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IJACSA Vol. 9 Issue 7 (2018)

Open Access | | 42 papers

Copyright Statement: This is an open access publication licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

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Wavelet/PSO-Based Segmentation and Marker-Less Tracking of the Gallbladder in Monocular Calibration-free Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Author 1: Haroun Djaghloul Author 2: Mohamed Batouche Author 3: Jean-Pierre Jessel Author 4: Abdelhamid Benhocine

This paper presents an automatic segmentation and monocular marker-less tracking method of the gallbladder in minimally invasive laparoscopic cholecystectomy intervention that can be used for the construction of an adaptive calibration-free medical augmented reality system. In particular, the pro-posed method consists of three steps, namely, a segmentation of 2D laparoscopic… Read full abstract & cite →

Medical image segmentation monocular laparo-scopic cholecystectomy deformable structures tracking gallbladder segmentation and tracking markerless augmented reality wavelets particles swarm optimisation minimally invasive surgery (MIS) computer aided surgery (CAS)
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Fuzzy Data Mining for Autism Classification of Children

Author 1: Mofleh Al-diabat

Autism is a development condition linked with healthcare costs, therefore, early screening of autism symptoms can cut down on these costs. The autism screening process involves presenting a series of questions for parents, caregivers, and family members to answer on behalf of the child to determine the potential of autistic… Read full abstract & cite →

Autistic traits data mining fuzzy rules statistical analysis
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Training Difficulties in Deductive Methods of Verification and Synthesis of Program

Author 1: Magdalina Todorova Author 2: Daniela Orozova

The article analyzes the difficulties which Bachelor Degree in Informatics and Computer Sciences students encounter in the process of being trained in applying deductive methods of verification and synthesis of procedural programs. Education in this field is an important step towards moving from classical software engineering to formal software engineering… Read full abstract & cite →

Program verification deductive verification methods automated theorem provers proof assistants education
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Load Forecasting using Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average and Artificial Neural Network

Author 1: Lemuel Clark P. Velasco Author 2: Daisy Lou L. Polestico Author 3: Gary Paolo O. Macasieb Author 4: Michael Bryan V. Reyes Author 5: Felicisimo B. Vasquez Jr

Electric load forecasting is a challenging research problem due to the complicated nature of its dataset involving both linear and nonlinear properties. Various literatures attempted to develop forecasting models that utilized statistical in combination with machine learning approaches deal with the dataset’s linear and nonlinear components to obtain close to… Read full abstract & cite →

Electric load forecasting autoregressive integrated moving average artificial neural network
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Interactive Visual Decision Tree for Developing Detection Rules of Attacks on Web Applications

Author 1: Tran Tri Dang Author 2: Tran Khanh Dang Author 3: Truong-Giang Nguyen Le

Creating detection rules of attacks on web applications is not a trivial task, especially when the attacks are launched by experienced hackers. In such a situation, human expertise is essential to produce effective results. However, human users are easily overloaded by the huge input data, which is meant to be… Read full abstract & cite →

Interactive Analytics Security Visualization Visual Decision Tree Web Application Security
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Developing a Candidate Registration System for Zambia School Examinations using the Cloud Model

Author 1: Banji Milumbe Author 2: Jackson Phiri Author 3: Monica M Kalumbilo Author 4: Mayumbo Nyirenda

Cloud computing has in the recent past gained a lot of ground in this digital age. The use of cloud technologies in business has broken barriers in sharing information making the world one big global village. Regardless of where one is, data or information can be received or sent instantly… Read full abstract & cite →

Cloud computing candidate registration online registration Zambia school examinations bulk SMS automation information communication technology ICT
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Deep Learning Features Fusion with Classical Image Features for Image Access

Author 1: Rehan Ullah Khan

Depending on the society, the access to the adult content can create social problems. This paper thus proposes a fusion approach for image based adult content filtering. The proposed approach merges the Deep Learning (DL) architecture and classical hand crafted feature extraction approaches. From the DL, we fuse the rich… Read full abstract & cite →

Deep learning content based filtering content analysis machine learning support vector machines
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Probabilistic Neural Network and Word Embedding for Sentiment Analysis

Author 1: Saqib Alam Author 2: Nianmin Yao

In the present days, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an attractive area of research along with numerous practicable purposes and vigorous subject matters and tasks, such as, understand speech, natural language, diagnose medicine and support basic research. In this study deep learning (DL) techniques, i.e. Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) and Word… Read full abstract & cite →

Deep learning probabilistic neural network word embedding sentiment analysis
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Ranking Attribution: A Novel Method for Stylometric Authorship Identification

Author 1: Marwa Taha Jamil Author 2: Dr. Tareef kamil Mustafa

Stylometric Authorship attribution is one of the essential approaches in the text mining. The present research endorses a Stylometric method called Stylometric Authorship Ranking Attribution (SARA) overcomes the usual problems which are processing time and accurate prediction results, without any human opinion that relays on the domain expert. This new… Read full abstract & cite →

Data mining text mining Stylometric Authorship Attribution SARA
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Dynamic Data Aggregation Approach for Sensor-Based Big Data

Author 1: Mohammed S. Al-kahtani Author 2: Lutful Karim

Sensors are being used in thousands of applications such as agriculture, health monitoring, air and water pollution monitoring, traffic monitoring and control. As these applications collect zettabytes of data everyday sensors play an integral role into big data. However, most of these data are redundant, and useless. Thus, efficient data… Read full abstract & cite →

Data aggregation big data sensor networks energy efficiency clustering
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Measuring the Effect of Use Web 2.0 Technology on Saudi Students’ Motivation to Learn in a Blended Learning Environment

Author 1: Sarah M. Bin-jomman Author 2: Mona Al-Khattabi

Students’ motivation to learn is the goal of the educational process around the world. There is a close link between learning outcomes and students’ motivation to learn. Thus, the success of blended learning in Saudi higher education depends on not only using different teaching methods and massive expenditures on technology… Read full abstract & cite →

Web2.0 tools blended learning motivation ARCS model
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The Impact of Motivator and Demotivator Factors on Agile Software Development

Author 1: Shahbaz Ahmed Khan Ghayyur Author 2: Salman Ahmed Author 3: Saeed Ullah Author 4: Waqar Ahmed

Since the last decade, Agile software development has emerged as a widely utilized software development method keeping in view the developing countries of South Asia. The literature reports significant challenges and barriers for agile in software industry and thus the area still has significant problems when considered with this domain… Read full abstract & cite →

Agile software development motivators demotivators success factors barriers agile methods software development life cycle
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Social Success Factors Affecting Implementation of Agile Software Development Methodologies in Software Industry of Pakistan: An Empirical Study

Author 1: Muhammad Noman Riaz Author 2: Athar Mahboob Author 3: Attaullah Buriro

During the past few years it has been observed that the implementation of Agile software development methodologies have become a part and parcel in software development projects not only in large and developed organizations but also in small organizations despite the existence of misapprehension that Agile methodologies are only valid… Read full abstract & cite →

Agile methodologies social factors congruence value visionary leadership software developers
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A Multi-Criteria Decision Making to Rank Android based Mobile Applications for Mathematics

Author 1: Seren Basaran Author 2: Oluwatobi John Aduradola

Exponential growth in the amount of mobile applications for Mathematics has led users to confusion and difficulty in selecting proper application manually which suits to their needs. Therefore, there exists an imperative need for automated and efficient selection of mobile applications for Mathematics where users still heavily trust either application… Read full abstract & cite →

ELECTRE mobile applications for mathematics multi-criteria decision making pedagogical requirements technical requirements
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Time Series Analysis for Shortened Labor Mean Interval of Dairy Cattle with the Data of BCS, RFS, Weight, Amount of Milk and Outlook

Author 1: Kohei Arai Author 2: Osamu Fukuda Author 3: Hiroshi Okumura Author 4: Kenji Endo Author 5: Kenichi Yamashita

MTime series analysis for shortened labor mean interval of dairy cattle with the data of Body Condition Score (BCS), Rumen Fill Score (RFS), Weight, Amount of Milk and Outlook is conducted. Method for shortened the labor mean internal of Japanese dairy cattle based on time-series analysis with the data of… Read full abstract & cite →

Body Condition Score (BCS) Rumen Fill Score (RFS) Dairy cattle Time-Series Analysis Cattle Productivity
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Preference in using Agile Development with Larger Team Size

Author 1: Ahmed Zia Author 2: Waleed Arshad Author 3: Waqas Mahmood

Agile software development includes a group of software development methodologies based on iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between cross-functional self-organizing teams. Different software houses were visited in a developing country to determine the experiences faced by people working on a real world projects using Agile software… Read full abstract & cite →

Agile Development Ideal Team Size Larger Team Size Problems
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Green Cloud Computing: Efficient Energy-Aware and Dynamic Resources Management in Data Centers

Author 1: Sara DIOUANI Author 2: Hicham MEDROMI

The uses of Cloud computing over the last years are constantly increasing since it has become a very important technology in the computing landscape. It provides to client decentralized services and a pay-as-you-go model for consuming resources. The growing need for the cloud services oblige the providers to adopt an… Read full abstract & cite →

Cloud Computing Green Cloud Data Center Energy Consumption Resource Management
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ASSA: Adaptive E-Learning Smart Students Assessment Model

Author 1: Dalal Abdullah Aljohany Author 2: Reda Mohamed Salama Author 3: Mostafa Saleh

Adaptive e-learning can be improved through measured e-assessments that can provide accurate feedback to instructors. E-assessments can not only provide the basis for evaluation of the different pedagogical methods used in teaching and learning but they also can be used to determine the most suitable delivered materials to students according… Read full abstract & cite →

Adaptive e-learning e-assessments adaptive assessment smart assessment Learning Style (LS)
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Implementation of NOGIE and NOWGIE for Human Skin Detection

Author 1: M. Omer Aftab Author 2: Junaid Javed Author 3: M. Bilal Author 4: Arfa Hassan Author 5: M. Adnan Khan

The Digital image processing is one of the most widely implemented fields worldwide. The most applied applications of digital image processing are facial recognition, finger print recognition, medical imaging, law enforcement, cyber-crime investigation, identification of various diseases and criminals, etc. The subject to be discussed in this article is skin… Read full abstract & cite →

Skin detection Digital Image Processing (DIP) Noise Object Global Image Enhancement (NOGIE) Noise Object with Global Image Enhancement (NOWGIE) Hue Saturation and Value (HSV) RGB
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Relationship Strength Based Privacy for the Online Social Networks

Author 1: Javed Ahmed Author 2: Adnan Manzoor Author 3: Nazar H. Phulpoto Author 4: Imtiaz A. Halepoto Author 5: Muhammad Sulleman Memon

The trend of communication is changing from mobile messages to the online social networks, for example, Face-book. The social networking applications and websites provide many of the characteristics, such as personal photo sharing. On the positive side by that many individuals form the social relationships. However, the online social networks… Read full abstract & cite →

Online social networks privacy social relationships
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Performance Evaluation of Polynomial Pool-Based Key Pre-Distribution Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network Applications

Author 1: Malek Ben Amira Author 2: Mayssa Bouraoui Author 3: Noureddine Boulajfen

In nowadays, wireless sensor network (WSN) has been established as a leading emerging technology in the field of remote area distributed sensing due to its diverse application areas. Key pre-distribution is an important task in WSN because after the deployment of sensor nodes, their neighbors become strange to each other… Read full abstract & cite →

Key management wireless sensor network (WSN) key pre-distribution schemes polynomial pool-based KPDS PIKE group-based KPDS
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Applications of Data Envelopment Analysis in Development and Assessment of Sustainability Across Economic, Environmental and Social Dimensions

Author 1: Hamid Hosseini Author 2: Abbas Ali Noura Author 3: Sara Fanati Rashidi

Recently, senior managers are paying much more attention to the environmental aspects of decision-making units. Technically, global economy is inextricably connected to the environment, as it is heavily dependent on extraction and exploitation of natural resources. In this article, we try to propose a number of models for efficiency evaluation… Read full abstract & cite →

Data envelopment analysis desirable and undesirable outputs strong and weak disposability sustainability efficiency
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An Improved Bat Algorithm based on Novel Initialization Technique for Global Optimization Problem

Author 1: Waqas Haider Bangyal Author 2: Jamil Ahmad Author 3: Hafiz Tayyab Rauf Author 4: Sobia Pervaiz

Bat algorithm (BA) is a nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithm which is widely used to solve the real world global optimization problem. BA is a population-based intelligent stochastic search technique that emerged from the echolocation features of bats and created from the mimics of bats foraging behavior. One of the major issue… Read full abstract & cite →

Bat algorithm local optima exploration and exploitation quasi-random sequence
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Effects of Modulation Index on Harmonics of SP-PWM Inverter Supplying Universal Motor

Author 1: Asif A. Solangi Author 2: Mehr Gul Author 3: Rameez Shaikh Author 4: Farhana Umer Author 5: Noman Khan Pathan Author 6: Zeeshan Anjum Memon

This manuscript presents the effects of changing modulation indices on current and voltage harmonics of universal motor when it is supplied by single phase PWM (SP-PWM) inverter, the effect has been analyzed with simulation and experimental setup. For variable speed applications universal motor can be controlled either by phase angle… Read full abstract & cite →

Harmonics modulation index SP-PWM inverter universal motor
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Data-driven based Fault Diagnosis using Principal Component Analysis

Author 1: Shakir M. Shaikh Author 2: Imtiaz A. Halepoto Author 3: Nazar H. Phulpoto Author 4: Muhammad S. Memon Author 5: Ayaz Hussain Author 6: Asif A. Laghari

Modern industrial systems are growing day by day and unlikely their complexity is also increasing. On the other hand, the design and operations have become a key focus of the researchers in order to improve the production system. To cope up with these chellenges, the data-driven technique like principal component… Read full abstract & cite →

Fault Diagnosis Principal Component Analysis Multivariate Statistical Approach Tennessee Eastman Chemical Plant Introduction
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A Practical Approach for Evaluating and Prioritizing Situational Factors in Global Software Project Development

Author 1: Kanza Gulzar Author 2: Jun Sang Author 3: Adeel Akbar Memon Author 4: Muhammad Ramzan Author 5: Xiaofeng Xia Author 6: Hong Xiang

There has been an enormous increase in globaliza-tion that has led to more cooperation and competition across boundaries. Software engineering, particularly distributed soft-ware development (DSD) and global software development (GSD), is evolving rapidly and presents several challenges, such as ge-ographical separations, temporal differences, cultural variations, and management strategies. As a… Read full abstract & cite →

Global software development (GSD) Situational Factors (SFs) Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) Multi criteria decision-making (MCDM) fuzzy set theory sensitivity analysis
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Evaluation and Analysis of Bio-Inspired Optimization Techniques for Bill Estimation in Fog Computing

Author 1: Hafsa Arshad Author 2: Hasan Ali Khattak Author 3: Munam Ali Shah Author 4: Assad Abbas Author 5: Zoobia Ameer

In light of constant developments in the realm of Information Communication and Technologies, large-scale busi-nesses and Internet service providers have realized the limitation of data storage capacity available to them. This led organizations to cloud computing, a concept of sharing of resources among different service providers by renting these resources… Read full abstract & cite →

Cloud computing fog computing bio-inspired al-gorithms pricing cloudlets
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Detection of Sentiment Polarity of Unstructured Multi-Language Text from Social Media

Author 1: Saad Ahmed Author 2: Saman Hina Author 3: Raheela Asif

In recent years, Twitter has caught the attention of many researchers because of the fact that it is growing very rapidly in terms of number of users and also all the data present as tweets on twitter is public in nature while other social media networks such as Facebook, data… Read full abstract & cite →

Social media sentiment analysis data mining cellular networks
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An Algorithm that Prevents SPAM Attacks using Blockchain

Author 1: Koichi Nakayama Author 2: Yutaka Moriyama Author 3: Chika Oshima

There are many systems and methods for prevent-ing spam attacks. However, at present there is no specific tried-and-true method for preventing such attacks. In this paper, we propose an algorithm, “SAGA BC” to prevent spam attacks using a blockchain technique and demonstrate its effectiveness by a simulation experiment. A person… Read full abstract & cite →

Cryptocurrency wallet account Mail Send Coin (MSC)
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Enhanced Textual Password Scheme for Better Security and Memorability

Author 1: Hina Bhanbhro Author 2: Shah Zaman Nizamani Author 3: Syed Raheel Hassan Author 4: Sheikh Tahir Bakhsh Author 5: Madini O.Alassafi

Traditional textual password scheme provides a large number of password combinations but users generally use a small portion of available password space. Complex textual passwords are difficult to remember, therefore most users choose passwords with small length and contain dictionary words. Due to the use of small password length and… Read full abstract & cite →

Security usability alphanumeric passwords authentication
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Automated Quantification of Non-Calcified Coronary Plaques in Cardiac CT Angiographic Imagery

Author 1: M Moazzam Jawaid Author 2: Sanam Narejo Author 3: Nasrullah Pirzada Author 4: Junaid Baloch Author 5: C.C. Reyes-Aldasoro Author 6: Greg Slabaugh

The high mortality rate associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) has driven intensive research in cardiac image analysis. The advent of computed tomography angiogra-phy (CTA) has turned non-invasive diagnosis of cardiovascular anomalies into reality as calcified coronary plaques can be easily identified due to high intensity values. However, detection and… Read full abstract & cite →

Coronary segmentation non-calcified plaques vas-cular quantification coronary wall analysis
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Wakes-Ship Removal on High-Resolution Optical Images based on Histograms in HSV Color Space

Author 1: Fidel Indalecio Mamani Maquera Author 2: Eveling Gloria Castro Gutierrez

Ship detection on optical remote sensing images is getting great attention; however, some images called wakes-ship have not been taken into account yet. Current works in ship detection are focusing on in-shore detection where ships are in calm; furthermore, their methods get high Intersection Over Union (IoU), above 70%, but… Read full abstract & cite →

Wakes-ship removal optical remote sensing ship detection HSV color space histograms intersection over union
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Automatic Cyberbullying Detection in Spanish-language Social Networks using Sentiment Analysis Techniques

Author 1: Rolfy Nixon Montufar Mercado Author 2: Hernan Faustino Chacca Chuctaya Author 3: Eveling Gloria Castro Gutierrez

Cyberbullying is a growing problem in our society that can bring fatal consequences and can be presented in digital text for example at online social networks. Nowadays there is a wide variety of works focused on the detection of digital texts in the English language, however in the Spanish language… Read full abstract & cite →

Cyberbullying social media analytics sentiment analysis tokenization stemming bag of words
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A Resource Recommendation Approach based on Co-Working History

Author 1: Nada Mohammed Abdulhameed Author 2: Iman M. A. Helal Author 3: Ahmed Awad Author 4: Ehab Ezat

Recommending the right resource to execute the next activity of a running process instance is of utmost importance for the overall performance of the business process, as well as the resource and for the whole organization. Several approaches have recommended a resource based on the task requirements and the resource… Read full abstract & cite →

Business process process instance co-working his-tory human-resource recommender criteria harmony
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Global Citation Impact rather than Citation Count

Author 1: Gohar Rehman Chughtai Author 2: Jia Lee Author 3: Muhammad Mehran Arshad khan Author 4: Rashid Abbasi Author 5: Asif Kabir Author 6: Muhammad Arshad Shehzad Hassan

The progressing bloom in the tome of scientific literature available today debars researchers from efficiently shrewd the relevant from irrelevant content. Researchers are persistently engrossed in impactful papers, authors, and venues in their respective fields. Impact of an article depends on the citation received but just a citation count can’t… Read full abstract & cite →

Citation weighting popular global citations prestigious Global Citation Impact (GCI) research impact
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Scientific Articles Exploration System Model based in Immersive Virtual Reality and Natural Language Processing Techniques

Author 1: Luis Alfaro Author 2: Ricardo Linares Author 3: Jose Herrera

After having carried out a historical review and identifying the state of the art in relation to the interfaces for the exploration of scientific articles, the authors propose a model based in an immersive virtual environment, natural user interfaces and natural language processing, which provides an excellent experience for the… Read full abstract & cite →

Immersive virtual environment human computer interaction natural user interfaces natural language processing Oculus Rift
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An Efficient Fault Tolerance Technique for Through-Silicon-Vias in 3-D ICs

Author 1: Mohamed BENABDELADHIM Author 2: Wael DGHAIS Author 3: Fakhreddine ZAYER Author 4: Belgacem HAMDI

Three-dimensional integrated circuits (3D-ICs) based on Through-Silicon-Vias (TSVs) interconnection technology appeared as a viable solution to overcome problems of cost, reliability, yield and stacking area. In order to be commercially feasible, the 3D-IC yield must be as high as possible, which requires a tested and reparable TSVs. To overpass this… Read full abstract & cite →

Fault tolerance 3D-IC TSV IBIST BISR TDMA
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Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems as a Service in Could-based Environment

Author 1: Khalid Alsubhi Author 2: Hani Moaiteq AlJahdali

Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPSs) are standalone complex hardware, expensive to purchase, change and manage. The emergence of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) mitigates these challenges and delivers middlebox functions as virtual instances. Moreover, cloud computing has become a very cost-effective model for sharing large-scale… Read full abstract & cite →

Facility Location Problem Intrusion detection and Prevention Systems Cloud Computing
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Insights on Car Relocation Operations in One-Way Carsharing Systems

Author 1: Rabih Zakaria Author 2: Mohammad Dib Author 3: Laurent Moalic Author 4: Alexandre Caminada

One-way carsharing system is a mobility service that offers short-time car rental service for its users in an urban area. This kind of service is attractive since users can pick up a car from a station and return it to any other station unlike round-trip carsharing systems where users have… Read full abstract & cite →

Carsharing car relocation ILP greedy algorithm CPLEX green city
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Load Balancing in Cloud Complex Systems using Adaptive Fuzzy Neural Systems

Author 1: Mohammad Taghi Sadeghi

Load balancing, reliability, and traffic are among the service-oriented issues in software engineering, and cloud computing is no exception to this rule and has put many challenges ahead of experts in this field. Considering the importance of the load balancing process in cloud computing, the purpose of this paper is… Read full abstract & cite →

Load balancing cloud computing adaptive fuzzy neural system
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Context Aware SmartHealth Cloud Platform for Medical Diagnostics

Author 1: Sarah Shafqat Author 2: Almas Abbasi Author 3: Muhammad Naeem Ahmad Khan Author 4: Muhammad Ahsan Qureshi Author 5: Tehmina Amjad Author 6: Hafiz Farooq Ahmad

Healthcare has seen a great evolution in current era in terms of new computer technologies. Intensive medical data is generated that opens up research in healthcare analytics. Coping with this intensive data along with making it meaningful to deliver knowledge and be able to make decisions are the most important… Read full abstract & cite →

Healthcare analytics medical diagnostics HL7 cloud platform SmartHealth big data
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Detection of Parkinson's Disease through Acoustic Parameters

Author 1: Imen Daly Author 2: Zied Hajaiej Author 3: Ali Gharsallah

Parkinson’s disease is a neurological disorder. It is the second most common disease after Alzheimer’s. Incidence rates for this disease are increasing rapidly with increasing life expectancy. The search for measures to diagnose the disease and monitor symptoms is an important step, despite the fact that it presents a number… Read full abstract & cite →

Parkinson’s disease LF model

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