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Knowledge Extraction Methods as a Measurement Tool of Depression Discovery in Saudi Society
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Depression is a widespread and serious phenomenon in public health in all societies. In Saudi society, depression is one of the diseases that the community is may refuse to disclose it. There are no studies have analyzed this disease within the Saudi community. The main research objective is to discover the depression level of Saudi People's. In addition to analyzing the age group and the most gender type affected by the depression in this society. The data collected from social media achieved indirectly without any communication with patients as a sample from this society people. It analyzed using Machine Learning algorithms that give accurate results for this disease. Three classification models have been established to diagnose this disease and the findings of this study presented that the depression levels include five classes and the most affected age group in depression was in the age group from 20-26 years. The results show that young Saudi women are more likely to be depressed. The obtained results are very important to the medical field. Researchers and people working in this field can get benefits out of this research. Especially those who want to understand the depression disease in Saudi society and searching for real solutions to overcome this problem.
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Considering the rapidly growing world population and increased enrolment in full course primary school education around the world, this paper elucidates key means of leveraging Information Technology for the effective and efficient management of the increasing pressure associated with schools' administrative functions and students' basic activities. Primarily narrowing down to the basic African education framework, this paper sheds more light on the methods which can be adopted for the development of such processes through improved Information Technology platforms. In doing this, the design and implementation of the Jasper School Management System (a school management solution developed by the author) will be used as a case study. Also, a brief highlight of the impact this Information Technology initiative will have on institutions where it is deployed. The Jasper School Management Software being referenced was built using Java Programming Language in conjunction with MySQL. It was produced to help improve management activities of schools especially in developing countries of the world, with 8 major school management modules incorporated into it. Also, the software is open-source i.e., open to adaptations, improvements and free to download.
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Li-Fi technology: increasing the range of Li-Fi by using mirror
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Data transmission is one of the most important term used in our day to day activities in the fast-growing world. Li-Fi opens a new era to that. Li-Fi is known as Light Fidelity. Simply it transmits data by visible light. According to recent research Li-Fi has a range of approximately 10 meters. Also, it cannot pass through wall or any solid object. So, this research focuses mainly to increase the 10-meter range. For a regular sized room this range is enough. But if anyone wants to provide data inside a big hall or in any large room, it is not possible by only this range. He must provide more LED that is connected to the Li-Fi router. This research focuses to optimize the number of LED and to minimize the cost. To increase the range of LED two methods are proposed here. One of the method deals with the positioning of the LEDs and another method is to use concave mirror. Smarter way of positioning of light gives better coverage of light that increases the range of LED. As concave mirror gives real and increased mirror for a particular positioning of an object, which is proved both theoretically and mathematically.
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Linear Hybrid Automaton Generation Using Mapping Algorithm for Hybrid Dynamic Systems
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Hybrid dynamic systems are analyzed through linear hybrid automaton. In this paper, we propose a mapping algorithm to deal with a new Continuous elementary HPN. The method shown enables us to analyze some system properties using a linear hybrid automaton generated by a mapping process. The application involves a water system of three tanks, which is analyzed by a PHAVer (Polyhedral Hybrid Automaton Verifier) software tool. Its effectiveness is illustrated by numerical simulation results.
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Linked Data: A Framework for Publishing Five-Star Open Government Data
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With the increased adoption of open government initiatives around the world, a huge amount of governmental raw datasets was released. However, the data was published in heterogeneous formats and vocabularies and in many cases in bad quality due to inconsistency, messy, and maybe incorrectness as it has been collected by practicalities within the source organization, which makes it inefficient for reusing and integrating it for serving citizens and third-party apps. This research introduces the LDOG (Linked Data for Open Government) experimental framework, which aims to provide a modular architecture that can be integrated into the open government hierarchy, allowing huge amounts of data to be gathered in a fine-grained manner from source and directly publishing them as linked data based on Tim Berners lee’s five-star deployment scheme with a validation layer using SHACL, which results in high quality data. The general idea is to model the hierarchy of government and classify government organizations into two types, the modeling organizations at higher levels and data source organizations at lower levels. Modeling organization’s experts in linked data have the responsibility to design data templates, ontologies, SHACL shapes, and linkage specifications. whereas non-experts can be incorporated in data source organizations to utilize their knowledge in data to do mapping, reconciliation, and correcting data. This approach lowers the needed experts that represent a problem of linked data adoption. To test the functionality of our framework in action, we developed the LDOG platform which utilizes the different modules of the framework to power a set of user interfaces that can be used to publish government datasets. we used this platform to convert some of UAE's government datasets into linked data. Finally, on top of the converted data, we built a proof-of-concept app to show the power of five-star linked data for integrating datasets from disparate organizations and to promote the governments' adoption. Our work has defined a clear path to integrate the linked data into open governments and solid steps to publishing and enhancing it in a fine-grained and practical manner with a lower number of experts in linked data, It extends SHACL to define data shapes and convert CSV to RDF.
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Load Balancing Optimization Based On Deep Learning Approach in Cloud Environment
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Load balancing is a significant aspect of cloud computing which is essential for identical load sharing among resources like servers, network interfaces, hard drives (storage) and virtual machines (VMs) hosted on physical servers. In cloud computing, Deep Learning (DL) techniques can be used to achieve QoS such as improve resource utilization and throughput; while reduce latency, response time and cost, balancing load across machines, thus, increasing the system reliability. DL results in effective and accurate decision making of intelligent resource allocation to the incoming requests, thereby, choosing the most suitable resource to complete them. However, in previous researches on load balancing, there is limited application of DL approaches. In this paper, the significance of DL approaches have been analysed in the area of cloud computing. A Framework for Workflow execution in cloud environment has been proposed and implemented, namely, Deep Learning- based Deadline-constrained, Dynamic VM Provisioning and Load Balancing (DLD-PLB). Optimal schedule for VMs has been generated using Deep Learning based technique. The Genome workflow tasks have been taken as input to the suggested framework. The results for makespan and cost has been computed for the proposed framework and has been compared with our earlier proposed framework for load balancing optimization - Hybrid approach based Deadline-constrained, Dynamic VM Provisioning and Load Balancing (HDD-PLB)” framework for Workflow execution. The earlier proposed approaches for load balancing were based on hybrid Predict-Earliest-Finish Time (PEFT) with ACO for underutilized VM optimization and hybrid PEFT-Bat approach for optimize the utilization of overflow VMs.
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Local Cloud Computing Service Adoption in Nigeria: Challenges and Solutions
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Cloud momentum seems unstoppable in Nigeria, as businesses and organizations in the country see less and less advantage in the slog of maintaining their infrastructure. The shift to the cloud in today's COVID-19 driven world has created an opportunity for investments to improve local cloud computing services. However, there are key challenges that must be addressed by the local cloud service providers in the country in order not to lose out to the foreign cloud service providers. This paper assessed the challenges to local cloud computing services adoption among sixty-seven (67) businesses and organizations in Nigeria. The research employed a non-probability purposive sampling approach. The surveyed data were obtained through an online form which was distributed via Linkedln. Descriptive and inferential analysis was used in analyzing the collected data via IBM SPSS software. Findings from the research showed the key challenges to include inadequate awareness of local cloud service vendors, poor innovation and local content, inadequate cloud infrastructure, local cloud vendor interoperability issue, national insecurity, shortages in skilled personnel, Service Level Agreement (SLA), security strategies, privacy, compliance terms, and requirements issues. Thus, adequate local cloud service offerings, skilled personnel, and the IT infrastructural backbone of the country have to be well established to increase the trust in local cloud computing, open up Nigeria to offshore markets while driving economic competitiveness and growth.
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Localized Knowledge based System for Human Disease Diagnosis
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Knowledge based system can be designed to solve complex medical problems. It incorporates the expert’s knowledge that has been coded into facts, rules, heuristics and procedures. Incorporation of local languages with the knowledge based system allows end-users communicate with the system in a simpler and easier way. In this study a localized knowledge based system is developed for TB disease diagnosis using Ethiopian national language. To develop the localized knowledge based system, tacit knowledge is acquired from domain experts using interviewing techniques and explicit knowledge is captured from documented sources using relevant documents analysis method. Then the acquired knowledge is modeled using decision tree structure that represents concepts and procedures involved in diagnosis of disease. Production rules are used to represent domain knowledge. The localized knowledge based system is developed using SWI Prolog version 6.4.1 programming language. Prolog supports natural language processing feature to localize the system. As a result, the system is implemented using Amharic language (the national language of Ethiopia) user interface. With Localization, users at remote areas and users who are not good in foreign languages are benefited enormously. The system is tested and evaluated to ensure that whether the performance of the system is accurate and the system is usable by physicians and patients. The average performance of the localized knowledge based system has registered 81.5%.
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Locating All Common Subsequences in Two DNA Sequences
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Biological sequence comparison is one of the most important and basic problems in computational biology. Due to its high demands for computational power and memory, it is a very challenging task. The well-known algorithm proposed by Smith-Waterman obtains the best local alignments at the expense of very high computing power and huge memory requirements. This paper introduces a new efficient algorithm to locate the longest common subsequences (LCS) in two different DNA sequences. It is based on the convolution between the two DNA sequences: The major sequence is represented in the linked-list X while the minor one is represented in circular linked-list Y. An array of linked lists is established where each linked list is corresponding to an element of the linked-list X and a new node is added to it for each match between the two sequences. If two or more matches in different locations in string Y share the same location in string X, the corresponding nodes will construct a unique linked-list. Accordingly, by the end of processing, we obtain a group of linked-lists containing nodes that reflect all possible matches between the two sequences X and Y. The proposed algorithm has been implemented and tested using C# language. The benchmark test shows very good speedups and indicated that impressive improvements has been achieved.
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Location Based Recommendation for Mobile Users Using Language Model and Skyline Query
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Location based personalized recommendation has been introduced for the purpose of providing a mobile user with interesting information by distinguishing his preference and location. In most cases, mobile user usually does not provide all attributes of his preference or query. In extreme case, especially when mobile user is moving, he even does not provide any preference or query. Meanwhile, the recommendation system database also does not contain all attributes that can express what the user needs. In this paper, we design an effective location based recommendation system to provide the most possible interesting places to a user when he is moving, according to his implicit preference and physical moving location without the user’s providing his preference or query explicitly. We proposed two circle concepts, physical position circle that represents spatial area around the user and virtual preference circle that is a non-spatial area related to user’s interests. Those skyline query places in physical position circle which also match mobile user’s implicit preference in virtual preference circle will be recommended. User’s implicit preference will be estimated under language modeling framework according to user’s historical visiting behaviors. Experiments show that our method is effective in recommending interesting places to mobile users. The main contribution of the paper comes from the combination of using skyline query and information retrieval to do an implicit location-based personalized recommendation without user’s providing explicit preference or query.
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The purpose of this study is to forecast Southwest Indian Monsoon rainfall based on sea surface temperature, sea level pressure, humidity and zonal (u) and meridional (v) winds. With the aforementioned parameters given as input to an Artificial Neural Network (ANN), the rainfall within 10x10 grids of southwest Indian regions is predicted by means of one of the most efficient clustering methods, namely the Kohonen Self-Organizing Maps (SOM). The ANN is trained with input parameters spanning for 36 years (1960-1995) and tested and validated for a period of 9 years (1996-2004). It is further used to predict the rainfall for 6 years (2005-2010). The results show reasonably good accuracy for the summer monsoon periods June, July, August and September (JJAS) of the validation years.
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Low power and area optimized architectures for BPSK modulator
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Low power modulators are most efficient for wireless communication. The conventional BPSK modulator consumes more power and area. In this work, the new approaches for BPSK modulator are discussed and recorded. The four new approaches consume less area and power than the conventional design of BPSK Modulator. The power and area consumed by new approaches are compared with the conventional method. Cadence software is used for the simulation and synthesis, the power and area reduction in 180nm, 90nm and 45nm CMOS Technology is reported, MATLAB/SIMULINK is used to do BER analysis of BPSK modulator with AWGN channel. The new architectures enhance the performance of BPSK Modulator in consuming less power and utilizing less area than the conventional design.
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Low-power Wireless Pressure Transmitter and Net of Oil-well Based on Zigbee
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The paper introduced a low-power wireless pressure transmitter for measure pressure and temperature of oil-well. To avoid wiring cables onsite, ZICM2410 was adopted to construct Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), and powered by Li-Ion battery. To reduce the power consumption, MSP430F477 and other low-power chips were used to construct the hardware, and energy conservation strategies were designed in the software. One strategy was turning off the power when some chips or modules were not on duty. Another strategy was working, sleeping and timer waking up. The SNAP wireless network solution of Zigbee was used to compose WSN. By analysis and test, the power consumption of the transmitter is very low, and the transmission range of it could be up to 300m. It could longtime continuously work for the low power consumption ability. The transmitter could fully meet the actual requirements, and could be applied to other industry situations easily.
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L–Diversity-Based Semantic Anonymaztion for Data Publishing
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Nowadays, publishing data publically is an important for many purposes especially for scientific research. Publishing this data in its raw form make it vulnerable to privacy attacks. Therefore, there is a need to apply suitable privacy preserving techniques on the published data. K-anonymity and L-diversity are well known techniques for data privacy preserving. These techniques cannot face the similarity attack on the data privacy because they did consider the semantic relation between the sensitive attributes of the data. In this paper, a semantic anonymization approach is proposed. This approach is based on the Domain based of semantic rules and the data owner rules to overcome the similarity attacks. The approach is enhanced privacy preserving techniques to prevent similarity attack and have been implemented and tested. The results shows that the semantic anonymization increase the privacy level and decreases the data utility.
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MADLVF: An Energy Efficient Resource Utilization Approach for Cloud Computing
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Last few decades have remained the witness of steeper growth in demand for higher computational power. It is merely due to shift from the industrial age to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) age which was marginally the result of digital revolution. Such trend in demand caused establishment of large-scale data centers situated at geographically apart locations. These large-scale data centers consume a large amount of electrical energy which results into very high operating cost and large amount of carbon dioxide (CO_2) emission due to resource underutilization. We propose MADLVF algorithm to overcome the problems such as resource underutilization, high energy consumption, and large CO_2 emissions. Further, we present a comparative study between the proposed algorithm and MADRS algorithms showing proposed methodology outperforms over the existing one in terms of energy consumption and the number of VM migrations.
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MAROR: Multi-Level Abstraction of Association Rule Using Ontology and Rule Schema
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Many large organizations have multiple databases distributed over different branches. Number of such organizations is increasing over time. Thus, it is necessary to study data mining on multiple databases. Most multi-databases mining (MDBM) algorithms for association rules typically represent input patterns at a single level of abstraction. However, in many applications of association rules – e.g., Industrial discovery, users often need to explore a data set at multiple levels of abstraction, and from different points of view. Each point of view corresponds to set of beliefs (and representational) commitments regarding the domain of interest. Using domain ontologies, we strengthen the integration of user knowledge in the mining and post-processing task. Furthermore, an interactive and iterative framework is designed to assist the user along the analyzing task at different levels. This paper formalizes the problem of association rules using ontologies in multi-database mining, describes an ontology-driven association rules algorithm to discoverer rules at multiple levels of abstraction and presents preliminary results in petroleum field to demonstrate the feasibility and applicability of this proposed approach.
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MASHUP of linked data and Web API
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Mashups are an important way to allow normal users to build their own applications responding to the specific needs of each one. The basic components of mashups are Data and Web APIs especially Restful ones, but it is difficult for an unexperienced user to combine manually APIs with Data. Therefore, there is a need to predefine links between these resources to permit an easy combination. In this paper, we propose a new approach to make Restful Web APIs adhere to Linked Data principles, which facilitate their combination in mashup applications. The advantage of the proposed approach is the fact that it allows integrating linked data with the composition of Restful APIs, It also uses an algorithm to automatically create links between APIs.
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MCCM: Multilevel Congestion Avoidance and Control Mechanism for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
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Congestion in Mobile Ad Hoc Network causes packet loss, longer end-to-end data delivery delay which affects the overall performance of the network significantly. To ensure high throughput, the routing protocol should be congestion adaptive and should be capable of handling the congestion. In this research work, we propose a Multilevel Congestion avoidance and Control Mechanism (MCCM) that exploits both congestion avoidance and control mechanism to handle the congestion problem in an effective and efficient way. MCCM is capable of finding an energy efficient path during route discovery process, provide longer lifetime of any developed route. The efficient admission control and selective data packet delivery mechanism of MCCM jointly overcome the congestion problem at any node and thus, MCCM improves the network performance in term of packet delivery ratio, lower data delivery delay and high throughput. The result of performance evaluation section shows that, MCCM outperforms the existing routing protocols carried out in Network Simulator-2(NS-2).
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MF-NB learning based approach for recommendation system
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The Multi Factor-Naive Bayes classifier based recommendation system is analyzed with respect to the traditional KNN classifier based recommendation system. The classification of the web usage data is done on the basis of the keyword name, keyword count, inbound links and age group of the users. Whereas, in traditional KNN the URL was the only factor that was considered for the purpose of classification. The performance evaluation is done in the terms of RMSE, Error Rate, Accuracy Rate and Precision. The MF-NB is observed to be outperforming the KNN classifier in all respective terms.
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MGF analysis of spatial diversity combiner over composite fading channel
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The worldwide acceptability of wireless communication is due to its portability and flexibility. However, its performance is governed by the multipath propagation effects which make wireless communication modelling challenging. The existing technique being used to solve this propagation effects is based on Probability Density Function (PDF) which is inefficient in addressing diversity over combined Rayleigh and Rician (C_(Ray-Ric)) fading due to its complexity. Therefore, this paper aims to develop an approximated Moment Generating Function (MGF) for spatial diversity combining such as Equal Gain Combining (EGC) and Maximal Ratio Combining (MRC) over C_(Ray-Ric) fading channel. A MGF model in form of Taylor’s series is generated from the expected value of the C_(Ray-Ric) fading channels. The MGF is characterized using Amount of Fading (AF) and Bit Error Rate (BER) in term of Line of Sight (LOS) component ‘k’. The MGF is transformed into EGC and MRC, and were measured in terms of propagation paths (L). These are approximated using the Pade ́ Approximation (PA). The approximates obtained are used in the derivation of BER expression of M-ary Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (MQAM) and M-ary Phase Shift Keying (MPSK) in terms of Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR). The models are evaluated using AF and BER at different values of LOS to determine the performance of the diversity techniques. The results obtained show that as LOS component ‘k’ increases from 0, the Af and BER reduce indicating reduction in fading effects. Therefore, the models developed are effective in predicting the performance of diversity techniques and overcome the multipath effects associated with the wireless communication.
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