IJACSA Vol. 8 Issue 3 (2017)

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Stylometric Techniques for Multiple Author Clustering

Author 1: David Kernot Author 2: Terry Bossomaier Author 3: Roger Bradbury

In 1598-99 printer, William Jaggard named Shakespeare as the sole author of The Passionate Pilgrim even though Jaggard chose a number of non-Shakespearian poems in the volume. Using a neurolinguistics approach to authorship identification, a four-feature technique, RPAS, is used to convert the 21 poems in The Passionate Pilgrim into… Read full abstract & cite →

Authorship Identification Principal Component Analysis Linear Discriminant Analysis Vector Space Method Seriation

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080301 PDF

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ComplexCloudSim: Towards Understanding Complexity in QoS-Aware Cloud Scheduling

Author 1: Huankai Chen Author 2: Frank Z Wang

The cloud is generally assumed to be homogeneous in most of the research efforts related to cloud resource management and the performance of cloud resource can be determined as it is predictable. However, a plethora of complexities are associated with cloud resources in the real world: dynamicity, heterogeneity and uncertainty… Read full abstract & cite →

Cloud Scheduling Damage Spreading QoS Complexity Chaotic Behaviour Cloud Simulation

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080302 PDF

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A Novel Design of Patch Antenna using U-Slot and Defected Ground Structure

Author 1: Saad Hassan Kiani Author 2: Khalid Mahmood Author 3: Mehre Munir Author 4: Alex James Cole

A novel design of patch antenna is presented with double U slot structure on patch with ground irregularities. As a result tri-band response is achieved with gain reaching 0.785 to 3.75dB respectively and directivity of 5.5 to 5.6dBi. Coaxial cable is mounted with patch as medium of power. The antenna… Read full abstract & cite →

multiband frequencies directivity gain slots Bandwidth reflection coefficient

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080303 PDF

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A Preliminary Numerical Simulation Study of Developing Ankle Foot Orthosis to Support Sit-To-Stand Movement in Children with Cerebral Palsy

Author 1: Chihiro NAKAGAWA Author 2: Ryo YONETSU Author 3: Tomohiro ITO Author 4: Shunsuke KUSADA Author 5: Atsuhiko SHINTANI

The purpose of this study is to identify an effective method of support for the standing-up motion of children with cerebral palsy (CP). Experiments revealed remarkable differences in the shank and upper-body motions of children with CP compared with normally developed (ND) children. Shank tilt angles of CP children were… Read full abstract & cite →

Cerebral palsy Standing-up motion Motion analysis Numerical simulation Rigid link model

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080304 PDF

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A Survey of Spam Detection Methods on Twitter

Author 1: Abdullah Talha Kabakus Author 2: Resul Kara

Twitter is one of the most popular social media platforms that has 313 million monthly active users which post 500 million tweets per day. This popularity attracts the attention of spammers who use Twitter for their malicious aims such as phishing legitimate users or spreading malicious software and advertises through… Read full abstract & cite →

Twitter spam spam detection spam filtering mobile security

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080305 PDF

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Prediction Method for Large Diatom Appearance with Meteorological Data and MODIS Derived Turbidity and Chlorophyll-A in Ariake Bay Area in Japan

Author 1: Kohei Arai

Prediction method for large diatom appearance in winter with meteorological data and MODIS derived turbidity and chlorophyll-a in Ariake Bay Area in Japan is proposed. Mechanism for large diatom appearance in winter is discussed with the influencing factors, meteorological condition and in-situ data of turbidity, chlorophyll-a data with the measuring… Read full abstract & cite →

chlorophyl-a concentration red tide diatom MODIS satellite remote sensing

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080306 PDF

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Modeling of High Speed Free Space Optics System to Maintain Signal Integrity in Different Weather Conditions; System Level

Author 1: Rao Kashif Author 2: Oluwole John Author 3: Fujiang Lin Author 4: Abdul Rehman Buzdar

Free space optical (FSO) also known as free space photonics (FSS) is a technology widely deployed in Local Area Network (LAN), Metro Area Network (MAN), and in Inter & Intra chip communications. However satellite to satellite and other space use of FSO requires further consideration. Although FSO is highly beneficial… Read full abstract & cite →

Free Space Optical NRZ RZ PIN APD Photo Detector BER Q-factor

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080307 PDF

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Qualitative Study of Existing Research Techniques on Wireless Mesh Network

Author 1: Naveen T.H Author 2: Vasanth G

Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) is one of the significant forms of the wireless mesh network that assists in creating highly interconnected communication node. Since a decade, there have been various studies towards enhancing the performance of WMN which is successful to a large extent. However, with the upcoming technology of… Read full abstract & cite →

Access Points Channel Allocation Internet Access Routing Problems Wireless Mesh Network QoS

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080308 PDF

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A Trust and Reputation Model for Quality Assessment of Online Content

Author 1: Yousef Elsheikh

In recent years, online transactions have become more prevalent than it was. This means that the number of online users to perform such transactions keeps growing, causing an increase in the level of expectations for them. One of those expectations is to enable them to get a better understanding of… Read full abstract & cite →

Online content Quality assessment Trust and reputation model User behaviour User reliability user tendency

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An Electrical Model to U-Slot Patch Antenna with Circular Polarization

Author 1: Guesmi Chaouki Author 2: Necibi Omrane Author 3: Ghnimi Said Author 4: Gharsallah Ali

The microstrip antenna is one of the best antenna structures, due to its low cost and compact design. In this paper, a coaxial feed circularly polarized square patch antenna is designed using the U-slot. The proposed antenna is suited for the RFID readers in the SHF band. This structure of… Read full abstract & cite →

RFID circularly polarization U-slot antenna RFID reader antenna Electrical model

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080310 PDF

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Modified Hierarchical Method for Task Scheduling in Grid Systems

Author 1: Ahmad Ali AlZubi

This study aims to increase the productivity of grid systems by an improved scheduling method. A brief overview and analysis of the main scheduling methods in grid systems are presented. A method for increasing efficiency by optimizing the task graph structure considering the grid system node structure is proposed. Task… Read full abstract & cite →

directed acyclic graph (DAG) task granularity hierarchical method Maui scheduler scheduler scheduling algorithm task manager grid parallelism degree

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080311 PDF

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Issues and Trends in Satellite Telecommunications

Author 1: David Hiatt Author 2: Young B. Choi

In this paper we will discuss a bit about satellite telecommunications. A brief introduction and history of satellite telecommunications will be presented. Then a discussion of certain prevalent satellite orbit types will be given, because this is relevant to understanding how certain satellite applications are employed. Various areas of ongoing… Read full abstract & cite →

satellite communications telecommunications satellite orbit types bandwidth allocation constellation design power generation

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080312 PDF

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A New Model of Information Systems Efficiency based on Key Performance Indicator (KPI)

Author 1: Ahmad AbdulQadir AlRababah

Any company concerning with information technology considers Automated performance management processes as a key component of its operations as it enables the company get a clear long -term assessment about the performance of employees as well as operating units of the company. One technique that the company could use to… Read full abstract & cite →

Information Systems Management System performance Key performance Indicators Data warehouse Information Systems Integration

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080313 PDF

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GIS Utilization for Delivering a Time Condition Products

Author 1: Noha I. Sharaf Author 2: Bahaa T.Shabana Author 3: Hazem M. El-Bakry

As population is increasing rapidly all over the world, the need for delivering products is being more difficult especially for conditional products (products with life time). Many Customers require conditional products to be delivered to their locations. Distribution center may have multi depots (multi store branches) instead of one depot… Read full abstract & cite →

conditional products distribution centers (depots) capacity of vehicle vehicle routing problems (VRP) geographic information system (GIS) OD Cost Matrix Network analyst

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080314 PDF

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Techniques used to Improve Spatial Visualization Skills of Students in Engineering Graphics Course: A Survey

Author 1: Asmaa Saeed Alqahtani Author 2: Lamya Foaud Daghestani Author 3: Lamiaa Fattouh Ibrahim

Spatial visualization skills are crucial in engineering fields and are required to support the spatial abilities of engineering students. Instructors in engineering colleges indicated that freshmen students faced difficulties when visualizing models in engineering graphics. Students cannot correctly understand and process visual object and mental images of the engineering models… Read full abstract & cite →

3D graphics virtual reality spatial visualization skills mental rotation skill engineering graphics

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080315 PDF

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Selection of Mathematical Problems in Accordance with Student’s Learning Style

Author 1: Elena Fabiola Ruiz Ledesma Author 2: Juan J. Gutiérrez García

This article describes the implementation and development of an expert system as a support tool to tackle mathematical topics, by using Bayesian networks as engine of inference and a learning styles, as well as the difficulty level of problems and establish the base of the classifier probabilistic. The expert system… Read full abstract & cite →

technology research projects education learning

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080316 PDF

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RIN-Sum: A System for Query-Specific Multi-Document Extractive Summarization

Author 1: Rajesh Wadhvani Author 2: Rajesh Kumar Pateriya Author 3: Manasi Gyanchandani Author 4: Sanyam Shukla

In paper, we have proposed a novel summarization framework to generate a quality summary by extracting Relevant-Informative-Novel (RIN) sentences from topically related document collection called as RIN-Sum. In the proposed framework, with the aim to retrieve user's relevant informative sentences conveying novel information, ranking of structured sentences has been carried… Read full abstract & cite →

Text summarization maximum marginal relevance sentence selection DUC2007 data collection

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A Bus Arbitration Scheme with an Efficient Utilization and Distribution

Author 1: Amin M. A. El-Kustaban Author 2: Abdullah A. K. Qahtan

Computer designers utilize the recent huge advances in Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) to place several processors on the same chip die to get Chip Multiprocessor (CMP). The shared bus is the most common media used to connect these processors with each other and with the shared resources. Distributing the… Read full abstract & cite →

Chip Multiprocessor Round Robin Lottery Algorithms Latency VHDL

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080318 PDF

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A Semantic Interpretation of Unusual Behaviors Extracted from Outliers of Moving Objects Trajectories

Author 1: Sana CHAKRI Author 2: Said RAGHAY Author 3: Salah EL HADAJ

The increasing use of location-aware devices has led to generate a huge volume of data from satellite images and mobile sensors; these data can be classified into geographical data. And traces generated by objects moving on geographical territory, these traces are usually modeled as streams of spatiotemporal points called trajectories… Read full abstract & cite →

Moving objects analysis spatial databases data mining Semantic clustering semantic trajectories

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080319 PDF

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Block Wise Data Hiding with Auxilliary Matrix

Author 1: Jyoti Bharti Author 2: R.K. Pateriya Author 3: Sanyam Shukla

This paper introduces a novel method based on auxiliary matrix to hide a text data in an RGB plane. To hide the data in RGB planes of image via scanning, encryption and decryption. To enhance the security, the scanning technique combines two different traversals – spiral and snake traversal. The… Read full abstract & cite →

Steganography RGB planes Scanning Stego-image ASCII value

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080320 PDF

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Detection of Edges Using Two-Way Nested Design

Author 1: Asim ur Rehman Khan Author 2: Syed Muhammad Atif Saleem Author 3: Haider Mehdi

This paper implements a novel approach of identifying edges in images using a two-way nested design. The test comprises of two steps. First step is based on an F-test. The sums of square (SS) of various effects are used to extract the mean square (MS) effect of respective effects and… Read full abstract & cite →

Analysis of variance (ANOVA) Edge detection F-test nested design T-test

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080321 PDF

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oDyRM: Optimized Dynamic Reusability Model for Enhanced Software Consistency

Author 1: R. Selvarani Author 2: P. Mangayarkarasi

Accomplishment of optimization technique on Object Oriented design component is a very challenging task. The prior model DyRM has introduced a technique to perform modeling of design reusability under three real-time constraints. The proposed study extends the DyRM model by incorporating optimization using multilayered perception techniques in neural network. The… Read full abstract & cite →

Cost Back propagation Algorithm Design Reusability Object Oriented Design Optimization Project management

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080322 PDF

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A Review of Secure Authentication based e-Payment Protocol

Author 1: Mr.B. Ratnakanth Author 2: Prof.P.S.Avadhani

The growth of e-commerce platform is increasing rapidly and possesses a higher level of hazard compared to standard applications as well as it requires a more prominent level of safety.Additionally, the transaction and their data about clients are enormously sensitive, security production and privacy is exceptionally crucial. Consequently, the confirmation… Read full abstract & cite →

Security protocol smart card encryption technique payment protocol E-commerce

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080323 PDF

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Design of Frequency Reconfigurable Multiband Meander Antenna Using Varactor Diode for Wireless Communication

Author 1: I. ROUISSI Author 2: J.M.FLOC’H Author 3: H.TRABELSI

A compact multiband frequency reconfigurable meander antenna proposed for wireless communication systems is designed and described in this paper. A folded structure has been chosen due its good tradeoff between size, bandwidth and efficiency. The reference antenna is based on a meander patch structure radiating at F1=1, F2=1.94, F3=2.6GHz and… Read full abstract & cite →

Frequency reconfigurable meander antenna chip capacitor Varactor diode Size reduction tuning range wireless communication

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Improving the Control Strategy of a Standalone PV Pumping System by Fuzzy Logic Technique

Author 1: Houssem CHAOUALI Author 2: Hichem OTHMANI Author 3: Dhafer MEZGHANI Author 4: Abdelkader MAMI

This work aims to develop an accurate model of an existing Photovoltaic Pumping System (PvPS) which is composed of an Ebara Pra-0.50T Asynchronous Moto-Pump (AMP) fed by Kaneka GSA-60 photovoltaic panels via a Moeller DV-51 speed drive. The developed model is then used to compare the performance of the system… Read full abstract & cite →

Photovoltaic Pumping System Asynchronous Moto-Pump PI Speed Controller Fuzzy Logic Control Technique MPPT Tracking System Simulation

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080325 PDF

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Enhanced Security for Data Sharing in Multi Cloud Storage (SDSMC)

Author 1: Dr. K. Subramanian Author 2: F.Leo John

Multiple Cloud storage has become one of the essential services of cloud computing. This Multi-Cloud storage models allow users to store sliced encrypted data in various cloud drives. Thus, it provides support for various cloud storage services using the single interface rather than using single cloud storage services. Cloud security… Read full abstract & cite →

Malicious Insiders privacy Index based Data slicing Malicious Files Multi-Cloud Storage Data Sharing

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080326 PDF

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An Empirical Investigation of the Correlation between Package-Level Cohesion and Maintenance Effort

Author 1: Waleed Albattah

The quality of the software design has a considerable impact on software maintainability. Improving software quality can reduce costs and efforts of software maintenance. Cohesion, as one of software quality characteristics, can be used as an early indicator for predicting software maintenance efforts. This paper improves Martin’s cohesion metric, which… Read full abstract & cite →

package cohesion metric maintenance effort maintainability software measurements

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080327 PDF

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Congestion Control using Cross layer and Stochastic Approach in Distributed Networks

Author 1: Selvarani R Author 2: Vinodha K

In recent past, the current Internet architecture has many challenges in supporting the magnificent network traffic. Among the various that affect the quality of communication in the massive architecture the challenge in maintaining congestion free flow of traffic is one of the major concerns. In this paper, we propose a… Read full abstract & cite →

Distributed Network System cross layer congestion Traffic Flow Rate Control Metric

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080328 PDF

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Electronic Health as a Component of G2C Services

Author 1: Rasim Alguliyev Author 2: Farhad Yusifov

This paper explores electronic health as a segment of electronic government. International practice in electronic health field and electronic health strategies adopted in Europe are analysed. Current practices in delivery of electronic health services in G2C are investigated and perspectives are specified. Read full abstract & cite →

electronic health electronic government Government to Citizen (G2C) electronic services medical information Electronic Health Records (EHR)

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080329 PDF

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On the Dynamic Maintenance of Data Replicas based on Access Patterns in A Multi-Cloud Environment

Author 1: Mohammad Shorfuzzaman

Cloud computing provides services and infrastructures to enable end-users to access, modify and share massive geographically distributed data. There are increasing interests in developing data-intensive (big data) applications in this computing environment that need to access huge datasets. Accessing such data in an efficient way is deterred with factors such… Read full abstract & cite →

Multi-cloud environment data replication distributed algorithm response time dynamic maintenance QoS constraint

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080330 PDF

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Contribution to the Development of A Dynamic Circulation Map using the Multi-Agent Approach

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

Road traffic is considered one of the most difficult domains to manage and one of the fast- growing networks. This environment is geographically distributed and its actors are in continuous interaction in order to be able to succeed in a real-time exchange of the variable data of the road traffic… Read full abstract & cite →

Road traffic road traffic management systems intelligent systems complex systems multi-agent systems graphs real-time

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Downlink and Uplink Message Size Impact on Round Trip Time Metric in Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks

Author 1: Youssra Chatei Author 2: Maria Hammouti Author 3: El Miloud Ar-reyouchi Author 4: Kamal Ghoumid

In this paper, the authors propose a novel real-time study metrics of Round Trip Time (RTT) for Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks. They focus on real operational wireless networks with fixed nodes, such as industrial wireless networks. The main aim of the metric is to show the effect of the Downlink… Read full abstract & cite →

RTT Remote wireless communications Wireless radio router Wireless multi-hop networks Average message size FEC SCADA

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Evaluating Predictive Algorithms using Receiver-Operative Characteristics for Coronary Illness among Diabetic Patients

Author 1: Tahira Mahboob Author 2: Saman Sahaheen Author 3: Nuzhat Tahir Author 4: Mukhtiar Bano

The grouping of information is a typical method in Machine learning. Information mining assumes a crucial part to extract learning from vast databases from operational databases. In medicinal services Data mining is a creating field of high significance, giving expectations and a more profound comprehension of restorative information sets. Most… Read full abstract & cite →

Artificial neural networks (ANN) Decision tree Naïve Bayes Logistic Regression and Clustering

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080333 PDF

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Self-Protection against Insider Threats in DBMS through Policies Implementation

Author 1: Farukh Zaman Author 2: Basit Raza Author 3: Ahmad Kamran Malik Author 4: Adeel Anjum

In today’s world, information security of an organization has become a major challenge as well as a critical business issue. Managing and mitigating these internal or external security related issues, organizations hire highly knowledgeable security expert persons. Insider threats in database management system (DBMS) are inherently a very hard problem… Read full abstract & cite →

autonomic self-protection insider threats policies DBMS

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A Low Complexity based Edge Color Matching Algorithm for Regular Bipartite Multigraph

Author 1: Rezaul Karim Author 2: Muhammad Mahbub Hasan Rony Author 3: Md. Rashedul Islam Author 4: Md. Khaliluzzaman

An edge coloring of a graph G is a process of assigning colors to the adjacent edges so that the adjacent edges represents the different colors. In this paper, an algorithm is proposed to find the perfect color matching of the regular bipartite multigraph with low time complexity. For that… Read full abstract & cite →

matching edge-coloring complexity bipartite multigraph DFS

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AnyCasting In Dual Sink Approach (ACIDS) for WBASNs

Author 1: Muhammad Rahim Baig Author 2: Najeeb Ullah Author 3: Fazle Hadi Author 4: Sheeraz Ahmed Author 5: Abdul Hanan Author 6: Imran Ahmed

After successful development in health-care services, WBASN is also being used in other fields where continuous and distant health-care monitoring is required. Various suggested protocols presented in literature work to enhance the performance of WBASN by focusing on delay, energy efficiency and routing. In this research we focus to increase… Read full abstract & cite →

Stability Period WBASNs Throughput End-to-End Delay Energy Consumption AnyCasting RSSI

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Exploreing K-Means with Internal Validity Indexes for Data Clustering in Traffic Management System

Author 1: Sadia Nawrin Author 2: Md Rahatur Rahman Author 3: Shamim Akhter

Traffic Management System (TMS) is used to improve traffic flow by integrating information from different data repositories and online sensors, detecting incidents and taking actions on traffic routing. In general, two decision making systems-weights updating and forecasting are integrated inside the TMS. The models need numerous data sets for making… Read full abstract & cite →

Traffic Management System (TMS) Data Clustering K-means Hierarchical Clustering Cluster Validation

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An Extensive Survey over Traffic Management/Load Balance in Cloud Computing

Author 1: Amith Shekhar C Author 2: Dr. Sharvani. G S

Cloud Computing (CC) is all about carrying out processing in other's system. There are various vendors who provide CC services. The basic algorithm that should be met to access CC services is a need for steady internet connection. As everything is done online the traffic across the internet is to… Read full abstract & cite →

Cloud Computing Load Balance Traffic Management

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Real-Time H.264/AVC Entropy Encoder Hardware Architecture in Baseline Profile

Author 1: Ben Hamida Asma Author 2: Dhahri Salah Author 3: Zitouni Abdelkrim

In this paper, we present a new hardware architecture of an entropy encoder for an H.264/AVC video encoder. The proposed design aims to employ a parallel module at a pre-encoding stage to reduce a critical path. Additionally, the arithmetic table elimination method is used to eliminate the memory cost. Besides… Read full abstract & cite →

H.264/AVC CAVLC Exp-Golomb

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A Comparison of Collaborative Access Control Models

Author 1: Ahmad Kamran Malik Author 2: Abdul Mateen Author 3: Muhammad Anwar Abbasi Author 4: Basit Raza Author 5: Malik Ahsan Ali Author 6: Wajeeha Naeem Author 7: Yousra Asim Author 8: Majid Iqbal Khan

Collaborative environments need access control to data and resources to increase working cooperation efficiently yet effectively. Several approaches are proposed and multiple access control models are recommended in this domain. In this paper, four Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) based collaborative models are selected for analysis and comparison. The standard RBAC… Read full abstract & cite →

RBAC Collaboration Privacy Access control Security Information sharing

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Measuring the Impact of the Blackboard System on Blended Learning Students

Author 1: Thamer Alhussain

With the advantages of using learning management systems (LMS) such as Blackboard in the educational process, assessing the impact of such systems has become increasingly important. This study measures the impact of the Blackboard system on students at Saudi Electronic University (SEU) in order to help improve the quality of… Read full abstract & cite →

learning management system IS impact/measurement Blackboard blended learning

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Design and Architecture of a Location and Time-based Mobile-Learning System: A Case-Study for Interactive Islamic Content

Author 1: Omar Tayan Author 2: Moulay Ibrahim El-Khalil Ghembaza Author 3: Khalid Al-Oufi

This paper describes a software design, architecture and process of a novel mobile-learning (m-Learning) approach based on smart-phone devices for retrieving relevant content in real-time based on the user’s-location and the current-time and presenting the content to the user in a manner that support portable learning on-the-move. Mobile-learning using Islamic… Read full abstract & cite →

Mobile-Learning Context-Aware Notifications Time and Location Based Reporting Interactive-Knowledge based User-Events and Activities Design and Architecture

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Computation of QoS While Composing Web Services

Author 1: Khozema Ali Shabbar Author 2: Dr. Tarun Shrimali Author 3: Dr. Mohemmed Sha

Composition of web services has emerged as a fast growing field of research since an atomic service in its entirety is not capable to perform a specific task. Composition of web services is a process where a set of web services, heterogeneous in nature, are clubbed together in order to… Read full abstract & cite →

Web Services Web Services Selection Web Services Composition Composite QoS (CQoS) Quality of Service (QoS)

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Emotion Classification in Arousal Valence Model using MAHNOB-HCI Database

Author 1: Mimoun Ben Henia Wiem Author 2: Zied Lachiri

Emotion recognition from physiological signals attracted the attention of researchers from different disciplines, such as affective computing, cognitive science and psychology. This paper aims to classify emotional statements using peripheral physiological signals based on arousal-valence evaluation. These signals are the Electrocardiogram, Respiration Volume, Skin Temperature and Galvanic Skin Response. We… Read full abstract & cite →

Emotion Classification MAHNOB-HCI Peripheral Physiological Signals Arousal-Valence Space Support Vector Machine

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Performance Analysis of Route Redistribution among Diverse Dynamic Routing Protocols based on OPNET Simulation

Author 1: Zeyad Mohammad Author 2: Ahmad Abusukhon Author 3: Adnan A. Hnaif Author 4: Issa S. Al-Otoum

Routing protocols are the fundamental block of selecting the optimal path from a source node to a destination node in internetwork. Due to emerge the large networks in business aspect thus; they operate diverse routing protocols in their infrastructure. In order to keep a large network connected; the implementation of… Read full abstract & cite →

route redistribution dynamic routing protocols EIGRP IS-IS OSPF RIPv2

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Automatic Image Annotation based on Dense Weighted Regional Graph

Author 1: Masoumeh Boorjandi Author 2: Zahra Rahmani Ghobadi Author 3: Hassan Rashidi

Automatic image annotation refers to create text labels in accordance with images' context automatically. Although, numerous studies have been conducted in this area for the past decade, existence of multiple labels and semantic gap between these labels and visual low-level features reduced its performance accuracy. In this paper, we suggested… Read full abstract & cite →

automatic annotation dense weighted regional graph segmentation feature vector

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A New Comment on Reinforcement of Testing Criteria

Author 1: Monika Singh Author 2: Vinod Kumar Jain

This paper presents the formal aspects of testing criteria for Safety Critical Systems. A brief review of testing strategies i.e. white box and black box is given along with their various criteria’s. Z Notation; a formal specification language is used to sever the purpose of formalization. Initially, the schemas are… Read full abstract & cite →

Formal Methods Safety Critical System Z Notation Schema

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Appraising Research Direction & Effectiveness of Existing Clustering Algorithm for Medical Data

Author 1: Sudha V Author 2: Girijamma H A

The applicability and effectiveness of clustering algorithms had unquestioningly benefitted solving various sectors of real-time problems. However, with the changing time, there is a significant change in forms of the data. This paper briefs about the different taxonomies of the clustering algorithm and highlights the frequently used techniques to understand… Read full abstract & cite →

Medical Data Clustering Algorithm k-Means Clustering Fuzzy Classification

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Water Quality Monitoring based on Small Satellite Technology

Author 1: N. Gallah Author 2: O. b. Bahri Author 3: N. Lazreg Author 4: A. Chaouch Author 5: Kamel Besbes

In order to improve the routine of water quality monitoring and reduce the risk of accidental or deliberate contaminations, this paper presents the development of in-situ water quality monitoring and analysis system based on small satellite technology. A space mission design and analysis was performed in this work. The system… Read full abstract & cite →

space mission nanosatellite SDR autonomous on-line water monitoring

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Crowdsensing: Socio-Technical Challenges and Opportunities

Author 1: Javeria Noureen Author 2: Muhammad Asif

With the advancement in mobile technology, the sensing and computational capability of mobile devices is increasing. The sensors in mobile devices are being used in a variety of ways to sense and actuate. Mobile crowdsensing is a paradigm that involves ordinary people to participate in a sensing task. This sensing… Read full abstract & cite →

Crowdsensing sensing devices privacy smart phones

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Scalability and Performance of Selected Websites of Universities: An Analytical Study of Punjab (India)

Author 1: Bhim Sain Singla Author 2: Dr. Himanshu Aggarwal

Today, education has emerged as a major area of commercial activities. The access to various University websites through Internet has opened up new opportunities for the beneficiaries. The creation of these websites fully serves the purpose of educational institutions in advancing and achieving their goals. The varied information made available… Read full abstract & cite →

Hits per second scalability performance throughput transaction response time university websites

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A Proposed Framework to Investigate the User Acceptance of Personal Health Records in Malaysia using UTAUT2 and PMT

Author 1: Ali Mamra Author 2: Abdul Samad Sibghatullah Author 3: Gede Pramudya Ananta Author 4: Malik Bader Alazzam Author 5: Yasir Hamad Ahmed Author 6: Mohamed Doheir

Personal Health Records (PHRs) can be considered as one of the most important health technologies. PHRs enroll the patients directly to their health decision making through giving them the authority to control and share their health information. Testing the user acceptance toward new technology is a vital process. Over the… Read full abstract & cite →

PHRs User Acceptance UTAUT2 PMT Malaysia

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A Multi-Level Process Mining Framework for Correlating and Clustering of Biomedical Activities using Event Logs

Author 1: Muhammad Rashid Naeem Author 2: Hamad Naeem Author 3: Muhammad Aamir Author 4: Waqar Ali Author 5: Waheed Ahmed Abro

Cost, time and resources are major factors affecting the quality of hospitals business processes. Bio-medical processes are twisted, unstructured and based on time series making it difficult to do proper process modeling for them. On other hand, Process mining can be used to provide an accurate view of biomedical processes… Read full abstract & cite →

biomedical event data business process modeling Levenshtein similarity clustering multilevel process mining spaghetti process models

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Area and Energy Efficient Viterbi Accelerator for Embedded Processor Datapaths

Author 1: Abdul Rehman Buzdar Author 2: Liguo Sun Author 3: Muhammad Waqar Azhar Author 4: Muhammad Imran Khan Author 5: Rao Kashif

Viterbi algorithm is widely used in communication systems to efficiently decode the convolutional codes. This algorithm is used in many applications including cellular and satellite communication systems. Moreover, Serializer-deserializers (SERDESs) having critical latency constraint also use viterbi algorithm for hardware implementation. We present the integration of a mixed hardware/software viterbi… Read full abstract & cite →

Viterbi decoder Codesign FPGA MicroBlaze Embedded Processor

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Comparison of Localization Free Routing Protocols in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

Author 1: Muhammad Khalid Author 2: Awais Adnan Author 3: Zahid Ullah Author 4: Waqar Khalid Author 5: Naveed Ahmad Author 6: Ahsan Ashfaq

Underwater Wireless Sensor Network (UWSN) is newly developed branch of Wireless Sensor network (WSN). UWSN is used for exploration of underwater resources, oceanographic data collection, flood or disaster prevention, tactical surveillance system and unmanned underwater vehicles. UWSN uses sensors of small size with a limited energy, memory and allows limited… Read full abstract & cite →

Underwater Networks Sensor Wireless Communication Survey Localization Based Routing Protocols

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Dynamic Gesture Classification for Vietnamese Sign Language Recognition

Author 1: Duc-Hoang Vo Author 2: Huu-Hung Huynh Author 3: Phuoc-Mien Doan Author 4: Jean Meunier

This paper presents an approach of feature extraction and classification for recognizing continuous dynamic gestures corresponding to Vietnamese Sign Language (VSL). Input data are captured by the depth sensor of a Microsoft Kinect, which is almost not affected by the light of environment. In detail, each gesture is represented by… Read full abstract & cite →

Dynamic gesture feature extraction depth information Vietnamese Sign Language

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High Performance of Hash-based Signature Schemes

Author 1: Ana Karina D. S. de Oliveira Author 2: Julio L´opez Author 3: Roberto Cabral

Hash-based signature schemes, whose security is based on properties of the underlying hash functions, are promising candidates to be quantum-safe digital signatures schemes. In this work, we present a software implementation of two recent standard proposals for hash-based signature schemes, Leighton and Micali Signature (LMS) scheme and Extended Merkle Signature… Read full abstract & cite →

post-quantum cryptography digital signature Merkle signature LMS XMSS

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JSEA: A Program Comprehension Tool Adopting LDA-based Topic Modeling

Author 1: Tianxia Wang Author 2: Yan Liu

Understanding a large number of source code is a big challenge for software development teams in software maintenance process. Using topic models is a promising way to automatically discover feature and structure from textual software assets, and thus support developers comprehending programs on software maintenance. To explore the application of… Read full abstract & cite →

Java program comprehension Topic models Interactive tool

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Missing Data Imputation using Genetic Algorithm for Supervised Learning

Author 1: Waseem Shahzad Author 2: Qamar Rehman Author 3: Ejaz Ahmed

Data is an important asset for any organization to successfully run its business. When we collect data, it contains data with low qualities such as noise, incomplete, missing values etc. If the quality of data is low then mining results of any data mining algorithm will also below. In this… Read full abstract & cite →

genetic algorithm information gain missing data supervised learning

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Multitaper MFCC Features for Acoustic Stress Recognition from Speech

Author 1: Salsabil Besbes Author 2: Zied Lachiri

Ameliorating the performances of speech recognition system is a challenging problem interesting recent researchers. In this paper, we compare two extraction methods of Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients used to represent stressed speech utterances in order to obtain best performances. The first method known as traditional is based on single window… Read full abstract & cite →

Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) Multitapering Multiclass SVM Stress recognition

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Rule Adaptation in Collaborative Working Environments using RBAC Model

Author 1: Ahmad Kamran Malik Author 2: Abdul Mateen Author 3: Yousra Asim Author 4: Basit Raza Author 5: Muhammad Anwar Author 6: Wajeeha Naeem Author 7: Malik Ahsan Ali

Collaborative Working Environments (CWEs) are getting prominence these days. With the increase in the use of collaboration tools and technologies, a lot of sharing and privacy issues have also emerged. Due to its dynamic nature, a CWE needs to adapt the changes into accordingly. In this paper, we have implemented… Read full abstract & cite →

Dynamic Adaptation RBAC Privacy Collaboration

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Autonomous Software Installation using a Sequence of Predictions from Bayesian Networks

Author 1: Behraj Khan Author 2: Umar Manzoor Author 3: Tahir Syed

The idea of automated installation/un-installation is a direct consequence of the tedious and time consuming manual efforts put into installing or uninstalling multiple software over hundreds of machines. In this work we propose what is to the best of our knowledge the first learnable method of autonomous software installation/un-installation. The… Read full abstract & cite →

Multiagent System Machine Learning Software installation/un-installation

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Generation of Sokoban Stages using Recurrent Neural Networks

Author 1: Muhammad Suleman Author 2: Farrukh Hasan Syed Author 3: Tahir Q. Syed Author 4: Saqib Arfeen Author 5: Sadaf I. Behlim Author 6: Behroz Mirza

Puzzles and board games represent several important classes of AI problems, but also represent difficult complexity classes. In this paper, we propose a deep learning based alternative to train a neural network model to find solution states of the popular puzzle game Sokoban. The network trains against a classical solver… Read full abstract & cite →

Stepwise Cooperative Training Generative Networks Recurrent Neural Networks Sokoban Puzzles Deep Learning

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Automatic Conditional Switching (ACS), an Incremental Enhancement to TCP-Reno/RTP to Improve the VoIPv6 Performance

Author 1: Asaad Abdallah Yousif Malik Abusin Author 2: Junaidi Abdullah Author 3: Tan Saw Chin

In this research work an Automatic Conditional Switching Protocol (ACSP) is proposed, which is a conditional switching method between Delay based TCP-Reno and RTP (Real-Time Transport Protocol). It is a delay constrained method based on the VoIPv6 delay limit stated by the Internet Engineering Task Forth (IETF), which is 150… Read full abstract & cite →

TCP Reno VoIPv6 Performance VoIPv6 improvements

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Design of 1-bit Comparator using 2 Dot 1 Electron Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata

Author 1: Angona Sarker Author 2: Md. Badrul Alam Miah Author 3: Ali Newaz Bahar

In nanotechnologies, quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) offer promising and attractive features for nano-scale computing. QCA effectively overcomes the scaling shortfalls of CMOS technology. One of the variants of QCA is 4 Dot 2 Electron QCA which is well explored and researched. The main concentration of this study is on 2… Read full abstract & cite →

QCA 2 Dot 1 Electron QCA Comparator Coulomb’s principle

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