IJACSA Vol. 9 Issue 3 (2018)

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Bitter Melon Crop Yield Prediction using Machine Learning Algorithm

Author 1: Marizel B. Villanueva Author 2: Ma. Louella M. Salenga

This research paper aimed to determine the crop bearing capability of bitter melon or bitter gourd more commonly called “Ampalaya” in the Filipino language. Images of bitter melon leaves were gathered from Ampalaya farms and these were used as main data of the research. The leaves were classified as good… Read full abstract & cite →

Agriculture Artificial Intelligence Keras machine learning algorithm machine learning neural network convolutional neural network prediction Python tensor flow

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090301 PDF

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Evaluating X-Ray based Medical Imaging Devices with Fuzzy Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluations

Author 1: Dilber Uzun Ozsahin Author 2: Berna Uzun Author 3: Musa Sani Musa Author 4: Ilker Ozsahin

X-rays are ionizing radiation of very high energy, which are used in the medical imaging field to produce images of diagnostic importance. X-ray-based imaging devices are machines that send ionizing radiation to the patient’s body, and obtain an image which can be used to effectively diagnose the patient. These devices… Read full abstract & cite →

X-ray-based imaging devices medical imaging fuzzy PROMETHEE

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090302 PDF

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Challenges in Designing Ethical Rules for Infrastructures in Internet of Vehicles

Author 1: Razi Iqbal

Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) have seen significant advancements in technology. Innovation in connectivity and communication has brought substantial capabilities to various components of VANETs such as vehicles, infrastructures, passengers, drivers and affiliated environmental sensors. Internet of Things (IoT) has brought the notion of Internet of Vehicles (IoV) to VANETs where… Read full abstract & cite →

Ethics road side units vehicular ad-hoc networks internet of vehicles intelligent transportation systems

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090303 PDF

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Analysis of the Impact of Different Parameter Settings on Wireless Sensor Network Lifetime

Author 1: Muhammad Usman Younus

The importance of wireless sensors is increasing day by day due to their large demand. Sensor networks are facing some issues in which battery lifetime of sensor node is critical. It depends on the nature and application of the wireless sensor network and its different parameters (sampling frequency, transmission frequency… Read full abstract & cite →

Wireless sensor network energy consumption lifetime WSN parameters transmission frequency sampling frequency

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Day-Ahead Load Forecasting using Support Vector Regression Machines

Author 1: Lemuel Clark P. Velasco Author 2: Daisy Lou L. Polestico Author 3: Dominique Michelle M. Abella Author 4: Genesis T. Alegata Author 5: Gabrielle C. Luna

Accurate day-ahead load prediction plays a significant role to electric companies because decisions on power system generations depend on future behavior of loads. This paper presents a strategy for short-term load forecasting that utilizes support vector regression machines. Proper data preparation, model implementation and model validation methods were introduced in… Read full abstract & cite →

Support vector regression machines day-ahead load forecasting energy analytics

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090305 PDF

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Online Estimation of Wind Turbine Tip Speed Ratio by Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Algorithm

Author 1: Aamer Bilal Asghar Author 2: Xiaodong Liu

The efficiency of a wind turbine highly depends on the value of tip speed ratio during its operation. The power coefficient of a wind turbine varies with tip speed ratio. For maximum power extraction, it is very important to hold the tip speed ratio at optimum value and operate the… Read full abstract & cite →

Wind speed rotor speed power coefficient tip speed ratio ANFIS

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Techniques for Improving the Labelling Process of Sentiment Analysis in the Saudi Stock Market

Author 1: Hamed AL-Rubaiee Author 2: Renxi Qiu Author 3: Khalid Alomar Author 4: Dayou Li

Sentiment analysis is utilised to assess users’ feedback and comments. Recently, researchers have shown an increased interest in this topic due to the spread and expansion of social networks. Users’ feedback and comments are written in unstructured formats, usually with informal language, which presents challenges for sentiment analysis. For the… Read full abstract & cite →

Opinion mining association rule Arabic language sentiment analysis Twitter

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090307 PDF

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Designing of Cell Coverage in Light Fidelity

Author 1: Rabia Riaz Author 2: Sanam Shahla Rizvi Author 3: Farina Riaz Author 4: Sana Shokat

The trend of communication has changed and the internet user demands to have higher data rate and secure communication link. Wireless-Fidelity (Wi-Fi) that uses radio waves for communication has been used as an internet access methodology for many years. Now a new concept of wireless communication is introduced that uses… Read full abstract & cite →

Light-Fidelity (Li-Fi) Wireless-Fidelity (Wi-Fi) communication technology light emitting diode (LED)

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090308 PDF

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A Collective Neurodynamic Approach to Survivable Virtual Network Embedding

Author 1: Ashraf A. Shahin

Network virtualization has attracted significant amount of attention in the last few years as one of the key features of cloud computing. Network virtualization allows multiple virtual networks to share physical resources of single substrate network. However, sharing substrate network resources increases impact of single substrate resource failure. One of… Read full abstract & cite →

Collective neurodynamics integer linear programming global optimization network virtualization survivable virtual network embedding

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090309 PDF

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Breast Cancer Classification in Histopathological Images using Convolutional Neural Network

Author 1: Mohamad Mahmoud Al Rahhal

Computer based analysis is one of the suggested means that can assist oncologists in the detection and diagnosis of breast cancer. On the other hand, deep learning has been promoted as one of the hottest research directions very recently in the general imaging literature, thanks to its high capability in… Read full abstract & cite →

Convolutional neural network (CNN) histopathological images imagenet classification

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090310 PDF

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A Portable Natural Language Interface to Arabic Ontologies

Author 1: Aimad Hakkoum Author 2: Hamza Kharrazi Author 3: Said Raghay

With the growing expansion of the semantic web and its applications, providing natural language interfaces (NLI) to end-users becomes essential to querying RDF stores and ontologies, using simple questions expressed in natural language. Existing NLIs work mostly with the English language. There are very few attempts to develop systems supporting… Read full abstract & cite →

Natural language interface ontology Semantic web Arabic natural language processing (NLP)

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090311 PDF

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Online Incremental Rough Set Learning in Intelligent Traffic System

Author 1: Amal Bentaher Author 2: Yasser Fouad Author 3: Khaled Mahar

In the last few years, vehicle to vehicle communication (V2V) technology has been developed to improve the efficiency of traffic communication and road accident avoidance. In this paper, we have proposed a model for online rough sets learning vehicle to vehicle communication algorithm. This model is an incremental learning method… Read full abstract & cite →

Vehicle to vehicle communication online learning rough sets theory intelligent traffic system

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090312 PDF

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Permanent Relocation and Self-Route Recovery in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks

Author 1: Khalid Mahmood Author 2: Muhammad Amir Khan Author 3: Mahmood ul Hassan Author 4: Ansar Munir Shah Author 5: Muhammad Kashif Saeed

Wireless sensor and actor network’s connectivity and coverage plays a significant role in mission-critical applications, whereas sensors and actors respond immediately to the detected events in an organized and coordinated way for an optimum restoration. When one or multiple actors fail, the network becomes disjoint by losing connectivity and coverage… Read full abstract & cite →

Wireless sensor and actor networks connectivity restoration node mobility route recovery node relocation

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090313 PDF

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Optimization based Approach for Content Distribution in Hybrid Mobile Social Networks

Author 1: Rizwan Akhtar Author 2: Imran Memon Author 3: Zuhaib Ashfaq Khan Author 4: Changda Wang

This paper presents the new strategy for smooth content distribution in the mobile social network. We proposed a new method, hybrid mobile social network architecture scheme considered as one node of a social community called social super node with higher capacity provides the services of content distribution. We proposed methods… Read full abstract & cite →

Mobile social network social super node delays network performance end-to-end delays content delivery

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090314 PDF

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Distributed Energy Efficient Node Relocation Algorithm (DEENR)

Author 1: Mahmood ul Hassan Author 2: Muhammad Amir Khan Author 3: Shahzad Ali Author 4: Khalid Mahmood Author 5: Ansar Munir Shah

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) due to their inherent features are vulnerable to single or multiple sensor node failure. Node’s failure can result in partitioning of the networks resulting in loss of inter-node connectivity and eventually compromising the operation of the sensor network. The recovery from partitioning of network is crucial… Read full abstract & cite →

Wireless sensor network node failure network connectivity

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090315 PDF

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Secure and Privacy Preserving Mail Servers using Modified Homomorphic Encryption (MHE) Scheme

Author 1: Lija Mohan Author 2: Sudheep Elayidon M

Electronic mail (Email) or the paperless mail is becoming the most acceptable, faster and cheapest way of formal and informal information sharing between users. Around 500 billion mails are sent each day and the count is expected to be increasing. Today, even the sensitive and private information are shared through… Read full abstract & cite →

Big data encrypted data searching privacy preserving homomorphic encryption hadoop map reduce

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090316 PDF

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Strategic Framework and Maturity Index for Measuring Knowledge Management Practices in Government Organizations

Author 1: Shilpa Vijaivargia Author 2: Hemant Kumar Garg

Knowledge is considered as an intellectual asset of any Organization through which performance of the Organization could be enhanced exponentially. Harnessing of the Organization’s Tacit and Explicit knowledge and its Management is a crucial task as Knowledge Management Practices adopted by Government Organizations are not standardized yet. They are depending… Read full abstract & cite →

Knowledge Explicit knowledge Tacit knowledge knowledge management knowledge architecture knowledge process framework knowledge audit maturity index knowledge audit

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Smart Card ID: An Evolving and Viable Technology

Author 1: Praveen Kumar Singh Author 2: Neeraj Kumar Author 3: Bineet Kumar Gupta

In today’s world carrying a number of plastic smart cards to establish our identity has become an integral segment of our routine lives. Identity establishment necessitates a pre stored readily available data about self and to the administrator to authenticate it with claimer’s personal information. There is a distinct requirement… Read full abstract & cite →

ISO IoT multipurpose authentication security smart card reader cryptography identification technology smart card application

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090318 PDF

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A Smart Under-Frequency Load Shedding Scheme based on Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Inference System and Flexible Load Priority

Author 1: J. A. Laghari Author 2: Suhail Ahmed Almani Author 3: Jagdesh Kumar Author 4: Hazlie Mokhlis

This paper proposes a new smart under frequency load shedding (UFLS) scheme, based on Takagi-Sugeno (TS) fuzzy inference system and flexible load priority. The proposed scheme consists of two parts. First part consists of fuzzy load shed amount estimation module (FLSAEM) which uses TS-fuzzy to estimate the amount of load… Read full abstract & cite →

Distributed generation (DG) flexible load priority fuzzy load shed amount estimation module (FLSAEM) islanded distribution network under-frequency load shedding (UFLS)

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090319 PDF

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Fuzzy Gains-Scheduling of an Integral Sliding Mode Controller for a Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Author 1: Nour Ben Ammar Author 2: Soufiene Bouallègue Author 3: Joseph Haggège

This paper investigates an Adaptive Fuzzy Gains-Scheduling Integral Sliding Mode Controller (AFGS-ISMC) design approach to deal with the attitude and altitude stabilization problem of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) precisely of a quadrotor. The Integral Sliding Mode Control (ISMC) seems to be an adequate control tool to remedy this problem… Read full abstract & cite →

Quadrotor UAV modeling flight dynamics stabilization integral sliding mode control fuzzy gains-scheduling adaptive control

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Interactive Hypermedia Programs and its Impact on the Achievement of University Students Academically Defaulting in Computer Sciences

Author 1: Mohamed Desoky Rabeh

Traditional teaching practices through lecture series in a classroom have shown to have less universal efficacy in imparting knowledge to every student. Some students encounter problems in this traditional setting, especially in subjects that require applied instruction rather than verbal teaching. University students who have problems in understanding computer science… Read full abstract & cite →

Interactive hypermedia program traditional teaching university students computer sciences achievement impact

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090321 PDF

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Mobile Phone Operations using Human Eyes Only and its Applications

Author 1: Kohei Arai

Mobile phone operations using human eyes only is proposed together with its applications for cooking with referring to recipes and manufacturing with referring to manuals, production procedure, so on. It is found that most of mobile phone operations can be done without touching the screen of the mobile phone. Also… Read full abstract & cite →

Mobile phone operations line of sight estimation gaze estimation wearable computing pupil detection

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Computerized Steganographic Technique using Fuzzy Logic

Author 1: Abdulrahman Abdullah Alghamdi

Steganography is the method of providing Computer security in which hiding the required information is done by inserting messages within other messages, which is a string of characters containing the useful information, in a carrier image. Using this technique, the required information from the secret image is embedded into individual… Read full abstract & cite →

Computer security fuzzy logic carrier image secret image steganography fuzzification peak signal to noise ratio

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090323 PDF

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An Efficient Algorithm for Load Balancing in Multiprocessor Systems

Author 1: Saleh A. Khawatreh

A multiprocessor system is a computer with two or more central processing units (CPUs) with each one sharing the common main memory as well as the peripherals. Multiprocessor system is either homogeneous or heterogeneous system. A homogeneous system is a cluster of processors joined to a high speed network for… Read full abstract & cite →

Multiprocessor system homogeneous system heterogeneous system load balance static load balancing dynamic load balancing response time throughput

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Performance Evaluation of a Deployed 4G LTE Network

Author 1: E.T. Tchao Author 2: J.D. Gadze Author 3: Jonathan Obeng Agyapong

In Ghana and many countries within Sub-Sahara Africa, Long Term Evolution (LTE) is being considered for use within the sectors of Governance, Energy distribution and transmission, Transport, Education and Health. Subscribers and Governments within the region have high expectations for these new networks and want to leverage the promised enhanced… Read full abstract & cite →

Long term evolution MIMO performance evaluation sub-Saharan African propagation environment

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Automatic Detection Technique for Speech Recognition based on Neural Networks Inter-Disciplinary

Author 1: Mohamad A. A. Al- Rababah Author 2: Abdusamad Al-Marghilani Author 3: Akram Aref Hamarshi

Automatic speech recognition allows the machine to understand and process information provided orally by a human user. It consists of using matching techniques to compare a sound wave to a set of samples, usually composed of words but also of phonemes. This field uses the knowledge of several sciences: anatomy… Read full abstract & cite →

Speech recognition automatic detection recurrent neural network (RNN) LSTM

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090326 PDF

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Image based Arabic Sign Language Recognition System

Author 1: Reema Alzohairi Author 2: Raghad Alghonaim Author 3: Waad Alshehri Author 4: Shahad Aloqeely

Through history, humans have used many ways of communication such as gesturing, sounds, drawing, writing, and speaking. However, deaf and speaking impaired people cannot use speaking to communicate with others, which may give them a sense of isolation within their societies. For those individuals, sign language is their principal way… Read full abstract & cite →

Component Arabic sign language image visual descriptor recognition

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090327 PDF

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The Adoption of Software Process Improvement in Saudi Arabian Small and Medium Size Software Organizations: An Exploratory Study

Author 1: Mohammed Ateeq Alanezi

Quite a lot of attention has been paid in the literature on “how to adopt” software process improvement (SPI) in Small and Medium Size (SME) software organization in several countries. This has resulted in limited improvements to the software industry and impacted the Saudi’s economy. However, the SPI adoption is… Read full abstract & cite →

Software process improvement software organization software adoption small and medium enterprises (SME)

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090328 PDF

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Ant Colony Optimization for a Plan Guide Course Registration Sequence

Author 1: Wael Waheed Al-Qassas Author 2: Mohammad Said El-Bashir Author 3: Rabah Al-Shboul Author 4: Anwar Ali Yahya

Students in universities do not follow the prescribed course plan guide, which affects the registration process. In this research, we present an approach to tackle the problem of guide for plan of course sequence (GPCS) since that sequence may not be suitable for all students due to various conditions. The… Read full abstract & cite →

Ant colony optimization guide plan university course registration

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090329 PDF

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Continuous Path Planning of Kinematically Redundant Manipulator using Particle Swarm Optimization

Author 1: Affiani Machmudah Author 2: Setyamartana Parman Author 3: M.B. Baharom

This paper addresses a problem of a continuous path planning of a redundant manipulator where an end-effector needs to follow a desired path. Based on a geometrical analysis, feasible postures of a self-motion are mapped into an interval so that there will be an angle domain boundary and a redundancy… Read full abstract & cite →

Path planning redundant manipulator genetic algorithm particle swarm optimization grey wolf optimizer insert

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On the Sampling and the Performance Comparison of Controlled LTI Systems

Author 1: Sirine FEKIH Author 2: Boutheina SFAIHI Author 3: Mohamed BENREJEB

In this paper, the impact of the discretization techniques and the sampling time, on the finite-time stabilization of sampled-data controlled Linear Time Invariant (LTI) systems, is investigated. To stabilize the process in finite time, a discrete-time feedback dead-beat controller is designed for the sampled-data system. Checkable conditions on the approximate… Read full abstract & cite →

Sampled-data systems discretization finite time stabilization dead-beat control

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Arabic Text Categorization using Machine Learning Approaches

Author 1: Riyad Alshammari

Arabic Text categorization is considered one of the severe problems in classification using machine learning algorithms. Achieving high accuracy in Arabic text categorization depends on the preprocessing techniques used to prepare the data set. Thus, in this paper, an investigation of the impact of the preprocessing methods concerning the performance… Read full abstract & cite →

Arabic text categorization machine learning

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2-D Object Recognition Approach using Wavelet Transform

Author 1: Kamelsh Kumar Author 2: Riaz Ahmed Shaikh Author 3: Rafaqat Hussain Arain Author 4: Safdar Ali Shah

Humans have supernatural ability to observe, analyze, and tell about the layout of the 3D world with the help of their natural visual system. But contrary to machine vision system, it remains a most difficult task to recognize various objects from images being captured by cameras. This paper presents 2-D… Read full abstract & cite →

Wavelet transforms db10 edge detection object recognition shape moments

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Evaluation for Feature Driven Development Paradigm in Context of Architecture Design Augmentation and Perspective Implications

Author 1: Shahbaz Ahmed Khan Gahyyur Author 2: Abdul Razzaq Author 3: Syed Zeeshan Hasan Author 4: Salman Ahmed Author 5: Rafi Ullah

Agile is a light weight software development methodology that is useful for rapid application development which is the need of current software industry. Since the focus of agile software development is the customer but it does not provide the detailed information about the application’s architecture and documentation, so software architecture… Read full abstract & cite →

Software architecture agile architecture and agile integration of architecture and agile agile architecting practices

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A High Gain MIMO Antenna for Fixed Satellite and Radar Applications

Author 1: Ahsan Altaf Author 2: Khalid Mahmood Author 3: Mehre Munir Author 4: Saad Hassan Kiani

Patch antennas have emerged rapidly with advancement of communication technology. For antenna design purposes, Finite difference time domain (FDTD) method is a commonly used. This paper focuses on the interaction among elements of MIMO antenna also known as mutual coupling using FDTD method. An M shape is introduced and with… Read full abstract & cite →

Mutual coupling isolating structure multiple input multiple output radar application finite difference time domain

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Circular Calibration of Depth Extraction in Stereo Configuration

Author 1: Zulfiqar Ibrahim Author 2: Zulfiqar Ali Bangash Author 3: Muhammad Zeeshan

Lens distortion is defined as departure from rectilinear projection of an imaging system which affects the accuracy of almost all vision applications. This work addresses the problem of distortion with investigating the effects of camera’s view angle and spherical nature of lens on image, and then derives a closed-form solution… Read full abstract & cite →

Stereo imaging depth extraction triangulation radial distortion lenses rectilinear projection component

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An Automatic Arabic Essay Grading System based on Text Similarity Algorithms

Author 1: Abdulaziz Shehab Author 2: Mahmoud Faroun Author 3: Magdi Rashad

Manual grading process has many problems such as time consuming, costly, enormous resources, lot of efforts and huge pressure on instructors. These problems place the educational community in a dire need to have auto-grading systems so as to address these problems associated with manual grading. Auto-grading systems are wide spread… Read full abstract & cite →

Auto-grading systems string-based similarity corpus-based similarity N-Gram

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An Effective Automatic Image Annotation Model Via Attention Model and Data Equilibrium

Author 1: Amir Vatani Author 2: Milad Taleby Ahvanooey Author 3: Mostafa Rahimi

Nowadays, a huge number of images are available. However, retrieving a required image for an ordinary user is a challenging task in computer vision systems. During the past two decades, many types of research have been introduced to improve the performance of the automatic annotation of images, which are traditionally… Read full abstract & cite →

Automatic image annotation attention model skewed learning deep learning word embedding log-entropy auto encoder

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A Systematic Literature Review of Success Factors and Barriers of Agile Software Development

Author 1: Shahbaz Ahmed Khan Ghayyur Author 2: Salman Ahmed Author 3: Mukhtar Ali Author 4: Adnan Naseem Author 5: Abdul Razzaq Author 6: Naveed Ahmed

Motivator and demotivator plays an important role in software industry. It encompasses software performance and productivity which are necessary for projects of Agile software development (ASD). Existing studies comprise of motivators and demotivators of ASD, which exist in dispersed form. That is why there is a need of a detailed… Read full abstract & cite →

Agile methods systematic literature review motivator demotivator success factors barriers scrum ASD

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Standardization of Cloud Security using Mamdani Fuzzifier

Author 1: Shan e Zahra Author 2: Muhammad Adnan Khan Author 3: Muhammad Nadeem Ali Author 4: Sabir Abbas

Cloud health has consistently been a major issue in information technology. In the CC environment, it becomes particularly serious because the data is located in different places even in the entire globe. Associations are moving their information on to cloud as they feel their information is more secure and effectively… Read full abstract & cite →

CC CS FIS FRBS MIE standards compliance data protection availability and recovery

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Evolutionary Design of a Carbon Dioxide Emission Prediction Model using Genetic Programming

Author 1: Abdel Karim Baareh

Weather pollution is considered as one of the most important, dangerous problem that affects our life and the society security from the different sides. The global warming problem affecting the atmosphere is related to the carbon dioxide emission (CO2) from the different fossil fuels along with temperature. In this paper… Read full abstract & cite →

Fossil fuels carbon emission forecasting genetic programming

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Understanding the Factors Affecting the Adoption of Green Computing in the Gulf Universities

Author 1: ARWA IBRAHIM AHMED

Many universities worldwide have adopted, or are intend to adopt green computing in their campuses to improve environmental sustainability and efficient-energy consumption. However, the factors affect the adoption of green computing are still not understood. The aim of this study is to investigate the key success factors affecting the adoption… Read full abstract & cite →

Success factors green computing TOE model and universities

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The use of Harmonic Balance in Wave Concept Iterative Method for Nonlinear Radio Frequency Circuit Simulation

Author 1: Hicham MEGNAFI Author 2: Noureddine BOUKLI-HACENE Author 3: Nathalie RAVUE Author 4: Henri BAUDRAND

This paper presents the birth of the new hybrid method for the non-linear Radio frequency circuits’ simulation. This method is based on the combination of the wave concept iterative procedure (WCIP) and the harmonic balance (HB) for their advantages. It consists also the development of an application based on this… Read full abstract & cite →

WCIP harmonic balance nonlinear circuits planar radio frequency circuits radio frequency diode

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A Solution for the Uniform Integration of Field Devices in an Industrial Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System

Author 1: Simona-Anda TCACIUC(GHERASIM)

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are increasingly used solutions for monitoring and controlling various industrial processes. The existence of a large number of communication protocols helps to deploy complex systems that enable users to access data from one or more processes at a certain distance, and even control… Read full abstract & cite →

SCADA system uniform device integration EDS files communication protocols distributed database

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An Efficient Mechanism Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks by using Grids

Author 1: Emad Ibbini Author 2: Kweh Yeah Lun Author 3: Mohamed Othman Author 4: Zurina Mohd Hanapi

Multilevel short-distance clustering communication is an important scheme to reduce lost data packets over the path to the sink, particularly when nodes are deployed in a dense WSN (wireless sensor network). Our proposed protocol solves the problems of single hop paths in the TDTCGE (two-dimensional technique based on center of… Read full abstract & cite →

Multilevel WSN reliable heterogeneous routing

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Double Authentication Model using Smartphones to Enhance Student on-Campus Network Access

Author 1: Zakaria Saleh Author 2: Ahmed Mashhour

Computers are widely used by all universities to provide network access to students. Therefore, the securities of these computers play a major role in protecting the network. In light of that, a strong access control is required to ensure that sensitive information will only be accessed through firm authentication mechanism… Read full abstract & cite →

Bluetooth double authentication campus network computer unit security model design smartphone system design

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A User-Based Trust Model for Cloud Computing Environment

Author 1: Othman Saeed Author 2: Riaz Ahmed Shaikh

There are many trust management models for the cloud environment. Selecting an appropriate trust model is not an easy job for a user. This work presents a new trust model called ARICA model which help a user to reduce the reliance on the trust value of provider and third-party feedback… Read full abstract & cite →

Trust management model trust value of provider feedback trust value of third-party feedback user trust value availability reliability integrity confidential authentication

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Synthetic Loads Analysis of Directed Acyclic Graphs for Scheduling Tasks

Author 1: Apolinar Velarde Martinez

Graphs are structures used in different areas of scientific research, for the ease they have to represent different models of real life. There is a great variety of algorithms that build graphs with very dissimilar characteristics and types that model the relationships between the objects of the problem to solve… Read full abstract & cite →

Directed acyclic graph distributed heterogeneous computing system (DHCS) Algorithm for scheduling and allocation tasks in a DHCS parallel tasks

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A Comprehensive IoT Attacks Survey based on a Building-blocked Reference Model

Author 1: Hezam Akram Abdul-Ghani Author 2: Dimitri Konstantas Author 3: Mohammed Mahyoub

Internet of Things (IoT) has not yet reached a distinctive definition. A generic understanding of IoT is that it offers numerous services in many domains, utilizing conventional internet infrastructure by enabling different communication patterns such as human-to-object, object-to-objects, and object-to-object. Integrating IoT objects into the standard Internet, however, has unlocked… Read full abstract & cite →

Internet of Things (IoT) building block security and privacy reference model

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Enhanced Detection and Elimination Mechanism from Cooperative Black Hole Threats in MANETs

Author 1: Samiullah Khan Author 2: Faqir Usman Author 3: Matiullah Author 4: Fahim Khan Khalil

Malicious node invasion as black hole attack is a burning issue in MANETs. Black hole attacks with a single malicious node is easy to detect and prevent. The collaborative attacks with multiple cooperative malicious node is a challenging issue in security of MANETs as it is difficult to figure out… Read full abstract & cite →

Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) black hole attack AODV malicious node cooperative attack

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QTID: Quran Text Image Dataset

Author 1: Mahmoud Badry Author 2: Hesham Hassan Author 3: Hanaa Bayomi Author 4: Hussien Oakasha

Improving the accuracy of Arabic text recognition in imagery requires a big modern dataset as data is the fuel for many modern machine learning models. This paper proposes a new dataset, called QTID, for Quran Text Image Dataset, the first Arabic dataset that includes Arabic marks. It consists of 309,720… Read full abstract & cite →

HDF5 dataset Arabic script Holy Quran text image handwritten text recognition Arabic OCR text image datasets

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Analysis of Biometric Technology Adaption and Acceptance in Canada

Author 1: Eesa Al Solami

This study aimed at analyzing the analysis biometric technology adoption and acceptance in Canada. From the introduction, the paper reveals that biometrics technology has been in existence for many decades despite rising to popularity in the last two decades. Canada has highly advanced in information technology. It is observed that… Read full abstract & cite →

Adaption biometric technology organizational

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Enhancing Quality of Lossy Compressed Images using Minimum Decreasing Technique

Author 1: Ahmed L. Alshami Author 2: Mohammed Otair

The acceleration in technology development came with the urgent need to use large amounts of information, and the way of storing or transferring the huge information via various digital networks became very important issues, particularly in terms of compressing size and quality preservation. The digital image usage has become widespread… Read full abstract & cite →

Image compression lossy technique lossless technique image quality measurement RIFD and JPEG

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The Impact of Quantum Computing on Present Cryptography

Author 1: Vasileios Mavroeidis Author 2: Kamer Vishi Author 3: Mateusz D. Zych Author 4: Audun Jøsang

The aim of this paper is to elucidate the implications of quantum computing in present cryptography and to introduce the reader to basic post-quantum algorithms. In particular the reader can delve into the following subjects: present cryptographic schemes (symmetric and asymmetric), differences between quantum and classical computing, challenges in quantum… Read full abstract & cite →

Quantum computers post-quantum cryptography Shor’s algorithm Grover’s algorithm asymmetric cryptography symmetric cryptography

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Media Content Access: Image-based Filtering

Author 1: Rehan Ullah Khan Author 2: Ali Alkhalifah

As the content on the internet contains sensitive adult material, filtering and blocking this content is essential for the social and ethical values of the many societies and organizations. In this paper, the content filtering is explored from still images perspectives. Thus, this article investigates and analyses the content based… Read full abstract & cite →

Skin detection content based filtering content analysis machine learning random forest neural network

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Half Mode Substrate Integrated Waveguide Cavity based RFID Chipless Tag

Author 1: Soumaya Sakouhi Author 2: Hedi Ragad Author 3: Mohamed Latrach Author 4: Ali Gharsallah

This study presents the design of a compact Radio Frequency Identification chipless tag, with reduced size, important quality factor and improved results. The proposed prototype is based on Substrate Integrated Waveguide technology using the Half-Mode Substrate Integrated Waveguide technique to reduce the tag size by the half and preserve the… Read full abstract & cite →

Radio frequency identification (RFID) chipless tag substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) ultra wide band (UWB)

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