Karim Fathallah, Mohamed Amine Abid, N. Hadj-Alouane
{"title":"A Combined IoT-Enabled SensorDB and Spatial Query Framework for Smart Farming","authors":"Karim Fathallah, Mohamed Amine Abid, N. Hadj-Alouane","doi":"10.1109/AICCSA53542.2021.9686900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AICCSA53542.2021.9686900","url":null,"abstract":"Smart farming is an emerging concept that appeared in the context of agriculture 4.0. It aims at providing the agricultural industry with the infrastructure to leverage advanced technology including the internet of things (IoT) in building Digital Farms. To face the expanding global population and the increasing demand for crop yield, food production needs to reach higher levels of automation and efficiency, and thus the need for tracking, monitoring, automating, and analyzing operations. A wireless sensor network (WSN), and through an adequate IoT application, collects environmental and soil data of a monitored field to help make informed decisions. The nature and frequency of collected data may change throughout the agricultural season or due to a change in agricultural activities. Such changes require reprogramming all the sensor nodes unless the WSN is modeled as a distributed database referred to as SensorDB. The data collection is then reduced to a simple declarative request, in an SQL-like language, formulated by the user to specify the sensory measure of interest, the measurement frequency, and the required execution time, etc. In this research paper, we present QLowPAN, an IoT-enabled SensorDB coupled with a spatial query system that further helps the execution of in-network operations. A performance evaluation of QLowPAN, in the context of a smart farming application to fight against the Late blight potato epidemic pest, shows performance gains in terms of energy consumption, reaching up to 400% on average, when compared to a standard basic approach.","PeriodicalId":423896,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE/ACS 18th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA)","volume":"410 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126689678","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":"The importance of signal pre-processing for machine learning: The influence of Data scaling in a driver identity classification","authors":"Najmeddine abdennour, T. Ouni, N. B. Amor","doi":"10.1109/AICCSA53542.2021.9686756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AICCSA53542.2021.9686756","url":null,"abstract":"Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) algorithms have overtaken the attention of the scientific community for their important capabilities and their over the top results. However, the excessive focus on hyperparameters and the model’s architectures made the pre-processing step often neglected. In spite of its importance, it represented a weak point for most of the machine learning applications as well as a blind spot in many research studies. In this paper, we will demonstrate through a CAN-Bus vehicle data-based driver identification case study, the importance of testing the use of different methods of data scaling and normalization while demonstrating their role in improving the performance of several Machine Learning algorithms.","PeriodicalId":423896,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE/ACS 18th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125990451","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":"Success Factors for Market Entry of Mobile Health Startups","authors":"T. Lux, Yannik Kempf","doi":"10.1109/AICCSA53542.2021.9686849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AICCSA53542.2021.9686849","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile health, or mHealth for short, is considered a trend and growth market in healthcare. Start-ups are increasingly entering the market with innovative applications in a narrow medical context. However, the German healthcare market is very complex in terms of its structure and regulatory requirements, which makes the transfer of innovations difficult. As a result, only a small amount of applications actually manages to successfully enter and establish themselves in the healthcare market in the long term.The aim of this study is to identify factors for successful market entry. Success factors for start-ups and innovations in other industries also apply to the mHealth sector, however, success factors for the healthcare market need to be specified in terms of content. The result is the identification of relevant success factors.","PeriodicalId":423896,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE/ACS 18th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA)","volume":"137 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121708434","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 Model for Computing Temporal Eligibility Criteria on Large and Diverse Data Repositories","authors":"A. Taweel, E. Lamine, R. Bache","doi":"10.1109/AICCSA53542.2021.9686822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AICCSA53542.2021.9686822","url":null,"abstract":"There have been numerous attempts to build query generators that compute eligibility criteria (EC) for a clinical trial automatically on repositories of patient data. However, one of the challenging key features of EC is the ability to express and compute complex temporal aspects. Existing EC generators has limited temporal capability and those do rely on underlying database technology to perform temporal reasoning. We propose a model that incorporates temporal features of existing generators. However, it separates the computation of the criteria, and in particular the temporal semantics, from the extraction of clinical data from the database to increase the efficiency of execution. We explain the implementation of this model and in particular its temporal algorithm, which runs in O(n log(n)) time where n is the number of clinical facts stored making it more efficient than existing reported generators, where performance, at best, has been reported to be O(n2). We perform an empirical validation to demonstrate the results.","PeriodicalId":423896,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE/ACS 18th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134554665","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}
Diana Haidar, Nora Hérault, Abdel-Rahman H. Tawil, Nigel Sharratt, K. Vlachos, Edlira Vakaj
{"title":"Health and Well-being Impact of Coronavirus: A Case study of West Midlands vs England","authors":"Diana Haidar, Nora Hérault, Abdel-Rahman H. Tawil, Nigel Sharratt, K. Vlachos, Edlira Vakaj","doi":"10.1109/AICCSA53542.2021.9686891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AICCSA53542.2021.9686891","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic represents a global public health emergency that is becoming an economic crisis, a social crisis and a well-being crisis. Countries around the world have taken unprecedented precautionary measures against COVID-19 to control the spread of the disease and to ensure the well-being of their people. This study investigates the health and well-being impact of COVID-19 based on a case study of West Midlands - a region having several big local authorities including Birmingham, the second biggest UK city - compared to England. The data used in this study are open data from the Office for National Statistics 1. In collaboration with Birmingham City Council and using data analysis techniques and Business Intelligence tools and strategies we demonstrate how to convert raw survey data into actionable and coherent information. The output from our research can be used by local governments to better understand the impact of the Coronavirus and ensued lock-downs on the health and well-being of West Midlands citizens with the aim to support decision making and to direct the provisioning of services. Our analysis showed that the dimensions of well-being (e.g. worthwhile, satisfaction, happiness, anxiety) are improving for West Midlands and England citizens, and that citizens are less worried about the effect of the coronavirus outbreak (from 76% in mid February to 57% in mid May in West Midlands), however, they are less optimistic about when life will return to normal (more than a year). In addition, utilising Linear Regression and correlation analysis, it was proven that the COVID-19 economic and social issues have an influence on the well-being of citizens, thus emphasising the importance of addressing these issues which will consequently mitigate their effect on well-being.","PeriodicalId":423896,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE/ACS 18th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133066697","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}
Fatma Zahra Besdouri, A. Mekki, Inès Zribi, M. Ellouze
{"title":"Improvement of the COTA-Orthography system through language modeling","authors":"Fatma Zahra Besdouri, A. Mekki, Inès Zribi, M. Ellouze","doi":"10.1109/AICCSA53542.2021.9686898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AICCSA53542.2021.9686898","url":null,"abstract":"The lack of a single standard orthography causes multiple forms of writing. This orthographic inconsistency is a frequent issue for Natural Language Processing (NLP). In this paper, we present a contextual method based on the orthography convention CODA-TUN [34] to improve the semi-automatic normalization tool, COTA Orthography [7], [25]. Our method targets words having multiple possible corrections which are semi-treated by this system. Therefore, we trained and improved a trigram language model based on a large corpus. We introduced, also, a generative algorithm to retrieve candidates for sentence having the target words. The selection of the correct correction is based on the trigram model. The evaluation results show that the selection accuracy reaches 79.38%.","PeriodicalId":423896,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE/ACS 18th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA)","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114695865","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":"Combining Federated Learning and Edge Computing toward Ubiquitous Intelligence in Internet of Things","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/aiccsa53542.2021.9686769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/aiccsa53542.2021.9686769","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":423896,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE/ACS 18th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123954512","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}
M. Mohsin, A. Shaukat, M. Akram, Muhammad Kaab Zarrar
{"title":"Automatic Prostate Cancer Grading Using Deep Architectures","authors":"M. Mohsin, A. Shaukat, M. Akram, Muhammad Kaab Zarrar","doi":"10.1109/AICCSA53542.2021.9686869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AICCSA53542.2021.9686869","url":null,"abstract":"Prostate cancer is the second most aggressive type of cancer among men aged over 45, and it has a major effect on people's lives. Early diagnosis and grading of prostate cancer from tissue images is necessary. Large scale inter observer reproducibility exists in grading the prostate biopsies. This leads us to move towards a computer based model that can accurately detect and grade the cancerous prostate from non-cancerous one. The paper is focused on deep learning based models to automatically grade the prostate cancer from tissue microarray images. Deep learning models directly learn the features via convolutional layers. Two datasets have been used for implementation of our proposed model, Harvard dataset and Gleason Challenge 2019. Our proposed UNET based architecture is used for training as well as validation and testing. We used four different deep learning models, VGG19, ResNet50, Mobilenetv2 and ResNext50 for our UNET based encoder. With our proposed framework, we have achieved 0.728 and 0.732 average Cohen’s kappa with F1 on both datasets respectively. The results show that our proposed UNET based deep learning model shows better performance as compared to other state of the art models.","PeriodicalId":423896,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE/ACS 18th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128922367","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":"Towards an adaptive gamification Model Based on Ontologies","authors":"Souha Bennani, A. Maalel, H. Ghézala","doi":"10.1109/AICCSA53542.2021.9686937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AICCSA53542.2021.9686937","url":null,"abstract":"Gamification used in e-learning platforms is considered as a very valuable process forasmuch as it helps students to focus on their study manner, improve their educational experiences, boost their motivation and engagement and facilitate the learning mechanism. However, the one-size-fits-all approach could be inadequate for all learners. Whereas learners are educated regardless of their concerns, cognitive capacities, learning styles, attitudes, and personalities, which are all unique to them. Adaptive gamification has emerged, focusing on adaptive learning and cognitive science research and is providing personalized learning according to what the learner has for skills and interests. In this article, we present a personalized gamification model based on ontologies. The potential of our model is that it combines, at the same time, adaptive learning and adaptive gamification. Also, it considers both player context and learner context to adapt learning scenarios. The first implementation steps of our proposed approach will be presented in this article.","PeriodicalId":423896,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE/ACS 18th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125369998","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}
Lisanne Kremer, Robert Gutu, Lea Leeser, B. Breil, M. Spitzhirn, Thomas Lux
{"title":"Virtual Process Simulation in Health Care: Potentials and Challenges","authors":"Lisanne Kremer, Robert Gutu, Lea Leeser, B. Breil, M. Spitzhirn, Thomas Lux","doi":"10.1109/AICCSA53542.2021.9686871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AICCSA53542.2021.9686871","url":null,"abstract":"The operating room is a site of high complexity, high risk and an intensive use of resources. Analysis and modification of processes are challenging and difficult to implement in practice. The planning software EMA WorkDesigner supports digital production planning and prospective ergonomics as well as productivity assessment by providing an efficient and accurate approach to 3D-human-simulation of manual and semi-automatic and human robot tasks. Main objective of the paper is the transfer of the application of EMA WorkDesigner in healthcare settings. For this purpose, we simulated a preoperative process in a 3D operating room and derived characteristic lines for ergonomics and cycle times for different human models. The results of the process simulation show that most of the workers have a higher risk of musculoskeletal overload according to the Ergonomic Assessment Worksheet evaluation method; on average, women have worse individual evaluation scores than men. There is no difference for the cycle times depending on the various human models. The assessed operating-room nurses have to cover a distance of 1222.5 m in one shift, for this process sequence alone. The EMA WorkDesigner has an enormous potential for use in healthcare simulation. A strength lies in the simple, quick and intuitive creation of working processes with object interaction by using the EMA WorkDesigner tasks library. On the other hand, there is a need for improvement in the creation of processes that require direct interaction with people, e.g. put patients from bed to divan bed. These require more effort. In addition a combination of EMA WorkDesigner with virtual reality methods would increase the spatial perception and interaction in groups.","PeriodicalId":423896,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE/ACS 18th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA)","volume":"5 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124274726","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}