Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2017)

Chapter 1 An Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Mobile Wireless Sensor Network Based on IR-UWB

Chapter 2 Obstacle Detection Algorithm by Stereoscopic Image Processing

Chapter 3 A Simultaneous Topic and Sentiment Classification of Tweets

Chapter 4 Local Directional Multi Radius Binary Pattern

Chapter 5 Content-Based Image Retrieval Approach Using Color and Texture Applied to Two Databases (Coil-100 and Wang)

Chapter 6 Shape Classification Using B-spline Approximation and Contour Based Shape Descriptors

Chapter 7 An Image Processing Based Framework Using Crowdsourcing for a Successful Suspect Investigation

Chapter 8 Recognition and Classification of Arabic Fricative Consonants

Chapter 9 Cancer Classification Using Gene Expression Profiling: Application of the Filter Approach with the Clustering Algorithm

Chapter 10 Detection of Negative Emotion Using Acoustic Cues and Machine Learning Algorithms in Moroccan Dialect

Chapter 11 Using Multiple Minimum Support to Auto-adjust the Threshold of Support in Apriori Algorithm

Chapter 12 Prediction of the Degree of Parkinson’s Condition Using Recordings of Patients’ Voices

Chapter 13 An Overview of a Distributional Word Representation for an Arabic Named Entity Recognition System

Chapter 14 Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization for Travelling Salesman Problems: New Combinatorial Operators

Chapter 15 On Maximal Frequent Itemsets Enumeration

Chapter 16 Particle Swarm Optimization as a New Measure of Machine Translation Efficiency

Chapter 17 Experimental Investigation of Ant Supervised by Simplified PSO with Local Search Mechanism (SAS-PSO-2Opt)

Chapter 18 A Human Identification Technique Through Dorsal Hand Vein Texture Analysis Based on NSCT Decomposition