IJACSA Vol. 10 Issue 11 (2019)

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Anomaly Detection using Unsupervised Methods: Credit Card Fraud Case Study

Author 1: Mahdi Rezapour

The usage of credit card has increased dramatically due to a rapid development of credit cards. Consequently, credit card fraud and the loss to the credit card owners and credit cards companies have been increased dramatically. Credit card Supervised learning has been widely used to detect anomaly in credit card… Read full abstract & cite →

Credit card fraud anomaly detection SVM Mahalanobis distance autoencoder unsupervised techniques

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0101101 PDF

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On the Possibility of Implementing High-Precision Calculations in Residue Numeral System

Author 1: Otsokov Sh A Author 2: Magomedov Sh.G

This article proposes a method for accelerating high-precision calculations by parallelizing arithmetic operations of addition, subtraction and multiplication. The proposed approach allows us to apply the advantages of the residue numeral system: absence of carry-overs when adding, subtracting, multiplying and reducing high-precision calculations with numbers of high digit capacity to… Read full abstract & cite →

High-precision calculations residue numeral system positional numeral system number conversion rank determination

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0101102 PDF

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A Hybrid Model of Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average and Artificial Neural Network for Load Forecasting

Author 1: Lemuel Clark P Velasco Author 2: Daisy Lou L. Polestico Author 3: Gary Paolo O. Macasieb Author 4: Michael Bryan V. Reyes Author 5: Felicisimo B. Vasquez Jr

The complementary strengths and weaknesses of both statistical modeling paired with machine learning has been an ongoing technique in the development and implementation of forecasting models that analyze the dataset’s linear as well as nonlinear components in the generation of accurate prediction results. In this paper, autoregressive integrated moving average… Read full abstract & cite →

Hybrid model autoregressive integrated moving average electric load forecasting Artificial Neural Network (ANN)

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0101103 PDF

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The Use of Microwave Drying Process to the Granular Materials

Author 1: Francisc Ioan Hathazi Author 2: Vasile Darie Soproni Author 3: Mircea Nicolae Arion Author 4: Carmen Otilia Molnar Author 5: Simina Vicas (Coman) Author 6: Olimpia Smaranda Mintas

The use of electro thermal technologies based on microwave energy represents an important step in the development of new innovative solutions. The numerical modelling allows to study the influence of the high frequency electromagnetic and thermal field on the dielectric materials during the drying process before achieving practical installation. So… Read full abstract & cite →

Microwave energy microwave field experimental models laboratory models drying and seed treatment

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Intuition, Accuracy, and Immersiveness Analysis of 3D Visualization Methods for Haptic Virtual Reality

Author 1: Taehoon Kim Author 2: Chanwoo Kim Author 3: Hyeonseok Song Author 4: Mee Young Sung

The purpose of this study is to analyze the usefulness of 3D immersive stereoscopic virtual reality technology in applications that provide tactile sensations. Diverse experiments show that the haptic 3D visualization method presented in a 3D stereoscopic space using headsets is more intuitive, accurate and immersive than the haptic 3D… Read full abstract & cite →

3D stereoscopic haptic intuition immersiveness recognize simulation virtual reality visualization

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Performance Evaluation of E32 Long Range Radio Frequency 915 MHz based on Internet of Things and Micro Sensors Data

Author 1: Puput Dani Prasetyo Adi Author 2: Akio Kitagawa

This research discusses how to build and analyze a 915 MHz Long Range (LoRa) E32 Frequency-based Node Sensor network with a Micro Sensor with 3 sensor outputs produced i.e, Temperature (DegC), Air Pressure (hPa), and Humidity (%). therefore, This research succeeded in making a sensor node using the LoRa E32… Read full abstract & cite →

Long range microcontroller internet of things quality of service micro sensor

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0101106 PDF

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e-Learning System using Mashup based e-Learning Content Collection and an Attractive Avatar in OpenSimulator

Author 1: Kohei Arai

Mashup based e-learning content collection and provide system with an attractive avatar in OpenSimulator is proposed for making learning processes attractive and finding the students week points through learning processes with avatar. Through experiments with under graduated students, it is found that the proposed e-learning system is useful for the… Read full abstract & cite →

OpenSimulator Mashup e-learning mobile learning avatar search engine

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0101107 PDF

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The Impact of Social Networks on Students’ Academic Achievement in Practical Programming Labs

Author 1: Ayat Al Ahmad Author 2: Randa Obeidallah

Internet and Communication Technology (ICT) is being applied extensively in education to allow students to obtain information at anytime from anywhere. Social media is a new approach that is used to enhance and improve the delivery of education. Facebook groups and YouTube channels are the most operated networks that manage… Read full abstract & cite →

e-Learning Facebook YouTube social network programming lab course learning outcome

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0101108 PDF

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Performance Evaluation of Different Short Path Algorithms to Improve Oil-Gas Pipelines

Author 1: Nabeel Naeem Almaalei Author 2: Siti Noor Asyikin Mohd Razali

The oil-gas pipeline is a complicated and expensive system in terms of construction, control, materials, monitoring, and maintenance which includes economic, social and environmental hazards. As a case study of Iraq, the system of pipelines is above the ground and is liable to disasters that may produce an environmental tragedy… Read full abstract & cite →

PSPA ACO GA Oil-Gas pipeline performance cost short path

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0101109 PDF

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A New Model to Detect 2D Hand based on Multi-feature Skin Model

Author 1: Abdullah Shawan Alotaibi

Recognition of hand gesture is one of Human PCs most growing interfaces. In most vision-based signal recognition system, the initial phase is hand detection and separation. Because the hands are linked to a variety of day by day, local work experiences both extraordinary changes in the illumination and the innate… Read full abstract & cite →

Hand detection feature modeling convolutional neural networks

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The Computational Efficiency of Monte Carlo Breakage of Articles using Serial and Parallel Processing: A Comparison

Author 1: Jherna Devi Author 2: Jagdesh Kumar

This paper presents a GPU-based parallelized and a CPU-based serial Monte-Carlo method for breakage of a particle. We compare the efficiency of the graphic card’s graphics processing unit (GPU) and the general-purpose central processing unit (CPU), in a simulation using Monte Carlo (MC) methods for processing the particle breakage. Three… Read full abstract & cite →

Breakage of particles Central Processing Unit (CPU) Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) CUDA computational time clock cycle speedup factor

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Developing Lexicon-based Algorithms and Sentiment Lexicon for Sentiment Analysis of Saudi Dialect Tweets

Author 1: Waleed Al-Ghaith

Majority of studies on sentiment analysis field, specifically Arabic lexicon-based approach, are focused on doing preprocessing methods on targeted dataset text or collected textual data from Twitter (Twitter dataset) rather than dealing with lexicon itself. This study proposes a new method, we constraint firstly on building a new sentiment lexicon… Read full abstract & cite →

Sentiment analysis opinion mining lexicon-based Arabic text mining Saudi Arabia

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Empirical Analysis of Object-Oriented Software Test Suite Evolution

Author 1: Nada Alsolami Author 2: Qasem Obeidat Author 3: Mamdouh Alenezi

The software system is evolving over the time, thus, the test suite must be repaired according to the changing code. Updating test cases manually is a time-consuming activity, especially for large test suites, which motivate the recent development of automatically repairing test techniques. To develop an effective automatic repair technique… Read full abstract & cite →

Software test code complexity code coverage test evolution

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0101113 PDF

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On Designing Bee Inspired Routing Algorithm for Device-to-Device Communication in the Internet of Things

Author 1: Asmaa Mohammed Almazmoomi Author 2: Muhammad Mostafa Monowar

Device-to-device communication is popular research trend that presents ubiquitous information exchange on the Internet of Things. D2D communication provides data exchange without transiting to a base station using direct communication between two devices. For such environment, successful delivery of data to the receiver is needed. In this paper, we suggest… Read full abstract & cite →

Device-to-device communication internet-of-things Bee-Inspire Algorithm routing protocol

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0101114 PDF

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Computerized Drug Verification System: A Panacea for Effective Drug Verification

Author 1: Oketa Christian Kelechi Author 2: Alo Uzoma Rita Author 3: Okemiri Henry Anayo Author 4: Richard-Nnabu Nneka Ernestecia Author 5: Achi Ifeanyi Isaiah Author 6: Chinazo I. Chima Author 7: Afolabi Idris Yinka Author 8: Mgbanya Praise Chinenye

Computerized Drug Verification System (CDVS) is a research work geared towards establishing the means of identifying authentic drugs in Nigeria with emphasis on identifying the manufacturing date and expiration date respectively using an interactive mobile app. At the point of drug purchase, only few drugs have methods of verifying their… Read full abstract & cite →

NAFDAC verify security drug verification information system drug authentication

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Empirical Analysis of Context based Content Delivery for M-Learning Scenarios using ANFIS

Author 1: Sudhindra B Deshpande Author 2: Shrinivas R.Mangalwede

Today's world is unusually popular with the internet and mobile devices in everyday life. It offers unprecedented possibilities learning with mobility. This kind of learning can be called "M-learning" (Mobile Learning) at any point in the world. Meeting learners ' needs in the current scenario in which collaborative electronic and… Read full abstract & cite →

Personalization adaptive learning e-learning distance learning mobile learning M-Learning ANFIS fuzzy system neural networks personalization context awareness content adaption content delivery expert system

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Performance of LoRa Network for Environmental Monitoring System in Bidong Island Terengganu, Malaysia

Author 1: Nur Aziemah Azmi Ali Author 2: Nurul Adilah Abdul Latiff Author 3: Idrus Salimi Ismail

Recent wireless communication network which is Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) bring a huge potential in monitoring system as the integration between sensors application and LPWAN technology itself contribute to greater efficiency, higher productivity, and better quality of life in multiform sectors such as in healthcare, smart city application… Read full abstract & cite →

LPWAN LoRa environmental monitoring WSN

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Vulnerability Analysis of E-voting Application using Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Framework

Author 1: Sunardi Author 2: Imam Riadi Author 3: Pradana Ananda Raharja

This paper reports on security concerns in the E-voting used for the election of village heads. Analysis of the system and server uses two different tools to determine the accuracy of scanning vulnerabilities based on the OWASP Framework. We reported that the results of the scanning using the ZAP tool… Read full abstract & cite →

Vulnerability e-voting open web application security project framework attacker

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On the Prediction of Properties of Benzene using MP4 Method Executed on High Performance Computing with Heterogeneous Platform

Author 1: Norma Alias Author 2: Riadh Sahnoun Author 3: Nur Fatin Kamila Zanalabidin

High computational complexity problem, high computational cost and deal with a big data are the motivation to study the physical and chemical properties of benzene. Based on the limitation of memory system, processor speed and huge time step computation, we propose the implementation of parallel Gaussian suites of program, particularly… Read full abstract & cite →

MP4 parallel computing homogenous platform properties of benzene high performance computing

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A Framework for Traceable and Transparent Supply Chain Management for Agri-food Sector in Malaysia using Blockchain Technology

Author 1: Kok Yong Chan Author 2: Johari Abdullah Author 3: Adnan Shahid Khan

This paper presents a framework for traceable and transparent supply chain management (SCM) system for the agri-food sector using blockchain technology in Malaysia. Numerous researchers believed that the current SCM system consists of several weak points, especially when multiple enterprise resource planning (ERP) system utilizing centralized SCM. Thus, data transparency… Read full abstract & cite →

Supply chain blockchain consensus algorithm traceability transparency

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A Key-Ordered Decisional Learning Parity with Noise (DLPN) Scheme for Public Key Encryption Scheme in Cloud Computing

Author 1: Tarasvi Lakum Author 2: B.Thirumala Rao

The variation of decisional learning parity with noise (DLPN) named as key-Ordered DLPN based security algorithm is presented in this work. The proposed scheme uses DLPN by extending it to an even-odd-order scheme, depend on the value of probability distribution of odd and even bits for encryption, where odd and… Read full abstract & cite →

LPN DLPN RSA key-ordered time

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A Proposed Course Recommender Model based on Collaborative Filtering for Course Registration

Author 1: Norazuwa Binti Salehudin Author 2: Hasan Kahtan Author 3: Mansoor Abdullateef Abdulgabber Author 4: Hael Al-bashiri

Students face issues and challenges in making decisions for course registration. Traditionally, students rely on suggestions from academic advisers prior to course registration. Therefore, students spend a considerable amount of time waiting for advisers to help them register for the right subjects. However, the number of students rises yearly, thereby… Read full abstract & cite →

Course registration recommender system collaborative filtering academic advisory

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Optimization of Cúk Voltage Regulator Parameters for Better Performance and Better Efficiency

Author 1: Walid Emar Author 2: Zakariya Al-omari Author 3: Omar A. Saraereh

This paper discusses the harmonic distortion and voltage-current ripple minimization of a Cúk regulator based on the design optimization of its parameters using multichannel connection with uncoupled smoothing filters. The main attention is focused on the analysis and simulation of the fundamental and two-phase parallel connection of Cúk regulator with… Read full abstract & cite →

Cúk regulator smoothing filters double-phase connection overall current ripple

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Traditional Learning Problems of Computing Students

Author 1: Saima Siraj Author 2: Akhtar Hussain Jalbani Author 3: Muhammad Ibrahim Channa

This paper aims to report the traditional learning problems of computing courses students. To identify the problems a questionnaire was framed to focus on the problems and issues faced by students while interacting in a traditional learning environment. The study tested the respondent’s attitude with five-point Likert Scale. The study… Read full abstract & cite →

Traditional learning problems computing education statistical analysis of questionnaire

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Parallel Platform for Supporting Stream Ciphers Over Multi-core Processors

Author 1: Sally Almanasra

Designing secure and fast cryptographic primitives is one of the critical issues in the current era. Several domains, including Internet of Things (IoT), military and banking, require fast and secure data encryption over public channels. Most of the existing stream ciphers are designed to work sequentially and therefore not utilizing… Read full abstract & cite →

Stream ciphers parallel computing multithreading cryptographic primitives multi-core processors

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Segmentation of Crescent Sand Dunes in High Resolution Satellite Images using a Support Vector Machine for Allometry

Author 1: M A Azzaoui Author 2: L. Masmoudi Author 3: H. El Belrhiti Author 4: I. E. Chaouki

The study of sand dunes movement is essential to understand and prevent the desertification phenomenon, and collecting data from the field is a labor intensive task, as deserts contain usually a large number of sand dunes. We propose to use computer vision and machine learning algorithms, combined with remote sensing… Read full abstract & cite →

Image segmentation support vector machines high resolution satellite images remote sensing sand dunes desertification

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Dynamic Hand Gesture to Text using Leap Motion

Author 1: Nur Aliah Nadzirah Jamaludin Author 2: Ong Huey Fang

This paper presents a prototype for converting dynamic hand gestures to text by using a device called Leap Motion. It is one of the motion tracking technologies, which could be used for recognising hand gestures without the need of wearing any external devices or capturing any images and videos. In… Read full abstract & cite →

Dynamic hand gesture leap motion American sign language artificial neural network cross-correlation geometric template matching

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Investigating Factors Affecting Knowledge Management Practices in Public Sectors

Author 1: Subashini Ganapathy Author 2: Zulkefli Mansor Author 3: Kamsuriah Ahmad

Knowledge Management (KM) is a systematic approach in creating, sharing, using and managing information effectively sustain knowledge regardless public or private organizations. It helps organizations to make better decision making in order to achieve the goals and increase the productivity. However, many public organizations are still facing challenges to adopt… Read full abstract & cite →

Critical success factors influencing factors knowledge management public sector

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Image Steganography using Combined Nearest and Farthest Neighbors Methods

Author 1: Farhana Sharmin Author 2: Muhammad Ibrahim Khan

Security is invariably a significant concern during communication. With the ease of communication, there is always a pending threat of intrusion. Steganography is one such way to achieve security by concealing confidential information within a more innocent looking media like image, audio, video etc. In this paper, a new technique… Read full abstract & cite →

Steganography cryptography Pixel Value Difference (PVD) image processing cover image information security stego image

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Decision Support System for Employee Candidate Selection using AHP and PM Methods

Author 1: Soleman

PT. Prima Grafika is a digital printing company that is looking for the best prospective employees. Based on research and observations that have been made, the company only uses administrative data in selecting prospective employees. Processing a lot of data and documents with the same applicant's name slowing down the… Read full abstract & cite →

Prospective employees decision support systems Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) profile matching

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Analyzing the Impact of Forest Cover at River Bank on Flood Spread by using Predictive Analytics and Satellite Imagery

Author 1: Muhammad Aneeq Yusuf Author 2: Muhammad Khalid Khan Author 3: Tariq Mahmood Author 4: Muhammad Umer Author 5: Rafi Ullah Afridi

Floods have been a recurring problem for a number of countries around the world including Pakistan. It is believed that densely populated forests at river banks can prevent floods from spreading towards settlements and farmlands. The role of forest in flood spread has been an area of research for a… Read full abstract & cite →

Floods forests predictive modeling satellite imagery environmental modeling

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A Review of Feature Selection and Sentiment Analysis Technique in Issues of Propaganda

Author 1: Siti Rohaidah Ahmad Author 2: Muhammad Zakwan Muhammad Rodzi Author 3: Nurlaila Syafira Shapiei Author 4: Nurhafizah Moziyana Mohd Yusop Author 5: Suhaila Ismail

Propaganda is a form of communication that is used in influencing communities, or people in general, to push forward an agenda for a certain goal. Nowadays, there are different means used in distributing propaganda including postings on social media, illustrations, cartoons and animations, articles, TV and radio shows. This paper… Read full abstract & cite →

Sentiment analysis feature selection swarm algorithm propaganda

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DesCom: Routing Decision using Estimation Time in VDTN

Author 1: Adnan Ali Author 2: Jinlong Li Author 3: Aqsa Tanveer Author 4: Maryam Batool Author 5: Nimra Choudhary

VDTN was proposed as a disrupting network which is established on the paradigm of the delay-tolerant network. VDTN uses vehicular nodes to convey messages as, it permits sparse opportunistic network connectivity, which is considered by the low node density where the vehicular traffic is sporadic, and no end-to-end paths exist… Read full abstract & cite →

Estimation time VDTN routing vehicular delay- tolerant network ONE simulator

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LCAHASH-1.1: A New Design of the LCAHASH System for IoT

Author 1: Anas Sadak Author 2: Bouchra Echandouri Author 3: Fatima Ezzahra Ziani Author 4: Charifa Hanin Author 5: Fouzia Omary

The present paper represents an extension of LCAHASH system. LCAHASH is a previously developed lightweight hash algorithm. It is based on cellular automata. It was developed as an alternative to existing hash functions to ensure data integrity and to meet the security requirements of the Internet of Things devices. Due… Read full abstract & cite →

Information security hash function cellular automata IoT data integrity

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An Empirical Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms for Classification of Software Requirements

Author 1: Law Foong Li Author 2: Nicholas Chia Jin-An Author 3: Zarinah Mohd Kasirun Author 4: Chua Yan Piaw

Intelligent software engineering has emerged in recent years to address some difficult problems in requirements engineering. Requirements are crucial for software development. Moreover, the classification of natural language user requirements into functional and non-functional requirements is a fundamental challenge as it defines the fulfillment criteria of the users’ expected needs… Read full abstract & cite →

Machine learning ensemble algorithms requirements classification functional requirements non-functional requirements

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PathGazePIN: Gaze and Path-based Authentication Entry Method

Author 1: Bayan M AlBaradi Author 2: Amani M. AlTowayan Author 3: Maram M. AlAnazi Author 4: Sadaf Ambreen Author 5: Dina M. Ibrahim

In these days, smartphones are being widely used, people use them to store sensitive and private information. The password authentication is the most used authentication method, however, the password can be disclosure through shoulder surfing attack, since the users write their password in public places and they tend to make… Read full abstract & cite →

User authentication shoulder surfing attacks PIN gaze-based security accuracy

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Controlling High PAPR in Vehicular OFDM-MIMO using Downlink Optimization Model under DCT Transform

Author 1: Ahmed Ali Author 2: Esraa Eldesouky

The persisting challenges of the radio channel in vehicular networks entail the use of multi-antennas which is known as Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO). In order to obtain an efficient multi-user MIMO system, the power of the radio frequency (RF) components should be optimized. Necessarily practical solutions are essential to lower the… Read full abstract & cite →

Zadoff-Chu Sequence Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) Vehicular Networks

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The Correction of the Grammatical Case Endings Errors in Arabic Language

Author 1: Chouaib MOUKRIM Author 2: Abderrahim TRAGHA Author 3: El Habib BENLAHMER

Syntax plays a key role in natural language processing, but it does not always occupy an important position in applications. The main objective of this article is to solve the problem of the grammatical case ending errors produced by Arabic learners or certain common errors. Arabic can be considered more… Read full abstract & cite →

Automatic correction ontology syntactic errors case endings natural language processing Arabic

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Partition Ciphering System: A Difficult Problem Based Encryption Scheme

Author 1: Ziani Fatima Ezzahra Author 2: Omary Fouzia

In this article, a new encryption scheme called Partition Ciphering System is proposed to adapt and process the message according to the partition problem. The objective of this system, that can be applied as a standalone system or as a building block in a bigger system, is to achieve confidentiality… Read full abstract & cite →

Encryption scheme partition problem frequency analysis avalanche effect confusion diffusion statistical properties

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The Implementation of Business Intelligence and Analytics Integration for Organizational Performance Management: A Case Study in Public Sector

Author 1: Jamaiah Yahaya Author 2: Nur Hani Zulkifli Abai Author 3: Aziz Deraman Author 4: Yusmadi Yah Jusoh

Literature study shows that several works have been conducted on the implementation of BI in performance management, but the analytical aspects were not being considered. Business analytics is an activity of applying analytics to strengthen strategic and operational business activities. While performance management is important to determine organisational success and… Read full abstract & cite →

Business intelligence business analytics organisational performance management framework case study

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A Survey on Distributed Greenhouse Gases Monitoring Systems

Author 1: Adela Puscasiu Author 2: Alexandra Fanca Author 3: Dan-Ioan Gota Author 4: Silviu Folea Author 5: Honoriu Valean

Monitoring of air quality represents a major task, due to the direct impact of pollution on human health. Pollution has been further aggravated by the progresses that have taken place in the last decades: traffic growth, traffic noise in cities and growth of urban areas, rising cities, increased energy consumption… Read full abstract & cite →

Air quality air monitoring systems noise monitoring systems air pollution systems

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The Development of a Visual Output Approach for Programming via the Application of Cognitive Load Theory and Constructivism

Author 1: Marini Abu Bakar Author 2: Muriati Mukhtar Author 3: Fariza Khalid

Programming is a skill of the future. However, decades of experience and research had indicated that the teaching and learning of programming are full of problems and challenges. As such educators and researchers are always on the look-out for suitable approaches and paradigms that can be adopted for the teaching… Read full abstract & cite →

Introductory programming CS1 novices Java programming learning objects-first

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Smart Age Detection for Social Media

Author 1: Manal Alghieth Author 2: Jawaher Alhuthail Author 3: Kholod Aldhubiay Author 4: Rotan Alshowaye

Over the recent years, there has been an immense attraction towards age detection due to its raised implementation in various sectors. Such as government regulations and rules, security control, and human computer interaction. Popular human features such as the face and fingerprints can be modified or changed with time. However… Read full abstract & cite →

Age detection deep learning ear features CNN control social media

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Automated Methodology for Optimizing Menus in Personalized Nutrition

Author 1: Valery I Karpov Author 2: Nikolay M. Portnov Author 3: Igor A. Nikitin Author 4: Yury I. Sidorenko Author 5: Sergey M. Petrov Author 6: Nadezhda M. Podgornova Author 7: Mikhail Yu. Sidorenko Author 8: Sergey V. Shterman Author 9: Igor V. Zavalishin

In the personalized nutrition rationalized management system the central practical task is to compile an optimized menu that provides the best value for a multi-criteria set of assessments. These are nutrient composition, cost (economic acceptability), energy value, food intolerances, individual preferences, etc. To solve the problem, a combined optimization method… Read full abstract & cite →

Personalized nutrition menu optimization nutrition management practical nutrition

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Node Relocation Techniques for Wireless Sensor Networks: A Short Survey

Author 1: Mahmood ul Hassan Author 2: Khalid Mahmood Author 3: Shahzad Ali Author 4: Amin Al Awady Author 5: Muhammad Kashif Saeed

Sensor nodes in a sensor network often operate in harsh and challenging environments and this leads to frequent failure of sensor nodes. Failure of sensor nodes leads to partitioning in the network connectivity. For significant effectiveness of applications of sensor networks, the inter-sensor connectivity among sensors is vital. Some sensors… Read full abstract & cite →

Node failure sensor node post-deployment on-demand relocation internode connectivity

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Comprehensive e-Learning System with Simulation Capabilities for Understanding of Complex Equations

Author 1: Kohei Arai

A comprehensive e-learning system with simulation capabilities for understanding of complex equations is proposed. Through experiment with the proposed e-learning system, it is found that the proposed system is much effective and comprehensive than the conventional e-learning system without any mathematical expressions of processing and simulation capabilities by 14.5 %… Read full abstract & cite →

SCORM e-learning simulation Physics subject action script

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Challenges in Wireless Body Area Network

Author 1: Muhammad Asam Author 2: Tauseef Jamal Author 3: Muhammad Adeel Author 4: Areeb Hassan Author 5: Shariq Aziz Butt Author 6: Aleena Ajaz Author 7: Maryam Gulzar

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) refers to a short-range, wireless communications in the vicinity of, or inside a human body. WBAN is emerging solution to cater the needs of local and remote health care related facility. Medical and non-medical applications have been revolutionarily under consideration for providing a healthy and… Read full abstract & cite →

WBAN (Wireless Body Area Network) denial of service attacks resource management cooperation security

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e-Parking: Multi-agent Smart Parking Platform for Dynamic Pricing and Reservation Sharing Service

Author 1: Bassma Jioudi Author 2: Aroua Amari Author 3: Fouad Moutaouakkil Author 4: Hicham Medromi

Parking is a key element of a sustainable urban mobility policy. It plays a fundamental role in travel planning and transport management, as the foremost vector of modal choice, but also as a potential means of freeing up public spaces. In this article we define the smart parking concept, as… Read full abstract & cite →

Smart cities smart mobility smart parking dynamic pricing policy cruising traffic

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Semantic Micro-Services Model for Vehicle Routing using Ant Colony Optimization

Author 1: Asmaa ROUDANE Author 2: Mohamed YOUSSFI Author 3: Khalifa MANSOURI

In this paper, we propose a new model of vehicle routing based on micro services using the principle of selection and composition of paths. In this model each micro service is responsible for a road resource, a step in the driver's journey, implementing a specific objective of the road course… Read full abstract & cite →

Road traffic road traffic management systems intelligent systems complex systems graphs real-time optimization methods micro-services ant colonies vehicle routing

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Monitoring of Rainfall Level Ombrometer Observatory (Obs) Type using Android Sharp GP2Y0A41SK0F Sensor

Author 1: Anton Yudhana Author 2: Yunita Dwi Andriliana Author 3: Son Ali Akbar Author 4: Sunardi Author 5: Subhas Mukhopadhyay Author 6: Ismail Rakip Karas

Measurements of rainfall carried out are generally automatic, but how many parties have carried out research using automatic rain gauge instruments. The rainfall level data obtained can be used to detect flooding so that it reduces the occurrence of natural disasters earlier. The principle works are when rain falls the… Read full abstract & cite →

Arduino infrared sensor android observatory rainfall

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Deep MRI Segmentation: A Convolutional Method Applied to Alzheimer Disease Detection

Author 1: Hanane Allioui Author 2: Mohamed Sadgal Author 3: Aziz Elfazziki

The learning techniques have a particular need especially for the detection of invisible brain diseases. Learning-based methods rely on MRI medical images to reconstruct a solution for detecting aberrant values or areas in the human brain. In this article, we present a method that automatically performs segmentation of the brain… Read full abstract & cite →

Computer-Assisted Diagnosis (CAD) Alzheimer's disease (AD) Image segmentation Machine learning Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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Improved Adaptive Semi-Unsupervised Weighted Oversampling using Sparsity Factor for Imbalanced Datasets

Author 1: Haseeb Ali Author 2: Mohd Najib Mohd Salleh Author 3: Kashif Hussain

With the incredible surge in data volumes, problems associated with data analysis have been increasingly complicated. In data mining algorithms, imbalanced data is a profound problem in machine learning paradigm. It appears due to desperate nature of data in which, one class with a large number of instances presents the… Read full abstract & cite →

Data mining imbalanced data minority majority oversampling

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Factors Contributing to the Success of Information Security Management Implementation

Author 1: Mazlina Zammani Author 2: Rozilawati Razali Author 3: Dalbir Singh

Information Security Management (ISM) concerns shielding the integrity, confidentiality, availability, authenticity, reliability and accountability of the organisation’s information from unauthorised access in order to ensure business continuity and customers’ confidence. The importance of information security (IS) in today’s situation should be given due attention. Recognising its importance, organisations nowadays have… Read full abstract & cite →

Information security information security management success factors key factors

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Improving Long Short-Term Memory Predictions with Local Average of Nearest Neighbors

Author 1: Anibal Flores Author 2: Hugo Tito Author 3: Deymor Centty

The study presented in this paper aims to improve the accuracy of meteorological time series predictions made with the recurrent neural network known as Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM). To reach this, instead of just making adjustments to the architecture of LSTM as seen in different related works, it is proposed… Read full abstract & cite →

Long Short-Term Memory Local Average of Nearest Neighbors univariate time series prediction LANN LANNc Gated Recurrent Unit GRU

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Data Sanitization Framework for Computer Hard Disk Drive: A Case Study in Malaysia

Author 1: Nooreen Ashilla Binti Yusof Author 2: Siti Norul Huda Binti Sheikh Abdullah Author 3: Mohamad Firham Efendy bin Md Senan Author 4: Nor Zarina binti Zainal Abidin Author 5: Monaliza Binti Sahri

In digital forensics field, data wiping is considered one of the anti-forensics’ technique. On the other perspective, data wiping or data sanitization is the technique used to ensure that the deleted data are unable to be accessed by any unauthorized person. This paper introduces a process for data sanitization from… Read full abstract & cite →

Data sanitization anti-forensics digital forensics wiping technique

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Render Farm for Highly Realistic Images in a Beowulf Cluster using Distributed Programming Techniques

Author 1: Enrique Lee Huamaní Author 2: Patricia Condori Author 3: Brian Meneses-Claudio Author 4: Avid Roman-Gonzalez

Now-a-days, photorealistic images are demanded for the realization of scientific models, so we use rendering tools that convert three-dimensional models into highly realistic images. The problem of generating photorealistic images occurs when the three-dimensional model becomes larger and more complex, so the time to generate an image is much greater… Read full abstract & cite →

Distributed programming computational parallelism Beowulf cluster high-efficiency computing render farm

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Performance Evaluation of IoT Messaging Protocol Implementation for E-Health Systems

Author 1: M Zorkany Author 2: K.Fahmy Author 3: Ahmed Yahya

Now-a-days, e-health and healthcare applications in the internet of things are growing rapidly. These applications are starting from remote monitoring of patient's parameters in home to monitoring patients during his life activities at work, transportation, etc. So we can monitor patients at any place outside of hospitals and clinical settings… Read full abstract & cite →

E-health IoT IoT protocol CoAP MQTT and remote patient monitoring

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Analysis of Password and Salt Combination Scheme To Improve Hash Algorithm Security

Author 1: Sutriman Author 2: Bambang Sugiantoro

In system security, hashes play important role in ensuring data. It remains the secure and the management of access rights by those entitled to. The increasing power of hash algorithms, various methods, are carried out one of them using salting techniques. Salt is usually attached as a prefix or postfix… Read full abstract & cite →

Security hash hashing scheme salting password

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Capturing Software Security Practices using CBR: Three Case Studies

Author 1: Ikram Elrhaffari Author 2: Ounsa Roudies

Generally, software security can be regarded as one of the most important issues in software engineering field since it may affect the software product effectiveness due to the various technological vulnerabilities and menaces. Most traditional software security approaches provide security activities through the software development lifecycle (SDLC) from requirements to… Read full abstract & cite →

CBR project features case base e-shop mobiling intranet mutualize security practices security requirements

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An Efficient Model for Medical Data Classification using Gene Features

Author 1: Kosaraju Chaitanya Author 2: Rachakonda Venkatesh Author 3: Thulasi Bikku

In the medical field to solve the new issues, the novel approaches for managing relevant features by using genomes are considered; using the sub-sequence of genes the outcome of interest is analyzed. In this implementation part of the model, we have given the MEDLINE and PubMed archives as inputs to… Read full abstract & cite →

Classification Hadoop framework biomedical documents feature selection gene features medical datasets

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Mutual Authentication Security Scheme in Fog Computing

Author 1: Gohar Rahman Author 2: Chuah Chai Wen

Fog paradigm is a new and emerging technology that extends the services of cloud computing near to edge network. This paradigm aims to provide rich resources near to edge devices and remove the deficiencies of cloud computing for example, latency. However, this paradigm is distributed in nature and does not… Read full abstract & cite →

Fog computing mutual authentication man in the middle attack key exchange ban logic

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Milk Purity Recognition Software through Image Processing

Author 1: Alvarado-Díaz Witman Author 2: Meneses-Claudio Brian Author 3: Roman-Gonzalez Avid

Currently in Peru, there is a per capita milk consumption of 87 kg per year; however, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recommends a consumption of 120 kg per person; the industry, when the milk is acquired from small livestock suppliers, does not analyze the milk… Read full abstract & cite →

Milk adulterated milk milk with water milk analysis image processing classification learner image processing

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Time and Frequency Analysis of Heart Rate Variability Data in Heart Failure Patients

Author 1: Galya N Georgieva-Tsaneva

The paper presents a mathematically based analysis of heart rate variability of two groups cardiology records: healthy individuals and patients diagnosed with heart failure. The main objective of the study is to perform a parametric evaluation of the cardiovascular system of the human body using time domain and frequency domain… Read full abstract & cite →

Heart rate variability time domain analysis frequency domain analysis Welch periodogram heart failure

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E-learning Benchmarking Adoption: A Case Study of Sur University College

Author 1: Saleem Issa Al Zoubi Author 2: Ahmad Issa Alzoubi

As an integral tool nowadays, e-learning presents fresh paradigm in the fields of education and management. The effectiveness of e-learning in the improvement of learning and teaching method has been proven. Accordingly, there have been countless works carried out to gain comprehension on the adoption of e-learning particularly in terms… Read full abstract & cite →

e-learning DOI IS success net benefit extent of usage LMS benchmarking quality assurance

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Development of Warning Device in Risk Situations for Children with Hearing Impairment at Low Cost

Author 1: Kevin Rodriguez-Villarreal Author 2: Zumaeta-Mori Jhon Author 3: Alva Mantari Alicia Author 4: Roman-Gonzalez Avid

Hearing impairment is the partial or total loss of hearing. There are approximately 34 million hearing impaired children in the world. The equipment used as a means of communication to improve interaction with society is very expensive, so in this study was built an electronic device with the ability to… Read full abstract & cite →

Hearing disability device low cost algorithm communication

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A Deep-Learning Model for Predicting and Visualizing the Risk of Road Traffic Accidents in Saudi Arabia: A Tutorial Approach

Author 1: Maram Alrajhi Author 2: Mahmoud Kamel

Around the world, road traffic accidents (RTAs) cause significant concerns for decision makers and researchers on traffic safety. The diversity, rarity, and interconnectivity of historical data on factors causing car accidents point to the need for more focused studies for analyzing, predicting, and visualizing the risk of accidents over the… Read full abstract & cite →

LSTM for time-series forecasting deep learning RTA data visualization interactive map Saudi Arabia

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Optimization of Multi-Product Aggregate Production Planning using Hybrid Simulated Annealing and Adaptive Genetic Algorithm

Author 1: Gusti Eka Yuliastuti Author 2: Agung Mustika Rizki Author 3: Wayan Firdaus Mahmudy Author 4: Ishardita Pambudi Tama

In the planning of aggregate production, company stakeholders need a long time due to the many production variables that must be considered so that the production value can meet consumer demand with minimal production costs. The case study is the company that produces more than a type of product so… Read full abstract & cite →

Agreggate genetic algorithm hybrid production planning simulated annealing

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Hybrid Topic Cluster Models for Social Healthcare Data

Author 1: K Rajendra Prasad Author 2: Moulana Mohammed Author 3: R M Noorullah

Social media and in particular, microblogs are becoming an important data source for disease surveillance, behavioral medicine, and public healthcare. Topic Models are widely used in microblog analytics for analyzing and integrating the textual data within a corpus. This paper uses health tweets as microblogs and attempts the health data… Read full abstract & cite →

Multi-viewpoint based metric traditional topic models hybrid topic models topic visualization health tendency

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Lizard Cipher for IoT Security on Constrained Devices

Author 1: Ari Kusyanti Author 2: Rakhmadhany Primananda Author 3: Kalbuadi Joyo Saputro

Over the past decades, security become the most challenging task in Internet of Things. Therefore, a convenient hardware cryptographic module is required to provide accelerated cryptographic operations such as encryption. This study investigates the implementation of Lizard cipher on three Arduino platforms to determine its performance. This study is successful… Read full abstract & cite →

Lizard cipher IoT security Arduino ANOVA

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A Generic Approach for Weight Assignment to the Decision Making Parameters

Author 1: Md Zahid Hasan Author 2: Shakhawat Hossain Author 3: Mohammad Shorif Uddin Author 4: Mohammad Shahidul Islam

Weight assignment to the decision parameters is a crucial factor in the decision-making process. Any imprecision in weight assignment to the decision attributes may lead the whole decision-making process useless which ultimately mislead the decision-makers to find an optimal solution. Therefore, attributes’ weight allocation process should be flawless and rational… Read full abstract & cite →

Multiple attribute decision problem average term frequency cosine similarity weight setup for multiple attributes decision making

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A Comparative Study of the Most Influential Learning Styles used in Adaptive Educational Environments

Author 1: Othmane ZINE Author 2: Aziz DEROUICH Author 3: Abdennebi TALBI

E-learning has evolved from traditional content delivery approaches to a personalized, adaptive and learner-centered knowledge transfer. In the way of customizing the learning experience learning styles represent key features that cannot be neglected. Learning style designates any representative characteristic of an individual while learning, i.e. a particular way of dealing… Read full abstract & cite →

Adaptive educational environments learning style Felder-Silverman personalization learner modeling

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Performance Analysis of Double Gate Junctionless Tunnel Field Effect Transistor: RF Stability Perspective

Author 1: Veerati Raju Author 2: Sivasankaran K

This paper investigates the RF Stability performance of the Double Gate Junctionless Tunnel Field Effect Transistor (DGJL-TFET). The impact of the geometrical parameter, material and bias conditions on the key figure of merit (FoM) like Transconductance (gm), Gate capacitance (Cgg) and RF parameters like Stern Stability Factor (K), Critical Frequency… Read full abstract & cite →

Junctionless tunnel FET band to band tunnelling High-k RF stability critical frequency

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A Robust Optimization Approach of SQL-to-SPARQL Query Rewriting

Author 1: Ahmed Abatal Author 2: Mohamed Bahaj Author 3: Soussi Nassima

In order to ensure the interoperability between semantic web and relational databases, several approaches have been developed to ensure SQL-to-SPARQL query transformation direction, but all these approaches have the same weakness. In fact, they convert directly the input SQL query to its equivalent SPARQL one without any pre-processing phase enabling… Read full abstract & cite →

SQL-to-SPARQL outer join optimization query transformation SQL simplification query optimization layer

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Impact of Scrum and Tactic Workflow Management System on Organization Performance (A Study on Animation Studios in Pakistan)

Author 1: Abdul Wahab Khan Author 2: Usman Khan Author 3: Maaz Bin Ahmad Author 4: Farhan Shafique

Assessing and considering the efficiency effect of scrum management system is a significant and troublesome issue for a researcher. We prescribe that you best comprehend the adequacy of scrum management system applications by breaking down at the data handling level in the animation studio. As we going to concentrate on… Read full abstract & cite →

MIS (Management Information System) scrum management system deployment performance animated studios

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Atmospheric Light Estimation using Particle Swarm Optimization for Dehazing

Author 1: Padmini T N Author 2: Shankar. T

For the past decade, many researchers have been working towards the improvement in the visibility of single hazy images, using the haze image model. According to the haze image model, the hazy-free image is restored by estimating the atmospheric light and transmission from a hazy image. The objective of this… Read full abstract & cite →

Hazy images particle swarm optimization dark channel prior transmission atmospheric light

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Intelligent Pedagogical Model with Kinesthetic-Static Immersion based on the Neuro-Linguistic Programming Approach (NLP)

Author 1: Simón Choquehuayta Palomino Author 2: José Herrera Quispe Author 3: Luis Alfaro Author 4: Blas Choquehuayta Llamoca

In this paper, the authors propose a teaching/learning pedagogical model, based on an approach that uses neurolinguistic programming, educational data mining and haptic interaction. It also uses the theory of learning styles, which are identified with data mining techniques, clustering and the Farthest First algorithm, as well as a test… Read full abstract & cite →

Haptic interaction viral immersion learning styles neuro-linguistic programming educational data mining

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Budgets Balancing Algorithms for the Projects Assignment

Author 1: Mahdi Jemmali

This paper focused on the resolution of the project’s assignment problem. Several heuristics have been developed and proposed in this paper to serve as lower bounds to our studied problem. In a developing country, it is interesting to make an equitable distribution of projects in different cities in order to… Read full abstract & cite →

Heuristic scheduling algorithms project assignment

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Browser Extension based Hybrid Anti-Phishing Framework using Feature Selection

Author 1: Swati Maurya Author 2: Harpreet Singh Saini Author 3: Anurag Jain

Phishing is one of the socially engineered cyberse-curity attacks where the attacker impersonates a genuine and legitimate website source and sends emails with the intention of stealing sensitive personal information. The phishing websites’ URLs are usually spread through emails by luring the users to click on them or by embedding… Read full abstract & cite →

Anti-phishing browser extension machine learn-ing feature selection

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Autonomous Navigation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles based on Android Smartphone

Author 1: Talal Bonny Author 2: Mohamed B. Abdelsalam

In the past few years, the adoption of drone technology across industries has increased dramatically as more businesses started to recognize its potential, uses, and scale of global reach. This paper proposes a design solution of a smart GPS quadcopter aircraft navigation system, discusses its hardware and software implementation process… Read full abstract & cite →

UAV drone quadrotor android Arduino GPS GPRS GSM

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SQL to SPARQL Conversion for Direct RDF Querying

Author 1: Ahmed ABATAL Author 2: Khadija Alaoui Author 3: Larbi Alaoui Author 4: Mohamed Bahaj

With the advances in native storage means of RDF data and associated querying capabilities using SPARQL, there is a need to let SQL users benefit from such capabilities for interoperability objectives and without any conversion of the RDF data into relational data. In this sense, this work present SQL2SPARQL4RDF an… Read full abstract & cite →

Resource Description Framework (RDF) Struc-tured Query Language (SQL) Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) schema mapping query conversion Allegrograph

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Instagram Shopping in Saudi Arabia: What Influences Consumer Trust and Purchase Decisions?

Author 1: Taghreed Shaher Alotaibi Author 2: Afnan Abdulrahman Alkhathlan Author 3: Shaden Saad Alzeer

The recent developments of social networking sites (SNSs), along with the increasing usage of online shopping, has led to the emergence of social commerce platforms. Social commerce (s-commerce) is the use of Web 2.0 technologies and social media to deliver e-commerce services for consumers. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)… Read full abstract & cite →

Social commerce Instagram trust purchase intention Maroof key opinion leaders social media influencers

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Evaluate Metadata of Sparse Matrix for SpMV on Shared Memory Architecture

Author 1: Nazmul Ahasan Maruf Author 2: Waseem Ahmed

Sparse Matrix operations are frequently used op-erations in scientific, engineering and high-performance com-puting (HPC) applications. Among them, sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is a popular kernel and considered an important numerical method for science, engineering and in scientific computing. However, SpMV is a computationally expen-sive operation. To obtain better performance, SpMV… Read full abstract & cite →

Sparse matrix vector multiplication sparse matrix metadata sparse matrix vector multiplication parallelization shared memory architecture sparse matrix storage formats high performance computing

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Survey on Domain Specific Languages Implementation Aspects

Author 1: Eman Negm Author 2: Soha Makady Author 3: Akram Salah

Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) bridge the gap between the business model and the technical model. DSLs allow the technical developer to write programs with the business domain notations. This leads to higher productivity and better quality than General Purpose Languages (GPLs). One of the main challenges of utilizing DSLs in… Read full abstract & cite →

Domain Specific Language (DSL) language work-bench language implementation aspects software language engineering

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Fine-tuning Resource Allocation of Apache Spark Distributed Multinode Cluster for Faster Processing of Network-trace Data

Author 1: Shyamasundar L B Author 2: V Anilkumar Author 3: Jhansi Rani P

In the field of network security, the task of process-ing and analyzing huge amount of Packet CAPture (PCAP) data is of utmost importance for developing and monitoring the behavior of networks, having an intrusion detection and prevention system, firewall etc. In recent times, Apache Spark in combination with Hadoop Yet-Another-Resource-Negotiator… Read full abstract & cite →

Big data packet data analysis network security distributed apache spark cluster Yet Another Resource Negotiator (YARN) parameter tuning

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Rich Style Embedding for Intrinsic Plagiarism Detection

Author 1: Oumaima Hourrane Author 2: El Habib Benlahmer

Stylometry plays an important role in the intrinsic plagiarism detection, where the goal is to identify potential plagiarism by analyzing a document involving undeclared changes in writing style. The purpose of this paper is to study the interaction between syntactic structures, attention mechanism, and contextualized word embeddings, as well as… Read full abstract & cite →

Plagiarism detection style embedding deep neural network stylometry syntactic trees

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UAV Control Architecture: Review

Author 1: IDALENE Asmaa Author 2: BOUKHDIR Khalid Author 3: MEDROMI Hicham

Since civil Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are expected to perform a wide rang of mission, the subject of designing an efficient control architecture for autonomous UAV is a very challenging problem. Several contributions had been done in order to implement an autonomous UAV. The key challenge of all these contributions… Read full abstract & cite →

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle control architecture de-liberative approach reactive approach hybrid approach behavior approach hybrid behavior approach subsumption approach

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Effective Combination of Iris-based Cancelable Biometrics and Biometric Cryptosystems

Author 1: Osama Ouda Author 2: Norimichi Tsumura Author 3: Toshiya Nakaguchi

The fuzzy commitment scheme (FCS) is one of the most effective biometric cryptosystems (BCs) that provide secure management of cryptographic keys using biometric templates. In this scheme, error correcting codes (ECCs) are firstly employed to encode a cryptographic key into a codeword which is then secured via linking (committing) it… Read full abstract & cite →

Biometric template protection cancelable biomet-rics biometric cryptosystems BioEncoding fuzzy commitment

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Learning Management System Personalization based on Multi-Attribute Decision Making Techniques and Intuitionistic Fuzzy Numbers

Author 1: Jorge Luna-Urquizo

The personalization of Learning Management Sys-tems is a fundamental task in the current context of e-Learning and the WWW. However, there are many controversies around the criteria used to make the selection and presentation of the most appropriate content for each user. The most used approaches in the last decade… Read full abstract & cite →

Learning Management Systems (LMS) e-Learning multi-attribute decision making learning styles content personal-ization learning objects selection

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A Closer Look at Arabic Text Classification

Author 1: Mohammad A R Abdeen Author 2: Sami AlBouq Author 3: Ahmed Elmahalawy Author 4: Sara Shehata

The world has witnessed an information explosion in the past two decades. Electronic devices are now available in many varieties such as PCs, Laptops, book readers, mobile devices and with relatively affordable prices. This and the ubiquitous use of software applications such as social media and cloud applications, and the… Read full abstract & cite →

Arabic text classification support vector machines k-NN Naive Bayesian decision trees C4.5 maximum entropy feature selection Arabic dataset

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Automatic Semantic Categorization of News Headlines using Ensemble Machine Learning: A Comparative Study

Author 1: Raghad Bogery Author 2: Nora Al Babtain Author 3: Nida Aslam Author 4: Nada Alkabour Author 5: Yara Al Hashim Author 6: Irfan Ullah Khan

Due to widespread availability of Internet there are a huge of sources that produce massive amounts of daily news. Moreover, the need for information by users has been increasing unprecedently, so it is critical that the news is automatically classified to permit users to access the required news instantly and… Read full abstract & cite →

Natural language processing feature engineering word embedding text classification ensemble learning

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Identification of Learning Styles and Automatic Assignment of Projects in an Adaptive e-Learning Environment using Project Based Learning

Author 1: Luis Alfaro Author 2: Erick Apaza Author 3: Jorge Luna-Urquizo Author 4: Claudia Rivera

The use of the project-based learning approach is one of the emerging trends in education and Adaptive e-Learning platforms. One of the main challenges in this line of research is to identify the learning style of students, whose results are considered in this work, for the assignment of course projects… Read full abstract & cite →

Adaptive e-Learning project based collaborative learning case-based reasoning learning styles back propagation neural networks

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