Ibrahim Arpaci¹, Shadi Alshehabi², Mostafa Al-Emran^{3, *}, Mahmoud Khasawneh⁴, Ibrahim Mahariq⁴, Thabet Abdeljawad^{5, 6, 7}, Aboul Ella Hassanien^{8, 9}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 193-204, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011489

Abstract People started posting textual tweets on Twitter as soon as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) emerged. Analyzing these tweets can assist institutions in better decision-making and prioritizing their tasks. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze 43 million tweets collected between March 22 and March 30, 2020 and describe the trend of public attention given to the topics related to the COVID-19 epidemic using evolutionary clustering analysis. The results indicated that unigram terms were trended more frequently than bigram and trigram terms. A large number of tweets about the COVID-19 were disseminated and received widespread public attention during the epidemic. The high-frequency… More >

Anees Imtiaz¹, Oi-Mean Foong², Aamina Aamina¹, Nabeel Khan¹, Farhad Ali^{3, 4, *}, Ilyas Khan⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 171-192, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011397

Abstract Gold metallic nanoparticles are generally used within a lab as a tracer, to uncover on the presence of specific proteins or DNA in a sample, as well as for the recognition of various antibiotics. They are bio companionable and have properties to carry thermal energy to tumor cells by utilizing different clinical approaches. As the cancer cells are very smaller so for the infiltration, the properly sized nanoparticles have been injected in the blood. For this reason, gold nanoparticles are very effective. Keeping in mind the above applications, in the present work a generalized model of blood flow containing gold… More >

Gyeong-Jin Ra¹, Chang-Hyun Roh¹, Im-Yeong Lee^{1, *}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 153-170, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011293

Abstract In today’s fourth industrial revolution, various blockchain technologies are being actively researched. A blockchain is a peer-to-peer data-sharing structure lacking central control. If a user wishes to access stored data, she/he must employ a private key to prove ownership of the data and create a transaction. If the private key is lost, blockchain data cannot be accessed. To solve such a problem, public blockchain users can recover the key using a wallet program. However, key recovery in a permissioned blockchain (PBC) has been but little studied. The PBC server is Honest-but-Curious (HBC), and should not be able to learn anything… More >

Muhammad Adnan Khan^{1, *}, Sagheer Abbas², Ayesha Atta^{2, 3}, Allah Ditta⁴, Hani Alquhayz⁵, Muhammad Farhan Khan⁶, Atta-ur-Rahman⁷, Rizwan Ali Naqvi⁸

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 139-151, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011416

Abstract The innovation in technologies related to health facilities today is increasingly helping to manage patients with different diseases. The most fatal of these is the issue of heart disease that cannot be detected from a naked eye, and attacks as soon as the human exceeds the allowed range of vital signs like pulse rate, body temperature, and blood pressure. The real challenge is to diagnose patients with more diagnostic accuracy and in a timely manner, followed by prescribing appropriate treatments and keeping prescription errors to a minimum. In developing countries, the domain of healthcare is progressing day by day using… More >

Mir Subzar¹, Amer Ibrahim Al-Omari², Ayed R. A. Alanzi^{3, *}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 125-138, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010230

Abstract The ordinary least square (OLS) method is commonly used in regression analysis. But in the presence of outlier in the data, its results are unreliable. Hence, the robust regression methods have been suggested for a long time as alternatives to the OLS to solve the outliers problem. In the present study, new ratio type estimators of finite population mean are suggested using simple random sampling without replacement (SRSWOR) utilizing the supplementary information in Bowley’s coefficient of skewness with quartiles. For these proposed estimators, we have used the OLS, Huber-M, Mallows GM-estimate, Schweppe GM-estimate, and SIS GM-estimate methods for estimating the… More >

Zia Ullah¹, Muhammad Ashraf¹, Saqib Zia², Yuming Chu^{3, 4}, Ilyas Khan^{5, *}, Kottakkaran Sooppy Nisar⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 109-123, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011468

Abstract The present work emphasizes the significance of oscillatory mixed convection stratified fluid and heat transfer characteristics at different stations of non-conducting horizontally circular cylinder in the presence of thermally stratified medium. To remove the difficulties in illustrating the coupled PDE’s, the finite-difference scheme with efficient primitive-variable formulation is proposed to transform dimensionless equations. The numerical simulations of coupled non-dimensional equations are computed in terms velocity of fluid, temperature and magnetic field which are computed to examine the fluctuating components of skin friction, heat transfer and current density for various emerging parameters. The governing parameters namely, thermally stratification parameter More >

Bao Le Nguyen¹, E. Laxmi Lydia², Mohamed Elhoseny³, Irina V. Pustokhina⁴, Denis A. Pustokhin⁵, Mahmoud Mohamed Selim⁶, Gia Nhu Nguyen^{7, 8}, K. Shankar^{9, *}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 87-107, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011599

Abstract In present digital era, an exponential increase in Internet of Things (IoT) devices poses several design issues for business concerning security and privacy. Earlier studies indicate that the blockchain technology is found to be a significant solution to resolve the challenges of data security exist in IoT. In this view, this paper presents a new privacy-preserving Secure Ant Colony optimization with Multi Kernel Support Vector Machine (ACOMKSVM) with Elliptical Curve cryptosystem (ECC) for secure and reliable IoT data sharing. This program uses blockchain to ensure protection and integrity of some data while it has the technology to create secure ACOMKSVM… More >

Syahmi Afandi Sariman¹, Ishak Hashim^{1, *}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 69-85, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010836

Abstract The classical iterative methods for finding roots of nonlinear equations, like the Newton method, Halley method, and Chebyshev method, have been modified previously to achieve optimal convergence order. However, the Householder method has so far not been modified to become optimal. In this study, we shall develop two new optimal Newton-Householder methods without memory. The key idea in the development of the new methods is the avoidance of the need to evaluate the second derivative. The methods fulfill the Kung-Traub conjecture by achieving optimal convergence order four with three functional evaluations and order eight with four functional evaluations. The efficiency… More >

Joo-Chan Lee¹, Hyun-Pyo Choi¹, Jang-Hoon Kim¹, Jun-Won Kim¹, Da-Un Jung¹, Ji-Ho Shin¹, Jung-Taek Seo^{1, *}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 53-67, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011251

Abstract Cyberattacks on the Industrial Control System (ICS) have recently been increasing, made more intelligent by advancing technologies. As such, cybersecurity for such systems is attracting attention. As a core element of control devices, the Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) in an ICS carries out on-site control over the ICS. A cyberattack on the PLC will cause damages on the overall ICS, with Stuxnet and Duqu as the most representative cases. Thus, cybersecurity for PLCs is considered essential, and many researchers carry out a variety of analyses on the vulnerabilities of PLCs as part of preemptive efforts against attacks. In this study,… More >

Muhammad Rafiq¹, Ali Ahmadian^{2, *}, Ali Raza³, Dumitru Baleanu⁴, Muhammad Sarwar Ahsan¹, Mohammad Hasan Abdul Sathar⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 33-51, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010893

Abstract Nonlinear stochastic modeling has significant role in the all discipline of sciences. The essential control measuring features of modeling are positivity, boundedness and dynamical consistency. Unfortunately, the existing stochastic methods in literature do not restore aforesaid control measuring features, particularly for the stochastic models. Therefore, these gaps should be occupied up in literature, by constructing the control measuring features numerical method. We shall present a numerical control measures for stochastic malaria model in this manuscript. The results of the stochastic model are discussed in contrast of its equivalent deterministic model. If the basic reproduction number is less than one, then… More >