Smart Technologies and Innovation for a Sustainable Future: Proceedings of the 1st American University in the Emirates International Research Conference — Dubai, UAE 2017

Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
 A Case Study of Pakistani News Channels: Media Education and Journalists’ Training  (Asad Ullah Khalid)....Pages 1-9
 A Cooperative Classification System for Credit Scoring  (Dalila Boughaci, Abdullah A. K. Alkhawaldeh)....Pages 11-20
 A Critical Evaluation of the Effects of Advertisements Targeted to Children  (Tarik Emre Yildirim, Asli Milla)....Pages 21-27
 A Gulf College Case Study: Technology Enhanced Students’ Learning Geared with Mobile Devices  (Rowena Ocier Sibayan, Alrence S. Halibas, Kenneth Ocier Sibayan)....Pages 29-34
 A Review Study on the Accuracy of Conversion Between IFPUG FPA and COSMIC Function Points  (Abedallah Zaid Abualkishik)....Pages 35-40
 Analyzing the Role of Human Computer Interaction Principles for E-Learning Solution Design  (Zahra Al Mahdi, Vikas Rao Naidu, Preethy Kurian)....Pages 41-44
 Automatic Detection of Students Learning Style in Learning Management System  (T. Sheeba, Reshmy Krishnan)....Pages 45-53
 Big Data Security and Privacy Concerns: A Review  (Akbar Khanan, Salwani Abdullah, Abdul Hakim H. M. Mohamed, Amjad Mehmood, Khairul Akram Zainol Ariffin)....Pages 55-61
 China’s Relations with Arab Gulf States  (Golam Mostafa)....Pages 63-72
 Citizen-Centric Approach in Delivery of Smart Government Services  (Ayman Ahmad Obedait, Mohamed Youssef, Nikolina Ljepava)....Pages 73-80
 Cloud Concept for Implementing Multimedia Based Learning in Higher Education  (Vikas Rao Naidu, Anjum Zameer Bhat, Baldev Singh)....Pages 81-84
 Diplomacy in the Internet Age—Challenges and Opportunities for the UAE  (Melissa M. Cyrill, Aftab Kamal Pasha)....Pages 85-93
 Enterprise Product Management in the Digital World  (Zornitsa Nikolova, Roumiana Antonova)....Pages 95-102
 ERP Security, Audit and Process Improvement  (Roumiana Antonova, Georgi Georgiev)....Pages 103-110
 Evaluating the Strength of Middle Eastern Monarchies and Republics  (Khulood Jamal)....Pages 111-114
 Exploring the Opportunities and Challenges of Open Source Software and Its Economic Impact on the Cybersecurity Market  (Ismail Alsharif, Adel Khelifi)....Pages 115-127
 Feasibility Analysis of Blockchain for Donation-Based Crowdfunding of Ethical Projects  (Nida Khan, Rachid Ouaich)....Pages 129-139
 Foreign Policy of the United Arab Emirates (UAE): Continuity and Change  (Mariam Alzaabi)....Pages 141-148
 Framing Natural Disaster, Terrorist Attack and Civil Unrest Crises by Egyptian Journalist and Citizen Bloggers  (Naheda Makhadmeh, Geri Zeldes)....Pages 149-175
 Humanities Scholar Information-Seeking Behavior: Quantitative Approach  (Mohammad Khaled Al Shboul, Othman A. Obeidat, Natarajan Sundar)....Pages 177-185
 Hybrid Alliances: Efficiency, Business Continuity and Future Foresight in a World of Challenges  (Marios Panagiotis Efthymiopoulos)....Pages 187-193
 Impact of Corporate E-Learning Systems in Enhancing the Team Performance in Virtual Software Teams  (Rajalakshmi Subramaniam, Senthilkumar Nakkeeran)....Pages 195-204
 IoT Based Water Usage Monitoring System Using LabVIEW  (P. Arun Mozhi Devan, K. Pooventhan, C. Mukesh Kumar, R. Midhun Kumar)....Pages 205-212
 Learning Analytics: Developing a Data-Centric Teaching-Research Skill  (Alrence S. Halibas, Bobby Sathyaseelan, Muhammad Shahzad)....Pages 213-219
 Measuring Ciphertext Randmoness Using Die Hard Randomness Index  (Mohammed M. Alani)....Pages 221-228
 Medical Grade QoS Improvement Using IEEE802.11e WLAN Protocol  (Luae’ A. Al-Tarawneh)....Pages 229-235
 Memristor-Based Tunable Analog Filter for Physiological Signal Acquisition for Electrooculography  (Juhi Faridi, Mohd. Samar Ansari)....Pages 237-242
 Migration from the Arab Spring Countries to Europe: Causes and Consequences  (Mohammed T. Bani Salameh)....Pages 243-254
 Multi-channel Buffer Enabled Technique for Video Streaming in IEEE 802.15.4  (Razi Iqbal)....Pages 255-262
 Multimedia Applications in Education  (Smilen Antonov Savov, Rumiana Antonova, Kamen Spassov)....Pages 263-271
 Non-invasive Extremist Identification and Asset Maintenance  (Vladimir Tomašević, Stanko Bulajić)....Pages 273-278
 Open Platform for Network Functions Virtualization in the Digital Era  (Stela Ruseva, Rumyana Antonova, Nikola Naidenov)....Pages 279-285
 Optimizing Turbo Codes for Secret Key Generation in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks  (Dhouha Kbaier Ben Ismail, Petros Karadimas, Gregory Epiphaniou, Haider Al-Khateeb)....Pages 287-293
 PROBSOL: A Web-Based Application to Develop Problem-Solving Skills in Introductory Programming  (Sohail I. Malik, Roy Mathew, Maytham M. Hammood)....Pages 295-302
 Process Mining of Event Logs from Horde Helpdesk  (Radim Dolak, Josef Botlik)....Pages 303-309
 Public Library Services to Children in the United Arab Emirates—A Study  (Natarajan Sundar, N. Radhakrishnan, Mohammad Khaled Issa Al-Shboul)....Pages 311-316
 Security and Privacy in Smart Cities: Issues and Current Solutions  (Talal Ashraf Butt, Muhammad Afzaal)....Pages 317-323
 Smart City Framework Development: Challenges and Solutions  (Ahmed N. AL-Masri, Anthony Ijeh, Manal Nasir)....Pages 325-331
 Smart City Transportation Services, Customer Satisfaction and Impact on the Quality of Life  (Aleksandar Aleksic, Nikolina Ljepava, Marija Ristic)....Pages 333-338
 Smart Classrooms  (Zoltan Horvath, Donludee Jaisut)....Pages 339-347
 Social Media and Disaster Management in India: Scope and Limitations  (Dhanashree Giri, Aman Vats)....Pages 349-356
 Strengthening Your Social Media Marketing with Live Streaming Video  (Matthew A. Gilbert)....Pages 357-365
 The Complexity of Governing Smart Cities—An Integrated Approach  (Geetha A. Rubasundram)....Pages 367-377
 The Impact of Smart Technology on Advertising: A Case Study of Pepsi-Egypt  (Bassant Eyada, Mai El Nawawy)....Pages 379-387
 The Onion Router: Is the Onion Network Suitable for Cloud Technologies  (Galia Novakova Nedeltcheva, Elior Vila, Marina Marinova)....Pages 389-398
 The Role of e-Governance in IoT Semantic Interoperability  (Lyubomir Blagoev, Kamen Spassov)....Pages 399-402
 The Role of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) in the Transformation of Dubai into a Smart City  (Hatem Ahmed Adela)....Pages 403-412
 The Social Significance of Corporate Security  (Dusko Tomic, Eldar Saljic)....Pages 413-420
 The Value of Intelligent Cybersecurity Strategies for Dubai Smart City  (Khulood Ali Jumah AlJarman AlZaabi)....Pages 421-445
 User and Item Preference Learning for Hybrid Recommendation Systems  (Kaavya Prakash, Fayiz Asad, Siddhaling Urolagin)....Pages 447-455
 Using a Simulation Game to Teach the Concept of ERP  (Jennifer Nightingale)....Pages 457-463