K. Pradeep Mohan Kumar¹, Jenifer Mahilraj², D. Swathi³, R. Rajavarman⁴, Subhi R. M. Zeebaree⁵, Rizgar R. Zebari⁶, Zryan Najat Rashid⁷, Ahmed Alkhayyat^8,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.3, pp. 5299-5314, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.030825 - 28 July 2022

Abstract Recently, smart cities have emerged as an effective approach to deliver high-quality services to the people through adaptive optimization of the available resources. Despite the advantages of smart cities, security remains a huge challenge to be overcome. Simultaneously, Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is the most proficient tool to accomplish security in this scenario. Besides, blockchain exhibits significance in promoting smart city designing, due to its effective characteristics like immutability, transparency, and decentralization. In order to address the security problems in smart cities, the current study designs a Privacy Preserving Secure Framework using Blockchain with Optimal… More >

Harbi Al-Mahafzah¹, Tamer AbuKhalil¹, Bassam A. Y. Alqaralleh^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.3, pp. 5703-5715, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.030399 - 28 July 2022

Abstract Biometric verification has become essential to authenticate the individuals in public and private places. Among several biometrics, iris has peculiar features and its working mechanism is complex in nature. The recent developments in Machine Learning and Deep Learning approaches enable the development of effective iris recognition models. With this motivation, the current study introduces a novel Chaotic Krill Herd with Deep Transfer Learning Based Biometric Iris Recognition System (CKHDTL-BIRS). The presented CKHDTL-BIRS model intends to recognize and classify iris images as a part of biometric verification. To achieve this, CKHDTL-BIRS model initially performs Median Filtering More >

Fadwa Alrowais¹, Saud S. Alotaibi², Sami Dhahbi^3,4, Radwa Marzouk⁵, Abdullah Mohamed⁶, Anwer Mustafa Hilal^7,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 3419-3432, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.029438 - 16 June 2022

Abstract Sign language recognition can be considered as an effective solution for disabled people to communicate with others. It helps them in conveying the intended information using sign languages without any challenges. Recent advancements in computer vision and image processing techniques can be leveraged to detect and classify the signs used by disabled people in an effective manner. Metaheuristic optimization algorithms can be designed in a manner such that it fine tunes the hyper parameters, used in Deep Learning (DL) models as the latter considerably impacts the classification results. With this motivation, the current study designs… More >

P. Ramadevi^1,*, K. N. Baluprithviraj², V. Ayyem Pillai³, Kamalraj Subramaniam⁴

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.34, No.3, pp. 2067-2081, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.026377 - 25 May 2022

Abstract Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs) are network systems containing cyber (computation, communication) and physical (sensors, actuators) components that interact with each other through feedback loop with the help of human intervention. The dynamic and disseminated characteristics of CPS environment makes it vulnerable to threats that exist in virtualization process. Due to this, several security issues are presented in CPS. In order to address the challenges, there is a need exists to extend the conventional security solutions such as Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) to handle high speed network data traffic and adaptive network pattern in cloud. Additionally,… More >

M. Sangeetha^1,*, S. Malathi²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.34, No.3, pp. 1587-1601, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.025192 - 25 May 2022

Abstract Software testing is an effective means of verifying software stability and trustworthiness. It is essential in the software development process and needs a huge quantity of resources such as labor, money, and time. Automated software testing can be used to save manual work, shorten testing times, and improve testing performance. Recently, Software Bug Prediction (SBP) models have been developed to improve the software quality assurance (SQA) process through the prediction of bug parts. Advanced deep learning (DL) models can be used to classify faults in software parts. Because hyperparameters have a significant impact on the… More >

Mohammad Alamgeer¹, Hanan Abdullah Mengash², Radwa Marzouk², Mohamed K Nour³, Anwer Mustafa Hilal^4,*, Abdelwahed Motwakel⁴, Abu Sarwar Zamani⁴, Mohammed Rizwanullah⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 1437-1448, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.027896 - 18 May 2022

Abstract Early detection of lung cancer can help for improving the survival rate of the patients. Biomedical imaging tools such as computed tomography (CT) image was utilized to the proper identification and positioning of lung cancer. The recently developed deep learning (DL) models can be employed for the effectual identification and classification of diseases. This article introduces novel deep learning enabled CAD technique for lung cancer using biomedical CT image, named DLCADLC-BCT technique. The proposed DLCADLC-BCT technique intends for detecting and classifying lung cancer using CT images. The proposed DLCADLC-BCT technique initially uses gray level co-occurrence More >

Mahmoud Ragab^1,2,3,*, Maha Farouk S. Sabir⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 381-395, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.027327 - 18 May 2022

Abstract In recent years, Smart City Infrastructures (SCI) have become familiar whereas intelligent models have been designed to improve the quality of living in smart cities. Simultaneously, anomaly detection in SCI has become a hot research topic and is widely explored to enhance the safety of pedestrians. The increasing popularity of video surveillance system and drastic increase in the amount of collected videos make the conventional physical investigation method to identify abnormal actions, a laborious process. In this background, Deep Learning (DL) models can be used in the detection of anomalies found through video surveillance systems.… More >

Ashit Kumar Dutta^1,*, Yasser Albagory², Abdul Rahaman Wahab Sait³, Ismail Mohamed Keshta¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 899-915, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.026783 - 18 May 2022

Abstract Recently, autonomous systems become a hot research topic among industrialists and academicians due to their applicability in different domains such as healthcare, agriculture, industrial automation, etc. Among the interesting applications of autonomous systems, their applicability in agricultural sector becomes significant. Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used for suitable site-specific weed management (SSWM) to improve crop productivity. In spite of substantial advancements in UAV based data collection systems, automated weed detection still remains a tedious task owing to the high resemblance of weeds to the crops. The recently developed deep learning (DL) models have… More >

T. Ragupathi^1,*, M. Govindarajan¹, T. Priyaradhikadevi²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.34, No.2, pp. 1351-1366, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.025756 - 03 May 2022

Abstract The rapid advancements in the field of big data, wearables, Internet of Things (IoT), connected devices, and cloud environment find useful to improve the quality of healthcare services. Medical data classification using the data collected by the wearables and IoT devices can be used to determine the presence or absence of disease. The recently developed deep learning (DL) models can be used for several processes such as classification, natural language processing, etc. This study presents a bacterial foraging optimization (BFO) based convolutional neural network-gated recurrent unit (CNN-GRU) with class imbalance handling (CIH) model, named BFO-CNN-GRU-CIH… More >

Manar Ahmed Hamza^1,*, Noha Negm², Shaha Al-Otaibi³, Amel A. Alhussan⁴, Mesfer Al Duhayyim⁵, Fuad Ali Mohammed Al-Yarimi², Mohammed Rizwanullah¹, Ishfaq Yaseen¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 4541-4555, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.027048 - 21 April 2022

Abstract Machine learning (ML) becomes a familiar topic among decision makers in several domains, particularly healthcare. Effective design of ML models assists to detect and classify the occurrence of diseases using healthcare data. Besides, the parameter tuning of the ML models is also essential to accomplish effective classification results. This article develops a novel red colobuses monkey optimization with kernel extreme learning machine (RCMO-KELM) technique for epileptic seizure detection and classification. The proposed RCMO-KELM technique initially extracts the chaotic, time, and frequency domain features in the actual EEG signals. In addition, the min-max normalization approach is More >