5th International Conference on ICT for Development for Africa October 26-28, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
Day 1: Hybride Thursday OCtober 26, 2023
Time	Title/Task		Presenter	Moderator
08:00 – 8:30	Registration (Joining Zoom)		Participants	Biniam Behailu
08:31 – 08:40	Conference Briefing		Dr. Esubalew Alemneh	Dr. Michael Melse
08:41 – 08:45	Message from Deputy Scientific Director for Research and Community Service, Bahir Dar Institute of Technology Bahir Dar University		Dr. Mekuanint Agegnehu
08:46 – 08:50	Welcome Speech		Prof Ethiopia Nigussie
08:51 - 09:35	Keynote Speech I: 5G Testbeds the Innovation Vehicle for Smart Cities		Prof Jari Handelberg	Dr. Ethiopia Nigussie
09:36 -10:15	Keynote Speech II: ICT and Fresh Water lake Ecosystems and Services		Prof Nils Gustav Andreas	Dr. Tesfa Tegegne
10:16 -10:30	Coffee Break
10:31 – 11:15	Keynote Speech III: Building our Sustainable Future through Science and Computing		Dr. Solomon Assefa	Dr Fisseha Mekuria
Paper Presentations
11:16 - 11:35	Mutual Coupling Reduction for Multiband Phased Array Antenna using Metamaterial Surface for Millimeter Wave Communication		Dr. Mulugeta Atlabachew	Dr. Mohammed Abebe
11:36 - 11:55	Visual Acuity Classification Using Ensemble Machine Learning Algorithms: With Explainable Approach		Dr. Abdulkerim Mohammed
11:56 - 12:15	Application of Machine Learning Algorithms for Pneumonia Detection and Classification		Mr. Hamza Shukir
12:16 - 12:35	Evaluating the effectiveness of hybrid features in fake news detection on social media		Mr. Tadesse Kebede
12:36 - 12:55	Habesha Women’s Dress Embroidery Design Identification Using an Ensemble Feature Extraction Approach		Mr. Assaminew Gizaw
12:56 – 14:30	Conference Lunch
Parellel Sessions (3 Virtual Sessions)
Parallel Session I Track 1: Intelligent Systems and Data Science
Time	Topic		Presenter	Chair person
14:31 – 14:45	An AI Contribution to African Economic Development through Mother Tongue Education - a Linguistic Evaluation of an African-based AI Mathematics Tutoring Bot		Laurie Butgereit	Dr. Tesfa Tegegne
14:46 – 15:00	Small Screws Detection using Machine Vision		Getachew A Ambaye
15:01 –15:15	Software Risk Prediction at Requirement and Design Phase : An Ensemble Machine Learning Approach		Yibeltal Assefa Zelelew
15:16 - 15:30	Machine Learning Based Delivery Date Prediction For Child Birth		Yibeltal Assefa
15:31 - 15:45	Test case generation from quality attribute scenarios using machine learning approach		Abebaw Worku
15:46 – 16:00	Coffee Break
16:01 - 16:15	Automatic Medical Image diagnosis for lung diseases using deep transfer learning		Irad Mwendo
16:16 - 16:30	Anaphoric Term Classification and Resolution Model for Amharic Pronouns: Using Deep Learning Technique		Siraye Mekonnen	Dr. Mohammed Abebe
16:31 - 16:45	Classification and Prioritization of Requirements Smells Using Machine Learning Techniques		Fekerte Berhanu Tadle
16:46 - 17:00	Toward explainable Artificial intelligence for Pneumonia and tuberculosis classification from Chest X-ray		Getamesay Haile Dagnaw
17:01 - 17:15	Detecting Fraud in Motor Insurance Claims Using XGBoost Algorithm with SMOTE		David Gichohi Maina
Parallel Session II Track 1: Intelligent Systems and Data Science and Track 5: Natural Language Processing
Time	Topic		Presenter	Chair person
14:31 – 14:45	Wind power Forecasting Model using Deep Learning Approach		Seblewongale Ayene
14:46 – 15:00	A Real-Time Obstacle Detection And Classification System For Assisting Blind And Vissually Impaired People Based On Yolo Model		Yesuneh Getachew	Dr. Abdulkerim Mohammed
15:01 –15:15	Multitask Deep Learning Approach for Habesha Fashion Cloth Recognition and Classification		Yohannes Abinet
15:16 - 15:30	A Knowledge-Based System to Predict Crime from Criminal Records in the case of Hossana Police Commission		Betelhem Zewdu
15:31 - 15:45	Hybrid Deep-Machine Learning Based Performance Comparison for Soybean Plant Disease Identification		Yirga Yayeh
15:46 – 16:00	Coffee Break
16:01 - 16:15	Design Amharic Text Sentiment Analysis Model Using Machine Learning Techniques. In Case of restaurant reviews.		Birku Gedif	Dr. Michael Melse
16:16 - 16:30	COSMIC-Functional Size Classification of Agile Software Development: Deep Learning Approach		Yohannes Sefane
16:31 - 16:45	Ge’ez-English Bi-directional Neural Machine Translation Using Transformer		Yirga Yayeh
16:46 - 17:00	Machine Learning Based Soil-type Classification		Yirga Yayeh
17:01 - 17:15	Hadiyyissa Automatic Speech Recognition using Deep Learning Approach		Amin Tuni Gure
Parallel Session III Track 2: Wireless Communications & Emerging Networking, Track 4: Security, Track 5: Natural Language Processingand and Track 6: Information System
Time	Topic		Presenter	Chair person
14:31 – 14:45	Bi-directional Machine Translation between Amharic and Khimtagne using Deep Learning		Adane K Chekole	Dr. Esubalew Alemneh
14:46 – 15:00	Geez Part of Speech Tagging Using Deep Learning Approaches		Abdulkerim Mohammed
15:01 –15:15	Multimodal Cyberbullying Detection Using Deep Learning Techniques: A Review		Immaculate Ms Musyoka
15:16 - 15:30	Machine Learning-Based Categorization Of Racism In Amharic Text Using Multi-Class Classification		Abebe Desie
15:31 - 15:45	Data-Driven Decision-Making and Its Impacts on Education Quality in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review		Zelalem Asfaw
15:46 – 16:00	Coffee Break
16:01 - 16:15	Investigating the Benefits of Using Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for double connction LiFi-RF Networks.		Ermias Kassahun	Dr. Mekuanint Agegnehu
16:16 - 16:30	Performance Analysis of SDN with a Hybrid Data Plane of MPLS and SDN		Belayneh Kebie Teshome
16:31 - 16:45	Performance Analysis of POCO Framework under Failure Scenario in SDN-Enabled Controller Placement		Sefinew Getenet
16:46 - 17:00	Controller-Targeted DDoS Attack Detection and Mitigation in Software-Defined Internet of Vehicles (SD-IoV)		Behaylu T. Alemu
17:01 - 17:15	Ensemble Learning for Encrypted Malware Detection and Classification		Sileshi Nibret Zeleke
Closing Remarks [ ICT4DA-2023 Organizing Committee]