Naeem Ahmad Jan¹, Saad Hassan Kiani², Fazal Muhammad², Daniyal Ali Sehrai², Amjad Iqbal³, Muhammad Tufail⁴, Sunghwan Kim^{5, *}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 19-32, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011091

Abstract Due to rapid growth in wireless communication technology, higher bandwidth requirement for advance telecommunication systems, capable of operating on two or higher bands with higher channel capacities and minimum distortion losses is desired. In this paper, a compact Ultra-Wideband (UWB) V-shaped monopole antenna is presented. UWB response is achieved by modifying the ground plane with Chichen Itzia inspired rectangular staircase shape. The proposed V-shaped is designed by incorporating a rectangle, and an inverted isosceles triangle using FR4 substrate. The size of the antenna is 25 mm×26 mm×1.6 mm. The proposed V-shaped monopole antenna produces bandwidth response of 3 GHz Industrial,… More >

Sanghyo Lee¹, Yonghan Ahn², Ha Young Kim^{3, *}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 1-17, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011104

Abstract In this study, we examined the efficacy of a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) in recognizing concrete surface images and predicting the compressive strength of concrete. A digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera and microscope were simultaneously used to obtain concrete surface images used as the input data for the DCNN. Thereafter, training, validation, and testing of the DCNNs were performed based on the DSLR camera and microscope image data. Results of the analysis indicated that the DCNN employing DSLR image data achieved a relatively higher accuracy. The accuracy of the DSLR-derived image data was attributed to the relatively wider range… More >

Jinlin Wang¹, Xing Wang^{1, *}, Hongli Zhang¹, Binxing Fang¹, Yuchen Yang¹, Jianan Liu²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.3, pp. 2057-2073, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011158

Abstract As a real-time and authoritative source, the official Web pages of organizations contain a large amount of information. The diversity of Web content and format makes it essential for pre-processing to get the unified attributed data, which has the value of organizational analysis and mining. The existing research on dealing with multiple Web scenarios and accuracy performance is insufficient. This paper aims to propose a method to transform organizational official Web pages into the data with attributes. After locating the active blocks in the Web pages, the structural and content features are proposed to classify information with the specific model.… More >

Congcong Wang^{1, 2, 3}, Pengyu Liu^{1, 2, 3, *}, Kebin Jia^{1, 2, 3}, Xiaowei Jia⁴, Yaoyao Li^{1, 2, 3}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.3, pp. 2043-2055, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010505

Abstract Weather phenomenon recognition plays an important role in the field of meteorology. Nowadays, weather radars and weathers sensor have been widely used for weather recognition. However, given the high cost in deploying and maintaining the devices, it is difficult to apply them to intensive weather phenomenon recognition. Moreover, advanced machine learning models such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown a lot of promise in meteorology, but these models also require intensive computation and large memory, which make it difficult to use them in reality. In practice, lightweight models are often used to solve such problems. However, lightweight models often… More >

Bin Xu^{1, 2}, Yong Tang¹, Yi Zhu¹, Wenqing Yan¹, Cheng He³, Jin Qi^{1, *}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.3, pp. 2031-2042, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011149

Abstract Manufacturing service composition of the supply side and scheduling of the demand side are two important components of Cloud Manufacturing, which directly affect the quality of Cloud Manufacturing services. However, the previous studies on the two components are carried out independently and thus ignoring the internal relations and mutual constraints. Considering the two components on both sides of the supply and the demand of Cloud Manufacturing services at the same time, a Bilateral Collaborative Optimization Model of Cloud Manufacturing (BCOM-CMfg) is constructed in this paper. In BCOM-CMfg, to solve the manufacturing service scheduling problem on the supply side, a new… More >

Lejun Zhang¹, Tianwen Huang¹, Xiaoyan Hu¹, Zhijie Zhang¹, Weizheng Wang², Donghai Guan^{3, *}, Chunhui Zhao^{1, 4}, Seokhoon Kim⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.3, pp. 2013-2030, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011219

Abstract Covert channel of the packet ordering is a hot research topic. Encryption technology is not enough to protect the security of both sides of communication. Covert channel needs to hide the transmission data and protect content of communication. The traditional methods are usually to use proxy technology such as tor anonymous tracking technology to achieve hiding from the communicator. However, because the establishment of proxy communication needs to consume traffic, the communication capacity will be reduced, and in recent years, the tor technology often has vulnerabilities that led to the leakage of secret information. In this paper, the covert channel… More >

Ye Zhai^{1, *}, Dongsheng Liu¹, Celimuge Wu², Rongrong She¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.3, pp. 1999-2012, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.09950

Abstract Reusing code fragments by copying and pasting them with or without minor adaptation is a common activity in software development. As a result, software systems often contain sections of code that are very similar, called code clones. Code clones are beneficial in reducing software development costs and development risks. However, recent studies have indicated some negative impacts as a result. In order to effectively manage and utilize the clones, we design an approach for recommending refactoring clones based on a Bayesian network. Firstly, clone codes are detected from the source code. Secondly, the clones that need to be refactored are… More >

Kui Fu¹, Jiansheng Peng^{1, 2, *}, Hanxiao Zhang², Xiaoliang Wang³, Frank Jiang⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.3, pp. 1977-1997, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.09882

Abstract Single image super resolution (SISR) is an important research content in the field of computer vision and image processing. With the rapid development of deep neural networks, different image super-resolution models have emerged. Compared to some traditional SISR methods, deep learning-based methods can complete the superresolution tasks through a single image. In addition, compared with the SISR methods using traditional convolutional neural networks, SISR based on generative adversarial networks (GAN) has achieved the most advanced visual performance. In this review, we first explore the challenges faced by SISR and introduce some common datasets and evaluation metrics. Then, we review the… More >

Dunhong Yao^{1, 2, 3}, Shijun Li^{4, *}, Ang Li⁵, Yu Chen⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.3, pp. 1959-1975, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010186

Abstract There is no reasonable scientific basis for selecting the excellent teachers of the school’s courses. To solve the practical problem, we firstly give a series of normalization models for defining the key attributes of teachers’ professional foundation, course difficulty coefficient, and comprehensive evaluation of teaching. Then, we define a partial weight function to calculate the key attributes, and obtain the partial recommendation values. Next, we construct a highly sparse Teaching Recommendation Factorization Machines (TRFMs) model, which takes the 5-tuples relation including teacher, course, teachers’ professional foundation, course difficulty, teaching evaluation as the feature vector, and take partial recommendation value as… More >

Jinhui Ge¹, Xiaoliang Liu^{2, *}, Guo Liang³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.3, pp. 1945-1958, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010977

Abstract With the expansion of the application scope of social computing problems, many path problems in real life have evolved from pure path optimization problems to social computing problems that take into account various social attributes, cultures, and the emotional needs of customers. The actual soft time window vehicle routing problem, speeding up the response of customer needs, improving distribution efficiency, and reducing operating costs is the focus of current social computing problems. Therefore, designing fast and effective algorithms to solve this problem has certain theoretical and practical significance. In this paper, considering the time delay problem of customer demand, the… More >