Acknowledgement
All the authors are thankful to Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia for offering state-of-the-art research opportunities. We would also like to acknowledge valuable feedback provided by Dr Raghda Zahran from Newcastle University (UK) and Dr Asaad Alzayed from Computer Science Department, Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET), Kuwait on an early draft of this paper.
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