IJACSA Vol. 5 Issue 10 (2014)

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A GA-Based Replica Placement Mechanism for Data Grid

Author 1: Omar Almomani Author 2: Mohammad Madi

Data Grid is an infrastructure that manages huge amount of data files, and provides intensive computational resources across geographically distributed collaboration. To increase resource availability and to ease resource sharing in such environment, there is a need for replication services. Data replication is one of the methods used to improve… Read full abstract & cite →

Data Grid Data replication distributed systems Replica placement mechanism GA-Based Replica Placement Mechanism

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051001 PDF

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The Reality of Applying Security in Web Applications in Academia

Author 1: Mohamed Al-Ibrahim Author 2: Yousef Shams Al-Deen

Web applications are used in academic institutions, such as universities, for variety of purposes. Since these web pages contain critical information, securing educational systems is as important as securing any banking system. It has been found that many academic institutions have not fully secured their web pages against some class… Read full abstract & cite →

Web applications Security Education systems

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051002 PDF

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Female Under-Representation in Computing Education and Industry - A Survey of Issues and Interventions

Author 1: Joseph Osunde Author 2: Gill Windall Author 3: Professor Liz Bacon Author 4: Professor Lachlan Mackinnon

This survey paper examines the issue of female under-representation in computing education and industry, which has been shown from empirical studies to be a problem for over two decades. While various measures and intervention strategies have been implemented to increase the interest of girls in computing education and industry, the… Read full abstract & cite →

Female under-representation Structural factors Biological factors Socio-cultural factors User Interaction

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051003 PDF

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A Secure Cloud-Based NFC Mobile Payment Protocol

Author 1: Pardis Pourghomi Author 2: Muhammad Qasim Saeed Author 3: Gheorghita Ghinea

Near Field Communication (NFC) is one the most recent technologies in the area of application development and service delivery via mobile phone. NFC enables the mobile phone to act as identification and a credit card for customers. Dynamic relationships of NFC ecosystem players in an NFC transaction process make them… Read full abstract & cite →

Near Field Communication Security Mobile transaction Cloud

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051004 PDF

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Arabic Phrase-Level Contextual Polarity Recognition to Enhance Sentiment Arabic Lexical Semantic Database Generation

Author 1: Samir E. Abdelrahman Author 2: Hanaa Mobarz Author 3: Ibrahim Farag Author 4: Mohsen Rashwan

Most of opinion mining works need lexical resources for opinion which recognize the polarity of words (positive/ negative) regardless their contexts which called prior polarity. The word prior polarity may be changed when it is considered in its contexts, for example, positive words may be used in phrases expressing negative… Read full abstract & cite →

Sentiment Arabic Lexical Semantic Database Support Vector Machine Contextual Polarity

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051005 PDF

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Application of Content-Based Approach in Research Paper Recommendation System for a Digital Library

Author 1: Simon Philip Author 2: P.B. Shola Author 3: Abari Ovye John

Recommender systems are software applications that provide or suggest items to intended users. These systems use filtering techniques to provide recommendations. The major ones of these techniques are collaborative-based filtering technique, content-based technique, and hybrid algorithm. The motivation came as a result of the need to integrate recommendation feature in… Read full abstract & cite →

Recommender Systems Content-Based Filtering Digital Library TF-IDF Cosine Similarity Vector Space Model

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051006 PDF

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A Survey of Pedestrian Detection in Video

Author 1: Achmad Solichin Author 2: Agus Harjoko Author 3: Agfianto Eko Putra

Pedestrian detection is one of the important topics in computer vision with key applications in various fields of human life such as intelligent vehicles, surveillance and advanced robotics. In recent years, research related to pedestrian detection commonplace. This paper aims to review the papers related to pedestrian detection in order… Read full abstract & cite →

pedestrian detection video paper review

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051007 PDF

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Risk Assessment System for Verifying the Safeguards Based on the HAZOP Analysis

Author 1: Atsuko Nakai Author 2: Kazuhiko Suzuki

In recent years, serious accidents in chemical plants frequently occurred in Japan. In order to prevent accidents and to mitigate process risks, to re-evaluate risks which consider the reliability of existed safeguards in chemical plants is needed. The chemical plant is obligated to provide and maintain a safe environment for… Read full abstract & cite →

risk assessment HAZOP analysis safeguards

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051008 PDF

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An Ssvep-Based Bci System and its Applications

Author 1: Jzau-Sheng Lin Author 2: Cheng-Hung Shieh

A Brain-Computer-Interface (BCI) based system with a System on a Programmable Chip (SOPC) platform by using of the Steady-State Visually Evoked Potentials (SSVEP) through a Bluetooth interface was proposed in this paper. The proposed BCI system can aid the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or other paralyzed patients to easily control… Read full abstract & cite →

Brain-Computer-Interface (BCI) Steady-State Visually Evoked Potentials (SSVEP) Electroencephalogram (EEG)

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051009 PDF

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Edge Detection in Satellite Image Using Cellular Neural Network

Author 1: Osama Basil Gazi Author 2: Dr. Mohamed Belal Author 3: Dr. Hala Abdel-Galil

The present paper proposes a novel approach for edge detection in satellite images based on cellular neural networks. CNN based edge detector in used conjunction with image enhancement and noise removal techniques, in order to deliver accurate edge detection results, compared with state of the art approaches. Thus, considering the… Read full abstract & cite →

cellular neural network liner matrix inequality differential evolution genetic algorithm Field-programmable gate array partial differential equation

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051010 PDF

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Credible Fuzzy Classification based Technique on Self Organized Features Maps and FRANT IC-RL

Author 1: Mona Gamal Author 2: Elsayed Radwan Author 3: Adel M.A. Assiri

Handling uncertainty and vagueness in real world becomes a necessity for developing intelligent and efficient systems. Based on the credibility theory, a fuzzy clustering approach that improves the classification accuracy is targeted by this work. This paper introduces a design of an efficient set of fuzzy rules that are inferred… Read full abstract & cite →

Fuzzy Rule Classification Self-Organized Feature Map Credibility Measure Ant Colony Optimization

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051011 PDF

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Prolonging Network Lifetime in Wireless Sensor Networks with Path-Constrained Mobile Sink

Author 1: Basilis G. Mamalis

Many studies in recent years have considered the use of mobile sinks (MS) for data gathering in wireless sensor networks (WSN), so as to reduce the need for data forwarding among the sensor nodes (SN) and thereby prolong the network lifetime. Moreover, in practice, often the MS tour length has… Read full abstract & cite →

wireless sensor mobile sink node clustering data gathering network lifetime

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051012 PDF

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E-Assessment System Based on IMS QTI for the Arabic Grammar

Author 1: Abdelkarim Abdelkader Author 2: Dalila Souilem Boumiza Author 3: Rafik Braham

Nowadays e-learning has become a fundamental stream of learning. E-assessment is an important and essential phase of the e-learning process because of all the decisions we will make about learners when teaching them. In this paper , we describe an e-assessment system for the Arabic grammar. Our system is based… Read full abstract & cite →

Arabic Grammar E-assessment IMS QTI ANLP QTI-Based Tools

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051013 PDF

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Physiological Responese Measrement to Identify Online Visual Representation Designs

Author 1: Yu-Ping Hsu Author 2: Edward Meyen Author 3: Richard Branham

This research involved the identification and validation of text-related visual display design principles from the literature. Representations were designed and developed that illustrated the intent of each visual display design principle included in the study. The representations were embedded in a research intervention and included validated examples of accurate displays… Read full abstract & cite →

electrodermal activity measurement digital visual representation design affective learning

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051014 PDF

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E-Learning by Using Content Management System (CMS)

Author 1: Reem Razzaq Abdul Hussein Author 2: Afaf Badie Al-Kaddo

Content Management System (CMS) is a system to manage content in order to improve the educational process and to create an interactive environment where the content management system plays a role in e-learning. CMS software named (joomla) contains sources of commercial extension, the contribution of the proposed paper is replacing… Read full abstract & cite →

E-learning Content Management Systems Joomla Lecturer Student

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051015 PDF

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Java Based Computer Algorithms for the Solution of a Business Mathematics Model

Author 1: A. D. Chinedu Author 2: A.B.Adeoye

A novel approach is proposed as a framework for working out uncertainties associated with decisions between the choices of leasing and procurement of capital assets in a manufacturing industry. The mathematical concept of the tool is discussed while the technique adopted is much simpler to implement and initialize. The codes… Read full abstract & cite →

Actuarial Mathematics Java-programming Language Leasing Procurement Capital Assets Uncertainties

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051016 PDF

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Texture Analysis and Modified Level Set Method for Automatic Detection of Bone Boundaries in Hand Radiographs

Author 1: Syaiful Anam Author 2: Eiji Uchino Author 3: Hideaki Misawa Author 4: Noriaki Suetake

Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory joint disease characterized by a distinctive pattern of bone and joint destruction. To give an RA diagnosis, hand bone radiographs are taken and analyzed. A hand bone radiograph analysis starts with the bone boundary detection. It is however an extremely exhausting and time… Read full abstract & cite →

hand bones radiograph boundary detection modified level set method diffusion filter

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051017 PDF

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Criminal Investigation EIDSS Based on Cooperative Mapping Mechanism

Author 1: Ping He

On purpose of improving the research in extension intelligence systems when the knowledge in hand is not sufficient, an intuition evidence model (IEM) based on human-computer cooperative is presented. From the initial intuition process space defined by the primitive experience, a series of interactive mapping learning systems (IMLS) with various… Read full abstract & cite →

IDSS EIDSS intuition evidence object hypotheses criminal investigation cooperative reasoning

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051018 PDF

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Middleware to integrate heterogeneous Learning Management Systems and initial results

Author 1: J. A. Hijar Miranda Author 2: Daniel V´azquez S´anchez Author 3: Dario Emmanuel V´azquez Ceballos Author 4: Erika Hern´andez Rubio Author 5: Amilcar Meneses Viveros Author 6: Elena Fabiola Ruiz Ledezma

The use of the Learning Management Systems (LMS) has been increased. It is desirable to access multiple learning objects that are managed by Learning Management Systems. The diversity of LMS allow us to consider them as heterogeneous systems; each ones with their own interface to manage the provided functionality. These… Read full abstract & cite →

Middleware Learning Management Systems Application Program Interface

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051019 PDF

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Proposal and Evaluation of Toilet Timing Suggestion Methods for the Elderly

Author 1: Airi Tsuji Author 2: Tomoko Yonezawa Author 3: HirotakeYamazoe Author 4: Shinji Abe Author 5: Noriaki Kuwahara Author 6: Kazunari Morimoto

Elderly people need to urinate frequently, and when they go on outings they often have a difficult time finding restrooms. Because of this, researching a body water management system is needed. Our proposed system calculates timing trips to the toilet in consideration with both their schedules and the amount of… Read full abstract & cite →

Elderly Suggestion-method

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051020 PDF

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Tracking of Multiple objects Using 3D Scatter Plot Reconstructed by Linear Stereo Vision

Author 1: Safaa Moqqaddem Author 2: Yassine Ruichek Author 3: Raja Touahni Author 4: Abderrahmane Sbihi

This paper presents a new method for tracking objects using stereo vision with linear cameras. Edge points extracted from the stereo linear images are first matched to reconstruct points that represent the objects in the scene. To detect the objects, a clustering process based on a spectral analysis is then… Read full abstract & cite →

Linear stereo vision Spectral clustering Objects detection and tracking Kalman filter Data association

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051021 PDF

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Transfer Learning Method Using Ontology for Heterogeneous Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

Author 1: Hitoshi Kono Author 2: Akiya Kamimura Author 3: Kohji Tomita Author 4: Yuta Murata Author 5: Tsuyoshi Suzuki

This paper presents a framework, called the knowledge co-creation framework (KCF), for heterogeneous multiagent robot systems that use a transfer learning method. A multiagent robot system (MARS) that utilizes reinforcement learning and a transfer learning method has recently been studied in realworld situations. In MARS, autonomous agents obtain behavior autonomously… Read full abstract & cite →

Transfer learning Multi-agent reinforcement learning Multi-agent robot systems

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051022 PDF