Manar Ahmed Hamza^1,*, Siwar Ben Haj Hassine², Ibrahim Abunadi³, Fahd N. Al-Wesabi^2,4, Hadeel Alsolai⁵, Anwer Mustafa Hilal¹, Ishfaq Yaseen¹, Abdelwahed Motwakel¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.2, pp. 2581-2596, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024764

Abstract Data mining in the educational field can be used to optimize the teaching and learning performance among the students. The recently developed machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) approaches can be utilized to mine the data effectively. This study proposes an Improved Sailfish Optimizer-based Feature Selection with Optimal Stacked Sparse Autoencoder (ISOFS-OSSAE) for data mining and pattern recognition in the educational sector. The proposed ISOFS-OSSAE model aims to mine the educational data and derive decisions based on the feature selection and classification process. Moreover, the ISOFS-OSSAE model involves the design of the ISOFS technique to choose an optimal subset… More >

Mubashir Ali¹, Anees Baqir², Hafiz Husnain Raza Sherazi^3,*, Asad Hussain⁴, Asma Hassan Alshehri⁵, Muhammad Ali Imran⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.2, pp. 2411-2427, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024704

Abstract With the advent of technological advancements and the widespread Internet connectivity during the last couple of decades, social media platforms (such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram) have consumed a large proportion of time in our daily lives. People tend to stay alive on their social media with recent updates, as it has become the primary source of interaction within social circles. Although social media platforms offer several remarkable features but are simultaneously prone to various critical vulnerabilities. Recent studies have revealed a strong correlation between the usage of social media and associated mental health issues consequently leading to depression, anxiety,… More >

Khaled Mohamad Almustafa¹, Taiseer Abdalla Elfadil Eisa², Amani Abdulrahman Albraikan³, Mesfer Al Duhayyim^4,*, Manar Ahmed Hamza⁵, Abdelwahed Motwakel⁵, Ishfaq Yaseen⁵, Muhammad Imran Babar⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.2, pp. 2483-2499, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024688

Abstract In recent years, Software Defined Networking (SDN) has become an important candidate for communication infrastructure in smart cities. It produces a drastic increase in the need for delivery of video services that are of high resolution, multiview, and large-scale in nature. However, this entity gets easily influenced by heterogeneous behaviour of the user's wireless link features that might reduce the quality of video stream for few or all clients. The development of SDN allows the emergence of new possibilities for complicated controlling of video conferences. Besides, multicast routing protocol with multiple constraints in terms of Quality of Service (QoS) is… More >

Ahmed M. Mostafa^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.2, pp. 4125-4142, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024676

Abstract Many businesses have experienced difficulties in selecting a cloud service provider (CSP) due to the rapid advancement of cloud computing services and the proliferation of CSPs. Many independent criteria should be considered when evaluating the services provided by different CSPs. It is a case of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM). This paper presents an integrated MCDM cloud service selection framework for determining the most appropriate service provider based on the best only method (BOM) and technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS). To obtain the weights of criteria and the relative importance of CSPs based on each criterion,… More >

Mohammed BinJubier¹, Mohd Arfian Ismail¹, Abdulghani Ali Ahmed^2,*, Ali Safaa Sadiq³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.2, pp. 3665-3686, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024663

Abstract Publishing big data and making it accessible to researchers is important for knowledge building as it helps in applying highly efficient methods to plan, conduct, and assess scientific research. However, publishing and processing big data poses a privacy concern related to protecting individuals’ sensitive information while maintaining the usability of the published data. Several anonymization methods, such as slicing and merging, have been designed as solutions to the privacy concerns for publishing big data. However, the major drawback of merging and slicing is the random permutation procedure, which does not always guarantee complete protection against attribute or membership disclosure. Moreover,… More >

Ahmed S. Almasoud¹, Abdelzahir Abdelmaboud², Faisal S. Alsubaei³, Manar Ahmed Hamza^4,*, Ishfaq Yaseen⁴, Mohammed Abaker⁵, Abdelwahed Motwakel⁴, Mohammed Rizwanullah⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.2, pp. 2633-2648, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024619

Abstract Cyber-Physical System (CPS) involves the combination of physical processes with computation and communication systems. The recent advancements made in cloud computing, Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), healthcare sensors, etc. tend to develop CPS as a proficient model for healthcare applications especially, home patient care. Though several techniques have been proposed earlier related to CPS structures, only a handful of studies has focused on the design of CPS models for health care sector. So, the proposal for a dedicated CPS model for healthcare sector necessitates a significant interest to ensure data privacy. To overcome the challenges, the current research paper designs a… More >

Daniyal M. Alghazzawi¹, Syed Hamid Hasan^1,*, Surbhi Bhatia²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.2, pp. 3877-3897, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024613

Abstract Detecting the anomalous entity in real-time network traffic is a popular area of research in recent times. Very few researches have focused on creating malware that fools the intrusion detection system and this paper focuses on this topic. We are using Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks (DCGAN) to trick the malware classifier to believe it is a normal entity. In this work, a new dataset is created to fool the Artificial Intelligence (AI) based malware detectors, and it consists of different types of attacks such as Denial of Service (DoS), scan 11, scan 44, botnet, spam, User Datagram Portal (UDP)… More >

Fatimah Abdulrahman Alrawajeh¹, F. M. Allehiany², Ali Raza^3,*, Shaimaa A. M. Abdelmohsen⁴, Tahir Nawaz Cheema⁵, Muhammad Rafiq⁶, Muhammad Mohsin⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.2, pp. 2357-2374, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024604

Abstract In 2021, most of the developing countries are fighting polio, and parents are concerned with the disabling of their children. Poliovirus transmits from person to person, which can infect the spinal cord, and paralyzes the parts of the body within a matter of hours. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 18 million currently healthy people could have been paralyzed by the virus during 1988–2020. Almost all countries but Pakistan, Afghanistan, and a few more have been declared polio-free. The mathematical modeling of poliovirus is studied in the population by categorizing it as susceptible individuals (S), exposed individuals (E), infected… More >

Ahmed S. Almasoud¹, Taiseer Abdalla Elfadil Eisa², Marwa Obayya³, Abdelzahir Abdelmaboud⁴, Mesfer Al Duhayyim⁵, Ishfaq Yaseen⁶, Manar Ahmed Hamza^6,*, Abdelwahed Motwakel⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.2, pp. 3269-3281, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024584

Abstract In recent days, internet of things is widely implemented in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). It comprises of sensor hubs associated together through the WSNs. The WSN is generally affected by the power in battery due to the linked sensor nodes. In order to extend the lifespan of WSN, clustering techniques are used for the improvement of energy consumption. Clustering methods divide the nodes in WSN and form a cluster. Moreover, it consists of unique Cluster Head (CH) in each cluster. In the existing system, Soft-K means clustering techniques are used in energy consumption in WSN. The soft-k means algorithm does… More >

Mimouna Abdullah Alkhonaini¹, Siwar Ben Haj Hassine², Marwa Obayya³, Fahd N. Al-Wesabi², Anwer Mustafa Hilal^4,*, Manar Ahmed Hamza⁴, Abdelwahed Motwakel⁴, Mesfer Al Duhayyim⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.2, pp. 3511-3527, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024583

Abstract The unstructured growth of abnormal cells in the lung tissue creates tumor. The early detection of lung tumor helps the patients avoiding the death rate and gives better treatment. Various medical image modalities can help the physicians in the diagnosis of disease. Many research works have been proposed for the early detection of lung tumor. High computation time and misidentification of tumor are the prevailing issues. In order to overcome these issues, this paper has proposed a hybrid classifier of Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP)-Unet architecture with Whale Optimization Algorithm (ASPP-Unet -WOA). To get a fine tuning detection of tumor… More >