A Fast High Precision Skew Angle Estimation of Digitized Documents

Merouane Chettat, Djamel Gaceb, and Soumia Belhadi

#Skew angle estimation # document images # Hough transform # Binarization # edge detection # RLSA

A Sparse Topic Model for Bursty Topic Discovery in Social Networks

Lei Shi, Junping Du, and Feifei Kou

#Bursty topic discovery # topic model # “Spike and Slab” prior

Advanced Analysis of the Integrity of Access Control Policies: the Specific Case of Databases

Faouzi Jaidi, Faten Ayachi, and Adel Bouhoula

#Access Control # Databases Security # Formal Validation # Integrity Analysis # Conformity Verification

The Performance of Penalty Methods on Tree-Seed Algorithm for Numerical Constrained Optimization

Problems

#Constrained optimization # penalty functions # penalty approaches # tree-seed algorithm

An Enhanced Corpus for Arabic Newspapers

Comments

#Opinion mining # sentiment analysis # K-Nearest Neighbours # Naïve Bayes # Support Vector Machines # Arabic # comment

A Concept-based Sentiment Analysis Approach for Arabic

Ahmed Nasser1 and Hayri Sever2 1Control and Systems Engineering Department, University of Technology, Iraq 2Department of Computer Engineering, Çankaya University, Etimesgut

#Arabic Sentiment Analysis # Concept-based Sentiment Analysis # Machine Learning and Ensemble Learning

Improved Streaming Quotient Filter: A Duplicate Detection Approach for Data Streams

Shiwei Che, Wu Yang, and Wei Wang

#Bloom filters # Computer Network # Data stream # Duplicate detection # False positive rates

Ontology-Based Transformation and Verification of UML Class Model

Abdul Hafeez1, Syed Abbas2, and Aqeel-ur-Rehman3 1Department of Computer Science, SMI University, Karachi 2Faculty Engineering Science and Technology, Indus University, Karachi 3Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology, Hamdard University, Karachi

#UML Class Model Verification # Dependency Relationship # XOR Association Constraints

Performance Evaluation of Industrial Firms Using DEA and DECORATE Ensemble Method

Hassan Najadat1, Ibrahim Al-Daher2, and Khaled Alkhatib1 1Computer Information Systems Department, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan 2Computer Science Department, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan

#Data Envelopment Analysis # Decision Trees # Ensemble Methods # Financial Variables # Financial Ratios

Enhanced Latent Semantic Indexing Using Cosine Similarity Measures for Medical Application

Fawaz Al-Anzi1 and Dia AbuZeina2 1Department of Computer Engineering, Kuwait University, Kuwait 2Computer Science Department, Palestine Polytechnic University, Palestine

#Arabic Text # Latent Semantic Indexing # Search Engine # Dimensionality Reduction # Text Classification

Text Similarity Computation Model for Identifying Rumor Based on Bayesian Network in Microblog

Chengcheng Li, Fengming Liu, and Pu Li

#Microblog Rumor # Similarity # Bayesian Network

A Novel Feature Selection Method Based on Maximum Likelihood Logistic Regression for

Imbalanced Learning in Software Defect Prediction

#Software defect prediction· Machine learning· Class imbalance· Maximum-likelihood logistic regression

Saliency Cuts: Salient Region Extraction based on Local Adaptive Thresholding for Image

Information Recognition of the Visually Impaired

#Saliency region extraction # saliency map # saliency cuts # local adaptive thresholding # the visually impaired

A Deep Learning Based Prediction of Arabic Manuscripts Handwriting Style

Manal Khayyat1 and Lamiaa Elrefaei2 1Computer Science Department, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia 2Electrical Engineering Department, Benha University, Egypt

#Deep Learning Model # Convolutional Neural Network # Handwriting Style Prediction # Arabic Manuscript Images

Otsu s Thresholding Method Based on Plane Intercept Histogram and Geometric Analysis

Leyi Xiao1, Honglin Ouyang1, and Chaodong Fan2 1College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, China 2Foshan Green Intelligent Manufacturing Research Institute, Xiangtan University, China

#3-D Otsu’s method # threshold selection # Otsu’s method # 3-D histogram # image segmentation

ANN Based Execution Time Prediction Model and Assessment of Input Parameters through ISM

Anju Shukla, Shishir Kumar, and Harikesh Singh

#Cloud computing # neural network # Prediction model # Resource selection