2019 13th International Conference on Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Computer Science and Statistics (MACS)最新文献

{"title":"Delay-Efficient Forwarding in SDN Assisted Mesh Networks: An Application of Shapley Value","authors":"M. M. Ullah, I. Khan, Syed Adeel Ali Shah","doi":"10.1109/MACS48846.2019.9024804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MACS48846.2019.9024804","url":null,"abstract":"The use of Software Defined network (SDN) as a key future Internet communications paradigm has great potential to enable efficient network communication. One of the key challenges for SDNs is to provide strategies for delay-efficient traffic forwarding in mesh. In particular, unlike the naïve strategies, the key challenge is to ensure that, besides avoiding overloading particular links, the available link resources are adequately utilized to minimize communication delays. This thesis proposes a sophisticated SDN assisted strategy by applying the principles of Shapley value. Specifically, the proposed strategy forms coalitions of links to calculate a route that is delay efficient. We demonstrate the applicability of the proposal by using Matlab and compare the results with naïve approaches.","PeriodicalId":434612,"journal":{"name":"2019 13th International Conference on Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Computer Science and Statistics (MACS)","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116736865","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":"Architecture of an Enterprise Project Life Cycle using Hyperledger platform","authors":"M. Azhar, Muhammad Burhan Khan, Muhammad Mohsin Zafar","doi":"10.1109/MACS48846.2019.9024764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MACS48846.2019.9024764","url":null,"abstract":"Block chain technology is a distributed or decentralized system that consist of nodes also called participants that communicate with each other to perform transactions. These transactions are then securely stored as blocks in the form of a chain. This is a continuous growing list of blocks and the transactions are executed by using cryptographic protocols. The point to be noted is that there is no need of any third party to perform the transaction, only the concerned stakeholders are involved. The study in this paper suggests the innovative use of Block chain platform and discusses the implementation process in the Project Management office (PMO) scenario. The main responsibility of PMO in an organization is to deliver projects on time while overcoming the risks and mitigations. Similarly, Financial Capitalization and Cash flow are also significant processes. So, different key roles of PMO are presented along with the concerned stakeholders. Each stakeholder is referred to as a particular node of our Block Chain system. In this study we would discuss and share the proof of implementation of Project Life Cycle with an existing Block chain ledger platform. It is concluded after reviewing the latest stuff in the subjected area that Block chain based Hyperledger platforms by Linux Foundation are getting maturity day-by-day. Thus, contributing towards another revolution in Financial, Management and Technical processes. Our end result brief the significant outcomes with the advantages of the Project Life Cycle proposed architecture implemented on Hyperledger platform.","PeriodicalId":434612,"journal":{"name":"2019 13th International Conference on Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Computer Science and Statistics (MACS)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131274988","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":"WBAN Performance Evaluation at PHY/MAC/Network Layer using Castalia Simulator","authors":"Tabassum Waheed, Aqeel-ur-Rehman, F. Shaikh, Iqbal Uddin Khan","doi":"10.1109/MACS48846.2019.9024824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MACS48846.2019.9024824","url":null,"abstract":"WBANs are gaining acceptance in academia and industry due to their support for diverse applications, the most prominent of which is remote patient healthcare. With the tremendous effort directed for Smart healthcare solutions, WBANs are evolving side by side with cloud computing and IoT. With the changing technological scenario new communication standards, protocols and mechanisms are introduced to make WBANs acceptable. WBANs comprises of wearable/implanted sensors that monitor physiological parameters such as heartbeat, blood pressure, oxygen without restricting the patient in hospital environment. Because of WBANs, tele-medicine will experience a tremendous growth and efficient design and implementation will remain a focus of ongoing research. New Applications, energy conservation, MAC techniques, Routing protocols, security considerations are of major interest for the industry. As WBANs carries critical data so it is necessary that data should be delivered without loss with a smaller number of retransmissions. In addition to this the standard introduced for WBANs will gain attention and new healthcare products based on it will flood the market. WBANs has been implemented and tested through hardware using FPGAs and through software with the help of Simulators. Various Simulators has been used to evaluate the performance of WBANs including NS2, NS3, OPNET and Qualnet. In this paper we have implementation of WBANs on Castalia Simulator and evaluated its performance for 1 -hop topology. This paper presents the various results for Packet loss when transmission power, transmission rate and RAP periods are varied.","PeriodicalId":434612,"journal":{"name":"2019 13th International Conference on Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Computer Science and Statistics (MACS)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121757704","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":"Predicting Helpfulness of Crowd-Sourced Reviews: A Survey","authors":"M. Bilal, Mohsen Marjani, I. A. Hashem, Akibu Mahmoud Abdullahi, M. Tayyab, A. Gani","doi":"10.1109/MACS48846.2019.9024814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MACS48846.2019.9024814","url":null,"abstract":"With the recent advancement of Web 2.0 and the popularity of social media platforms, the volume of User Generated Content (UGC) is rising explosively. Online reviews are rapidly growing and a popular source of UGC, which help customers in evaluating the quality of product and making purchase decisions. However, distilling the required information from the massively increasing volume of reviews becomes difficult for customers. Therefore, it becomes an important issue to identify helpful review accurately. The review helpfulness prediction has attracted growing attention of researchers that proposed various solutions using statistical and Machine Learning (ML) techniques. This paper aims to review the existing literature on review helpfulness prediction, to identify data sources, ML techniques and potential challenges. The review helpfulness prediction was equally taken as both regression and classification task by previous studies. However, the definition of helpfulness for each task varies significantly. Most of the studies used online reviews from Amazon to predict helpfulness. The comparison of state-of-the-art techniques and challenges will give a quick overview to researchers about the existing state of research on review helpfulness prediction.","PeriodicalId":434612,"journal":{"name":"2019 13th International Conference on Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Computer Science and Statistics (MACS)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115087754","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":"Latest Trends in Automatic Glioma Tumor Segmentation and an Improved Convolutional Neural Network based Solution","authors":"Muhammad Kaab Zarrar, Farhan Hussain, Muhammad Mohsin Khan, Rubab Sheikh","doi":"10.1109/MACS48846.2019.9024815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MACS48846.2019.9024815","url":null,"abstract":"A Brain tumor is an abnormal cell growth in the brain tissues, these tumors are difficult to treat and severely affect the patient's cognitive ability. Out of all brain tumors, gliomas are the deadliest with the least survival rate. The focus of brain tumor segmentation task is to separate tumor tissue such as edema, tumor core from the healthy tissues i.e. white cells, Cerebrospinal Fluid and gray matter. Manual diagnosis of brain tumors from a large amount of patient's MRI images is a tough and time-taking process. With the advent of new approaches, automatic segmentation processes are becoming more effective and clinically accepted. This paper aims to give a comprehensive review of the most state of the art brain tumor segmentation methods. We have given a brief introduction to the imaging modalities and their usage in brain tumor segmentation task. We have discussed the results of the most effective approaches by comparing their Dice Score results. We have also discussed some publicly available brain datasets. Furthermore, we have presented a Novel approach for Glioma tumor segmentation using ResNeXt architecture. Experimental results prove that our framework performs well on the dice score.","PeriodicalId":434612,"journal":{"name":"2019 13th International Conference on Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Computer Science and Statistics (MACS)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114218325","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":"Data Driven Processing Via Two-Dimensional Spearman Correlation Analysis (2D-SCA)","authors":"Muhammad Saddam Khokhar, Keyang Cheng, Misbah Ayoub, Zakria, Nida E Rub","doi":"10.1109/MACS48846.2019.9024798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MACS48846.2019.9024798","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces an algorithm two-dimensional Spearman correlation analysis; the present algorithm is the extension of classical Spearman correlation analysis through algebraic solution for multivariate two-dimensional monotonic (linear or non-linear) multi-media datasets. In a way, two different images with nonlinearity challenges like different dimensions are processed with correspondence techniques such as reshaping images into 1D or vectors. Further, it can reduce dimension reduction along with quadratic algorithm complexity. Due to segmentation of matrices and tied rank ability of spearman correlation analysis. The implementation of proposed algorithm performs on four remarkable dataset. The results demonstration is helpful for researchers to choose finger image impression dataset with algorithm performance and sensors related techniques.","PeriodicalId":434612,"journal":{"name":"2019 13th International Conference on Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Computer Science and Statistics (MACS)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115756271","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":"Sample Size Calculation In Medical Research","authors":"M. Karim, S. Furnaz, Ahmed Raheem Buksh, M. Beg, Muhammad Shahbaz Khan, B. Moiz","doi":"10.1109/MACS48846.2019.9024807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MACS48846.2019.9024807","url":null,"abstract":"For the reliability and general ability of the results of any epidemiological or medical research study, adequate number of study units is extremely important. Study of both less than needed and unnecessarily large sample size is ethically and economically unfair. Considering the importance of sample size, its determination and justification in all kinds of epidemiological or medical research studies, we propose simple and non-technical explanation to the available sample size calculation methods. In this review we covered most frequently encountered study designs in medical research. Present review provides statistical formulas for the sample size calculation of the research studies with varying objectives such as estimation of population proportion(s) and hypothesis testing, estimation of population mean, estimation of diagnostic accuracy, estimation of association and reliability, sample size calculation for case control studies, and sample size calculation for cohort studies. Limited technical details and explanations of underlying theoretical assumption for each method have been included to ensure the adaptability of the method with minimal theoretical understating and statistical knowledge.","PeriodicalId":434612,"journal":{"name":"2019 13th International Conference on Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Computer Science and Statistics (MACS)","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124277963","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":"Does market turbulence moderate the impact of relationship competency on small retail firm's performances: A study on small retail businesses among malaysian chinese entrepreneurs.","authors":"Wong Kiong Kin, Mahwish Anjam, Sadia Ahmed Mughal, Seong-Yuen Toh","doi":"10.1109/MACS48846.2019.9024816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MACS48846.2019.9024816","url":null,"abstract":"It has been widely acknowledged that small businesses are contributing a lot in all developing countries. The existing researchers have widely acknowledged the positive impact of relationship competency on firm's performance. Whilst emerging markets for Small businesses in different emerging or developing contexts are different from developed countries. Thus, the impact of entrepreneurs' relationship competency on firm's performances varies across different cultures or contexts. The aim of the current study was to analyse the impact of relationship competency on four types of firms' performances namely financial and non-financial performances, business growth, and firm's performance compared with rival firms among retail Small businesses owned by Malaysian Chinese entrepreneurs under the moderating role of market turbulence. Composition Based View (CBV) and Strategic Contingency Theory (SCT) were the underpinning theories. Eight hypotheses were created based on proposed research model and standard instrument was used to collect the data. A total of 300 small business retail owners in Selangor, Malaysia participated in study through standard survey. The data were collected at one point of time across the sample population by using sampling techniques of non-probability. The collected data were analysed using SPSS software and PLS-SEM techniques. Findings revealed the positive and significant impact of relationship competency on non-financial performance and on firms' performances relative to their competitor firms. Furthermore, the positive and significant moderating influence of market turbulence was also found for enhancing the impact of relationship competency on business growth. However, findings revealed no impact of relationship competency on financial performance and business growth. Moreover, results did not reveal any moderating influence of market turbulence for the impact of relationship competency on firm's financial and firm's non-financial performances as well as on performance relative to competitors.","PeriodicalId":434612,"journal":{"name":"2019 13th International Conference on Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Computer Science and Statistics (MACS)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126122079","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":"Play and Learn Case Study on Learning Abilities Through Effective Computing in Games","authors":"Muhammad Ayoub Kamal, Muhammad Mansoor Alam, Hammad Khawar, M. Mazliham","doi":"10.1109/MACS48846.2019.9024771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MACS48846.2019.9024771","url":null,"abstract":"Effective computing has now become a more active research topic. It includes multidisciplinary knowledge and background, such as cognitive, physiology, and computer sciences. Our research topic is based on effective computing through games in which we have tried to gather the data of the user experience obtained after playing games targeted by us. The game was chosen as a tool and domain by us to research over effective computing as we found out that it is very effective in penetrating the emotional system of the human via machine. Authors have gathered their experiences through our questionnaires that we provided to them after they have done playing games. These questionnaires gave us insight and helped us to make decisions. It provided us with a way to examine the type of game which people like to play more. As everyone likes to play games, but which type of game one prefers to play and why was an important issue to deal with in order to do our research over effective computing in games? As discussed above, that everyone likes to play games, authors have endeavored not to target any particular user or aged group and ensured not to take users from any specific environment or background. This research study is for everyone or to say, for general users. This study also examines whether the effective computing has produced positive impacts on learning abilities of the user or not. This paper summarizes the efficient use of effective computing that facilitates user to get or learn some things by the help of these games. It may not be harmful to the users in any way in terms of health, which can be made possible by making use of effective sciences, relevant methods and techniques from effective computing, and it will also support a good level of game designing concerning user requirements.","PeriodicalId":434612,"journal":{"name":"2019 13th International Conference on Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Computer Science and Statistics (MACS)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123743215","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":"$2times 2$ MIMO antenna with defected ground structure for mm-wave 5G applications","authors":"Hassan Khalid, M. Khalid, Adeela Fatima, Nazish Khalid","doi":"10.1109/MACS48846.2019.9024801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MACS48846.2019.9024801","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a Defected Ground Structure (DGS)-based MIMO antenna anticipated for the integration in the future mm-wave 5G applications. The proposed design consists of four antenna elements excited by the microstrip transmission line and DGS. The substrate used is Rogers RT/Duroid 5880, with the overall dimensions of $30times 28times 0.508 text{mm}^{3}$. The center frequency of the proposed design is at 26.414 GHz. The bandwidth covered is 3.5346 GHz (−6 dB BW). The maximum IEEE gain of the single element of the MIMO is 6.22 dBi. The design has been optimized for high isolation between the antenna elements. The diversity gain, envelope correlation coefficient, and channel capacity indicate that the proposed design has excellent MIMO characteristics. The proposed antenna meets the practical requirements and, therefore, can serve as an excellent candidate for 5G handheld devices such as a dongle, and smart-watches.","PeriodicalId":434612,"journal":{"name":"2019 13th International Conference on Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Computer Science and Statistics (MACS)","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124048747","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}