IJACSA Vol. 10 Issue 5 (2019)

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Analyzing Personality Traits and External Factors for Stem Education Awareness using Machine Learning

Author 1: Sang C Suh Author 2: Anusha Upadhyaya B.N Author 3: Ashwin Nadig N.V

The purpose of the paper is to present the personality traits and the factors that influence a student to pursue STEM education using machine learning techniques. STEM courses have high regard because they play a vital role in global technology, inventions and the economy. Educational Data Mining helps us to… Read full abstract & cite →

Educational Data Mining (EDM) Science Technology Engineering Management (STEM) Machine Learning (ML) K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) One class–Support Vector Machine (one class - SVM)

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100501 PDF

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High-Speed FPGA-based of the Particle Swarm Optimization using HLS Tool

Author 1: Ali Al Bataineh Author 2: Amin Jarrah Author 3: Devinder Kaur

The Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a heuristic search method inspired by different biological populations on their swarming or collaborative behavior. This novel work has implemented PSO for the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) in high-level synthesis to reduce the computational time latency. The high-level synthesis design generates an estimation of… Read full abstract & cite →

FPGA High Level Synthesis Particle Swarm Optimization Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP)

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100502 PDF

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Exploring Factors Associated with Voucher Program for Speech Language Therapy for the Preschoolers of Parents with Communication Disorder using Weighted Random Forests

Author 1: Haewon Byeon Author 2: Sulki Cha Author 3: KyoungYuel Lim

It is necessary to identify the demand level of consumers and recognize the support target priority based on it in order to provide efficient services with a limited budget. This study provided baseline data for spreading the use of consumer-oriented voucher service by exploring factors associated with the demand of… Read full abstract & cite →

Weighted random forests CART speech language therapy prediction model voucher program

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100503 PDF

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ZigBee Radio Frequency (RF) Performance on Raspberry Pi 3 for Internet of Things (IoT) based Blood Pressure Sensors Monitoring

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

Wireless Sensor Network has grown rapidly, e.g. using the Zigbee RF module and combined with the Raspberry Pi 3, a reason at this research is building a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). this research discusses how sensor nodes work well and how Quality of Service (QoS) from the Sensor node being… Read full abstract & cite →

Zigbee Raspberry Pi 3 IoT blood pressure

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Storage Consumption Reduction using Improved Inverted Indexing for Similarity Search on LINGO Profiles

Author 1: Muhammad Jaziem bin Javeed Author 2: Nurul Hashimah Ahamed Hassain Malim

Millions of compounds which exist in huge datasets are represented using Simplified Molecular-Input Line- Entry System (SMILES) representation. Fragmenting SMILES strings into overlapping substrings of a defined size called LINGO Profiles avoids the otherwise time-consuming conversion process. One drawback of this process is the generation of numerous identical LINGO Profiles… Read full abstract & cite →

Simplified Molecular-Input Line-Entry System (SMILES) LINGO profiles similarity searching inverted indexing

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100505 PDF

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A Framework for Iris Partial Recognition based on Legendre Wavelet Filter

Author 1: Muktar Danlami Author 2: Sapiee Jamel Author 3: Sofia Najwa Ramli Author 4: Mustafa Mat Deris

An increasing need for biometrics recognition system has grown substantially to address the issues of recognition and identification especially in highly dense areas such as airport, train stations and for financial transaction. Evidences of these can be seen in some airports and also the implementation of these technologies in our… Read full abstract & cite →

Iris recognition partial recognition wavelet Legendre wavelet filter biometric

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The Implementation of Software Anti-Ageing Model towards Green and Sustainable Products

Author 1: Zuriani Hayati Abdullah Author 2: Jamaiah Yahaya Author 3: Siti Rohana Ahmad Ibrahim Author 4: Sazrol Fadzli Author 5: Aziz Deraman

Software ageing is a phenomenon that normally occurs in a long running software. Progressive degradation of software performance is a symptom that shows software is getting aged and old. Researchers believe that the ageing phenomenon can be delayed by applying anti-ageing techniques towards the software or also known as software… Read full abstract & cite →

Software ageing factor ageing prevention software anti-ageing model SEANA model SeRIS Prototype System Green And Sustainable Product Emprirical Study

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100507 PDF

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Understanding Customer Voice of Project Portfolio Management Software

Author 1: Maruthi Rohit Ayyagari Author 2: Issa Atoum

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) has gained success in many projects due to its large number of features that covers effective scheduling, risk management, collaboration, and third-party software integrations to mention a few. A broad range of PPM software is available; however, it is essential to select the PPM with minimum… Read full abstract & cite →

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) software reviews sentiment analytics text summarization LDA

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100508 PDF

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Analysis of the Emotions’ Brainwaves

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

Currently in Peru, patients with degenerative diseases, such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) have lost of communication ability. Many researchers’ papers that establish basic communication system for these patients. It is also essential to know their feelings or state of mind through their emotions, in this study, we present an… Read full abstract & cite →

Electroencephalogram EEG emotions amyotrophic lateral sclerosis degenerative diseases classification learner

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100509 PDF

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Multi-Agent Architecture of Intelligent and Distributed Platform of Governance, Risk and Compliance of Information Systems

Author 1: Soukaina Elhasnaoui Author 2: Saadia Drissi Author 3: Hajar Iguer Author 4: Hicham Medromi

Governance, risk management and compliance of information technologies (IT GRC) is the responsibility of the company’s executives. The IT GRC responds to the important concerns of information systems managers, to ensure the necessary changes in the Information System (IS) over time, and enable it to meet the needs of risk… Read full abstract & cite →

IT Governance risk and compliance information system multi agent systems

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100510 PDF

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Comparison of Accuracy between Convolutional Neural Networks and Naïve Bayes Classifiers in Sentiment Analysis on Twitter

Author 1: P.O. Abas Sunarya Author 2: Rina Refianti Author 3: Achmad Benny Mutiara Author 4: Wiranti Octaviani

The needs and demands of the community for the ease of accessing information encourage the increasing use of social media tools such as Twitter to share, deliver and search for information needed. The number of large tweets shared by Twitter users every second, making the collection of tweets can be… Read full abstract & cite →

Sentiment-analysis convolutional neural network deep learning Naïve Bayes classifier

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100511 PDF

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Digital Legacy: Posterity Rights Analysis and Proposed Model for Digital Memorabilia Adoption using Machine Learning

Author 1: Amit Sudan Author 2: Dr. Munish Sabharwal

The paper informs about the digital legacy and its related concepts of posterity rights and digital memorabilia. It also deals with the right to exercise the digital posterity concerning the social networking profiles (SNP) on social networking sites (SNS). Digital Memorabilia is the compendium of people’s social profiles and the… Read full abstract & cite →

Digital assets digital legacy digital posterity digital executers digital memorabilia SNP (Social Networking Profiles) SNS (Social Networking Sites)

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100512 PDF

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Smart Sustainable Agriculture (SSA) Solution Underpinned by Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Author 1: Eissa Alreshidi

The Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been employed in agriculture over a long period of time, alongside other advanced computing technologies. However, increased attention is currently being paid to the use of such smart technologies. Agriculture has provided an important source of food for human beings… Read full abstract & cite →

Smart Agriculture Internet of Things IoT Artificial Intelligence AI Fragmentation Smart Sustainable Agriculture solutions

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Reconstruction of Fingerprint Shape using Fractal Interpolation

Author 1: Abdullah Bajahzar Author 2: Hichem Guedri

One of the severe problems in a fingerprint-based system is retaining the fingerprint images. In this paper, we propose a method to minimize the fingerprint images size and retain the reference points. The method is divided into three parts, the first part is about digital image preprocessing that allows us… Read full abstract & cite →

Fingerprint images enhancement thresholding process thinning algorithms minutiae extraction Douglas-Peucker algorithm fractal interpolation iterated function system (IFS)

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Analytical and Comparative Study of Different Types of Two-Leg Chopping Up Regulator

Author 1: Walid Emar Author 2: Omar A. Saraereh

The main focus of this article is to analyze and simulate the two-leg parallel connection of a chopping up regulator with flattering inductive smoothers or with an interphasing centre-tap transformer supplied by a three-phase diode rectifier and a DC link in between. The article deals with the problem of reducing… Read full abstract & cite →

Chopping up regulator with a flattering inductive smoother magnetic coupling connection with interphasing centre-tap transformer

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CWNN-Net: A New Convolution Wavelet Neural Network for Gender Classification using Palm Print

Author 1: Elaraby A Elgallad Author 2: Wael Ouarda Author 3: Adel M. Alimi

The human hand is one of the body parts with special characteristics that are unique to every individual. The distinctive features can give some information about an individual, thus, making it a suitable body part that can be relied upon for biometric identification and, specifically, gender recognition. Several studies have… Read full abstract & cite →

Deep learning feature extraction gender voting

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The Method of Computer-Aided Design of a Bread Composition with Regard to Biomedical Requirements

Author 1: Natalia A Berezina Author 2: Andrey V. Artemov Author 3: Igor A. Nikitin Author 4: Alexander A. Budnik

A method for efficient software implementation of bread optimized multicomponent mixtures has been developed. These polycomposite mixtures have a chemical composition that meets the modern physiological standards of nutrition for the elderly people. To implement the developed algorithm a high-level programming language Object Pascal was used using the IDE Borland… Read full abstract & cite →

Modeling polycomposite mixture bread gerodietic nutrition quality

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Quality of Service and Power Consumption Optimization on the IEEE 802.15.4 Pulse Sensor Node based on Internet of Things

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

The Purpose of this research is to determine the Quality of Service (QoS) Zigbee or IEEE 802.15.4 sensor Node use the indicators, i.e. the Receiver Signal Strength and PathLoss (attenuation (-dB)) at the time of communication of the sensor node end device to the sensor Router node or Coordinator sensor… Read full abstract & cite →

RPL RSS Pathloss Zigbee Pulse DODAGs IoT

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Segmentation of Touching Arabic Characters in Handwritten Documents by Overlapping Set Theory and Contour Tracing

Author 1: Inam Ullah Author 2: Mohd Sanusi Azmi Author 3: Mohamad Ishak Desa Author 4: Yazan M. Alomari

Segmentation of handwritten words into characters is one of the challenging problem in the field of OCR. In presence of touching characters, make this problem more difficult and challenging. There are many obstacles/challenges in segmentation of touching Arabic handwritten text. Although researches are busy in solving the problem of segmentation… Read full abstract & cite →

Offline handwritten characters touching characters segmentation overlapping set theory morphological operation

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Pedestrian Safety with Eye-Contact between Autonomous Car and Pedestrian

Author 1: Kohei Arai Author 2: Akihito Yamashita Author 3: Hiroshi Okumura

Method for eye-contact between autonomous car and pedestrian is proposed for pedestrian safety. The method allows to detect the pedestrian who would like to across a street through eye-contact between an autonomous driving car and the pedestrian. Through experiment, it is found that the proposed method does work well for… Read full abstract & cite →

Autonomous driving car eye-contact self driving car pedestrian safety Yolo OpenCV GazeRecorder

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Tennis Player Training Support System based on Sport Vision

Author 1: Kohei Arai Author 2: Toshiki Nishimura Author 3: Hiroshi Okumura

Sports vision based tennis player training support system is proposed. In sports, gaze, dynamic visual acuity, eye movement and viewing place are important. In sports vision, Static eyesight, Dynamic visual acuity, Contrast sensitivity, Eye movement, Deep vision, Instant vision, Cooperative action of eye, hand and foot, and Peripheral field are… Read full abstract & cite →

Sport vision static eyesight dynamic visual acuity contrast sensitivity eye movement deep vision instant vision cooperative action of eye hand and foot peripheral field

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100521 PDF

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A Low Power Consuming Model of Parallel Programming for HPC System

Author 1: Mohammed Nawaf Altouri Author 2: Abdullah M. Algarni

For most of the past five decades, the growing computational power of supercomputers has come primarily from a doubling of clock frequency every 18 months. Over this time period, the clock rate increased by six orders of magnitude, while the number of processors increased by three orders of magnitude. The… Read full abstract & cite →

HPC parallel computation power consumption hybrid programming MVAPIC2 CUDA

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Effective Framework of Pedagogy

Author 1: Tallat Naz Author 2: Momeen Khan Author 3: Khalid Mahmood

Learning paths drive learners to proficiency by using a selected sequence of training activities under time constraints. Therefore, learners can regulate learning and give feedback for pedagogy improvements. Studying learning path evaluation provides a useful conceptual reference to enhance pedagogically. This paper proposes an approach based on the Plan-Do-Check-Act improvement… Read full abstract & cite →

Learning management system learning styles learning path Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA)

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Comparative Performance Analysis of RPL for Low Power and Lossy Networks based on Different Objective Functions

Author 1: Mah Zaib Jamil Author 2: Danista Khan Author 3: Adeel Saleem Author 4: Kashif Mehmood Author 5: Atif Iqbal

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an extensive network between people-people, people-things and things-things. With the overgrown opportunities, then it also comes with a lot of challenges proportional to the number of connected things to the network. The IPv6 allows us to connect a huge number of things. For resource-constrained… Read full abstract & cite →

ETX ELT HOP internet of things IP networks network performance routing RPL

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100524 PDF

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Towards Effective Service Discovery using Feature Selection and Supervised Learning Algorithms

Author 1: Heyam H Al-Baity Author 2: Norah I. AlShowiman

With the rapid development of web service technologies, the number and variety of web services available on the internet are rapidly increasing. Currently, service registries support human classification, which has been observed to have certain limitations, such as poor query results with low precision and recall rates. With the huge… Read full abstract & cite →

Web service discovery Web Service Description Language (WSDL) supervised machine learning classification feature selection

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100525 PDF

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An Advanced Emergency Warning Message Scheme based on Vehicles Speed and Traffic Densities

Author 1: Mustafa Banikhalaf Author 2: Saleh Ali Alomari Author 3: Mowafaq Salem Alzboon

In intelligent transportation systems, broadcasting Warning Messages (WMs) by Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) communication is a significant task. Designing efficient dissemination schemes for fast and reliable delivery of WMs is still an open research question. In this paper, we propose a novel messaging scheme, Advanced Speed and Density Warning… Read full abstract & cite →

Warning message the broadcast storm problem emergency vehicles

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100526 PDF

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Domain and Schema Independent Semantic Model Verbalization: A Conceptual Overview

Author 1: Kaneeka Vidanage Author 2: Noor Maizura Mohamad Noor Author 3: Rosmayati Mohemad Author 4: Zuriana Abu Bakar

Semantic Web-based technologies have become extremely popular and its a success that has spread across many domains, additional to the computer science domain. Nevertheless, the reusability aspects associated with the created and available semantic knowledge models are very low. The main bottleneck associated with this issue is, the difficulty associated… Read full abstract & cite →

Ontology OWL RDF Verbalize Schema

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A Modified Adaptive Thresholding Method using Cuckoo Search Algorithm for Detecting Surface Defects

Author 1: Yasir Aslam Author 2: Santhi N Author 3: Ramasamy N Author 4: K. Ramar

There are various mathematical optimization problems that can be effectively solved by meta-heuristic algorithms. The improvement of these algorithms is that they carry out iterative search processes which resourcefully act upon exploration and exploitation in spatial domain containing global and local optima. An innovative robust Cuckoo Optimization Algorithm (COA) with… Read full abstract & cite →

Thresholding surface defect optimization image processing coated surface

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Secure Data Provenance in Internet of Things based Networks by Outsourcing Attribute based Signatures and using Bloom Filters

Author 1: Muhammad Shoaib Siddiqui Author 2: Atiqur Rahman Author 3: Adnan Nadeem Author 4: Ali M. Alzahrani

With the dawn of autonomous organization and network and service management, the integration of existing networks with Internet of Things (IoT) based networks is becoming a reality. With minimal human interaction, the security of IoT data moving through the network becomes prone to attacks. IoT networks require a secure provenance… Read full abstract & cite →

Data provenance bloom filter ciphertext policy attribute based encryption IoT

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Query Expansion based on Explicit-Relevant Feedback and Synonyms for English Quran Translation Information Retrieval

Author 1: Nuhu Yusuf Author 2: Mohd Amin Mohd Yunus Author 3: Norfaradilla Wahid

Search engines are commonly present as information retrieval applications that help to retrieve relevant information from different domain areas. The crucial part of improving the quality of search engine is based on query expansion, which expands the query with additional information to match additional important documents. This paper presents a… Read full abstract & cite →

Query expansion search engine relevant feedbacks explicit relevant feedback synonyms information retrieval

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Modelling and Implementation of Proactive Risk Management in e-Learning Projects: A Step Towards Enhancing Quality of e-Learning

Author 1: Haneen Hijazi Author 2: Bashar Hammad Author 3: Ahmad Al-Khasawneh

The introduction of e-Learning to higher education institutions has been evolving drastically. However, the quality of e-Learning becomes a central issue in order to provide all stakeholders with the necessary confidence to compete with traditional learning methods. Risk management plays a vital role in the successful implementation of e-Learning projects… Read full abstract & cite →

e-Learning technology-enhanced learning quality proactive risk management risk factors higher educatio

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Design and Development of an Industrial Solver for Integrated Planning of Production and Logistics

Author 1: Yassine El Khayyam Author 2: Brahim Herrou

Faced with an increasingly hard competition, an increasingly unstable economic environment and ever-increasing customer requirements, companies should optimize costs and lead times not only at their level but also at the entire supply chain to which they belong. In such situation, an integrated supply chain management is necessary. In this… Read full abstract & cite →

MRP VRP production planning transports planning integration MLRP

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Novel Joint Subcarrier and Power Allocation Method in SWIPT for WSNs Employing OFDM System

Author 1: Saleemullah Memon Author 2: Kamran Ali Memon Author 3: Zulfiqar Ali Zardari Author 4: Muhammad Aamir Panhwar Author 5: Sijjad Ali Khuhro Author 6: Asiya Siddiqui

In recent research trends, simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) has proved to be an innovative technique to deal with limited energy problems in energy harvesting (EH) technologies for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this paper, a method of subcarrier and power allocation for both EH and information decoding… Read full abstract & cite →

Simultaneous wireless information & power transfer (SWIPT) Energy harvesting (EH) Information decoding (ID) power allocation subcarrier allocation

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Optimization of a Three-Phase Tetrahedral High Voltage Transformer used in the Power Supply of Microwave

Author 1: Mouhcine Lahame Author 2: Mohammed Chraygane Author 3: Hamid Outzguinrimt Author 4: Rajaa Oumghar

This article deals with the optimization of a three-phase tetrahedral-type high voltage transformer, sized to supply three voltage-doubling cells and three magnetrons per phase. The optimization method used is based on an algorithm implemented in Matlab/Simulink to study the influence of transformer geometrical parameters on the electrical operation of the… Read full abstract & cite →

Optimization tetrahedral voltage-doubling transformer magnetrons

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LBPH-based Enhanced Real-Time Face Recognition

Author 1: Farah Deeba Author 2: Hira Memon Author 3: Fayaz Ali Dharejo Author 4: Aftab Ahmed Author 5: Abddul Ghaffar

Facial recognition has always gone through a consistent research area due to its non-modelling nature and its diverse applications. As a result, day-to-day activities are increasingly being carried out electronically rather than in pencil and paper. Today, computer vision is a comprehensive field that deals with a high level of… Read full abstract & cite →

Face recognition feature extraction Local Binary Pattern Histogram (LBPH)

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Visualizing Code Bad Smells

Author 1: Maen Hammad Author 2: Sabah Alsofriya

Software visualization is an effective way to support human comprehension to large software systems. In software maintenance, most of the time is spent on understanding code in order to change it. This paper presents a visualization approach to help maintainers to locate and understand code bad smells. Software maintainers need… Read full abstract & cite →

Software visualization program comprehension data modeling bad smells

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Novel Carrier based PWM Techniques Reduce Common Mode Voltage for Six Phase Induction Motor Drives

Author 1: Ngoc Thuy Pham Author 2: Nho Van Nguyen

This paper proposes a novel pulse width modulation (CBPWM) technique for reducing the common mode voltage for a six-phase induction motor (SPIM) drive. This proposed CBPWM technique relies on setting up offset functions and the phase shift of carrier wares. Common mode voltage occurs under the effect of DC power… Read full abstract & cite →

Six-phase induction motor six-phase voltage source inverter common mode voltage carrier based pulse width modulation

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Performance Analysis of Machine Learning Techniques on Software Defect Prediction using NASA Datasets

Author 1: Ahmed Iqbal Author 2: Shabib Aftab Author 3: Umair Ali Author 4: Zahid Nawaz Author 5: Laraib Sana Author 6: Munir Ahmad Author 7: Arif Husen

Defect prediction at early stages of software development life cycle is a crucial activity of quality assurance process and has been broadly studied in the last two decades. The early prediction of defective modules in developing software can help the development team to utilize the available resources efficiently and effectively… Read full abstract & cite →

Software defect prediction software metrics data mining machine learning classification class imbalance

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Experimental Evaluation of the Virtual Environment Efficiency for Distributed Software Development

Author 1: Pavel Kolyasnikov Author 2: Evgeny Nikulchev Author 3: Iliy Silakov Author 4: Dmitry Ilin Author 5: Alexander Gusev

At every software design stage nowadays, there is an acute need to solve the problem of effective choice of libraries, development technologies, data exchange formats, virtual environment systems, characteristics of virtual machines. Due to the spread of various kinds of devices and the popularity of Web platforms, lots of systems… Read full abstract & cite →

Distributed software development virtual development environment increase development efficiency virtual machines vagrant Docker NFS webpack

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Prediction of Crude Oil Prices using Hybrid Guided Best-So-Far Honey Bees Algorithm-Neural Networks

Author 1: Nasser Tairan Author 2: Habib Shah Author 3: Aliya Aleryani

The objective of this paper is the use of new hybrid meta-heuristic method called Guided Best-So-Far Honey Bees Inspired Algorithm with Artificial Neural Network (ANN) on the Prediction of Crude Oil Prices of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Very high volatility of crude oil prices is one of the main… Read full abstract & cite →

Bio inspired best so far crude oil prices KSA

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Designing Model of Serious Game for Flood Safety Training

Author 1: Nursyahida Mokhtar Author 2: Amirah Ismail Author 3: Zurina Muda

Serious games have the potential to increase motivation among users in the aspect of safety training. Additionally, serious games can also positively impact training outcomes when the knowledge and skills acquired during a serious game training are transferred to a real-world application. The development of a serious game is based… Read full abstract & cite →

Serious game model flood safety training flood awareness intrinsic motivation psychology readiness

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Comparison of Reducing the Speckle Noise in Ultrasound Medical Images using Discrete Wavelet Transform

Author 1: Asim ur Rehman Khan Author 2: Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi Author 3: Mohammad Ghahramani Author 4: Muhammad Ahsan Rehman Khan

Speckle noise in ultrasound (US) medical images is the prime factor that undermines its full utilization. This noise is added by the constructive / destructive interference of sound waves travelling through hard- and soft-tissues of a patient. It is therefore generally accepted that the noise is unavoidable. As an alternate… Read full abstract & cite →

Discrete wavelet transform image quality assessment ultrasound medical image

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BHA-160: Constructional Design of Hash Function based on NP-hard Problem

Author 1: Ali Al Shahrani

Secure hash function is used to protect the integrity of the message transferred on the unsecured network. Changes on the bits of the sender’s message are recognized by the message digest produced by the hash function. Hash function is mainly concerned with data integrity, where the data receiver needs to… Read full abstract & cite →

Hash function integrity message cryptanalysis attack NP-hard problem

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Variable Reduction-based Prediction through Modified Genetic Algorithm

Author 1: Allemar Jhone P. Delima Author 2: Ariel M. Sison Author 3: Ruji P. Medina

Due to the massive influence in the use of prediction models in different sectors of society, many researchers have employed hybrid algorithms to increase the accuracy level of the prediction model. The literature suggests that the use of Genetic Algorithms (GAs) can sufficiently improve the performance of other prediction models… Read full abstract & cite →

Enhanced prediction model IBAX operator modified genetic algorithm prediction accuracy enhancement

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IoT Testing-as-a-Service: A New Dimension of Automation

Author 1: Babur Hayat Malik Author 2: Myda Khalid Author 3: Maliha Maryam Author 4: M. Nauman Ali Author 5: Sheraz Yousaf Author 6: Mudassar Mehmood Author 7: Hammad Saleem

Internet of Things (IoT) systems has become a global trend enhancing the capabilities smart computing era involving a variety of distributed end-devices and multi- scalable applications. The collaborative nature of IoT systems connected through the Internet increases the heterogeneity of coming data streams that need to be processed for correct… Read full abstract & cite →

Testing automation IoT interoperability testing conformance testing security testing semantic testing

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Assessment of Technology Transfer from Grid power to Photovoltaic: An Experimental Case Study for Pakistan

Author 1: Umer Farooq Author 2: Habib Ullah Manzoor Author 3: Aamir Mehmood Author 4: Awais Iqbal Author 5: Rida Younis Author 6: Amina Iqbal Author 7: Fan Yang Author 8: Muhammad Arshad Shehzad Hassan Author 9: Nouman Faiz

Pakistan is located on the world map where enough solar irradiance value strikes the ground that can be harnessed to vanish the existing blackout problems of the country. Government is focusing towards renewable integration, especially solar photovoltaic (PV) technology. This work is focused to assess the techno-economic viability of different… Read full abstract & cite →

Solar energy photovoltaic technologies module efficiency power demand satisfaction economics

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MHealth for Decision Making Support: A Case Study of EHealth in the Public Sector

Author 1: Majed Kamel Al-Azzam Author 2: Malik Bader Alazzam Author 3: Majida Khalid al-Manasra

This paper seeks to explore factors that determine the acceptance of the MHealth application patients. The research relied on (UTAUT2) Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology to assess the level of acceptance of a new mobile health application by patients. The study involved conducting test surveys across medical… Read full abstract & cite →

Mobile health application UTAUT1 UTAUT2 trust factors

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Sea Lion Optimization Algorithm

Author 1: Raja Masadeh Author 2: Basel A. Mahafzah Author 3: Ahmad Sharieh

This paper suggests a new nature inspired metaheuristic optimization algorithm which is called Sea Lion Optimization (SLnO) algorithm. The SLnO algorithm imitates the hunting behavior of sea lions in nature. Moreover, it is inspired by sea lions' whiskers that are used in order to detect the prey. SLnO algorithm is… Read full abstract & cite →

Optimization Metaheuristic optimization algorithms Benchmarks Sea Lion Optimization Algorithm (SLnO)

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Towards a Real Time Energy Management Strategy for Hybrid Wind-PV Power System based on Hierarchical Distribution of Loads

Author 1: Abdelhadi Raihani Author 2: Tajeddine Khalili Author 3: Mohamed Rafik Author 4: Mohammed Hicham Zaggaf Author 5: Omar Bouattane

Energy management is a crucial aspect for achieving energy efficiency within a Hybrid Renewable energy power station. Load being unbalanced through the day, a reasonable power management can avoid energy dissipation and unnecessary grid solicitation. This article presents an energy management strategy in a real case scenario of a hybrid… Read full abstract & cite →

Energy management hybrid renewable energy sources grid injection loads distribution energy forecasting load forecasting

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Interaction between Learning Style and Gender in Mixed Learning with 40% Face-to-face Learning and 60% Online Learning

Author 1: Anthony Anggrawan Author 2: Nurdin Ibrahim Author 3: Suyitno Muslim Author 4: Christofer Satria

Student learning styles are important factors that have a strong impact on student performance in learning outcomes. That is why each learning method will produce different learning outcomes for students who have different learning styles. According to the previous study concluded that mixed learning produces learning outcomes that are superior… Read full abstract & cite →

Online face-to-face mixed learning algorithm and programming learning outcome interaction

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Frequency Reconfigurable Vivaldi Antenna with Switched Resonators for Wireless Applications

Author 1: Rabiaa Herzi Author 2: Mohamed-Ali Boujemaa Author 3: Fethi Choubani Author 4: Ali Gharsallah

In this paper, a frequency reconfigurable Vivaldi antenna with switched slot ring resonators is presented. The principle of the method to reconfigure the Vivaldi antenna is based on the perturbation of the surface currents distribution. Switched ring resonators that act as a bandpass filter are printed in specific positions on… Read full abstract & cite →

Frequency reconfigurable Vivaldi Antenna (VA) Ultra-Wideband (UWB) slot ring resonator wireless applications

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Accuracy Performance Degradation in Image Classification Models due to Concept Drift

Author 1: Manzoor Ahmed Hashmani Author 2: Syed Muslim Jameel Author 3: Hitham Alhussain Author 4: Mobashar Rehman Author 5: Arif Budiman

Big data is playing a significant role in the current computing revolution. Industries and organizations are utilizing their insights for Business Intelligence by using Deep Learning Networks (DLN). However, dynamic characteristics of BD introduce many critical issues for DLN; Concept Drift (CD) is one of them. CD issue appears frequently… Read full abstract & cite →

Pre-trained networks deep learning concept drift fine tuning transfer learning

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Study and Design of a Magnetic Levitator System

Author 1: Brian Meneses-Claudio Author 2: Zeila Torres Santos Author 3: Avid Roman-Gonzalez

Magnetic levitation is one of the mechanisms that is at the forefront of technology. It is used in its most basic form in educational teaching, where the principles of physics converge that have as their principle electromagnetism and the fields created by existing poles that repel according to a quantity… Read full abstract & cite →

Magnetic levitator electromagnet electronic circuit differential potential

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Detection of Suspicions of Varicose Veins in the Legs using Thermal Imaging

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

Varicose veins also known as venous insufficiency, are dilated veins due to an accumulation of blood that occurs in different parts of the body, the most common are in the legs, in addition to having a higher index in women for clothing style that they use. Varicose veins are classified… Read full abstract & cite →

Thermal image varicose veins detection image processing image segmentation

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Skyline Path Queries for Location-based Services

Author 1: Nishu Chowdhury Author 2: Mohammad Shamsul Arefin

A skyline query finds objects that are not dominated by another object from a given set of objects. Skyline queries help us to filter unnecessary information efficiently and provide us clues for various decision making tasks. In this paper, we consider skyline queries for location-based services and proposed a framework… Read full abstract & cite →

Skyline queries trip planning location-based services

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IoT-Enabled Door Lock System

Author 1: Trio Adiono Author 2: Syifaul Fuada Author 3: Sinantya Feranti Anindya Author 4: Irfan Gani Purwanda Author 5: Maulana Yusuf Fathany

This paper covers the design of a prototype for IoT and GPS enabled door lock system. The aim of this research is to design a door lock system that does not need manual input from user for convenience purpose while also remaining secure. The system primarily consists STM32L100 microcontroller as… Read full abstract & cite →

Internet of Things smart home smart lock

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Low-Cost and Portable Ground Station for the Reception of NOAA Satellite Images

Author 1: Antony E Quiroz-Olivares Author 2: Ntalia I. Vargas-Cuentas Author 3: Guillermo W. Zarate Segura Author 4: Avid Roman-Gonzalez

Currently, in Peru, the study of satellite images is increasing because it has the Earth observation satellite PeruSat-1. However, the cost of implementing a ground station is very high; for this reason, it is baffling that each university has its station. In the present work, the design and implementation of… Read full abstract & cite →

Software defined by radio Raspberry Pi meteorological images antenna dipoles

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Experience in Asteroid Search using Astrometrica Software

Author 1: Junior Ascencio-Moran Author 2: Jhon Calero-Juarez Author 3: Maria del Carmen Pajares-Acuña Author 4: Avid Roman-Gonzalez

The present work of this research consists of the analysis of telescopic images provided by the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) to find asteroids that can be named. The concern in searching for asteroids helps the scientific community that promotes the collaboration of young students and astronomy fans get experience… Read full abstract & cite →

SGAC IASC INTI-Lab UCH MPC asteroids

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Size Reduction and Performance Enhancement of Pi Shaped Patch Antenna using Superstrate Configuration

Author 1: Pir Saadullah Shah Author 2: Shahryar Shafique Qureshi Author 3: Muhammad Haneef Author 4: Sohail Imran Saeed

Patch antennas are modern elements of today’s world communication technology. They appear to have unique characteristics and features with their unique power with handling capabilities and lighted structure. This paper focuses on superstrate configuration of patch antenna with defected ground plane and Pi Slotted radiating patch. The three different cases… Read full abstract & cite →

Radiating patch ground plane slotted bandwidth gain directivity

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Speech Recognition System based on Discrete Wave Atoms Transform Partial Noisy Environment

Author 1: Mohamed Walid Author 2: Bousselmi Souha Author 3: Cherif Adnen

Automatic speech recognition is one of the most active research areas as it offers a dynamic platform for human-machine interaction. The robustness of speech recognition systems is often degraded in real time applications, which are often accompanied by environmental noises. In this work, we have investigated the efficiency of combining… Read full abstract & cite →

WAT SVM HMM thresholding noise MFCC MLP

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Intelligent Scheduling of Bag-of-Tasks Applications in the Cloud

Author 1: Preethi Sheba Hepsiba Author 2: Grace Mary Kanaga E

The need of efficient provision resources in cloud computing is imperative in meeting the performance requirements. The design of any resource allocation algorithm is dependent on the type of workload. BoT (Bag-of-Tasks) which is made up of batches of independent tasks are predominant in large scale distributed systems such as… Read full abstract & cite →

Bag-of-tasks applications intelligent agent reinforcement learning scheduling

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Four-Class Motor Imagery EEG Signal Classification using PCA, Wavelet and Two-Stage Neural Network

Author 1: Md. Asadur Rahman Author 2: Farzana Khanam Author 3: Md. Kazem Hossain Author 4: Mohammad Khurshed Alam Author 5: Mohiuddin Ahmad

Electroencephalogram (EEG) is the most significant signal for brain-computer interfaces (BCI). Nowadays, motor imagery (MI) movement based BCI is highly accepted method for. This paper proposes a novel method based on the combined utilization of principal component analysis (PCA), wavelet packet transformation (WPT), and two-stage machine learning algorithm to classify… Read full abstract & cite →

Brain-computer interface electroencephalogram motor imagery principal component analysis wavelet packet transformation artificial neural network classification

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A Calibrating Six-Port Compact Circuit using a New Technique Program

Author 1: Traii Moubarek Author 2: Mohannad Almanee Author 3: Ali Gharsallah

In this paper, a calibration of six-port reflectometer using a new technique program is presented. It has been shown that a calibration procedure is based on explicit method, the method that capturing the output wave forms of six-port junction and determines the complex relationship between the two waves present at… Read full abstract & cite →

Calibration technique digital receiver explicit method reflectometer S parameters

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Hybrid Concatenated LDPC Codes with LTE Modulation Schemes

Author 1: Mohanad Alfiras Author 2: Wael A. H. Hadi Author 3: Amjad Ali Jassim

In a communication system, the LDPC code is considered as a good performance error correcting code which reaches near Shannon limit. In this paper a hybrid LDPC code is proposed, the hybrid term here refers to the serial concatenation of parallel LDPC codes group and a single serial LDPC code… Read full abstract & cite →

Coding modulation Hybrid concatenation low density parity check

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Cloud Computing Adoption in Small and Medium- Sized Enterprises (SMEs) of Asia and Africa

Author 1: Babur Hayat Malik Author 2: Jazba Asad Author 3: Sabila Kousar Author 4: Faiza Nawaz Author 5: Zainab Author 6: Farania Hayder Author 7: Sehresh Bibi Author 8: Amina Yousaf Author 9: Ali Raza

Cloud computing is a rapidly emerging technology over the last few years that has abolished the burden of purchasing heavy hardware and licensed software. Cloud computing has been advantageous to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), but still numerous SMEs have not adopted cloud computing to delve into its appealing benefits… Read full abstract & cite →

Cloud computing adoption Asia Africa small and medium-sized enterprises analysis

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Exploratory Analysis of the Total Variation of Electrons in the Ionosphere before Telluric Events Greater than M7.0 in the World During 2015-2016

Author 1: Alva Mantari Alicia Author 2: Zarate Segura Guillermo Wenceslao Author 3: Sotomayor Beltran Carlos Author 4: Brian Meneses-Claudio Author 5: Roman-Gonzalez Avid

This exploratory observational study analyzes the variation of the total amount of vertical electrons (vTEC) in the ionosphere, 17 days before telluric events with grades greater than M7.0 between 2015 and 2016. Thirty telluric events have been analyzed with these characteristics. The data was obtained from 55 satellites and 300… Read full abstract & cite →

Total number of electrons ionosphere earthquakes prevention risk

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Fast and Efficient In-Memory Big Data Processing

Author 1: Babur Hayat Malik Author 2: Maliha Maryam Author 3: Myda Khalid Author 4: Javaria Khlaid Author 5: Najam Ur Rehman Author 6: Syeda Iqra Sajjad Author 7: Tanveer Islam Author 8: Umair Ahmed Butt Author 9: Ali Raza Author 10: M. Saad Nasr

With the passage of time, the data is growing exponentially and the mostly endured areas are social media networks, media hosting applications, and servers. They have thousands of Tera-bytes of data and the efficient systems, however, they are as yet confronting issue to oversee such volume of information and its… Read full abstract & cite →

Big data processing indexing techniques R-tree B-tree X-tree hashing inverted index graph query tree

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Comparing Hybrid Tool for Static and Dynamic Object-Oriented Metrics

Author 1: Babur Hayat Malik Author 2: Javaria Khalid Author 3: Hafsa Arif Author 4: Ayesha Sadiqa Author 5: Amara Tanveer Author 6: Asia Mumtaz Author 7: Zartashiya Afzal Author 8: Samreen Azhar Author 9: Muhammad Numan Ali

Software metrics are created and used by the distinctive programming associations intended for assessing, guaranteeing program excellence, activity, and software recovery. Software metrics have turned into a basic part of programming growth and are utilized in each period of the product development life cycle. Software metrics essentially measure programming items… Read full abstract & cite →

Software metrics static metrics dynamic metrics Object Oriented (OO)

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Comparison of Agile Method and Scrum Method with Software Quality Affecting Factors

Author 1: Muhammad Asaad Subih Author 2: Babur Hayat Malik Author 3: Imran Mazhar Author 4: Izaz-ul-Hassan Author 5: Usman Sabir Author 6: Tamoor Wakeel Author 7: Wajid Ali Author 8: Amina Yousaf Author 9: Bilal-bin-Ijaz Author 10: Hadiqa Nawaz Author 11: Muhammad Suleman

The software industry used software development lifecycle (SDLC) to design, develop, produce high quality, reliable and cost-effective software products. To develop an application, project team used some methodology which may include artifacts and pre-defining specific deliverables. There are different SDLC process models such as waterfall, iterative, spiral and agile model… Read full abstract & cite →

Component SDLC Software Quality Affecting Factors Agile methodologies Scrum

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Reengineering Framework to Enhance the Performance of Existing Software

Author 1: Jaswinder Singh Author 2: Kanwalvir Singh Dhindsa Author 3: Jaiteg Singh

Term reengineering refers to improve the quality of the system. Continues maintenance and aging degrade the performance of the software system. Right approach and methodology must be adapted to perform reengineering. With lack of right approach and methodology, reengineering itself will be costly and time-consuming. For the process of reengineering… Read full abstract & cite →

Reengineering maintenance decision tree agile methodology scrum

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Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation in LAN using Dynamic Excess Rate Sensing

Author 1: Muhammad Abubakar Muhammad Author 2: Muhammad Azhar Mushatq Author 3: Abid Sultan Author 4: Muhammad Afrasayab

Today human and information processing system both need rapid access to anything they want on the internet. To fulfill these needs more and more internet service providers with a large amount of bandwidth are introducing themselves in the market. For these providers, a lot of bandwidth is free during off-peak… Read full abstract & cite →

DER ISPs PIR DBA MRT CIR

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SentiNeural: A Depression Clustering Technique for Egyptian Women Sentiments

Author 1: Doaa Mohey ElDin Author 2: Mohamed Hamed N. Taha Author 3: Nour Eldeen M. Khalifa

Online Sentiments Analysis is a trending research domain of study which is based on natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics. Negation sentiments usually are not included in sentiment’s analysis process. The depression analysis can be improved by negative sentiments processing. The negation sentiments may contribute to classify the… Read full abstract & cite →

Sentiment analysis negation handling depression analysis neural network clustering

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Bayesian Network Analysis for the Questionnaire Investigation on the Needs at Fuji Shopping Street Town under the View Point of Service Engineering

Author 1: Tsuyoshi Aburai Author 2: Akane Okubo Author 3: Daisuke Suzuki Author 4: Kazuhiro Takeyasu

Shopping streets at local city in Japan became old and are generally declining. In this paper, the area rebirth and/or regional revitalization of shopping street are handled. Fuji city in Japan is focused. Four big festivals are held at Fuji city (two for Fuji Shopping Street Town and two for… Read full abstract & cite →

Fuji city area rebirth regional vitalization Bayesian network back propagation service engineering

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Alerts Clustering for Intrusion Detection Systems: Overview and Machine Learning Perspectives

Author 1: Wajdi Alhakami

The tremendous amount of the security alerts due to the high-speed alert generation of high-speed networks make the management of intrusion detection computationally expensive. Evidently, the high-level rate of wrong alerts disproves the Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) performances and decrease its capability to prevent cyber-attacks which lead to tedious alert… Read full abstract & cite →

Intrusion detection systems alert clustering taxon-omy survey machine learning

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Feature based Algorithmic Analysis on American Sign Language Dataset

Author 1: Umair Muneer Butt Author 2: Basharat Husnain Author 3: Usman Ahmed Author 4: Arslan Tariq Author 5: Iqra Tariq Author 6: Muhammad Aadil Butt Author 7: Dr. Muhammad Sultan Zia

Physical disability is one of the factor in human beings, which cannot be ignored. A person who can’t listen by nature is called deaf person. For the representation of their knowledge, a special language is adopted called ‘Sign-Language’. American Sign Language (ASL) is one of the most popular sign language… Read full abstract & cite →

Hand gesture recognition pre-processing weka rapid miner HOG LBP auto model

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A Comprehensive Survey on the Performance Analysis of Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSN) Routing Protocols

Author 1: Tariq Mahmood Author 2: Faheem Akhtar Author 3: Sher Daudpota Author 4: Khalil ur Rehman Author 5: Saqib Ali Author 6: Fawaz Mahiuob Mokbal

The probe of innovative technologies is a furious issue of the day for the improvement of underwater wireless sensor network devices. The undersea is a remarkable and mystical region which is still unexplored and inaccessible on earth. Interest has been increasing in monitoring the medium of underwater for oceanographic data… Read full abstract & cite →

Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSN) routing protocols end-to-end delay energy consumptions

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A Novel Framework for Drug Synergy Prediction using Differential Evolution based Multinomial Random Forest

Author 1: Jaspreet Kaur Author 2: Dilbag Singh Author 3: Manjit Kaur

An efficient prediction of drug synergy plays a significant role in the medical domain. Examination of different drug-drug interaction can be achieved by considering the drug synergy score. With an rapid increase in cancer disease, it becomes difficult for doctors to predict significant amount of drug synergy. Because each cancer… Read full abstract & cite →

Machine learning random forest drug synergy

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Intruder Attacks on Wireless Sensor Networks: A Soft Decision and Prevention Mechanism

Author 1: Iftikhar Hussain Author 2: Samman Zahra Author 3: Abrar Hussain Author 4: Hayat Dino Bedru Author 5: Shahzad Haider Author 6: Diana Gumzhacheva

Because of the wide-ranging of applications in a variety of fields, such as medicine, environmental studies, robotics, warfare and security, and so forth, the research on wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has attracted much attention recently. WSNs offer economical, flexible, scalable and pragmatic solutions in many situations. Sensor nodes are tiny… Read full abstract & cite →

MAC protocols S-MAC wireless sensor networks intrusion detection

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Deep Learning Approaches for Data Augmentation and Classification of Breast Masses using Ultrasound Images

Author 1: Walid Al-Dhabyani Author 2: Mohammed Gomaa Author 3: Hussien Khaled Author 4: Aly Fahmy

Breast classification and detection using ultrasound imaging is considered a significant step in computer-aided diagno-sis systems. Over the previous decades, researchers have proved the opportunities to automate the initial tumor classification and detection. The shortage of popular datasets of ultrasound images of breast cancer prevents researchers from obtaining a good… Read full abstract & cite →

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) Convolu-tional Neural Network (CNN) deep learning breast cancer Trans-fer Learning (TL) data augmentation ultrasound (US) imaging cancer diagnosis

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Feature Fusion for Negation Scope Detection in Sentiment Analysis: Comprehensive Analysis over Social Media

Author 1: Nikhil Kumar Singh Author 2: Deepak Singh Tomar

Negation control for sentiment analysis is essential and effective decision support system. Negation control include identification of negation cues, scope of negation and their influence within it. Negation can either shift or change the polarity score of opinionated word. This paper present a framework for feature fusion of text feature… Read full abstract & cite →

Sentiment analysis feature fusion negation cues scope detection conjunction analysis punctuation mark gram-matical dependency tree Navies Bayes linear regression random forest SVM

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Use of Blockchain in Healthcare: A Systematic Literature Review

Author 1: Sobia Yaqoob Author 2: Muhammad Murad Khan Author 3: Ramzan Talib Author 4: Arslan Dawood Butt Author 5: Sohaib Saleem Author 6: Fatima Arif Author 7: Amna Nadeem

Blockchain is an emerging field which works on the concept of a digitally distributed ledger and consensus algorithm removing all the threats of intermediaries. Its early applications were related to the finance sector but now this concept has been extended to almost all the major areas of research includ-ing education… Read full abstract & cite →

Issues healthcare blockchain systematic review

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Deep Gated Recurrent and Convolutional Network Hybrid Model for Univariate Time Series Classification

Author 1: Nelly Elsayed Author 2: Anthony S Maida Author 3: Magdy Bayoumi

Hybrid LSTM-fully convolutional networks (LSTM-FCN) for time series classification have produced state-of-the-art classification results on univariate time series. We empirically show that replacing the LSTM with a gated recurrent unit (GRU) to create a GRU-fully convolutional network hybrid model (GRU-FCN) can offer even better performance on many time series datasets… Read full abstract & cite →

GRU-FCN LSTM fully convolutional neural net-work time series classification

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Impact Study and Evaluation of Higher Modulation Schemes on Physical Layer of Upcoming Wireless Mobile Networks

Author 1: Heba Haboobi Author 2: Mohammad R Kadhum

In this paper, the higher modulation formats (128 and 256) Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM), for mod-ulation/demodulation the digital signal of the currently used Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system, is proposed, explored and evaluated at a wireless transmission system. The proposed modulation schemes are utilized to study the impact of… Read full abstract & cite →

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) Bit Error Rate (BER) Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) Bandwidth (BW) Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) Rayleigh noise physical layer (PHY)

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Assuring Non-fraudulent Transactions in Cash on Delivery by Introducing Double Smart Contracts

Author 1: Ngoc Tien Thanh Le Author 2: Quoc Nghiep Nguyen Author 3: Nguyen Ngoc Phien Author 4: Nghia Duong-Trung Author 5: Thai Tam Huynh Author 6: The Phuc Nguyen Author 7: Ha Xuan Son

The adoption of decentralized cryptocurrency plat-forms is growing fast, thanks to the implementation of Blockchain technology and smart contracts. It encourages the novel frame-works in a wide range of applications including finance and payment methods such as cash on delivery. However, a large number of smart contracts developed for cash… Read full abstract & cite →

Cash on Delivery (COD) Blockchain smart con-tract Ethereum e-commerce online payment

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Use of Blockchain in Governance: A Systematic Literature Review

Author 1: Asad Razzaq Author 2: Muhammad Murad Khan Author 3: Ramzan Talib Author 4: Arslan Dawood Butt Author 5: Noman Hanif Author 6: Sultan Afzal Author 7: Muhammad Razeen Raouf

Blockchain is a distributed network based ledger that is secured by the methods of cryptographic proof. It enables the creation of self-executable digital contracts i.e. smart contracts. This technology is working in collaboration with major areas of research including governance, IoT, health, banking and education. It has anticipated revolutionary ways… Read full abstract & cite →

Blockchain governance voting security privacy

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Swarm Robotics and Rapidly Exploring Random Graph Algorithms Applied to Environment Exploration and Path Planning

Author 1: Cindy Calderon-Arce Author 2: Rebeca Solis-Ortega

We propose an efficient scheme based on a swarm robotics approach for exploring unknown environments. The initial goal is to trace a map which is later used to find optimal paths. The algorithm minimizes distance and danger. The proposed scheme consists in three phases: exploration, mapping and path optimization. A… Read full abstract & cite →

Swarm robotics cellular automata path planning Rapidly-exploring Random Graph (RRG) scalarized multiobjective optimization

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Social Media Cyberbullying Detection using Machine Learning

Author 1: John Hani Author 2: Mohamed Nashaat Author 3: Mostafa Ahmed Author 4: Zeyad Emad Author 5: Eslam Amer Author 6: Ammar Mohammed

With the exponential increase of social media users, cyberbullying has been emerged as a form of bullying through electronic messages. Social networks provides a rich environment for bullies to uses these networks as vulnerable to attacks against victims. Given the consequences of cyberbullying on victims, it is necessary to find… Read full abstract & cite →

Cyberbullying machine learning neural network

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A Blockchain-based Value Added Tax (VAT) System: Saudi Arabia as a Use-Case

Author 1: Ahmad Alkhodre Author 2: Toqeer Ali Author 3: Salman Jan Author 4: Yazed Alsaawy Author 5: Shah Khusro Author 6: Muhammad Yasar

Businesses need trust to confidently perform trade among each other. Centralized business models are the only mature solutions available to perform trades over the Internet. However, they have many problems which includes but are not limited to the fact that these create bottleneck on the server as well as requires… Read full abstract & cite →

VAT hyperledger blockchain consensus decen-tralized network

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Navigation Application with Safety Features

Author 1: Andrew Usama Author 2: Moustafa Waly Author 3: Habiba Elwany Author 4: Mohamed H. ElGazzar Author 5: Monica Medhat Author 6: Youssef Mobarak

In 2017, the number of car accidents that occurred was astronomically high, even though, infrastructural road sys-tems are being continuously built and renewed to make it more efficient. But a significant problem which still remains is that a staggering number of accidents is exactly what should be avoided. In order… Read full abstract & cite →

Traffic safety navigation systems neural networks

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Value-Driven use Cases Triage for Embedded Systems: A Case Study of Cellular Phone

Author 1: Neunghoe Kim Author 2: Younkyu Lee Author 3: Vijayan Sugumaran Author 4: Soojin Park

A well-defined and prioritized set of use cases enables the enhancement of an entire system by focusing on more important use cases identified in the previous iteration. These use cases are given more opportunities to be refined and tested. Until now, use case prioritization has been done from a user… Read full abstract & cite →

Value-based software engineering use case triage embedded system cost-benefit analysis

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