The data provided by individuals and various organizations while using internet applications and mobile devices are very useful to generate solutions and create new opportunities. The data which is shared needs to be precise to get the quality results. The data which may contain an individual’s sensitive information cannot be revealed to the world without applying some privacy preserving technique

Several studies have recommended encryption of data for securing Data Warehouse (DW) stored in hostile cloud networks. Most of the published work on encrypted DWs encrypts the DW data while DW Schema, i.e., Fact and Dimension table’s name and their attributes, remain unprotected. Unencrypted DW schema attributes may reveal critical information about the data contents to the cloud administrators or

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 466 million people are suffering from hearing loss, i.e., 5% of the world population, of which 432 million (93%) are adults and 34 million (17%) children. The main problem is how deaf and hearing-impaired communicate with people and each other, how they get education or do their daily activities. Sign language is the main communication method for them

In this paper, dynamically swarm shared mutation based Bacterial Foraging (DSSBFO) is proposed to optimize multidimensional, unimodal and multimodal functions. In BFO, due to fixed step size it requires more computational cost to get optimum solution with better accuracy. Chemotaxis and reproduction step of BFO are not sufficient for an effective search. So in this paper, the authors propose dynamic

Image segmentation is an essential phase of medical image processing. Orthopaedics practitioners suggest X-Ray imaging to detect bone related diseases of the patient. Due to increase in the number of bone cancers, bone tumor detection and its segmentation from X-Ray image has become thirst area of research in the medical image analysis. In this research paper, an intelligent assistive algorithm has

The Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) technology is similar to the Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) in operations. But due to high dynamics of vehicles as compare to mobile nodes in MANET, the routing protocols of MANET cannot be applicable for the VANET communications. The high mobility leads the challenges of frequent link breaks and hence poor Quality of Service (QOS) performance. The clustering based

This paper critically analyses the key problem of Hadith authentication and scrutiny. The study looks into key aspects, such as the impression of critical scholars and the standard accepted by the main compilers of Hadith in giving rulings on the validity of Hadith. The paper uncovers an authoritative blend of facts, theory, and critical enquiry with an engaging insight. The system is designed using

Large software companies are facing issues at project management level to allocate and manage tasks in distributed agile software development environment. Teams are located in different cities or countries with different profiles and expertise. When those teams are expanding, it is becoming more time consuming and difficult to coordinate. In order to do a proper assignment of tasks to an individual

Technology has been nurturing a wide range of applications in the past decades, assisting humans in automating some of their daily tasks. Nevertheless, more advanced technology systems also expose some potential flaws, which encourage malicious users to explore and break their security. Researchers attempted to overcome such problems by fostering intrusion detection systems, which are security layers

Epilepsy is a brain disease in nerves which causes sudden seizure, sensations, and once in a while loss of mindfulness. This disorder is difficult to find manually because of its unpredictable nature since it is very hard to treat. The World Health Organization states that fifty million people having this type of disorder worldwide. Automatic detection assumes a significant role in the finding of epilepsy

This paper presents a modified Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and Adaptive Thresholding designed to improve object detection accuracy for the outdoor surveillance. Intrinsic and extrinsic improvements in traditional GMM will handle the outdoor dynamic scenes e.g. tree weaving, gradual illumination changes, partial occlusions and also handles certain amount of shadow. For foreground detection, Adaptive

In this paper, two multiple-input operational transconductance amplifiers (MI-OTA) have been proposed. The proposed-I MI-OTA utilizes FGMOS technology to operate at low supply voltage. This proposed MI-OTA provides the flexibility of varying the transconductance of the device by changing the biasing voltage while closely maintaining the linear input voltage range of conventional MI-OTA. However, it

This Nowadays, along with the rapid development of Internet technology, the user’s network functionality and need for internet performance are also growing very fast. Therefore network congestion being increasingly serious and congestion control is becoming a more important issue. To detect and control congestion many queue management techniques are accessible; the extremely fundamental of them is

Proposed work consist of simple and micro size optical MEMS based displacement sensor for detection of muscle movement in human body. Optical MEMS based structure, analyzed with rods-in air and hole-in slab configuration of photonic crystal. Remarkable shift in wavelength is observed in RIA configuration with high quality factor of 3245 compare to holes in slab in the photonic sensing structure with

Proteins class and function prediction is one of the most significant task in computational bioinformatics. The information about the protein functions and class plays a vital role in understanding biological cells and has a great impact on human life in factors such as personalized medicine. The technical advancement in the areas of biological aspects and understanding of biological processes results

Edge computing (EC) has emerged as an attractive and interesting topic for research. It is an extension of cloud computing, used for non-centralized computing with various new features and solutions. In particular, edge computing deals with Internet of Things (IoT) based applications and services. Fog, which sometimes is also referred as edge, is basically a type of EC model, and its features can support

This paper presents an improved security scheme using a hybrid of elliptic curve integrated encryption and provably secure elliptic curve with cyclotomic points. The proposed scheme uses Weierstrass form of an elliptic curve and cyclotomic polynomial, by creating a relationship to uniquely generate a hash function to form a structure from a coordinate in the curve and variable in the polynomial. The

Recently, designing an effective routing protocol is challenging for flying ad-hoc networks (FANETs) due to the versatile nature of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Position-based routing schemes are seen to be a remarkable preference for routing in FANETs due to the fact that the geographical information of UAVs is readily available. In this paper, we are interested in the modification of the location-aided

Load balancing is a challenge in the cloud network for proper resource utilization and improvement of makespan. To overcome the problem of load balancing various static and dynamic scheduling methods come into existence. In this paper, we have proposed two multi-datacenter two-phase load adjustment techniques for load balancing and apposite task scheduling. Our proposed methods allocate user jobs to

The research paper aims to design and implement an algorithm for vertical handover in cellular networks. The algorithm is based on Fuzzy Logic and the main parameters considered are Received Signal Strength, Channel Capacity, Velocity of the User and distance from Base Station. We have studied the variation in the points of handover under the conditions of variation in the operating frequency of base

Cognitive Radio Sensor Network (CRSN) is a distributed network of Cognitive Radio (CR) enabled wireless sensor nodes where there is no guarantee of the availability of vacant channels for data transfer. In CRSN nodes spend energy in radio spectrum sensing to sense the availability of vacant channels and hence energy preservation becomes a major concern. In this proposed work, a novel algorithm—energy

This paper introduces a radio-over-fiber (RoF) architecture for transmission of 60-GHz multi-gigabit millimeter wave (mmWave), emitted by two different sources, a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) and distributed feedback (DFB) laser connected with electro-absorption modulator (EAM) using wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) technique. These light generation techniques are used for delivering

Internet of Things (IoT) has become an emerging platform for connecting real-world objects for desired service provisioning via the Internet. The real-world devices or objects in IoT enable a smart environment with the help of Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). However, the integration of MANET and WSN in the IoT environment requires a flexible and unified framework

Deaf and dumb people use sign language as a tool for communication. As per the 2011 census in India, hearing impaired and speech disabled population is 1,998,692 and 5,072,914 respectively (Disabled persons in India, https://www.mospi.gov.in). Normal hearing people do not learn sign language and thus there is a big communication gap between them and deaf and dumb people. Sign language interpreters

Various non-linear systems are well designed using a non-integer order mathematical model based differential and integral components. The fractional-order concept provides an effective method for turning the technology robust in various industry applications. This paper presents a fractional proportional-integral-derivative (FPID) controller and its benefits in variable speed wind turbine (WT) application

Data Centers are the backbone of any industry that provides a specialized environment to safeguard the company's valuable equipment and intellectual property. The successful operation of company's Data Center is typically shared among multiple departments and personnel. But, the involvement of multiple personal and departments make its configuration complex. In such situations, reliability of data

In any organization, the process of selecting employees is mostly through the traditional methods. These methods do not support hypothetical situations that result in an error in the selection process. In this research paper, a method based on fuzzy triangular number has been used for the recruitment process of individuals. The selection process used is completely different from previously discovered

This work focuses on the development of an effective collision avoidance algorithm that detects and avoids obstacles autonomously in the vicinity of a potential collision by using a single ultrasonic sensor and controlling the movement of the vehicle. The objectives are to minimise the deviation from the vehicle’s original path and also the development of an algorithm utilising one of the cheapest

Database schema design has a significant importance in software design. There are lots of tools and methods available for schema design in RDBMS but limited attention is given in NoSQL for schema design as it is emerging in database technology. NoSQL requires a different approach in designing efficient schema, such as in the document database which information should be stored as embedded document

Automatic text summarization can be used in recommendation systems to present useful texts obtained from the available comments and texts. For summarization, a human reads all of the writing and gains a background understanding of the text, but computers do differently. Several methods have been proposed for automatic text summarization until now, from abstract summarization methods that deal with

The field of VLSI is evergreen and always growing. Tremendous amount of work is done to embed more gates on a given chip area. This makes it difficult to remove the generated heat. This problem can be solved by using low power circuits. Adiabatic logic style which is advancement over CMOS in terms of power dissipation is a good solution suggested by researchers. In this paper an entirely new approach

In this paper, we propose a new clustered minutiae-based scale and rotation invariant fingerprint matching method. The major challenge faced in the existing latent fingerprint identification system is the lack of minutiae features in the fingerprint regions and hence there is a requirement to utilize the existing minutiae arrangements in the regions to identify the query fingerprint. We have clustered

Braille is a system of raised dots. Normal human beings read braille code with their eyes whereas visually impaired person with their fingers. Braille is not a language but is a code. With Braille code many languages such as English, French, Spanish etc. may be written and read. All over the world many people use this code in their own native language, thereby providing literacy to one and all. Braille

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The experimental and simulation study of microstrip antenna with rectangular patch etched with L and inverted L slot is presented with band-notch nature for wireless frequency band operation. Designed antenna is housed in volume of 5 cm × 5 cm × 0.16 cm and operates between 4 and 18 GHz. The incorporating of L and inverted L slots results in split of resonating modes to exhibit the notch band property

Despite the development of enterprise resource planning (ERP) deployments in the last two decades, organizations have also faced with implementation challenges. The present study provides a comprehensive categorization of these factors and the effective parameters using a meta-synthesis approach and with a systematic review of implementation risk factors and failure/success factors in the ERP literature

Improvements in nanotechnology have introduced contemporary sensory devices that are capable of gathering multimedia data in form of images, audio and video. Wireless multimedia sensor networks handles such type of heterogeneous traffic. Since these networks are an emergent of wireless sensor networks, they inherit constraints that exist in these traditional networks. This paper is a survey of characteristics

Intravascular ultrasound is a catheter based ultrasound imaging used in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. It facilitates high-resolution tomography assessments of the dimensions of vessels, as well as direct examinations of the vessel walls and underlying atherosclerotic plaque morphology. Ultrasound imaging is degraded by the presence of signal-dependent noise and artifacts that

A wide variety of security applications like computers, laptops, mobile phones, ATM machines, physical access control to property etc. are using biometrics based system for human identification. Today’s Biometrics authentication system can provide highest level of security to the user of the service and the service providers. Today’s uni-modal biometric systems has become mature system and being used

Development of a 3D model of tibia femoral bone is very important for diagnosis and treatment. Knee pain is most commonly observed problem in old age people and it is a very complex joint. Hence analysis of knee joint is very essential. Analysis can be done using 3D model and finite element model. Physical and mechanical properties of knee joint can be analyzed using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) technique

This research relies on nutation control strategy through state feedback with its application to a spin-stabilized autonomous system such as spacecraft. The key subject behind the investigation is to present a new formulation in the area of attitude control to be able to handle the rotational angles in connection with angular rates, while the system under control is in a predefined mission operation

Natural language processing is an application of a computational technique that allows the machine to process human language. One of the primary tasks of NLP is information extraction that aims to capture important information from the text. Nowadays, the fast-growing web contains a large amount of textual information, requires a technique to extract relevant information. The entity recognition task

Bias field is a smooth intensity variation, which emanate during the process of image procurement. Bias removal is an essential prerequisite while incorporating computer assisted diagnosis. Several bias correction algorithms are proposed till date. This paper scrutinizes the prominent bias correction algorithms, LEMS, MICO, BCFCM and N3. These investigations carried over the substantial amount of T1

Modern systems comprise hardware and software components that together provide value through enabling the functionality that the system is intended to provide. Systems engineering (SE) and software engineering (SwE) are therefore interdependent, tightly coupled, and complementary activities that must be carefully aligned and coordinated throughout the system development process. Yet, these two disciplines

Technology advancements have a rapid effect on every field of life, be it medical field or any other field. Artificial intelligence has shown the promising results in health care through its decision making by analysing the data. COVID-19 has affected more than 100 countries in a matter of no time. People all over the world are vulnerable to its consequences in future. It is imperative to develop a

Technical debt is the debt in the software development incurred due to preference of short term deadlines over the strategic ones. Analysis of the factors effecting technical debt (TD) is need of the hour from business as well as technical context. Based on the state of the art described in the literature, we have tried to identify the most contributing factors effecting TD. For doing so various statistical

This paper introduces temperature invariant absolute rotatory encoder using photocells on the visible light spectrum. A multivariate function is proposed to remove error arising on photocells through temperature variance and a small change in light intensity. Multiple experiments are conducted in the controlled environment to prove proposed multivariate function. Encoder introduced in this paper is

The main purpose of this research is to identify the agility enabler indicators of the organization and the dimensions of agility enabler and how the agility enabler indicators can be used to achieve the agile system. In this study, the RBF neural network model and multiple regression models were used to achieve the ideal level of agility and to analyze the effect of indicators as well as to provide

Sensor networks are used for observing some region of interest. Sensors sense different physical quantities and send to base station or sink. The tree based networks with TDMA as MAC protocol are preferable because of simplicity of tree and guaranteed data access in TDMA. Often sensor networks are multi-sink and multi-attribute networks. Multi-sink network means more than one sinks are present and

Parts-of-speech tagging is a process in linguistics which deals with tagging each word in a sentence with their corresponding parts-of-speech. This process is considered to be one of the pre-processing steps for many natural language processing tasks. Earlier approaches were based on simple heuristics and later several methods were reported in the literature that incorporated machine learning techniques

Acceptance of Open Data by the governments, foundations, science councils and other sponsors of research across the world have prompted the trend towards Open Data. Many researchers and organizations have embraced the Open Data policy. Most often the datasets are released through Dataverse. However, just making datasets available is not enough. We need inbuilt user-friendly data extraction and transformation

With the improvement in high-throughput genome sequencing technology, huge amount of genomic data are generated every day. These data are used in numerous applications: sequence alignment, drug discovery and personalized medicine, etc. To efficiently handle genome data for storage, processing, and transmission, some specific genomic data compression approach is a need of today. In this paper, a hybrid

In the direction of keeping up longer life time of network, there is a limitation on the life-span of Wireless Sensor Network. In numerous applications, data to be sensed should be transmitted commencing from sources towards a sink in a timely way. The low effectiveness of data transmission is capable of routing with low quality of service and needed to guarantee network transmission. The proposed

POS tagging serves as a preliminary task for many NLP applications. It refers to the process of classifying words into their parts of speech (also known as words classes or lexical categories). Somali is a member of the Cushitic languages with limited number of NLP tools for use. An accurate and reliable POS tagger is essential for many NLP tasks like shallow parsing, dependency parsing, sentiment

Session hijacking is the term used to describe the theft of user’s cookies and make clone of that cookies. The hacker uses packet sniffer to capture traffic between user and the server to steal the cookies which contain session information. The same then be used to impersonate the user and act as actual user on web. In this paper, Token and Session id Reset Approach has been proposed and implemented

Recent developments in the automobile industry has paved a way for drastic increase in the use of vehicles for transportation and luxury cars. Many traditional systems use windshield wipers which works intermittently and with variable speeds during rain. In majority of the vehicles an adjustable lever near the steering of the driver has to be operated by the driver to control the windshield wiper(s)

The number of connected devices is rapidly increasing and the radio spectrum is not enough, but the visible light spectrum is broad enough to accommodate all the devices. Radio waves cause signal distortion which harms the efficiency of the system, but light rays are less prone to signal distortion. The purpose of this research is to establish efficient Li-Fi one-way communication and to derive a mathematical

Semantic web service (SWS) discovery and recommendation (SWSR) has emerged as a potential technology which aims to fulfill the user requirements by providing an improved recommendation for Academic and business communities. In SWSR, the user search pattern is adopted to make service discovery as well as recommendation. In order to achieve the precise recommendation of SWS, the ensemble learning method

At this time, COVID-2019 is spreading its foot in the form of a huge epidemic for the world. This epidemic is spreading its foot very fast in India too. One of the World Health Organization states that COVID-2019 is a serious disease that spreads from one person to another at very fast speed through contact routes and respiratory drops. On this day, India and the world should rise to an effective step

The live migration of virtual machines among physical machines aims at efficient utilization of resources, load balancing, maintenance, energy management, fault tolerance, sharing resources and mobile computing. There are several methods for the live migration of virtual machines. In the post-copy approach, a virtual machine starts working in a target host, when data that is not present in the target