Hisham Elmoaqet, Zakaria Almuwaqat, Mutaz Ryalat, N. Almtireen
{"title":"A new algorithm for short term prediction of persistent atrial fibrillation","authors":"Hisham Elmoaqet, Zakaria Almuwaqat, Mutaz Ryalat, N. Almtireen","doi":"10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257740","url":null,"abstract":"Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmias which affects more than 2 million US adults. Paroxysmal AF is characterized by recurrent AF episodes that stop on their own in less than 7 days. If the AF episodes last for more than 7 days, it is unlikely that they will stop on their own, and they are then known as persistent AF episodes which necessitates treatment with pharmacological or electrical cardioversion. This paper develops a new algorithm for short term prediction of persistent AF episodes. The proposed data-driven model is optimized with respect to predictions of persistent atrial fibrillation using weighted support vector machines and cost-sensitive learning. The proposed prediction model can be further personalized to assist clinicians to deliver proactive treatment therapies that can prevent persistent AF episodes from occurrence.","PeriodicalId":286127,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT)","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127966878","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":"UWB antenna based on ground modifications","authors":"N. Awad, M. K. Abdelazeez, Ahmad Al. Sharif","doi":"10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257744","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a patch antenna with ultra wide bandwidth (UWB). The antenna consists of rectangular patch fed by a 50 Ω microstrip feed line and partial ground plane with three modifications; two rectangular sleeves, one rectangular grove and two rectangular slots. The characteristics of this antenna are investigated using high frequency structure simulator (HFSS). The proposed design achieved bandwidth with return loss RL > 10 dB is 19 GHz (3.4–22.4) GHz. Promising peak gain with good impedance matching and omni-directional radiation pattern are obtained.","PeriodicalId":286127,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115335287","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}
Hiam Alquran, I. Qasmieh, Ali Mohammad Alqudah, Sajidah Alhammouri, Esra'a Alawneh, A. Abughazaleh, Firas Hasayen
{"title":"The melanoma skin cancer detection and classification using support vector machine","authors":"Hiam Alquran, I. Qasmieh, Ali Mohammad Alqudah, Sajidah Alhammouri, Esra'a Alawneh, A. Abughazaleh, Firas Hasayen","doi":"10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257738","url":null,"abstract":"Melanoma skin cancer detection at an early stage is crucial for an efficient treatment. Recently, it is well known that, the most dangerous form of skin cancer among the other types of skin cancer is melanoma because it's much more likely to spread to other parts of the body if not diagnosed and treated early. The non-invasive medical computer vision or medical image processing plays increasingly significant role in clinical diagnosis of different diseases. Such techniques provide an automatic image analysis tool for an accurate and fast evaluation of the lesion. The steps involved in this study are collecting dermoscopy image database, preprocessing, segmentation using thresholding, statistical feature extraction using Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM), Asymmetry, Border, Color, Diameter, (ABCD) etc., feature selection using Principal component analysis (PCA), calculating total Dermoscopy Score and then classification using Support Vector Machine (SVM). The results show that the achieved classification accuracy is 92.1%.","PeriodicalId":286127,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125493184","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":"System identification for a liquid flow process","authors":"W. Araydah, T. Tutunji, I. Al-Naimi","doi":"10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257756","url":null,"abstract":"Fluid process systems are usually difficult to model because they contain certain nonlinearities and have difficulties to measure several parameters. Therefore, experimental modeling, using measured data, is an appropriate modeling technique for such systems. In this paper, a mathematical model for a FESTO Process Workstation is developed using system identification procedures to formulate the transfer function between the pump voltage and the output flowrate. Input and output data sets are collected from the physical plant, using PC interface with FESTO FluidLAb PA software package. System Identification (SysID) Toolbox in MATLAB is used to formulate several structure models, with different orders, to capture the system's dynamic behavior. The models are tested, validated, and compared using several data sets. The best fit model is selected to represent the liquid process system.","PeriodicalId":286127,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT)","volume":"2016 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121660131","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}
Hana Shamatah, Salima Azouz, A. Khalil, Zakariya Rajab
{"title":"The potential of the rooftop grid-connected PV systems in Benghazi","authors":"Hana Shamatah, Salima Azouz, A. Khalil, Zakariya Rajab","doi":"10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257778","url":null,"abstract":"The ever growing energy demands and the negative environmental impacts associated with the global warming have pushed the policy makers toward adopting renewable energy sources. Libya is one of the countries that recently struggles to satisfy its energy demand, although, the country has a high potential for solar energy. In this paper, we investigate the technical and economic feasibility of rooftop grid-connected PV systems in Libya. Benghazi, the second largest city in Libya has been selected for the case study. The total rooftop area for Benghazi has been estimated using the manual selection method. The rooftops in Benghazi are very suitable for PV installation. From the estimated area the expected PV electricity production is calculated. A feasibility study for grid-connected PV system is carried out. The rooftop grid-connected PV in Benghazi can generate 3.63 TWh which is around 10% of the Libyan electricity demands. This study can be used for the decision makers as an initial assessment for future grid-connected PV systems installation.","PeriodicalId":286127,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT)","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124252767","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}
Asma Alfergani, A. Khalil, Zakariya Rajab, Mohammad Zuheir, A. Asheibi, Sheroz Khan, E. Aboadla, Khairil Azhar Bin Azna, Majdee Tohtayong
{"title":"Control of master-slave microgrid based on CAN bus","authors":"Asma Alfergani, A. Khalil, Zakariya Rajab, Mohammad Zuheir, A. Asheibi, Sheroz Khan, E. Aboadla, Khairil Azhar Bin Azna, Majdee Tohtayong","doi":"10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257775","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the control of parallel voltage-source inverters Microgrid based on Controller Area Network (CAN) is introduced. The design is based on the maximum time delay that guarantees the stability where the system is composed of three-phase DC/AC inverters with master-slave control strategy in the rotational reference frame (dq frame). The reference current signals are sent from the master to the slave converters through Controller Area Network bus (CAN bus). A model for masterslave communication-based Microgrid is presented and the system is modeled as a general time delay system. The maximum time delay that guarantees the stability of the system is calculated using a Lyapunov-Krasovskii based linear matrix inequalities method. The results are tested through Matlab/Simulink and True-Time 2.0 simulation.","PeriodicalId":286127,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132472431","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":"Estimating the elevator traffic system arrival rate using exponentially weighted moving average(EWMA)","authors":"Ahmad Hammoudeh, L. Al-Sharif","doi":"10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257757","url":null,"abstract":"The passenger arrival rate is a fundamental term in quantifying the demand in elevator traffic system. The peak value of the arrival rate is the basis for determining the number and the specification of the required elevators. The ability to estimate the elevator passenger arrival rate in real time enhances the controller's decisions such as selecting the suitable number of sectors and switching between algorithms suitable for different traffic modes (e.g., incoming, outgoing, inter-floor). This paper discusses the use of exponentially weighted moving average to estimate the arrival rate of passengers in real time. It also studies the optimum value for the smoothing constant that minimizes the sum of the square of the deviations of the estimated arrival rate from the actual arrival rate. It is shown that the exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) provides a better estimate of the arrival rate than the simple moving average (SMA). The arrival rate estimation using EWMA was also applied to real life passenger arrival data for two buildings.","PeriodicalId":286127,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128608148","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}
Wadi' Hijawi, Hossam Faris, Ja'far Alqatawna, Ala’ M. Al-Zoubi, Ibrahim Aljarah
{"title":"Improving email spam detection using content based feature engineering approach","authors":"Wadi' Hijawi, Hossam Faris, Ja'far Alqatawna, Ala’ M. Al-Zoubi, Ibrahim Aljarah","doi":"10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257764","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, a wide range of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms have been proposed for building email spam detection models. However, the performance of ML methods highly depends on the extracted features. In this paper, we discuss the most influencing spam features reported in the literature. We also describe the development and implementation of an open source tool that provides a flexible way to extract a large number of features from any email corpus to produce cleansed dataset which can be used to train and test various classification algorithms. A total of 140 features are extracted from SpamAssassin email corpus using the developed tool. Extracted features are used to evaluate four popular ML classifiers and a better results are achieved in comparison with the results of a similar previous study.","PeriodicalId":286127,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126626409","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":"Optimal cost-based model for sizing grid-connected PV and battery energy system","authors":"Yara Khawaja, D. Giaouris, H. Patsios, M. Dahidah","doi":"10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257779","url":null,"abstract":"Photovoltaic-battery energy systems (PV-BESs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative energy solution for electricity consumers. Due to the high level of unpredictability and intermittency associated with solar energy, the optimal sizing and intermittency mitigation of PV-BESs is necessary while integrating them into the grid. This paper presents a technical and economical model for the optimal sizing of a grid-connected PV-BES system for different battery technologies. An iterative analytical approach is utilized to determine the battery capacity, generate multiple combinations of PV-BES over a defined range of PV rated power, and apply a proper energy management strategy to control the energy flow through the system. This is followed by an economic model to calculate the system levelized cost of energy (LCOE) for all possible PV-BES sizes. The optimal PV size and best BES coupled with the PV system is chosen depending on the minimum LCOE. In this context, an improved formula of LCOE is proposed which includes new parameters reflecting the impact of surplus PV output and the energy purchased from the grid. Additionally, the proposed model uses the levelized cost of delivery (LCOD) for BES and compares it with system LCOE. Data over one year of hourly solar irradiation, temperature and load demand are used for system sizing. The results show that the minimum system LCOE is observed when the PV rated power is 710 KW, and the most suitable BES in conjunction with the PV system is redox flow battery with 1 MWh capacity. A cost reduction of 18% obtained compared to the grid electricity price. Moreover, the proposed model allows 75% of self-consumed energy by the PV-BES compared to 48% when using the PV system alone.","PeriodicalId":286127,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT)","volume":"147 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123741621","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}
T. Olasupo, Abdulaziz S. Alsayyari, C. Otero, Kehinde O. Olasupo, I. Kostanic
{"title":"Empirical path loss models for low power wireless sensor nodes deployed on the ground in different terrains","authors":"T. Olasupo, Abdulaziz S. Alsayyari, C. Otero, Kehinde O. Olasupo, I. Kostanic","doi":"10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEECT.2017.8257747","url":null,"abstract":"Sensor nodes deployed In some applications to obtain Information drop to the ground. For these sensor nodes that are on the ground to adequately relay the gathered information to processing center will require accurate propagation model. A comprehensive search of the literature reveals the need for accurate propagation models to support reliable deployments of wireless sensor networks (WSN) in such deployment conditions. This information is essential to support the deployment of large-scale networks as part of the vision of Internet of Things (IoT) systems and mission-critical services. This research provides empirical path loss models for low power wireless sensors deployed on the ground in eight different terrains. The study compares the proposed models with theoretical models to demonstrate their inadequacy in predicting path loss between sensor nodes deployed in these environments. Results show that theoretical models deviate from proposed models by 15 to 49 %. Finally, results also show that models established at low packet error rate and high signal-to-noise ratio are more reliable than those formed without considering these parameters. The provided models, as well as the measured data, can be used for proficient design and deployment of large-scale networks that enable IoT in various similar environments.","PeriodicalId":286127,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT)","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116569406","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}