Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2017)

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv
 An Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Mobile Wireless Sensor Network Based on IR-UWB  (Anouar Darif, Chaibi Hasna, Rachid Saadane)....Pages 1-12
 Obstacle Detection Algorithm by Stereoscopic Image Processing  (Adil Elachhab, Mohammed Mikou)....Pages 13-23
 A Simultaneous Topic and Sentiment Classification of Tweets  (Doaa Hassan)....Pages 24-33
 Local Directional Multi Radius Binary Pattern  (Mohamed Kas, Youssef El Merabet, Yassine Ruichek, Rochdi Messoussi)....Pages 34-48
 Content-Based Image Retrieval Approach Using Color and Texture Applied to Two Databases (Coil-100 and Wang)  (El Mehdi El Aroussi, Noureddine El Houssif, Hassan Silkan)....Pages 49-59
 Shape Classification Using B-spline Approximation and Contour Based Shape Descriptors  (Youssef Ait Khouya, Faouzi Ghorbel)....Pages 60-69
 An Image Processing Based Framework Using Crowdsourcing for a Successful Suspect Investigation  (Hasna El Alaoui El Abdallaoui, Fatima Zohra Ennaji, Abdelaziz El Fazziki)....Pages 70-80
 Recognition and Classification of Arabic Fricative Consonants  (Youssef Elfahm, Badia Mounir, Ilham Mounir, Laila Elmaazouzi, Abdelmajid Farchi)....Pages 81-89
 Cancer Classification Using Gene Expression Profiling: Application of the Filter Approach with the Clustering Algorithm  (Sara Haddou Bouazza, Khalid Auhmani, Abdelouhab Zeroual, Nezha Hamdi)....Pages 90-99
 Detection of Negative Emotion Using Acoustic Cues and Machine Learning Algorithms in Moroccan Dialect  (Abdellah Agrima, Laila Elmazouzi, Ilham Mounir, Abdelmajid Farchi)....Pages 100-110
 Using Multiple Minimum Support to Auto-adjust the Threshold of Support in Apriori Algorithm  (Azzeddine Dahbi, Youssef Balouki, Taoufiq Gadi)....Pages 111-119
 Prediction of the Degree of Parkinson’s Condition Using Recordings of Patients’ Voices  (Clara Jiménez-Recio, Alexander Zlotnik, Ascensión Gallardo-Antolín, Juan M. Montero, Juan Carlos Martínez-Castrillo)....Pages 120-129
 An Overview of a Distributional Word Representation for an Arabic Named Entity Recognition System  (Chaimae Azroumahli, Yacine El Younoussi, Ferdaouss Achbal)....Pages 130-140
 Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization for Travelling Salesman Problems: New Combinatorial Operators  (Morad Bouzidi, Mohammed Essaid Riffi, Ahmed Serhir)....Pages 141-150
 On Maximal Frequent Itemsets Enumeration  (Said Jabbour, Fatima Zahra Mana, Lakhdar Sais)....Pages 151-160
 Particle Swarm Optimization as a New Measure of Machine Translation Efficiency  (José Angel Montes Olguín, Jolanta Mizera-Pietraszko, Ricardo Rodriguez Jorge, Edgar Alonso Martínez García)....Pages 161-170
 Experimental Investigation of Ant Supervised by Simplified PSO with Local Search Mechanism (SAS-PSO-2Opt)  (Ikram Twir, Nizar Rokbani, Abdelkrim Haqiq, Ajith Abraham)....Pages 171-182
 A Human Identification Technique Through Dorsal Hand Vein Texture Analysis Based on NSCT Decomposition  (Amira Oueslati, Nadia Feddaoui, Kamel Hamrouni)....Pages 183-193
Back Matter ....Pages 195-196