{"title":"Utilization of Robotics During the Covid-19 Pandemic","authors":"N. Mirza, Adnan Ali","doi":"10.1109/acit53391.2021.9677152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/acit53391.2021.9677152","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is mainly about the evolving role of robotics in all domains of lives especially during the last year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic. It mainly focuses on the study that how various intelligent devices stayed involved during the fight the whole world went through. It is intended from the current research to emphasize more on the production and availability of such kinds of devices for the near and distant future.","PeriodicalId":302120,"journal":{"name":"2021 22nd International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128733375","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}
Khalid Mansour, Mohammed Al-Sadeeg Al-Hussban, Yaseen Y. Al-Husban, Yaser A. Al-Lahham
{"title":"Prediction of Electrical Power Consumption in Jordan","authors":"Khalid Mansour, Mohammed Al-Sadeeg Al-Hussban, Yaseen Y. Al-Husban, Yaser A. Al-Lahham","doi":"10.1109/acit53391.2021.9677382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/acit53391.2021.9677382","url":null,"abstract":"Modeling and predicting electricity power consumption is a crucial task in managing energy performance in present and future. For successful planning, it is important for decision-makers to have a precise idea about the needed electrical power in any period of time in the future. This paper tackles this task of predicting future power consumption in Jordan using a number of machine learning algorithms. Neural network, support vector machine (SVM), and random forest are used to build our prediction models. Two datasets are use: one small and another large. The results show that the random forest performed best when trained on the large data with and without data normalization. After normalizing the data, the performance of the neural networks becomes similar to that of random forest. The performance of the support vector machine was high before and after normalizing the data. Regarding the small dataset and before normalizing the data, the performance of the random forest was better than the other two algorithms. However, after normalizing the data, the neural network performed the best and the random forest comes next. Finally, in terms of feature importance, the experimental results show that the price feature was the most important feature in the large dataset. The price and the renewal energy projects were the most important features in the small dataset.","PeriodicalId":302120,"journal":{"name":"2021 22nd International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128955902","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":"Ascendant Hierarchical Clustering for Instance Matching","authors":"S. Amrouch, S. Mostefai","doi":"10.1109/acit53391.2021.9677377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/acit53391.2021.9677377","url":null,"abstract":"With the rapid advancement of semantic web, especially of the web of data, a growing number of independently designed and structured datasets represented by ontologies, are built and need to be integrated in the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud. In this context, instance matching is presented as a fundamental solution for ontological data sharing and integration. It aims to link co-referent instances (instances that refer to the same real world objects) from various datasets to allow them to complement each other. Traditional systems depend a lot on the quality of schema-level mappings and especially on property mappings, which are not always obvious for the LOD paradigm. In this paper, we propose a schema-free instance matching approach that is independent from property matching results. We transform the instance matching problem into a clustering problem and we solve it by Ascendant Hierarchical Clustering algorithm. Furthermore, we employ some structural information to filter-out obtained results and eliminate wrong mappings. We evaluate our approach on instance matching track from Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI) benchmark. The experiments show that our approach gets prominent results compared to several participating systems in OAEI’2019 and OAEI’2020.","PeriodicalId":302120,"journal":{"name":"2021 22nd International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132435874","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":"Investigating the Challenges Facing Composable/ Disaggregated Infrastructure Implementation: A Literature Review","authors":"Abir S. Al-Harrasi, Saqib Ali","doi":"10.1109/acit53391.2021.9677094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/acit53391.2021.9677094","url":null,"abstract":"There has been an exponential growth of IT technologies in the past few decades. Many technologies target the improvement of IT infrastructure as it plays a primary concern of any IT management. Composable / Disaggregated Infrastructure (CDI) is one of the newest technologies introducing a new concept to manage the IT infrastructure. However, many challenges arise at the beginning stages of any technology life cycle. Hence, this study aims to investigate the challenges involved in migrating or implementing CDI for an oil and gas organization in Oman. To achieve this aim, the research employs a systematic literature review for the studies conducted by academics and industrial institutions. To link the results with an existing organization, an interview was conducted with an IT governance expert from a leading oil and gas organization in Oman. This study provides a holistic view of the highlighted challenges faced with CDI technology. The results highlighted five main challenges, which are controlling end-to-end latency, supporting higher bandwidth and bandwidth density, scaling of the network, orchestration of resources, and power consumption. Key challenges such as end-to-end latency, supporting higher bandwidth, and density can be addressed by using Silicon Photonic (SiP) transceivers. For the oil and gas sector, if the large-sized organizations decide to proceed with CDI migration or implementation, the organizations are prone to face two main challenges: scaling the network and orchestrating resources, thus these challenges still need to be addressed.","PeriodicalId":302120,"journal":{"name":"2021 22nd International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123804836","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}
Fatime Al-Zahra, S. Mounir, Lamees Mohammad Dalbah, R. A. Zitar
{"title":"Machine Learning Approach for the Design of an Assessment Outcomes Recommendation System","authors":"Fatime Al-Zahra, S. Mounir, Lamees Mohammad Dalbah, R. A. Zitar","doi":"10.1109/acit53391.2021.9677281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/acit53391.2021.9677281","url":null,"abstract":"It is believed that the evaluation of the outcomes of the course, based on grades, is necessary to improve the teaching and learning process. Our research processes and workflows supported by AI utilize machine learning technology in order to interpret big data, analyze broad data sets and recognize associations with more reliably. The course learning outcomes will be assessed on the basis of QF-Emirates guidelines and use it to suggest teaching and learning measures. It will be used to determine courses learning results based on the empirical knowledge presented. We research and test the design of the right neural networks that achieves our goal. A modern algorithm was improvised for this reason. For our proposed recommendation system, a database program was created to store data and include details in the analysis of course learning outcomes. As a machine-learning system, the proposed approach is tested and results are competitive.","PeriodicalId":302120,"journal":{"name":"2021 22nd International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132701235","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":"[1] Energy consumption clustering using machine learning: K-means approach","authors":"Aghyad Al Skaif, M. Ayache, H. Kanaan","doi":"10.1109/acit53391.2021.9677130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/acit53391.2021.9677130","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, the accurate analysis of energy consumption has become vital for the development of efficient energy projects as well as, for demonstrating the consumptive behavior of the energy consumers in the system. The importance of this analysis comes from many reasons, one of them is that it leads to a better understanding of the system components. This paper presents a clustering algorithm for residential energy consumption using the K-Means algorithm in two different approaches. The dataset utilized in this article contains energy consumption features selected from 25 houses over a period of two years. Firstly, data cleaning has been used to remove and eliminate the inconsistent data, secondly the Elbow method has been applied to determine the optimal number of clusters before using the K-means approach for the purpose of clustering. In K-means, the data have been clustered into two different approaches. The first one is clustering the daily mean consumption in each season in each year. The second one is clustering the monthly mean consumption over the two years. Finally, data visualization has been applied in order to present the result of our proposed method. The paper finds that the households have different consumption behaviors in different seasons, days, and months and that it is due to the change of the average temperature in each season as well as the different appliances and consumptive patters of each house. The results are representative and match the aim of the paper. Further, they are significant for the further development of the energy system and efficient for tracking the consumption of the houses. Finally, the results of this paper are going to be used after running the algorithm again with a different number of clusters to compare the results and find new insights in the data that might affect the decision.","PeriodicalId":302120,"journal":{"name":"2021 22nd International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131824971","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":"Model based Approach for Automotive Embedded Systems","authors":"A. Shaout, Shanmukha Pattela","doi":"10.1109/acit53391.2021.9677298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/acit53391.2021.9677298","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the use of Model based Development to accelerate development process of embedded control systems and technologies and tools used to support model-based development (MBD) from functional requirements to automated testing and Model based testing process. In past few decades automotive embedded systems are transformed from an electrical mechanical engineering discipline to a combination of software and electrical/ mechanical engineering. This evolution establishes software as a crucial technology. Growth of embedded software has led to more complex systems with multiple electronic control units of different characteristics in today’s vehicle. As a result, automotive industry focuses on a new trend Model based development rather than traditional method where software is handwritten in Assembly code or C language. However, quality assurance is important factor throughout the development process and testing is a key element for quality assurance.","PeriodicalId":302120,"journal":{"name":"2021 22nd International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133792342","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}
Irshad Hussain, G. Samara, Ibrar Ullah, Naeem Khan
{"title":"Encryption for End-User Privacy: A Cyber-Secure Smart Energy Management System","authors":"Irshad Hussain, G. Samara, Ibrar Ullah, Naeem Khan","doi":"10.1109/acit53391.2021.9677341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/acit53391.2021.9677341","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most significant benefits of the smart grid is the capacity to monitor, manage, and anticipate energy use. While the smart grid has many advantages, it also has some drawbacks, including concerns about customer privacy. Information about a customer's habits and activities, such as which electrical equipment they are using or whether they are at home or not, can be gleaned from the ability to track their energy use. Homomorphic encryption is used to preserve the privacy of customers in this article. Customers' personal information is protected using homomorphic encryption, which allows the energy supplier to execute actions on the data even if it is encrypted. These approaches are being tested on Raspberry Pi’s in addition to the work done previously to see whether they can be applied to devices with less processing power.","PeriodicalId":302120,"journal":{"name":"2021 22nd International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124774533","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":"Redefining Knowledge Management in the Era of COVID-19: A Concept Analysis Approach in the Context of Higher Education","authors":"Ahmad Ghandour","doi":"10.1109/acit53391.2021.9677262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/acit53391.2021.9677262","url":null,"abstract":"Higher education institutions are frequently using knowledge management to achieve their mission. Due to COVID-19, education has moved to online, this has led to an increasing need for knowledge management and thus put under scrutiny to obtain the best results. However, successful knowledge management requires definition as the first step. Knowledge Management is a complex and multi-dimensional concept making its definition hard to craft. The lack of well-defined universally accepted definition is a problem associated with KM is due to the diversity of areas it exists in, lack of consensus and others. In this paper, an objective concept analysis was undertaken to examine the attributes, characteristics and uses of KM for the purpose of defining KM in the higher educational institution. Therefore, this paper aims at deriving a definition of the term knowledge management with the help of concept analysis which is a recognized method for the terminological studies. The study concluded with a definition based on the results of the analysis","PeriodicalId":302120,"journal":{"name":"2021 22nd International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123573011","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":"Stability and Accuracy of Feature Selection Methods on Datasets of Varying Data Complexity","authors":"Omaimah Al Hosni, A. Starkey","doi":"10.1109/acit53391.2021.9677329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/acit53391.2021.9677329","url":null,"abstract":"One widespread criterion used to evaluate feature selection techniques is the classifier performance of the selected features. Another criterion that has recently drawn attention in the feature selection community is the stability of feature selection techniques. Our study indicates that using feature selection techniques with different data characteristics may generate different subsets of features under variations to the training data. Our study motivation is that there are significant contributions in the research community from examining the effect of complex data characteristics such as class overlap on classification algorithms performance; however, relatively few studies have investigated the stability and the accuracy of feature selection methods with complex data characteristics. Accordingly, this study aims to conduct empirical study to measure the interactive effects of the class overlap with different data characteristics so we will provide meaningful insights into the root causes for feature selection methods misdiagnosing the relevant features among different data challenges associated with real world data in which will guide the practitioners and researchers to choose the correct feature selection methods that are more appropriate for particular dataset. Also, in this study we will provide a survey on the current state of research in the feature selection stability context.","PeriodicalId":302120,"journal":{"name":"2021 22nd International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT)","volume":"173 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113980523","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}