Norshakirah Aziz

Dr. Norshakirah Aziz


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Academic Career Length

7Years (2020-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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10 January 2022 in Electronics
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MAMujaheed Abdullahi
Mujaheed Abdullahi
YBYahia Baashar
Yahia Baashar
HAHitham Seddig Alhussian
Hitham Seddig Alhussian
AAAyed Alwadain
Ayed Alwadain
NANorshakirah Aziz
Norshakirah Aziz
SAsaid Jadid Abdulkadir
said Jadid Abdulkadir
In recent years, technology has advanced to the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0), where the Internet of things (IoTs), fog computing, computer security, and cyberattacks have evolved exponentially on a large scale. The rapid development of IoT devices and networks in various forms generate enormous amounts of data which in turn demand careful authentication and security. Artificial intelligence (AI) is considered one of the most promising methods for addressing cybersecurity threats and providing security. In this study, we present a systematic literature review (SLR) that categorize, map and survey the existing literature on AI methods used to detect cybersecurity attacks in the IoT environment. The scope of this SLR includes an in-depth investigation on most AI trending techniques in cybersecurity and state-of-art solutions. A systematic search was performed on various electronic databases (SCOPUS, Science Direct, IEEE Xplore, Web of Science, ACM, and MDPI). Out of the identified records, 80 studies published between 2016 and 2021 were selected, surveyed and carefully assessed. This review has explored deep learning (DL) and machine learning (ML) techniques used in IoT security, and their effectiveness in detecting attacks. However, several studies have proposed smart intrusion detection systems (IDS) with intelligent architectural frameworks using AI to overcome the existing security and privacy challenges. It is found that support vector machines (SVM) and random forest (RF) are among the most used methods, due to high accuracy detection another reason may be efficient memory. In addition, other methods also provide better performance such as extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), neural networks (NN) and recurrent neural networks (RNN). This analysis also provides an insight into the AI roadmap to detect threats based on attack categories. Finally, we present recommendations for potential future investigations.

22 April 2021 in Electronics
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NANorshakirah Aziz
Norshakirah Aziz
MNMd Jan Nordin
Md Jan Nordin
SAsaid Jadid Abdulkadir
said Jadid Abdulkadir
MSMuhammad Muhaimin M. Salih
Muhammad Muhaimin M. Salih
The advancement of technology has enabled powerful microprocessors to render high-quality graphics for computer gaming. Despite being intended for leisure purposes, several components of the games alongside the gamer’s environmental factors have resulted in digital addiction (DA) towards computer games such as massively multiplayer online games (MMOG). Excessive gaming among adolescents has various negative impacts on an individual. However, only a few researchers have addressed the impact of DA on physical health. Thus, the primary objective of this research is to study the impact of DA on physical health among Malaysian adolescents. This study focuses on Malaysian adolescents of ages 12–18 years old who are addicted to computer games, specifically the MMOG. The methodology used for the study involves focus group discussions (FGD) and extensive literature study. The FGD sessions have involved both medical experts and game experts. The outcome of FGD discussion is recorded and justified with the existing relevant literature from high-impact journals, theses, conferences, books, and reports. This paper provides evidence of five physical health impacts of DA associated with adolescents. The factors of DA, the addiction components existing in MMOG computer games, and the DA health risk assessment are presented in the results section. Based on the study, it is concluded that DA among Malaysian adolescents can cause various impacts on physical health such as obesity, back pain, and neck pain, orthopaedic/joint muscle, eyesight problem, hearing problem, as well as physical inactivity.

18 February 2021 in IEEE Access
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RARanya Al-Wajih
Ranya Al-Wajih
SAsaid Jadid Abdulkadir
said Jadid Abdulkadir
NANorshakirah Aziz
Norshakirah Aziz
Qasem Al-TashiQasem Al-Tashi
Qasem Al-Tashi
NTNoureen Talpur
Noureen Talpur
Despite Grey Wolf Optimizer's (GWO) superior performance in many areas, stagnation in local optima areas may still be a concern. Several significant GWO factors can be explored to enhance the performance of selection in classification, with two conflicting concepts to be considered in using or modeling a metaheuristic method, exploring a search field, and exploiting optimal solutions. Balancing exploration and exploitation in a good manner will improve the search algorithm's performance. To achieve a good balance, this paper proposes a binary hybrid GWO and Harris Hawks Optimization (HHO) to form a memetic approach called HBGWOHHO. The sigmoid transfer function is used to transfer the continuous search space into a binary one to meet the feature selection nature requirement. A wrapper-based k-Nearest neighbor is used to evaluate the goodness of the selected features. To validate the performance of the proposed method, 18 standard UCI benchmark datasets were used. The performance of the proposed hybrid method was compared with Binary Grey Wolf Optimizer (BGWO), Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (BPSO), Binary Harris Hawks Optimizer (BHHO), Binary Genetic Algorithm (BGA) and Binary Hybrid BWOPSO. The findings revealed that the proposed method was effective in improving the performance of the BGWO algorithm. The proposed hybrid method outperforms the BGWO algorithm in terms of accuracy, selected feature size, and computational time. Similarly, compared with BPSO and BGA feature selection algorithms, the proposed HBGWOHHO surpassed them yield better accuracy, the smaller size of selected features in much lower computational time.

3 December 2020 in Sustainability
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Mohammed GamaMohammed Gama
Mohammed Gama
SAsaid Jadid Abdulkadir
said Jadid Abdulkadir
NANorshakirah Aziz
Norshakirah Aziz
Qasem Al-TashiQasem Al-Tashi
Qasem Al-Tashi
YAYousif Alyousifi
Yousif Alyousifi
AAAlawi Alqushaibi
Alawi Alqushaibi
Air pollution is one of the world’s most significant challenges. Predicting air pollution is critical for air quality research, as it affects public health. The Air Pollution Index (API) is a convenient tool to describe air quality. Air pollution predictions can provide accurate information on the future pollution situation, effectively controlling air pollution. Governments have expressed growing concern about air pollution due to its global effect on human health and sustainable growth. This paper proposes a novel forecasting model using One-Dimensional Deep Convolutional Neural Network (1D-CNN) and Exponential Adaptive Gradients (EAG) optimization to predict API for a selected location, Klang, a city in Malaysia. The proposed 1D-CNN–EAG exponentially accumulates past model gradients to adaptively tune the learning rate and converge in both convex and non-convex areas. We use hourly air pollution data over three years (January 2012 to December 2014) for training. Parameter optimization and model evaluation was accomplished by a grid-search with k-folds cross-validation. Results have confirmed that the proposed approach achieves better prediction accuracy than the benchmark models in terms of Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) and the Correlation Coefficient (R-Squared) with values of 2.036, 2.354, 4.214 and 0.966, respectively, and time complexity.

30 January 2023 in IEEE Access
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Mohd Hafizul Afifi AbdullahMohd Hafizul Afifi Abdullah
Mohd Hafizul Afifi Abdullah
NANorshakirah Aziz
Norshakirah Aziz
SAsaid Jadid Abdulkadir
said Jadid Abdulkadir
HAHitham Seddig Alhassan Alhussian
Hitham Seddig Alhassan Alhussian
NTNoureen Talpur
Noureen Talpur
Information extraction (IE) is a challenging task, particularly when dealing with highly heterogeneous data. State-of-the-art data mining technologies struggle to process information from textual data. Therefore, various IE techniques have been developed to enable the use of IE for textual data. However, each technique differs from one another because it is designed for different data types and has different target information to be extracted. This study investigated and described the most contemporary methods for extracting information from textual data, emphasizing their benefits and shortcomings. To provide a holistic view of the domain, this comprehensive systematic literature review employed a systematic mapping process to summarize studies published in the last six years (from 2017 to 2022). It covers fundamental concepts, recent approaches, applications, and trends, in addition to challenges and future research prospects in this domain area. Based on an analysis of 161 selected studies, we found that the state-of-the-art models employ deep learning to extract information from textual data. Finally, this study aimed to guide novice and experienced researchers in future research and serve as a foundation for this research area.

19 May 2021 in Applied Sciences
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Mohammed GamaMohammed Gama
Mohammed Gama
SAsaid Jadid Abdulkadir
said Jadid Abdulkadir
NANorshakirah Aziz
Norshakirah Aziz
HAHitham Seddig Alhussian
Hitham Seddig Alhussian
ABAbubakar Bala
Abubakar Bala
AAAlawi Alqushaibi
Alawi Alqushaibi
With the growth of deep learning in various classification problems, many researchers have used deep learning methods in environmental sound classification tasks. This paper introduces an end-to-end method for environmental sound classification based on a one-dimensional convolution neural network with Bayesian optimization and ensemble learning, which directly learns features representation from the audio signal. Several convolutional layers were used to capture the signal and learn various filters relevant to the classification problem. Our proposed method can deal with any audio signal length, as a sliding window divides the signal into overlapped frames. Bayesian optimization accomplished hyperparameter selection and model evaluation with cross-validation. Multiple models with different settings have been developed based on Bayesian optimization to ensure network convergence in both convex and non-convex optimization. An UrbanSound8K dataset was evaluated for the performance of the proposed end-to-end model. The experimental results achieved a classification accuracy of 94.46%, which is 5% higher than existing end-to-end approaches with fewer trainable parameters. Four measurement indices, namely: sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, precision, recall, F-measure, area under ROC curve, and the area under the precision-recall curve were used to measure the model performance. The proposed approach outperformed state-of-the-art end-to-end approaches that use hand-crafted features as input in selected measurement indices and time complexity.