Summary: A Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANETs) is a network comprising mobile nodes formed without the support of any centralized physical infrastructures. MANETs become a significant communication technology in modern life due to their flexibility. Scalability is of central concern among researcher community and an issue that has crucial impact on

Summary: Recent studies have shown the possibilities of computers to understand, analyze and respond to human emotions through speech, facial expressions and neuro-physiological interface. Although emotion plays an important role in human communication, health and brain development, it only provides immediate responses contingent on the situat

Summary: Stream ciphers are commonly used to provide confidentiality for a wide range of frame based applications such as mobile devices or embedded systems. For these applications, stream ciphers are preferred for encryption due to the simplicity of their implementation, efficiency and high throughput. However, practical attacks have been dis

Summary: High quality metadata represents the goodness of the records in the digital repository and make the records easily accessible to the users. Metadata quality is an important determinant to enhance the functionality of the resources in the digital repository. There is a growing awareness on the essential role of metadata quality for suc

Summary: The detection rate of any malware detection system depends on the quality of selected applications features and feature selection techniques. The basic idea in this thesis is to use apriori algorithm to generate candidates (flagbearers) from the feature set of android applications for classification into malicious or benign applicatio

Summary: Peace provides the freedom to express our views, to relate with other people, to create cooperation facilities, whereas social networks (SNs) provide a platform to do so. SNs can play a significant role in improving peacebuilding (Pb) process as recent peace-related studies witness that, peace and crisis reports are communicated by di

Summary: Deaf people or people with hearing loss have a major problem in everyday communication. Sign Language (SL) is a common communication method for deaf people. Many attempts have been made with SL translator to solve of communication gap between normal and deaf people and ease communication for deaf people. The system is able to match an

Summary: Software engineering mainly deals with software development teams, which comprise of a group of two or more people working together cohesively to produce goods or services. Each team possesses a particular working environment or team climate which can be defined by its domain specific requirements. Software engineers are different fro

Summary: There is a growing global concern among e-commerce customers particularly among Muslim customers regarding online transaction both from the technological and Shari’ah perspectives, which require researchers to examine its application into these dimensions. Through this study, the researcher aimed to (i) identify the issues that conc

Summary: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is the type of wireless technology that enables handheld devices to read the low-priced tags at a short distance without requiring a power source. Since Malaysia is a modern Muslim country and heading towards being a global halal-hub; herein consumer retail industry maintaining halal product integ