networks and utilize these networks to understand the complex structure of a network in a meaningful way. There is a need to detect and identify such a… Read full abstract & cite →

Social networks undirected graph centrality measures community detection data visualization

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A Study of Retrieval Methods of Multi-Dimensional Images in Different Domains

Author 1: Shruti Garg

Multiple amount of multi-dimensional images are designed and most of them are available on internet at free of cost. The 3D images include three characteristics namely width, height, and depth. The images which are created as 3D can describe the geometry in terms of 3D co-ordinates. These co-ordinates help to… Read full abstract & cite →

Image retrieval techniques 3D image retrieval image retrieval survey

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HOG-AdaBoost Implementation for Human Detection Employing FPGA ALTERA DE2-115

Author 1: Trio Adiono Adiono Author 2: Kevin Shidqi Prakoso Author 3: Christoporus Deo Putratama Author 4: Bramantio Yuwono Author 5: Syifaul Fuada

Human detection system using Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) feature and AdaBoost classifier (HOG-AdaBoost) in FPGA ALTERA DE2-115 are presented in this paper. This work is expanded version from our previous study. This paper discusses 1) the HOG performance in detecting human from a passive images with other point-of-views (30… Read full abstract & cite →

FPGA human detection adaboost classifier ALTERA DE2-115 Histogram Oriented Gradients (HOG) feature

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Implementation of Intelligent Automated Gate System with QR Code

Author 1: Erman Hamid Author 2: Lim Chong Gee Author 3: Nazrulazhar Bahaman Author 4: Syarulnaziah Anawar Author 5: Zakiah Ayob Author 6: Akhdiat Abdul Malek

This paper is about QR code-based automated gate system. The aim of the research is to develop and implement a type of medium-level security gate system especially for small companies that cannot afford to install high-tech auto gate system. IAGS is a system that uses valid staffs’ QR code pass… Read full abstract & cite →

Component internet of things gate system VB.NET QR code

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Missing Values Imputation using Similarity Matching Method for Brainprint Authentication

Author 1: Siaw-Hong Liew Author 2: Yun-Huoy Choo Author 3: Yin Fen Low

This paper proposes a similarity matching imputation method to deal with the missing values in electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. EEG signals with rather high amplitude can be considered as noise, normally they will be removed. The occurrence of missing values after this artefact rejection process increases the complexity of computational modelling… Read full abstract & cite →

Similarity matching data imputation wavelet phase stability missing values artefact rejection

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Topology-Aware Mapping Techniques for Heterogeneous HPC Systems: A Systematic Survey

Author 1: Saad B. Alotaibi Author 2: Fathy alboraei

At the present time, the modern platforms of high-performance computing (HPC) consists of heterogeneous computing devices which are connected through complex hierarchical networks. Moreover, it is moving towards the Exascale era and which makes the number of nodes to increase as well as the number of cores within a node… Read full abstract & cite →

Virtual topology physical topology topology-aware mapping parallel applications communication pattern

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Detecting and Classifying Crimes from Arabic Twitter Posts using Text Mining Techniques

Author 1: Hissah AL-Saif Author 2: Hmood Al-Dossari

Crime analysis has become a critical area for helping law enforcement agencies to protect civilians. As a result of a rapidly increasing population, crime rates have increased dramatically, and appropriate analysis has become a time-consuming effort. Text mining is an effective tool that may help to solve this problem to… Read full abstract & cite →

Crimes text mining classification features extraction techniques arabic posts twitter

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Pipeline Hazards Resolution for a New Programmable Instruction Set RISC Processor

Author 1: Hajer Najjar Author 2: Riad Bourguiba Author 3: Jaouhar Mouine

The work presented in this paper is a part of a project that aims to concept and implement a hardwired programmable processor. A 32-bit RISC processor with customizable ALU (Arithmetic and Logic Unit) is designed then the pipeline technique is implemented is order to reach better performances. However the use… Read full abstract & cite →

Processor RISC hardware instruction set pipeline hazards branch predictor bypass

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Automatic Short Answer Scoring based on Paragraph Embeddings

Author 1: Sarah Hassan Author 2: Aly A. Fahmy Author 3: Mohammad El-Ramly

Automatic scoring systems for students’ short answers can eliminate from instructors the burden of grading large number of test questions and facilitate performing even more assessments during lectures especially when number of students is large. This paper presents a supervised learning approach for short answer automatic scoring based on paragraph… Read full abstract & cite →

Automatic scoring short answer Pearson correlation coefficient RMSE deep learning

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Improving Recommendation Techniques by Deep Learning and Large Scale Graph Partitioning

Author 1: Gourav Bathla Author 2: Rinkle Rani Author 3: Himanshu Aggarwal

Recommendation is very crucial technique for social networking sites and business organizations. It provides suggestions based on users’ personalized interest and provide users with movies, books and topics links that would be most suitable for them. It can improve user effectiveness and business revenue by approximately 30%, if analyzed in… Read full abstract & cite →

Social big data social recommendation deep learning graph partitioning social trust

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Parameters Affecting Underwater Channel Communication Performance

Author 1: Sheeraz Ahmed Author 2: Malik Taimur Ali Author 3: Saqib Shahid Rahim Author 4: Zahid Farid Author 5: Owais Amanullah Khan Author 6: Zeeshan Najam

Underwater or Acoustic propagation is characterized by three major factors: attenuation that increases with signal frequency, time-varying multipath propagation, and low speed of sound. The background noise, often characterized as Gaussian, is not white, but has a decaying power spectral density. Channel capacity depends on the distance, and may be… Read full abstract & cite →

UWSN doppler effect attenuation noise salinity

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Resource Management in Cloud Data Centers

Author 1: Aisha Shabbir Author 2: Kamalrulnizam Abu Bakar Author 3: Raja Zahilah Raja Mohd. Radzi Author 4: Muhammad Siraj

Vast sums of big data is a consequence of the data from different diversity. Conventional data computational frameworks and platforms are incapable to compute complex big data sets and process it at a fast pace. Cloud data centers having massive virtual and physical resources and computing platforms can provide support… Read full abstract & cite →

Big data cloud data center MapReduce resource utilization

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A Multi-Energetic Modeling Approach based on Bond Graph Applied to In-Wheel-Motor Drive System

Author 1: Sihem Dridi Author 2: Ines Ben Salem Author 3: Lilia El Amraoui

This paper proposes a multi-energetic modeling approach based on Bond Graph tool to modeling a mechatronic system. The use of this approach allows to better understand the real behavior of such system as well as to express the interaction between the elements and their environments. Firstly, the dynamic model of… Read full abstract & cite →

Multi-energetic approach bond graph tool PWM 20-Sim environment in-wheel motor drive system mechatronic system

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Zynq FPGA based and Optimized Design of Points of Interest Detection and Tracking in Moving Images for Mobility System

Author 1: Abdelkader BEN AMARA Author 2: Mohamed ATRI Author 3: Edwige PISSALOUX Author 4: Richard GRISEL

In this paper, an FPGA based mobile feature detection and tracking solution is proposed for complex video processing systems. Presented algorithms include feature (corner) detection and robust memory allocation solution to track in real-time corners using the extended Kalman filter. Target implementation environment is a Xilinx Zynq SoC FPGA based… Read full abstract & cite →

Feature detection harris & stephens corner detector tracking extended kalman filter HW/SW partitionning zynq SoC computer vision memory access ARM A9 HLS Interlacing blancking progressive video

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Information Processing in EventWeb through Detection and Analysis of Connections between Events

Author 1: Tariq Mahmood Author 2: Shaukat Wasi Author 3: Khalid Khan Author 4: Syed Hammad Ahmed Author 5: Zubair. A. Shaikh

Information over the Web is rapidly becoming event-centric with the next age of WWW projected to be an EventWeb in which nodes are inter-connected through diverse types of links. These nodes represent events having informational and experiential information and analysis of these events has a substantial semantic impact regarding enhancement… Read full abstract & cite →

EventWeb information processing event algebra operators link detection link analysis information analysis context-match

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Liver Extraction Method from Magnetic Resonance Cholangio-Pancreatography (MRCP) Images

Author 1: Sajid Ur Rehman Khattak Author 2: Dr. Mushtaq Ali Author 3: Faqir Gul Author 4: Nadir Hussian Khan Author 5: Amanullah Baloch Author 6: M. Shoaib Ahmed

Liver extraction from medical images like CT scan and MR images is a challenging task. There are many manuals, Semi-automatic and automatic methods available to extract the liver from computerized tomography (CT) scan images and MR images. However, no method is available in the literature to extract the liver from… Read full abstract & cite →

Liver extraction graph cut algorithm MRCP images liver surgery medical images liver mask adaptive thresholding method

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.091055 PDF

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An Enhanced Method for Detecting the Shaded Images of the Car License Plates based on Histogram Equalization and Probabilities

Author 1: Mohammad Faghedi Author 2: Behrang Barekatain Author 3: Kaamran Raahemifar

Shadow is one of the major and significant challenges in detection algorithms which track the objects such as the license plates. The quality of images captured by cameras is influenced by weather conditions, low ambient light and low resolution of the camera. The shadow in images reduces the reliability of… Read full abstract & cite →

Automatic license plate detection shadowed images histogram equalization cumulative distribution pixel probability

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.091056 PDF

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A Real-Time Algorithm for Tracking Astray Pilgrim based on in-Memory Data Structures

Author 1: Mohammad A.R. Abdeen Author 2: Ahmad Taleb

Large crowd management presents a significant challenge to organizers and for the success of the event and to achieve the set objectives. One of the biggest events and with largest crowd in the world is the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca that happens every year and lasts for five years. The… Read full abstract & cite →

In-Memory structure real-time tracking algorithm for astray pilgrim large crowd management

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A Decision Support Platform based on Cross-Sorting Methods for the Selection of Modeling Methods

Author 1: Manal Tamir Author 2: Fatima Ouzayd Author 3: Raddouane Chiheb

The hospital supply chain performance is a concept that qualifies the good governance, the continuous improvement and the optimization of human and material resources of the hospital system. Thus, several performance analysis methods have been proposed for qualifying organizational flows and resources management. The main goal of the present study… Read full abstract & cite →

Hospital supply chain graphical modeling and performance analysis techniques multi-criteria decision analysis fuzzy pairwise comparisons support decision process computer platform cross-sorting methods

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.091058 PDF

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Opinion Mining and thought Pattern Classification with Natural Language Processing (NLP) Tools

Author 1: Sayyada Muntaha Azim Naqvi Author 2: Muhammad Awais Author 3: Muhammad Yahya Saeed Author 4: Muhammad Mohsin Ashraf

Opinion mining from digital media is becoming the easiest way to obtain trivial aspects of the thinking trends. Currently, there exists no hard and fast modeling or classification over this for any society or global community. The marketing companies are currently relying on sentiment analysis for their products. In this… Read full abstract & cite →

Opinion mining sentiment analysis natural language processing think pattern GATE

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.091059 PDF

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Undergraduate’s Perception on Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Learning to Foster Employability Skills and Enhance Learning Experience

Author 1: Cheong Kar Mee Author 2: Sazilah binti Salam Author 3: Linda Khoo Mei Sui

The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is a very recent development in higher education institutions in Malaysia. As in September 2015, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) has introduced Mandarin course under Malaysia MOOCs. The study has focused on undergraduate’s perception of MOOC in Mandarin subject in fostering their employability skills… Read full abstract & cite →

MOOCs mandarin employability skills perception undergraduates

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Roadmap to Project Management Office (PMO) and Automation using a Multi-Stage Fuzzy Rules System

Author 1: Magdi Amer Author 2: Noha Elayoty

The Project Management Office (PMO) has proven to be a successful approach to enhance the control on projects and improve their success rate. One of the main functions of the PMO is monitoring projects and ensuring that the adequate processes are applied if a project starts to slip. Due to… Read full abstract & cite →

Roadmap to build a PMO automating the PMO multi-stage Fuzzy System

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Fixed Point Implementation of Tiny-Yolo-v2 using OpenCL on FPGA

Author 1: Yap June Wai Author 2: Zulkalnain bin Mohd Yussof Author 3: Sani Irwan bin Salim Author 4: Lim Kim Chuan

Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) algorithm has recently gained popularity in many applications such as image classification, video analytic and object detection. Being compute-intensive and memory expensive, CNN-based algorithms are hard to be implemented on the embedded device. Although recent studies have explored the hardware implementation of CNN-based object classification… Read full abstract & cite →

FPGA CNN Tiny-Yolo-v2 OpenCL detection

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Designing a Switching based Workflow Scheduling Framework for Networked Environments

Author 1: Hamid Tabatabaee Author 2: Mohamad Reza Mohebbi Author 3: Hosein Salami

Due to the dynamics of the power of resources in non-dedicated computing environments such as Grid, and on the other hand, the autonomy of these environments and, consequently, the impossibility of repeating the operating scenarios to compare the algorithms created in this context, creating an environment by providing such conditions… Read full abstract & cite →

Scheduling framework workflow scheduling grid switching based framework

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Reliable and Energy Efficient MAC Mechanism for Patient Monitoring in Hospitals

Author 1: Madiha Fatima Author 2: Adeel Baig Author 3: Irfan Uddin

In medical body area network (MBAN) sensors are attached to a patient’s body for continuous and real-time monitoring of biomedical vital signs. Sensors send patient’s data to hospital base station so that doctors/caregivers can access it and be timely informed if patient’s condition goes critical. These tiny sensors have low… Read full abstract & cite →

Medical Body Area Network MAC Protocols Zig-Bee MAC Mechanism Guaranteed Time Slot Allocation Scheme

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.091064 PDF

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Towards Evaluating Web Spam Threats and Countermeasures

Author 1: Lina A. Abuwardih

Web spam is a deceiving technique that aims to get high ranks for the retrieved web pages at the top Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs). This paper provides an evaluation for the web spam threats and countermeasures. It is started by presenting the different types of web spam threats that… Read full abstract & cite →

SEO web spam threats phishing malware web attacks

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Data Modeling Guidelines for NoSQL Document-Store Databases

Author 1: Abdullahi Abubakar Imam Author 2: Shuib Basri Author 3: Rohiza Ahmad Author 4: Junzo Watada Author 5: Maria T. Gonzlez-Aparicio Author 6: Malek Ahmad Almomani

Good database design is key to high data avail-ability and consistency in traditional databases, and numerous techniques exist to abet designers in modeling schemas appropri-ately. These schemas are strictly enforced by traditional database engines. However, with the emergence of schema-free databases (NoSQL) coupled with voluminous and highly diversified datasets (big… Read full abstract & cite →

Big Data NoSQL Logical and Physical Design Data Modeling Modeling Guidelines Document-Stores Model Quality

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A Routing Calculus with Distance Vector Routing Updates

Author 1: Priyanka Gupta Author 2: Manish Gaur

We propose a routing calculus in a process algebraic framework to implement dynamic updates of routing table using distance vector routing. This calculus is an extension of an existing routing calculus DRωπ where routing tables are fixed except when new nodes are created in which case the routing tables are… Read full abstract & cite →

Routing Calculi Routing Protocols Well Formed Configuration Reduction Semantics

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.091067 PDF

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TokenSign: Using Revocable Fingerprint Biotokens and Secret Sharing Scheme as Electronic Signature

Author 1: Fahad Alsolami

Electronic signature is a quick and convenient tool, used for legal documents and payments since business practices revolutionized from traditional paper-based to computer-based systems. The growing use of electronic signature means they are used in many applications daily, both in government and private organizations such as financial services, where an… Read full abstract & cite →

Signature Fingerprint Electronic Security

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KNN and ANN-based Recognition of Handwritten Pashto Letters using Zoning Features

Author 1: Sulaiman Khan Author 2: Hazrat Ali Author 3: Zahid Ullah Author 4: Nasru Minallah Author 5: Shahid Maqsood Author 6: Abdul Hafeez

This paper presents an intelligent recognition sys-tem for handwritten Pashto letters. However, handwritten char-acter recognition is challenging due to the variations in shape and style. In addition to that, these characters naturally vary among individuals. The identification becomes even daunting due to the lack of standard datasets comprising of inscribed… Read full abstract & cite →

KNN deep neural network OCR zoning technique Pashto character recognition classification

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Towards Secure IoT Communication with Smart Contracts in a Blockchain Infrastructure

Author 1: Jawad Ali Author 2: Toqeer Ali Author 3: Shahrulniza Musa Author 4: Ali Zahrani

The Internet of Things (IoT) is undergoing rapid growth in the IT industry, but, it continues to be associated with several security and privacy concerns as a result of its massive scale, decentralised topology, and resource-constrained devices. Blockchain (BC), a distributed ledger technology used in cryptocurrency has attracted significant attention… Read full abstract & cite →

IoT Blockchain Authorization Hyperledger Fabric BC Blockchain Integrity

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An Spin / Promela Application for Model checking UML Sequence Diagrams

Author 1: Cristian L. Vidal-Silva Author 2: Rodolfo Villarroel Author 3: Jos´e Rubio Author 4: Franklin Johnson Author 5: Erika Madariaga Author 6: Camilo Campos Author 7: Luis Carter

UML sequence diagrams usually represent the behavior of systems execution. Automated verification of UML sequence diagrams’ correctness is necessary because they can model critical algorithmic behaviors of information systems. UML sequence diagrams applications are often on the requirement and design phases of the software development process, and their correctness guarantees… Read full abstract & cite →

Spin / Promela UML Sequence Diagrams Fault Tolerance LTL formulas Combined Fragment

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.091071 PDF