Recent trends in information and communication technology : Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of Reliable Information and Communication Technology (IRICT 2017) / Faisal Saeed [and others], editors.

Preface; IRICT-2017 Organizing Committee; Patron; Honorary Chair; International Advisory Board; Conference Chair; Program Committee Co-chairs; Secretariat; Publicity Committee; Publications Committee; IT Committee; Logistic Committee; Treasure Committee; Registration Committee; Sponsorship; International Technical Committee; Contents; Big Data Analysis Techniques and Applications; Prediction of Financial Distress for Electricity Sectors Using Data Mining; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Methodology; 2.1 Models for Predicting Financial Distress and Forecasting Probability of Default.

2.2 Financial Indicators3 Results and Discussion; 3.1 Prediction Performance of Data Mining Techniques; 3.2 Importance of Financial Indicators; 4 Conclusion; References; Predictive Modeling for Dengue Patient's Length of Stay (LoS) Using Big Data Analytics (BDA); Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Background; 2.1 Big Data; 2.2 Big Data Analytics in Healthcare; 2.3 Electronic Medical Records (EMR) System; 2.4 Hospital Length of Stay (LoS); 2.5 Dengue Disease; 2.6 Related Work; 3 Methodology; 3.1 Data Description; 3.2 Predictive Modeling; 3.2.1 Regression Analysis; 4 Results.

4.1 Statistics and Descriptive Analyses5 Conclusions and Future Works; Acknowledgments; References; Experimental Performance Analysis of B+-Trees with Big Data Indexing Potentials; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Methodology; 2.1 Experimental Metrics; 2.2 Experimental Setup; 2.3 Querying the B+-Tree; 3 Experimental Results and Discussions; 3.1 Results Presentations; 3.2 Discussions; 4 Conclusion; References; A Proposed Methodology for Integrating Oil and Gas Data Using Semantic Big Data Technology; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Related Works; 2.1 Big Data and the Semantic Web; 3 Proposed Framework.

4 Result5 Conclusion; References; Molecular Similarity Searching with Different Similarity Coefficients and Different Molecular Descriptors; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 State of the Art; 3 Concept and Method; 3.1 Similarity Measure; 4 Experimental Design; 5 Results; 6 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Classification of Arabic Writer Based on Clustering Techniques; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Related Work; 3 Dataset; 4 Methodology; 4.1 Pre-processing; 4.2 Connected-Components; 4.3 Feature Extraction; 4.4 Feature Combination; 4.5 Clustering (Classification); 5 Results and Discussion.

6 ConclusionsReferences; Data Pre-processing Techniques for Publication Performance Analysis; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Related Studies; 2.1 Research Performance Measurement; 2.2 Data Pre-processing; 3 Materials and Methods; 3.1 Datasets; 3.2 Data Pre-processing Approach; 4 Results and Discussions; 5 Conclusion; Acknowledgement; References; Data Mining Techniques: A Systematic Mapping Review; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Background; 3 Methodology; 3.1 Research Questions; 3.2 Literature Search; 3.3 Study Selection; 3.4 Data Extraction; 3.5 Validity; 4 Results.

4.1 RQ-1: What Are the Major Methods for Conducting Web Data Mining?

Includes author index.

This book presents 94 papers from the 2nd International Conference of Reliable Information and Communication Technology 2017 (IRICT 2017), held in Johor, Malaysia, on April 23?24, 2017. Focusing on the latest ICT innovations for data engineering, the book presents several hot research topics, including advances in big data analysis techniques and applications; mobile networks; applications and usability; reliable communication systems; advances in computer vision, artificial intelligence and soft computing; reliable health informatics and cloud computing environments, e-learning acceptance models, recent trends in knowledge management and software engineering; security issues in the cyber world; as well as society and information technology.