Recent Trends in Computer Applications: Best Studies from the 2017 International Conference on Computer and Applications, Dubai, UAE

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This edited volume presents the best chapters presented during the international conference on computer and applications ICCA’17 which was held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in September 2017. Selected chapters present new advances in digital information, communications and multimedia. Authors from different countries show and discuss their findings, propose new approaches, compare them with the existing ones and include recommendations. They address all applications of computing including (but not limited to) connected health, information security, assistive technology, edutainment and serious games, education, grid computing, transportation, social computing, natural language processing, knowledge extraction and reasoning, Arabic apps, image and pattern processing, virtual reality, cloud computing, haptics, information security, robotics, networks algorithms, web engineering, big data analytics, ontology, constraints satisfaction, cryptography and steganography, Fuzzy logic, soft computing, neural networks, artificial intelligence, biometry and bio-informatics, embedded systems, computer graphics, algorithms and optimization, Internet of things and smart cities. The book can be used by researchers and practitioners to discover the recent trends in computer applications. It opens a new horizon for research discovery works locally and internationally. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Overview on Sequential Mining Algorithms and Their Extensions (Carine Bou Rjeily, Georges Badr, Amir Hajjam Al Hassani, Emmanuel Andres)....Pages 3-16 Object Detection Based on CNNs: Current and Future Directions (Long Chen, Abdul Hamid Sadka, Junyu Dong, Huiyu Zhou)....Pages 17-32 Video Classification Methods: Multimodal Techniques (Amal Dandashi, Jihad Mohamad Alja’am)....Pages 33-51 Proposed Multi-label Image Classification Method Based on Gabor Filter (Ziad Abdallah, Ali El-Zaart, Mohamad Oueidat)....Pages 53-66 Vision-Based Approach for Real-Time Hand Detection and Gesture Recognition (Rayane El Sibai, Chady Abou Jaoude, Jacques Demerjian)....Pages 67-81 Unsupervised Image Segmentation via Graph-Based Community Detection (Abdelmalik Moujahid, Fadi Dornaika, Blanca Cases)....Pages 83-97 Multiview Video Coding: A Comparative Study Between MVC and MV-HEVC (Seif Allah El Mesloul Nasri, Abdul Hamid Sadka, Noureddine Doghmane, Khaled Khelil)....Pages 99-112 Front Matter ....Pages 113-113 Data Fragmentation Scheme: Improving Database Security in Cloud Computing (Amjad Alsirhani, Peter Bodorik, Srinivas Sampalli)....Pages 115-138 CPU/GPU Hybrid Detection for Malware Signatures for Battery-Powered Devices Using OpenCL (Radu Velea, Ştefan Drăgan, Florina Gurzău)....Pages 139-152 Complete Design of a Hardware and Software Framework for PWM/Discrete PID-Based Speed Control of a Permanent-Magnet DC Motor Without Prior Knowledge of the Motor’s Parameters (Chady El Moucary, Abdallah Kassem, Walid Zakhem, Chaybane Ghabach, Roger El Khoury, Patrick Rizk)....Pages 153-173 Analysis of DDoS Attack-Aware Software-Defined Networking Controller Placement in Malaysia (Muhammad Reazul Haque, Saw Chin Tan, Ching Kwang Lee, Zulfadzli Yusoff, Sameer Ali, Ir. Rizaludin Kaspin et al.)....Pages 175-188 Front Matter ....Pages 189-189 Multimodal Systems, Experiences, and Communications: A Review Toward the Tactile Internet Vision (Mohammad Al Jaafreh, Majed Alowaidi, Hussein Al Osman, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik)....Pages 191-220 Automating the Optimization of Web Interfaces for E-Commerce (Aoun Lutfi, Stefano Fasciani)....Pages 221-235 Arabic Multimedia Search Platform (Mohamad Raad, Majida Bayan, Yihya Dalloul, Majd Ghareeb, Amin Haj-Ali)....Pages 237-249 MOALEM: An Assistive Platform for Children with Difficulties in Reading and Writing Arabic (Jihad Mohamad Alja’am, Moutaz Saleh, Dominic Massaro, Mohamad Eid)....Pages 251-266 Person-Dependent and Person-Independent Arabic Speech Recognition System (Noor Al-Maadeed, Somaya Al-Maadeed)....Pages 267-278 Information Visualization Techniques for Building Better Visualization Models (Rachael Fernandez, Noora Fetais)....Pages 279-296