Atif Ikram^1,2,*, Masita Abdul Jalil¹, Amir Bin Ngah¹, Saqib Raza⁶, Ahmad Salman Khan³, Yasir Mahmood^3,4, Nazri Kama⁴, Azri Azmi⁴, Assad Alzayed⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 1871-1886, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.030818

Abstract Software maintenance is the process of fixing, modifying, and improving software deliverables after they are delivered to the client. Clients can benefit from offshore software maintenance outsourcing (OSMO) in different ways, including time savings, cost savings, and improving the software quality and value. One of the hardest challenges for the OSMO vendor is to choose a suitable project among several clients’ projects. The goal of the current study is to recommend a machine learning-based decision support system that OSMO vendors can utilize to forecast or assess the project of OSMO clients. The projects belong to OSMO vendors, having offices in… More >

Ziquan Zhu¹, Muhammad Attique Khan², Shui-Hua Wang¹, Yu-Dong Zhang^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 101-111, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.030790

Abstract Brain tumor refers to the formation of abnormal cells in the brain. It can be divided into benign and malignant. The main diagnostic methods for brain tumors are plain X-ray film, Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and so on. However, these artificial diagnosis methods are easily affected by external factors. Scholars have made such impressive progress in brain tumors classification by using convolutional neural network (CNN). However, there are still some problems: (i) There are many parameters in CNN, which require much calculation. (ii) The brain tumor data sets are relatively small, which may lead to the overfitting problem in CNN.… More >

Salwa M. Serag Eldin^1,*, Ahmed Sedik², Sultan S. Alshamrani³, Ahmed M. Ayoup⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 733-749, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.030789

Abstract In this paper, a novel cancellable biometrics technique called Multi-Biometric-Feature-Hashing (MBFH) is proposed. The MBFH strategy is utilized to actualize a single direction (non-invertibility) biometric shape. MBFH is a typical model security conspire that is distinguished in the utilization of this protection insurance framework in numerous sorts of biometric feature strategies (retina, palm print, Hand Dorsum, fingerprint). A more robust and accurate multilingual biological structure in expressing human loneliness requires a different format to record clients with inseparable comparisons from individual biographical sources. This may raise worries about their utilization and security when these spread out designs are subverted as… More >

Jiang Wu¹, Jianjun Zhang¹, Wenwu Tan¹, Hao Lan^1,*, Sirao Zhang¹, Ke Xiao², Li Wang², Haijun Lin¹, Guang Sun³, Peng Guo⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 67-82, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.030703

Abstract Water resources are an indispensable and valuable resource for human survival and development. Water quality predicting plays an important role in the protection and development of water resources. It is difficult to predict water quality due to its random and trend changes. Therefore, a method of predicting water quality which combines Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) and clustering model was proposed in this paper. By taking the water quality monitoring data of a certain river basin as a sample, the water quality Total Phosphorus (TP) index was selected as the prediction object. Firstly, the sample data was cleaned, stationary… More >

Adel Y. I. Ashyap¹, M. Inam², M. R. Kamarudin¹, M. H. Dahri³, Z. A. Shamsan^4,*, K. Almuhanna⁴, F. Alorifi⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 1765-1782, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.030618

Abstract A multi-band metamaterial antenna is proposed to operate at the terahertz (THz) band for medical applications. The proposed structure is designed on a polyimide as a support layer, and its radiating elements are made of graphene. Initially, the design is started with a conventional shape showing a single operating frequency at 1.1 THz. To achieve a multi-band operating frequency, the conventional shape was replaced with the proposed metamaterial as a radiating patch that has properties not exist in nature. The multi-band frequencies are obtained without compromising the overall size of the design. The overall size is 600 × 600 × 25 μm³. The operating… More >

Farhan Amin¹, Omar M. Barukab², Gyu Sang Choi^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 489-502, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.030615

Abstract The networks are fundamental to our modern world and they appear throughout science and society. Access to a massive amount of data presents a unique opportunity to the researcher’s community. As networks grow in size the complexity increases and our ability to analyze them using the current state of the art is at severe risk of failing to keep pace. Therefore, this paper initiates a discussion on graph signal processing for large-scale data analysis. We first provide a comprehensive overview of core ideas in Graph signal processing (GSP) and their connection to conventional digital signal processing (DSP). We then summarize… More >

Khadem Ullah^1,*, Nasru Minallah¹, Durre Nayab¹, Ishtiaque Ahmed², Jaroslav Frnda^3,4, Jan Nedoma⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 995-1010, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.030531

Abstract With the ever growth of Internet users, video applications, and massive data traffic across the network, there is a higher need for reliable bandwidth-efficient multimedia communication. Versatile Video Coding (VVC/H.266) is finalized in September 2020 providing significantly greater compression efficiency compared to Highest Efficient Video Coding (HEVC) while providing versatile effective use for Ultra-High Definition (HD) videos. This article analyzes the quality performance of convolutional codes, turbo codes and self-concatenated convolutional (SCC) codes based on performance metrics for reliable future video communication. The advent of turbo codes was a significant achievement ever in the era of wireless communication approaching nearly… More >

Hadi Givi¹, Marie Hubalovska^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 179-202, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.030379

Abstract Metaheuristic algorithms are widely used in solving optimization problems. In this paper, a new metaheuristic algorithm called Skill Optimization Algorithm (SOA) is proposed to solve optimization problems. The fundamental inspiration in designing SOA is human efforts to acquire and improve skills. Various stages of SOA are mathematically modeled in two phases, including: (i) exploration, skill acquisition from experts and (ii) exploitation, skill improvement based on practice and individual effort. The efficiency of SOA in optimization applications is analyzed through testing this algorithm on a set of twenty-three standard benchmark functions of a variety of unimodal, high-dimensional multimodal, and fixed-dimensional multimodal… More >

Ahmed Abdulhakim Al-Absi¹, Dae-Ki Kang^2,*, Mohammed Abdulhakim Al-Absi³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 671-691, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.030262

Abstract Sentiment analysis (AS) is one of the basic research directions in natural language processing (NLP), it is widely adopted for news, product review, and politics. Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) aims at identifying the sentiment polarity of a given target context, previous existing model of sentiment analysis possesses the issue of the insufficient exaction of features which results in low accuracy. Hence this research work develops a deep-semantic and contextual knowledge networks (DSCNet). DSCNet tends to exploit the semantic and contextual knowledge to understand the context and enhance the accuracy based on given aspects. At first temporal relationships are established then… More >

Muhammad Hasnain¹, Imran Ghani², Seung Ryul Jeong^3,*, Muhammad Fermi Pasha⁴, Sardar Usman⁵, Anjum Abbas⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 783-799, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.030162

Abstract Forecasting on success or failure of software has become an interesting and, in fact, an essential task in the software development industry. In order to explore the latest data on successes and failures, this research focused on certain questions such as is early phase of the software development life cycle better than later phases in predicting software success and avoiding high rework? What human factors contribute to success or failure of a software? What software practices are used by the industry practitioners to achieve high quality of software in their day-to-day work? In order to conduct this empirical analysis a… More >