{"title":"Image Steganography Based on Least Significant Bit (LSB) and 4-Dimensional Lu and Liu Chaotic System","authors":"J. N. Shehab, H. Abdulkadhim","doi":"10.1109/ICOASE.2018.8548864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOASE.2018.8548864","url":null,"abstract":"One of the tasks in steganography is extend area in the cover media for embedding more secret messages with enhancing security key and then extract messages with minimum error. In this direction, this paper propose hiding gray images inside a color image based on steganography Least Significant Bits method (LSB) with shuffling by using two types of 4-D chaotic system (Lu and Liu). The color image (RGB model) separated into three cover images (red, green, and blue) and each one of these three cover images may be used to hide 3-shuffled secret images. 4-D chaotic system provide an efficient security key and more difficult to forecast attack. Peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and mean square error (MSE) proves that both of secret and cover images are retains its explicitness and characteristics after reconstruction in the receiver.","PeriodicalId":144020,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Advanced Science and Engineering (ICOASE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130455277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Graph-Based Efficiency Analysis of Simpson Gear Train","authors":"E. L. Esmail, H. A. Hussen, Tamather N. Ali","doi":"10.1109/ICOASE.2018.8548779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOASE.2018.8548779","url":null,"abstract":"The power that flows through the links of a split- power gear train are formulated in terms of velocity ratios and local efficiencies. The power flow directions are deduced by nomograph method. The power losses are deduced by potential power method. The two methods are used to complement each other to study the efficiency of the Simpson gear train. A single equation is derived for the overall efficiency. Despite the simplicity and clarity of the current method, its results are consistent with what is available in scientific literature. The effect of the number of teeth, gear ratios, and overall speed ratio on the overall efficiency are also studied.","PeriodicalId":144020,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Advanced Science and Engineering (ICOASE)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115384892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatio-Temporal Estimation of Surface Water Area in Dohuk Governorate Using Remote Sensing & GIS","authors":"J. Hassanpour, Yaseen T. Mustafa, H. N. Habeeb","doi":"10.1109/ICOASE.2018.8548882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOASE.2018.8548882","url":null,"abstract":"Surface Water area (SWA) extraction is an important part of water resource management and has been the hottest topic in the remote sensing of water resource sector for over two decades. An approach is presented to estimate the change of area of surface water over 15 year period (2003 - 2018) using a time series of Landsat images. Twelve Landsat scenes were used to spatially and temporally cover Duhok Governorate, Kurdistan region-Iraq. A modified normalized different water index (MNDWI) were employed to quantitatively estimate the SWA and coincidently analyzed with the temporal change of precipitation and temperature data. Results show that the considerable decrement of SWA is observed from 2003 to 2008 with reduction of 51%. This is also was confirmed by metrological used data. Moreover, an increment of SWA is noticed from 2008 to 2013. However, a slight increment was realized between 2013 and 2018. In addition, during the studied period a climate conditions (temperature and precipitation) in Duhok Governorate have been changed significantly. These changes could have affected the SWA, but so also could external human interference.","PeriodicalId":144020,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Advanced Science and Engineering (ICOASE)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131949918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance of BCH and RS Codes in MIMO System Using MPFEC Diversity Technique","authors":"A. Al-Khalil, Alyaa Al-Barrak","doi":"10.1109/ICOASE.2018.8548933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOASE.2018.8548933","url":null,"abstract":"Multipath propagation phenomenon often causes Inter-Symbol Interference (ISI) because several copies from the originally transmitted signal travel in different directions and reach the destination with different time delays. This paper offers a new diversity technique to eliminate the effect and utilise multipath propagation phenomenon. The new diversity technique is known as MultiPath Forward Error Correction (MPFEC) technique. The MPFEC technique considers some of the multipath copies as an existing resource (redundant copies of the transmitted signal) which can be utilised to enhance the performance of Forward Error Correction coding (FEC) techniques, hence saving significant channel resources otherwise given to a feedback channel, without adding redundancy. Two different coding techniques BCH and RS coding are used in the simulation to perform the Bit Error Rate (BER) analysis. The result reveals that BCH and RS codes performance can be enhanced by utilising the MPFEC technique without increasing the number of redundancy. This paper is implemented by using MATLAB. The results are analysed and compared.","PeriodicalId":144020,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Advanced Science and Engineering (ICOASE)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128617628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. S. AL-Wotaify, Noor J. Al-Silmawy, Luay M. AL-Jubori
{"title":"Evaluation of Environmental Risk Index for Heavy Metals in Some Sedimentary Soils Pollution of Babylon Governorate","authors":"A. S. AL-Wotaify, Noor J. Al-Silmawy, Luay M. AL-Jubori","doi":"10.1109/ICOASE.2018.8548803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOASE.2018.8548803","url":null,"abstract":"This research included study of some sedimentary soils pollution from the Babylon Governorate by As, Cu, Ni and Pb estimated with XRF spectra. The locations determined via GPS between longitude °32 08′ 757″-°32 99′ 861″N and Latitude °44 09′ 220″- °44 99′ 928″E. Soil total of As, Cu and Ni were high, as As recorded the highest values 24.5mg kg-1 in surface horizon of soil sample Ss5. While Cu and Ni: 70.2, 372.5mg kg-1 respectively in lower horizon of soil sample Ss2. Pb was below the limits allowed by the World Health Organization (WHO). The highest single pollution index (PI) for As: 3.31, Cu: 1.54, Ni: 1.55recorded the highest values in the surface horizon of the soil sample Ss5, and Pb: 1.87 in the lower horizon of the same sample. Newmerow integrated pollution index (NIPI), also follows the same pattern in mentioned samples: 2.78, 1.45, 1.45 and 1.65respectively. For the results of the potential ecological risk index (Er) the highest values of As: 33.1, Cu: 7.70 and Ni 7.75; Pb: 9.35 recorded in both mentioned two horizon. Thereby, the highest total comprehensive ecological risk index (RI) for the heavy metals group was 55.70 in the surface horizon of soil sample Ss5.","PeriodicalId":144020,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Advanced Science and Engineering (ICOASE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130686854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bayesian Sensitivity Analysis to Quantifying Uncertainty in a Dendroclimatology Model","authors":"M. Hassan","doi":"10.1109/ICOASE.2018.8548877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOASE.2018.8548877","url":null,"abstract":"A nonlinear forward model named VSLite is used to simulate tree ring-width growth from climate data. There is always uncertainty in such data inputs, which might influence the uncertainty of the model outputs. The present work performs a Bayesian sensitivity analysis (BSA) to the VSLite model using a Gaussian process emulator. BSA aims to understand and quantify the uncertainty of the model’s outputs due to a change in its inputs. The model was successfully implemented at different geographical locations around the world. To examine the accuracy of the model, we first compared real tree-ring data at different locations with those simulated from VSLite. The variability in the model output was then explored and quantified via BSA. Results show that BSA has successfully classified model parameters in terms of their influences on the model output variation.","PeriodicalId":144020,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Advanced Science and Engineering (ICOASE)","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124211243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hardware Implementation of Firefly Optimization Algorithm Using FPGAs","authors":"H. Sadeeq, A. Abdulazeez","doi":"10.1109/ICOASE.2018.8548822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOASE.2018.8548822","url":null,"abstract":"Mimicking natural phenomenon of social insects, such as bird flocks and insect colonies by merging randomness facility and some other simulation rules, are the core tasks of the artificial meta-heuristic algorithms. Such algorithms are the most efficient and powerful techniques used to solve various complicated real-world optimization problems. Firefly algorithm, which belongs to nature meta-heuristics algorithms, is inspired by mating and flashing behavior or the phenomenon of bioluminescent communication of fireflies in the nature. In this paper, a hardware structure design for firefly algorithm has been proposed. Firefly algorithm is executing sequentially as all meta-heuristic algorithms, due to the nature of the algorithm. Therefore, sequential hardware structure design for the algorithm using Finite State Machine (FSM) system has been proposed. The hardware design structure implementation is mapped into a FPGAs (SPARTAN 3XS1600) device. Numerical results of the comparison between the hardware and the software (using C++ programming language) implementation of Firefly algorithm were obtained. These results indicate that the hardware implementation is executed 461 times faster than the software implementation. Indeed, the required execution time for finding the optimal solution can be reduced rapidly using the proposed hardware design structure.","PeriodicalId":144020,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Advanced Science and Engineering (ICOASE)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117120657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Optimization Approach for Waste Collection Routes Based on GIS in Hillah-Iraq","authors":"Z. A. Jwad, Saad Talib Hasson","doi":"10.1109/ICOASE.2018.8548889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOASE.2018.8548889","url":null,"abstract":"Waste management is one of the fundamental services untaken by municipalities to retain cities clean and healthy. It represents a high priority and urgent issue for many communities around the world. Rapid progress in the economy and urbanization has had a significant impact on the increase in waste disposal volumes. In this study, Geographical information system GIS was suggested and implemented for optimizing the waste collection (WC) routes in Al Hillah city. The ArcGIS Network Analyst model was developed to improve the efficiency of WC in the Municipality of Hillah (MoH), through the redistribution of waste collection bins and improved trucks routing in terms of distance and time. Sixty routes are resulted and optimized to minimize the total distances of the current route. Simultaneously, it helps in reducing the time required for each route to complete the waste collection process. The final result shows about 30% of the aggregated route distances are minimized in addition to the resulted duration times. The optimal scenario suggested in this study is found to be more efficient in terms of assembly time and distance traveled by waste trucks.","PeriodicalId":144020,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Advanced Science and Engineering (ICOASE)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124416466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ehab N. Abbas, Salman Omran, M. Alali, M. Abass, A. Abood
{"title":"Dissimilar Welding of AISI 309 Stainless Steel to AISI 1020 Carbon Steel Using Arc Stud Welding","authors":"Ehab N. Abbas, Salman Omran, M. Alali, M. Abass, A. Abood","doi":"10.1109/ICOASE.2018.8548844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOASE.2018.8548844","url":null,"abstract":"In present work, AISI 309 stainless steel studs were joined to AISI 1020 carbon steel sheets by arc stud welding technique. A range of welding currents and times were applied to investigate the effect of welding parameters on microstructure and mechanical properties of the weldments. The microstructure observation revealed that increasing of welding current and time encourages martensitic transformation in heat affected zone of carbon steel and gives a high possibility to the formation of sigma phase in fusion zone of stainless steel. Microhardness test showed highest hardness of 575HV in fusion zone at 800A welding current and 0.35s welding time because of hard and brittle sigma phase. The strength of the joints was evaluated using torque test. Maximum torque strength of 60N.m was registered with 400A and 0.35s that also showed the best weld integrity. A crack was detected in the fusion zone at 800A welding current due to the difference in thermal expansion coefficient between stainless steel and carbon steel.","PeriodicalId":144020,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Advanced Science and Engineering (ICOASE)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122244597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maintain Load Balancing in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Virtual Grid Based Routing Protocol","authors":"Husam Kareem, Hadi Jameel","doi":"10.1109/ICOASE.2018.8548929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOASE.2018.8548929","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the wide variety of applications of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in different aspects of life, research focusing on WSNs have rapidly increased in the recent few years. Different challenges shorten the operation of sensor nodes over the targeted area for different reasons such as danger, inhospitality, and limited energy resources of the surrounding area. One major issue is the energy required to operate the individual sensor nodes that definitely affect the operation of the entire sensor network. Accordingly, energy consumption must be minimized as possible which requires to compromise sensor network activities as well as network operation. One fundamental solution commonly used for minimizing the energy consumption in each sensor node is using an energy-efficient routing algorithm. In this study, a routing approach depends on the grid topology of the sensor network is presented to maximize the lifetime of WSNs via balancing a load of data traffic among sensor nodes as evenly as possible. The evaluation process is done using CFDASC routing protocol since it represents the most comparable and related algorithm among previous work. Simulation results prove that the presented approach outperformance CFDASC algorithm in terms of network stability and load balancing of the entire network.","PeriodicalId":144020,"journal":{"name":"2018 International Conference on Advanced Science and Engineering (ICOASE)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132085974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}