IJACSA Vol. 8 Issue 8 (2017)

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HappyMeter: An Automated System for Real-Time Twitter Sentiment Analysis

Author 1: Joaquim Perotti Canela Author 2: Tina Tian

The paper presents HappyMeter, an automated system for real-time Twitter sentiment analysis. More than 380 million tweets consisting of nearly 30,000 words, almost 6,000 hashtags and over 5,000 user mentioned have been studied. A sentiment model is used to measure the sentiment level of each term in the contiguous United… Read full abstract & cite →

Twitter social networks data mining sentiment analysis

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A Comparison between Chemical Reaction Optimization and Genetic Algorithms for Max Flow Problem

Author 1: Mohammad Y. Khanafseh Author 2: Ola M. Surakhi Author 3: Ahmad Sharieh Author 4: Azzam Sleit

This paper presents a comparison between the performance of Chemical Reaction Optimization algorithm and Genetic algorithm in solving maximum flow problem with the performance of Ford-Fulkerson algorithm in that. The algorithms have been implemented sequentially using JAVA programming language, and executed to find maximum flow problem using different network size… Read full abstract & cite →

Chemical reaction optimization Ford-Fulkerson algorithm genetic algorithm maximum flow problem

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Meteonowcasting using Deep Learning Architecture

Author 1: Sanam Narejo Author 2: Eros Pasero

The area of deep learning has enjoyed a resurgence on its peak, in almost every field of interest. Weather forecasting is a complicated and one of the most challenging tasks that includes observing and processing huge amount of data. The present paper proposes an effort to apply deep learning approach… Read full abstract & cite →

Deep learning architectures deep belief network time series prediction weather nowcasting

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A Review of Towered Big-Data Service Model for Biomedical Text-Mining Databases

Author 1: Alshreef Abed Author 2: Jingling Yuan Author 3: Lin Li

The rapid growth of biomedical informatics has drawn increasing popularity and attention. The reason behind this are the advances in genomic, new molecular, biomedical approaches and various applications like protein identification, patient medical records, genome sequencing, medical imaging and a huge set of biomedical research data are being generated day… Read full abstract & cite →

Big data biomedical data text mining information retrieval feature extraction

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A Non-Linear Regression Modeling is used for Asymmetry Co-Integration and Managerial Economics in Iraqi Firms

Author 1: Karrar Abdulellah Azeez Author 2: Han DongPing Author 3: Marwah Abdulkareem Mahmood

This paper analyzes the cost asymmetry through managerial expectations in a nonlinear regression function. Two development determinants, asymmetry co-integration and managerial expectations are also considered. The results revealed that managerial expectation had an impact on the wholesale cost asymmetry response. The managerial optimism is pronounced that show cost asymmetry response… Read full abstract & cite →

Cost asymmetry managerial expectations co-integration nonlinear regression function

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DDoS Attacks Classification using Numeric Attribute-based Gaussian Naive Bayes

Author 1: Abdul Fadlil Author 2: Imam Riadi Author 3: Sukma Aji

Cyber attacks by sending large data packets that deplete computer network service resources by using multiple computers when attacking are called Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Total Data Packet and important information in the form of log files sent by the attacker can be observed and captured through the… Read full abstract & cite →

Distributed Denial of Service (DdoS) Gaussian Naive Bayes Numeric

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A Features-based Comparative Study of the State-of-the-art Cloud Computing Simulators and Future Directions

Author 1: Ahmad Waqas Author 2: M. Abdul Rehman Author 3: Abdul Rehman Gilal Author 4: Mohammad Asif Khan Author 5: Javed Ahmed Author 6: Zulkefli Muhammed Yusof

Cloud computing has emerged during the last decade and turned out to be an essential component for today’s business. Therefore, many solutions are being proposed to optimize and secure the cloud computing environment. To test and validate the proposed solutions before deploying in real cloud infrastructure, a cloud computing simulator… Read full abstract & cite →

Cloud computing simulation cloud simulator cloud performance analysis simulator features

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An Innovative Cognitive Architecture for Humanoid Robot

Author 1: Muhammad Faheem Mushtaq Author 2: Urooj Akram Author 3: Adeel Tariq Author 4: Irfan Khan Author 5: Muhammad Zulqarnain Author 6: Umer Iqbal

Humanoid robot is appearing as most popular research tool and emerging research field. The greatest challenge in the development of robot is cognition, advancement and the understanding in the human like cognition. Humanoid robot requires a self-learning behavior like the humans that is able to get the experience from environment… Read full abstract & cite →

Humanoid robots cognition cognitive architecture self-learning behavior dynamic environment

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Shadow Identification in Food Images using Extreme Learning Machine

Author 1: SALWA KHALID ABDULATEEF Author 2: MASSUDI MAHMUDDIN Author 3: NOR HAZLYNA HARUN

Shadow identification is important for food images. Different applications require an accurate shadow identification or removal. A shadow varies from one image to another based on different factors such as lighting, colors, shape of objects, and their arrangement. This makes shadow identification complex problem and lacking systematic approach. Machine learning… Read full abstract & cite →

Extreme machine learning shadow identification food images support vector machine edge detection color spaces

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080809 PDF

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PCA based Optimization using Conjugate Gradient Descent Algorithm

Author 1: Subhas A. Meti Author 2: V.G. Sangam

The energy dissipation in Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) systems is the biggest concern as it proportionally affects the system longevity. This energy dissipation in the WBAN system mainly takes place due to the signal interference from other networks causing reduction on the dimensionality. The data prediction in WBAN is… Read full abstract & cite →

Associative neural network (AANN) conjugate gradient descent Non-Linear Principle Component Analysis (NLPCA) Principle Component Analysis (PCA) Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN)

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Improvement of Radial basis Function Interpolation Performance on Cranial Implant Design

Author 1: Ferhat Atasoy Author 2: Baha Sen Author 3: Fatih Nar Author 4: Ismail Bozkurt

Cranioplasty is a neurosurgical operation for repairing cranial defects that have occurred in a previous operation or trauma. Various methods have been presented for cranioplasty from past to present. In computer-aided design based methods, quality of an implant depends on operator’s talent. In mathematical model based methods, such as curve-fitting… Read full abstract & cite →

Cranioplasty interpolation on medical images radial basis function interpolation symmetrical data

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Performance Evaluation of Transmission Line Protection Characteristics with DSTATCOM Implementation

Author 1: Yasar Khan Author 2: Khalid Mahmood Author 3: Sanaullah Ahmad

To meet with the ever-enhancing load demands, new transmission lines should be bolted-on in the existing power system but the economic and environmental concerns are major constraints to this addition. Hence utilities have to rely on the existent power system infrastructure with some modifications. To enhance controllability and boost power… Read full abstract & cite →

Power system analysis DSTATCOM transmission line loss minimization distribution dynamic compensation transmission losses and efficiency

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Synchronous Authentication Key Management Scheme for Inter-eNB Handover over LTE Networks

Author 1: Shadi Nashwan

Handover process execution without active session termination is considered one of the most important attribute in the Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks. Unfortunately, this service always is suffered from the growing of security threats. In the Inter-eNB handover, an attacker may exploit these threats to violate the user privacy and… Read full abstract & cite →

LTE network X2 handover horizontal and vertical key derivations desynchronizing attack

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A New Cryptosystem using Vigenere and Metaheuristics for RGB Pixel Shuffling

Author 1: Zakaria KADDOURI Author 2: Mohamed Amine Hyaya Author 3: Mohamed KADDOURI

In this article we present a new approach using Vigenere and metaheuristics to resolve a problem of pixel shuffling to cipher an image. First the image is adapted to match the resolution system by transforming it to a list of intensities and coordinates. The idea is to use Vigenere encryption… Read full abstract & cite →

Cryptography cryptosystem Vigenere metaheuristics image pixel shuffling

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Improved Hybrid Model in Vehicular Clouds based on Data Types (IHVCDT)

Author 1: Saleh A. Khawatreh Author 2: Enas N. Al-Zubi

In Vehicular Cloud (VC), vehicles collect data from the surrounding environment and exchange this data among the vehicles and the cloud centers. To do that in an efficient way first we need to organize the vehicles into clusters, each one works as a VC, and every cluster is managed by… Read full abstract & cite →

Vehicular Cloud (VC) Vehicular Cloud Computing (VCC) Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) cloud algorithms hybrid transmissions IEEE 802.11p Long-Term Evolution (LTE) transmission cost

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FPGA Implementation of SVM for Nonlinear Systems Regression

Author 1: Intissar SAYEHI Author 2: Mohsen MACHHOUT Author 3: Rached TOURKI

This work resumes the previous implementations of Support Vector Machine for Classification and Regression and explicates the different methods and approaches adopted. Ever since the rarity of works in the field of nonlinear systems regression, an implementation of testing phase of SVM was proposed exploiting the parallelism and reconfigurability of… Read full abstract & cite →

Machine learning nonlinear system SVM regression Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS) MATLAB Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) Xilinx System Generator

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A Synthesis on SWOT Analysis of Public Sector Healthcare Knowledge Management Information Systems in Pakistan

Author 1: Arfan Arshad Author 2: Mohamad Fauzan Noordin Author 3: Roslina Bint Othman

Healthcare is a community service sector and has been delivering its services for the betterment of civic health since its establishment at communal level. For working efficiently and effectively, this sector profoundly relies on correct and complete health information of people and a proficient integrated healthcare knowledge management information system… Read full abstract & cite →

Healthcare knowledge management healthcare knowledge management information system information and communications technology SWOT analysis internal and external factors healthcare organizations

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Multi-Agent based Functional Testing in the Distributed Environment

Author 1: Muhammad Fraz Malik Author 2: M. N. A. Khan Author 3: Uzma Bibi Author 4: Muhammad Ayaz Malik

Verification and testing are two formal techniques of defect reduction applied on designing and development phases of SDLC to rationalize quality assurance activities. The process of testing applications in the distributed environment becomes too complex. This study discusses a distributed testing framework that consists of many parallel tester components. The… Read full abstract & cite →

Software quality assurance software testing distributed environment input variation testing test vectors multi-agents

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Modeling and Implementing Ontology for Managing Learners’ Profiles

Author 1: Korchi Adil Author 2: El Amrani El Idrissi Najiba Author 3: Oughdir Lahcen

This paper presents an issue that is important to consider when developing a learning environment whose field is constantly evolving mainly in terms of the use of training platforms. Research in this field has enabled the successful use of information technologies for the benefit of human learning, while placing the… Read full abstract & cite →

Ontology computing environments for human learning (CEHL)-Learner – Learner’s Profile – XML/RDF – JENA API – OWL – PERFECT-LEARN – inference Learner modeling – SPARQL - semantic links - concepts – sub-concepts

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Suitable Personality Traits for Learning Programming Subjects: A Rough-Fuzzy Model

Author 1: Abdul Rehman Gilal Author 2: Jafreezal Jaafar Author 3: Mazni Omar Author 4: Shuib Basri Author 5: Izzatdin Abdul Aziz Author 6: Qamar Uddin Khand Author 7: Mohd Hilmi Hasan

Programming is a cognitive activity which requires logical reasoning to code for abstract presentation. This study aims to find out the personality traits of students who maintain the effective grades in learning programming courses such as structured programming (SP) and object oriented programming (OOP) by gender classification. Data were collected… Read full abstract & cite →

Software development personality programming rough sets fuzzy sets

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Usability of Government Websites

Author 1: Mahmood Ashraf Author 2: Faiza Shabbir Cheema Author 3: Tanzila Saba Author 4: Abdul Mateen

Usability of Government websites plays pivotal role in order to provide benefits and services to the citizens. This study presents a usability evaluation for investigating the Nielsen’s usability attributes in Government websites. Based on the previous studies, a proposed website template is used in this study. This template is compared… Read full abstract & cite →

Usability statutory bodies websites government websites

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InstDroid: A Light Weight Instant Malware Detector for Android Operating Systems

Author 1: Saba Arshad Author 2: Rabia Chaudhary Author 3: Munam Ali Shah Author 4: Neshmia Hafeez Author 5: Muhammad Kamran Abbasi

With the increasing popularity of Android operating system, its security concerns have also been raised to a new horizon in past few years. Different researchers have introduced different approaches in order to mitigate the malware attacks on Android devices and they succeed to provide security up to some extent but… Read full abstract & cite →

Android static resource efficient power consumption memory detection rate accuracy

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A 7-Layered E-Government Framework Consolidating Technical, Social and Managerial Aspects

Author 1: Mohammed Hitham M.H Author 2: Dr. Hatem Elkadi H.K Author 3: Dr. Sherine Ghoneim S.G

E-Government has been hype for the last 2 decades and still several implementations do not reach the intended success. Different definitions and consequently different models of operations and assessment were developed. This required the formulation of various frameworks describing the different perceptions and understandings of e-Government. The different frameworks proposed… Read full abstract & cite →

E-government framework e-government challenges decision support system (DSS)

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Validating a Novel Conflict Resolution Strategy Selection Method (ConfRSSM) Via Multi-Agent Simulation

Author 1: Alicia Y.C. Tang Author 2: Ghusoon Salim Basheer

Selecting a suitable conflict resolution strategy when conflicts appear in multi-agent environments is a hard problem. There is a need to develop a method that can select a suitable strategy which guaranties low cost in terms of the number of messages and time ticks. This paper focuses on conflicts over… Read full abstract & cite →

Multi-agent conflict resolution strategy conflict states confidence level simulation

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Modeling and Verification of Payment System in E-Banking

Author 1: Iqra Obaid Author 2: Syed Asad Raza Kazmi Author 3: Awais Qasim

Formal modeling and verification techniques have been used to ensure the reliability and accuracy of multiple systems to be verified. In contrast to ordinary testing techniques which exhibit the presence of flaws and errors in a system, formal methods prove their absence. Electronic banking (e-banking) services have become very popular… Read full abstract & cite →

E-banking model checking Simple Promela Interpreter (SPIN) formal methods Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula Promela introduction

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ReCSDN: Resilient Controller for Software Defined Networks

Author 1: Soomaiya Hamid Author 2: Narmeen Zakaria Bawany Author 3: Jawwad Ahmed Shamsi

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging network paradigm that provides central control over the network. Although, this simplifies the network management and makes efficient use of network resources, it introduces new threats to network reliability and scalability. In fact, a single centralized controller is a single point of failure… Read full abstract & cite →

Software Defined Networking (SDN) SDN Controller security Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack load balancing SDN controller cluster Open Network Operating System (ONOS)

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Detection and Prevention of SQL Injection Attack by Dynamic Analyzer and Testing Model

Author 1: Rana Muhammad Nadeem Author 2: Rana Muhammad Saleem Author 3: Rabnawaz Bashir Author 4: Sidra Habib

With the emergence and popularity of web application, threats related to web applications has increased to large extent. Among many other web applications threats Structured Query Language Injection Attack (SQLIA) is the dominant in its use due to its ability to access the data. Many solutions are proposed in this… Read full abstract & cite →

Structured Query Language (SQL) injection attack request receiver analyzer and tester

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080827 PDF

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Normalisation of Technology Use in a Developing Country Higher Education Institution

Author 1: Ibrahim Osman Adam Author 2: Osman Issah

The purpose of this study is to understand how the use of an online course and lecturer evaluation becomes a normalised way of evaluating courses and lecturers in a developing country higher education institution. Extant literature on course and lecturer evaluations has concentrated on the approaches to evaluating courses, lecturers… Read full abstract & cite →

Course and lecturer evaluation Higher Education Institution (HEI) Normalisation Normalisation Process Theory (NPT)

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Design and Simulation of a Novel Dual Band Microstrip Antenna for LTE-3 and LTE-7 Bands

Author 1: Abdullah Al Hasan Author 2: Mohammad Shahriar Siraj Author 3: Muhammad Mostafa Amir Faisal

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is currently being used in many developed countries and hopefully will be implemented in more countries. An antenna operating in LTE-3 band can support global roaming in ITU Regions 1 and 3, Costa Rica, Brazil and partially in some Caribbean countries and antenna operating in LTE-7… Read full abstract & cite →

Long Term Evolution (LTE) microstrip dual band u-slot

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Mobile Learning Application Development for Improvement of English Listening Comprehension

Author 1: Zahida Parveen Laghari Author 2: Hameedullah Kazi Author 3: Muhammad Ali Nizamani

Trend towards English language learning has been increased because it is considered as Lingua franca i.e. language of communication for all. However students of Pakistan are behind in this pace, especially rural elementary students. In rural areas there is crucial need to get assistance in their own curriculum after school… Read full abstract & cite →

Mobile Learning (M-Learning) Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) English as Secondary Language (ESL) Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Personal Digital Assistance (PDA)

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Toward a New Massively Distributed Virtual Machine based Cloud Micro-Services Team Model for HPC: SPMD Applications

Author 1: Fatéma Zahra Benchara Author 2: Mohamed Youssfi Author 3: Omar Bouattane Author 4: Ouafae Serrar Author 5: Hassan Ouajji

This paper aims to propose a new massively distributed virtual machine with scalable and efficient parallel computing models for High Performance Computing (HPC). The message passing paradigm of the Processing Units has a significant impact on HPC with high communication cost that penalizes the performance of these models. Accordingly, the… Read full abstract & cite →

Parallel and distributed computing micro-services cloud computing distributed virtual machine high performance computing

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Energy Management Strategy of a PV/Fuel Cell/Supercapacitor Hybrid Source Feeding an off-Grid Pumping Station

Author 1: Houssem CHAOUALI Author 2: Hichem OTHMANI Author 3: Mohamed Selméne BEN YAHIA Author 4: Dhafer MEZGHANI Author 5: Abdelkader MAMI

This work aims to develop an accurate energy management strategy for a hybrid renewable energy system feeding a pumping station. A developed model under Simulink environment is used to compare the performance of the pumping system when it is only fed by a photovoltaic generator, by a hybrid photovoltaic and… Read full abstract & cite →

Energy management strategy simulink pumping station photovoltaic generator fuel cell generator supercapacitor fuzzy logic control technique

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Object’s Shape Recognition using Local Binary Patterns

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

This paper discusses the concept of object’s shape identification using local binary pattern technique (LBP). Since LBP is computationally simple it has been utilized successfully for recognition of various objects. LBP which has the potential to be used in various identification related fields was applied on a number of different… Read full abstract & cite →

Local binary patterns object shape recognition security technologies content based recognition

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Feature Extraction and Classification Methods for a Motor Task Brain Computer Interface: A Comparative Evaluation for Two Databases

Author 1: Oana Diana Eva Author 2: Anca Mihaela Lazar

A comparative evaluation is performed on two databases using three feature extraction techniques and five classification methods for a motor imagery paradigm based on Mu rhythm. In order to extract the features from electroencephalographic signals, three methods are proposed: independent component analysis, Itakura distance and phase synchronization. The last one… Read full abstract & cite →

Brain computer interface independent component analysis Itakura distance phase synchronization classifiers

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Creating and Protecting Password: A User Intention

Author 1: Ari Kusyanti Author 2: Yustiyana April Lia Sari

Students Academic Information System (SAIS) is an application that provides academic information for the students. The security policy applied by our university requires the students to renew their SAIS password based on the university’s policy. This study aims to analyze SAIS users’ behavior by using six variables adapted from Protection… Read full abstract & cite →

Students Academic Information Systems (SAIS) SEM intention PMT

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Analyzing the Social Awareness in Autistic Children Trained through Multimedia Intervention Tool using Data Mining

Author 1: Richa Mishra Author 2: Divya Bhatnagar

This study focuses on creating a guideline for the ASD children by simulating the situation and analyzing the understanding of ASD (Asperger Syndrome) children over social skills by using a multimedia intervention tool designed for this purpose. 84 ASD individuals belonging to NGOs and clinics were selected for studying their… Read full abstract & cite →

Asperger Syndrome (ASD) multimedia intervention tool social skills autism computer aided training autistic children

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Context Aware Fuel Monitoring System for Cellular Sites

Author 1: Mohammad Asif Khan Author 2: Ahmad Waqas Author 3: Qamar Uddin Khand Author 4: Sajid Khan

The past decade has been very productive for cellular operators of Pakistan, as their subscribers have grown exponentially with increase in revenue. After this wave of rising, the operators have now reached to saturation level, with the highest teledensity of all time. These Cellular Networks consist of Cell sites, which… Read full abstract & cite →

Fuel theft fuel sensor fuel management remote monitoring

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Text Steganography using Extensions Kashida based on the Moon and Sun Letters Concept

Author 1: Anes. A. Shaker Author 2: Farida Ridzuan Author 3: Sakinah Ali Pitchay

Existing steganography methods are still lacking in terms of capacity. Hence, a new steganography method for Arabic text is proposed. The method hides secret information bits within Arabic letters using two features, which are the moon and sun letters and the redundant Arabic extension character “-” known as Kashida. The… Read full abstract & cite →

Text steganography Arabic text extension Kashida capacity

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Studying the Influence of Static Converters’ Current Harmonics on a PEM Fuel Cell using Bond Graph Modeling Technique

Author 1: Wafa BEN SALEM Author 2: Houssem CHAOUALI Author 3: Dhia MZOUGHI Author 4: Abdelkader MAMI

This paper shows the results of adding static converters (Boost, Buck and Buck-Boost converters) as an adaptation solution between a PEM Fuel Cell generator and a resistive load in order to study different effects of the converter on the generator performances in terms of voltage and current behavior. The presented… Read full abstract & cite →

Static converters PEM Fuel Cell boost buck and buck-boost converters bond graph 20-Sim software

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The Effect of Religious Beliefs, Participation and Values on Corruption: Survey Evidence from Iraq

Author 1: Marwah Abdulkareem Mahmood Zuhaira Author 2: Tian Ye-zhuang

This research tests the role that religious beliefs, rituals and values plays on the corruption in Iraq. Furthermore, the research assesses ethical and moral ideals pertinent to religion, in the Iraqi educational sector. Correlation analysis and linear regression help assess the relations among the study’s constructs and variables. The hypotheses… Read full abstract & cite →

Beliefs participation values corruption

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Detection of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Using Artificial Neural Networks

Author 1: Abdullah Aljumah

Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) is a ruthless attack that targets a node or a medium with its false packets to decline the network performance and its resources. Neural networks is a powerful tool to defend a network from this attack as in our proposed solution a mitigation process is… Read full abstract & cite →

Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) ANN IDS

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Artificial Intelligence in Bio-Medical Domain

Author 1: Muhammad Salman Author 2: Abdul Wahab Ahmed Author 3: Omair Ahmad Khan Author 4: Basit Raza Author 5: Khalid Latif

In this era and in the future, artificially intelligent machines are replacing and playing a key role to enhance human capabilities in many areas. It is also making life style better by providing convenience to all including normal human beings and professionals as well. That is why AI is gaining… Read full abstract & cite →

Artificial intelligence expert systems bio-medical healthcare innovations

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A Hybrid Curvelet Transform and Genetic Algorithm for Image Steganography

Author 1: Heba Mostafa Mohamed Author 2: Ahmed Fouad Ali Author 3: Ghada Sami Altaweel

In this paper, we present a new hybrid image steganography algorithm by combining two famous techniques which are curvelet transform and genetic algorithm GA. The proposed algorithm is called Hybrid Curvelet Transform and Genetic Algorithm for image steganography (HCTGA). Curvelet transform is a multiscale geometric analysis tool, its main advantage… Read full abstract & cite →

Image steganography curvelet transform least significant bits genetic algorithm Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR)

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Automatic Music Genres Classification using Machine Learning

Author 1: Muhammad Asim Ali Author 2: Zain Ahmed Siddiqui

Classification of music genre has been an inspiring job in the area of music information retrieval (MIR). Classification of genre can be valuable to explain some actual interesting problems such as creating song references, finding related songs, finding societies who will like that specific song. The purpose of our research… Read full abstract & cite →

K-nearest neighbor (k-NN) Support Vector Machine (SVM) music genre classification features Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) principal component analysis (PCA)

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The Identification of Randles Impedance Model Parameters of a PEM Fuel Cell by the Least Square Method

Author 1: Selméne Ben Yahia Author 2: Hatem Allagui Author 3: Abdelkader Mami

One of the problems of industrial development of fuel cells is the reliability of their performances with time. The solution of this problem is through by the development of improved diagnostic methods such as the identification of parameters. This work focuses on the modeling and the identification of the impedance… Read full abstract & cite →

Randles model impedance Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell modeling parameters identification least square

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Using the Facebook Iframe as an Effective Tool for Collaborative Learning in Higher Education

Author 1: Mohamed A. Amasha Author 2: Salem Alkhalaf

Facebook is increasingly becoming a popular senvironment for online learning. Despite the popularity of using Facebook as an e-learning tool, there is a limitation when it comes to presenting content: another platform is required to run the files. Presented in this paper is a case study of how the Facebook… Read full abstract & cite →

Facebook iframe collaborative learning Facebook markup language (FMBL) hosting environment

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AES-Route Server Model for Location based Services in Road Networks

Author 1: Mohamad Shady Alrahhal Author 2: Muhammad Usman Ashraf Author 3: Adnan Abesen Author 4: Sabah Arif

The now ubiquitous use of Location based services (LBS), within the mobile computing domain, has enabled users to receive accurate points of interest (POI) to their geo-tagged queries. While location-based services provide rich content, they are not without risks; specifically, the use of LBS poses many serious challenges with respect… Read full abstract & cite →

Mobile computing location based services LBS privacy LBS accuracy LBS efficiency ubiquitous computing

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Visualizing Computer Programming in a Computer-based Simulated Environment

Author 1: Dr. Belsam Attallah

This paper investigated the challenges presented by computer programming (sequential/traditional, concurrent and parallel) for novice programmers and developers. The researcher involved Higher Education in Computer Science students learning programming at multiple levels, as they could well represent beginning programmers, who would struggle in successfully achieving a running program due to… Read full abstract & cite →

Computer programming programming object-oriented programming programming language parallelism multi-threading multithreading concurrency visual visualization visual environment virtual worlds second life virtualization.

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Hybrid Technique for Java Code Complexity Analysis

Author 1: Nouh Alhindawi Author 2: Mohammad Subhi Al-Batah Author 3: Rami Malkawi Author 4: Ahmad Al-Zuraiqi

Software complexity can be defined as the degree of difficulty in analysis, testing, design and implementation of software. Typically, reducing model complexity has a significant impact on maintenance activities. A lot of metrics have been used to measure the complexity of source code such as Halstead, McCabe Cyclomatic, Lines of… Read full abstract & cite →

Complexity java code McCabe Halstead hybrid technique

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An Unsupervised Local Outlier Detection Method for Wireless Sensor Networks

Author 1: Tianyu Zhang Author 2: Qian Zhao Author 3: Yoshihiro Shin Author 4: Yukikazu Nakamoto

Recently, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have provided many applications, which need precise sensing data analysis, in many areas. However, sensing datasets contain outliers sometimes. Although outliers rarely occur, they seriously reduce the precision of the sensing data analysis. In the past few years, many researches focused on outlier detection. However… Read full abstract & cite →

Wireless sensor networks outliers detection unsupervised learning mean-shift algorithm

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Adaptive e-learning using Genetic Algorithm and Sentiments Analysis in a Big Data System

Author 1: Youness MADANI Author 2: Jamaa BENGOURRAM Author 3: Mohammed ERRITALI Author 4: Badr HSSINA Author 5: Marouane Birjali

In this article we describe our adaptive e-learning system, which allows the learner to take courses adapted to his profile and to the pedagogical objectives set by the teacher, we use for adaptation the genetic algorithms to give the learner the concepts that must learn in an optimal way by… Read full abstract & cite →

Adaptive E-learning genetic algorithms research of information social network period of activity sentiment analysis parallelize the search problem big data Hadoop MapReduce Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS)

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Solving the Free Clustered TSP Using a Memetic Algorithm

Author 1: Abdullah Alsheddy

The free clustered travelling salesman problem (FCTSP) is an extension of the classical travelling salesman problem where the set of vertices is partitioned into clusters, and the task is to find a minimum cost Hamiltonian tour such that the vertices in any cluster are visited contiguously. This paper proposes the… Read full abstract & cite →

Combinatorial optimization clustered travelling salesman problem memetic algorithm guided local search genetic algorithm

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Lung Cancer Detection and Classification with 3D Convolutional Neural Network (3D-CNN)

Author 1: Wafaa Alakwaa Author 2: Mohammad Nassef Author 3: Amr Badr

This paper demonstrates a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system for lung cancer classification of CT scans with unmarked nodules, a dataset from the Kaggle Data Science Bowl, 2017. Thresholding was used as an initial segmentation approach to segment out lung tissue from the rest of the CT scan. Thresholding produced the… Read full abstract & cite →

Lung cancer computed tomography deep learning convolutional neural networks segmentation

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Multiple Vehicles Semi-Self-driving System Using GNSS Coordinate Tracking under Relative Position with Correction Algorithm

Author 1: Heejin Lee Author 2: Hiroshi Suzuki Author 3: Takahiro Kitajima Author 4: Akinobu Kuwahara Author 5: Takashi Yasuno

This paper describes a simple and low-cost semiself- driving system which is constructed without cameras or image processing. In addition, a position correction method is presented by using a vehicle dynamics. Conventionally, selfdriving vehicle is operated by various expensive environmental recognition sensors. It results in rise in prices of the… Read full abstract & cite →

Self-driving positioning global navigation satellite system (GNSS) Global Positioning System (GPS) GLONASS

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An Efficient Scheme for Real-time Information Storage and Retrieval Systems: A Hybrid Approach

Author 1: Syed Ali Hassan Author 2: Imran Ul Haq Author 3: Muhammad Asif Author 4: Maaz Bin Ahmad Author 5: Moeen Tayyab

Information storage and retrieval is the fundamental requirement for many real-time applications. These systems demand that data should be sorted all the time, real-time insertion, deletion and searching should be supported and system must support dynamic entries. These systems require search operations to be performed from massive databases implemented by… Read full abstract & cite →

Insertion deletion array linked list binary search linear search

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Exploiting Temporal Information in Documents and Query to Improve the Information Retrieval Process: Application to Medical Articles

Author 1: Jihen MAJDOUBI Author 2: Ahlam Nabli

In the medical field, scientific articles represent a very important source of knowledge for researchers of this domain. But due to the large volume of scientific articles published on the web, an efficient detection and use of this knowledge is quite a difficult task. In this paper, we propose a… Read full abstract & cite →

Biomedical information retrieval semantic indexing temporal criteria Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus

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A Comparison of Predictive Parameter Estimation using Kalman Filter and Analysis of Variance

Author 1: Asim ur Rehman Khan Author 2: Haider Mehdi Author 3: Syed Muhammad Atif Saleem Author 4: Muhammad Junaid Rabbani

The design of a controller significantly improves if internal states of a dynamic control system are predicted. This paper compares the prediction of system states using Kalman filter and a novel approach analysis of variance (ANOVA). Kalman filter has been successfully applied in several applications. A significant advantage of Kalman… Read full abstract & cite →

Analysis of variance (ANOVA) Kalman controllers predictive controller

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Fine-grained Accelerometer-based Smartphone Carrying States Recognition during Walking

Author 1: Kaori Fujinami Author 2: Tsubasa Saeki Author 3: Yinghuan Li Author 4: Tsuyoshi Ishikawa Author 5: Takuya Jimbo Author 6: Daigo Nagase Author 7: Koji Sato

Due to the dependency of our daily lives on smartphones, the states of the device have impact on the quality of services offered through a smartphone. In this article, we focus on the carrying states of the device while the user is walking, in which 17 states, e.g., in the… Read full abstract & cite →

Smartphone on-body localization accelerometer machine learning feature selection wearable computing

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Automated Player Selection for a Sports Team using Competitive Neural Networks

Author 1: Rabah Al-Shboul Author 2: Tahir Syed Author 3: Jamshed Memon Author 4: Furqan Khan

The use of data analytics to constitute a winning team for the least cost has become the standard modus operandi in club leagues, beginning from Sabermetrics for the game of basketball. Our motivation is to implement this enomenon in other sports as well, and for the purpose of this work… Read full abstract & cite →

Team selection match outcome prediction neural networks

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