American Council on Science & Education – CSCI 2017
CSCI 2017 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
The 2017 International Conference on Computational
Science and Computational Intelligence
http://americancse.org/events/csci2017
December 14-16, 2017
Monte Carlo Resort, 3770 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas, 89109, USA
December 13
05:00 - 08:00pm: REGISTRATION
(LOCATION: Victoria 1-2)
December 14
7:00am - 5:00pm: REGISTRATION
(LOCATION: Victoria 1-2)
08:30 - 08:50am: CSCI'17 OPENING REMARKS - December 14, 2017, Thursday:
CSCI 2017 Steering Committee representative,
Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia
Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, USA;
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer);
Co-Editor/Board, Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier);
(LOCATION: Richmond 1-2)
08:50 - 09:00am: ANNOUNCEMENT - December 14, 2017, Thursday:
INITIATIVES TO ALLEVIATE THE CHALLENGES FACED BY RESEARCHERS
& PHD STUDENTS IN AFRICA & MOST DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Nnenna Christine Martin
ResearchLink International LLC, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
(LOCATION: Richmond 1-2)
09:00 - 09:50am: CONFERENCE KEYNOTE LECTURE - December 14, 2017, Thursday:
DATA SCIENCE IN INDUSTRY AND TRANSPORT: THE BLACK SWAN EFFECT
Prof. Diego Galar
Professor & Former Director of Academic Innovation and Subsequently
Pro-Vice-Chancellor; Division of O&M Engineering; Lulea University
of Technology, Sweden; VOLVO Chair for Reliability and Maintenance,
Skovde University, Sweden
(LOCATION: Richmond 1-2)
10:00 - 10:40am: POSTER SESSIONS A-CSCI
December 14, 2017 (Thursday)
(LOCATION: Victoria 1-2)
Refreshments will be available.
List of poster papers appears at the end of December 14's schedule.
December 14
DECEMBER 14, 2017
THERE ARE FOUR SETS OF CONCURRENT SESSIONS FOR THE REST OF December 14, 2017;
SCHEDULED IN CONFERENCE ROOMS: Richmond 1, Richmond 2, Richmond 3, & Kensington 1.
------> SESSIONS SCHEDULED IN CONFERENCE ROOM Richmond 1 - DECEMBER 14 <------
SESSION 1A-ISCW: SYMPOSIUM ON CYBER WARFARE, CYBER DEFENSE, & CYBER SECURITY
(CSCI-ISCW)
Co-Chairs: Prof. Eamon P. Doherty* and Prof. Ahmed Emam**
*Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey, USA;
**King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
December 14, 2017 (Thursday); 10:40am - 12:00pm
(LOCATION: Richmond 1 Conference Room)
10:40 - 11:00am: ESeizure: A Mobile App for Digital Forensics First Responders
Cheryl Hinds, Peter Fenton
Department of Computer Science, Norfolk State University,
Norfolk, Virginia, USA
11:00 - 11:20am: Real-Time Cyber-Physical False Data Attack Detection in Smart
Grids Using Neural Networks
Erik M. Ferragut, Jason Laska, Mohammed M. Olama, Ozgur Ozmen
Computational Sciences and Engineering Division,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
11:20 - 11:40am: Drone Forensics: A Preliminary Flight Log Analysis of Micro Drones
Ankit L. P. S. Renduchintala, Abdulsahib Albehadili, and
Ahmad Y. Javaid
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
The University of Toledo, Ohio, USA
11:40 - 12:00pm: Deep Learning Approach to Malware Multi-Class Classification
Using Image Processing Techniques
Mamta Kumari, George Hsieh, Christopher A. Okonkwo
Computer Science, Norfolk State University, Virginia, USA;
Info Directorate, Air Force Research Lab, Rome, New York, USA
12:00 - 01:00pm: LUNCH (On Your Own)
SESSION 1B-ISMC: SYMPOSIUM ON MOBILE COMPUTING, WIRELESS NETWORKS, & SECURITY
(CSCI-ISMC)
Co-Chairs: Dr. Abdulrahman Alzahrani* and Dr. Muazzam Khattak**
*Oakland University, Rochester, USA;
**SEECS, NUST, Pakistan
December 14, 2017 (Thursday); 01:00pm - 03:20pm
(LOCATION: Richmond 1 Conference Room)
01:00 - 01:20pm: Comparing Simultaneous vs. Serial Acquisitions in Smartphone
Investigations
Eamon Doherty
Cybercrime Training Lab Director, School of Administrative Science,
Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey, USA
01:20 - 01:40pm: Tarsier: A Light-Weight Mobile Framework for Visualizing
Gravitational-Wave Transients
Leonidas Deligiannidis, Chen-Hsiang Yu
Department of Computer Science and Networking, Wentworth Institute
of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
December 14
01:40 - 02:00pm: Machine Learning Approach Using ANN on the Design of Flexible
Wireless Sensor for UWB Applications
Ali I. Hammoodi, Mariofanna Milanova, Haider Khaleel
Department of Systems Engineering, University of Arkansas at
Little Rock, Arkansas, USA; Department of Computer Science,
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Arkansas, USA;
Physics Department, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
02:00 - 02:20pm: Investigating the Effect of Imperfect Sensing in Cognitive
Radio Network
Ifeoma U. Ohaeri, Bokohwo Michael Esiefarienrhe, Mpalene Kia
North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, South Africa
02:20 - 02:40pm: Secure AODV Protocol for Mobile Networks using Short Digital
Signatures
Muhammad Tahir Abbas, Muazzam A. Khan, Ahmad Khaliq,
Nazar A. Saqib, Saad Rehman
Department of Computer Engineering, College of Electrical and
Mechanical Engineering, National University of Sciences and
Technology (NUST) Islamabad, Pakistan
02:40 - 03:00pm: NOTE: PENDING USA VISA issuance on time
Performance Evaluation of Routing Protocols for Rural Wireless
Mesh Networks - RWMNs
Ayomide Ajayi, Christopher Edwards, Utz Roedig
School of Computing and Communications, Infolab 21,
Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
03:00 - 03:20pm: FREE SLOT
03:20 - 03:40pm: BREAK (Refreshments/drinks will be available.)
(LOCATION: Victoria 1-2)
SESSION 1C-ISBD: SYMPOSIUM ON BIG DATA AND DATA SCIENCE (CSCI-ISBD)
Co-Chairs: Dr. Abdulrahman Alzahrani*, Tobias Eichinger**, &
Zhuo Yao***
*Oakland University, Rochester, USA;
**Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany;
***Oak Ridge National Lab, USA & University of
Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
December 14, 2017 (Thursday); 03:30pm - 06:20pm
(LOCATION: Richmond 1 Conference Room)
03:40 - 04:00pm: A Methodology for Real-Time Spatiotemporal Data-Intensive
Computation
Monir H. Sharker, Hassan A. Karimi
Computer Science, Morgan State University, Maryland, USA;
School of Computing & Info, University of Pittsbiurgh,
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
04:00 - 04:20pm: XXXXXX FREE SLOT
December 14
04:20 - 04:40pm: An Improved Metadata Model for Big Data Processing in
Cloud Data Centers
Nader F. Mir, Navyatha Marreddy, Prita Nigam
Department of Electrical Engineering,
San Jose State University, California, USA
04:40 - 05:00pm: Applying the Kasai to Weather Prediction
Jesuye David, Kenneth Mbale, Darsana Josyula
Department of Computer Science, Bowie State University,
Bowie, Maryland, USA
05:00 - 05:20pm: Analysing the Sentiment Expressed by Political Audiences
on Twitter: The case of the 2017 UK general election
Matthew Plummer, Marco A. Palomino, Giovanni L. Masala
Big Data Group, School of Computing, Electronics & Math,
University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
05:20 - 05:40pm: Modified K-means Algorithm for Big Data Clustering
Debapriya Sengupta, Sayantan Singha Roy, Sarbani Ghosh,
and Ranjan Dasgupta
Department of CSE, NITTTR, Kolkata, India
05:40 - 06:00pm: Differential Private-Hilbert: Data Publication using
Hilbert Curve Spatial Mapping
Jaime Raigoza
CS Department, California State University, Chico,
California, USA
06:00 - 06:20pm: Exploring the Application of Big Data Analysis in
Healthcare Sector
Amrita Sisodia, Rajni Jindal
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India
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10:00 - 10:40am: POSTER SESSIONS A-CSCI
December 14, 2017 (Thursday)
(LOCATION: Victoria 1-2)
Refreshments will be available.
List of poster papers appears at the end of December 14's schedule.
SESSION 2A-ISPD: SYMPOSIUM ON PARALLEL & DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING &
COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE (CSCI-ISPD)
Co-Chairs: Dr. William Dai* and Zhuo Yao**
*Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA;
**Oak Ridge National Lab, Tennessee, USA &
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
December 14, 2017 (Thursday); 10:40am - 12:20pm
(LOCATION: Richmond 2 Conference Room)
10:40 - 11:00am: High Performance IO Tools for Mesh in Numerical Simulations
William W. Dai
Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
December 14
11:00 - 11:20am: Accelerating High-Dimensional Integration using Lattice
Rules on GPUs
Ahmed Almulihi, Elise De Doncker
Department of Computer Science, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
11:20 - 11:40am: Runtime Power Limiting in GAMESS on Dual-Socket Nodes
Vaibhav Sundriyal, Masha Sosonkina, Mark Gordon
Department of Modeling, Visualization & Simulation Eng.,
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA;
Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, USA
11:40 - 12:00pm: Crosstalk-Free BPC Semi-Permutation Routing in Optical
Multistage Interconnection Networks
Gennady Veselovsky, Sermvut Ackarachalanonth
Department of Computer and Network Engineering,
Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand
12:00 - 12:20pm: Reducing Idle Power Consumption in High Performance Systems
Vaibhav Sundriyal, Masha Sosonkina
Department of Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Eng.,
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
12:20 - 01:00pm: LUNCH (On Your Own)
SESSION 2B-ISCI: SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE (CSCI-ISCI)
Co-Chairs: Prof. Ray R. Hashemi*, Dr. Ahmad Y. Javaid** &
Alban Rashiti***
Armstrong State University, Georgia, USA;
**The University of Toledo, Ohio, USA;
***Riinvest College, Prishtina, Kosovo
December 14, 2017 (Thursday); 01:00pm - 03:20pm
(LOCATION: Richmond 2 Conference Room)
01:00 - 01:20pm: A Genetic Algorithm Based Approach for Data Fusion at
Grammar Level
Mohammad Faridul Haque Siddiqui, Jackson D. Carvalho, and
Ahmad Y. Javaid
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department,
The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA
01:20 - 01:40pm: Opinion Mining Techniques and Tools: A Case Study on an
Arab Newspaper
Maha Alzahrani, Ahmed Emam
Department of Information Systems, King Saud University,
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Menoufia University, Egypt
01:40 - 02:00pm: Graph Based AHC Algorithm for Text Clustering
Taeho Jo
School of Game, Hongik University, Sejong, South Korea
02:00 - 02:20pm: Fuzzy System for Human Resource Performance Evaluation
Anderson Silva De Oliveira Goes, Roberto Celio Limao
Federal University of Para, Belem, Brazil
02:20 - 02:40pm: Graph Based KNN for Text Segmentation
Taeho Jo
School of Game, Hongik University, Sejong, South Korea
December 14
02:40 - 03:00pm: Movie Master: Hybrid Movie Recommendation Engine
Rajan Subramaniam, Roger Lee, Tokuro Matsuo
Department of Computer Science, Central Michigan University,
Mount Pleasant, Michigan, USA;
Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Tokyo, Japan
03:00 - 03:20pm: Extraction of the Essential Constituents of the S&P 500 Index
Ray R. Hashemi, Omid M. Ardakani, Azita A. Bahrami, and
Jeffrey Young
Department of CS, Armstrong State University, Savannah,
Georgia, USA; Department of Economics, Armstrong State
University, Savannah, Georgia, USA; IT Consultation, GA, USA
03:20 - 03:40pm: BREAK (Refreshments/drinks will be available.)
(LOCATION: Victoria 1-2)
SESSION 2C-ISCS: SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE (CSCI-ISCS)
Chair: Dr. Kai Wang
Georgia Southern University, USA;
December 14, 2017 (Thursday); 03:40pm - 06:00pm
(LOCATION: Richmond 2 Conference Room)
03:40 - 04:00pm: Stochastic Path Finding Under Congestion
Kamilia Ahmadi, Vicki H. Allan
Department of Computer Science, Utah State University,
Logan, Utah, USA
04:00 - 04:20pm: Toward Developing a Hybrid Storage Format for Efficient
Storing of Configuration Interaction Sparse Matrices
Working with CPU/GPU
Mohammed Mahmoud, Mark Hoffmann, Hassan Reza
Department of Computer Science; Department of Chemistry,
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA;
04:20 - 04:40pm: Battery Storage Integration into the Electric Grid
Vivian Sultan, Ahmed Alzahrani, Hind Bitar, Brian Hilton
Claremont Graduate University Center for Information
Systems & Technology, Claremont, California, USA
04:40 - 05:00pm: AidData.org: A Donation Analysis
Harini Musunuru, Roger Lee, Tokuro Matsuo
Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, USA;
Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Tokyo, Japan
05:00 - 05:20pm: Adaption of Levenshtein Algorithm for Albanian Language
Alban Rashiti, Arben Damoni
Department of CS, Riinvest College, Prishtina, Kosovo
05:20 - 05:40pm: Probabilistic Tit-for-Tat Strategy versus Nash Equilibrium
for Infinitely Repeated Games
K. Madhumidha, N. Vijayarangan, K. Padmanabhan, B. Satish,
N. Kartick, Viswanath Ganesan
CSE, Sona College of Technology, Salem, India;
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS), Chennai, India
05:40 - 06:00pm: Proposition of a Method for Assessing Similarity Between
two Ontologies
Aly Ngone Ngom, Fatou Kamara-Sangare, Moussa Lo
LANI, Gaston Berger University, Louis, Senegal
December 14
------> SESSIONS SCHEDULED IN CONFERENCE ROOM Richmond 3 - DECEMBER 14 <------
10:00 - 10:40am: POSTER SESSIONS A-CSCI
December 14, 2017 (Thursday)
(LOCATION: Victoria 1-2)
Refreshments will be available.
List of poster papers appears at the end of December 14's schedule.
SESSION 3A-ISNA: SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS, SOCIAL MEDIA, &
MINING (CSCI-ISNA)
Co-Chairs: Prof. Mariofanna Milanova* & Dr. Vijayarangan Natarajan**
*University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA;
**TTH Innovation Lab, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, India
December 14, 2017 (Thursday); 10:40am - 12:00pm
(LOCATION: Richmond 3 Conference Room)
10:40 - 11:00am: The Current State of Interoperability in Decentralized
Online Social Networking Services
Sebastian Gondor, Axel Kupper
Service-centric Networking, Telekom Innovation Laboratories,
TU Berlin, Germany
11:00 - 11:20am: A System for Visualizing the Relationships between Pages and
Involved Factors Across the Gap of Local Area and the Web
Daisuke Arakawa, Hiroki Nakayama, Ryo Onuma, Takashi Amano,
Hiroaki Kaminaga, Youzou Miyadera, Shoichi Nakamura
Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Fukushima
University, Fukushima, Japan; Global Education Center,
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan; Division of Natural Science,
Tokyo Gakugei University, Tokyo, Japan
11:20 - 11:40am: A Novel Approach for Studying Privacy Behavior in Social Media
Roba Darwish, Kambiz Ghazinour
Advanced Information Security and Privacy Lab, Department of
Computer Science, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA
11:40 - 12:00pm: XXXXXX The 2015 Canadian Election on Twitter: A Tidy Algorithmic
Analysis
William Sanger, Thierry Warin
Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal,
Social Data Science, CIRANO, Montreal, Canada;
International Business, HEC Montreal, Canada;
Network Faculty Affiliate, Harvard Business School, Massachusetts, USA
12:00 - 01:00pm: LUNCH (On Your Own)
SESSION 3B-ISED: SYMPOSIUM ON EDUCATION (CSCI-ISED)
Co-Chairs: Specialist Professor Gil Eckert*, Dr. Giti Javidi**,
and Dr. Arshia Khan***
*Monmouth University, USA;
**University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA;
***University of Minnesota Duluth, Minnesota, USA
December 14, 2017 (Thursday); 01:00pm - 03:20pm
(LOCATION: Richmond 3 Conference Room)
01:00 - 01:20pm: A MultiChain-Based Homework Submission System
Salvador Barbosa, Ralph Butler, Chrisila Pettey
Department of Computer Science, Middle Tennessee
State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA
01:20 - 01:40pm: Abstracting Learning Methods for Stack and Queue Data
Structures in Video Games
Byron Park, Dewan Tanvir Ahmed
Department of Computer Science, University of North
Carolina at Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
December 14
01:40 - 02:00pm: An Assessment Scheme for Short-Term Placements
Nicole Herbert
School of Engineering and ICT, University of Tasmania,
Tasmania, Australia
02:00 - 02:20pm: Development of a Laboratory Rules Description Grammar
Accommodating a Variety of Research Activities
Takuma Oura, Yoshiki Sato, Yasuhiko Morimoto,
Hiroki Nakayama, Shoichi Nakamura, Youzou Miyadera
Faculty of Education, Tokyo Gakugei University, Tokyo, Japan;
Info Processing Center, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan;
Global Education Center, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan;
Department of CS & Math, Fukushima Universit, Japan;
Division of Natural Science, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan
02:20 - 02:40pm: Impact of Student Engagement on First Year ICT Performance
Nicole Herbert
School of Engineering and ICT, University of Tasmania,
Tasmania, Australia
02:40 - 03:00pm: Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics: Overview of
Benefits and Challenges
Giti Javidi, Lila Rajabion, Ehsan Sheybani
University of South Florida, Sarasota, Florida, USA
03:00 - 03:20pm: Free Talk Zone: Inclusive Pedagogy to Encourage Women in
Computer Science
Arshia Khan, Yichen Wei
Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota
Duluth, Minnesota, USA
03:20 - 03:40pm: BREAK (Refreshments/drinks will be available.)