1st International Conference Of Applied Computing & Smart Cities (ICACS21 )
<p>Cities stand to benefit the most from connecting people, process, data, and things. A Smart City exploits sustainable information and communication technologies to improve quality of life, health, education, and also the performance of urban services for citizens. </p><p><span style="color:#212121;">Under the supervision of the board of trustees and the presidency of </span><a href="https://knu.edu.iq/index.php"><span style="color:#212121;">Knowledge University</span></a>, on Saturday 22/1/2022 <a href="https://knu.edu.iq/index.php">Knowledge University </a>held a first day of the International conference entitled: 1st International Conference of Applied Computing & Smart Cities (ICACS21) at 9:00 am, <a href="https://knu.edu.iq/index.php">KNU campus</a> in the city of Erbil, Iraq.</p><p> </p><p>The conference started by a speech from <a href="https://knu.edu.iq/president_word.php">Asst. Prof. Dr. Kayhan Zrar Ghafoor the president of Knowledge University</a> and <span style="color:black;">the general Chair of the conference, below is the link of the speech:</span></p><p><a href="https://knu.edu.iq/news-single.php?newsId=227">The speech of the president of KNU in 1st International Conference of Applied Computing & Smart Cities (ICACS21 )</a></p><p style="text-align:justify;">Overall, in terms of participation in ICACS21, almost half of the papers submitted were international. A total of 35 papers were received. In order to guarantee the quality of the papers published our international technical program committee comprises of 21 experts in the fields relevant ICACS21. Each submitted manuscript was reviewed by 3 reviewers. And only 19 papers made it to the final round; almost a 54% acceptance rate.</p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:black;">the importance of this scientific occasion is seen in this scientific co-ordination between the three universities (Wolverhampton University and Sanniga and St. Valley University), each with High Academic Profile Holder, high esteemed and self-employed science staff that have been an opportunity to receive new and high-level scientific research, particularly with the growing need to revitalize the smart city across the Kurdistan Region and Iraq</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> </p><ul><li><span style="color:#222222;">Accepted Papers: </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/icacs21/home/accepted-papers?authuser=0">ICACS21 - Accepted Papers (google.com)</a></li><li><span style="color:#222222;">Agenda link: </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/icacs21/home/agenda?authuser=0">ICACS21 - Agenda (google.com)</a></li><li><span style="color:#222222;">Organizing Committee: </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/icacs21/home/organizing-committee?authuser=0">ICACS21 - Organizing Committee (google.com)</a></li><li><span style="color:#222222;">Technical Committee: </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/icacs21/home/technical-committee?authuser=0">ICACS21 - Technical Committee (google.com)</a></li><li><span style="color:#222222;">Keynote Speakers: </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/icacs21/home/keynote-speakers?authuser=0">ICACS21 - Keynote Speakers (google.com)</a></li><li><span style="color:#222222;">YouTube video: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quzlWPjhJjI">1st International Conference of Applied Computing & Smart Cities (ICACS21 ) - YouTube</a></li></ul><p> </p><p><span style="color:#222222;"><strong>Topics included:</strong></span></p><ul><li><span style="color:#212121;">AI and Machine Learning for secure and sustainable smart cities</span></li><li><span style="color:#212121;">Cloud/edge/fog computing for smart cities</span></li><li><span style="color:#212121;">IoT and Cyber Physical Systems for smart cities</span></li><li><span style="color:#212121;">Secure and Trustworthy Computing for smart cities</span></li><li><span style="color:#212121;">Energy harvesting and sustainability in smart cities</span></li><li><span style="color:#212121;">Employment of IoT and mobile network technologies in education</span></li><li><span style="color:#212121;">AI enabled IoT education systems </span></li><li><span style="color:#212121;">Machine learning for IoT Systems</span></li><li><span style="color:#212121;">IoT for health care systems</span></li><li><span style="color:#212121;">Sustainable power system based on IoT and AI </span></li><li><span style="color:#212121;">Protocols and algorithms for wireless sensor networks</span></li><li><span style="color:#212121;">Internet of Flying Things </span></li><li><span style="color:#212121;">Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in IoT</span></li><li><span style="color:#212121;">Social media and urban awareness</span></li><li><span style="color:#212121;">Blockchain for IoT networks</span></li><li><span style="color:#212121;">5G and beyond 5G networks</span></li><li><span style="color:#212121;">Wearable devices for communications and computing</span></li></ul><p> </p><p><span style="color:#212121;"><strong>Presenters and paper titles:</strong></span></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://knu.edu.iq/staff.php?stid=23">Saifuldeen H. Abdulrahman</a> - <span style="color:black;">Using Decision Tree Algorithms in Detecting Spam Emails Wrote in Malay: Comparison Study</span></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://knu.edu.iq/staff.php?stid=22"><span style="color:black;">Mustafa Zuhaer</span></a><span style="color:black;"> - Face Recognition System Using Independent Components Analysis and Support Vector Neural Network </span>Classifier</p><p> </p><p><span style="color:black;">Khalid Fadhil - Analysis of Encryption Algorithms Proposed for Data Security in 4G and 5G Generations</span></p><p> </p><p>ICamaran Manguri - <span style="color:black;">SDN for IoT Environment: A Survey and Research Challenges</span></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://knu.edu.iq/staff.php?stid=2"><span style="color:black;">Zaid Saad Ismail</span></a><span style="color:black;"> - Weather Classification Model Performance: Using CNN, Keras-TensorFlow</span></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://knu.edu.iq/staff.php?stid=51">Nashwan Adnan Othman </a>- <span style="color:black;">Privacy Preserving Data Mining by Using Random Decision Tree Over Vertically and Horizontally Partition Data : survey</span></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://knu.edu.iq/staff.php?stid=106">Aws Ahmed Jaff</a> - <span style="color:black;">Software Defined Networking Automation Using Open Daylight and Network Virtualization for security and scalability: a network enterprise case</span></p><p> </p><p>Runahi Friad Qadr - <span style="color:black;">Novel Integration of Wi-Fi Signal and Magnetometer Sensor Measurements in Fingerprinting Technique for Indoors Smartphone positioning</span></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://knu.edu.iq/staff.php?stid=127">Ammar Waysi AlTuhafi </a>- <span style="color:black;">Adaptation for Vigenere Cipher Method for Auto Binary Files </span>Ciphering</p><p> </p><p>Ragad M Tawafak - Artificial Intelligence Effectiveness during COVID-19 Pandemic</p><p> </p><p>Ragad M Tawafak - An Application of Heuristic and Meta Dendral Expert System</p><p> </p>
