Volume 15, Issue 1 (2019) | Journal of Computer Science

Evaluating Password Behavior at a Small University

Mohammed Awad — 2019-01-04

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 4 January 2019; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2019.1.9

No matter how sophisticated an organization’s security system is, it remains vulnerable due to the human factor. In this study, we surveyed and analyzed the patterns practiced by users when generati...

Cluster Based Architecture for Cognitive Radio Network

Manoj Ramachandran — 2018-12-12

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 12 December 2018; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2019.10.26

Catastrophic events like flood often result in the derangement of the communication networks. The consequences include difficulty in locating the survivors of the disaster. The purpose of this paper i...

Blind Source Separation under Semi-White Gaussian Noise and Uniform Noise: Performance Analysis of ICA, Sobi and JadeR

Muna H. Fatnan — 2018-12-31

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 31 December 2018; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2019.27.44

A comparative study is presented to evaluate the performance of three important Blind Source Separation (BSS) techniques under noisy conditions. The ability of FastICA, SOBI and JadeR is tested in sep...

Symbolic Aggregate approXimation-Local Binary Pattern Feature Descriptor Combination for Automatic Facial Expression Recognition

Sumithra M.D. — 2019-01-08

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 8 January 2019; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2019.45.56

Automatic identification of facial expression is a significant research area which is anticipated for real time processing in Human-Computer Interaction domain. Along with an efficient classifier for ...

Performance Optimization of Physics Simulations Through Genetic Algorithms

Oksana Shadura — 2019-01-08

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 8 January 2019; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2019.57.66

The GeantV R&D approach is revisiting the standard particle transport simulation approach to be able to benefit from “Single Instruction, Multiple Data” (SIMD) computational architectures or extre...

Obesity Level Estimation Software based on Decision Trees

Eduardo De-La-Hoz-Correa — 2019-01-08

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 8 January 2019; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2019.67.77

Obesity has become a global epidemic that has doubled since 1980, with serious consequences for health in children, teenagers and adults. Obesity is a problem has been growing steadily and that is why...

Direct Sequence and Frequency Hopping Signals Classification Based on Co-Occurrence Matrix and Clustering Techniques

Haidy S. Fouad — 2019-01-10

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 10 January 2019; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2019.78.91

Spread Spectrum techniques (SS) were first developed for military applications, but currently, they have commercial applications. SS provides secure communication and allows multiple accesses for same...

A Static Analysis of Android Source Code for Lifecycle Development Usage Patterns

Noura Hoshieah — 2019-01-10

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 10 January 2019; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2019.92.107

Building robust Android apps is a non-trivial task that requires skilled developers to understand various Android platform peculiarities. However, among the Android developers community, a large fract...

Optimal Components Assignment Problem for Stochastic-Flow Networks

Abdellah Aissou — 2019-01-10

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 10 January 2019; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2019.108.117

Components assignment problem to maximize the network reliability in the case of each component has both an assignment cost and lead-time is never discussed. Therefore, this paper focuses on solving t...

Visualization of Data Mining Techniques for the Prediction of Breast Cancer with High Accuracy Rates

Vasudev Sharma — 2019-01-21

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 21 January 2019; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2019.118.130

Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death in women worldwide. Around one in 30 women are affected by breast cancer. Mammography has helped in detecting breast cancer in the early stages whic...

Evaluation of Classification Models for Predicting Mortality Rate Using Thyroid Cancer Data

Norah Saleh Alghamdi — 2019-01-21

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 21 January 2019; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2019.131.142

Machine Learning (ML) can potentially enhance predictions in real-life domains. This study presents an evaluation and comparison of different ML methods which can be applied on thyroid cancer dataset,...

Arabic Online Event-Based System for Monitoring and Extracting Infectious Disease-Related Information

Meshrif Alruily — 2019-01-22

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 22 January 2019; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2019.143.160

With the revolution of the internet, online data play a significant role in identifying disease outbreaks. This has led researchers, governments and organizations to pay close attention to such data i...

A Qualitative Assessment of VANET Routing Protocols Under Different Mobility Models

Meriem Houmer — 2019-01-23

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 23 January 2019; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2019.161.170

Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET) is an advanced wireless network that came to increase traffic safety, efficiency and to improve driving experience. The high mobility of nodes is the major characteri...

Two Factor Authentication for e-Government Services using Hardware-Like One Time Password Generators

Giuseppe Della Penna — 2019-01-26

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 26 January 2019; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2019.171.189

A safe and accessible authentication technique is a prerequisite for any modern e-government application. Two-factor authentication is currently widely adopted, since it alleviates many vulnerabilitie...

Design of a Dynamic Boot Loader for Loading an Operating System

Alycia Sebastian — 2019-01-28

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 28 January 2019; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2019.190.196

Boot Loader is the crucial program that loads the operating system in memory and initializes the system. In today’s world people are constantly on move and portable system are in demand specially th...

Horizontal Cooperation Practices in Internet-based Higher Education, Computational Logistics and Telecommunications

Jesica de Arma — 2019-01-31

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 31 January 2019; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2019.197.206

Globalization and advances in information and communication technologies have boosted the use of Horizontal Cooperation (HC) practices in many industry sectors. In the current international market, th...

Towards a Generic Multimodal Architecture for Batch and Streaming Big Data Integration

Siham Yousfi — 2019-01-31

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 31 January 2019; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2019.207.220

Big Data are rapidly produced from various heterogeneous data sources. They are of different types (text, image, video or audio) and have different levels of reliability and completeness. One of the m...