IJACSA Vol. 9 Issue 5 (2018)

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Cardiotocographic Diagnosis of Fetal Health based on Multiclass Morphologic Pattern Predictions using Deep Learning Classification

Author 1: Julia H. Miao Author 2: Kathleen H. Miao

Medical complications of pregnancy and pregnancy-related deaths continue to remain a major global challenge today. Internationally, about 830 maternal deaths occur every day due to pregnancy-related or childbirth-related complications. In fact, almost 99% of all maternal deaths occur in developing countries. In this research, an alternative and enhanced artificial intelligence… Read full abstract & cite →

Activation function deep learning deep neural network dropout ensemble learning multiclass regularization cardiotocography complications during pregnancy fetal heart rate

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090501 PDF

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Flow-Length Aware Cache Replacement Policy for Packet Processing Cache

Author 1: Hayato Yamaki

Recent core routers are required to process packets not only at high throughput but also with low power consumption due to the increase in the network traffic amount. Packet processing cache (PPC) is one of the effective approaches to meet the requirements. PPC enables to process a packet without accessing… Read full abstract & cite →

Router packet processing cache replacement

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090502 PDF

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Fuzzy Logic-Controlled 6-DOF Robotic Arm Color-based Sorter with Machine Vision Feedback

Author 1: Alexander C. Abad Author 2: Dino Dominic Ligutan Author 3: Elmer P. Dadios Author 4: Levin Jaeron S. Cruz Author 5: Michael Carlo D.P. Del Rosario Author 6: Jho Nathan Singh Kudhal

A demonstration of the application of fuzzy logic-based joint controller (FLJC) to a 6-DOF robotic arm as a color-based sorter system is presented in this study. The robotic arm with FLJC is integrated with a machine vision system that can discriminate different colors. Additionally, the machine vision system composed of… Read full abstract & cite →

Color-based sorter degrees of freedom fuzzy logic joint controller machine vision robotic arm

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090503 PDF

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Mixed Profile Method of Speed and Location for Robotic Arms Motion used for Precise Positioning

Author 1: Liliana Marilena Matica Author 2: Cornelia Gyorödi Author 3: Helga Silaghi Author 4: Andrei Silaghi

The paper describes a new real-time computation method named Mixt Profile of Speed (MPS), which is used to obtain the value of speed, at every sampling period of time, during the acceleration and deceleration stage, whereas the motion has three stages: 1) acceleration, 2) motion with imposed constant speed, and… Read full abstract & cite →

Sampling period of time waypoints location matrix for a robotic arm acceleration deceleration motion stage mixt profile of speed trapezoidal profile parabolic profile

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090504 PDF

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A Novel E-Mail Network Evolution Model based on user Information

Author 1: Lejun ZHANG Author 2: Tongxin ZHOU Author 3: Chunhui ZHAO Author 4: Zilong JIN

E-mail is one of the main means of communication in society today, and it is a typical social network. Studying the evolution of the social network structure by constructing an e-mail network evolution model is of great significance to the literature. In this paper, we first analyze the e-mail network… Read full abstract & cite →

Information characteristics e-mail network evolution complex network

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090505 PDF

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Design of Traffic Flow Simulation System to Minimize Intersection Waiting Time

Author 1: Jang Seung-Ju

This paper designs a traffic simulation system for minimizing intersection waiting time. We use SUMO simulator which is widely used as a traffic flow simulation tool for traffic flow simulation. Using the SUMO simulator to set the route from the source to the destination and measuring the time required when… Read full abstract & cite →

Traffic flow simulation SUMO simulator reduce traffic time intersection traffic flow simulation design

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090506 PDF

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Application of the Hierarchy Analysis Method at the Foodstuffs Quality Evaluation

Author 1: Marina A. Nikitina Author 2: Igor A. Nikitin Author 3: Natalya G. Semenkina Author 4: Igor V. Zavalishin Author 5: Andrey V. Goncharov

In Russia as well as in the other countries of the world national programs are implemented to improve the health of the population. An integral part of those programs are measures of improvement of food processes structure as well as the quality of food itself. New types of functional and… Read full abstract & cite →

Effective functionality hierarchy analysis method gluten-free flour confectionery products organoleptic evaluation of the quality food product quality

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090507 PDF

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3D Visualization of Sentiment Measures and Sentiment Classification using Combined Classifier for Customer Product Reviews

Author 1: Siddhaling Urologin Author 2: Sunil Thomas

The Internet has wide reachability making many users to buy the products online using e-commerce websites. Usually, users provide their opinions, comments, and reviews about the products in social media, e-commerce websites, blogs, etc. The product review comments provided by the customers have rich information about the usage of the… Read full abstract & cite →

Sentiment analysis 3D visualization sentiment classification natural language processing product reviews

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090508 PDF

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A Novel Energy Efficient Mobility Aware MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Author 1: Zain ul Abidin Jaffri Author 2: Asif Kabir Author 3: Gohar Rehman Chughtai Author 4: S. Sabahat H. Bukhari Author 5: Muhammad Arshad Shehzad Hassan

Dealing with mobility at the link layer in an efficient and effective way is a formidable challenge in Wireless Sensor Networks due to recent boom in mobile applications and complex network scenarios. Most of the current MAC protocols proposed for WSNs generally focus on stationary network and usually provide feeble… Read full abstract & cite →

Wireless sensor networks energy efficiency Media Access Control (MAC) mobility aware cluster head

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090509 PDF

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Routing Optimization in WBAN using Bees Algorithm for Overcrowded Hajj Environment

Author 1: Ghassan Ahmed Ali Author 2: Shah Murtaza Rashid Al Masud

Crowded places like Hajj environment in Makkah which host from 2 to 3 million on specific area and time can pose health challenges for pilgrims who need medical care. One of the solutions to overcome such difficulties is to use Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). WBAN is one of the… Read full abstract & cite →

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) Bees algorithm routing optimization Hajj environment

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090510 PDF

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An Opportunistic Dissemination Protocol for VANETs

Author 1: Amina SEDJELMACI Author 2: Fedoua DIDI Author 3: Ahmed ABDUL RAHUMAN

In this article, we propose an Opportunistic information dissemination protocol by mixing both flooding and an enhanced DHVN (Dissemination protocol for heterogeneous Cooperative Vehicular Network) protocol, allowing them to run opportunistically in a Manhattan plan. Special additional logic is added to the existing version of DHVN protocol in order to… Read full abstract & cite →

Flooding DHVN SNF opportunistic VANET

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Student Facial Authentication Model based on OpenCV’s Object Detection Method and QR Code for Zambian Higher Institutions of Learning

Author 1: Lubasi Kakwete Musambo Author 2: Jackson Phiri

Facial biometrics captures human facial physiological data, converts it into a data item variable so that this stored variable may be used to provide information security services, such as authentication, integrity management or identification that grants privileged access or control to the owner of that data variable. In this paper… Read full abstract & cite →

Biometrics authentication model integrity

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BLOT: A Novel Phase Privacy Preserving Framework for Location-Based Services

Author 1: Abdullah Albelaihy Author 2: Jonathan Cazalas Author 3: Vijey Thayananthan

The inherent challenge within the domain of location-based services is finding a delicate balance between user privacy and the efficiency of answering queries. Inevitably, security issues can and will arise as the server must be informed about the query location in order to provide accurate responses. Despite the many security… Read full abstract & cite →

Privacy location-based services (LBS) oblivious transfer BLoom Filter Oblivious Transfer (BLOT) bloom filter

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Development of Mobile-Interfaced Machine Learning-Based Predictive Models for Improving Students’ Performance in Programming Courses

Author 1: Fagbola Temitayo Matthew Author 2: Adeyanju Ibrahim Adepoju Author 3: Oloyede Ayodele Author 4: Obe Olumide Author 5: Olaniyan Olatayo Author 6: Esan Adebimpe Author 7: Omodunbi Bolaji Author 8: Egbetola Funmilola

Student performance modelling (SPM) is a critical step to assessing and improving students’ performances in their learning discourse. However, most existing SPM are based on statistical approaches, which on one hand are based on probability, depicting that results are based on estimation; and on the other hand, actual influences of… Read full abstract & cite →

Student-performance predictive-modeling M5P-Decision-Tree mobile-interface linear-regression-classifier programming-courses

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090514 PDF

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New Techniques to Enhance Data Deduplication using Content based-TTTD Chunking Algorithm

Author 1: Hala AbdulSalam Jasim Author 2: Assmaa A. Fahad

Due to the fast indiscriminate increase of digital data, data reduction has acquired increasing concentration and became a popular approach in large-scale storage systems. One of the most effective approaches for data reduction is Data Deduplication technique in which the redundant data at the file or sub-file level is detected… Read full abstract & cite →

Data deduplication big data compression data reduction Two Threshold Two Divisor (TTTD) chunking algorithm

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090515 PDF

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Security Improvement in Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Author 1: Kawther Esaa Abdullah Author 2: Nada Hussein M. Ali

This paper proposed different approaches to enhance the performance of the Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) algorithm. ECC is vulnerable to attacks by exploiting the public parameters of ECC to solve Discrete Logarithm Problem (DLP). Therefore, these public parameters should be selected safely to obviate all recognized attacks. This paper presents… Read full abstract & cite →

Elliptic curve cryptography elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem dual encryption/decryption Elliptic Curve Diffie Hellman

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Classification of Affective States via EEG and Deep Learning

Author 1: Jason Teo Author 2: Lin Hou Chew Author 3: Jia Tian Chia Author 4: James Mountstephens

Human emotions play a key role in numerous decision-making processes. The ability to correctly identify likes and dislikes as well as excitement and boredom would facilitate novel applications in neuromarketing, affective entertainment, virtual rehabilitation and forensic neuroscience that leverage on sub-conscious human affective states. In this neuroinformatics investigation, we seek… Read full abstract & cite →

Neuroinformatics emotion classification preference classification excitement classification electroencephalography (EEG) deep learning virtual reality dropouts.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090517 PDF

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Rainfall Prediction using Data Mining Techniques: A Systematic Literature Review

Author 1: Shabib Aftab Author 2: Munir Ahmad Author 3: Noureen Hameed Author 4: Muhammad Salman Bashir Author 5: Iftikhar Ali Author 6: Zahid Nawaz

Rainfall prediction is one of the challenging tasks in weather forecasting. Accurate and timely rainfall prediction can be very helpful to take effective security measures in advance regarding: ongoing construction projects, transportation activities, agricultural tasks, flight operations and flood situation, etc. Data mining techniques can effectively predict the rainfall by… Read full abstract & cite →

Rainfall prediction data mining techniques SLR systematic literature review

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An Intelligent Bio-Inspired Algorithm for the Faculty Scheduling Problem

Author 1: Sarah Al-Negheimish Author 2: Fai Alnuhait Author 3: Hawazen Albrahim Author 4: Sarah Al-Mogherah Author 5: Maha Alrajhi Author 6: Manar Hosny

All universities have faculty members who need to be assigned to teach courses. Those members have various specialties, preferences and different levels of experience. The manual assignment of courses is a very tedious and time-consuming task that the scheduling committee frequently faces in every department. To solve this timetabling problem… Read full abstract & cite →

Faculty scheduling faculty assignment problem Bees Algorithm Demon algorithm timetabling scheduling

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A Lightweight Multi-Message and Multi-Receiver Heterogeneous Hybrid Signcryption Scheme based on Hyper Elliptic Curve

Author 1: Abid ur Rahman Author 2: Insaf Ullah Author 3: Muhammad Naeem Author 4: Rehan Anwar Author 5: Noor-ul-Amin Author 6: Hizbullah Khattak Author 7: Sultan Ullah

It is a suitable means for multi-messages to use hybrid encryption to make a safe communication. Hybrid encryption confines encryption into two parts: one part uses public key systems to scramble a one-time symmetric key, and the other part uses the symmetric key to scramble the actual message. The quick… Read full abstract & cite →

Multi-receiver heterogeneous hybrid signcryption multi-message and multi-receiver heterogeneous hybrid signcryption hyper elliptic curve Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols and Applications (AVISPA)

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A Chatbot for Automatic Processing of Learner Concerns in an Online Learning Platform

Author 1: Mamadou BAKOUAN Author 2: Beman Hamidja KAMAGATE Author 3: Tiemoman KONE Author 4: Souleymane OUMTANAGA Author 5: Michel BABRI

In this article, we present a chatbot model that can automatically respond to learners’ concerns on an online training platform. The proposed chatbot model is based on an adaptation of the similarity of Dice to understand the concerns of learners. The first phase of this approach allows selecting the pre-established… Read full abstract & cite →

Metadata ontologies semantic similarity natural language semantic web chatbot

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Formalization of Behavior Change Theories to Accomplish a Health Behavior

Author 1: Adnan Manzoor Author 2: Imtiaz Ali Halepoto Author 3: Sohail Khokhar Author 4: Nazar Hussain Phulpoto Author 5: Muhammad Sulleman Memon

The objective of this paper is to study theories behind behavior change and adaptation of behavior. Humans often live according to habitual behavior. Changing an existing behavior or adopting a new (healthier) behavior is not an easy task. There are a number of things which are important when considering adapting… Read full abstract & cite →

Behavior monitoring healthy lifestyle behavior change physical activity computational model

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Implementation of Winnowing Algorithm with Dictionary English-Indonesia Technique to Detect Plagiarism

Author 1: Anton Yudhana Author 2: Sunardi Author 3: Iif Alfiatul Mukaromah

The ease of obtaining information that is easy, fast, and cheap from all over the world through the internet network can encourage someone to take action plagiarism. Plagiarism is an intellectual crime that often occurs in the writing world where the perpetrators take the work of others without declaring the… Read full abstract & cite →

Plagiarism winnowing algorithm fingerprint dictionary English-Indonesia

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Multi-Stage Algorithms for Solving a Generalized Capacitated P-median Location Problem

Author 1: Mohammed EL AMRANI Author 2: Youssef BENADADA

The capacitated p-median location problem is one of the famous problems widely discussed in the literature, but its generalization to a multi-capacity case has not. This generalization, called multi-capacitated location problem, is characterized by allowing facilities to use one of several capacity levels. For this purpose, a predefined list of… Read full abstract & cite →

Location p-median multi-capacity heuristic LNS lagrangian relaxation lower bound

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Communicator for Hearing-Impaired Persons using Pakistan Sign Language (PSL)

Author 1: Muhammad Wasim Author 2: Adnan Ahmed Siddiqui Author 3: Abdulbasit Shaikh Author 4: Lubaid Ahmed Author 5: Syed Faisal Ali Author 6: Fauzan Saeed

Communication with a hearing-impaired individual is a big challenge for a normal person. Hearing-impaired people uses hand gesture language (sign language) to communicate with each other, which is not easy to understand by a normal person because he/she is not trained to understand sign language. This communication gap between a… Read full abstract & cite →

Communicator hearing-impaired Pakistan Sign Language (PSL) hand gesture special person token

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TPACK Adaptation among Faculty Members of Education and ICT Departments in University of Sindh, Pakistan

Author 1: Saira Soomro Author 2: Arjumand Bano Soomro Author 3: Najma Imtiaz Ali Author 4: Tariq Bhatti Author 5: Nazish Basir Author 6: Nazia Parveen Gill

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework has been to investigate the technological and instructive knowledge of teachers. Many researchers have found this framework a useful tool to explore teachers’ awareness regarding TPACK and how do they are relating it in learning and teaching process in different educational settings. During its… Read full abstract & cite →

TPACK teaching-learning circumstantial and contextual factors

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Quality Aspects of Continuous Delivery in Practice

Author 1: Maryam Shahzeydi Author 2: Taghi Javdani Gandomani Author 3: Rasool Sadeghi

Continuous Delivery is recently used in software projects to facilitate the process of product delivery in Agile software development. As an Agile practice, this practice is mainly used to achieve better quality of software development process and higher customer satisfaction. However, less attention has been paid on exploring the quality… Read full abstract & cite →

Continuous delivery quality model agile software development agile methods agile practice

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Integration of Heterogeneous Requirements using Ontologies

Author 1: Ahmad Mustafa Author 2: Wan M.N. Wan-Kadir Author 3: Noraini Ibrahim Author 4: Muhammad Arif Shah Author 5: Muhammad Younas

Ontology-driven approaches are used to sustain the requirement engineering process. Ontologies can be used to define information and knowledge semantics during the requirements engineering phases, such as analysis, specification, validation and management of requirements. However, requirement analysts face difficulties in using ontologies for requirement engineering. In this study, a framework… Read full abstract & cite →

Heterogeneous requirements requirement engineering local ontologies global ontologies

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Effect of Service Broker Policies and Load Balancing Algorithms on the Performance of Large Scale Internet Applications in Cloud Datacenters

Author 1: Ali Meftah Author 2: Ahmed E. Youssef Author 3: Mohammad Zakariah

Cloud computing is advancing rapidly. With such advancement, it has become possible to develop and host large scale distributed applications on the Internet more economically and more flexibly. However, the geographical distribution of user bases, the available Internet infrastructure within those geographical areas, and the dynamic nature of usage patterns… Read full abstract & cite →

Cloud computing datacenters load balancing algorithms service broker policies CloudAnalyst

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Multiple Trips Pattern Mining

Author 1: Riaz Ahmed Shaikh Author 2: Kamelsh Kumar Author 3: Rafaqat Hussain Arain Author 4: Hidayatullah Shaikh Author 5: Imran Memon Author 6: Safdar Ali Shah

In recent years, photograph sharing is one of the most mainstream web service, for example, Flickr, trip advisor and numerous other web services. The photograph sharing web services give capacities to include Geo coordinates, tags, and user ID to photographs to make photograph organizing easily. This study focuses on Geotagged… Read full abstract & cite →

Multiple trips pattern mining multiple trips classification geo-tagging

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E-shape Multiband Patch Antenna for 4G, C-band and S-band Applications

Author 1: Mehr e Munir Author 2: Khalid Mahmood Author 3: Saad Hassan Kiani

In this study, a new E shape mounted on minowaki island patch antenna on FR4 substrate is presented for communication systems applications. With insertion of shortening pin between patch and ground plane, the proposed structure resonated on 6 frequencies; hence producing Hex-band response with good realized gain and directivity radiation… Read full abstract & cite →

Minowaki island patch miniaturization E shape gain directivity

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An Optimized Inset Feed Circular Cross Strip Antenna Design for C-Band Satellite Links

Author 1: Faisal Ahmed Dahri Author 2: Riaz A. Soomro Author 3: Sajjad Ali Memon Author 4: Zeeshan Memon Author 5: Majid Hussain Memon

This proposed antenna model and progressing the investigation of an inset fed wideband circular slotted patch antenna is suitable for 5.2 GHz satellite C-band applications. A circularly shaped slot has been chosen to be etched on diminutive square patch (4.4cm*5.64cm) of the inset feed antenna. The object of this work… Read full abstract & cite →

Circular slot high gain C-band satellite communication efficiency

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Hybrid Ensemble Framework for Heart Disease Detection and Prediction

Author 1: Elham Nikookar Author 2: Ebrahim Naderi

Data mining techniques have been widely used in clinical decision support systems for detection and prediction of various diseases. As heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women, detection and prediction of the heart disease is one of the most important issues in medical domain… Read full abstract & cite →

Data mining hybrid ensemble base classifier classification accuracy sensitivity specificity

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M/M/1/n+Flush/n Model to Enhance the QoS for Cluster Heads in MANETs

Author 1: Aleem Ali Author 2: Neeta Singh Author 3: Poonam Verma

Clustering in MANET is important to achieve scalability in presence of large networks and high mobility in order to maintain the Quality of Services (QoS) of the network. Improving the QoS is the most important and crucial issue in the area of MANET. Keeping this in mind, the research paper… Read full abstract & cite →

Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) Cluster Head (CH) queueing approach Quality of Services (QoS) flushing technique

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Binary PSOGSA for Load Balancing Task Scheduling in Cloud Environment

Author 1: Thanaa S. Alnusairi Author 2: Ashraf A. Shahin Author 3: Yassine Daadaa

In cloud environments, load balancing task scheduling is an important issue that directly affects resource utilization. Unquestionably, load balancing scheduling is a serious aspect that must be considered in the cloud research field due to the significant impact on both the back end and front end. Whenever an effective load… Read full abstract & cite →

Gravitational search algorithm load balancing particle swarm optimization task scheduling task-to-virtual machine mapping virtual machine load

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The P System Design Method based on the P Module

Author 1: Ping Guo Author 2: Xixi Peng Author 3: Lian Ye

Membrane computing is a kind of biocomputing model. At present, the main research areas of membrane computing are computational models and P system design. With the expansion of the P system scale, how to rapidly construct the P system has become a prominent issue. Designing P system based on P… Read full abstract & cite →

P module P System P system design membrane computing biocomputing models

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Cascades Neural Network based Segmentation of Fluorescence Microscopy Cell Nuclei

Author 1: Sofyan M. A. Hayajneh Author 2: Mohammad H. Alomari Author 3: Bassam Al-Shargabi

The visual extraction of cellular, nuclear and tissue components from medical images is very vital in the diagnosis routine of different health related abnormalities and diseases. The objective of this work is to modify and efficiently combine different image processing methods supported by cascaded artificial neural networks in an automated… Read full abstract & cite →

Artificial neural networks machine learning DSP fluorescence microscopy biomedical imaging cell nuclei image segmentation

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An Automatic Segmentation Algorithm for Solar Filaments in H-Alpha Images using a Context-based Sliding Window

Author 1: Ibrahim A. Atoum

There are many features which appear on the surface of the sun. One of these features that appear clearly are the dark threads in the Hydrogen alpha (Hα) spectrum solar images. These ‘filaments’ are found to have a definite correlation with Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). A CME is a large… Read full abstract & cite →

Solar image processing solar filament segmentation sliding window Coronal mass ejections

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Relative Humidity Profile Estimation Method with AIRS (Atmospheric Infrared Sounder) Data by Means of SDM (Steepest Descend Method) with the Initial Value Derived from Linear Estimation

Author 1: Kohei Arai

Relative humidity profile estimation method with AIRS (Atmospheric Infrared Sounder) data by means of SDM (Steepest Descend Method) with the initial value derived from LED: Linear Estimation Method is also proposed. Through experiments, it is found that there is almost 15 (%) of relative humidity estimation error. Therefore, it can… Read full abstract & cite →

Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) Steepest Descend Method (SDM) LED MODTRAN relative humidity atmospheric model Infrared sounder

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Tuning of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) via Customer Experience Management (CEM) using Sentiment Analysis on Aspects Level

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

This study proposes a framework that combines a supervised machine learning and a semantic orientation approach to tune Customer Relationship Management (CRM) via Customer Experience Management (CEM). The framework extracts data from social media first and then integrates CRM and CEM by tuning and optimising CRM to reflect the needs… Read full abstract & cite →

Opinion mining customer relationship management customer experience management sentiment analysis Twitter

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An Accurate Multi-Biometric Personal Identification Model using Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG)

Author 1: Mostafa A. Ahmad Author 2: Ahmed H. Ismail Author 3: Nadir Omer

Biometrics is the detection and description of individuals’ physiological and behavioral ‎features. ‎Many different systems require reliable personal identification schemes to either prove or ‎find out ‎the identity of an individual demanding their services. Multi-biometrics are required inside the current ‎context of large worldwide biometric databases and to provide new… Read full abstract & cite →

Biometric identifiers personal identification multi-biometric systems face recognition digital signature Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG)

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Detection of Mass Panic using Internet of Things and Machine Learning

Author 1: Gehan Yahya Alsalat Author 2: Mohammad El-Ramly Author 3: Aly Aly Fahmy Author 4: Karim Said

The increase of emergency situations that cause mass panic in mass gatherings, such as terrorist attacks, random shooting, stampede, and fires, sheds light on the fact that advancements in technology should contribute in timely detecting and reporting serious crowd abnormal behaviour. The new paradigm of the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT)… Read full abstract & cite →

Internet of Things IoT Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) wearables mass panic mass gatherings accelerometer Optical Heart Rate (HR) sensor abnormal crowd behaviour deep learning Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) time series

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Motif Detection in Cellular Tumor p53 Antigen Protein Sequences by using Bioinformatics Big Data Analytical Techniques

Author 1: Tariq Ali Author 2: Sana Yasin Author 3: Umar Draz Author 4: M. Ayaz Arshad Author 5: Tayyaba Tariq Author 6: Sarah Javaid

Due to the rapid growth of data in the field of big data and bioinformatics, the analysis and management of the data is a very difficult task for the scientist and the researchers. Data exists in many formats like in the form of groups and clusters. The data that exist… Read full abstract & cite →

Bio-informatics motif detection guardian protein Tp53 DNA tumor antigen cancer un-gapped motifs MEME

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Investigating Methods of Resource Provisioning Mechanisms in Cloud: A Review

Author 1: Babur Hayat Malik Author 2: Talia Anwar Author 3: Sadaf Ilyas Author 4: Farheen Jafar Author 5: Munazza Iftikhar Author 6: Maryam Malik Author 7: Noreen Islam Deen

Delivering information through cloud computing become a modern computation. For this purpose, electronic device is required to access with an active web server. For delivering different resources, the cloud supplier provides computing power for the cloud users to organize their multiple type of application at any time on different platforms… Read full abstract & cite →

Resource provisioning resource provisioning mechanisms cloud computing systematic review comparison between resource provisioning

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University Notification Subscription System using Amazon Web Service

Author 1: Babur Hayat Malik Author 2: Zaheer Mehmood Dar Author 3: Sabah Mubarik Kayani Author 4: Mahnoor Dar Author 5: Muhammad Hassan Shafiq Author 6: Imran Kabir Author 7: Fatima Masood Author 8: Hamna Zakriya Author 9: Asad Ali

Publish-Subscribe (Pub-Sub) system is an asynchronous communication service widely used in server-less and micro-services architecture. In a Pub-Sub system, publisher publish message to a topic that is immediately received by all of the subscribers of that topic. Nowadays, students face number of problems regarding admission details, assignments, offered courses, fee… Read full abstract & cite →

Publish-Subscribe system content and topic-based university notification Amazon web services

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Performance Measurement Model of Mobile User Connectivity in Femtocell/Macrocell Networks using Fractional Frequency Re-use Scheme

Author 1: Mehrin Anannya Author 2: Riad Mashrub Shourov

Technologies are traversing to its new dimensions every day. As part of this progression, mobile cellular system is at the summit of its constant advancement. The usage of Femtocells in mobile cellular system has created a massive impact on its architecture. Likewise, the incorporation of femtocells in macrocells for 4G… Read full abstract & cite →

Femtocell macrocell cross-tier interferences co-tier interferences closed access methods open access methods connectivity probability mobility factor outage probability fractional frequency re-use scheme

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Heart Failure Prediction Models using Big Data Techniques

Author 1: Heba F. Rammal Author 2: Ahmed Z. Emam

Big Data technologies have a great potential in transforming healthcare, as they have revolutionized other industries. In addition to reducing the cost, they could save millions of lives and improve patient outcomes. Heart Failure (HF) is the leading death cause disease, both nationally and internally. The Social and individual burden… Read full abstract & cite →

Big data hadoop healthcare heart failure prediction model

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Towards Privacy Preserving Commutative Encryption-Based Matchmaking in Mobile Social Network

Author 1: Fizza Abbas Author 2: Ubaidullah Rajput Author 3: Adnan Manzoor Author 4: Imtiaz Ali Halepoto Author 5: Ayaz Hussain

The last decade or so has witnessed a sharp rise in the growth of mobile devices. These mobile devices and wireless communication technologies enable people around the globe to instantaneously communicate with each other. This leads to the emergence of a new type of social networking known as Mobile Social… Read full abstract & cite →

Privacy security matchmaking interests mobile social network

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Towards Security as a Service to Protect the Critical Resources of Mobile Computing Devices

Author 1: Abdulrahman Alreshidi

Mobile computing is fast replacing the traditional computing paradigms by offering its users to exploit portable computations and context-aware communications. Despite the benefits of mobile computing, such as portability and context-sensitivity, there are some critical challenges, such as resource poverty of mobile devices and security of mobile user’s data that… Read full abstract & cite →

Software engineering mobile computing cloud computing computer security mobile cloud computing security as a service

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Comparison of Task Scheduling Algorithms in Cloud Environment

Author 1: Babur Hayat Malik Author 2: Mehwashma Amir Author 3: Bilal Mazhar Author 4: Shehzad Ali Author 5: Rabiya Jalil Author 6: Javaria Khalid

The enhanced form of client-server, cluster and grid computing is termed as Cloud Computing. The cloud users can virtually access the resources over the internet. Task submitted by cloud users are responsible for efficiency and performance of cloud computing services. One of the most essential factors which increase the efficiency… Read full abstract & cite →

Task scheduling algorithms cloud computing min-max genetic algorithm load balancing resource utilization

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Technical and Perceived Usability Issues in Arabic Educational Websites

Author 1: Mohamed Benaida Author 2: Abdallah Namoun

Educational websites are often used as effective communication mediums to provide useful information for students and course instructors. The current study explores the perceived usability of three top-ranked Arabic educational websites across seven key usability components: effectiveness, efficiency, learnability, memorability, errors, satisfaction, and content. Moreover, the study also identifies the… Read full abstract & cite →

Arabic educational websites perceived usability automatic evaluation student perception

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Automatic Sign Language Recognition: Performance Comparison of Word based Approach with Spelling based Approach

Author 1: Shazia Saqib Author 2: Syed Asad Raza Kazmi Author 3: Khalid Masood Author 4: Saleh Alrashed

Evolution of computer based interaction has been through a number of phases. From command line interface to menu driven environment to Graphics User Interface, the communication has evolved to a better user friendly environment. A new form of communication is on the rise and that is Gesture Based Communication, which… Read full abstract & cite →

Feature extraction human computer interaction image segmentation object recognition

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Geographical Distance and Communication Challenges in Global Software Development: A Review

Author 1: Babur Hayat Malik Author 2: Saeed Faroom Author 3: Muhammad Nauman Ali Author 4: Nasir Shehzad Author 5: Sheraz Yousaf Author 6: Hammad Saleem

Due to innumerous advantages the Global software engineering is trending now a days in software development industry. Basic drivers for this trend are flexibility, faster development and expected cost saving. Software development has moved from traditional development to the global software development (GSD). Global software development is very important and… Read full abstract & cite →

Global Software Development (GSD) distributed software development geographical distance challenges communication and collaboration

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Gaze Direction based Mobile Application for Quadriplegia Wheelchair Control System

Author 1: Muayad Sadik Croock Author 2: Salih Al-Qaraawi Author 3: Rawan Ali Taban

People with quadriplegia recruit the interest of researchers in introducing automated movement systems for adopted special purpose wheelchairs. These systems were introduced for easing the movement of such type of disabled people independently. This paper proposed a comprehensive control system that can control the movement of Quadriplegia wheelchairs using gaze… Read full abstract & cite →

Gaze direction detection mobile application obstacle detection quadriplegia Raspberry Pi microcomputer

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A Study on Usability Awareness in Local IT Industry

Author 1: Mahmood Ashraf Author 2: Lal Khan Author 3: Muhammad Tahir Author 4: Ahmed Alghamdi Author 5: Mohammed Alqarni Author 6: Thabit Sabbah Author 7: Muzafar Khan

Usability awareness receives more consideration by industry professionals and researchers throughout the world, but it is limited in Pakistan. This study reports survey results of the current state of usability awareness in the local Information Technology (IT) industry. Forty participants – IT practitioners from IT industry – were involved in… Read full abstract & cite →

Usability usability awareness human-computer interaction (HCI) HCI practitioners Pakistan IT industry

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Monitoring Vaccine Cold Chain Model with Coloured Petri Net

Author 1: Fatima Ouzayd Author 2: Hajar Mansouri Author 3: Manal Tamir Author 4: Raddouane Chiheb Author 5: Zied Benhouma

To protect and prevent vaccines from excessively high or low temperatures throughout the supply chain, from manufacturing to administration, it is necessary to monitor and evaluate vaccine cold chain performance in real time. Therefore, today, the need for smart tracking is a requirement that is accentuated with critical systems, such… Read full abstract & cite →

Vaccine cold chain monitoring World Health Organization (WHO) colored Petri net (CPN) performance

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Framework for Rumors Detection in Social Media

Author 1: Rehana Moin Author 2: Zahoor-ur-Rehman Author 3: Khalid Mahmood Author 4: Mohammad Eid Alzahrani Author 5: Muhammad Qaiser Saleem

The development of social networks has led the public in general to find easy accessibility for communication with respect to rapid communication to each other at any time. Such services provide the quick transmission of information which is its positive side but its negative side needs to be kept in… Read full abstract & cite →

Social networks rumors inquiry comments question identification

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Modeling of Arduino-based Prepaid Energy Meter using GSM Technology

Author 1: Uzair Ahmed Rajput Author 2: Khalid Rafique Author 3: Abdul Sattar Saand Author 4: Mujtaba Shaikh Author 5: Muhammad Tarique

It is realized that one of the defective subsystems adding to the tremendous budgetary loss in Power Supply Company is the conventional metering and charging framework. Mistakes get presented at each phase of charging the energy rates, similar to blunders with conventional meters, reading errors by human while noticing the… Read full abstract & cite →

Arduino energy meter smart meters RFID GSM

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Koch Island Fractal Patch Antenna (KIFPA) for Wideband Applications

Author 1: Meryem HADJI Author 2: Sidi Mohammed MERIAH Author 3: Djamila ZIANI

In this paper, a new modified printed Koch Island Fractal Patch Antenna (KIFPA) is studied. The conception of such antenna is based on the combination of different techniques. The first, concerns the fractal geometry of the patch, while the second comprises modified ground-plane. The patch is etched according to Koch… Read full abstract & cite →

Fractal antenna Koch Island fractal-shape microstrip patch antenna wideband antenna

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Investigating Saudi Parents’ Intention to Adopt Technical Mediation Tools to Regulate Children’s Internet Usage

Author 1: Ala’a Bassam Al-Naim Author 2: Md Maruf Hasan

The adverse and harmful effects of Internet on young children have become a global concern. Parents tend to use different strategies to ensure their children’s online safety. Many studies have suggested that parental mediation may play a positive role in controlling children’s online behavior. The purpose of this study is… Read full abstract & cite →

Child and family safety online parental control and mediation technology mediation Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) Saudi Arabia

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Control of Industrial Systems to Avoid Failures: Application to Electrical System

Author 1: Yamen EL TOUATI Author 2: Saleh ALTOWAIJRI Author 3: Mohamed AYARI

We resolve the control problem for a class of dynamic hybrid systems (DHS) considering electrical systems as case study. The objective is to guarantee that the plan never reaches unsafe states. We consider a subclass class of DHS called Cumulative Preemptive Event-driven DHS (CPE-DHS). This class is distinguished by the… Read full abstract & cite →

Dynamic hybrid systems supervisory control hybrid automata electrical systems safety

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Mobility Management Using the IP Protocol

Author 1: Imtiaz A. Halepoto Author 2: Adnan Manzoor Author 3: Nazar H. Phulpoto Author 4: Sohail A. Memon Author 5: Muzamil Hussain

Time critical applications, such as VoIP and video conferencing require Internet connectivity all of the time for better performance. Moreover, in case of vehicular networks, it is very common for mobile devices to move from one network to another. In such scenarios the sudden changes in the network connectivity may… Read full abstract & cite →

Mobility Mobile IP 4G foreign network permanent IP

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Experimental Results on Agent-Based Indoor Localization using WiFi Signaling

Author 1: Stefania Monica Author 2: Federico Bergenti

This paper discusses experimental results on the possibility of accurately estimating the position of smart devices in known indoor environments using agent technology. Discussed localization approaches are based on WiFi signaling, which can be considered as an ubiquitous technology in the large majority of indoor environments. The use of WiFi… Read full abstract & cite →

WiFi-based localization indoor localization particle swarm optimization agent technology

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Divide and Conquer Approach for Solving Security and Usability Conflict in User Authentication

Author 1: Shah Zaman Nizamani Author 2: Waqas Ali Sahito Author 3: Shafique Awan

Knowledge based authentication schemes are divided into textual password schemes and graphical password schemes. Textual password schemes are easy to use but have well known security issues, such as weak against online security attacks. Graphical password schemes are generally weak against shoulder surfing attacks. Usability is another issue with most… Read full abstract & cite →

Authentication alphanumeric passwords security passwords memorability

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A High-Performing Similarity Measure for Categorical Dataset with SF-Tree Clustering Algorithm

Author 1: Mahmoud A. Mahdi Author 2: Samir E. Abdelrahman Author 3: Reem Bahgat

Tasks such as clustering and classification assume the existence of a similarity measure to assess the similarity (or dissimilarity) of a pair of observations or clusters. The key difference between most clustering methods is in their similarity measures. This article proposes a new similarity measure function called PWO “Probability of… Read full abstract & cite →

Algorithm clustering similarity measurement categorical F-Tree SF-Tree

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Efficient Community Detection Algorithm with Label Propagation using Node Importance and Link Weight

Author 1: Mohsen Arab Author 2: Mahdieh Hasheminezhad

Community detection is a principle tool for analysing and studying of a network structure. Label Propagation Algorithm (LPA) is a simple and fast community detection algorithm which is not accurate enough because of its randomness. However, some advanced versions of LPA have been presented in recent years, but their accuracy… Read full abstract & cite →

Label propagation node importance link weight

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An Indefinite Cycle Traffic Light Timing Strategy

Author 1: Ping Guo Author 2: Daiwen Lei Author 3: Lian Ye

Intelligent transportation signal control plays an important role in reducing traffic congestion and improving road capacity. The key of signal control is to adjust the traffic lights appropriately according to the traffic flow, which is an adaptive control. In this paper, we propose a new timing strategy. This strategy includes… Read full abstract & cite →

Traffic light timing strategy adaptive control signal control intelligent transportation

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Search Manager: A Framework for Hybridizing Different Search Strategies

Author 1: Yousef Abdi Author 2: Yousef Seyfari

In the last decade, many of the metaheuristic search methods have been proposed for solving tough optimization problems. Each of these algorithms uses its own learn-by-example mechanism in terms of “movement strategy” to evolve the candidate solutions. In this paper, a framework, called Search Manager, is proposed for hybridizing different… Read full abstract & cite →

Global optimization metaheuristic organization management hybridizing search methods

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A Study of Feature Selection Algorithms for Predicting Students Academic Performance

Author 1: Maryam Zaffar Author 2: Manzoor Ahmed Hashmani Author 3: K.S. Savita Author 4: Syed Sajjad Hussain Rizvi

The main aim of all the educational organizations is to improve the quality of education and elevate the academic performance of students. Educational Data Mining (EDM) is a growing research field which helps academic institutions to improve the performance of their students. The academic institutions are most often judged by… Read full abstract & cite →

Educational data mining feature selection algorithms classifiers CFS relief feature selection algorithm

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