background: theoretically, a vital factor in development has been the resilience and strength of socio-economic system to confront instabilities and crises. the precaution, however, is that an error might be committed, where, instead of finding the root causes of diseases we are mobilizing the forces to confront the signs of illness, leaving the diseases to grow and damage the lesser developed ...

this paper seeks to examine the current developments in the middle east and particularly the challenges ahead of the region in attaining sustainable development in the near future. the elitist theory is adopted as the conceptual framework for the research, since in the absence of institutionalization, the attitudes and behavior of power-holders serve as valid guides for political change. then t...

Deaths and property damage from floods have increased drastically in the past two decades due to various reasons such as populations, unplanned developments, climate change. Such losses can be reduced by issuing timely early warnings through effective response mechanisms based on situational intelligence during emerging flood situations. This paper presents outcome of a literature review that w...

New discoveries made on a nearly daily basis and the constantly growing amount of vulnerabilities in software products have led to the distribution of great numbers of vendor dependent vulnerability information over various channels such as mailing lists and RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds. However, the format of these messages presents a major problem as it lacks standardized, semantic i...

Classification, particularly Text Classification, is a supervised learning approach categorizing into various categories, the available training set of correctly identified observations analyzed into a set of features. There are many phases involved in classification. The main classification phase involves the use of classification algorithms or classifiers. Among the various classifiers, the N...