About the Authors

Nazar Zaki

nzaki@uaeu.ac.ae

Affiliation Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates (UAE) University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates

Salah Bouktif

Affiliation Software Development, Faculty of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates (UAE) University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates

Sanja Lazarova-Molnar

Affiliation Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates (UAE) University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NZ. Performed the experiments: NZ SB SL. Analyzed the data: NZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NZ SB SL. Wrote the paper: NZ SB SL. Contributed to the overall design of the method, running of the experimental work, analysing the results and writing the paper: NZ. Contributed to the optimization part using Genetic Algorithm, running of the experimental work, analysing the results and writing the paper: SB. Contributed to the compositional index part, running of the experimental work, analysing the results and writing the paper: SL.