CONFERENCES PROGRAM The Fifth International Conference on Digital Information and Communication Technology and its Applications (DICTAP2015) & The Third International Conference on Technological Advances in Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (TAEECE2015) Lebanese University, Faculty of Engineering Beirut, Hadath Campus Tel.: 05-463402-7-9 http://ulfg.ul.edu.lb/home.aspx Conference Dates: April 29 - May 1, 2015 Conference Website: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/dictap2015/ Email: dictap2015@sdiwc.net Conference Website: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/taeece2015/ Email: taeece2015@sdiwc.net Notes: - Give the ID number of the paper for fast Registration The time of each presentation including questions is 15 minutes. Please adhere to it. Nearest Airport: Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport Conference Program Date Time DICTAP 2015 TAEECE 2015 8h30 - 9h30 Registration Auditorium 9h30 - 10h00 Opening Ceremony 10h00 - 10h15 Coffee Break 10h15 - 11h00 Room A - Chair: Aziz Barbar Auditorium - Chair: Hadi Kanaan Keynote: Abdulmotaleb El Saddik Haptics A Multimedia Perspective Keynote: Kamal Al-Haddad & Haissam Nassrat Power Electronics Devices and Technologies: Latest Challenging Development and Industrial Application Session 1 - Auditorium Chairs : Ghaleb Hoblos & Nicolas Marchand Session 1 - Room A Chairs : Abdulmotaleb El Saddik & Abdallah Kassem Prognosis and Fault Diagnosis in Hybrid Electrical Vehicles Algorithms, Architecture, and Infrastructures 152 - MODELING AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION COMMUNICATIONS (NAILA BOUCHEMAL - FRANCE) OF V2I 156 - ASYNCHRONOUS GOSSIP-BASED DATA PROPAGATION PROTOCOL (IMAD ANTONIOS - UNITED STATES) Wednesday April 29, 2015 153 - HARDWARE EFFICIENT EARLY TERMINATION MECHANISM IN MOTION ESTIMATION FOR H.264 AVC (ESAM ALQARALLEH - JORDAN) 11h00 - 12h30+ 210 - ACUAI FRAMEWORK FOR AUTOMATIC COMPOSITION OF WEB SERVICES USING GAMING AI (MOHAMED FAYYAD - EGYPT) 221 - PERFORMANCE OF AN INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEM UNDER DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES (SADEQ ALHAMOUZ - JORDAN) 210 - PIECEWISE SWITCHED KALMAN FILTERING FOR SENSOR FAULT DIAGNOSIS IN A DC/DC POWER CONVERTER (HIBA AL-CHEIKH - LEBANON) 217 - FEATURE EXTRACTION FOR VIBRATION-BASED FAULT DETECTION IN PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS MOTORS (KAWTHAR ALAMEH FRANCE) 218 - FAULTS IN HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLES’ PERMANENT MAGNET MACHINES (RIHAM GINZARLY - LEBANON) 219 - DECISION ON PROGNOSIS APPROACHES OF HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLES’ ELECTRICAL MACHINES (RIHAM GINZARLY - LEBANON) Compression and Coding 201 - MATLAB/SIMULINK-BASED VERIFICATION ENVIRONMENT FOR MOTION ESTIMATION IN H.264/AVC (ESAM AL-QARALLEH - JORDAN) Sensor Networks and Embedded System 186 - CROWD FLOW ANALYSIS USING CATASTROPHE THEORY (MOHAMAD RAAD - LEBANON) 12h30 - 13h30 147 - HYBRID DYNAMIC DATA MINING SCHEME FOR DRIFT-LIKE FAULT DIAGNOSIS IN MULTICELLULAR CONVERTERS (MOAMAR SAYED MOUCHAWEH - FRANCE) 182 - CONTROLLABILITY ANALYSIS AND MOTORS FAILURES SYMMETRY IN A COAXIAL OCTOROTOR (CLOVIS FRANCIS - LEBANON) 192 - NEW TECHNIQUE FOR FEATURE SELECTION: COMBINATION BETWEEN ELASTIC NET AND RELIEF (NICOLE CHALLITA - LEBANON) Lunch Session 2 - Room A Chairs: Artificial Intelligence Session 2 - Auditorium Chairs: Rola Naja & Samir Tohme Vehicular Technologies and Protocols Hassan Artail: Vehicular Communications: Challenges and Solutions toward Practical Deployments Ahmad Chahine: Image/Signal Processing for Smart Vehicles Azzam Mourad: Challenges in ITS within very Limited Resources and Infrastructure Rola Naja: Research and Technical Trends in Vehicular Networks 13h30 - 16h00 164 - APPROACH OF SAFETY-RELATED MONITORING AND ANALYZING OF HUMAN MOTION WITH LIMITED SOURCES OF CAPTURED SENSORY DATA (ALI HAYEK - GERMANY) 179 - GROUP-BASED AUTHENTICATION IN V2V COMMUNICATIONS (HAMSSA HASROUNY - LEBANON) 193 - A NEW FEATURE EXTRACTION METHOD FOR LICENCE PLATE RECOGNITION (KHALED AL-MUSTAFA - SAUDI ARABIA) 201 - AN EFFICIENT ALGORITHM FOR AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION OF THE LEBANESE CAR LICENSE PLATE (ALI CHAMAS AL GHOUWAYEL – LEBANON) 174 - SAFETY-RELATED SYSTEM FOR DETECTING AND CONTROLLING VEHICLES MOTION (ALI HAYEK - GERMANY) 131 - PERCEPTION OF NOISE IN GLOBAL ILLUMINATION ALGORITHMS BASED ON SPIKE NEURAL NETWORK (JOSEPH CONSTANTIN - LEBANON) 110 - MULTIPLE STRINGS PLANING PROBLEM IN MARITIME SERVICE NETWORK: HYPER-HEURISTIC APPROACH (KASSEM DANACH - LEBANON) 195 - MODIFIED CLARKE WRIGHT ALGORITHMS FOR SOLVING THE REALISTIC VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM (AMINA SHOUR - LEBANON) 211 - THE APPLICATION OF DYNAMIC SELF-ORGANISED MULTILAYER NETWORK INSPIRED BY THE IMMUNE ALGORITHM FOR WEATHER SIGNALS FORECAST (DHIYA AL-JUMEILY-UK) 212 - PREDICTING THE LIKELIHOOD OF HEART FAILURE WITH A MULTI LEVEL RISK ASSESSMENT USING DECISION TREE (ABIR JAAFAR HUSSAINUK) Signal Processing 153 – WEIGHTED-COVARIANCE FACTOR FUZZY C-MEANS CLUSTERING (ABBAS RAMMAL - FRANCE) 172 - IMPROVEMENT ON PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD INSPECTION USING INJECTED AC CURRENT AND GMR MAGNETIC SENSOR (SIMON OBEID USA) 197 - FPGA REALIZATION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF FIXEDWIDTH MODIFIED BAUGH-WOOLEY MULTIPLIER (AIMAN BADAWI, ALI ALQARNI -SAUDI ARABIA) 209 - FPGA IMPLEMENTATION OF SCALABLE MICROPROGRAMMED FIR FILTER ARCHITECTURES USING WALLACE TREE AND VEDIC MULTIPLIERS (ABDULLAH ALJUFFRI, SYED MANZOOR QASIM, MOHAMMED BENSALEH - SAUDI ARABIA) Session 2 - Room B Chairs: Kamal Al-Haddad & Maher El Rafei Electric Energy Processing 138 - AUTONOMOUS WATER HEATER CURRENT OPTIMIZER (NABIL KARAMI - LEBANON) 181 - FMU SOFTWARE COMPONENT ORCHESTRATION STRATEGIES FOR CO-SIMULATION OF BUILDING ENERGY SYSTEMS (ABBASS RAAD FRANCE) 141 - NICKEL METAL HYDRIDE BATTERY: STRUCTURE, CHEMICAL REACTION, AND CIRCUIT MODEL (JIHAD TARABAY-LEBANON) 142 - REVIEW ON DIFFERENT CHARGING TECHNIQUES OF LEAD-ACID BATTERIES (PAMELA HORKOS-LEBANON) 143 - REVIEW ON DIFFERENT CHARGING TECHNIQUES OF A LITHIUM POLYMER BATTERY (JADE FATTAL-LEBANON) 144 - SURVEY ON ELECTRICAL MODELING METHODS APPLIED ON DIFFERENT BATTERY TYPES (NAGHAM GHOSEINY-LEBANON) 166 - BATTERY EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS AND BRIEF SUMMARY OF COMPONENTS VALUE DETERMINATION OF LITHIUM ION A REVIEW (JOHNNY WEHBE-LEBANON) 220 - REVIEW ON THE CHARGING TECHNIQUES OF A LI-ION BATTERY (ELIE AYOUB-LEBANON) 16h00 - 16h15 Coffee Break Session 3 - Auditorium Chairs: Session 3 - Room A Chairs: Communication Protocols, Communication Systems Wireless Communications 146 - REDUCING SCANNING DELAY FOR WIFI-TO-WHITEFI HANDOVERS (NADINE AKKARI - SAUDI ARABIA) 158 - MULTI CONTROL CHANDELIER OPERATIONS USING XBEE FOR HOME AUTOMATION (BILAL GHAZAL - LEBANON) 148 - A LOW COMPLEXITY TURBO RECEIVER FOR DATA NULLING SUPERIMPOSED PILOTS IN OFDM (FARAH ZAAROUR - FRANCE) 169 - TESTING FOR HANDOVER PERFORMANCE BASED ON ANDROID INTELLIGENT MOBILE EQUIPMENT (YUJING GONG - CHINA) 182 - ACCESS SELECTION AND JOINT PRICING IN MULTI-OPERATOR WIRELESS NETWORKS: A STACKELBERG GAME (SOHA FARHAT LEBANON) 185 - WIDE-BAND SLOTTED FLOWER PIFA ANTENNA FOR MULTIMEDIA HANDHELDS TERMINALS (KHALED AL-KHATIB - LEBANON) 192 -AN ENHANCED SCHEME FOR DIFFERENTIAL CHAOSCOMMUNICATION SYSTEM (NIZAR AL BASSAM - OMAN) Wireless and Optical Communications 16h15 - 18h00+ 185 - ON OPTIMIZING THE OPERATING CONDITIONS OF A MACHZEHNDER MODULATOR FOR IR-UWB OVER FIBER TRANSMISSION (HAIDAR TAKI - LEBANON) 204 - DESIGN OF A TRI BAND MICROSTRIP SLOT ANTENNA FOR LTE APPLICATIONS (MOHAMAD HASSAN HAROUN - LEBANON) Security in Information and Telecommunication System 144 - PRIVACY USING MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING (JACQUES BOU ABDO LEBANON) 146 - COMPACT SIW LEAKY WAVE ANTENNA (MOHAMAD KHALIL - IRAN) 221 - COMPACT WIDE-BAND AND LOW LOSS SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE (MOHAMAD KHALIL - IRAN) 208 - CASE STUDY: WIRELESSHART VS ZIGBEE NETWORK (NICOLAS HADDAD - LEBANON) Session 3 - Room B Chairs: Session 3 - Room C Chairs: E-Learning, E-Commerce, E-Business and E-Government Re-schedule presentation 162 - THE ROLE OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC DISPARITIES IN VARYING THE VIEWING BEHAVIOR OF E-LEARNERS (AYMAN EL SAMAD - KUWAIT) Information Retrieval 128 - DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A CUSTOM VERIFICATION ENVIRONMENT FOR FAULT INJECTION AND ANALYSIS ON AN EMBEDDED MICROPROCESSOR (BUSE USTAOGLU - TURKEY) 195 - COMPARISON OF MULTILABEL PROBLEM TRANSFORMATION METHODS FOR TEXT MINING (ZIAD ABDALLAH - LEBANON) 180 - WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES STATE ESTIMATION BASED ON THE OPTIMAL WEIGHT (YANG XIAOLI - CHINA) 159 - EXTRACTION OF REPORTED SPEECHES FROM ARABIC LEBANESE NEWSPAPERS (MOUSTAFA AL-HAJJ - LEBANON) 187 - FALSE DATA INJECTION ATTACKS IDENTIFICATION FOR SMART GRIDS (ZONGSHUAI HU – CHINA) 125 - DETECTION AND VISUALISATION OF OUTLIERS USING KERNEL PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS (DENIS HAMAD - FRANCE) 189 - LEAST SQUARES CLASS POWER SYSTEM STATE ESTIMATION ALGORITHM EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS (DEJUN MENG - CHINA) 160 - AUDIO INDEXING FOR YOUTUBE (MOHAMAD RAAD - LEBANON) 196 - A SMART ANDROID REMOTE MONITORING SYSTEM (HEWEI YU - CHINA) 157 - UNIVERSITY CUSTOMIZED KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (KMS) (MOHAMAD RAAD - LEBANON) 176 - SEMANTIC VECTOR SPACE MODEL FOR REDUCING ARABIC TEXT DIMENSIONALITY (ARAFAT AWAJAN - JORDAN) 163 - A MODIFIED ROUGH MODE DECISION PROCESS FOR FAST HIGH EFFICIENCY VIDEO CODING (HEVC) INTRA PREDICTION (KANAYAH SAURTY - MAURITIUS) 189 - PREDICTING STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE OF AN OFFLINE COURSE FROM THEIR ONLINE BEHAVIORS (QING ZHOU - CHINA) 211 - VARIOUS INTERFERENCE MODELS FOR MULTICELLULAR SCENARIOS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY (MIKE OJO - ITALY) 20h00 - 22h00 Gala Dinner 8h30 - 9h00 9h00 - 9h45 Registration Auditorium - Chair: Rola Naja Room A - Chair: Clovis Francis Keynote: Jacques Patarin Cryptography: History and new developments Keynote: Nicolas Marchand Controlling on Events: A Recent Progress in Control Theory and its Impact on Robotics 9h45 - 10h00 Coffee Break Session 4 - Room A Chairs: Xavier Moreau & Roy Abi Zeid Daou Novel Applications in Fractional Calculus 157 - TIME DOMAIN RESPONSE FOR THE FRACTIONAL ORDER TRANSFER FUNCTION CHARACTERIZING THE THERMAL DIFFUSIVE INTERFACE (ROY ABI ZEID DAOU - LEBANON) Workshop: Auditorium Chairs: Jacques Patarin & Abed Ellatif Samhat Thursday April 30, 2015 10h00 - 11h30 Rami Assoum, Souha Nassour, Nadine Maalouf, Nancy Achkar Diab The Mobile Operator Role in Paving the Way for M2M Business Success 175 - TEMPERATURE CONTROL OF A DIFFUSIVE MEDIUM USING THE SECOND GENERATION CRONE CONTROL (FADY CHRISTOPHY- LEBANON) 213 - A COMPARISON BETWEEN FREQUENCY DOMAIN AND TIME DOMAIN CONTROLLER SYNTHESIS - POSITION CONTROL OF A DC MOTOR (ROY ABI ZEID DAOU - LEBANON) Analysis of Power Quality and System Stability 171 - ACTIVE CONTROL FOR POWER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN HYBRID POWER SYSTEMS (WALID FRANGIEH-LEBANON) 178 - REAL GENERATION OF POWER QUALITY DISTURBANCES (PAMELA NAHOUM-LEBANON) Computer-Aided Design 135 - IMPROVED SHIELD DESIGN FOR SPLIT-RING RESONATOR (TAHIR EJAZ - PAKISTAN) Session 4 - Room B Chairs: Fiber Optics and Fiber Devices 162 - PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF AG:ZNO BASED UV MSM PHOTODETECTORS PREPARED BY SOL-GEL TECHNIQUE (GHUSOON M. ALI - IRAQ) Miscellaneous 223 - ITERATIVE TIME DOMAIN ESTIMATION OF RAPIDLY CHANGING CHANNEL FOR OFDM SYSTEMS IN A COGNITIVE RADIO CONTEXT (RONY DARAZI - LEBANON) 216 - FREQUENCY RESPONSE IMPROVEMENT OF THE TWO-STAGE OPAMP WITH INDIRECT COMPENSATION AND LARGE LOAD (ADNAN HARB - LEBANON) 163 - OPTIMIZING THE DESIGN PARAMETERS OF A WIRELESSPOWER TRANSFER SYSTEM FOR MAXIMIZING POWERTRANSFER EFFICIENCYA SIMULATION STUDY (REEM MELKI - LEBANON) 151 - QUASI-CONTINUOUS REAL-TIME SIMULATION OF AN RLE LOAD WITH A CURRENT MPCREGULATION (FLAVIA KHATOUNIAN - LEBANON) 149 - PARAMETER ESTIMATION OF SCATTERING COMPONENTS USING MATRIX PENCIL BASED SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION (KHALED CHAHINE - LEBANON) Workshop: Room A - Chair: Joseph Sadaka Engineering Custom Made Photovoltaic Solutions for the Lebanese Industry 11h30 - 12h30 12h30 - 13h30 Lunch Auditorium - Chair: Mohamad Khalil 13h30 - 14h30 Keynote: Abir Hussain Medical Application of Artificial Neural Networks Keynote:Dhiya Al-Jumeily Applied Computing in Health and Medicine Session 5 - Auditorium Chair: Session 5 - Room A Chair: Modeling, Algorithm, and Optimization Miscellaneous 106 - ROUTING HETEROGENEOUS MOBILE HOSPITAL WITH DIFFERENT PATIENTS PRIORITIES: HYPER-HEURISTIC APPROACH (KASSEM DANACH LEBANON) 130 - SIMULATION OF FSS STRUCTURES USING TLM (MOHAMED ABD ELAZEEM - EGYPT) 184 - INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE COORDINATION BASED ON POWER CONTROL FOR SELF-ORGANIZED 4G SYSTEMS (BILAL MAAZ - FRANCE) 183 - AN ANALYTICAL REVIEW ON THE MOST WIDELY USED METEOROLOGICAL MODELS IN FOREST FIRE PREDICTION (NIZAR HAMADEH - FRANCE) Telecommunication Business & Regulation 151 - INTERNATIONALIZATION PROCESS OF A MOBILE OPERATOR: CASE OF ZAIN TELECOM (ATEF HARB - LEBANON) Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems 183 - AN ENERGY MANAGEMENT APPROACH FOR SMART-GRIDS USING INTELLIGENT STORAGE SYSTEMS (JOELLE KLAIMI - FRANCE) Session 5 - Room B Chair: 14h30 - 16h00 Image Analysis and Image Processing 167 - PH SENSING CHARACTERISTICS OF EGFET BASED ON PD-DOPED ZNO THIN FILMS SYNTHESIZED BY SOL-GEL METHOD (GHUSOON M. ALI IRAQ) 215 - DISTINCTIVE STUDY OF UPFC AND FAULT ANALYSIS UNDER SIMULATED ENVIRONMENT (MD. SAIFUR RAHMAN CHOWDHURY – GERMANY) 160 - FACTORS AFFECTING CORONA POWER LOSSES IN JORDAN POWER GRID (MOHAMMAD AWAD MOMANI - JORDAN) 168 - EVALUATION AND SELECTION OF SAAS PRODUCT BASED ON USER PREFERENCES (NACIRA BOUSSOUALIM - ALGERIA) 149 - GLOBAL IMAGE REGISTRATION AND VIDEO COLOR CORRECTION IN PRESENCE OF ILLUMINATION VARIATIONS (ALI KANJ - FRANCE) 113 - SEAMLESS FUNDUS IMAGE STITCHING USING WLD TO IMPROVE FIELD OF VIEW (M. USMAN AKRAM – PAKISTAN) 123 - HUMAN IDENTIFICATION USING DENTAL BIOMETRIC ANALYSIS (USMAN AKRAM - PAKISTAN) 124 - ENHANCED DYNAMIC QUADRANT HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION PLATEAU LIMIT FOR IMAGE CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT (RIZWAN KHALID - PAKISTAN) 190 - MACHINE LEARNING SCHEMES IN AUGMENTED REALITY FOR FEATURES DETECTION (BACHAR EL HASSAN - LEBANON) 126 - COMPARISON OF SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES FOR HISTOPATHOLOGICAL IMAGES (HAWRAA HAJ HASSAN - LEBANON) Session 5 - Room D Chairs: Re-schedule presentation Session 5 - Room C Chair: Miscellaneous 206 - TOWARD A STATISTICAL UNDERSTANDING OF REFLECTARRAYS’ BANDWIDTH (HASSAN SALTI - KUWAIT) 207 - A SLOT-PATCH CELL WITH LOW PHASE DISTORTION FOR LARGE BAND REFLECTARRAYS (HASSAN SALTI - KUWAIT) 175 - CHARACTERIZATION OF THIN MAGNETIC MATERIALS FOR HIGH FREQUENCY APPLICATIONS (TALINE BOYAJIAN - LEBANON) 212 - ENHANCEMENT USING CHAOS OF A STEGANOGRAPHY METHOD IN DCT DOMAIN (BASSEM BAKHACHE - LEBANON) 213 - KERBEROS SECURED ADDRESS RESOLUTION PROTOCOL (KARP) (BASSEM BAKHACHE - LEBANON) 167 - FAULT DETECTION AND EXCLUSION FOR GNSS MEASUREMENTS USING OBSERVATIONS PROJECTION ON INFORMATION SPACE (MAHMOUD KADDOUR - LEBANON) 16h00 - 16h15 Friday May 1, 2015 8h30 - 13h00 Closing Ceremony Tour The Fifth International Conference on Digital Information and Communication Technology and its Applications (DICTAP2015) Third International Conference on Technological Advances in Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (TAEECE2015) April 29-30, May 1, 2015