In implementation of the directives of the University of Baghdad and the instructions of the Deanship of the College of Engineering to publish scientific research in prestigious journals within international containers that contribute to raising the scientific status of the university, Dr. “Assist. Prof. Ziyad T. Allawi” from Department of Computer Engineering published a paper that entitled: ” Crescent Moon Visibility: A New Criterion using Deep learned Artificial Neural-Network” in “Iraqi Journal of science” with cite score of 1.5. This paper presented a proposed criterion for early crescent moon sighting based on a deep-learned pattern recognizer artificial neural network (ANN) performance. Moon sight datasets were collected from various sources and used to learn the ANN.
