Salama Mostafa

Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia | uthm · Department of Software Engineering

The efficiency of distribution networks is hugely affected by active and reactive power flows in distribution electric power systems. Currently, distributed generators (DGs) of energy are extensively applied to minimize power loss and improve voltage deviancies on power distribution systems. The best position and volume of DGs produce better power...

With the rapid growth of informatics systems’ technology in this modern age, the Internet of Things (IoT) has become more valuable and vital to everyday life in many ways. IoT applications are now more popular than they used to be due to the availability of many gadgets that work as IoT enablers, including smartwatches, smartphones, security camera...

Finger vein biometrics is one of the most promising ways to identify a person because it can provide uniqueness, protection against forgery, and bioassay. Due to the limitations of the imaging environments, however, the finger vein images that are taken can quickly become low-contrast, blurry, and very noisy. Therefore, more robust and relevant fea...

The risk assessment of air pollution is an essential matter in the area of air quality computing. It provides useful information supporting air quality (AQ) measurement and pollution control. The outcomes of the evaluation have societal and technical influences on people and decision-makers. The existing air pollution risk assessment employs differ...

Automating the quality assessment of Software Requirement Specification poses major challenges related to the need for advanced algorithms to extract the SRS quality features, interpret the context of the features, formulate accurate assessment metrics, and document the shortcomings as well as possible improvements. In the existing methods, such as...

A blog is a form of direct interactive communication technology, which allows users to interact and communicate with each other through posting comments and sharing links as well. A blog is a platform where a writer or group of writers gives their opinion on a specific topic. Many issues and topics that are in a certain country being censored and c...

Daily, the computer industry has been moving towards machine intelligence. Deep learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI)'s machine learning (ML). It has AI features that mimic the functioning of the human brain in analyzing data and generating patterns for making decisions. Deep learning is gaining much attention nowadays because of i...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, computerized COVID-19 diagnosis studies are proliferating. The diversity of COVID-19 models raises the questions of which COVID-19 diagnostic model should be selected and which decision-makers of healthcare organizations should consider performance criteria. Because of this, a selection scheme is necessary to address a...

Alzheimer's disease indicates one of the highest difficult to heal diseases, and it is acutely affecting the elderly normal lives and their households. Early, effective, and accurate detection represents an important blueprint for minimizing Alzheimer's progression risk. The modalities of brain imaging can assist in identifying the abnormalities as...

There is an increase in motorcycles traffic accidents, while the cause for such accidents has always been associated with aggressive driving behaviors. There has been considerable research attention on how to deal with such driving behavior that causes severe and fatal accidents from the academic perspective; these research works addressed technica...

Waste generation in smart cities is a critical issue, and the interim steps towards its management were not that effective. But at present, the challenge of meeting recycling requirements due to the practical difficulty involved in waste sorting decelerates smart city CE vision. In this paper, a digital model that automatically sorts the generated...

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become the trend for different types of research and applications. UAVs can accomplish some technical and risky tasks while still being safe, mobile, and inexpensive to operate. However, UAVs need flying ad-hoc networks (FANET) to operate in inaccessible or infrastructure-less areas. Subsequentl...

The autonomous landing of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on a moving platform is an essential functionality in various UAV-based applications. It can be added to a teleoperation UAV system or part of an autonomous UAV control system. Various robust and predictive control systems based on the traditional control theory are used for operating a UAV...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the performance of the pre-trained models and compare them with the probability percentage of prediction in terms of execution time. This study uses the COCO dataset to evaluate both pre-trained image recognition and object detection, models. The results revealed that Tiny-YoloV3 is considered the best method fo...

Abstract: Due to globalization in this modern age of technology and other uncontrollable influences, transportation parameters can differ within a certain range of a given period. In this situation, a managerial position’s objective is to make appropriate decisions for the decision-makers. However, in general, the determination of an exact solution...

This paper proposes a smart water grids network (SWGN) architecture that combines the advantages of fog computing, internet of things (IoT), long range wide area network (LoRaWAN), and Software-defined networking (SDN). The main aims of the SWG architecture are to optimize data routing and monitor water supply and quality in real-time. SWGN handles...

Due to the rapid increase in data volumes, clustering algorithms are now finding applications in a variety of fields. However, existing clustering techniques have been deemed unsuccessful in managing large data volumes due to the issues of accuracy and high computational cost. As a result, this work offers a parallel clustering technique based on a...

Clustering is an effective technique for identifying patterns and structures in labeled and unlabeled datasets in the medical sector. Density-based clustering is a sophisticated machine learning technique for identifying distinctive patterns in large datasets. However, this approach has certain drawbacks like inability to determine local densities...

The deviation of the actual output from the planned output has become a crucial problem in apparel industries. Many factors affect this difference, and most decision support systems use conventional approaches to optimize the Standard Minute Value (SMV) production processes. However, these approaches fail to address the problem accurately when the...

Data hiding and watermarking are considered one of the most important topics in cyber security. This article proposes an optimized method for embedding a watermark image in a cover medium (color image). First, the color of the image is separated into three components (RGB). Consequently, the discrete wavelet transform is applied to each component t...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a novel disease that affects healthcare on a global scale and cannot be ignored because of its high fatality rate. Computed tomography (CT) images are presently being employed to assist doctors in detecting COVID-19 in its early stages. In several scenarios, a combination of epidemiological criteria (contact d...

Automation technology is changing and transforming innovation into the industrial landscape and Human Resources (HR) should ensure to adapt and practice its deployment to realise its benefits in time and for cost savings. The implementation of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in HR can help to offer better service to ensure compliance of the proces...

This paper proposes a vehicle type of classification model from video streams for improving Traffic Flow Analysis (TFA) systems. A Video Content-based Vehicles Classification (VC-VC) model is used to support optimization for traffic signal control via online identification of vehicle types. The VC-VC model extends several methods to extract TFA par...

Tissue engineering (TE) is an innovative approach to tackling many diseases and body parts that need to be replaced by developing artificial tissues and organs. Bioinks play an important role in the success of various TE applications. A bioink refers to a combination of a living cell, biomaterials, and bioactive molecules deposited in a layer-by-la...

Several research works have addressed the different aspects and technologies associated with Smart Manufacturing Systems (SMS); however, the evaluation challenges while establishing a new SMS that requires pre-implementation planning and assessment have given little attention. To overcome this limitation, this paper formulates an evaluation framewo...

Among the challenges in industrial revolutions, 4.0 is managing organizations' talents, especially to ensure the right person for the position can be selected. This study is set to introduce a predictive approach for talent identification in the sport of netball using individual player qualities in terms of physical fitness, mental capacity, and te...

Air pollution risk assessment is complex due to dynamic data change and pollution source distribution. Air quality index concentration level prediction is an effective method of protecting public health by providing the means for an early warning against harmful air pollution. However, air quality index-based prediction is challenging as it depends...

Assessment the quality of medical services is a crucial strategy to identify the strengths and weaknesses providing action-able insights to improve the healthcare services provided to cancer patients. In Libya, the challenge of medical facilities and treatment in healthcare systems of cancer patients is of high importance. This study investigates t...

Tire slippage ratio is an essential factor determining the vehicle's efficiency and stability, especially when driving off roads. Usually, the slippage ratio is measured using the traditional method and their efficiency depends mainly on the human factor. In the current experiment, the mechanism and statistical analysis of a new electrical device t...

Recently, intelligent algorithms are deployed for dynamic decision-making in Knowledge Audit (KA) frameworks to improve Knowledge Management (KM) in organizations. This paper attempts to advance a viewpoint on the importance of investigating KA in business units. Subsequently, it proposes a Multi-agent Knowledge Audit (MAKA) framework to assist dec...

Recent research in digital forensic attempts to classify image clusters into JPEG or non-JPEG clusters before recovering JPEG image files. This issue might improve the recovering JPEG image accuracy and reduce the processing time. In this work, three content-based feature extraction methods are used. The Rate of Change (RoC) is used for tracking re...

This research studies whether entrepreneurial characteristics comprising passion, creativity, and self-efficacy are significantly associated with entrepreneurial intentions. Therefore, the final year students from various disciplines from a public university who were potential entrepreneurs and have attended the advance level courses on entrepreneu...

Evolutionary techniques such as Genetic algorithms (GA) are used to perform approximation for real-world problems and provide optimized solutions. Most of the time, these techniques provide desirable solutions and. The GAs depend on various operations such as selection criteria, crossover, and mutation operators. The GA is a useful technique for ch...

As a merit for the Internet of Things (IoT) domain, congregating MANET with WSN application in omnipresent smart environments presents novel opportunities in observing the extensive or wide-ranging built-up area or urban region and provides a new communication system for diverse applications. Sensors are utilized to comprehend the surrounding envir...

Flying Ad-hoc Network (FANET)'s model operates according to routing protocols along with basic technical routing parameters. One of the FANET's significant challenges is ensuring the resilience of the UAVs' performance by adjusting the operational plan and network routing based on the constraints of operation goals and the limitations of resources....

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are emerging to serve various types of applications for serving smart cities and intelligent transportation systems. There are several challenging factors for ensuring reliable and stable VANETs communications. VANETs clustering is essential functionality to serve routing protocols and enable reliable VANETs. Clus...

Nowadays, VANET (Vehicular Ad hoc Network) is one of the key aspects of developing advanced intelligent transportation systems. Due to its huge mobility and rapid topology alteration, the network exposes to link failure that affects the firmness of the network and causes delay and congestion. Additionally, the dynamic change in the network routing...

Distributed-Denial-of-Service impacts are undeniably significant, and because of the development of IoT devices, they are expected to continue to rise in the future. Even though many solutions have been developed to identify and prevent this assault, which is mainly targeted at IoT devices, the danger continues to exist and is now larger than ever....

Recently, there has been an advancement in the development of innovative computer-aided techniques for the segmentation and classification of retinal vessels, the application of which is predominant in clinical applications. Consequently, this study aims to provide a detailed overview of the techniques available for segmentation and classification...

Traffic summons, also known as traffic tickets, is a notice issued by a law enforcement official to a motorist, who is a person who drives a car, lorry, or bus, and a person who rides a motorcycle. This study is set to perform a comparative experiment to compare the performance of three classification algorithms (Naive Bayes, Gradient Boosted Trees...

The texture is the object’s appearance with different surfaces and sizes. It is mainly helpful for different applications, including object recognition, fingerprinting, and surface analysis. The goal of this research is to investigate the best classification models among the Naive Bayes (NB), Random Forest (DF), and k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) algori...

Floods are one of the most common natural disasters in the world that affect all aspects of life, including human beings, agriculture, industry, and education. Research for developing models of flood predictions has been ongoing for the past few years. These models are proposed and built-in proportion for risk reduction, policy proposition, loss of...

The term COVID-19 is an abbreviation of Coronavirus 2019, which is considered a global pandemic that threatens the lives of millions of people. Early detection of the disease offers ample opportunity of recovery and prevention of spreading. This paper proposes a method for classification and early detection of COVID-19 through image processing usin...

This paper aims at collecting and analysing temperature, rainfall, soil, seed, crop production, humidity and wind speed data (in a few regions), which will help the farmers improve the produce of their crops. Firstly, we pre-process the data in a Python environment and then apply the MapReduce framework, which further analyses and processes the lar...

This paper proposes a vehicle type of classification model from video streams for improving Traffic Flow Analysis (TFA) systems. A Video Content-based Vehicles Classification (VC-VC) model is used to support optimization for traffic signal control via online identification of vehicle types. The VC-VC model extends several methods to extract TFA par...

With the exponential growth of science, Internet of Things (IoT) innovation, and expanding significance in renewable energy, Smart Grid has become an advanced innovative thought universally as a solution for the power demand increase around the world. The smart grid is the most practical trend of effective transmission of present-day power assets....

Waste generation is a continuous process that needs to be managed effectively to ensure environmental safety and public health. The recent circular economy (CE) practices have brought a new shape for the waste management industry, creating value from the generated waste. The shift to a CE represents one of the most significant challenges, particula...