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M. Anwar Hossain 1 and Jemal H. Abawajy 2 and Raúl García-Castro 3 and Wen-Huang Cheng 4 and Dewan Tanvir Ahmed 5
1, Software Engineering Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences (CCIS), King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia
2, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3220, Australia
3, Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo s/n, Boadilla del Monte, 28660 Madrid, Spain
4, Research Center for Information Technology Innovation (CITI), Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan
5, College of Computing and Informatics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223-0001, USA
Received 3 April 2016; Accepted 4 April 2016
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