IJACSA Vol. 7 Issue 7 (2016)

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A Vertical Handover Management for Mobile Telemedicine System using Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Author 1: Hoe-Tung Yew Author 2: Eko Supriyanto Author 3: M Haikal Satria Author 4: Yuan-Wen Hau

Application of existing mobile telemedicine system is restricted by the imperfection of network coverage, network capacity, and mobility. In this paper, a novel telemedicine based handover decision making (THODM) algorithm is proposed for mobile telemedicine system using heterogeneous wireless networks. The proposed algorithm select the best network based on the… Read full abstract & cite →

Mobile telemedicine system vertical handover heterogeneous networks unnecessary handover throughput cost

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A New Approach for Improvement Security against DoS Attacks in Vehicular Ad-hoc Network

Author 1: Reza Fotohi Author 2: Yaser Ebazadeh Author 3: Mohammad Seyyar Geshlag

Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANET) are a proper subset of mobile wireless networks, where nodes are revulsive, the vehicles are armed with special electronic devices on the motherboard OBU (On Board Unit) which enables them to trasmit and receive messages from other vehicles in the VANET. Furthermore the communication between the… Read full abstract & cite →

component VANET P-Secure Protocol DoS Attack detection OBUmodelVaNET security

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Performance Evaluation of Routing Protocol (RPL) for Internet of Things

Author 1: Qusai Q. Abuein Author 2: Muneer Bani Yassein Author 3: Mohammed Q. Shatnawi Author 4: Laith Bani-Yaseen Author 5: Omar Al-Omari Author 6: Moutaz Mehdawi Author 7: Hussien Altawssi

Recently, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standardized a powerful and flexible routing protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks (RPL). RPL is a routing protocol for low power and lossy networks in the Internet of Things. It is an extensible distance vector protocol, which has been proposed for low power… Read full abstract & cite →

density network objective function zero grid packet delivery power consumption Internet of Things

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A New Method to Build NLP Knowledge for Improving Term Disambiguation

Author 1: E. MD. Abdelrahim Author 2: El-Sayed Atlam Author 3: R. F. Mansour

Term sense disambiguation is very essential for different approaches of NLP, including Internet search engines, information retrieval, Data mining, classification etc. However, the old methods using case frames and semantic primitives are not qualify for solving term ambiguities which needs a lot of information with sentences. This new approach introduces… Read full abstract & cite →

Information Retrieval NLP Knowledge Disambiguation Word Semantics trie structure

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Combination of Neural Networks and Fuzzy Clustering Algorithm to Evalution Training Simulation-Based Training

Author 1: Lida Pourjafar Author 2: Mehdi Sadeghzadeh Author 3: Marjan Abdeyazdan

With the advancement of computer technology, computer simulation in the field of education are more realistic and more effective. The definition of simulation is to create a virtual environment that accurately and real experiences to improve the individual. So Simulation Based Training is the ability to improve, replace, create or… Read full abstract & cite →

Educational Data Mining Simulation-Based Training Dimensions Reduction ANFIS

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A Proposed Quantitative Conceptual Model for the Assessment of Patient Clinical Outcome

Author 1: Mou’ath Hourani

The assessment of patient clinical outcome focuses on measuring various aspects of the patient’s health status after medical treatments and interventions. Patient clinical outcome assessment is a major concern in the clinical field as the current measures are not well developed and, as a result, they may be used without… Read full abstract & cite →

quantitative conceptual model assessment patient clinical outcome

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Identifying and Prioritizing Evaluation Criteria for User-Centric Digital Identity Management Systems

Author 1: Sepideh Banihashemi Author 2: Elaheh Homayounvala Author 3: Alireza Talebpour Author 4: Abdolreza Abhari

Identity Management systems are used for securing digital identity of users in reliable, automated and compatible way. Service providers employ identity management systems which are cost effective and scalable but cause poor usability for users. Identity management systems are user-centric applications which should be designed by considering users’ perspective. User… Read full abstract & cite →

management of information technology digital identity management systems evaluation criteria fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP) user-centricity

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Direct Torque Control of Saturated Doubly-Fed Induction Generator using High Order Sliding Mode Controllers

Author 1: Elhadj BOUNADJA Author 2: Abdelkader DJAHBAR Author 3: Mohand Oulhadj MAHMOUDI Author 4: Mohamed MATALLAH

The present work examines a direct torque control strategy using a high order sliding mode controllers of a doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) incorporated in a wind energy conversion system and working in saturated state. This research is carried out to reach two main objectives. Firstly, in order to introduce some… Read full abstract & cite →

Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) Magnetic saturation Direct Torque Control (DTC) High Order Sliding Mode Controller (HOSMC)

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Energy Dissipation Model for 4G and WLAN Networks in Smart Phones

Author 1: Shalini Prasad Author 2: S. Balaji

With the modernization of the telecommunication standards, there has been considerable evolution of various technologies to assist cost effective communication. In this regard, the fourth generation communication services or commonly known as 4G mobile networks have penetrated almost every part of the world to offer faster and seamless data connectivity… Read full abstract & cite →

G Wireless Networks Energy Consumption Smart phone Wi-Fi

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Effective Data Mining Technique for Classification Cancers via Mutations in Gene using Neural Network

Author 1: Ayad Ghany Ismaeel Author 2: Dina Yousif Mikhail

The prediction plays the important role in detecting efficient protection and therapy/treatment of cancer. The prediction of mutations in gene needs a diagnostic and classification, which is based on the whole database (big dataset enough), to reach sufficient accuracy/correct results. Since the tumor suppressor P53 is approximately about fifty percentage… Read full abstract & cite →

Detection Classification Data Mining TP53 Gene Tumor Protein P53 Back Propagation Network (BPN)

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Firefly Algorithm for Adaptive Emergency Evacuation Center Management

Author 1: Yuhanis Yusof Author 2: Nor Laily Hashim Author 3: Noraziah ChePa Author 4: Azham Hussain

Flood disaster is among the most devastating natural disasters in the world, claiming more lives and causing property damage. The pattern of floods across all continents has been changing, becoming more frequent, intense and unpredictable for local communities. Due to unforeseen scenarios, some evacuation centers that host the flood victims… Read full abstract & cite →

Firefly Algorithm Swarm Intelligence Flood Management Evacuation Center Management

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A Conversion of Empirical MOS Transistor Model Extracted From 180 nm Technology To EKV3.0 Model Using MATLAB

Author 1: Amine AYED Author 2: Mongi LAHIANI Author 3: Hamadi GHARIANI

In this paper, the EKV3.0 model used for RF analog designs was validated in all-inversion regions under bias conditions and geometrical effects. A conversion of empirical data of 180nm CMOS process to EKV model was proposed. A MATLAB developed algorithm for parameter extraction was set up to evaluate the basic… Read full abstract & cite →

EKV model gm/ID methodology analog design MATLAB

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PSO Algorithm based Adaptive Median Filter for Noise Removal in Image Processing Application

Author 1: Ruby Verma Author 2: Rajesh Mehra

A adaptive Switching median filter for salt and pepper noise removal based on genetic algorithm is presented. Proposed filter consist of two stages, a noise detector stage and a noise filtering stage. Particle swarm optimization seems to be effective for single objective problem. Noise Dictation stage works on it. In… Read full abstract & cite →

Switching median filter Particle Swarm algorithm Noise removal salt and pepper noise

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Switched Control of a Time Delayed Compass Gait Robot

Author 1: Elyes Maherzi Author 2: Walid Arouri Author 3: Mongi Besbes

the analysis and control of delayed systems are becoming more and more research topics in progress. This is mainly due to the fact that the delay is frequently encountered in technological systems. Most control command laws are based on current digital computers and delays are intrinsic to the process or… Read full abstract & cite →

Biped robot delayed system Switched system Stability Lagrange formulation Lyapunov method Relaxation Linear matrix inequalities (LMI) bilinear matrix inequalities (BMI)

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An Evolutionary Stochastic Approach for Efficient Image Retrieval using Modified Particle Swarm Optimization

Author 1: Hadis Heidari Author 2: Abdolah Chalechale

Image retrieval system as a reliable tool can help people in reaching efficient use of digital image accumulation; also finding efficient methods for the retrieval of images is important. Color and texture descriptors are two basic features in image retrieval. In this paper, an approach is employed which represents a… Read full abstract & cite →

color moments content based image retrieval particle swarm optimization (PSO) texture feature

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Evaluating Web Accessibility Metrics for Jordanian Universities

Author 1: Israa Wahbi Kamal Author 2: Heider A. Wahsheh Author 3: Izzat M. Alsmadi Author 4: Mohammed N. Al-Kabi

University web portals are considered one of the main access gateways for universities. Typically, they have a large candidate audience among the current students, employees, and faculty members aside from previous and future students, employees, and faculty members. Web accessibility is the concept of providing web content universal access to… Read full abstract & cite →

web accessibility web ranking web evaluation web testing

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Ontology for Academic Program Accreditation

Author 1: Jehad Sabri Alomari

Many educational institutions are adopting national and international accreditation programs to improve teaching, student learning, and curriculum. There is a growing demand across higher education for automation and helpful educational resources to continuously improve student outcomes. The student outcomes are the required knowledge and skill set that graduates of any… Read full abstract & cite →

Accreditation Ontology Semantic Web classification Education

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A Dual Cylindrical Tunable Laser Based on MEMS

Author 1: Ahmed Fawzy Author 2: Osama M. EL-Ghandour Author 3: Hesham F.A. Hamed

Free space optics is considered the topic of the day and have a large variety of applications which free space separates source from destination such as External cavity tunable laser (ECTL). In ECTL, laser source emits Gaussian beam that propagates in plane with substrate until reach external reflector. The efficiency… Read full abstract & cite →

Dual ECT wavelength tuning MEMS DRIE

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Function-Behavior-Structure Model of Design: An Alternative Approach

Author 1: Sabah Al-Fedaghi

The Function-Behavior-Structure model (FBS) of design conceptualizes objects in terms of function, behavior, and structure. It has been widely utilized as a foundation for modelling the design process that transforms posited functions to a description of behaviors. Nevertheless, the FBS model is still regarded as a subjective and experience-based process… Read full abstract & cite →

conceptual design FBS framework flow-based model function behaviour structure

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Evolutionary Strategy of Chromosomal RSOM Model on Chip for Phonemes Recognition

Author 1: Mohamed Salah Salhi Author 2: Nejib Khalfaoui Author 3: Hamid Amiri

This paper aims to contribute in modeling and implementation, over a system on chip SoC, of a powerful technique for phonemes recognition in continuous speech. A neural model known by its efficiency in static data recognition, named SOM for self organization map, is developed into a recurrent model to incorporate… Read full abstract & cite →

Information recognition Recurrent SOM Chromosomal RSOM model Evolutionary RSOM Implementation over SoC

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An Intelligent Agent based Architecture for Visual Data Mining

Author 1: Hamdi Ellouzi Author 2: Hela Ltifi Author 3: Mounir Ben Ayed

the aim of this paper is to present an intelligent architecture of Decision Support System (DSS) based on visual data mining. This architecture applies the multi-agent technology to facilitate the design and development of DSS in complex and dynamic environment. Multi-Agent Systems add a high level of abstraction. To validate… Read full abstract & cite →

Multi Agent System Decision Support System Visualization Knowledge Discovery from Data Nosocomial Infection

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A Zone Classification Approach for Arabic Documents using Hybrid Features

Author 1: Amany M.Hesham Author 2: Sherif Abdou Author 3: Amr Badr Author 4: Mohsen Rashwan Author 5: Hassanin M.Al-Barhamtoshy

Zone segmentation and classification is an important step in document layout analysis. It decomposes a given scanned document into zones. Zones need to be classified into text and non-text, so that only text zones are provided to a recognition engine. This eliminates garbage output resulting from sending non-text zones to… Read full abstract & cite →

segmentation layout analysis texture features connected component analysis Arabic script genetic algorithms

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Air Pollution Analysis using Ontologies and Regression Models

Author 1: Parul Choudhary Author 2: Dr. Jyoti Gautam

Rapidly throughout the world economy, "the expansive Web" in the "world" explosive growth, rapidly growing market characterized by short product cycles exists and the demand for increased flexibility as well as the extensive use of a new data vision managed data society. A new socio-economic system that relies more and… Read full abstract & cite →

Ontologies Air pollution Analysis Regression Models Linear Regression

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Decision Support System for Diabetes Mellitus through Machine Learning Techniques

Author 1: Tarik A. Rashid Author 2: Saman . M. Abdulla Author 3: Rezhna . M. Abdulla

recently, the diseases of diabetes mellitus have grown into extremely feared problems that can have damaging effects on the health condition of their sufferers globally. In this regard, several machine learning models have been used to predict and classify diabetes types. Nevertheless, most of these models attempted to solve two… Read full abstract & cite →

Diabetes disease Blood sugar rate and symptoms ANN Prediction and Classification models

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An Efficient Application Specific Memory Storage and ASIP Behavior Optimization in Embedded System

Author 1: Ravi Khatwal Author 2: Manoj Kumar Jain

Low power embedded system requires effective memory design system which improves the system performance with the help of memory implementation techniques. Application specific data allocation design pattern implements the memory storage area and internal cell design techniques implements data transition speeds. Embedded cache design is implemented with simulator and scheduling… Read full abstract & cite →

Memory design Compiler Processor design Scheduling Techniques Memory storage

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MAS based on a Fast and Robust FCM Algorithm for MR Brain Image Segmentation

Author 1: Hanane Barrah Author 2: Abdeljabbar Cherkaoui Author 3: Driss Sarsri

In the aim of providing sophisticated applications and getting benefits from the advantageous properties of agents, designing agent-based and multi-agent systems has become an important issue that received further consideration from many application domains. Towards the same goal, this work gathered three different research fields; image segmentation, fuzzy clustering and… Read full abstract & cite →

agents MAS FCM c-means algorithm MRI images image segmentation

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Development of the System to Support Tourists’ Excursion Behavior using Augmented Reality

Author 1: Jiawen ZHOU Author 2: Kayoko YAMAMOTO

The purpose of this study is to develop an information system (AR recommended GIS) to support tourists’ excursion behavior by making the accumulating, sharing, and recommending of information concerning urban tourist spots possible. The conclusion of this study can be summarized into three points as shown below. (1) In order… Read full abstract & cite →

Augmented Reality Web-GIS Social Media Recommendation System AR recommended GIS Tourists’ Excursion Behavior

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An Efficent Lossless Compression Scheme for ECG Signal

Author 1: O. *El B’charri Author 2: R. Latif Author 3: A. Abenaou Author 4: A. Dliou Author 5: W. Jenkal

Cardiac diseases constitute the main cause of mortality around the globe. For detection and identification of cardiac problems, it is very important to monitor the patient's heart activities for long periods during his normal daily life. The recorded signal that contains information about the condition of the heart called electrocardiogram… Read full abstract & cite →

ECG lossless compression data encoding compression ratio

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Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL) Number Recognition from Both Hand’s Gestures Acquired by Kinect Sensors

Author 1: Eriglen Gani Author 2: Alda Kika

Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL) is relatively new and until now there doesn’t exist a system that is able to recognize Albanian signs by using natural user interfaces (NUI). The aim of this paper is to present a real-time gesture recognition system that is able to automatically recognize number signs for… Read full abstract & cite →

Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL) Number Recog-nition Microsoft Kinect K-Means Fourier Descriptors

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A Collaborative Process of Decision Making in the Business Context based on Online Questionnaires

Author 1: Rhizlane Seltani Author 2: Noura Aknin Author 3: Souad Amjad Author 4: Mohamed Chrayah Author 5: Kamal Eddine El Kadiri

This article is a component of a series of articles and scientific researches conducted by the research team which deals with the web 2.0 and its interactions with the different technology areas. During recent years, the emergence of the web 2.0 has revolutionized the world of new technologies, in particular… Read full abstract & cite →

Decision Making Web 2.0 Blogs Business Intelligence SCAMMPERR Method Online Questionnaire

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Intelligent Sensor Based Bayesian Neural Network for Combined Parameters and States Estimation of a Brushed DC Motor

Author 1: Hacene MELLAH Author 2: Kamel Eddine HEMSAS Author 3: Rachid TALEB

The objective of this paper is to develop an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model to estimate simultaneously, parameters and state of a brushed DC machine. The proposed ANN estimator is novel in the sense that his estimates simultaneously temperature, speed and rotor resistance based only on the measurement of the… Read full abstract & cite →

DC motor thermal modeling state and parameter estimations Bayesian regulation backpropagation cascade-forward neural network

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Social Computing: The Impact on Cultural Behavior

Author 1: Naif Ali Almudawi

Social computing continues to become more and more popular and has impacted cultural behavior. While cultural behavior affects the way an individual do social computing, Hofstede’s theory is still prevalent. The results of this literature review suggest that, at least for several cultural dimensions, some adjustments may be required to… Read full abstract & cite →

social computing Web 2.0 cultural behavior culture Power distance Individualism vs. collectivism masculinity vs. femininity uncertainty avoidance and time horizon

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Improvisation of Security aspect of Steganographic System by applying RSA Algorithm

Author 1: Manoj Kumar Ramaiya Author 2: Dr. Dinesh Goyal Author 3: Dr. Naveen Hemrajani

The applications accessing multimedia systems and content over the internet have grown extremely in the earlier few years. Moreover, several end users or intruders can simply use tools to synthesize and modify valuable information. The safety of information over unsafe communication channel has constantly been a primary concern in the… Read full abstract & cite →

Image Steganography Cryptography LSB insertion Public key Cryptosystem RSA algorithm

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New Modified RLE Algorithms to Compress Grayscale Images with Lossy and Lossless Compression

Author 1: Hassan K. Albahadily Author 2: Alaa A. Jabbar Altaay Author 3: Viktar U. Tsviatko Author 4: Valery K. Kanapelka

New modified RLE algorithms to compress grayscale images with lossy and lossless compression, depending on the probability of repetition of pixels in the image and the pixel values to reduce the size of the encoded data by sending bit 1 instead of the original value of the pixel if the… Read full abstract & cite →

compression Run Length Encoding quantization

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An Investigation and Comparison of Invasive Weed, Flower Pollination and Krill Evolutionary Algorithms

Author 1: Marjan Abdeyazdan Author 2: Samaneh Mehri Dehno Author 3: Sayyed Hedayat Tarighinejad

Being inspired by natural phenomena and available biological processes in the nature is one of the difficult methods of problem solving in computer sciences. Evolutionary methods are a set of algorithms that are inspired from the nature and are based on their evolutionary mechanisms. Unlike other optimizing methods of problem… Read full abstract & cite →

evolutionary algorithm invasive weed algorithm flower pollination algorithm krill algorithm

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Mobile Forensic Images and Videos Signature Pattern Matching using M-Aho-Corasick

Author 1: Yusoof Mohammed Hasheem Author 2: Kamaruddin Malik Mohamad Author 3: Ahmed Nur Elmi Abdi Author 4: Rashid Naseem

Mobile forensics is an exciting new field of research. An increasing number of Open source and commercial digital forensics tools are focusing on less time during digital forensic examination. There is a major issue affecting some mobile forensic tools that allow the tools to spend much time during the forensic… Read full abstract & cite →

mobile forensics Images Videos M-Aho-Corasick (File Signature Pattern Matching)

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Visual Knowledge Generation from Data Mining Patterns for Decision-Making

Author 1: Jihed Elouni Author 2: Hela Ltifi Author 3: Mounir Ben Ayed Author 4: Mohamed Masmoudi

The visual data mining based decision support systems had already been recognized in literature. It allows users analysing large information spaces to support complex decision-making. Prior research provides frameworks focused on simply representing extracted patterns. In this paper, we present a new model for visually generating knowledge from these patterns… Read full abstract & cite →

Knowledge patterns visualization data mining Decision Support Systems

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A Novel Design of Miniaturaized Patch Antenna Using Different Substrates for S-Band and C-Band Applications

Author 1: Saad Hassan Kiani Author 2: Khalid Mahmood Author 3: Sharyar Shafeeq Author 4: Mehre Munir Author 5: Khalil Muhammad Khan

In advance communication technology, patch antennas are widely exploit due to their inexpensive and light weighted structure. This paper presents a novel design of miniaturized multiband patch antenna using different substrates frequently used in patch antennas. Various substrates such as Teflon, Roger 5880, Bakelite and Air are in use to… Read full abstract & cite →

substrates microstrip return loss directivity miniaturized Impdence bandwidth

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Impact of Elliptical Holes Filled with Ethanol on Confinement Loss and Dispersion in Photonic Crystal Fibers

Author 1: Khemiri Kheareddine Author 2: Ezzedine Tahar Author 3: Houria Rezig

To get a confinement loss value, the weakest possible We have interest to optimize an optical fiber our structure has a cladding which is formed by holes in silica. The geometry of the holes is special because they have an elliptical shape and oriented with some angle. The introduction of… Read full abstract & cite →

confinement loss dispersion doped Photonic Crystal Fiber ethanol-filled holes elliptical holes FDTD

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Improving the Recognition of Heart Murmur

Author 1: Magd Ahmed Kotb Author 2: Hesham Nabih Elmahdy Author 3: Fatma El Zahraa Mostafa Author 4: Mona El Falaki Author 5: Christine William Shaker Author 6: Mohamed Ahmed Refaey Author 7: Khaled W Y Rjoob

Diagnosis of congenital cardiac defects is challenging, with some being diagnosed during pregnancy while others are diagnosed after birth or later on during childhood. Prompt diagnosis allows early intervention and best prognosis. Contemporary diagnosis relies upon the history, clinical examination, pulse oximetery, chest X-ray, electrocardiogram (ECG), echocardiography (ECHO), computed tomography… Read full abstract & cite →

component Hidden Markov Model (HMM) Heart Murmur Mel Frequency Cepestral Coefficient MFCC Systolic Murmur Diastolic Murmur Auscultation Area ventricular septaldefect (VSD) mitral stenosis (MS) mitral regurgitation (MR) aortic stenosis (AS) aortic regurgitation (AR) patent ductusarteriosus (PDA) pulmonary regurgitation (PR) pulmonary stenosis (PS) Electrocardiogram(ECG) Echocardiography(ECHO) Computed Tomography(CT) Correct Classification Rate(CCR) Artificial Neural Network(ANN) Back Propagation Neural Network (BPNN) Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) Support Vector Machines(SVM) Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) MATRIXLABORATORY (MATLAB) Radial Basis Function (RBF)

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Investigative Behavioral Intention to Knowledge Acceptance and Motivation in Cloud Computing Applications

Author 1: Sundus A. Hamoodi

Recently the number of Cloud Computing users in educational institutions has increased. Students have the chance to access various applications and this gives the opportunity to take advantage of those applications. This study examined the behavioral Intention toward Cloud Computing Applications and evaluated the acceptance of these Applications. Participants population… Read full abstract & cite →

Cloud computing formatting ARCS model UTAUT model

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The Impact of Black-Hole Attack on ZRP Protocol

Author 1: CHAHIDI Badr Author 2: EZZATI Abdellah

lack of infrastructure in ad hoc networks makes their deployment easier. Each node in an ad hoc network can route data using a routing protocol, which decreases the level of security. Ad hoc networks are exposed to several attacks such as the blackhole attack. In this article, a study has… Read full abstract & cite →

ZRP Blackhole security Routing

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Design of Modulator and Demodulator for a 863-870 MHz BFSK Tranceiver

Author 1: A. Neifar Author 2: G. Bouzid Author 3: M. Masmoudi

This paper presents the design of low power modulator and demodulator circuits dedicated to a BFSK transceiver, operating in the 863- 870 MHZ ISM band. The two circuits were designed using ams 0.35µm technology with 3V dc voltage supply. Simulation results of the new Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer in the… Read full abstract & cite →

ISM band FHSS FSK modulator BFSK demodulator wireless sensor network

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Reducing the Calculations of Quality-Aware Web Services Composition Based on Parallel Skyline Service

Author 1: Maryam Moradi Author 2: Sima Emadi

The perfect composition of atomic services to provide users with services through applying qualitative parameters is very important. As expected, web services with similar features lead to competition among the service providers. The key challenge to find an appropriate web service for composition occurs when multiple aspects of quality (such… Read full abstract & cite →

service composition parallel Skyline service the dominant relationship service quality

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A New Strategy to Optimize the Load Migration Process in Cloud Environment

Author 1: Hamid Mirvaziri Author 2: ZhilaTajrobekar

Cloud computing is a model of internet-based service that provides easy access to a set of changeable computational sources through internet for users based on their demand. Load balancing in cloud have to manage service provider resources appropriately. Load balancing in cloud computing is the process of load distribution between… Read full abstract & cite →

cloud computing load balancing migration virtual machines simulated annealing

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Investigating the Use of Machine Learning Algorithms in Detecting Gender of the Arabic Tweet Author

Author 1: Emad AlSukhni Author 2: Qasem Alequr

Twitter is one of the most popular social network sites on the Internet to share opinions and knowledge extensively. Many advertisers use these Tweets to collect some features and attributes of Tweeters to target specific groups of highly engaged people. Gender detection is a sub-field of sentiment analysis for extracting… Read full abstract & cite →

Social Networking Data Mining Sentiment Analysis Sentiment Classification Gender Detection Twitter

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Diagnosis of Diabetes by Applying Data Mining Classification Techniques

Author 1: Tahani Daghistani Author 2: Riyad Alshammari

Health care data are often huge, complex and heterogeneous because it contains different variable types and missing values as well. Nowadays, knowledge from such data is a necessity. Data mining can be utilized to extract knowledge by constructing models from health care data such as diabetic patient data sets. In… Read full abstract & cite →

Diabetes Data mining Self-Organizing Map Decision tree Classification

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Finding Non Dominant Electrodes Placed in Electroencephalography (EEG) for Eye State Classification using Rule Mining

Author 1: Mridu Sahu Author 2: N.K.Nagwani Author 3: ShrishVerma

Electroencephalography is a measure of brain activity by wave analysis; it consist number of electrodes. Finding most non-dominant electrode positions in Eye state classification is important task for classification. The proposed work is identifying which electrodes are less responsible for classification. This is a feature selection step required for optimal… Read full abstract & cite →

Electroencephalography (EEG) Most Non Dominant (MND) Ranker algorithm classification EEG

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Evaluation of Fault Tolerance in Cloud Computing using Colored Petri Nets

Author 1: Mehdi Effatparvar Author 2: Seyedeh Solmaz Madani

Nowadays, the necessity of rendering reliable services to the customers in business markets is assumed as a crucial matter for the service providers, and the importance of this subject in many fields is undeniable. Design of systems with high complexity and existence of different resources in network cloud leads the… Read full abstract & cite →

Cloud Computing Fault Tolerance Colored Petri Nets Reliability

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Reputation Management System for Fostering Trust in Collaborative and Cohesive Disaster Management

Author 1: Sabeen Javed Author 2: Hammad Afzal Author 3: Fahim Arif Author 4: Awais Majeed

The best management of a disaster requires knowledge, skills and other resources not only for relief and rehabilitation but also for recovery and mitigation of its effects. These multifaceted goals cannot be achieved by a single organization and require collaborative efforts in an agile manner. Blind trust cannot be applied… Read full abstract & cite →

reputation trust reputation management disaster management collaborators collaborative management

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Indirect Substitution Method in Combinable Services by Eliminating Incompatible Services

Author 1: Forough Hematian Chahardah Cheriki Author 2: Sima Emadi

Service-oriented architecture is a style in information systems architecture with the aim of achieving loose coupling in communication between software components and services. Service, here means software implementation, is a well-defined business function that can be used and be called in various processes or software. An organization can choose and… Read full abstract & cite →

component indirect substitution SLA service composition quality of service

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Optimum Access Analysis of Collaborative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Network using MRC

Author 1: Risala Tasin Khan Author 2: Shakila Zaman Author 3: Md. Imdadul Islam Author 4: M. R. Amin

The performance of cognitive radio network mainly depends on the finest sensing of the presence or absence of Primary User (PU). The throughput of a Secondary User (SU) can be reduced because of the false detection of PU which causes an SU from its transmission opportunity. The factorization of the… Read full abstract & cite →

Fusion center Local energy detection Maximum Ratio Combining Spectrum Sensing Receiver Operating Characteristics

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A Comparative Study of Classification Algorithms using Data Mining: Crime and Accidents in Denver City the USA

Author 1: Amit Gupta Author 2: Azeem Mohammad Author 3: Ali Syed Author 4: Malka N. Halgamuge

In the last five years, crime and accidents rates have increased in many cities of America. The advancement of new technologies can also lead to criminal misuse. In order to reduce incidents, there is a need to understand and examine emerging patterns of criminal activities. This paper analyzed crime and… Read full abstract & cite →

Data Mining Classification Big Data Crime and Accident

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Simulation and Analysis of Optimum Golomb Ruler Based 2D Codes for OCDMA System

Author 1: Dr. Gurjit Kaur Author 2: Rajesh Yadav Author 3: Disha Srivastava Author 4: Aarti Bhardwaj Author 5: Manu Gangwar Author 6: Nidhi

The need for high speed communications networks has led the research communities and industry to develop reliable, scalable transatlantic and transpacific fiber-optic communication links. In this paper the optimum Golomb ruler based 2D OCDMA codes has been demonstrated. An OCDMA system based on the discussed 2D codes is designed and… Read full abstract & cite →

OCDMA System 2D Codes OOC Golomb Ruler BER Eye Diagram MAI

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Crowding Optimization Method to Improve Fractal Image Compressions Based Iterated Function

Author 1: Shaimaa S. Al-Bundi Author 2: Nadia M. G. Al-Saidi Author 3: Neseif J. Al-Jawari

Fractals are geometric patterns generated by Iterated Function System theory. A popular technique known as fractal image compression is based on this theory, which assumes that redundancy in an image can be exploited by block-wise self-similarity and that the original image can be approximated by a finite iteration of fractal… Read full abstract & cite →

Fractal Iterated Function System (IFS) Genetic algorithm (GA) Crowding method Fractal Image Compression (FIC)

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Current Trends and Research Challenges in Spectrum-Sensing for Cognitive Radios

Author 1: Roopali Garg Author 2: Dr. Nitin Saluja

The ever increasing demand of wireless communication systems has led to search of suitable spectrum bands for transmission of data. The research in the past has revealed that radio spectrum is under-utilized in most of the scenarios. This prompted the scientist to seek a solution to utilize the spectrum efficiently… Read full abstract & cite →

CR cognitive radio FC-PSO fast-convergence particle swarm optimization FC fusion centre KLMS kernel least mean square PU primary use) ROC receiver operating characteristic curves SU secondary user soft combination spectrum hole

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Evaluation of a Behind-the-Ear ECG Device for Smartphone Based Integrated Multiple Smart Sensor System in Health Applications

Author 1: Numan Celik Author 2: Nadarajah Manivannan Author 3: Wamadeva Balachandran

In this paper, we present a wireless Multiple Smart Sensor System (MSSS) in conjunction with a smartphone to enable an unobtrusive monitoring of electrocardiogram (ear-lead ECG) integrated with multiple sensor system which includes core body temperature and blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) for ambulatory patients. The proposed behind-the-ear device makes the… Read full abstract & cite →

wireless body area networks body-worn sensors ECG core body temperature oxygen saturation level (SpO2) biosensor integration m-health

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An Evaluation of Requirement Prioritization Techniques with ANP

Author 1: Javed ali Khan Author 2: Izaz-ur-Rehman Author 3: Iqbal Qasim Author 4: Shah Poor Khan Author 5: Yawar Hayat Khan

This article elaborates an evaluation of seven software requirements prioritization methods (ANP, binary search tree, AHP, hierarchy AHP, spanning tree matrix, priority group and bubble sort). Based on the case study of local project (automation of Mobilink franchise system), the experiment is conducted by students in the Requirement Engineering course… Read full abstract & cite →

Requirement Engineering Requirement prioritization ANP AHP Software Engineering Comparison

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Cyber Profiling Using Log Analysis And K-Means Clustering

Author 1: Muhammad Zulfadhilah Author 2: Yudi Prayudi Author 3: Imam Riadi

The Activities of Internet users are increasing from year to year and has had an impact on the behavior of the users themselves. Assessment of user behavior is often only based on interaction across the Internet without knowing any others activities. The log activity can be used as another way… Read full abstract & cite →

Clustering K-Means Log Network Cyber Profiling

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Enhancement in System Schedulability by Controlling Task Releases

Author 1: Basharat Mahmood Author 2: Naveed Ahmad Author 3: Saif ur Rehman Malik Author 4: Adeel Anjum

In real-time systems fixed priority scheduling techniques are considered superior than the dynamic priority counterparts from implementation perspectives; however the dynamic priority assignments dominate the fixed priority mechanism when it comes to system utilization. Considering this gap, a number of results are added to real-time system literature recently that achieve… Read full abstract & cite →

Real-time Systems Fixed Priority Scheduling RM Scheduling Priority Inversion

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An Emergency Unit Support System to Diagnose Chronic Heart Failure Embedded with SWRL and Bayesian Network

Author 1: Baydaa Al-Hamadani

In all the regions of the world, heart failure is common and on raise caused by several aetiologies. Although the development of the treatment is fast, there are still lots of cases that lose their lives in emergence sections because of slow response to treat these cases. In this paper… Read full abstract & cite →

Ontology Engineering Bayesian Network Heart Failure Expert System Validation Test

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Analyzing Data Reusability of Raytrace Application in Splash2 Benchmark

Author 1: Hao Do-Duc Author 2: Vinh Ngo-Quang

When designing a chip multiprocessors, we use Splash2 to estimate its performance. This benchmark contains eleven applications. The performance when running them is similar, except Raytrace. We analyse it to clarity why the performance is not good. We discover, in theory, Raytrace never reuses data. This leads the fact that… Read full abstract & cite →

Chip multiprocessors benchmark ray tracing reflection intensity ray-Tree

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Management Information Systems in Public Institutions in Jordan

Author 1: Ahmad A. Al-Tit

Six constructs were utilized in this study to explore the factors affecting MIS implementation in Jordanian public institutions and to investigate the impact of MIS implementation on organizational (operational) performance. They were human factors, organizational factors, technological factors, environmental factors, MIS implementation components and organizational performance. The required data were… Read full abstract & cite →

management information systems adoption success factors organizational performance public institutions

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A Novel Method in Two-Step-Ahead Weight Adjustment of Recurrent Neural Networks: Application in Market Forecasting

Author 1: Narges Talebi Motlagh Author 2: Amir RikhtehGar Ghiasi

Gold price prediction is a very complex nonlinear problem which is severely difficult. Real-time price prediction, as a principle of many economic models, is one of the most challenging tasks for economists since the context of the financial agents are often dynamic. Since in financial time series, direction prediction is… Read full abstract & cite →

Recurrent Neural Network Two Step Ahead Prediction Reinforcement Learning Directional Statistics Gold Market

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Applications of Multi-criteria Decision Making in Software Engineering

Author 1: Sumeet Kaur Sehra Author 2: Yadwinder Singh Brar Author 3: Navdeep Kaur

Every complex problem now days require multicriteria decision making to get to the desired solution. Numerous Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) approaches have evolved over recent time to accommodate various application areas and have been recently explored as alternative to solve complex software engineering problems. Most widely used approach is Analytic… Read full abstract & cite →

Multi-criteria Decision Making Analytic Hierarchy Process Fuzzy AHP Software Engineering

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Arabic Text Question Answering from an Answer Retrieval Point of View: a survey

Author 1: Bodor A. B. Sati Author 2: Mohammed A. S. Ali Author 3: Sherif M. Abdou

Arabic Question Answering (QA) is gaining more importance due to the importance of the language and the dramatic increase in online Arabic content. The goal of this article is to review the state-of-the-art of Arabic QA methods, to classify them into different categories from an answer retrieval viewpoint and to… Read full abstract & cite →

Question answering Information retrieval Answer retrieval Arabic NLP

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Comparative Analysis of ALU Implementation with RCA and Sklansky Adders In ASIC Design Flow

Author 1: Abdul Rehman Buzdar Author 2: Liguo Sun Author 3: Abdullah Buzdar

An Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) is the heart of every central processing unit (CPU) which performs basic operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and bitwise logic operations on binary numbers. This paper deals with implementation of a basic ALU unit using two different types of adder circuits, a ripple carry… Read full abstract & cite →

Arithmetic Logic Unit Ripple Carry Adder Sklansky Adder ASIC Design EDA Tools

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Computational Modeling of Proteins based on Cellular Automata

Author 1: Alia Madain Author 2: Abdel Latif Abu Dalhoum Author 3: Azzam Sleit

The literature of building computational and mathematical models of proteins is rich and diverse, since its practical applications are of a vital importance in the development of many fields. Modeling proteins is not a straightforward process and in some modeling strategies, it requires to combine concepts from different fields including… Read full abstract & cite →

Proteins 3D Folding Bioinformatics Computational Modeling Cellular Automata Theoretical Computer Science

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Conditions Facilitating the Aversion of Unpopular Norms: An Agent-Based Simulation Study

Author 1: Zoofishan Zareen Author 2: Muzna Zafar Author 3: Kashif Zia

People mostly facilitate and manage their social lives adhering to the prevalent norms. There are some norms which are unpopular, yet people adhere to them. Ironically, people at individual level do not agree to these norms, but, they still follow and even facilitate them. Irrespective of the social and psychological… Read full abstract & cite →

Agent-based Modeling and Simulation Emperor’s Dilemma Complex Adaptive Systems.

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Developing a Real-Time Web Questionnaire System for Interactive Presentations

Author 1: Yusuke Niwa Author 2: Shun Shiramatsu Author 3: Tadachika Ozono Author 4: Toramatsu Shintani

Conducting presentations with bi-directional communication requires extended presentation systems, e.g., having sophisticated expressions and gathering real-time feedback. We aim to develop an interactive presentation system to enhance presentations with bi-directional communication during presentations. We developed a hybrid interactive presentation system that is a collaboration between the traditional presentation supporting system… Read full abstract & cite →

Interactive Presentation Real-time Web questionnaire Collaborative tools communication aids information sharing Web services

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FPGA implementation of filtered image using 2D Gaussian filter

Author 1: Leila kabbai Author 2: Anissa Sghaier Author 3: Ali Douik Author 4: Mohsen Machhout

Image filtering is one of the very useful techniques in image processing and computer vision. It is used to eliminate useless details and noise from an image. In this paper, a hardware implementation of image filtered using 2D Gaussian Filter will be present. The Gaussian filter architecture will be described… Read full abstract & cite →

Gaussian Filter convolution fixed point arithmetic Floating point arithmetic FPGA

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From Emotion Recognition to Website Customizations

Author 1: O. B. Efremides

A computer vision system that recognizes the emotions of a website’s user and customizes the context and the presentation of this website accordingly is presented herein. A logistic regression classifiers is trained over the Extended Cohn- Kanade dataset in order to recognize the emotions. The Scale- Invariant Feature Transform algorithm… Read full abstract & cite →

Emotion recognition classification computer vision web interfaces

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New mechanism for Cloud Computing Storage Security

Author 1: Almokhtar Ait El Mrabti Author 2: Najim Ammari Author 3: Anas Abou El Kalam Author 4: Abdellah Ait Ouahman Author 5: Mina De Montfort

Cloud computing, often referred to as simply the cloud, appears as an emerging computing paradigm which promises to radically change the way computer applications and services are constructed, delivered, managed and finally guaranteed as dynamic computing environments for end users. The cloud is the delivery of on-demand computing resources … Read full abstract & cite →

Cloud Computing Data Security Data Encryption Fragmentation-Redundancy-Scattering

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Quality of Service Provisioning in Biosensor Networks

Author 1: Yahya Osais Author 2: Muhammad Butt

Biosensor networks are wireless networks consisting of tiny biological sensors (biosensors, for short) that can be implanted inside the body of human and animal subjects. Biosensors can measure various biological processes that occur inside the body of the subject under test. Applications of biosensor networks include automated drug delivery, heart… Read full abstract & cite →

Biosensor networks Quality of service Markov decision processes

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Software Architecture Quality Measurement Stability and Understandability

Author 1: Mamdouh Alenezi

Over the past years software architecture has become an important sub-field of software engineering. There has been substantial advancement in developing new technical approaches to start handling architectural design as an engineering discipline. Measurement is an essential part of any engineering discipline. Quantifying the quality attributes of the software architecture… Read full abstract & cite →

Software Engineering Software Architecture Quality Attributes Stability Understandability

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WE-MQS-VoIP Priority: An enhanced LTE Downlink Scheduler for voice services with the integration of VoIP priority mode

Author 1: Duy-Huy Nguyen Author 2: Hang Nguyen Author 3: Eric Renault

The Long Term Evolution (LTE) is a high data rates and fully All-IP network. It is developed to support well to multimedia services such as Video, VoIP, Gaming, etc. So that, the real-time services such as VoIP, video, etc. need to be optimized. Nevertheless, the deployment of such live stream… Read full abstract & cite →

AMR-WB Wideband E-model VoLTE VoIP priority mode User perception

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Sentiment Based Twitter Spam Detection

Author 1: Nasira Perveen Author 2: Malik M. Saad Missen Author 3: Qaisar Rasool Author 4: Nadeem Akhtar

Spams are becoming a serious threat for the users of online social networks especially for the ones like of twitter. twitter’s structural features make it more volatile to spam attacks. In this paper, we propose a spam detection approach for twitter based on sentimental features. We perform our experiments on… Read full abstract & cite →

sentiment analysis spam detection twitter

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WHITE - DONKEY: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for searching missing people

Author 1: Jaime Moreno Author 2: Jesus Cruz Author 3: Edgar Dominguez

Searching for a missing person is not an easy task to accomplish,so over the years search methods have been developed, the problem is that the methods currently available have certain limitations and these limitations are reflected in time location. Time location in a person search is a very important factor… Read full abstract & cite →

Computer Vision Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Search and Rescue System Human Visual System and Quadricopter

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Wyner-Ziv Video Coding using Hadamard Transform and Deep Learning

Author 1: Jean-Paul Kouma Author 2: Ulrik Soderstrom

Predictive schemes are current standards of video coding. Unfortunately they do not apply well for lightweight devices such as mobile phones. The high encoding complexity is the bottleneck of the Quality of Experience (QoE) of a video conversation between mobile phones. A considerable amount of research has been conducted towards… Read full abstract & cite →

Wyner-Ziv video coding rate distortion Hadamard transform Deep learning Expectation Maximization

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Quartic approximation of circular arcs using equioscillating error function

Author 1: Abedallah Rababah

A high accuracy quartic approximation for circular arc is given in this article. The approximation is constructed so that the error function is of degree 8 with the least deviation from the x-axis; the error function equioscillates 9 times; the approximation order is 8. The numerical examples demonstrate the efficiency… Read full abstract & cite →

Bezier curves quartic approximation circular arc high accuracy approximation order equioscillation CAD

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A Robust MAI Constrained Adaptive Algorithm for Decision Feedback Equalizer for MIMO Communication Systems

Author 1: Khalid Mahmood Author 2: Syed Muhammad Asad Author 3: Muhammad Moinuddin Author 4: Waqas Imtiaz

Decision feedback equalizer uses prior sensor’s decisions to mitigate damaging effects of intersymbol interference on the received symbols. Due to its inherent non linear nature, decision feedback equalizer outperforms the linear equalizer in case where the intersymbol interference is sever in a communication system. Equalization of multiple input multiple output… Read full abstract & cite →

Decision feedback equalizer single input single output inter symbol interference multiple access interference Rayleigh fading AWGN adaptive algorithm

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TGRP: A New Hybrid Grid-based Routing Approach for Manets

Author 1: Hussein Al-Maqbali Author 2: Mohamed Ould-Khaoua Author 3: Khaled Day Author 4: Abderezak Touzene Author 5: Nasser Alzeidi

Most existing grid-based routing protocols use reactive mechanisms to build routing paths. In this paper, we propose a new hybrid approach for grid-based routing in MANETs which uses a combination of reactive and proactive mechanisms. The proposed routing approach uses shortest-path trees to build the routing paths between source and… Read full abstract & cite →

MANETs routing protocols NS2 simulation performance evaluation

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Balanced Distribution of Load on Grid Resources using Cellular Automata

Author 1: Amir Akbarian Sadeghi Author 2: Ahmad Khademzadeh Author 3: Mohammad Reza Salehnamadi

Load balancing is a technique for equal and fair distribution of load on resources and maximizing their performance as well as reducing the overall execution time. However, meeting all of these goals in a single algorithm is not possible due to their inherent conflict, so some of the features must… Read full abstract & cite →

computing Grid load balancing cellular automata fuzzy logic

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Goal Model Integration for Tailoring Product Line Development Processes

Author 1: Arfan Mansoor Author 2: Detlef Streitferdt Author 3: Muhammad Kashif Hanif

Many companies rely on the promised benefits of product lines, targeting systems between fully custom made software and mass products. Such customized mass products account for a large number of applications automatically derived from a product line. This results in the special importance of product lines for companies with a… Read full abstract & cite →

Goal model Product Line Development Process Process Line

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Cuckoo Search Optimization for Reduction of a Greenhouse Climate Model

Author 1: Hasni Abdelhafid Author 2: Haffane Ahmed Author 3: Sehli Abdelkrim Author 4: Draoui Belkacem

Greenhouse climate and crop models and specially reduced models are necessary for bettering environmental management and control ability. In this paper, we present a new metaheuristic method, called Cuckoo Search (CS) algorithm, established on the life of a bird family for selecting the parameters of a reduced model which optimizes… Read full abstract & cite →

optimization cuckoo search greenhouses metaheuristics climate models

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