Habib Ullah Khan^1,*, Mohammad Kamel Alomari¹, Sulaiman Khan², Shah Nazir², Asif Qumer Gill³, Alanoud Ali Al-Maadid⁴, Zaki Khalid Abu-Shawish¹, Mostafa Kamal Hassan¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 1409-1428, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016058

Abstract The revolution in Internet of Things (IoT)-based devices and applications has provided smart applications for humans. These applications range from healthcare to traffic-flow management, to communication devices, to smart security devices, and many others. In particular, government and private organizations are showing significant interest in IoT-enabled applications for smart homes. Despite the perceived benefits and interest, human safety is also a key concern. This research is aimed at systematically analyzing the available literature on smart homes and identifying areas of concern or risk with a view to supporting the design of safe and secure smart homes. For this systematic review… More >

Norah Alsaaran^*, Maha Alrabiah

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 471-485, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016054

Abstract Named Entity Recognition (NER) is one of the fundamental tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP), which aims to locate, extract, and classify named entities into a predefined category such as person, organization and location. Most of the earlier research for identifying named entities relied on using handcrafted features and very large knowledge resources, which is time consuming and not adequate for resource-scarce languages such as Arabic. Recently, deep learning achieved state-of-the-art performance on many NLP tasks including NER without requiring hand-crafted features. In addition, transfer learning has also proven its efficiency in several NLP tasks by exploiting pretrained language models… More >

Jinseok Kim¹, Babar Shah², Ki-Il Kim^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 283-301, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016042

Abstract Load forecasting has received crucial research attention to reduce peak load and contribute to the stability of power grid using machine learning or deep learning models. Especially, we need the adequate model to forecast the maximum load duration based on time-of-use, which is the electricity usage fare policy in order to achieve the goals such as peak load reduction in a power grid. However, the existing single machine learning or deep learning forecasting cannot easily avoid overfitting. Moreover, a majority of the ensemble or hybrid models do not achieve optimal results for forecasting the maximum load duration based on time-of-use.… More >

Aqib Ali^1,2, Wali Khan Mashwani³, Samreen Naeem², Muhammad Irfan Uddin⁴, Wiyada Kumam⁵, Poom Kumam^6,7,*, Hussam Alrabaiah^8,9, Farrukh Jamal¹⁰, Christophe Chesneau¹¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 391-407, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016037

Abstract The purpose of this research is the segmentation of lungs computed tomography (CT) scan for the diagnosis of COVID-19 by using machine learning methods. Our dataset contains data from patients who are prone to the epidemic. It contains three types of lungs CT images (Normal, Pneumonia, and COVID-19) collected from two different sources; the first one is the Radiology Department of Nishtar Hospital Multan and Civil Hospital Bahawalpur, Pakistan, and the second one is a publicly free available medical imaging database known as Radiopaedia. For the preprocessing, a novel fuzzy c-mean automated region-growing segmentation approach is deployed to take an… More >

Thavavel Vaiyapuri^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 487-503, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015998

Abstract The era of the Internet of things (IoT) has marked a continued exploration of applications and services that can make people’s lives more convenient than ever before. However, the exploration of IoT services also means that people face unprecedented difficulties in spontaneously selecting the most appropriate services. Thus, there is a paramount need for a recommendation system that can help improve the experience of the users of IoT services to ensure the best quality of service. Most of the existing techniques—including collaborative filtering (CF), which is most widely adopted when building recommendation systems—suffer from rating sparsity and cold-start problems, preventing… More >

Khalid A. AlShalfan¹, Mohammed Zakariah^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 689-704, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015989

Abstract Currently, distracted driving is among the most important causes of traffic accidents. Consequently, intelligent vehicle driving systems have become increasingly important. Recently, interest in driver-assistance systems that detect driver actions and help them drive safely has increased. In these studies, although some distinct data types, such as the physical conditions of the driver, audio and visual features, and vehicle information, are used, the primary data source is images of the driver that include the face, arms, and hands taken with a camera inside the car. In this study, an architecture based on a convolution neural network (CNN) is proposed to… More >

Shamsah Majed Alotaibi¹, Atta-ur-Rahman¹, Mohammed Imran Basheer¹, Muhammad Adnan Khan^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 149-165, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015976

Abstract Epilepsy is a type of brain disorder that causes recurrent seizures. It is the second most common neurological disease after Alzheimer’s. The effects of epilepsy in children are serious, since it causes a slower growth rate and a failure to develop certain skills. In the medical field, specialists record brain activity using an Electroencephalogram (EEG) to observe the epileptic seizures. The detection of these seizures is performed by specialists, but the results might not be accurate due to human errors; therefore, automated detection of epileptic pediatric seizures might be the optimal solution. This paper investigates the detection of epileptic seizures… More >

Raed Alsaqour¹, Saif Kamal², Maha Abdelhaq^3,*, Yazan Al Jeroudi⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 941-960, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015921

Abstract Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a dynamically reconfigurable wireless network with time-variable infrastructure. Given that nodes are highly mobile, MANET’s topology often changes. These changes increase the difficulty in finding the routes that the packets use when they are routed. This study proposes an algorithm called genetic algorithm-based location-aided routing (GALAR) to enhance the MANET routing protocol efficiency. The GALAR algorithm maintains an adaptive update of the node location information by adding the transmitting node location information to the routing packet and selecting the transmitting node to carry the packets to their destination. The GALAR was constructed based on… More >

Ali A. R. Alkhafaji^*, Nilam Nur Amir Sjarif, M. A. Shahidan, Nurulhuda Firdaus Mohd Azmi, Haslina Md Sarkan, Suriayati Chuprat

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 77-102, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015770

Abstract The text of the Quran is principally dependent on the Arabic language. Therefore, improving the security and reliability of the Quran’s text when it is exchanged via internet networks has become one of the most difficult challenges that researchers face today. Consequently, the diacritical marks in the Holy Quran which represent Arabic vowels () known as the kashida (or “extended letters”) must be protected from changes. The cover text of the Quran and its watermarked text are different due to the low values of the Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), and Normalized Cross-Correlation (NCC); thus, the location for tamper… More >

Nany Katamesh, Osama Abu-Elnasr^*, Samir Elmougy

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 589-606, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015761

Abstract Due to the availability of a huge number of electronic text documents from a variety of sources representing unstructured and semi-structured information, the document classification task becomes an interesting area for controlling data behavior. This paper presents a document classification multimodal for categorizing textual semi-structured and unstructured documents. The multimodal implements several individual deep learning models such as Deep Neural Networks (DNN), Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks (RCNN) and Bidirectional-LSTM (Bi-LSTM). The Stacked Ensemble based meta-model technique is used to combine the results of the individual classifiers to produce better results, compared to those reached by any of the above mentioned… More >