Aboul Ella Hassanien (Abo)

This volume contains accepted papers presented at AECIA2014, the First International Afro-European Conference for Industrial Advancement. The aim of AECIA was to bring together the foremost experts as well as excellent young researchers from Africa, Europe, and the rest of the world to disseminate latest results from various fields of engineering, information, and communication technologies. The first edition of AECIA was organized jointly by Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, Addis Ababa University, and VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic and took place in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa.

WSN as a new category of computer-based computing platforms and network structures is showing new applications in different areas such as environmental monitoring, health care and military applications. Although there are a lot of secure image processing schemas designed for image transmission over a network, the limited resources and the dynamic environment make it invisible to be used with Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). In addition, the current secure data transmission schemas in WSN are concentrated on the text data and are not applicable for image transmission's applications. Furthermore, secure image transmission is a big challenging issue in WSNs especially for the application that uses image as its main data such as military applications. The reason why is because the limited resources of the sensor nodes which are usually deployed in unattended environments. This chapter introduces a secure image processing and transmission schema in WSN using Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) and Homomorphic Encryption (HE).

This paper proposes a recommender system to predict and suggest a
set of rehabilitation methods for patients with spinal cord injuries (SCI). The proposed
system automates, stores and monitors the heath conditions of SCI patients.
The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health classification
(ICF) is used to stores and monitors the progress in health status. A set of
similarity measures are utilized in order to get the similarity between patients and
predict the rehabilitation recommendations. Experimental results showed that the
proposed recommender system has obtained an accuracy of 98% via implementing
the cosine similarity measure.

Cluster analysis is a popular technique whose aim is to segregate a set of data points into groups, called clusters. Simulated Annealing (SA) is a popular meta-heuristic inspired by the annealing process used in metallurgy, useful in solving complex optimization problems. In this paper, the use of the Quantum Computing (QC) and SA is explored to design Quantum Inspired Simulated Annealing technique, which can be applied to compute optimum number of clusters for image clustering. Experimental results over a number of images endorse the effectiveness of the proposed technique pertaining to fitness value, convergence time, accuracy, robustness, and standard error. The paper also reports the computation results of a statistical superiority test, known as t-test. An experimental judgement to the classical technique has also be presented, which eventually demonstrates that the proposed technique outperforms the other.

Nowadays, a dataset includes a huge number of features with irrelevant and redundant ones. Feature selection is required for a better machine-learning algorithms' performance. A system for feature selection is proposed in this work using a sine cosine algorithm (SCA). SCA is a new stochastic search algorithm for optimization problems. SCA optimization adaptively balances the exploration and exploitation to find the optimal solution quickly. The SCA can quickly explore the feature space for optimal or near-optimal feature subset minimizing a given fitness function. The proposed fitness function used incorporates both classification accuracy and feature size reduction. The proposed system was tested on 18 datasets and shows an advance over other search methods as particle swarm optimization (PSO) and genetic algorithm (GA) optimizers commonly used in this context using different evaluation indicators.