IJACSA Vol. 7 Issue 8 (2016)

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Encoding a T-RBAC Model for E-Learning Platform on ORBAC Model

Author 1: Kassid Asmaa Author 2: Elkamoun Najib

with rapid development and increase in the amount of available resources in E-learning platforms, the need to design new architecture for such systems has become inevitable to improve the search quality and simplifying ways to take online courses. The integration of multi-agent systems has played a very important role in… Read full abstract & cite →

Security policies Access control Rbac model Orbac model e-learning platforms trust multi-agent systems

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Simulation of Building Evacuation: Performance Analysis and Simplified Model

Author 1: Yasser M. Alginahi Author 2: Muhammad N. Kabir

Crowd evacuation from industrial buildings, factories, theatres, protest areas, festivals, exhibitions and religious/sports gatherings is very crucial in many dangerous scenarios, such as fire, earthquakes, threat and attacks. Simulation of crowd evacuation is an integral part of planning for emergency situations and training staff for crow management. In this paper… Read full abstract & cite →

Crowd Evacuation BuildingEXODUS Modelling & Simulation Least squares method

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2016.070802 PDF

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Towards Enhancing Supportive E-Learning Courses using Smart Tags

Author 1: Hayel Khafajeh Author 2: Heider Wahsheh Author 3: Ahmad Albhaishi Author 4: Mofareh Alqahtani

E-learning management systems have emerged as a method of education development in many universities in the Arab world. E-learning management system tools provide a basic environment for interaction between faculty members and students, and these tools require information technology to obtain the most benefit. This paper proposes a method for… Read full abstract & cite →

Learning Management System (LMS) Supportive courses Blended courses Online Courses Quality Matters

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2016.070803 PDF

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A Novel Cylindrical DRA for C-Band Applications

Author 1: Hamed Gharsallah Author 2: Lotfi Osman Author 3: Lassaad Latrach

In this paper, we study a Dielectric Resonator Antenna of cylindrical shape with circular polarization for applications in the C band. The proposed antenna is composed of two different layers. The first is Polyflon Polyguide with relative permittivity er1 = 2.32 and a loss tangent tand = 0.002 as a… Read full abstract & cite →

Dielectric Resonator Antenna gain reflection coefficient circular polarization axial ratio

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Adaptive Threshold for Background Subtraction in Moving Object Detection using Stationary Wavelet Transforms 2D

Author 1: Oussama Boufares Author 2: Noureddine Aloui Author 3: Adnene Cherif

Both detection and tracking objects are challenging problems because of the type of the objects and even their presence in the scene. Generally, object detection is a prerequisite for target tracking, and tracking has no effect on object detection. In this paper, we propose an algorithm to detect and track… Read full abstract & cite →

moving object detection SWT background subtraction adaptive threshold kalman filter

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Optimization of OADM DWDM Ring Optical Network using Various Modulation Formats

Author 1: Vikrant Sharma Author 2: Dalveer Kaur

In this paper, the performance of the ring optical network is analyzed at bit rate 2.5 Gbps and 5 Gbps for various modulation formats such as NRZ rectangular, NRZ raised cosine, RZ soliton, RZ super Gaussian, RZ raised cosine and RZ rectangular. The effect of insertion losses is analyzed. It… Read full abstract & cite →

NRZ RZ OADM WDM ADM ROADM PRBS

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Performance Analysis & Comparison of Optimal Economic Load Dispatch using Soft Computing Techniques

Author 1: Vijay Kumar Author 2: Dr. Jagdev Singh Author 3: Dr. Yaduvir Singh Author 4: Dr. Sanjay Prakash Sood

Power plants not situated at similar space from center of loads and their fuel prices are dissimilar. In this paper, ELD of actual power generation measured.ELD is preparation of generators to reduce total functioning price of generator units exposed to equality constraint of power balance within minimum and maximum working… Read full abstract & cite →

ELD FL GA FCGA

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A New DTC Scheme using Second Order Sliding Mode and Fuzzy Logic of a DFIG for Wind Turbine System

Author 1: Zinelaabidine BOUDJEMA Author 2: Rachid TALEB Author 3: Adil YAHDOU

This article present a novel direct torque control (DTC) scheme using high order sliding mode (HOSM) and fuzzy logic of a doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) incorporated in a wind turbine system. Conventional direct torque control strategy (C-DTC) using hysteresis controllers presents considerable flux and torque undulations at steady state… Read full abstract & cite →

DFIG wind turbine DTC SOSM super twisting fuzzy logic

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FPGA Implementation of Parallel Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm and Compared with Genetic Algorithm

Author 1: BEN AMEUR Mohamed sadek Author 2: SAKLY Anis

In this paper, a digital implementation of Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm (PSO) is developed for implementation on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). PSO is a recent intelligent heuristic search method in which the mechanism of algorithm is inspired by the swarming of biological populations. PSO is similar to the Genetic… Read full abstract & cite →

PSO algorithm GA FPGA Finite state machine hardware

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Simulation of Shunt Active Power Filter Controlled by SVPWM Connected to a Photovoltaic Generator

Author 1: Ismail BOUYAKOUB Author 2: Abedelkhader DJAHBAR Author 3: Benyounes MAZARI Author 4: Omar MAAROUF

In this paper we study the shunt active power filter. This filter contains a voltage three-level inverter controlled by the SVPWM strategy supplied by a the DC bus powered by a solar array to improve the quality of electric energy and eliminate harmonics currents generated by non-linear loads, the latter… Read full abstract & cite →

shunt active power filter harmonic currents MVF SVPWM three level inverter GPV

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PSIM and MATLAB Co-Simulation of Photovoltaic System using “P and O” and “Incremental Conductance” MPPT

Author 1: ANAS EL FILALI Author 2: EL MEHDI LAADISSI Author 3: MALIKA ZAZI

The photovoltaic (PV) generator shows a nonlinear current-voltage (I-V) characteristic that its maximum power point (MPP) differs with irradiance and temperature. by employing simple maximum power point tracking algorithms, we can track this MPP and increase the efficiency of our photovoltaic system. Two methods for the maximum power point tracking… Read full abstract & cite →

Photovoltaic Boost PWM MPPT P and O Incremental Conductance co-simulation

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Implementing and Comparison between Two Algorithms to Make a Decision in a Wireless Sensors Network

Author 1: Fouad Essahlaoui Author 2: Ahmed El Abbassi Author 3: Rachid Skouri

The clinical presentation of acute CO poisoning and hydrocarbon gas (Butane CAS 106-97-8) varies depending on terrain, humidity, temperature, duration of exposure and the concentration of gas toxic: From then consciousness disorders (100 ppm or 15%) rapidly limiting miners to ambient air and under oxygen until sudden coma (300 ppm… Read full abstract & cite →

Wireless Network Sensors Stationary Filter CUSUM Average Arduino Butane

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Emotion Recognition from Speech using Prosodic and Linguistic Features

Author 1: Mahwish Pervaiz Author 2: Tamim Ahmed Khan

Speech signal can be used to extract emotions. However, it is pertinent to note that variability in speech signal can make emotion extraction a challenging task. There are a number of factors that indicate presence of emotions. Prosodic and temporal features have been used previously for the purpose of identifying… Read full abstract & cite →

Emotion Extraction Prosodic Features Temporal Features Dynamic Time Wrapping Segmentation

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Medical Image Inpainting with RBF Interpolation Technique

Author 1: Mashail Alsalamah Author 2: Saad Amin

Inpainting is a method for repairing damaged images or to remove unwanted parts of an image. While this process has been performed by professional artists in the past, today, the use of this technology is emerging in the medical area – especially in the medical imaging realm. In this study… Read full abstract & cite →

Inpainting interpolate texture synthesis exemplar texture inpainting Radial Basis Function

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Content based Video Retrieval Systems Performance based on Multiple Features and Multiple Frames using SVM

Author 1: Mohd Aasif Ansari Author 2: Hemlata Vasishtha

In this paper, Content Based Video Retrieval Systems performance is analysed and compared for three different types of feature vectors. These types of features are generated using three different algorithms; Block Truncation Coding (BTC) extended for colors, Kekre’s Fast Codebook Generation (KFCG) algorithm and Gabor filters. The feature vectors are… Read full abstract & cite →

CBVR KFCG Multiple Frames SVM BTC Gabor filter

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Finite Elements Modeling of Linear Motor for Automatic Sliding Door Application

Author 1: Aymen Lachheb Author 2: Lilia El Amraoui Author 3: Jalel Khedhiri

In this paper, a linear switched reluctance motor is designed and investigated to be used as a sliding door drive system. A non linear two dimensions finite model is built to predict the performance of the designed motor. Thus, the static electromagnetic characteristics are investigated and analyzed. The inductance and… Read full abstract & cite →

linear motor sliding door 2D-finite-element analysis switched reluctance

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A Review of Solutions for SDN-Exclusive Security Issues

Author 1: Jakob Spooner Author 2: Dr Shao Ying Zhu

Software Defined Networking is a paradigm still in its emergent stages in the realm of production-scale networks. Centralisation of network control introduces a new level of flexibility for network administrators and programmers. Security is a huge factor contributing to consumer resistance to implementation of SDN architecture. Without addressing the issues… Read full abstract & cite →

SDN software security OpenFlow networking network security NFV

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Optimized Voting Scheme for Efficient Vanishing Point Detection in General Road Images

Author 1: Vipul H. Mistry Author 2: Ramji Makwana

Next generation automobile industries are aiming for development of vision-based driver assistance system and driver-less vehicle system. In the context of this application, a major challenge lies in the identification of efficient road region segmentation from captured image frames. Recent research work suggests that use of a global feature like… Read full abstract & cite →

Road Detection Vanishing Point Gabor Filter voting scheme general road segmentation

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Automated Simulation P2P Botnets Signature Detection by Rule-based Approach

Author 1: Raihana Syahirah Abdullah Author 2: Faizal M.A. Author 3: Zul Azri Muhamad Noh Author 4: Nurulhuda Ahmad

Internet is a most salient services in communication. Thus, companies take this opportunity by putting critical resources online for effective business organization. This has given rise to activities of cyber criminals actuated by botnets. P2P networks had gained popularity through distributed applications such as file-sharing, web caching and network storage… Read full abstract & cite →

Botnets P2P Botnets Signature Rule-based

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A Survey on Case-based Reasoning in Medicine

Author 1: Nabanita Choudhury Author 2: Shahin Ara Begum

Case-based reasoning (CBR) based on the memory-centered cognitive model is a strategy that focuses on how people learn a new skill or how they generate hypothesis on new situations based on their past experiences. Among various Artificial Intelligence tracks, CBR, due to its intrinsic similarity with the human reasoning process… Read full abstract & cite →

case-based reasoning medicine artificial intelligence soft computing

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MRPPSim: A Multi-Robot Path Planning Simulation

Author 1: Ebtehal Turki Saho Alotaibi Author 2: Hisham Al-Rawi

Multi-robot path planning problem is an interesting problem of research having great potential for several optimization problems in the world. In multi-robot path planning problem domain (MRPP), robots must move from their start locations to their goal locations avoiding collisions with each other. MRPP is a relevant problem in several… Read full abstract & cite →

component simulation modeling evaluation multi-robot path planning problem performance measurements

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Software Design Principles to Enhance SDN Architecture

Author 1: Iyad Alazzam Author 2: Izzat Alsmadi Author 3: Khalid M.O Nahar

SDN as a network architecture emerged on top of existing technologies and knowledge. Through defining the controller as a software program, SDN made a strong connection between networking and software engineering. Traditionally, network programs were vendor specific and embedded in hardware switches and routers. SDN focuses on isolation between control… Read full abstract & cite →

component SDN OpenFlo Software design SDN architecture Design principles Design patterns

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Evaluating the Usability of Optimizing Text-based CAPTCHA Generation

Author 1: Suliman A. Alsuhibany

A CAPTCHA is a test that can, automatically, tell human and computer programs apart. It is a mechanism widely used nowadays for protecting web applications, interfaces, and services from malicious users and automated spammers. Usability and robustness are two fundamental aspects with CAPTCHA, where the usability aspect is the ease… Read full abstract & cite →

text-based CAPTCHA usability security optimization experimentation evaluation

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Performance Optimization of the Multi-Pumped Raman Optical Amplifier using MOICA

Author 1: Mohsen Katebi Jahromi Author 2: Seyed Mojtaba Saif Author 3: Masoud Jabbari

In order to achieve the best gain profile for multi pump distributed Raman amplifiers in Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) transmission systems, the power and wavelength of pumps, the type of pumping configuration and the number of pump signals are the most important factors. In this paper, using a Multi-Objective Imperialist… Read full abstract & cite →

Raman amplifier ICA WDM System Optical fiber Multi-objective Optimization

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Influence of Adopting a Text-Free User Interface on the Usability of a Web-based Government System with Illiterate and Semi-Literate People

Author 1: Ms. Ghadam Alduhailan Author 2: Dr. Majed Alshamari

Illiterate and semi-literate people usually face different types of difficulties when they use the Internet, such as reading and recognising text. This research aims to develop and examine the influence of adopting a text-free user interface on the usability of a web-based government system with illiterate and semi-literate people. A… Read full abstract & cite →

text-free interface web-based system usability e-services government consolidated framework

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Chemical Reaction Optimization for Max Flow Problem

Author 1: Reham Barham Author 2: Ahmad Sharieh Author 3: Azzam Sliet

This study presents an algorithm for MaxFlow problem using "Chemical Reaction Optimization algorithm (CRO)". CRO is a recently established meta-heuristics algorithm for optimization, inspired by the nature of chemical reactions. The main concern is to find the best maximum flow value at which the flow can be shipped from the… Read full abstract & cite →

Chemical reaction optimization(CRO) Decomposition Heuristic Max Flow problem Molecule Optimization Reactions Synthesis

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Factors Influencing Patients’ Attitudes to Exchange Electronic Health Information in Saudi Arabia: An Exploratory Study

Author 1: Mariam Al-Khalifa Author 2: Shaheen Khatoon Author 3: Azhar Mahmood Author 4: Iram Fatima

Health Information Exchange (HIE) systems electronically transfer patients’ clinical, demographic, and health-related information between different care providers. These exchanges offer improved health care quality, reduced medical errors and health care costs, increase patient safety and organizational efficiency. However, technologies cannot bring such improvements if patients are reluctant to share personal… Read full abstract & cite →

Health Information Exchange Electronic Medical Record TAM Theoretical Model Introduction

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Efficient Load Balancing Algorithm for the Arrangement-Star Network

Author 1: Ahmad M. Awwad Author 2: Jehad A. Al-Sadi

The Arrangement-Star is a well-known network in the literature and it is one of the promising interconnection networks in the area of super computing, it is expected to be one of the attractive alternatives in the future for High Speed Parallel Computers. The Arrangement-Star network has many attractive topological properties… Read full abstract & cite →

Interconnection Networks Topological Properties Arrangement-Star Load balancing

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Analytical Performance Evaluation of IPv6 and IPv4 Over 10 Gigabit Ethernet and InfiniBand using IPoIB

Author 1: Eric Gamess Author 2: Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga

IPv6 is the response to the shortage of IPv4 addresses. It was defined almost twenty years ago by the IETF as a replacement of IPv4, and little by little, it is becoming more preponderant as the Internet protocol. The growth of Internet has led to the development of high performance… Read full abstract & cite →

IPv4 IPv6 Performance Evaluation InfiniBand IP over InfiniBand 10 Gigabit Ethernet Benchmarking Tools

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Ontology-based Query Expansion for Arabic Text Retrieval

Author 1: Waseem Alromima Author 2: Ibrahim F. Moawad Author 3: Rania Elgohary Author 4: Mostafa Aref

The semantic resources are important parts in the Information Retrieval (IR) such as search engines, Question Answering (QA), etc., these resources should be available, readable and understandable. In semantic web, the ontology plays a central role for the information retrieval, which use to retrieves more relevant information from unstructured information… Read full abstract & cite →

Information Retrieval Arabic Ontology Semantic Search Arabic Quran Corpus

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A Hybrid Approach for Measuring Semantic Similarity between Documents and its Application in Mining the Knowledge Repositories

Author 1: Ms. K. L. Sumathy Author 2: Dr. Chidambaram

This paper explains about similarity measure and the relationship between the knowledge repositories. This paper also describes the significance of document similarity measures, algorithms and to which type of text it can be applied Document similarity measures are of full text similarity, paragraph similarity, sentence similarity, semantic similarity, structural similarity… Read full abstract & cite →

dataset documents research similarity documents ontology and corpus

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A Novel Approach for Submission of Tasks to a Data Center in a Virtualized Cloud Computing Environment

Author 1: B. Santhosh Kumar Author 2: Dr. Latha Parthiban

The submission of tasks to a data center plays a crucial role to achieve the services like scheduling, processing in a cloud computing environment. Energy consumption of a data center must be considered for task processing as it results in high operational expenditures and bad environmental impact. Unfortunately, none of… Read full abstract & cite →

Energy consumption Virtualization Data Center Selection Framework

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Evaluation of Wellness Detection Techniques using Complex Activities Association for Smart Home Ambient

Author 1: Farhan Sabir Ujager Author 2: Azhar Mahmood Author 3: Shaheen Khatoon Author 4: Muhammad Imran Author 5: Umair Abdullah

Wireless Sensor Network based smart homes have the potential to meet the growing challenges of independent living of elderly people in smart homes. However, wellness detection of elderly people in smart homes is still a challenging research domain. Many researchers have proposed several techniques; however, majority of these techniques does… Read full abstract & cite →

Wellness detection Elderly people WSN Smart homes Activity recognition

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A Study of Resilient Architecture for Critical Software-Intensive System-of-Systems (Sisos)

Author 1: Nadeem Akhtar Author 2: Malik Muhammad Saad Missen Author 3: Nadeem Salamat Author 4: Amnah Firdous Author 5: Mujtaba Husnain

The role of critical system-of-systems have become considerably software-intensive. A critical system-of-system has to satisfy correctness properties of liveness and safety. As critical system-of-systems have to operate in open environments in which they interact and collaborate with other systems, satisfy action of the requirements through traditional offline top-down engineering no… Read full abstract & cite →

Resilient architecture Critical systems System-of-System (SoS) Software-intensive SoS (SiSoS) Emergent behavior Correctness Safety

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Speech Impairments in Intellectual Disability: An Acoustic Study

Author 1: Sumanlata Gautam Author 2: Latika Singh

Speech is the primary means of human communication. Speech production starts in early ages and matures as children grow. People with intellectual or learning disabilities have deficit in speech production and faces difficulties in communication. These people need tailor-made therapies or trainings for rehabilitation to lead their lives independently. To… Read full abstract & cite →

speech development spectro-temporal intellectual disabilities timescales learning disability classification model

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Urdu Text Classification using Majority Voting

Author 1: Muhammad Usman Author 2: Zunaira Shafique Author 3: Saba Ayub Author 4: Kamran Malik

Text classification is a tool to assign the predefined categories to the text documents using supervised machine learning algorithms. It has various practical applications like spam detection, sentiment detection, and detection of a natural language. Based on the idea we applied five well-known classification techniques on Urdu language corpus and… Read full abstract & cite →

Text Classification Tokenization Stemming Naïve Bayes SVM Random Forest Bernoulli NB Multinomial NB SGD Classifier Majority Voting

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An Item-based Multi-Criteria Collaborative Filtering Algorithm for Personalized Recommender Systems

Author 1: Qusai Shambour Author 2: Mou’ath Hourani Author 3: Salam Fraihat

Recommender Systems are used to mitigate the information overload problem in different domains by providing personalized recommendations for particular users based on their implicit and explicit preferences. However, Item-based Collaborative Filtering (CF) techniques, as the most popular techniques of recommender systems, suffer from sparsity and new item limitations which result… Read full abstract & cite →

Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems Multi-Criteria Sparsity New Item

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Pattern Recognition Approach in Multidimensional Databases: Application to the Global Terrorism Database

Author 1: Semeh BEN SALEM Author 2: Sami NAOUALI

This paper presents a pattern recognition approach in multidimensional databases. The approach is based on a clustering method using the distance measurement between a reference profile and the database observations. Two distance measurements will be proposed: an adaptation of the Khi2 formula to the multidimensional context, extracted from the Multiple… Read full abstract & cite →

clustering pattern recognition multidimensional databases distance measurement Khi2 formula Euclidean distance Multiple Correspondence Analysis

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An Improved Pulmonary Nodule Detection Scheme based on Multi-Layered Filtering and 3d Distance Metrics

Author 1: Baber Jahangir Author 2: Muhammad Imran Author 3: Qamar Abbas Author 4: Shahina Rabeel1line Author 5: Ayyaz Hussain

This paper proposed a computer-aided detection (CAD) system to automatically detect pulmonary nodules from thoracic computed tomography (CT) images. Automatically detect pulmonary nodules is a difficult job because of the large deviation in size, shape, location and density of nodules. The proposed CAD scheme applies multiple 3D disk-shaped laplacian filters… Read full abstract & cite →

computer-aided detection system nodule detection lung nodule

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Autonomous Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) Decision Making in Roundabout using Game Theory

Author 1: Lejla Banjanovic-Mehmedovic Author 2: Edin Halilovic Author 3: Ivan Bosankic Author 4: Mehmed Kantardzic Author 5: Suad Kasapovic

Roundabout intersections promote a continuous flow of traffic. Roundabouts entry move traffic through an intersection more quickly, and with less congestion on approaching roads. With the introduction of smart vehicles and cooperative decision-making, roundabout management shortens the waiting time and leads to a more efficient traffic without breaking the traffic… Read full abstract & cite →

autonomous vehicles decision making non-zero-sum game theory mobile robots roundabout vehicle-to-vehicle cooperation (V2V) wireless communication

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Analytical and Numerical Study of the Onset of Electroconvection in a Dielectric Nanofluid Saturated a Rotating Darcy Porous Medium

Author 1: Abderrahim Wakif Author 2: Zoubair Boulahia Author 3: Rachid Sehaqui

The simultaneous effect of rotation and a vertical AC electric field on the onset of electroconvection in a horizontal dielectric nanofluid layer saturated a Darcy porous medium is investigated. The boundaries of the dielectric nanofluid layer are considered isothermal, where the vertical nanoparticle flux is zero. The resulting eigenvalue problem… Read full abstract & cite →

Linear Stability Electroconvection Dielectric Nanofluid Rotation Porous Medium Power Series Method

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BRIQA: Framework for the Blind and Referenced Visual Image Quality Assessment

Author 1: Jaime Moreno Author 2: Oswaldo Morales Author 3: Ricardo Tejeida Author 4: Eduardo Garc´ia

Our proposal is to present a Blind and Referenced Image Quality Assessment or BRIQA. Thus, the main proposal of this paper is to propose an Interface, which contains not only a Full-Referenced Image Quality Assessment (IQA) but also a No- Referenced or Blind IQA applying perceptual concepts by means of… Read full abstract & cite →

Image Quality Assessment Contrast Band-Pass Filtering Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio

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Cohesion Based Personalized Community Recommendation System

Author 1: Md Mamunur Rashid Author 2: Kazi Wasif Ahmed Author 3: Hasan Mahmud Author 4: Md. Kamrul Hasan Author 5: Husne Ara Rubaiyeat

Our life is totally engaged by the progressive growth of online social networking. Because, millions of users are interconnecting with each other using different social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, Instagram etc. Most of the social sites like Facebook, Google+ allow users to join different groups or… Read full abstract & cite →

Social network Community or Group recommendation Cohesion Amity factor User Preferences or proclivity

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Face Recognition in Uncontrolled Environment

Author 1: Radhey Shyam Author 2: Yogendra Narain Singh

This paper presents a novel method of facial image representation for face recognition in uncontrolled environment. It is named as augmented local binary patterns (A-LBP) that works on both, uniform and non-uniform patterns. It replaces the central non-uniform pattern with a majority value of the neighbouring uniform patterns obtained after… Read full abstract & cite →

Face recognition A-LBP descriptor distance metrics area under curve decidability index

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Architecture Considerations for Big Data Management

Author 1: Khalim Amjad Meerja Author 2: Khaled Almustafa

A network architecture is concerned with holistic view of interconnection of different nodes with each other. This refers to both physical and logical ways of interconnection of all nodes in the network. The way in which they are connected influences the strategies adopted for Big Data Management. In this present… Read full abstract & cite →

Internet of Things (IoT) Big Data Cloud network RFID Sensor Networks 5G

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An Improved Approach for Text-Independent Speaker Recognition

Author 1: Rania Chakroun Author 2: Leila Beltaïfa Zouari Author 3: Mondher Frikha

This paper presents new Speaker Identification and Speaker Verification systems based on the use of new feature vectors extracted from the speech signal. The proposed structure combine between the most successful Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients and new features which are the Short Time Zero Crossing Rate of the signal. A… Read full abstract & cite →

GMM speaker verification speaker recognition speaker identification

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Using Persuasive Recommendations in Wellness Applications based upon User Activities

Author 1: Hamid Mukhtar

Recently, a large number of mobile wellness ap-plications have emerged for assisting users in self-monitoring of daily food intake and physical activities. While such applications are in abundance, many research surveys have found that the users soon give them up after giving some initial try. This article presents our application… Read full abstract & cite →

user goal modeling user feedback context preferences

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Towards Securing Medical Documents from Insider Attacks

Author 1: Maaz Bin Ahmad Author 2: Muhammad Fahad Author 3: Abdul Wahab Khan Author 4: Muhammad Asif

Medical organizations have sensitive health related documents. Unauthorized access attempts for these should not only be prevented but also detected in order to ensure correct treatment of the patients and to capture the malicious intent users. Such organizations normally rely on the principle of least privileges together with the deployment… Read full abstract & cite →

covert channels misuse insider medical documents

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