IJACSA Vol. 8 Issue 5 (2017)

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Ranking XP Prioritization Methods based on the ANP

Author 1: Abdulmajeed Aljuhani Author 2: Luigi Benedicenti Author 3: Sultan Alshehri

The analytic network process (ANP) is considered one of the most powerful tools to facilitate decision-making in complex environments. The ANP allows decision makers to structure their problems mathematically using a series of simple binary comparisons. Research suggests that ANP can be useful in software development, where complicated decisions are… Read full abstract & cite →

analytic network process extreme programming planning game prioritization techniques user stories

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Scalable Service for Predictive Learning based on the Professional Social Networking Sites

Author 1: Evgeny Nikulchev Author 2: Dmitry Ilin Author 3: Gregory Bubnov Author 4: Egor Mateshuk

Professional social networking sites are widely used as a tool for obtaining specific information such as technology trends and professional skills demand. The article is aimed to consider the evolution of services for professional communities through integration of analysis of the patent activity, analysis of the academic research activity and… Read full abstract & cite →

Online social networks Social networking sites Technology life cycle Predictive learning Patent activity analysis Professional skills Topic detection LinkedIn ResearchGate

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The Novelty of A-Web based Adaptive Data-Driven Networks (DDN) Management & Cooperative Communities on the Internet Technology

Author 1: Muhammad Tahir Author 2: MingChu Li Author 3: Arsalan Ali Shaikh Author 4: Muhammad Aamir

Nowadays, the area of adaptive data science of all data-driven properties on the Internet remains generally envision through integrated web entity maintenance. In this connection, several clients can collaborate with web server then collapse all data resources. However, the ideal client/server model tolerates after approximate edge produced via design all… Read full abstract & cite →

Adaptive Data-driven Management A-Web Editor Community Graphs Internet Technology Logically Connection Links Vertical & Horizontal Networks Communities

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Mode-Scheduling Steering Law of VSCMGs for Multi-Target Pointing and Agile Maneuver of a Spacecraft

Author 1: Yasuyuki Nanamori Author 2: Masaki Takahashi

This study proposes a method of selecting a set of gimbal angles in the final state and applies the method to the mode-scheduling steering law of variable-speed control moment gyros intended for multi-target pointing manoeuvres in the three-axis attitude control of a spacecraft. The proposed method selects reference final gimbal… Read full abstract & cite →

Variable-Speed Control Moment Gyros Attitude Control Singularity Steering Law Spacecraft

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Comparative Analysis of Various Methods Treatment Expert Assessments

Author 1: Georgi Popov Author 2: Shamil Magomedov

The paper deals with the problem of choosing the most effective methods of processing expert information if there are several results of expert evaluation on the problem. The problem of levelling expert assessments, which differ much from the other set of estimates, is considered. Ratios for the weighting factors of… Read full abstract & cite →

Treatment Linguistic variables Information processing Evaluation procedures

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Sperm Motility Algorithm for Solving Fractional Programming Problems under Uncertainty

Author 1: Osama Abdel Raouf Author 2: Bayoumi M. Ali Hassan Author 3: Ibrahim M. Hezam

This paper investigated solving Fractional Programming Problems under Uncertainty (FPPU) using Sperm Motility Algorithm. Sperm Motility Algorithm (SMA) is a novel metaheuristic algorithm inspired by fertilization process in human, was proposed for solving optimization problems by Osama and Hezam [1]. The uncertainty in the Fractional Programming Problem (FPP) could be… Read full abstract & cite →

Sperm Motility Algorithm Fractional Programming Uncertainty Fuzzy Programming Monte Carlo Method

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SHPIS: A Database of Medicinal Plants from Saudi Arabia

Author 1: Asif Hassan Syed Author 2: Tabrej khan

Many studies in the past have revealed the use of the indigenous medicinal plant for the treatment of various diseases in Saudi Arabia. However, the details of these indigenous essential medicinal herbs and their therapeutic implication against various human and animals diseases are not well documented and organised in a… Read full abstract & cite →

Saudi Medicinal Plants Saudi Herbal Plant Information System MySQL Relational Database Management System Hypertext Pre-processor Web Portal

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Implementation of Failure Enterprise Systems in Organizational Perspective Framework

Author 1: Soobia Saeed Author 2: Asadullah Shaikh Author 3: Muhammad Ali Memon Author 4: Majid Hussain Memon Author 5: Faheem Ahmed Abassi Author 6: Syed Mehmood R Naqvi

Failure percentage of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation projects stay high, even following quite a while of endeavours to diminish them. In this paper, the author proposes the exact exploration that plans to decrease the failure percentage of ERP projects. Nonetheless, most endeavours to enhance project achievement have concentrated on… Read full abstract & cite →

VDCL ERP Implementation projects failure

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Web Security: Detection of Cross Site Scripting in PHP Web Application using Genetic Algorithm

Author 1: Abdalla Wasef Marashdih Author 2: Zarul Fitri Zaaba Author 3: Herman Khalid Omer

Cross site scripting (XSS) is one of the major threats to the web application security, where the research is still underway for an effective and useful way to analyse the source code of web application and removes this threat. XSS occurs by injecting the malicious scripts into web application and… Read full abstract & cite →

Web Application Security Security Vulnerability Web Testing Cross Site Scripting Genetic Algorithm

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A Study on the Effect of Learning Strategy using a Highlighter Pen on Gaze Movement

Author 1: Hiroki Nishimura Author 2: Noriaki Kuwahara

In this study, we propose a learning strategy using a highlighter pen to improve the learning efficiency of learners. This method makes the important information stand out by colouring text. It is known that highlighting important points of sentence problems with a highlighter pen improves the speed of answers and… Read full abstract & cite →

Highlighter pen Learning strategy Eye movement

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Research Advancements Towards in Existing Smart Metering over Smart Grid

Author 1: Abdul Khadar A Author 2: Javed Ahamed Khan Author 3: M S Nagaraj

The advent of smart meters has automated the entire process of billing generation system over commercial energy usage which was previously done using digital meter. Although western countries practice its usage more, it is still unknown to many developing countries along with its power distribution. Hence, this paper reviews the… Read full abstract & cite →

Digital Meter Energy Power Distribution Performance Privacy Smart Meter Smart Grid

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RKE-CP: Response-based Knowledge Extraction from Collaborative Platform of Text-based Communication

Author 1: Jalaja G Author 2: Kavitha C

With the generation of massive amount of product-centric responses from existing applications on collaborative platform, it is necessary to perform a discrete analytical operation on it. As majority of such responses are textual in nature, it increases the applicability of using text mining approaches on it. We review the existing… Read full abstract & cite →

Text Mining Collaborative Platform Probability Theory Heterogeneous Domain Precision /Recall

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Neural Network Classification of White Blood Cell using Microscopic Images

Author 1: Mazin Z. Othman Author 2: Thabit S. Mohammed Author 3: Alaa B. Ali

With the technological advances in medical field, the need for faster and more accurate analysis tools becomes essential for better patients’ diagnosis. In this work, the image recognition problem of white blood cells (WBC) is investigated. Five types of white blood cells are classified using a feed forward back propagation… Read full abstract & cite →

White Blood Cell Neural networks Image analysis Leukocytes Lymphocyte Feature extraction

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An Early Phase Software Project Risk Assessment Support Method for Emergent Software Organizations

Author 1: Sahand Vahidnia Author 2: Ömer Özgür Tanriöver Author 3: I.N. Askerzade

Risk identification and assessment are amongst critical activities in software project management. However, identifying and assessing risks and uncertainties is a challenging process especially for emergent software organizations that lack resources. The research aims to introduce a method and a prototype tool to assist software development practitioners and teams with… Read full abstract & cite →

Software Risk Identification Software Risk Assessment Failure Mode Prediction Fuzzy Decision Support

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Resources Management of High Speed Downlink Packet Access Network in the Presence of Mobility

Author 1: Abdulaleem Ali Almazroi

High-Speed Downlink Protocol Access (HSDPA) is a mobile telephony protocol. It is designed to increase data capacity and transfer rate. This paper presents a resource allocation strategy in the HSDPA broadband network. An admission check is proposed. It divides the coverage area of a base station (Node-B) into several regions… Read full abstract & cite →

HSDPA Network Admission Control Performance Evaluation Mobility

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Detection of Scaled Region Duplication Image Forgery using Color based Segmentation with LSB Signature

Author 1: Dr. Diaa Mohammed Uliyan Author 2: Dr. Mohammed A. F. Al-Husainy

Due to the availability of powerful image editing softwares, forgers can tamper the image content easily. There are various types of image forgery, such as image splicing and region duplication forgery. Region duplication is one of the most common manipulations used for tampering digital images. It is vital in image… Read full abstract & cite →

Digital image forensics Region duplication Forgery detection Image authentication

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Investigation of Critical Factors that Perturb Business-IT Alignment in Organizations

Author 1: Muhammad Asif Khan

Business executives around the globe have recognised the significance of information technology (IT) and started adopting IT in their business processes. Firms always invest in adopting latest technologies in order to comply with the customer requirements despite of heavy investment companies are unable to avail optimum benefits from the underpinning… Read full abstract & cite →

Alignment Business-it gap Organizational factors Strategic alignment Critical factors

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Fuzzy Pi Adaptive Learning Controller for Controlling the Angle of Attack of an Aircraft

Author 1: Srinibash Swain Author 2: Partha Sarathi Khuntia

In this paper, a Fuzzy PI Adaptive Learning controller is proposed for a flight control system to control the angle of attack of an aircraft. The proposed controller tracks the reference angle as desired by the pilot of the aircraft. The performance indices are evaluated and the corresponding value is… Read full abstract & cite →

Angle of Attack Interpolation Rule Performance Indices Fuzzy PI Adaptive Learning Controller

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Performance Comparison of Protocols Combination based on EIGRP and OSPF for Real-Time Applications in Enterprise Networks

Author 1: Dounia EL IDRISSI Author 2: Najib ELKAMOUN Author 3: Fatima LAKRAMI Author 4: Rachid HILAL

This work studies the impact of redistribution on network performance compared with the use of a single routing protocol. A real network with real traffic parameters is simulated, in order to investigate a real deployment case, and then being able to extract precise results and practical conclusions. This work demonstrates… Read full abstract & cite →

Routing protocols EIGRP OSPF Redistribution QoS Opnet

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Association between JPL Coding Standard Violations and Software Faults: An Exploratory Study

Author 1: Bashar Q. Ahmed Author 2: Mahmoud O. Elish

Since the software community has realised the importance of adopting coding standards during the development process for improved software quality, many coding standards have been proposed and used during the software development. The main objective of this paper is to explore the association between Java Programming Language (JPL) coding standard… Read full abstract & cite →

Coding standard Software faults Software quality Exploratory study

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A Survey on Content-based Image Retrieval

Author 1: Mohamed Maher Ben Ismail

The widespread of smart devices along with the exponential growth of virtual societies yield big digital image databases. These databases can be counter-productive if they are not coupled with efficient Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) tools. The last decade has witnessed the introduction of promising CBIR systems and promoted applications in… Read full abstract & cite →

Image retrieval Content-based image retrieval Supervised learning Unsupervised learning

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A Mixed Method Study for Investigating Critical Success Factors (CSFs) of E-Learning in Saudi Arabian Universities

Author 1: Quadri Noorulhasan Naveed Author 2: AbdulHafeez Muhammad Author 3: Sumaya Sanober Author 4: Mohamed Rafik N. Qureshi Author 5: Asadullah Shah

Electronic Learning (E-Learning) in the education system has become the obvious choice of the community over the globe because of its numerous advantages. The main aim of the present study is to identify Critical Success Factors (CSFs) and validate them for successful implementation of the E-Leaning at Saudi Arabian Universities… Read full abstract & cite →

Critical Success Factors (CSFs) Content Reliability and Collected Mean E-Learning Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Quantitative Analysis

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Optimizing Coverage of Churn Prediction in Telecommunication Industry

Author 1: Adnan Anjum Author 2: Saeeda Usman Author 3: Adnan Zeb Author 4: Imran Uddin Afridi Author 5: Pir Masoom Shah Author 6: Zahid Anwar Author 7: Adeel Anjum Author 8: Basit Raza Author 9: Ahmad Kamran Malik Author 10: Saif Ur Rehman Malik

Companies are investing more in analytics to obtain a competitive edge in the market and decision makers are required better identification among their data to be able to interpret complex patterns more easily. Alluring thousands of new customers is worthless if an equal number is leaving. Business Intelligence (BI) systems… Read full abstract & cite →

Telco Churn Prediction Business Intelligence Business Support Systems Operations Support Systems E-Churn Model (Ensembling Churn Model)

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A Genetic Programming based Algorithm for Predicting Exchanges in Electronic Trade using Social Networks’ Data

Author 1: Shokooh Sheikh Abooli Poor Author 2: Mohammad Ebrahim Shiri

Purpose of this paper is to use Facebook dataset for predicting Exchanges in Electronic business. For this purpose, first a dataset is collected from Facebook users and this dataset is divided into two training and test datasets. First, an advertisement post is sent for training data users and feedback from… Read full abstract & cite →

Electronic business Social networks prediction machine learning genetic programming Facebook network

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Addressing the Future Data Management Challenges in IoT: A Proposed Framework

Author 1: Mohammad Asad Abbasi Author 2: Zulfiqar A. Memon Author 3: Tahir Q. Syed Author 4: Jamshed Memon Author 5: Rabah Alshboul

Internet of Thing (IoT) has been attracting the interest of researchers in recent years. Traditionally, only handful types of devices had the capability to be connected to internet/intranet, but due to the latest developments in RFID, NFC, smart sensors and communication protocols billions of heterogeneous devices are being connected each… Read full abstract & cite →

IoT Data Management Cloud Computing Big Data Smart Devices Interoperability Privacy Trust

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Sustainable Green SLA (GSLA) Validation using Bayesian Network Model

Author 1: Iqbal Ahmed Author 2: Hiroshi Okumura Author 3: Kohei Arai Author 4: Osamu Fukuda

Currently, most of the IT (Information Technology) and ICT (Information and Communication Technology) industries/companies provides their various services/product at a different level of customers/users through newly developed sustainable GSLA (Green Service Level Agreement). In addition, all these industries also designed new green services at their scope by using global sustainable… Read full abstract & cite →

GSLA Sustainability GSLA informational model Bayesian Network

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Intelligent Watermarking Scheme for image Authentication and Recovery

Author 1: Rafi Ullah Author 2: Hani Ali Alquhayz

Recently, researchers have proposed semi-fragile watermarking techniques with the additional capability of image recovery. However, these approaches have certain limitations with respect to capacity, imperceptibility, and robustness. In this paper, we are proposing two independent watermarks, one for image recovery and the other for authentication. The first watermark (image digest)… Read full abstract & cite →

Watermarking Genetic Programming (GP) Authentication Quantisation and Recovery

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Digital Image Security: Fusion of Encryption, Steganography and Watermarking

Author 1: Mirza Abdur Razzaq Author 2: Riaz Ahmed Shaikh Author 3: Mirza Adnan Baig Author 4: Ashfaque Ahmed Memon

Digital images are widely communicated over the internet. The security of digital images is an essential and challenging task on shared communication channel. Various techniques are used to secure the digital image, such as encryption, steganography and watermarking. These are the methods for the security of digital images to achieve… Read full abstract & cite →

Image security Encryption Steganography Watermarking

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Corpus for Test, Compare and Enhance Arabic Root Extraction Algorithms

Author 1: Nisrean Thalji Author 2: Nik Adilah Hanin Author 3: Yasmin Yacob Author 4: Sohair Al-Hakeem

Many studies have focused recently on building, evaluating and comparing Arabic root extracting algorithm. The main challenges facing root extraction algorithms are the absence of standard data set for testing, comparing and enhancing different Arabic root extraction algorithms. In addition, the absence of complete lists of roots prefixes suffixes and… Read full abstract & cite →

Arabic root extraction algorithm corpus pattern prefix suffix root

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Fault Attacks Resistant Architecture for KECCAK Hash Function

Author 1: Fatma Kahri Author 2: Hassen Mestiri Author 3: Belgacem Bouallegue Author 4: Mohsen Machhout

The KECCAK cryptographic algorithms widely used in embedded circuits to ensure a high level of security to any systems which require hashing as the integrity checking and random number generation. One of the most efficient cryptanalysis techniques against KECCAK implementation is the fault injection attacks. Until now, only a few… Read full abstract & cite →

Cryptographic KECCAK SHA-3 Fault detection Embedded systems FPGA implementation

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Design and Simulation of Robust Controllers for Power Electronic Converters used in New Energy Architecture for a (PVG)/ (WTG) Hybrid System

Author 1: Mohamed Akram JABALLAH Author 2: Dhafer MEZGHANI Author 3: Abdelkader MAMI

The use of the combination of photovoltaic energy source and the wind energy source as a hybrid configuration has become an alternative solution to produce power energy to fed industrial and domestic applications. In order to fully exploit the energy provided by both sources and ensure a very high efficiency… Read full abstract & cite →

(PVG)/(WTG) Hybrid system (MPPTSMC) (MPPTCC) Wind turbine generator (WTG) Photovoltaic generator (PVG)

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A Compendious Study of Online Payment Systems: Past Developments, Present Impact, and Future Considerations

Author 1: Burhan Ul Islam Khan Author 2: Rashidah F. Olanrewaju Author 3: Asifa Mehraj Baba Author 4: Adil Ahmad Langoo Author 5: Shahul Assad

The advent of e-commerce together with the growth of the Internet promoted the digitisation of the payment process with the provision of various online payment methods like electronic cash, debit cards, credit cards, contactless payment, mobile wallets, etc. Besides, the services provided by mobile payment are gaining popularity day-by-day and… Read full abstract & cite →

E-Commerce Online payment system Online payment developments Payment gateway Online payment challenges

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Gamified Incentives: A Badge Recommendation Model to Improve User Engagement in Social Networking Websites

Author 1: Reza Gharibi Author 2: Mohammad Malekzadeh

The online social communities employ several techniques to attract more users to their services. One of the essential demand of these communities is to find efficient ways to attract more users and improve their engagement. For this reason, social media sites typically take advantage of gamification systems to improve users’… Read full abstract & cite →

Social Media Data Mining Gamification Algorithms User Engagement Recommendation Systems

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A Novel Edge Cover based Graph Coloring Algorithm

Author 1: Harish Patidar Author 2: Dr. Prasun Chakrabarti

Graph Colouring Problem is a well-known NP-Hard problem. In Graph Colouring Problem (GCP) all vertices of any graph must be coloured in such a way that no two adjacent vertices are coloured with the same colour. In this paper, a new algorithm is proposed to solve the GCP. Proposed algorithm… Read full abstract & cite →

Graph Colouring Problem Edge Cover Independent Set NP-Hard Problem

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Effect of Threshold Values Used for Road Segments Detection in SAR Images on Road Network Generation

Author 1: Safak Altay Açar Author 2: Safak Bayir

In this study, the effect of threshold values used for road segments detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of road network generation is examined. A three-phase method is applied as follows: image smoothing, road segments detection and irrelevant segments removal. Threshold values used in road segment detection phase are… Read full abstract & cite →

road detection synthetic aperture radar

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Forecasting Production Values using Fuzzy Logic Interval based Partitioning in Different Intervals

Author 1: Shubham Aggarwal Author 2: Jatin Sokhal Author 3: Bindu Garg

Fuzzy time series models have been put forward for rice production from many researchers around the globe, but the prediction has not been very accurate. Frequency density or ratio based partitioning methods have been used to represent the partition of discourse. We observed that various prediction models used 7th interval… Read full abstract & cite →

Mean Square Error Fuzzy time series Average Forecast Error Rate

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An RTOS-based Fault Injection Simulator for Embedded Processors

Author 1: Nejmeddine ALIMI Author 2: Younes LAHBIB Author 3: Mohsen MACHHOUT Author 4: Rached TOURKI

Evaluating embedded systems vulnerability to faults injection attacks has gained importance in recent years due to the rising threats they bring to chips security. The task is particularly important for micro-controllers since they have lower resistance to fault attacks compared to hardware-based cryptosystems. This paper reviews recent embedded fault injection… Read full abstract & cite →

Cryptography DFA Fault Injection Simulator RTOS ARM Microcontroller MATLAB

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The Performance of Individual and Ensemble Classifiers for an Arabic Sign Language Recognition System

Author 1: Miada A. Almasre Author 2: Hana Al-Nuaim

The objective of this paper is to compare different classifiers’ recognition accuracy for the 28 Arabic alphabet letters gestured by participants as Sign Language and captured by two depth sensors. The accuracy results of three individual classifiers: (1) the support vector machine (SVM), (2) random forest (RF), and (3) nearest… Read full abstract & cite →

Ensemble Stacking Support vector machine SVM Random forest RF Nearest neighbour kNN ArSL recognition system Depth sensors

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Software Quality and Productivity Model for Small and Medium Enterprises

Author 1: Jamaiah H. Yahaya Author 2: Asadullah Tareen Author 3: Aziz Deraman Author 4: Abdul Razak Hamdan

The enterprises today including small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are dependent on software to accomplish their objectives and maintain survivability and sustainability in their businesses. Although many studies in software quality have been carried out previously, they still lack for the correlation between software quality and the impact to SMEs… Read full abstract & cite →

Software Quality Small and Medium Enterprise SME Productivity Software Quality and Productivity Model

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Hybrid Texture based Classification of Breast Mammograms using Adaboost Classifier

Author 1: M. Arfan Jaffar

Breast cancer is one of the most dangerous, leading and widespread cancers in the world especially in women. For breast analysis, digital mammography is the most suitable tool used to take mammograms for detection of cancer. It has been proved in the literature that if it can be detected at… Read full abstract & cite →

Features Segmentation Breast mammograms Classification Texture

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Fuzzy Ontology based Approach for Flexible Association Rules Mining

Author 1: Alsayed M. H. Moawad Author 2: Ahmed M. Gadallah Author 3: Mohamed H. Kholief

Data mining is used for extracting related data. The association rules approach is one of the used methods for analyzing, discovering and extracting knowledge and mining the relationships among raw data. Commonly, it is important to understand and discover such knowledge directly from huge records of items stored in a… Read full abstract & cite →

Fuzzy Ontology Crisp Ontology Data Mining Fuzzy Association Rule

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Study of Hybrid Autonomous Power System Modelling Via Multi-Agents Strategy

Author 1: NASRI Sihem Author 2: BEN SLAMA Sami Author 3: ZAFAR Bassam Author 4: CHERIF Adnan

In this paper, a design of a Hybrid autonomous Power System is proposed and detailed. The studied system integrates several components as solar energy source, Energy Recovery system based on a proton membrane exchange fuel cell system and two energy storage components, namely, (1) Energy Storage based on H2 gas… Read full abstract & cite →

Solar Source Energy Recovery Hydogen Energy Storage Ultra-capacitor Multi-agent Energy Management

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A Novel Big Data Storage Model for Protein-Protein Interaction and Gene-Protein Associations

Author 1: M. Atif Sarwar Author 2: Hira Yaseen Author 3: Javed Ferzund Author 4: Hina Farooq Author 5: Azka Mahmood

NGS (Next Generation Sequencing) technology has resulted in huge amount of proteomics data that exists in the form of interactions (protein-protein, gene-protein, and gene-disease). ETL (Extraction, Transformation, and Loading) techniques are very useful for Databases. Existing Rational Databases are not unified and having SQL (Structured Query Language). Proteomics data requires… Read full abstract & cite →

Hadoop HBase Big Data Apache Drill Protein-Protein Interaction Gene-Protein Association Gene-Disease Associations

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A Novel Security Scheme based on Twofish and Discrete Wavelet Transform

Author 1: Mohammad S. Saraireh

Nowadays, there is a huge amount of data exchanged between different users; the security of the exchanged data has become a significant problem due to the existing of several security attacks. So, to increase the confidence of users several security techniques can be used together to enhance the level of… Read full abstract & cite →

Cryptography Twofish DWT Histogram PSTN Steganography

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Awareness Survey of Anonymisation of Protected Health Information in Pakistan

Author 1: Muhammad Usman Shahid Author 2: Saman Hina Author 3: Waqas Mahmood Author 4: Hamda Usman

With the growing advancement of science and technology, research has become the vital step in every educational field. This research survey sheds light on the methods of de-identification and anonymisation for protecting the privacy of the patients, practitioners and nurses. Researchers require huge amounts of patient data for carrying out… Read full abstract & cite →

Anonymisation De-Identification Protected health information Patient data

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Designing Novel Queries for Analysing NoSQL Data of Gene-Disease Associations

Author 1: Hira Yaseen Author 2: Muhammad Atif Sarwar Author 3: Javed Ferzund

To precisely identify gene associated diseases has been an open area of research for biological scientists to ensure clinical and psychological symptoms and treatment for human diseases. Because whole Human Genome is defined now it is the next step to find all necessary possible factors from such a complex data… Read full abstract & cite →

Cypher queries NoSQL data model Gene-disease associations Causative factors Drugs/treatment

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Context-Aware Mobile Application Task Offloading to the Cloud

Author 1: Hanan Elazhary Author 2: Saja Aloraini Author 3: Roa’a Aljuraid

One of the benefits of mobile cloud computing is the ability to offload mobile applications to the cloud for many reasons including performance enhancement and reduced resource consumption. This paper is concerned with offloading of context-aware mobile applications, in which actions or tasks are executed in certain contexts and offloading… Read full abstract & cite →

Application offloading Context awareness Distributed systems Mobile application Mobile cloud computing

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NFC Technology for Contactless Payment Echosystems

Author 1: EL Hillali Wadii Author 2: Jaouad Boutahar Author 3: Souhail EL Ghazi

Since the earliest ages, the human being has not ceased to develop its system of exchange of goods. The first system introduced is barter, it has evolved over time into currency by taking various forms (shells, teeth, feathers, etc.). The evolution of micro-electronics has favoured the appearance of a new… Read full abstract & cite →

NFC Secure Element SIM-Centric HCE Tockenisation MPayment Mticketing

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A Conflict Resolution Strategy Selection Method (ConfRSSM) in Multi-Agent Systems

Author 1: Alicia Y.C. Tang Author 2: Ghusoon Salim Basheer

Selecting a suitable conflict resolution strategy when conflicts appear in multi-agent environments is a hard problem. There is a need to formulate a model for strategic decision making in selecting a strategy to resolve conflicts. In this paper, we formalise a model for selecting a conflict resolution strategy in multi-agent… Read full abstract & cite →

Conflict resolution Confidence level Multi-agent system Strategy selection method

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Comparative Study of Bayesian and Energy Detection Including MRC Under Fading Environment in Collaborative Cognitive Radio Network

Author 1: Shakila Zaman Author 2: Risala Tasin Khan Author 3: Md. Imdadul Islam

The most important component of Cognitive Radio Network (CRN) is to sense the underutilised spectrum efficiently in fading environment for incorporating the increasing demand of wireless applications. The result of spectrum sensing can be affected by incorrect detection of the existence of Primary User (PU). In this paper, we have… Read full abstract & cite →

Maximal Ratio Combining Collaborative spectrum sensing Fading and Shadowing Data fusion centre Receiver operating characteristics False alarm rate

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Using PCA and Factor Analysis for Dimensionality Reduction of Bio-informatics Data

Author 1: M. Usman Ali Author 2: Shahzad Ahmed Author 3: Javed Ferzund Author 4: Atif Mehmood Author 5: Abbas Rehman

Large volume of Genomics data is produced on daily basis due to the advancement in sequencing technology. This data is of no value if it is not properly analysed. Different kinds of analytics are required to extract useful information from this raw data. Classification, Prediction, Clustering and Pattern Extraction are… Read full abstract & cite →

Bioinformatics Statistics Microarray Leukaemia Feature Selection Statistical tests PCA Factor Analysis R tool

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SaaS Level based Middleware Database Integrator Platform

Author 1: Sanjkta Pal

In purpose of data searching acceleration, the fastest data response is the major concern for latest cloud environment. Regarding this, the intellectual decision is to enrich the SaaS level applications. Amongst the SaaS based applications, service level database integration is the recent trend to provide the integrated view of the… Read full abstract & cite →

Database integration Integrator platform Multi- Level graph Subset of vertices First class edge Concrete edge Connectivity edge

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Miniaturisation of a 2-Bits Reflection Phase Shifter for Phased Array Antenna based on Experimental Realisation

Author 1: Mariem Mabrouki Author 2: Bassem Jmai Author 3: Ridha ghayoula Author 4: Ali. Gharsallah

In this paper, a controllable reflection type Phase Shifter (PS) is designed, simulated and implemented. The structure of the 2-bits PS consists of branch line coupler, delay lines and six GaAs FET switches controlled in pair. The phase shifting is achieved by turning ON one pair of switches. The circuit… Read full abstract & cite →

Reflection type PS FET switch Branch line coupler Semiconductors technology

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Predictive Approach towards Software Effort Estimation using Evolutionary Support Vector Machine

Author 1: Tahira Mahboob Author 2: Sabheen Gull Author 3: Sidrish Ehsan Author 4: Bushra Sikandar

The project effort measurement is one of the most important estimates done in project management domain. This measure is done in advance using some traditional methods like Function Point analysis, Use case analysis, PERT analysis, Analogous, Poker, etc. Classical models have limitations that they are burdensome to implement, especially when… Read full abstract & cite →

Correlation coefficient Decision tree Effort Estimation Evolutionary Support Vector Machine Software project management

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A Lightweight Approach for Specification and Detection of SOAP Anti-Patterns

Author 1: Fatima Sabir Author 2: Ghulam Rasool Author 3: Maria Yousaf

Web-services have become a governing technology for Service Oriented Architectures due to reusability of services and their dependence on other services. The evolution in service based systems demands frequent changes to provide quality of service to customers. It is realised by different researchers that evolution in service based systems may… Read full abstract & cite →

SOAP web services Anti-patterns Bad smells SQL

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A Novel Reconfigurable MMIC Antenna with RF-MEMS Resonator for Radar Application at K and Ka Bands

Author 1: Bassem Jmai Author 2: Salem Gahgouh Author 3: Ali Gharsallah

This paper presents a new reconfigurable antenna based on coplanar waveguide (CPW). The design for reconfigurable antenna is based on monolithic microwave integrate circuit (MMIC). This scheme combines a CPW antenna and switchable resonator radio frequency micro-electro-mechanical system (RF-MEMS). The resonator RF-MEMS presents a meander inductor structure and tuning capacitor… Read full abstract & cite →

RF-MEMS CPW Bandwidth Meander Resonator Frequency reconfigurable antennas and MMIC

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A Bottom-up Approach for Visual Object Recognition on FPGA based Embedded Multiprocessor Architecture

Author 1: Hanen Chenini

This paper presents an object recognition approach of outdoor autonomous systems identifying the nature of the interested object when observing an image. Therefore, seeking for effective and robust recognition method, the proposed approach is performed using a novel saliency based feature detector/descriptor which is combined with an object classifier to… Read full abstract & cite →

Object recognition Saliency-based feature detector/ descriptor Object classifier Pipeline architecture Coarsegrained model

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Collaborative Routing Algorithm for Fault Tolerance in Network on Chip CRAFT NoC

Author 1: Chakib NEHNOUH Author 2: Mohamed SENOUCI Author 3: Abdelkader Chaib

Many fault tolerance techniques have been proposed in Network on Chip to cope with defects during fabrication or faults during product lifetime. Fault tolerance routing algorithm provide reliable mechanisms for continue delivering their services in spite of defective nodes due to the presence of permanent and/or transient faults throughout their… Read full abstract & cite →

Network on Chip Fault Tolerance Congestion Reliability Sub- network Routing Algorithm

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Designing Graphical Data Storage Model for Gene-Protein and Gene-Gene Interaction Networks

Author 1: Hina Farooq Author 2: Javed Ferzund Author 3: Azka Mahmood Author 4: Muhammad Atif Sarwar

Graph is an expressive way to represent dynamic and complex relationships in highly connected data. In today’s highly connected world, general purpose graph databases are providing opportunities to experience benefits of semantically significant networks without investing on the graph infrastructure. Examples of prominent graph databases are: Neo4j, Titan and OrientDB… Read full abstract & cite →

Big Data Graph Theory Graph Database Gene- Gene Interaction Protein-Protein Interaction Large Scale Biological Graphs Storage Model Neo4j

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Ensuring Data Provenance with Package Watermarking

Author 1: Muhammad Umer Sarwar Author 2: Muhammad Kashif Hanif Author 3: Ramzan Talib Author 4: Muhammad Asad Abbas

The last decade has shown tremendous growth data production from different sectors, e.g., biology, financial markets, scientific computing, business processes, Internet of Things. The “Data is New Oil” has become a proverb in academic and corporate circles. Accordingly, tracing, recording origin and deriving data called data provenance has gained tremendous… Read full abstract & cite →

Data security Provenance Watermarking Tempering Cryptography Encryption Decryption

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High Precision DCT CORDIC Architectures for Maximum PSNR

Author 1: Imen Ben Saad Author 2: Sonia Mami Author 3: Yassine Hachaichi Author 4: Younes Lahbib Author 5: Abdelkader Mami

This paper proposes two optimal Cordic Loeffler based DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform algorithm) architectures: a fast and low Power DCT architecture and a high PSNR DCT architecture. The rotation parameters of CORDIC angles required for these architectures have been calculated using a MATLAB script. This script allows the variation of… Read full abstract & cite →

Cordic Loeffler DCT high quality architecture low power architecture Image Processing DCT

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Modeling Smart Agriculture using SensorML

Author 1: Maha Arooj Author 2: Muhammad Asif Author 3: Syed Zeeshan Shah

IoT is transforming the physical world into a digital world by connecting people and things. This paper describes state of the art domains where IoT is playing a key role. Smart agriculture is selected as a case study of IoT application domain. OGC sensor web enablement framework is studied and… Read full abstract & cite →

Internet of Things Smart Agriculture Sensors SensorML OGC SWE Sensor Web

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Nonlinear Identification and Control of Coupled Mass-Spring-Damper System using Polynomial Structures

Author 1: Sana RANNEN Author 2: Chekib GHORBEL Author 3: Naceur BENHADJ BRAIEK

The paper aims to identify and control the coupled mass-spring-damper system. A nonlinear discrete polynomial structure is elaborated. Its parameters are estimated using Recursive Least Squares (RLS) algorithm. Moreover, a feedback stabilizing control law based on Kronecker power is designed. Finally, simulations are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the… Read full abstract & cite →

Identification RLS algorithm Polynomial structure Stabilizing control LQR

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Predictive Performance Comparison Analysis of Relational & NoSQL Graph Databases

Author 1: Wisal Khan Author 2: Ejaz ahmed Author 3: Waseem Shahzad

From last three decades, the relational databases are being used in many organizations of various natures such as Education, Health, Business and in many other applications. Traditional databases show tremendous performance and are designed to handle structured data with ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) property to manage data integrity. In… Read full abstract & cite →

Big Data Hadoop MapReduce Relational Databases NoSQL Databases Decision tree

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On the Probability of Detection Ability in Observing Dynamic Environmental Phenomena using Wireless Sensor Networks

Author 1: Omar Fouad Mohammed Author 2: Burairah Hussin Author 3: Abd Samad Hasan Basari

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is being utilised for several purposes in military and civil domains, including surveillance, monitoring, and management, where networked sensors monitor and detect an event of interest and report to the concerned party through the WSN or the Internet infrastructure. Due to the characteristics of WSN, there… Read full abstract & cite →

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) Environmental Monitoring Event Detection Event Localization Sensing Modelling

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SmileToPhone: A Mobile Phone System for Quadriplegic Users Controlled by EEG Signals

Author 1: Heyfa Ammar Author 2: Mounira Taileb

Quadriplegic people are unable to use mobile devices without the aid of other persons which can be devastating for them both socially and economically. This has motivated many researchers to propose hardware and software solutions that operate as intermediates between the impaired users and their devices: accessibility switches, joysticks and… Read full abstract & cite →

Quadriplegia EEG facial expression BCI system HCI

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Workplace Design and Employee’s Performance and Health in Software Industry of Pakistan

Author 1: Amna Riaz Author 2: Umar Shoaib Author 3: Muhammad Shahzad Sarfraz

Factors like colour, light, air quality, environmental conditions, and noise has a great effect on the Health and Performance of office employees. All these factors have the impact on employee’s performance and are the reasons to improve or reduce the level of employee’s working quality and health. The office design… Read full abstract & cite →

Ergonomics Office work design Employee’s health Employee’s performance User friendly design Accessibility

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Line of Sight Estimation Accuracy Improvement using Depth Image and Ellipsoidal Model of Cornea Curvature

Author 1: Kohei Arai Author 2: Kohya Iwamura

Line of sight estimation accuracy improvement is attempted using depth image (distance between user and display) and ellipsoidal model (shape of user’s eye) of cornea curvature. It is strongly required to improve line of sight estimation accuracy for perfect computer input by human eyes only. The conventional method for line… Read full abstract & cite →

Computer input just by sight Computer input by human eyes only Purkinje image Cornea curvature

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Modulation Components and Genetic Algorithm for Speaker Recognition System

Author 1: Tariq A. Hassan Author 2: Rihab I. Ajel Author 3: Eman K. Ibrahim

In this paper, the aim is to investigate weather or not that changing the filter-bank components (of the speaker recognition system) could improve the system performance in identifying the speaker. The filter is composed of 30 Gamatone filter channels. First, the channels are mel distributed of the frequency line. Then… Read full abstract & cite →

Computer Forensics Digital Signal Processing

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Establishing Standard Rules for Choosing Best KPIs for an E-Commerce Business based on Google Analytics and Machine Learning Technique

Author 1: Haris Ahmed Author 2: Dr. Tahseen Ahmed Jilani Author 3: Waleej Haider Author 4: Mohammad Asad Abbasi Author 5: Shardha Nand Author 6: Saher Kamran

The predictable values that indicate the performance of any company and determine that how well they are performing in order to achieve their objective is referred by the term called as “key performance indicators”. The key performance indicator techniques and other methods that are similar to KPI are usually implemented… Read full abstract & cite →

E-commerce KPI Google Analytics Machine Learning C4.5 Decision Tree Weka J48

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Compliance-Driven Architecture for Healthcare Industry

Author 1: Syeda Uzma Gardazi Author 2: Arshad Ali Shahid

The United States (US) healthcare organizations are continuously struggling to cope-up with evolving regulatory requirements e.g. Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001: 2015. These requirements are not only affecting the US healthcare industry but also other industries as well… Read full abstract & cite →

Compliance-driven architectural mechanisms ISO 9001:2015 ISO 27001:2013 HIPAA HITCH software architecture Logic-based Compliance Advisor (LCA) architectural evaluation

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