IJACSA Vol. 9 Issue 6 (2018)

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Generating Classification Rules from Training Samples

Author 1: Arun D. Kulkarni

In this paper, we describe an algorithm to extract classification rules from training samples using fuzzy membership functions. The algorithm includes steps for generating classification rules, eliminating duplicate and conflicting rules, and ranking extracted rules. We have developed software to implement the algorithm using MATLAB scripts. As an illustration, we… Read full abstract & cite →

Fuzzy membership functions classification rule extraction multispectral images

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090601 PDF

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Robust Control of a 3D Space Robot with an Initial Angular Momentum based on the Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Method

Author 1: Tatsuya Kai

This paper considers robust control problems for a 3D space robot of two rigid bodies connected by a universal joint with an initial angular momentum. It is particularly difficult to measure an initial angular momentum in parameters of space robots since the value of an initial angular momentum depends on… Read full abstract & cite →

3D space robot universal joint initial angular momentum nonlinear model predictive control robustness attitude stabilization control trajectory tracking control

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090602 PDF

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Link Prediction Schemes Contra Weisfeiler-Leman Models

Author 1: Katie Brodhead

Link prediction is of particular interest to the data mining and machine learning communities. Until recently all approaches to the problem used embedding-based methods which leverage either node similarities or latent group memberships towards link prediction. Chen and Zhang recently developed a class of non-embedding approaches called Weisfeiler-Leman (WL) Models… Read full abstract & cite →

Weisfeiler-Leman link prediction machine learning linear regression common walk path-based random walk stochastic block matrix factorization

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090603 PDF

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Methodology for Selecting the Preferred Networked Computer System Solution for Dynamic Continuous Defense Missions

Author 1: San Diego Author 2: Jeff Tian Author 3: Jerrell T. Stracener

This paper presents a methodology for addressing the challenges and opportunities in defining and selecting the preferred Networked Computer System (NCS) solution in response to specified United States Defense mission planning requirements. The identified set of mission requirements are aligned with existing computer system capabilities allowing them to be acquired… Read full abstract & cite →

Mission reliability sustainment reliability operational availability basic reliability networked computer system system of systems

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090604 PDF

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Multi Focus Image Fusion using Combined Median and Average Filter based Hybrid Stationary Wavelet Transform and Principal Component Analysis

Author 1: Tian Lianfang Author 2: Jameel Ahmed Bhutto Author 3: Du Qiliang Author 4: Bhawani Shankar Author 5: Saifullah Adnan

Poor illumination, less background contrast and blurring effects makes the medical, satellite and camera images difficult to visualize. Image fusion plays the vital role to enhance image quality by resolving the above issues and reducing the image quantity. The combination of spatial and spectral technique Discrete Wavelet Transform and Principal… Read full abstract & cite →

Image fusion Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle combined median and average filter Haar wavelet Stationary Wavelet Transform and Principal Component Analysis (SWT-PCA)

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090605 PDF

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Study of Face Recognition Techniques: A Survey

Author 1: Madan Lal Author 2: Kamlesh Kumar Author 3: Rafaqat Hussain Arain Author 4: Abdullah Maitlo Author 5: Sadaquat Ali Ruk Author 6: Hidayatullah Shaikh

With the rapid growth in multimedia contents, among such content face recognition has got much attention especially in past few years. Face as an object consists of distinct features for detection; therefore, it remains most challenging research area for scholars in the field of computer vision and image processing. In… Read full abstract & cite →

Face recognition illuminations partial occlusion pose invariance

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090606 PDF

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MapReduce Programs Simplification using a Query Criteria API

Author 1: Boulchahoub Hassan Author 2: Khalil Namir Author 3: Amina Rachiq Author 4: Labriji Elhoussin Author 5: Benabbou Fouzia

A Hadoop HDFS is an organized and distributed collection of files. It is created to store a huge part of data and then retrieve it and analyze it efficiently in a less amount of time. To retrieve and analyze data from the Hadoop HDFS, MapReduce Jobs must be created directly… Read full abstract & cite →

Hadoop HDFS MapReduce

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090607 PDF

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Modelling of Thermal Storage in Damaged Composite Structures using Time Displaced Gradient Field Technique (TDGF)

Author 1: Mahmoud Zaki Iskandarani

This paper presents a new approach to composite surface characterization using Gradient Field time displacement. The new technique employs calculation of thermally charged regions within a composite structure as a result of each area gradient and then correlates the regions (storage areas) using a time displaced (Lag) model. The resulting… Read full abstract & cite →

Gradient norm edge detection gray level mapping segmentation rate-dependent lag thermal images

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090608 PDF

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Evaluating M-Learning in Saudi Arabia Universities using Concerns-Based Adoption Model Level of use Framework

Author 1: Mohammed Al Masarweh

Numerous studies have evaluated aspects of m-learning use in Saudi Arabia, mostly focused on technology use and its impact on students, or technology challenges and promises. Few studies have explored features of m-learning use and engagement among university faculty members. This paper presents a new methodology for evaluating the status… Read full abstract & cite →

Concern Based Adoption Model (CBAM) evaluation M-learning Saudi Universities level of use mobile phone

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090609 PDF

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Automatic Arabic Image Captioning using RNN-LSTM-Based Language Model and CNN

Author 1: Huda A. Al-muzaini Author 2: Tasniem N. Al-yahya Author 3: Hafida Benhidour

The automatic generation of correct syntaxial and semantical image captions is an essential problem in Artificial Intelligence. The existence of large image caption copra such as Flickr and MS COCO have contributed to the advance of image captioning in English. However, it is still behind for Arabic given the scarcity… Read full abstract & cite →

AI image caption natural language processing neural network deep learning convolutional neural network recurrent neural network long short-term memory

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090610 PDF

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Use of Technology and Financial Literacy on SMEs Practices and Performance in Developing Economies

Author 1: Juma Buhimila Mabula Author 2: Han Dong Ping

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) practices in developing economies experience a unique set of challenges to attain their success. With a view of analyzing double impact of SME financial literacy and use of technology on practice of record keeping and risk management as echoed on firm performance, the partial… Read full abstract & cite →

Technology use financial literacy book keeping risk management developing economies

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090611 PDF

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Experimental Study of Spatial Cognition Capability Enhancement with Building Block Learning Contents for Disabled Children

Author 1: Kohei Arai Author 2: Taiki Ishigaki Author 3: Mariko Oda

In this research, we develop learning teaching materials using building blocks for children with disabilities, and verify learning effect. It is important to prepare input equipment according to children with disabilities and to prepare learning materials according to the ability you have learned. Therefore, this time we developed a teaching… Read full abstract & cite →

Experiment slope surfaces interaction between two surfaces

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Improved Langley and Ratio Langley Methods for Improving Sky-Radiometer Accuracy

Author 1: Kohei Arai

Improved Langley Method (ILM) is proposed to improve the calibration accuracy of the sky-radiometer. The ILM uses that the calibration coefficients of other arbitrary wavelengths can be presumed from the calibration coefficients in a certain reference wave length, and improves the calibration accuracy of a full wave length region by… Read full abstract & cite →

Calibration Langley plot improved Langley method ratio Langley method aerosol optical depth volume spectrum

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090613 PDF

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Wireless Sensor Network and Internet of Things in Precision Agriculture

Author 1: Farzad Kiani Author 2: Amir Seyyedabbasi

Internet of Things is one of the most popular subjects nowadays where sensors and smart devices facilitate the provision of information and communication. In IoT, one of the main concepts is wireless sensor networks in which data is collected from all the sensors in a network characterized by low power… Read full abstract & cite →

Wireless sensor network internet of things smart agriculture applications precision agriculture

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090614 PDF

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Rule Based Artificial Intelligent System of Cucumber Greenhouse Environment Control with IoT Technology

Author 1: Kohei Arai Author 2: Yoshikazu Saitoh

The method proposed here allows control cucumber greenhouse environment based on IoT technology. IoT sensors are to measure the room and air temperature, relative humidity, CO2 content, water supply, liquid fertilizer, water content. The basic system is rule based system. All the required rules to control the cucumber greenhouse environment… Read full abstract & cite →

Temperature relative humidity CO2 content water supply liquid fertilizer rule-based system IoT artificial intelligence expert system

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Pedestrian Detection Approach for Driver Assisted System using Haar based Cascade Classifiers

Author 1: M. Ameen Chhajro Author 2: Kamlesh Kumar Author 3: M. Malook Rind Author 4: Aftab Ahmed Shaikh Author 5: Haque Nawaz Author 6: Rafaqat Hussain Arain

Object detection and tracking with the aid of computer vision is a most challenging task in the context of Driver Assistant System (DAS) for vehicles. This paper presents pedestrians detection techique using Haar-Like Features. The main aim of this research is to develop a detection system for vehicle drivers that… Read full abstract & cite →

Pedestrian Haar based classifier positive and negative samples computer vision object detection

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MapReduce Performance in MongoDB Sharded Collections

Author 1: Jaumin Ajdari Author 2: Brilant Kasami

In the modern era of computing and countless of online services that gather and serve huge data around the world, processing and analyzing Big Data has rapidly developed into an area of its own. In this paper, we focus on the MapReduce programming model and associated implementation for processing and… Read full abstract & cite →

NoSQL big data MapReduce sharding MongoDB

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Demand Response Programs Significance, Challenges and Worldwide Scope in Maintaining Power System Stability

Author 1: Muhammad Faizan Tahir Author 2: Chen Haoyong Author 3: Idris Ibn Idris Author 4: Nauman Ali Larik Author 5: Saif ullah Adnan

In order to cope up the continuously increasing electric demand, Governments are forced to invest on Renewable Energy (RE) sources due to scarcity of fossil fuels (such as coal, gas and oil), high costs associated with it and emission of greenhouse gases. However, stochastic nature of RE sources like wind… Read full abstract & cite →

Demand side management (DSM) demand response (DR) renewable energy (RE) DR programs wind PV

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Intelligent System for the use of the Scientific Research Information System

Author 1: Khaoula Benmoussa Author 2: Majida Laaziri Author 3: Samira Khoulji Author 4: Mohamed Larbi Kerkeb

As part of the digital governance of scientific research of Moroccan universities and national research institutions, the Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Executive Training has shown great interest in setting up the Moroccan Information System for Scientific Research (SIMARECH). Despite a great effort that was made for the… Read full abstract & cite →

Moroccan Information System for Scientific Research (SIMARECH) intelligent system E-learning systems learning process interactive learning environments intelligent tutoring systems

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Generating Relational Database using Ontology Review

Author 1: Christina Khnaisser Author 2: Luc Lavoie Author 3: Anita Burgun Author 4: Jean-Francois Ethier

A huge amount of data is being generated every day from different sources. Access to these data can be very valuable for decision-making. Nevertheless, the extraction of information of interest remains a major challenge given a large number of heterogeneous databases. Building shareable and (re)usable data access mechanisms including automated… Read full abstract & cite →

Ontology relational database database modeling knowledge model ontology to relational database

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State Transition Testing Approach for Ad hoc Networks using Ant Colony Optimization

Author 1: Ahmed Redha Mahlous Author 2: Anis Zarrad Author 3: Taghreed Alotaibi

Nowadays, telecommunication software organizations are challenged to provide high-quality software to customers within their estimated time and budget in order to stay competitive within the market. Because quality is a defining aspect of the product, it is essential for a project manager to stay alert throughout the project lifecycle. Quality… Read full abstract & cite →

Component ant colony simulation optimization state transition ad hoc routing protocol

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Verifiable Search Over Updatable Encrypted Data in Cloud Computing

Author 1: Selasi Kwame Ocansey Author 2: Changda Wang Author 3: Wolali Ametepe Author 4: Qinbao Xu Author 5: Yu Zeng

With all the benefits from cloud computing, there are negative influences for the data trust and integrity since clients lose control over the outsourced data in clouds. We propose a verification scheme that supports keywords based search among the encrypted data which is updatable. During the verification process the outsourced… Read full abstract & cite →

Cloud computing verification outsourced data update correctness search results

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An Effective Virtual Reality based Remedy for Acrophobia

Author 1: Maria Abdullah Author 2: Zubair Ahmed Shaikh

Virtual reality (VR) Exposure Therapy with sophisticated technology has been used in the Psychological treatment. The goal is to design a virtual environment using HCI (HMD) device with an interactive and immersive realistic 3D graphic scenes for exposure therapy of acrophobia that allows patient to sense height and gets used… Read full abstract & cite →

HMI virtual reality (VR) HMD acrophobia VR exposure therapy cognitive behavioral therapy 3D VR environment

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Design of Miniaturized Multiband Microstrip Patch Antenna using Defected Ground Structure

Author 1: Mudasar Rashid Author 2: Mehre E Munir Author 3: Khalid Mahmood Author 4: Jehanzeb Khan

The recent developments in communication and antenna engineering demands compact and multiband antennas. Microstrip antenna is one of the most useful antennas for wireless communication because of its inherent features like low profile, light weight and easy fabrication. This design is aimed at miniaturized Microstrip Patch Antenna (MSA), without deteriorating… Read full abstract & cite →

Miniaturization multiband defected ground structure (DGS) defected patch structure (DPS) directivity gain

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Movement Direction Estimation on Video using Optical Flow Analysis on Multiple Frames

Author 1: Achmad Solichin Author 2: Agus Harjoko Author 3: Agfianto Eko Putra

This study proposed a model for determining the movement direction of the object based on the optical flow features. To increase the speed of computational time, optical flow features derived into a Histograms of Oriented Optical Flow (HOOF). We extracted them locally on the grid with a certain size. Moreover… Read full abstract & cite →

Video analysis movement direction optical flow Histograms of Oriented Optical Flow (HOOF) multiple frames

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Secure user Authentication and File Transfer in Wireless Sensor Network using Improved AES Algorithm

Author 1: Ishu Gupta Author 2: S.N Panda Author 3: Harsh SadaWarti Author 4: Jatin Gupta

The WSN technology is a highly efficient and effective way of gathering highly sensitive information and is often deployed in mission-critical applications, which makes the security of its data transmission of vital significance. However, the previous research paper failed to distinguish the role of centralized server for it being the… Read full abstract & cite →

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) centralized server black node encryption security key distribution technique

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Design of Android-Based Remote Patient Monitoring System

Author 1: Salman ul Mouzam Abbasi Author 2: Muhammad Daud Author 3: Salman Ali Author 4: Abdul Qadir Ansari

Efficient real-time monitoring systems for Patients with critical health condition have been always helpful for making timely decisions to save the lives. In such systems, the useful monitored factors include SPO2 (Oxygen Saturation in Blood), heart rate as well as temperature. Further, there are hundreds of patients in ICUs under… Read full abstract & cite →

Monitoring system SPO2 temperature android application bio instrumentation

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090627 PDF

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Urdu Word Segmentation using Machine Learning Approaches

Author 1: Sadiq Nawaz Khan Author 2: Khairullah Khan Author 3: Wahab Khan Author 4: Asfandyar Khan Author 5: Fazali Subhan Author 6: Aman Ullah Khan Author 7: Burhan Ullah

Word Segmentation is considered a basic NLP task and in diverse NLP areas, it plays a significant role. The main areas which can be benefited from Word segmentation are IR, POS, NER, sentiment analysis, etc. Urdu Word Segmentation is a challenging task. There can be a number of reasons but… Read full abstract & cite →

Part-of-speech (POS) NER word segmentation information retrieval Natural Language Processing (NLP) conditional random fields (CRF)

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090628 PDF

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A Systematic Review of Cyber Security and Classification of Attacks in Networks

Author 1: Muhammad Kashif Author 2: Sheraz Arshad Malik Author 3: Muhammad Tahir Abdullah Author 4: Muhammad Umair Author 5: Prince Waqas Khan

Cyber security plays an important role to secure the people who use internet via different electronic devices in their daily life. Some causes occurred all over world that people face problems when they connect their devices and system via internet. There are some highly sensitive data like biotechnology and military… Read full abstract & cite →

Cyber security internet intranet network security cybercrime and security alludes

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090629 PDF

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Data Mining: Web Data Mining Techniques, Tools and Algorithms: An Overview

Author 1: Muhammd Jawad Hamid Mughal

Web data mining became an easy and important platform for retrieval of useful information. Users prefer World Wide Web more to upload and download data. As increasing growth of data over the internet, it is getting difficult and time consuming for discovering informative knowledge and patterns. Digging knowledgeable and user… Read full abstract & cite →

Web data mining hyperlinks usage logs contents patterns

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Power Management of a Stand-Alone Hybrid (Wind/Solar/Battery) Energy System: An Experimental Investigation

Author 1: Saindad Mahesar Author 2: Mazhar H. Baloch Author 3: Ghulam S. Kaloi Author 4: Mahesh Kumar Author 5: Aamir M. Soomro Author 6: Asif A. Solangi Author 7: Yasir A. Memon

In this manuscript, a hybrid wind/solar/battery energy system is proposed for a stand-alone applications. Wind-solar energy sources are used as power generation source in the proposed hybrid energy system (HES), whereas battery is used as energy storing system in order to manage the power flow among various power generation sources… Read full abstract & cite →

Hybrid stand-alone wind solar battery power management Pakistan

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Text Separation from Graphics by Analyzing Stroke Width Variety in Persian City Maps

Author 1: Ali Ghafari-Beranghar Author 2: Ehsanollah Kabir Author 3: Kaveh Kangarloo

Text segmentation is a live research field with vast new areas to be explored. Separating text layer from graphics is a fundamental step to exploit text and graphics information. The language used in the map is a challenging issue in text layer separation problem. All current methods are proposed for… Read full abstract & cite →

Document image analysis text/graphics separation stroke width raster map Farsi Persian text segmentation text label

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Impact of Anaphora Resolution on Opinion Target Identification

Author 1: BiBi Saqia Author 2: Khairullah Khan Author 3: Aurangzeb Khan Author 4: Wahab Khan Author 5: Fazali Subhan Author 6: Muhammad Abid

Opinion mining is an interesting area of research because of its wide applications in the decision-making process. Opinion mining aims to extract user’s perception from the text and to create a fast and accurate summary of people’s opinion about anything. In this study, we have worked on opinion target identification… Read full abstract & cite →

Opinion mining machine learning evaluative expression anaphora resolution opinion targets

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A Novel Multiple Session Payment System

Author 1: Mohanad Faeq Ali Author 2: Nur Azman Abu Author 3: Norharyati Harum

A wireless smartphone can be designed to process a financial payment efficiently. A user can just swipe his/her credit/debit card over the counter and all the processing needed shall be done seamlessly. A smartphone is a popular device to carry around. It is a hassle to carry and keep track… Read full abstract & cite →

Easy payment system internet of things secure payment system

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Real-Time Concept Feedback in Lectures for Botho University Students

Author 1: Alpheus Wanano Mogwe

This is a mixed methodology study which focused on developing a real-time concept feedback system for Botho University students. The study takes advantage of the tablets distributed freely by the institution to ameliorate the problem of lack of understanding of module concepts during lecture lessons. The system addresses issues of… Read full abstract & cite →

Real-time feedback systems interactive technology e-learning information technology understanding of concepts

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Swarm Optimization based Radio Resource Allocation for Dense Devices D2D Communication

Author 1: O. Hayat Author 2: R. Ngah Author 3: Siti Z. Mohd Hashim

In Device to Device (D2D) communication two or more devices communicate directly with each other in the in-band cellular network. It enhances the spectral efficiency due to cellular radio resources (RR) are shared among the cellular users and D2D users. If the RR sharing is not legitimate properly, it causes… Read full abstract & cite →

Device to device (D2D) communication radio resources (RR) allocation OFDMA networks sub-channels and sub-carriers cellular users and D2D users

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An Efficient Link Prediction Technique in Social Networks based on Node Neighborhoods

Author 1: Gypsy Nandi Author 2: Anjan Das

The unparalleled accomplishment of social networking sites, such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter has modernized and transformed the way people communicate to each other. Nowadays, a huge amount of information is being shared by online users through these social networking sites. Various online friendship sites such as Facebook and Orkut… Read full abstract & cite →

Link prediction online social networks common neighbors Jaccard’s coefficient Adamic/Adar preferential attachment FriendLink

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Heterogeneous Buffer Size Impact on UDP Performance for Real-Time Video Streaming Application

Author 1: Sarfraz Ahmed Soomro Author 2: M. Mujtaba Shaikh Author 3: Nasreen Nizamani Author 4: Ehsan Ali Buriro Author 5: Khalil M. Zuhaib

Communication specifically in real-time (RTC) is a terminology which insinuates any live media transmission that occurs inside time limits. In this paper, heterogeneous buffer sizes in random are utilized on different routers and for different ranges to examine their effect on the performance of network for user datagram protocol’s (UDP)… Read full abstract & cite →

Real-time communication buffer size user datagram protocol video streaming

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FPGA based Synthesize of PSO Algorithm and its Area-Performance Analysis

Author 1: Bharat Lal Harijan Author 2: Farrukh Shaikh Author 3: Burhan Aslam Arain Author 4: Tayab Din Memon Author 5: Imtiaz Hussain Kalwar

Digital filters are the most significant part of signal processing that are used in enormous applications such as speech recognition, acoustic, adaptive equalization, and noise and interference reduction. It would be of great benefit to implement adaptive FIR filter because of self-optimization property, linearity and frequency stability. Designing FIR filter… Read full abstract & cite →

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) Remez Exchange Algorithm FPGA implementation FIR filter

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A Comparative Evaluation of Dotted Raster-Stereography and Feature-Based Techniques for Automated Face Recognition

Author 1: Muhammad Wasim Author 2: S. Talha Ahsan Author 3: Lubaid Ahmed Author 4: Syed Faisal Ali Author 5: Fauzan Saeed

Automated face recognition systems are fast becoming a need for security-related applications. Development of a fool-proof and efficient face recognition system is a challenging domain for researchers. This paper presents comparative evaluation of two candidate techniques for automated face recognition application, viz. dotted Raster-stereography and feature-based system. The relevant performance… Read full abstract & cite →

Raster-stereography dotted raster-stereography feature based face recognition IPRL

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Empirical Evaluation of Modified Agile Models

Author 1: Shabib Aftab Author 2: Zahid Nawaz Author 3: Faiza Anwer Author 4: Muhammad Salman Bashir Author 5: Munir Ahmad Author 6: Madiha Anwar

Empirical evaluation is one of the widely accepted validation method in the domain of software engineering which investigates the proposed technique via practical experience and reflects its benefits and limitations. Due to various advantages, agile models have been taking over the conventional software development methodologies since last two decades. However… Read full abstract & cite →

Agile models SXP SFDD Modified XP modified FDD empirical evaluation comparative analysis

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Information System Evaluation based on Multi-Criteria Decision Making: A Comparison of Two Sectors

Author 1: Ansar DAGHOURI Author 2: Khalifa MANSOURI Author 3: Mohammed QBADOU

In this article, our purpose is to introduce the results of a new approach to assess the information system success. It is based on the DeLone and McLean model and was applied on two domains. The chosen domains are banking sector being the most customer of information technology and construction… Read full abstract & cite →

Information system success multi criteria decision AHP and TOPSIS methods criteria

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A Survey of Energy Aware Cloud’s Resource Allocation Techniques for Virtual Machine Consolidation

Author 1: Asif Farooq Author 2: Tahir Iqbal Author 3: Muhammad Usman Ali Author 4: Zunnurain Hussain

As the demand for cloud computing environment is increasing, new techniques for making cloud computing more environment-friendly are being proposed with an aim to convert traditional cloud computing into green cloud computing. A standout amongst the most imperative complications in cloud computing is streamlining of energy utilization because its importance… Read full abstract & cite →

Cloud computing energy aware green cloud computing

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Ant Colony System for Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem with Overtime

Author 1: Khaoula OUADDI Author 2: Youssef BENADADA Author 3: Fatima-Zahra MHADA

Traditionally, in a VRP the vehicles return to depot before the end of the working time. However, in reality several constraints can occur and prevent the vehicles from being at the depot on time. In the dynamic case, we are supposed to answer the requests the same day of their… Read full abstract & cite →

Dynamic vehicle routing problem (DVRP) multi-tours mathematical modeling hybrid Ant Colony System (ACS) overtime

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Multi-Class Breast Cancer Classification using Deep Learning Convolutional Neural Network

Author 1: Majid Nawaz Author 2: Adel A. Sewissy Author 3: Taysir Hassan A. Soliman

Breast cancer continues to be among the leading causes of death for women and much effort has been expended in the form of screening programs for prevention. Given the exponential growth in the number of mammograms collected by these programs, computer-assisted diagnosis has become a necessity. Computer-assisted detection techniques developed… Read full abstract & cite →

Breast cancer classification Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) deep learning medical image processing histopathological images

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A Comparative Study of Engineering Students Pedagogical Progress

Author 1: Khalid Mahboob Author 2: Syed Abbas Ali Author 3: Danish Ur Rehman Khan Author 4: Fayyaz Ali

Students’ pedagogical progress plays a pivotal role in any educational institute in order to pursue imperative education. Educational institutes, Universities, Colleges implement various performance measures in order to keep analyzing and tracking progress of students to cultivate benefits of education in a better way. There are several data mining techniques… Read full abstract & cite →

Pedagogical progress classification k-nearest neighbor Naïve Bayes decision trees engineering students

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Student’s Opinions on Online Educational Games for Learning Programming Introductory

Author 1: Roslina Ibrahim Author 2: Nor Zairah A. Rahim Author 3: Doris Wong H. Ten Author 4: Rasimah C.M Yusoff Author 5: Nurazean Maarop Author 6: Suraya Yaacob

Use of educational games is an approach that has potential to change the existing educational method. This is due to games popularity among younger generation as well as engagement and fun features of games compared to conventional learning method. In addition, games are among the most widespread media amongst younger… Read full abstract & cite →

Educational games programming introductory undergraduate games evaluation

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Accident Detection and Smart Rescue System using Android Smartphone with Real-Time Location Tracking

Author 1: Arsalan Khan Author 2: Farzana Bibi Author 3: Muhammad Dilshad Author 4: Salman Ahmed Author 5: Zia Ullah Author 6: Haider Ali

A large number of deaths are caused by Traffic accidents worldwide. The global crisis of road safety can be seen by observing the significant number of deaths and injuries that are caused by road traffic accidents. In many situations the family members or emergency services are not informed in time… Read full abstract & cite →

Traffic accidents accident detection on-board sensor accelerometer android smartphones real-time tracking emergency services emergency responder emergency victim SOSafe SOSafe Go firebase

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Dist-Coop: Distributed Cooperative Transmission in UWSNs using Optimization Congestion Control and Opportunistic Routing

Author 1: Malik Taimur Ali Author 2: Saqib Shahid Rahim Author 3: Mian Ahmed Jan Author 4: Atif Ishtiaq Author 5: Sheeraz Ahmed Author 6: Mukhtar Ahmad Author 7: Mukhtaj Khan Author 8: M. Ayub Khan

One of the real issues in UWSN is congestion control. The need is to plan an optimized congestion control scheme which enhances the network life time and in addition limits the usage of energy in data transmission from source to destination. In this paper, we propose a routing protocol called… Read full abstract & cite →

Opportunistic routing cooperation congestion control signal-to-noise ratio

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Traffic Predicting Model for Dynamic Spectrum Sharing Over 5G Networks

Author 1: Ahmed Alshaflut Author 2: Vijey Thayananthan

Recently, wireless networks and traffic requirements have been rapidly aggregated in diverse applications in 5G environments. For this reason, researchers have investigated the influences of this growth based on a user’s requirements inside these networks. However, the stream of traffic has been considered a crucial role for the user’s needs… Read full abstract & cite →

Component traffic predictions software defined multiple access dynamic spectrum sharing 5G networks

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Implication of Genetic Algorithm in Cryptography to Enhance Security

Author 1: Muhammad Irshad Nazeer Author 2: Ghulam Ali Mallah Author 3: Noor Ahmed Shaikh Author 4: Rakhi Bhatra Author 5: Raheel Ahmed Memon Author 6: Muhammad Ismail Mangrio

In today’s age of information technology secure transmission of information is a big challenge. Symmetric and asymmetric cryptosystems are not appropriate for high level of security. Modern hash function based systems are better than traditional systems but the complex algorithms of generating invertible functions are very time consuming. In traditional… Read full abstract & cite →

Secure transmission symmetric cryptosystems invertible functions genetic algorithms efficient encryption

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Airline Sentiment Visualization, Consumer Loyalty Measurement and Prediction using Twitter Data

Author 1: Rida Khan Author 2: Siddhaling Urolagin

Social media today is an integral part of people’s daily routines and the livelihood of some. As a result, it is abundant in user opinions. The analysis of brand specific opinions can inform companies on the level of satisfaction within consumers. This research focus is on analysis of tweets related… Read full abstract & cite →

Consumer loyalty measurement consumer loyalty prediction sentimental visualization airline consumer analysis

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A Proposal for a Technological Solution to Improve user Experience in a Shopping Center based on Indoor Geolocation Services

Author 1: Luinel Andrade Author 2: Johan Quintero Author 3: Eric Gamess Author 4: Antonio Russoniello

For shopping centers, mobile devices and their associated technologies represent great business opportunities and a way to improve the user experience within their facilities. These types of constructions are usually quite large, multi-story, and with a significant number of shops, services, where the visitors may find themselves having difficulties to… Read full abstract & cite →

Mobile application web application geolocation shopping center WiFi access points

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Open-Domain Neural Conversational Agents: The Step Towards Artificial General Intelligence

Author 1: Sasa Arsovski Author 2: Sze Hui Wong Author 3: Adrian David Cheok

Development of conversational agents started half century ago and since then it has transformed into a technology that is accessible in various aspects in everyday life. This paper presents a survey current state-of-the-art in the open domain neural conversational agent research and future research directions towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)… Read full abstract & cite →

Artificial intelligence deep learning neural networks open domain chatbots conversational agents

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Formal Analysis and Verification of Agent-Oriented Supply-Chain Management

Author 1: Muhammad Zubair Shoukat Author 2: Muhammad Atif Author 3: Imran Riaz Hasrat Author 4: Nadia Mushtaq Author 5: Ijaz Ahmed

Managing various relationships among the supply chain processes is known as Supply Chain Management (SCM). SCM is the oversight of finance, information and material as they move in the flow from different suppliers to manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer and customers. The main problem with such software architecture is coordination and reliability… Read full abstract & cite →

Supply chain management agent-oriented supplychain model checking formal specification and verification

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Effect of TCP Buffer Size on the Internet Applications

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

The development of applications, such as online video streaming, collaborative writing, VoIP, text and video messengers is increasing. The number of such TCP-based applications is increasing due to the increasing availability of the Internet. The TCP protocol, works at the 4th layer of the Internet model and provides many services… Read full abstract & cite →

TCP sender buffer receiver buffer stream control transmission protocol (SCTP) error detection and correction

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Non-Linear Energy Harvesting Dual-hop DF Relaying System over n-µ Fading Channels

Author 1: Ayaz Hussain Author 2: Nazar Hussain Phulpoto Author 3: Ubaidullah Rajput Author 4: Fizza Abbas Author 5: Zahoor Ahmed Baloch

In this work, we analyze a wireless energy harvest-ing decode-and-forward (DF) relaying network with beamforming that is based on a practical non-linear energy harvesting model over η-μ fading channels. We consider a dual-hop relaying system having multiple antennas at the source and destination only. The single-antenna energy constrained relay assists… Read full abstract & cite →

Energy harvesting relay non-linear energy har-vester ?-µ fading power-splitting-based relaying throughput

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Web Scraper Revealing Trends of Target Products and New Insights in Online Shopping Websites

Author 1: Habib Ullah Author 2: Zahid Ullah Author 3: Shahid Maqsood Author 4: Abdul Hafeez

Trillions of posts from Facebook, tweets in Twitter, photos on Instagram and e-mails on exchange servers are overwhelming the Internet with big data. This necessitates the development of such tools that can detect the frequent updates and select the required information instantly. This research work aims to implement scraper software… Read full abstract & cite →

Django QuerySet (DQS) e-commerce hamming distance algorithm (HDA) Levenshtein distance algorithm (LDA) scraper scheduling mechanism

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Marine Engine Room Alarm Monitoring System

Author 1: Isaac Tawiah Author 2: Usman Ashraf Author 3: Yinglei Song Author 4: Aleena Akhtar

Alarms affect operations in most part of the ship. Their impact on modern Engine Control Room operations is no less significant. The state of an alarm system serves as an indication of the extent to which the ship’s operations are under management control. Thus, the design of efficient and reliable… Read full abstract & cite →

Alarm monitoring system engine control room OPC communication PLCs SCADA systems

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Performance Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms for Missing Value Imputation

Author 1: Nadzurah Zainal Abidin Author 2: Amelia Ritahani Ismail Author 3: Nurul A. Emran

Data mining requires a pre-processing task in which the data are prepared, cleaned, integrated, transformed, reduced and discretized for ensuring the quality. Missing values is a universal problem in many research domains that is commonly encountered in the data cleaning process. Missing values usually occur when a value of stored… Read full abstract & cite →

Data Mining Imputation Machine Learning KNearest Neighbors Decision Tree Bayesian Networks

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Introducing a Cybersecurity Mindset into Software Engineering Undergraduate Courses

Author 1: Ingrid A. Buckley Author 2: Janusz Zalewski Author 3: Peter J. Clarke

Cybersecurity is a growing problem globally. Software helps to drive and optimize businesses in every aspect of modern life. Software systems have been under continued attacks by malicious entities, and in some cases, the consequences have been catastrophic. In order to tackle this pervasive problem, emphasis has been placed on… Read full abstract & cite →

Cybersecurity security education software testing computer security defect detection software maintenance

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Trust and Security Concerns of Cloud Storage: An Indonesian Technology Acceptance

Author 1: Nurudin Santoso Author 2: Ari Kusyanti Author 3: Harin Puspa Ayu Catherina Author 4: Yustiyana April Lia Sari

Cloud drive is a service that offers data storage on the cloud. As the worldwide rapid growth of cloud drive there are ongoing concerns about trust, privacy and security concerns about how the user’s personal information and data are visible to other users or even abused by the cloud drive… Read full abstract & cite →

Cloud drive structural equation modeling (SEM) trust security risk behavior intention

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Dimensions of Open Government Data Web Portals: A Case of Asian Countries

Author 1: Sanad Aarshi Author 2: Usman Tariq Author 3: Babur Hayat Malik Author 4: Fariha Habib Author 5: Kinza Ashfaq Author 6: Irm Saleem

Citizen Factors of the open government data are being explored in this study in the selected Asian countries. As per the open data availability countries have been selected on global open data index and well-structured open government data portals of Asian countries. To identify and analyze the differences of selected… Read full abstract & cite →

Transparency accountability portal activities adoption principals of open government data which are eight in number benefits of open government data recommendations

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