Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2018: Volume 1

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv
 Towards in SSVEP-BCI Systems for Assistance in Decision-Making  (Rodrigo Hübner, Linnyer Beatryz Ruiz Aylon, Gilmar Barreto)....Pages 1-18
 Image-Based Wheel-Base Measurement in Vehicles: A Sensitivity Analysis to Depth and Camera’s Intrinsic Parameters  (David Duron-Arellano, Daniel Soto-Lopez, Mehran Mehrandezh)....Pages 19-29
 Generic Paper and Plastic Recognition by Fusion of NIR and VIS Data and Redundancy-Aware Feature Ranking  (Alla Serebryanyk, Matthias Zisler, Claudius Schnörr)....Pages 30-45
 Hand Gesture Recognition with Leap Motion  (Lin Feng, Youchen Du, Shenglan Liu, Li Xu, Jie Wu, Hong Qiao)....Pages 46-54
 A Fast and Simple Sample-Based T-Shirt Image Search Engine  (Liliang Chan, Pai Peng, Xiangyu Liu, Xixi Cao, Houwei Cao)....Pages 55-62
 Autonomous Robot KUKA YouBot Navigation Based on Path Planning and Traffic Signals Recognition  (Carlos Gordón, Patricio Encalada, Henry Lema, Diego León, Cristian Peñaherrera)....Pages 63-78
 Towards Reduced Latency in Saccade Landing Position Prediction Using Velocity Profile Methods  (Henry Griffith, Subir Biswas, Oleg Komogortsev)....Pages 79-91
 Wireless Power Transfer Solutions for ‘Things’ in the Internet of Things  (Tim Helgesen, Moutaz Haddara)....Pages 92-103
 Electronic Kintsugi  (Vanessa Julia Carpenter, Amanda Willis, Nikolaj “Dzl” Møbius, Dan Overholt)....Pages 104-121
 A Novel and Scalable Naming Strategy for IoT Scenarios  (Alejandro Gómez-Cárdenas, Xavi Masip-Bruin, Eva Marín-Tordera, Sarang Kahvazadeh)....Pages 122-133
 The IoT and Unpacking the Heffalump’s Trunk  (Joseph Lindley, Paul Coulton, Rachel Cooper)....Pages 134-151
 Toys That Talk to Strangers: A Look at the Privacy Policies of Connected Toys  (Wahida Chowdhury)....Pages 152-158
 A Reinforcement Learning Multiagent Architecture Prototype for Smart Homes (IoT)  (Mario Rivas, Fernando Giorno)....Pages 159-170
 Real-Time Air Pollution Monitoring Systems Using Wireless Sensor Networks Connected in a Cloud-Computing, Wrapped up Web Services  (Byron Guanochanga, Rolando Cachipuendo, Walter Fuertes, Santiago Salvador, Diego S. Benítez, Theofilos Toulkeridis et al.)....Pages 171-184
 A Multi-agent Model for Security Awareness Driven by Home User’s Behaviours  (Farhad Foroughi, Peter Luksch)....Pages 185-195
 Light Weight Cryptography for Resource Constrained IoT Devices  (Hessa Mohammed Zaher Al Shebli, Babak D. Beheshti)....Pages 196-204
 A Framework for Ranking IoMT Solutions Based on Measuring Security and Privacy  (Faisal Alsubaei, Abdullah Abuhussein, Sajjan Shiva)....Pages 205-224
 CUSTODY: An IoT Based Patient Surveillance Device  (Md. Sadad Mahamud, Md. Manirul Islam, Md. Saniat Rahman, Samiul Haque Suman)....Pages 225-234
 Personal Branding and Digital Citizenry: Harnessing the Power of Data and IOT  (Fawzi BenMessaoud, Thomas Sewell III, Sarah Ryan)....Pages 235-240
 Testing of Smart TV Applications: Key Ingredients, Challenges and Proposed Solutions  (Bestoun S. Ahmed, Miroslav Bures)....Pages 241-256
 Dynamic Evolution of Simulated Autonomous Cars in the Open World Through Tactics  (Joe R. Sylnice, Germán H. Alférez)....Pages 257-268
 Exploring the Quantified Experience: Finding Spaces for People and Their Voices in Smarter, More Responsive Cities  (H. Patricia McKenna)....Pages 269-282
 Prediction of Traffic-Violation Using Data Mining Techniques  (Md Amiruzzaman)....Pages 283-297
 An Intelligent Traffic Management System Based on the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Sensing and Data Clustering  (Hamed H. Afshari, Shahrzad Jalali, Amir H. Ghods, Bijan Raahemi)....Pages 298-312
 Economic and Performance Based Approach to the Distribution System Expansion Planning Problem Under Smart Grid Framework  (Hatem Zaki, R. A. Swief, T. S. Abdel-Salam, M. A. M. Mostafa)....Pages 313-332
 Connecting to Smart Cities: Analyzing Energy Times Series to Visualize Monthly Electricity Peak Load in Residential Buildings  (Shamaila Iram, Terrence Fernando, Richard Hill)....Pages 333-342
 Anomaly Detection in Q & A Based Social Networks  (Neda Soltani, Elham Hormizi, S. Alireza Hashemi Golpayegani)....Pages 343-358
 A Study of Measurement of Audience in Social Networks  (Mohammed Al-Maitah)....Pages 359-368
 Predicting Disease Outbreaks Using Social Media: Finding Trustworthy Users  (Razieh Nokhbeh Zaeem, David Liau, K. Suzanne Barber)....Pages 369-384
 Detecting Comments Showing Risk for Suicide in YouTube  (Jiahui Gao, Qijin Cheng, Philip L. H. Yu)....Pages 385-400
 Twitter Analytics for Disaster Relevance and Disaster Phase Discovery  (Abeer Abdel Khaleq, Ilkyeun Ra)....Pages 401-417
 Incorporating Code-Switching and Borrowing in Dutch-English Automatic Language Detection on Twitter  (Samantha Kent, Daniel Claeser)....Pages 418-434
 A Systematic Review of Time Series Based Spam Identification Techniques  (Iqra Muhammad, Usman Qamar, Rabia Noureen)....Pages 435-443
 CNN with Limit Order Book Data for Stock Price Prediction  (Jaime Niño, German Hernandez, Andrés Arévalo, Diego Leon, Javier Sandoval)....Pages 444-457
 Implementing Clustering and Classification Approaches for Big Data with MATLAB  (Katrin Pitz, Reiner Anderl)....Pages 458-480
 Visualization Tool for JADE Platform (JEX)  (Halim Djerroud, Arab Ali Cherif)....Pages 481-489
 Decision Tree-Based Approach for Defect Detection and Classification in Oil and Gas Pipelines  (Abduljalil Mohamed, Mohamed Salah Hamdi, Sofiene Tahar)....Pages 490-504
 Impact of Context on Keyword Identification and Use in Biomedical Literature Mining  (Venu G. Dasigi, Orlando Karam, Sailaja Pydimarri)....Pages 505-516
 A Cloud-Based Decision Support System Framework for Hydropower Biological Evaluation  (Hongfei Hou, Zhiqun Daniel Deng, Jayson J. Martinez, Tao Fu, Jun Lu, Li Tan et al.)....Pages 517-529
 An Attempt to Forecast All Different Rainfall Series by Dynamic Programming Approach  (Swe Swe Aung, Shin Ohsawa, Itaru Nagayama, Shiro Tamaki)....Pages 530-547
 Non-subsampled Complex Wavelet Transform Based Medical Image Fusion  (Sanjay N. Talbar, Satishkumar S. Chavan, Abhijit Pawar)....Pages 548-556
 Predicting Concussion Symptoms Using Computer Simulations  (Milan Toma)....Pages 557-568
 Integrating Markov Model, Bivariate Gaussian Distribution and GPU Based Parallelization for Accurate Real-Time Diagnosis of Arrhythmia Subclasses  (Purva R. Gawde, Arvind K. Bansal, Jeffery A. Nielson)....Pages 569-588
 Identification of Glioma from MR Images Using Convolutional Neural Network  (Nidhi Saxena, Rochan Sharma, Karishma Joshi, Hukum Singh Rana)....Pages 589-597
 Array of Things for Smart Health Solutions Injury Prevention, Performance Enhancement and Rehabilitation  (S. M. N. Arosha Senanayake, Siti Asmah @ Khairiyah Binti Haji Raub, Abdul Ghani Naim, David Chieng)....Pages 598-615
 Applying Waterjet Technology in Surgical Procedures  (George Abdou, Nadi Atalla)....Pages 616-625
 Blockchain Revolution in the Healthcare Industry  (Sergey Avdoshin, Elena Pesotskaya)....Pages 626-639
 Effective Reversible Data Hiding in Electrocardiogram Based on Fast Discrete Cosine Transform  (Ching-Yu Yang, Lian-Ta Cheng, Wen-Fong Wang)....Pages 640-648
 Semantic-Based Resume Screening System  (Yu Hou, Lixin Tao)....Pages 649-658
 The Next Generation of Artificial Intelligence: Synthesizable AI  (Supratik Mukhopadhyay, S. S. Iyengar, Asad M. Madni, Robert Di Biano)....Pages 659-677
 Cognitive Natural Language Search Using Calibrated Quantum Mesh  (Rucha Kulkarni, Harshad Kulkarni, Kalpesh Balar, Praful Krishna)....Pages 678-686
 Taxonomy and Resource Modeling in Combined Fog-to-Cloud Systems  (Souvik Sengupta, Jordi Garcia, Xavi Masip-Bruin)....Pages 687-704
 Predicting Head-to-Head Games with a Similarity Metric and Genetic Algorithm  (Arisoa S. Randrianasolo, Larry D. Pyeatt)....Pages 705-720
 Artificial Human Swarms Outperform Vegas Betting Markets  (Louis Rosenberg, Gregg Willcox)....Pages 721-729
 Genetic Algorithm Based on Enhanced Selection and Log-Scaled Mutation Technique  (Neeraj Gupta, Nilesh Patel, Bhupendra Nath Tiwari, Mahdi Khosravy)....Pages 730-748
 Second-Generation Web Interface to Correcting ASR Output  (Oldřich Krůza, Vladislav Kuboň)....Pages 749-762
 A Collaborative Multi-agent System for Oil Palm Pests and Diseases Global Situation Awareness  (Salama A. Mostafa, Ahmed Abdulbasit Hazeem, Shihab Hamad Khaleefahand, Aida Mustapha, Rozanawati Darman)....Pages 763-775
 Using Mouse Dynamics for Continuous User Authentication  (Osama A. Salman, Sarab M. Hameed)....Pages 776-787
 Ten Guidelines for Intelligent Systems Futures  (Daria Loi)....Pages 788-805
 Towards Computing Technologies on Machine Parsing of English and Chinese Garden Path Sentences  (Jiali Du, Pingfang Yu, Chengqing Zong)....Pages 806-827
 Music Recommender According to the User Current Mood  (Murtadha Al-Maliki)....Pages 828-834
 Development of Extreme Learning Machine Radial Basis Function Neural Network Models to Predict Residual Aluminum for Water Treatment Plants  (C. D. Jayaweera, N. Aziz)....Pages 835-848
 Multi-layer Mangrove Species Identification  (Fenddy Kong Mohd Aliff Kong, Mohd Azam Osman, Wan Mohd Nazmee Wan Zainon, Abdullah Zawawi Talib)....Pages 849-855
 Intelligent Seating System with Haptic Feedback for Active Health Support  (Peter Gust, Sebastian P. Kampa, Nico Feller, Max Vom Stein, Ines Haase, Valerio Virzi)....Pages 856-873
 Intelligence in Embedded Systems: Overview and Applications  (Paul D. Rosero-Montalvo, Vivian F. López Batista, Edwin A. Rosero, Edgar D. Jaramillo, Jorge A. Caraguay, José Pijal-Rojas et al.)....Pages 874-883
 Biometric System Based on Kinect Skeletal, Facial and Vocal Features  (Yaron Lavi, Dror Birnbaum, Or Shabaty, Gaddi Blumrosen)....Pages 884-903
 Towards the Blockchain-Enabled Offshore Wind Energy Supply Chain  (Samira Keivanpour, Amar Ramudhin, Daoud Ait Kadi)....Pages 904-913
 Optimal Dimensionality Reduced Quantum Walk and Noise Characterization  (Chen-Fu Chiang)....Pages 914-929
 Implementing Dual Marching Square Using Visualization Tool Kit (VTK)  (Manu Garg, Sudhanshu Kumar Semwal)....Pages 930-940
 Procedural 3D Tile Generation for Level Design  (Anthony Medendorp, Sudhanshu Kumar Semwal)....Pages 941-949
 Some Barriers Regarding the Sustainability of Digital Technology for Long-Term Teaching  (Stefan Svetsky, Oliver Moravcik)....Pages 950-961
 Digital Collaboration with a Whiteboard in Virtual Reality  (Markus Petrykowski, Philipp Berger, Patrick Hennig, Christoph Meinel)....Pages 962-981
 Teaching Practices with Mobile in Different Contexts  (Anna Helena Silveira Sonego, Leticia Rocha Machado, Cristina Alba Wildt Torrezzan, Patricia Alejandra Behar)....Pages 982-991
 Accessibility and New Technology MOOC- Disability and Active Aging: Technological Support  (Samuel A. Navarro Ortega, M. Pilar Munuera Gómez)....Pages 992-1004
 Lecturing to Your Students: Is Their Heart In It?  (Aidan McGowan, Philip Hanna, Des Greer, John Busch)....Pages 1005-1016
 Development of Collaborative Virtual Learning Environments for Enhancing Deaf People’s Learning in Jordan  (Ahmad A. Al-Jarrah)....Pages 1017-1028
 Game Framework to Improve English Language Learners’ Motivation and Performance  (Monther M. Elaish, Norjihan Abdul Ghani, Liyana Shuib, Abdulmonem I. Shennat)....Pages 1029-1040
 Insights into Design of Educational Games: Comparative Analysis of Design Models  (Rabail Tahir, Alf Inge Wang)....Pages 1041-1061
 Immersive and Collaborative Classroom Experiences in Virtual Reality  (Derek Jacoby, Rachel Ralph, Nicholas Preston, Yvonne Coady)....Pages 1062-1078
 The Internet of Toys, Connectedness and Character-Based Play in Early Education  (Pirita Ihamäki, Katriina Heljakka)....Pages 1079-1096
 Learning Analytics Research: Using Meta-Review to Inform Meta-Synthesis  (Xu Du, Juan Yang, Mingyan Zhang, Jui-Long Hung, Brett E. Shelton)....Pages 1097-1108
 Students’ Evidential Increase in Learning Using Gamified Learning Environment  (V. Z. Vanduhe, H. F. Hassan, Dokun Oluwajana, M. Nat, A. Idowu, J. J. Agbo et al.)....Pages 1109-1122
 Improving the Use of Virtual Worlds in Education Through Learning Analytics: A State of Art  (Fredy Gavilanes-Sagnay, Edison Loza-Aguirre, Diego Riofrío-Luzcando, Marco Segura-Morales)....Pages 1123-1132
 Design and Evaluation of an Online Digital Storytelling Course for Seniors  (David Kaufman, Diogo Silva, Robyn Schell, Simone Hausknecht)....Pages 1133-1141
 The Role of Self-efficacy in Technology Acceptance  (Saleh Alharbi, Steve Drew)....Pages 1142-1150
 An Affective Sensitive Tutoring System for Improving Student’s Engagement in CS  (Ruth Agada, Jie Yan, Weifeng Xu)....Pages 1151-1163
 Multimedia Interactive Boards as a Teaching and Learning Tool in Environmental Education: A Case-Study with Portuguese Students  (Cecília M. Antão)....Pages 1164-1169
Back Matter ....Pages 1171-1174