About the Authors

Fatima Shafiq

Contributed equally to this work with: Fatima Shafiq, Amna Zafar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan,

Amna Zafar

Contributed equally to this work with: Fatima Shafiq, Amna Zafar

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan,

Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan,

Sajid Iqbal

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

siqbal@kfu.edu.sa

Affiliation Department of Information Systems, College of Computer Science and Information Technology, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

Abdulmohsen Saud Albesher

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

‡ FS collected data, performed data prepossessing and conducted experiments, AZ conceived the research idea, performed literature review, designed the experimental setup, UG, SI, ASA, and MNA performed write up and fine tuned the experiments, cross check the codes.

Affiliation Department of Information Systems, College of Computer Science and Information Technology, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

Muhammad Nabeel Asghar

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ FS collected data, performed data prepossessing and conducted experiments, AZ conceived the research idea, performed literature review, designed the experimental setup, UG, SI, ASA, and MNA performed write up and fine tuned the experiments, cross check the codes.

Affiliation Department of Information Systems, College of Computer Science and Information Technology, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.