Sagheer Abbas

National College of Business Administration & Economics · Computer Science

Researchers have paid increasing attention towards the usage of scrambled image for the image encryption in recent years. 2D and 3D scrambled images have already been employed to write the different image encryption algorithms. On the other hand, we need speedy and efficient ciphers to meet the rising demands of our society. The current study has u...

Citation: Aftab, S.; Abbas, S.; Ghazal, T.M.; Ahmad, M.; Hamadi, H.A.; Yeun, C.Y.; Khan, M.A. A Cloud-Based Software Defect Prediction System Using Data and Decision-Level Machine Learning Fusion. Mathematics 2023, 11, 632. Abstract: This research contributes an intelligent cloud-based software defect prediction system using data and decision-level...

The importance of accurate livestock identification for the success of modern livestock industries cannot be overstated as it is essential for a variety of purposes, including the traceability of animals for food safety, disease control, the prevention of false livestock insurance claims, and breeding programs. Biometric identification technologies...

COVID-19 is a rapidly spreading pandemic, and early detection is important to halting the spread of infection. Recently, the outbreak of this virus has severely affected people around the world with increasing death rates. The increased death rates are because of its spreading nature among people, mainly through physical interactions. Therefore, it...

With the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), the computer networks’ phenomenal expansion, and enormous relevant applications, data is continuously increasing. In this way, cybersecurity has gained significant importance in protecting networks from different cyber-attacks like Intrusions, Denial-of-Service (DoS), Eavesdropping, Rushing Attack...

File labeling techniques have a long history in analyzing the anthological trends in computational linguistics. The situation becomes worse in the case of files downloaded into systems from the Internet. Currently, most users either have to change file names manually or leave a meaningless name of the files, which increases the time to search requi...

The rapid growth in data generation and increased use of computer network devices has amplified the infrastructures of internet. The interconnec-tivity of networks has brought various complexities in maintaining network availability, consistency, and discretion. Machine learning based intrusion detection systems have become essential to monitor net...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a challenging and complex neuro-development syndrome that affects the child's language, speech, social skills, communication skills, and logical thinking ability. The early detection of ASD is essential for delivering effective, timely interventions. Various facial features such as a lack of eye contact, showing un...

With the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), investigation of different diseases in healthcare improved, and cloud computing helped to centralize the data and to access patient records throughout the world. In this way, the electrocardiogram (ECG) is used to diagnose heart diseases or abnormalities. e machine learning techniques have been us...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a challenging and complex neuro-development syndrome that affects the child's language, speech, social skills, communication skills, and logical thinking ability. The early detection of ASD is essential for delivering effective, timely interventions. Various facial features such as a lack of eye contact, showing un...

Kubernetes is an open-source container management tool which automates container deployment, container load balancing and con-tainer(de)scaling, including Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA). HPA enables flawless operation, interactively scaling the number of resource units, or pods, without downtime. Default Resource Met...

Energy is essential to practically all exercises and is imperative for the development of personal satisfaction. So, valuable energy has been in great demand for many years, especially for using smart homes and structures, as individuals quickly improve their way of life depending on current innovations. However, there is a shortage of energy, as t...

In recent years, the global Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) industry has evolved at a tremendous speed. Security and privacy are key concerns on the IoMT, owing to the huge scale and deployment of IoMT networks. Machine learning (ML) and blockchain (BC) technologies have significantly enhanced the capabilities and facilities of healthcare 5.0, sp...

Attention is a complex cognitive process with innate resource management and information selection capabilities for maintaining a certain level of functional awareness in socio-cognitive service agents. The human-machine society depends on creating illusionary believable behaviors. These behaviors include processing sensory information based on con...

In recent years, the global Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) industry has evolved at a tremendous speed. Security and privacy are key concerns on the IoMT, owing to the huge scale and deployment of IoMT networks. Machine learning (ML) and blockchain (BC) technologies have significantly enhanced the capabilities and facilities of healthcare 5.0, sp...

Internet of Things and Future Internet aims that daily life objects which surround us enable to communicate over the internet with the unique identification. IoT is an emerging field which completely changed the dilemma of conventional computing. The major application of IoT includes intelligent security systems, home and industrial automation, sma...

Hundreds of image encryption schemes have been conducted (as the literature review indicates). The majority of these schemes use pixels as building blocks for confusion and diffusion operations. Pixel-level operations are time-consuming and, thus, not suitable for many critical applications (e.g., telesurgery). Security is of the utmost importance...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) report, heart disease is spreading throughout the world very rapidly and the situation is becoming alarming in people aged 40 or above (Xu, 2020). Different methods and procedures are adopted to detect and diagnose heart abnormalities. Data scientists are working on finding the different methods with...

Security and privacy in the Internet of Things (IoT) are other significant challenges primarily be-cause of the vast scale and deployment of the IoT networks. Blockchain-based solutions support decentralized protection and privacy. In this study, a private blockchain-based smart home net-work architecture for estimating intrusion detection empowere...

The fast-paced growth of artificial intelligence applications provides unparalleled opportunities to improve the efficiency of various systems. Such as the transportation sector faces many obstacles following the implementation and integration of different vehicular and environmental aspects worldwide. Traffic congestion is among the major issues i...

The demand for automated online software systems is increasing day by day, which triggered the need for high-quality and maintainable software's at lower cost. Software defect prediction is one of the crucial tasks of the quality assurance process which improves the quality at lower cost by reducing the overall testing and maintenance efforts. Earl...

Precipitation in any form-such as rain, snow, and hail-can affect day-today outdoor activities. Rainfall prediction is one of the challenging tasks in weather forecasting process. Accurate rainfall prediction is now more difficult than before due to the extreme climate variations. Machine learning techniques can predict rainfall by extracting hidde...

Smart cities have been developed over the past decade, and reducing traffic congestion has been the top concern in smart city development. Short delays in communication between vehicles and Roadside Units (RSUs), smooth traffic flow, and road safety are the key challenges of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs). The rapid upsurge in the number...

In the agricultural industry, rice infections have resulted in significant productivity and economic losses. The infections must be recognized early on to regulate and mitigate the effects of the attacks. Early diagnosis of disease severity effects or incidence can preserve production from quantitative and qualitative losses, reduce pesticide use,...

Smart applications and intelligent systems are being developed that are self-reliant, adaptive, and knowledge-based in nature. Emergency and disaster management, aerospace, healthcare, IoT, and mobile applications, among them, revolutionize the world of computing. Applications with a large number of growing devices have transformed the current desi...

Brain tumors can be a major cause of psychiatric complications such as depression and panic attacks. Quick and timely recognition of a brain tumor is more effective in tumor healing. The processing of medical images plays a crucial role in assisting humans in identifying different diseases. The classification of brain tumors is a significant part t...

Progress in understanding multisensory integration in human have suggested researchers that the integration may result into the enhancement or depression of incoming signals. It is evident based on different psychological and behavioral experiments that stimuli coming from different perceptual modalities at the same time or from the same place, the...

Cloud computing is providing IT services to its customer based on Service level agreements (SLAs). It is important for cloud service providers to provide reliable Quality of service (QoS) and to maintain SLAs accountability. Cloud service providers need to predict possible service violations before the emergence of an issue to perform remedial acti...

Increasing man-machine trust has burgeoned during the last few decades. The growing interest in trust-building has led to the study of the non-dichotomous nature of trust. Trust as social behavior is an integral part of effective team building. The major focus has been offered to study how humans build trust towards machines, whereas few attempts h...

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) enables digital devices to gather, infer, and broadcast health data via the cloud platform. The phenomenal growth of the IoMT is fueled by many factors, including the widespread and growing availability of wearables and the ever-decreasing cost of sensor-based technology. The cost of related healthcare will ris...

Breast cancer is often a fatal disease that has a substantial impact on the female mortality rate. Rapidly spreading breast cancer is due to the abnormal growth of malignant cells in the breast. Early detection of breast cancer can increase treatment opportunities and patient survival rates. Various screening methods with computer-aided detection s...

Detection of personality using emotions is a research domain in artificial intelligence. At present, some agents can keep the human's profile for interaction and adapts themselves according to their preferences. However, the effective method for interaction is to detect the person's personality by understanding the emotions and context of the subje...

Alzheimer's disease is a severe neuron disease that damages brain cells which leads to permanent loss of memory also called dementia. Many people die due to this disease every year because this is not curable but early detection of this disease can help restrain the spread. Alzheimer's is most common in elderly people in the age bracket of 65 and a...

This paper presents a handwritten document recognition system based on the convolutional neural network technique. In today's world, handwritten document recognition is rapidly attaining the attention of researchers due to its promising behavior as assisting technology for visually impaired users. This technology is also helpful for the automatic d...

This paper presents a handwritten document recognition systembased on the convolutional neural network technique. In today’s world, hand-written document recognition is rapidly attaining the attention of researchersdue to its promising behavior as assisting technology for visually impairedusers. This technology is also helpful for the automatic dat...

Supply Chain Collaboration is the network of various entities that work cohesively to make up the entire process. The supply chain organizations' success is dependent on integration, teamwork, and the communication of information. Every day, supply chain and business players work in a dynamic setting. They must balance competing goals such as proce...

Road surface defects are crucial problems for safe and smooth traffic flow. Due to climate changes, low quality of construction material, large flow of traffic, and heavy vehicles, road surface anomalies are increasing rapidly. Detection and repairing of these defects are necessary for the safety of drivers, passengers, and vehicles from mechanical...

Production of high-quality software at lower cost has always been the main concern of developers. However, due to exponential increases in size and complexity, the development of qualitative software with lower costs is almost impossible. This issue can be resolved by identifying defects at the early stages of the development lifecycle. As a signif...

The prediction of human diseases precisely is still an uphill battle task for better and timely treatment. A multidisciplinary diabetic disease is a life-threatening disease all over the world. It attacks different vital parts of the human body, like Neuropathy, Retinopathy, Nephropathy, and ultimately Heart. A smart healthcare recommendation syste...

The prediction of human diseases precisely is still an uphill battle task for better and timely treatment. A multidisciplinary diabetic disease is a life-threatening disease all over the world. It attacks different vital parts of the human body, like Neuropathy, Retinopathy, Nephropathy, and ultimately Heart. A smart healthcare recommendation syste...

The numbers of multimedia applications and their users increase with each passing day. Different multi-carrier systems have been developed along with varying techniques of space-time coding to address the demand of the future generation of network systems. In this article, a fuzzy logic empowered adaptive backpropagation neural network (FLeABPNN) a...

The usage of IoT-based smart meter in electric power consumption shows a significant role in helping the users to manage and control their electric power consumption. It produces smooth communication to build equitable electric power distribution for users and improved management of the entire electric system for providers. Machine learning predict...

The real-time management and control of heating-system networks in residential buildings has tremendous energy-saving potential, and accurate load prediction is the basis for system monitoring. In this regard, selecting the appropriate input parameters is the key to accurate heating-load forecasting. In existing models for forecasting heating loads...

Hundreds of image encryption algorithms have been developed for the security and integrity of images through the combination of DNA computing and chaotic maps. This combination of the two instruments is not sufficient enough to thwart the potential threats from the cryptanalysis community as the literature review suggests. To inject more robustness...

For decision-making and behavior dynamics in humans, the principal focus is on cognition. Cognition can be described using cognitive behavior, which has multiple states. This cognitive behavior can be incorporated with one of the internal mental states' help, which includes desires, beliefs, emotions, intentions, different levels of knowledge, goal...

A Smart City understands the infrastructure, facilities, and schemes open to its citizens. According to the UN report, at the end of 2050, more than half of the rural population will be moved to urban areas. With such an increase, urban areas will face new health, education, Transport, and ecological issues. To overcome such kinds of issues, the wo...

Information Collaboration of the supply chain is the domination and control of product flow information from the producer to the customer. The data information flow is correlated with demand fill-up, a role delivering service, and feedback. The collaboration of supply chain information is a complex contrivance that impeccably manages the efficiency...

Recent advances in the domain of software defect prediction (SDP) include the integration of multiple classification techniques to create an ensemble or hybrid approach. This technique was introduced to improve the prediction performance by overcoming the limitations of any single classification technique. This research provides a systematic litera...