{"title":"Multimodal biometric scheme for e-assessment","authors":"S. O. Ojo, T. Zuva, S. Ngwira","doi":"10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374149","url":null,"abstract":"Problems of impersonation and other malpractices of various degrees have continued to mar the electronic-assessment (eassessment) of students at various levels. The use of traditional methods of password and token passing for identity management and control has failed to provide acceptable solution to these problems, due to their susceptibility to theft and various forms of violations. The failure of these and other methods in identity management has propelled the emergence of different biometricbased systems as solutions. The biometric systems use naturally endowed traits which include fingerprint, face, iris, voice, etc. for more reliable human identification and authentication. This paper proposes a multimodal biometric scheme for e-assessment aimed at reducing the time spent when performing biometric authentication. Results obtained indicate that by combining the fingerprint and facial biometric modes in a multimodal biometric scheme, the amount of time required to authenticate a learner in an eassessment can be reduced.","PeriodicalId":300052,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133573460","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":"QoS-aware single service selection mechanism for ad-hoc mobile cloud computing","authors":"A. T. Akinola, M. Adigun, A. Akingbesote","doi":"10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374164","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile technology has made notable progress over the past few years, this is due to the development of new handheld devices, improved wide area cellular coverage and seamless integration of wireless data access into mobile devices. These recent advances in wireless internet technologies have given birth to the Mobile Cloud Computing paradigm. However, intermittent internet disconnection and others lead to the evolution of ad-hoc mobile cloud where mobile devices exposes their computing resources and residence services to other devices. One challenge in the ad-hoc mobile cloud is that of service selection especially in a virtualized ad hoc mobile environment. This is because the best service to be selected might have left after discovery as a result of the dynamic nature of the ad hoc mobile system. To resolve this challenge, we propose a single service selection mechanism where the instances or images pertaining to the information of community members are stored temporarily on centralized virtual node. When a selection is to be done, these images are searched instead of searching individual node. A multi-criteria decision is proposed as our solution approach. Experiment is conducted using Execution time as the QoS parameter. Evaluation and analysis are carried out. We first recorded an increase in execution time as the number of services increases. But at a certain period, the execution time increment is not well noticeable or proportional to service increment. This is attributed to the service images that are already in the virtual leading server thereby reducing the execution time.","PeriodicalId":300052,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131811949","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":"Using a location-based mobile application to locate a traditional health practitioner in South Africa","authors":"M. K. Johannes, T. H. Robert","doi":"10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374181","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile technology has permeated many industries, including the health industry. Different applications are used for various things in the health industry, from checking blood pressure to monitoring patients' health remotely. Following a legislation which was passed in South Africa to recognize traditional health practitioners as practicing doctors many bogus traditional health practitioners have emerged and are robbing unsuspecting patients their money. To curb this problem the South African government established a traditional health council whose mandate is to ensure that all legally practicing health practitioners register with it. However, prospective patients still find it difficult to locate these registered health practitioners. This paper proposes and presents a location-based mobile application to enable prospective patients to search for the nearest traditional health practitioner anytime and anywhere.","PeriodicalId":300052,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133761843","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}
Rajeshree Ramjug-Ballgobin, S. Sayed Hassen, S. Veerapen
{"title":"Load frequency control of a nonlinear two-area power system","authors":"Rajeshree Ramjug-Ballgobin, S. Sayed Hassen, S. Veerapen","doi":"10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374172","url":null,"abstract":"In an interconnected power system, all the generators must run at an appropriate capacity to meet the demand in power. Loss of synchronism between the generators and/or too much frequency fluctuations may cause protective equipment to trip. Load frequency control (LFC) is necessary to balance the power generation and the load, by monitoring frequency and power changes between interconnected power systems in tie-lines. In this paper, power systems from previous research works are analysed for stability, and different types of controllers are designed and validated through simulation and compared with a Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) - controlled power system. Three types of controllers are considered, namely Fuzzy, Fuzzy-PID and Adaptive NeuroFuzzy controllers. The first power system considered is a linear identical non-reheat two-area system. However, a linear system does not model an actual power system completely because of neglected nonlinearities. Hence, two main sources of nonlinearity (generation rate constraint (GRC) and governor dead band (GDB)), which arise due to practical constraints are considered and included in the model of the system.","PeriodicalId":300052,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129357687","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":"Classification performance analysis of MNIST Dataset utilizing a Multi-resolution Technique","authors":"R. Mohapatra, B. Majhi, S. K. Jena","doi":"10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374136","url":null,"abstract":"Here, we propose a method for recognition of handwritten English digit utilizing discrete cosine space-frequency transform known as the Discrete Cosine S-Transform (DCST). Experiments have been conducted on the publicly availabe standard MNIST handwritten digit database. The DCST features along with an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) classifier is utilized for solving the classification issues of written by hand digit. The Discrete Cosine S-Transform coefficients are extracted from the standard images of MNIST handwritten isolated digit database. The database consists of a total of 70000 including 60000 training samples and 10000 test samples. To overcome the computational overhead, we have normalized all the images of the MNIST dataset from 28 × 28 to 20 × 20 image size by eliminating the unsought boundary pixels up to width four. Further, the classification of digits has been made by using a back propagation neural network (BPNN). This work has achieved precisely 98.8% of success rate for MNIST database.","PeriodicalId":300052,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130026396","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":"Designing of Licensed Number Plate Recognition system using hybrid technique from neural network & template matching","authors":"B. Kumar, Mohit Bansal, P. Verma","doi":"10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374170","url":null,"abstract":"License Plate Recognition (LPR) is an automatic system which is able to recognize a license number plate. It is an effective monitoring method that uses optical character recognition (OCR) on images to read vehicle number plates. Genetic neural network used such type of system for developing many challenges. The system used in highway computerized toll aggregation and surveilling the movements of road traffic. Licensed Number Plate Recognition System is very important component of Intelligent Transportation System. Using morphological & connected component element the image of car number plate has been extraction to show the character segmentation and at last each individual character is matched with neural data base and that vehicle has been recognized. Feed forward Back-propagation neural network (FFBPNN) is selected as most powerful tool to perform the recognition process. The main focus in this paper on three module: license plate location (LPL), characters segmentation and characters recognition using neural network. The research work begins by the Pre-processing, extraction of an image, connected component element of an image and finally recognition of image by the feed forward Back Propagation Neural Network.","PeriodicalId":300052,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124526384","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 integrated model for ICT Governance and Management applied to the Council for Evaluation, Accreditation and Quality Assurance of Higher Education Institutions in Ecuador (CEAACES)","authors":"Carlos Montenegro, Denys A. Flores","doi":"10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374158","url":null,"abstract":"As an effect of the modernization policy in the administrative processes inside the Ecuadorean Central Government, the usage of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has increased during the last years within more than 300 of the most important and high-ranked public institutions. Likewise, the citizen access to Internet and eGovernment services has grown due to the democratization of the governmental ICT platform to ensure access to the most important public services, including those offered by Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). However, the applicable regulatory and legal framework in the public sector has very little compliance with governance and management considerations. Our work develops a combined model for ICT governance and management based on academic models for governance and strategic alignment, aided by professional practices in the field, fully compliant with the regulatory mechanisms that operate within the Central Government of Ecuador. Also, our work analyzes the results, limitations and future work regarding the applicability of this model inside the Council for Evaluation, Accreditation and Quality Assurance of Higher Education Institutions (CEAACES) in order to support the process of continuous improvement of public higher education in Ecuador.","PeriodicalId":300052,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS)","volume":"13 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120814334","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":"Experiential analysis of the effectiveness of Buck and Boost DC-DC converters in a basic off grid PV system","authors":"A. Osamede, R. Schoeman, H. Pienaar","doi":"10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374123","url":null,"abstract":"The major renewable energy potential on earth is provided from solar radiation and solar photovoltaics (PV) are considered a promising technological solution to support the global transformation to a low-carbon economy and reduce dependence on fossil fuels. The aim of this paper is to carry out an experiential analysis of the effectiveness of power conditioning devices with a focus on the Buck and Boost DC-DC converters (12 V, 24 V and 48 V) in a basic off grid PV system with a fixed load profile. Improper choice of power conditioning device in a basic off-grid PV system can attribute to power loss, hence the need for a right choice of power conditioning device to be coupled with the system of the essence. This would assist in harnessing more of the available solar energy. The practical setup consists of a PV panel that is set to an orientation angle of 0o N, with a corresponding tilt angle of 36o, 26o and 16o. Preliminary results, which include data analysis showing the power loss in the system and efficiency, indicate that the 12V DC-DC converter coupled with the load profile had the highest efficiency for a latitude of 26o S throughout the year.","PeriodicalId":300052,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS)","volume":"194 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115010243","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}
Shohreh Hosseinzadeh, Sampsa Rauti, S. Hyrynsalmi, V. Leppänen
{"title":"Security in the Internet of Things through obfuscation and diversification","authors":"Shohreh Hosseinzadeh, Sampsa Rauti, S. Hyrynsalmi, V. Leppänen","doi":"10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374189","url":null,"abstract":"Internet of Things (IoT) is composed of heterogeneous embedded and wearable sensors and devices that collect and share information over the Internet. This may contain private information of the users. Thus, securing the information and preserving the privacy of the users are of paramount importance. In this paper we look into the possibility of applying the two techniques, obfuscation and diversification, in IoT. Diversification and obfuscation techniques are two outstanding security techniques used for proactively protecting the software and code. We propose obfuscating and diversifying the operating systems and APIs on the IoT devices, and also some communication protocols enabling the external use of IoT devices. We believe that the proposed ideas mitigate the risk of unknown zero-day attacks, large-scale attacks, and also the targeted attacks.","PeriodicalId":300052,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116164970","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":"Fusion of local and global features for face recognition","authors":"N. Boodoo-Jahangeer, S. Baichoo","doi":"10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCCS.2015.7374191","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, there have been lots of research developments done in face recognition systems. Face recognition systems are widely used for access control, border control, surveillance and in law enforcement. Among other biometrics, it is the most natural and acceptable way of identifying an individual. Face recognition system does not require physical interaction with the user. Research is still being done intensively to produce systems that can cater for several challenges such as changes in pose, illumination, occlusion and low resolution images. Algorithms reported in literature use either global feature extraction or local feature extraction. In this work, a different technique is proposed that combines both global and local approaches for face recognition. The Principal Components Analysis (PCA) and Local Binary Patterns (LBP) have been employed. Face recognition yields a recognition rate of 90 % with PCA and 92 % with LBP. However, results show an improvement in recognition rate to 95 % when both approaches are fused.","PeriodicalId":300052,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125785157","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}