Nawaf Alhebaishi¹, Abdulrhman M. Alshareef¹, Tawfiq Hasanin¹, Raed Alsini¹, Gyanendra Prasad Joshi², Seongsoo Cho³, Doo Ill Chul^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 5233-5250, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025596 - 21 April 2022

Abstract In recent times, internet of things (IoT) applications on the cloud might not be the effective solution for every IoT scenario, particularly for time sensitive applications. A significant alternative to use is edge computing that resolves the problem of requiring high bandwidth by end devices. Edge computing is considered a method of forwarding the processing and communication resources in the cloud towards the edge. One of the considerations of the edge computing environment is resource management that involves resource scheduling, load balancing, task scheduling, and quality of service (QoS) to accomplish improved performance. With this… More >

Ahmad Alassaf, Mohamed Yacin Sikkandar^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 5273-5285, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025577 - 21 April 2022

Abstract Malaria is a severe disease caused by Plasmodium parasites, which can be detected through blood smear images. The early identification of the disease can effectively reduce the severity rate. Deep learning (DL) models can be widely employed to analyze biomedical images, thereby minimizing the misclassification rate. With this objective, this study developed an intelligent deep-transfer-learning-based malaria parasite detection and classification (IDTL-MPDC) model on blood smear images. The proposed IDTL-MPDC technique aims to effectively determine the presence of malarial parasites in blood smear images. In addition, the IDTL-MPDC technique derives median filtering (MF) as a pre-processing… More >

Laiali Almazaydeh^1,*, Saleh Atiewi², Arar Al Tawil³, Khaled Elleithy⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 5443-5458, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025526 - 21 April 2022

Abstract Genres are one of the key features that categorize music based on specific series of patterns. However, the Arabic music content on the web is poorly defined into its genres, making the automatic classification of Arabic audio genres challenging. For this reason, in this research, our objective is first to construct a well-annotated dataset of five of the most well-known Arabic music genres, which are: Eastern Takht, Rai, Muwashshah, the poem, and Mawwal, and finally present a comprehensive empirical comparison of deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) architectures on Arabic music genres classification. In this work, More >

Soban Arshad¹, Khalid Iqbal^1,*, Sheneela Naz², Sadaf Yasmin¹, Zobia Rehman²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 4283-4301, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025442 - 21 April 2022

Abstract Telecom industry relies on churn prediction models to retain their customers. These prediction models help in precise and right time recognition of future switching by a group of customers to other service providers. Retention not only contributes to the profit of an organization, but it is also important for upholding a position in the competitive market. In the past, numerous churn prediction models have been proposed, but the current models have a number of flaws that prevent them from being used in real-world large-scale telecom datasets. These schemes, fail to incorporate frequently changing requirements. Data… More >

Dokyung Hwang¹, Hyeonmin Ro¹, Naejoung Kwak², Jinsang Hwang³, Dongju Kim^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 4411-4431, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025378 - 21 April 2022

Abstract A novel practical and universal method of mask-wearing detection has been proposed to prevent viral respiratory infections. The proposed method quickly and accurately detects mask and facial regions using well-trained You Only Look Once (YOLO) detector, then applies image coordinates of the detected bounding box (bbox). First, the data that is used to train our model is collected under various circumstances such as light disturbances, distances, time variations, and different climate conditions. It also contains various mask types to detect in general and universal application of the model. To detect mask-wearing status, it is important… More >

Chulwon Lee¹, Kyungho Lee^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 4803-4816, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025310 - 21 April 2022

Abstract The damage caused by malicious software is increasing owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as ransomware attacks on information technology and operational technology systems based on corporate networks and social infrastructures and spear-phishing attacks on business or research institutes. Recently, several studies have been conducted to prevent further phishing emails in the workplace because malware attacks employ emails as the primary means of penetration. However, according to the latest research, there appears to be a limitation in blocking email spoofing through advanced blocking systems such as spam email filtering solutions and advanced persistent threat systems.… More >

Ahmed M. Elmogy^1,2,*, Amany Sarhan², Wael M. Elawady²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 5629-5641, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025247 - 21 April 2022

Abstract As most real world systems are significantly nonlinear in nature, developing robust controllers have attracted many researchers for decades. Robust controllers are the controllers that are able to cope with the inherent uncertainties of the nonlinear systems. Many control methods have been developed for this purpose. Sliding mode control (SMC) is one of the most commonly used methods in developing robust controllers. This paper presents a higher order SMC (HOSMC) approach to mitigate the chattering problem of the traditional SMC techniques. The developed approach combines a third order SMC with an adaptive PID (proportional, integral, More >

Rashmi Sharma¹, Nitin Nitin², Deepak Dahiya^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 5197-5213, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025059 - 21 April 2022

Abstract Failure is a systemic error that affects overall system performance and may eventually crash across the entire configuration. In Real-Time Systems (RTS), deadline is the key to successful completion of the program. If tasks effectively meet the deadline, it means the system is working in pristine order. However, missing the deadline means a systemic fault due to which the system can crash (hard RTS) or degrade inclusive performance (soft RTS). To fine-tune the RTS, tolerance is the critical issue and must be handled with extreme care. This article explains the context of fault tolerance with… More >

Fawad Salam Khan^1,4, Mohd Norzali Haji Mohd^1,*, Saiful Azrin B. M. Zulkifli², Ghulam E Mustafa Abro², Suhail Kazi³, Dur Muhammad Soomro¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 5741-5759, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024927 - 21 April 2022

Abstract The evident change in the design of the autopilot system produced massive help for the aviation industry and it required frequent upgrades. Reinforcement learning delivers appropriate outcomes when considering a continuous environment where the controlling Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) required maximum accuracy. In this paper, we designed a hybrid framework, which is based on Reinforcement Learning and Deep Learning where the traditional electronic flight controller is replaced by using 3D hand gestures. The algorithm is designed to take the input from 3D hand gestures and integrate with the Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) to receive… More >

Saman Riaz¹, Ali Arshad², Shahab S. Band^3,*, Amir Mosavi⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 4303-4321, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024819 - 21 April 2022

Abstract The way towards generating a website front end involves a designer settling on an idea for what kind of layout they want the website to have, then proceeding to plan and implement each aspect one by one until they have converted what they initially laid out into its Html front end form, this process can take a considerable time, especially considering the first draft of the design is traditionally never the final one. This process can take up a large amount of resource real estate, and as we have laid out in this paper, by… More >