{"title":"Utilizing Drones in Long-Term Construction Projects: the Impact on Cash Flow Management","authors":"Amer Qasim, Ghaleb A. El Refae, S. Eletter","doi":"10.1109/ACIT57182.2022.9994144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACIT57182.2022.9994144","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial intelligence, robotic process automation, and big data are profoundly reshaping the accounting profession. Studies exploring these areas are currently examining utilizing drones as tools to conduct certain accounting and auditing tasks. This study extends prior studies by discussing the advantage that this technology provides to improve cash flow management of construction companies. The paper is theoretical in nature proposing a framework on the applicability of utilizing drones in long-term construction projects to improve cash flow management. According to the proposed framework, the drone will be utilized as a supplementary tool to conduct project site inspection remotely to assess and monitor the construction progress. The framework addresses the percentage of completion method to recognize revenues from long-term contracts. The paper addresses the additional benefits provided when using drones in this regard including, collecting improved data quality, cost and time efficiency with improved effectiveness, and increasing safety during site inspection.","PeriodicalId":256713,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114093344","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}
Manel Guettala, Samir Bourekkache, O. Kazar, S. Harous, B. Athamena, Z. Houhamdi
{"title":"Cloud ubiquitous learning approach based on multi-agents system","authors":"Manel Guettala, Samir Bourekkache, O. Kazar, S. Harous, B. Athamena, Z. Houhamdi","doi":"10.1109/ACIT57182.2022.9994205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACIT57182.2022.9994205","url":null,"abstract":"Information technology (IT) plays an important role in the education field, with ubiquitous computing technology the ubiquitous learning (U-learning) is now a practical possibility. Cloud computing can offer many benefits to the learning field, as it provides all resources such as software (SaaS), platforms (PaaS), and infrastructure (IaaS) as a service. The multi-agent systems approach is an excellent way to implement flexible systems whose structure evolves dynamically. Based on the discussion of the benefits of cloud computing and the multi-agent systems approach to support adaptive and personalized learning content, the paper presents a hybrid approach based on cloud computing that uses the multi-tenant architecture where tenants share the system software. Multi-agent system is used in this approach to support a ubiquitous learning system. A multi-tenant SaaS application addresses the unique requirements of each tenant by enabling customization at the tenant level with the adoption of the concept of virtualization (virtual machines). This paper explores the challenges of achieving performance isolation in the context of multi-tenant SaaS applications. As an output of this study, U-learning on the cloud-based multi-agent system architecture has been proposed. To achieve lower cost of resources and server allocation and provide isolation among learners in the ubiquitous learning environment.","PeriodicalId":256713,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116329127","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":"Insiders Detection in the Uncertain IoD using Fuzzy Logic","authors":"Sihem Benfriha, Nabila Labraoui","doi":"10.1109/ACIT57182.2022.9994119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACIT57182.2022.9994119","url":null,"abstract":"Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and various network entities deployed on the ground can communicate with each other over the Internet of Drones (IoD), a network architecture designed expressly to allow communications between heterogenous entities. Drone technology has a wide range of uses, including on-demand package delivery, traffic and wild life surveillance, inspection of infrastructure and search, rescue and agriculture. However, IoD systems are vulnerable to numerous attacks, The main goal is to develop an all-encompassing security model that can be used to analyze security concerns in various UAV-based systems. With exceptional flexibility and increasing efficiency, trust management is a promising alternative to traditional detection methods. In a heterogeneous environment, it is also compatible with other security mechanisms. In this article, we present a fuzzy logic as an Insider Detection technique which calculate sensor data trust and assessing node behavior. To build confidence throughout the entire IoD, our proposal divides trust into two parts: Data trust and Node trust. This is in contrast to earlier models. Experimental results show that our solution is effective in terms of False positive ratio and Average of end-to-end delay.","PeriodicalId":256713,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128153124","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":"Exploring the Effect of Social Media Marketing and Destination image on Destination Loyalty in Covid-19 Times: Sequential Mediating Role of Brand Love and Brand Loyalty","authors":"A. Aljumah, M. Nuseir, Ghaleb A. El Refae","doi":"10.1109/ACIT57182.2022.9994189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACIT57182.2022.9994189","url":null,"abstract":"The basic concern for the tourism sector is to retain customers during Covid-19 time. In this regard, it is important to examine the role of social media marketing and destination to develop brand love and loyalty which lead to sustainable competitive advantage. This study used a cross-sectional research design and a quantitative approach to collect data from the respondents. The data were collected from the customers of hotels in UAE. 450 respondents were approached by convenience sampling. The response rate of this study was 55.9 percent. For the analysis of the collected data, PLS-SEM was used. The results of the study support the proposed hypotheses. Besides, the mediating role of brand love and loyalty was also supported.","PeriodicalId":256713,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129971836","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":"Legal Basis of Civil Liability for Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Particularly Robotics) According to the UAE Civil Transactions Law","authors":"Aliakbar Al-Obeidi","doi":"10.1109/ACIT57182.2022.9994136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACIT57182.2022.9994136","url":null,"abstract":"This research is a modest legal contribution, the aim of which is to shed light on the texts of the Civil Transactions Law related to civil liability and to identify the extent to which they can be applied to artificial intelligence applications (particularly robotics). Despite the many massive benefits of these applications, they are not without risks, like most modern innovations. Its use may result in significant damage. These damages are often not precisely known who is responsible for them, are the manufacturers of them? Or the engineers who programmed it? Or the people who supervised its operation? Or deny responsibility for the existence of the foreign cause? And to discuss the previous questions in the UAE law, we will first explain the identity of artificial intelligence and its privacy. Secondly, we will briefly present the forms of civil liability in the UAE Civil Transactions Law. Finally, we will show the extent to which artificial intelligence applications can be subject to the legal rules related to these forms.","PeriodicalId":256713,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133613976","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":"A Case Study of Implementing Life Cycle Cost Analysis in Sustainability Assessment","authors":"Ayah A. Alkhawaldeh, M. Alhassan, Ahmed Elrefae","doi":"10.1109/ACIT57182.2022.9994115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACIT57182.2022.9994115","url":null,"abstract":"The newly developed alkali-activated binders are known to have an emerging potential in developing and improving the idea of greenhouse building according to sustainability requirements. These new binders are based on the principle of using ashes from mining and quarrying wastes as raw materials which can be used in the remediation process of toxic and radioactive wastes. A modern application for the alkali-activated binder has been developed, such as using hybrid cement, which is formed by mixing the alkali-activated binder with ordinary Portland cement. The other one is using alkali-activated binder blocks. It can be stated that these binders are a reasonable option for green construction only if the process used to manufacture them does not cause negative impacts on the environment, human health, or depletion of resources. One of the most important sustainability parameters is the life cycle cost assessment, which describes the material life from the extraction of raw materials to the demolition stage of the building. Accordingly, this paper provides a life cycle cost assessment for the alkali-activated binders in order to evaluate their sustainability performance, especially the CO2 emission.","PeriodicalId":256713,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132158414","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":"Proactive Charging Mechanism for Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks","authors":"Shifa'a Bani Hamad, O. Banimelhem","doi":"10.1109/ACIT57182.2022.9994214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACIT57182.2022.9994214","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the fact that Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are used in a variety of applications, the limited battery capacity of the sensor nodes is still considered the main challenge for WSN development. Recently, wireless power transfer technology (WPT), which uses a mobile charger (MC) to wirelessly charge the sensor nodes, has demonstrated a promising method for extending the lifetime of WSNs. Various wireless charging schemes have been proposed which are classified into two classes: periodic and on-demand. However, these two classes have a problem in which they don't take the variance in the consumption rates of sensor nodes into consideration. Moreover, we need to make sure that the sensor nodes don't run out of their power before the mobile charger reaches them. This paper proposes a new scheme for charging sensor nodes in WSNs where the time of recharging the sensor nodes is determined in prior according to some factors such as residual energy of the sensor nodes, energy consumption rate of the sensor nodes, and the distance between the sensor nodes and the MC. We call the proposed scheme a proactive charging. In the proposed scheme, the network area is divided virtually into hexagon cells. Then, based on the factors mentioned above, the MC identifies the appropriate cell to be visited for recharging the sensor nodes in that cell. Simulation results have shown that the proposed approach outperforms the on-demand First Come First Served (FCFS) scheme in terms of extending the network lifetime.","PeriodicalId":256713,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124324892","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":"Arabized Smart Applications and its Impact on Reducing Energy Consumption in the Residential Area","authors":"M. Arabasy, Areen Alquazu, Rehab Ghoneim","doi":"10.1109/ACIT57182.2022.9994100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACIT57182.2022.9994100","url":null,"abstract":"Smart applications go in parallel with technology and its development, and therefore it is accelerating at a high rate as it enters several areas, including smart home systems in the residential space. The importance of the research lies in raising awareness of the great role of smart technology in facilitating public life and in raising the efficiency and performance of users of the residential space and developing its contribution to saving the energy bill. The study problem lies in the lack of Arabized smart applications, thus increasing the fear of dealing with it and high initial cost. The research aims to introduce the importance of using smart applications and the ease of their application within the residential space, and to show their contribution to saving the energy bill during a certain period. The study adopted the mixed approach due to its compatibility with the nature of the study, the questionnaire tool used a simple random sample, where the sample size should not be less than 302 respondents with a confidence level of 90%, and the questionnaire was distributed electronically on the total study population. Interviews were conducted with a selected sample of smart systems business implementers to compare installation prices, and the invoices of a selected sample of those who used these systems before and after installation. The research results represented the negation of the first hypothesis of the research, and the proof of the second hypothesis that were statistically significant differences. A set of recommendations were presented at the conclusion of the study.","PeriodicalId":256713,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT)","volume":"273 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114481132","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}
Mohammad Aljaidi, N. Aslam, G. Samara, S. Almatarneh, Khaled E. Al-Qawasmi, Abdullah AlQammaz
{"title":"EV Charging Station Placement and Sizing Techniques: Survey, Challenges and Directions for Future Work","authors":"Mohammad Aljaidi, N. Aslam, G. Samara, S. Almatarneh, Khaled E. Al-Qawasmi, Abdullah AlQammaz","doi":"10.1109/ACIT57182.2022.9994128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACIT57182.2022.9994128","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the sustainable properties, technological innovation in electric batteries, as well as the low pollution, using electric vehicles (EVs) for transportation systems has attracted considerable attention. However, the spread of EVs and increased reliance on them instead of fuel cars are mainly depends on strategic placement of EV Charging Stations (CSs). Optimal placement of EVCS problem has been investigated from different perspectives in the literature. This review study focuses on viewing several recently presented techniques in the previous works from two different perspectives. Firstly, the parameters of the objective functions that were employed to solve the EVCSs problem, as well as the problem formulation and optimization models were utilized to handle the problem. In terms of the objective function, various parameters such as total energy loss and total cost, EV user behavior and preference, charging demand, as well as the environmental and geographical conditions have been considered. With regard to the formulation of the problem and optimization techniques were introduced in the literature, the manner in which the problem is formulated and the techniques that were used to solve the problem will be discussed in detail. At last we outline some future works in this area.","PeriodicalId":256713,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT)","volume":"122 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128194340","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":"A New Metaheuristic Approach Based Feature Selection for Arabic Text Categorization","authors":"M. Hadni, Hjiaj Hassane","doi":"10.1109/ACIT57182.2022.9994102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACIT57182.2022.9994102","url":null,"abstract":"With the increase in the number of electronic documents stored on various electronic media and the Web, mainly textual data, the development of tools for analysis and automatic processing of texts, particularly the automatic text categorization, has become essential. Most of the work done in this area has been devoted primarily to Western languages, especially English. Arabic, a morphologically rich and strongly inflected language, has little study. The number of features is a significant challenge in classifying Arabic documents, introducing difficulties at several levels, such as complexity and computation time. This paper proposes a new metaheuristic approach to dimensionality reduction, aiming to find a representation of the initial data in a smaller space. The model is validated using classifiers, namely NB, SVM and KNN and three evaluation measures, including precision, recall, and F -measure. The proposed method achieves a precision value equal to 98%.","PeriodicalId":256713,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129132854","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}