IJACSA Vol. 3 Issue 11 (2012)

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Predicting Garden Path Sentences Based on Natural Language Understanding System

Author 1: DU Jia-li Author 2: YU Ping-fang

Natural language understanding (NLU) focusing on machine reading comprehension is a branch of natural language processing (NLP). The domain of the developing NLU system covers from sentence decoding to text understanding and the automatic decoding of GP sentence belongs to the domain of NLU system. GP sentence is a special… Read full abstract & cite →

Natural language understanding N-S flowchart computational linguistics context free grammar garden path sentences.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031101 PDF

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Extending UML for trajectory data warehouses conceptual modelling

Author 1: Wided Oueslati Author 2: Jalel Akaichi

The new positioning and information capture technologies are able to treat data related to moving objects taking place in targeted phenomena. This gave birth to a new data source type called trajectory data (TD) which handle information related to moving objects. Trajectory Data must be integrated in a new data… Read full abstract & cite →

Trajectory data trajectory data warehouse UML extension trajectory UML profile.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031102 PDF

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Optimal itinerary planning for mobile multiple agents in WSN

Author 1: Mostefa BENDJIMA Author 2: Mohamed FEHAM

Multi mobile agents based on data collection and aggregations have proved their effective in wireless sensor networks (WSN). However, the way in which these agents are deployed must be intelligently planned and should be adapted to the characteristics of wireless sensor networks. While most existing studies are based on the… Read full abstract & cite →

Wireless sensor networ mobile agent optimal itinerary energy efficiency.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031103 PDF

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Genetic procedure for the Single Straddle Carrier Routing Problem

Author 1: Khaled MILI Author 2: Faissal MILI

This paper concentrates on minimizing the total travel time of the Straddle Carrier during the loading operations of outbound containers in a seaport container terminal. Genetic Algorithm is well-known meta-heuristic approach inspired by the natural evolution of the living organisms. Heuristic procedure is developed to solve this problem by recourse… Read full abstract & cite →

Component Container terminal optimization routing Straddle Carrier heuristic Assignment strategy Genetic Algorithm.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031104 PDF

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Virtual Enterprise Network based on IPSec VPN Solutions and Management

Author 1: Sebastian Mariu Rosu Author 2: Marius Marian Popescu Author 3: George Dragoi Author 4: Ioana Raluca Guica

Informational society construction can’t be realized without research and investment projects in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). In the 21st century, all enterprises have a local area network, a virtual private network, an Intranet and Internet, servers and workstations for operations, administration and management working together for the same objective… Read full abstract & cite →

Enterprise network IPSec network architecture VPN network management.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031105 PDF

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Analyzing the Efficiency of Text-to-Image Encryption Algorithm

Author 1: Ahmad Abusukhon Author 2: Mohammad Talib Author 3: Maher A. Nabulsi

Today many of the activities are performed online through the Internet. One of the methods used to protect the data while sending it through the Internet is cryptography. In a previous work we proposed the Text-to-Image Encryption algorithm (TTIE) as a novel algorithm for network security. In this paper we… Read full abstract & cite →

Algorithm Network Secured Communication Encryption & Decryption Private key Encoding.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031106 PDF

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DNA Sequence Representation and Comparison Based on Quaternion Number System

Author 1: Hsuan T Chang Author 2: Chung J. Kuo Author 3: Neng-Wen Lo Author 4: Wei-Z.Lv

Conventional schemes for DNA sequence representation, storage, and processing areusually developed based on the character-based formats.We propose the quaternion number system for numerical representation and further processing on DNA sequences.In the proposed method, the quaternion cross-correlation operation can be used to obtain both the global and local matching/mismatching information between… Read full abstract & cite →

Bioinformatics genomic signal processing DNA sequence quaternion number data visualization.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031107 PDF

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Evaluation of Regressive Analysis Based Sea Surface Temperature Estimation Accuracy with NCEP/GDAS Data

Author 1: Kohei Arai

In order to evaluate the skin surface temperature (SSST) estimation accuracy with MODIS data, 84 of MODIS scenes together with the match-up data of NCEP/GDAS are used. Through regressive analysis, it is found that 0.305 to 0.417 K of RMSE can be achieved. Furthermore, it also is found that band… Read full abstract & cite →

Thermal infrared radiometer Skin sea surface temperature Regressive analysis Split window method NCEP/GDAS MODTRAN Terra and AQUA/MODIS

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031108 PDF

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The Modelling Process of a Paper Folding Problem in GeoGebra 3D

Author 1: Muharrem Aktumen Author 2: BekirKursat Doruk Author 3: Tolga Kabaca

In this research; a problem situation, which requires the ability of thinking in three dimensions, was developed by the researchers. As the purpose of this paper is producing a modeling task suggestion, the problem was visualized and analyzed in GeoGebra3D environment. Then visual solution was also been supported by algebraic… Read full abstract & cite →

component Modelling GeoGebra 3D Paper Folding.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031109 PDF

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Sensitivity Analysis of Fourier Transformation Spectrometer: FTS Against Observation Noise on Retrievals of Carbon Dioxide and Methane

Author 1: Kohei Arai Author 2: Hiroshi Okumura Author 3: Takuya Fukamachi Author 4: Shuji Kawakami Author 5: Hirofumi Ohyama

Sensitivity analysis of Fourier Transformation Spectrometer: FTS against observation noise on retrievals of carbon dioxide and methane is conducted. Through experiments with real observed data and additive noise, it is found that the allowable noise on FTS observation data is less than 2.1x10-5 if estimation accuracy of total column carbon… Read full abstract & cite →

FTS carbon dioxide methane sensitivity analysis error analysis.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031110 PDF

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Sensitivity Analysis for Water Vapor Profile Estimation with Infrared: IR Sounder Data Based on Inversion

Author 1: Kohei Arai

Sensitivity analysis for water vapor profile estimation with Infrared: IR sounder data based on inversion is carried out. Through simulation study, it is found that influence due to ground surface relative humidity estimation error is greater than that of sea surface temperature estimation error on the water vapor vertical profile… Read full abstract & cite →

IR sounde error budget analysis MODTRAN air temperature relative humidity.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031111 PDF

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Wavelet Based Change Detection for Four Dimensional Assimilation Data in Space and Time Domains

Author 1: Kohei Arai

Method for time change detection of four dimensional assimilation data by means of wavelet analysis is proposed together with spatial change detection with satellite imagery data. The method is validated with assimilation data and the same scale of satellite imagery data. Experimental results show that the proposed method does work… Read full abstract & cite →

Assimilation change detection wavelet analysis.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031112 PDF

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Method for Image Source Separation by Means of Independent Component Analysis: ICA, Maximum Entory Method: MEM, and Wavelet Based Method: WBM

Author 1: Kohei Arai

Method for image source separation based on Independent Component Analysis: ICA, Maximum Entropy Method: MEM, and Wavelet Based Method: WBM is proposed. Experimental results show that image separation can be done from the combined different images by using the proposed method with an acceptable residual error. Read full abstract & cite →

Blind separation image separation cucktail party effect ICA MEM wavelet analuysis.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031113 PDF

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Multifinger Feature Level Fusion Based Fingerprint Identification

Author 1: Praveen N Author 2: Tessamma Thomas

Fingerprint based authentication systems are one of the cost-effective biometric authentication techniques employed for personal identification. As the data base population increases, fast identification/recognition algorithms are required with high accuracy. Accuracy can be increased using multimodal evidences collected by multiple biometric traits. In this work, consecutive fingerprint images are taken… Read full abstract & cite →

fingerprint multimodal biometrics gradient orientation field singularity matching score.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031114 PDF

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Gender Effect Canonicalization for Bangla ASR

Author 1: B.K.M Mizanur Rahman Author 2: Bulbul Ahamed Author 3: Md. Asfak-Ur-Rahman Author 4: Khaled Mahmud Author 5: Mohammad Nurul Huda

This paper presents a Bangla (widely used as Bengali) automatic speech recognition system (ASR) by suppressing gender effects. Gender characteristic plays an important role on the performance of ASR. If there is a suppression process that represses the decrease of differences in acoustic-likelihood among categories resulted from gender factors, a… Read full abstract & cite →

Acoustic Model AutomaticSpeech Recognition Gender Effects Suppression Hidden Markov Model.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031115 PDF

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Three Layer Hierarchical Model for Chord

Author 1: Waqas A imtiaz Author 2: Shimul Shil Author 3: A.K.M Mahfuzur Rahman

Increasing popularity of decentralized Peer-to-Peer (P2P) architecture emphasizes on the need to come across an overlay structure that can provide efficient content discovery mechanism, accommodate high churn rate and adapt to failures in the presence of heterogeneity among the peers. Traditional p2p systems incorporate distributed client-server communication, which finds the… Read full abstract & cite →

Hierarchy DHT CHORD P2P.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031116 PDF

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Automatic Facial Expression Recognition Based on Hybrid Approach

Author 1: Ali K. K. Bermani Author 2: Atef Z. Ghalwash Author 3: Aliaa A. A. Youssif

The topic of automatic recognition of facial expressions deduce a lot of researchers in the late last century and has increased a great interest in the past few years. Several techniques have emerged in order to improve the efficiency of the recognition by addressing problems in face detection and extraction… Read full abstract & cite →

Facial expression recognition geometric and appearance modeling Expression recognition Gabor wavelet principal component analysis (PCA) neural network.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031117 PDF

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Design of A high performance low-power consumption discrete time Second order Sigma-Delta modulator used for Analog to Digital Converter

Author 1: Radwene LAAJIMI Author 2: Mohamed MASMOUDI

This paper presents the design and simulations results of a switched-capacitor discrete time Second order Sigma-Delta modulator used for a resolution of 14 bits Sigma-Delta analog to digital converter. The use of operational amplifier is necessary for low power consumption, it is designed to provide large bandwidth and moderate DC… Read full abstract & cite →

CMOS technology Analog-to-Digital conversion Low power electronics Sigma-Delta modulation switched-capacitor circuits transconductance operational amplifier.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031118 PDF

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Short Answer Grading Using String Similarity And Corpus-Based Similarity

Author 1: Wael H Gomaa Author 2: Aly A. Fahmy

Most automatic scoring systems use pattern based that requires a lot of hard and tedious work. These systems work in a supervised manner where predefined patterns and scoring rules are generated. This paper presents a different unsupervised approach which deals with students’ answers holistically using text to text similarity. Different… Read full abstract & cite →

Automatic Scoring Short Answer Grading Semantic Similarity String Similarity Corpus-Based Similarity.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031119 PDF

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Hybrid intelligent system for Sale Forecasting using Delphi and adaptive Fuzzy Back-Propagation Neural Networks

Author 1: Attariuas Hicham Author 2: Bouhorma Mohammed Author 3: Sofi Anas

Sales forecasting is one of the most crucial issues addressed in business. Control and evaluation of future sales still seem concerned both researchers and policy makers and managers of companies. this research propose an intelligent hybrid sales forecasting system Delphi-FCBPN sales forecast based on Delphi Method, fuzzy clustering and Back-propagation… Read full abstract & cite →

Component Hybrid intelligence approach Delphi Method Sales forecasting fuzzy clustering fuzzy system back propagation network.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031120 PDF

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Continuous Bangla Speech Segmentation using Short-term Speech Features Extraction Approaches

Author 1: Md Mijanur Rahman Author 2: Md. Al-Amin Bhuiyan

This paper presents simple and novel feature extraction approaches for segmenting continuous Bangla speech sentences into words/sub-words. These methods are based on two simple speech features, namely the time-domain features and the frequency-domain features. The time-domain features, such as short-time signal energy, short-time average zero crossing rate and the frequency-domain… Read full abstract & cite →

Speech Segmentation Features Extraction Short-time Energy Spectral Centroid Dynamic Thresholding.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031121 PDF

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A Randomized Fully Polynomial-time Approximation Scheme for Weighted Perfect Matching in the Plane

Author 1: Yasser M. Abd El-Latif Author 2: Salwa M. Ali Author 3: Hanaa A.E. Essa Author 4: Soheir M. Khamis

In the approximate Euclidean min-weighted perfect matching problem, a set of points in the plane and a real number are given. Usually, a solution of this problem is a partition of points of into pairs such that the sum of the distances between the paired points is at most times… Read full abstract & cite →

Perfect matching approximation algorithm Monte-Carlo technique a randomized fully polynomial-time approximation scheme and randomized algorithm.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031122 PDF

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Cost Analysis of Algorithm Based Billboard Manger Based Handover Method in LEO satellite Networks

Author 1: Suman Kumar Sikdar Author 2: Soumaya Das Author 3: Debabrata Sarddar

Now-a-days LEO satellites have an important role in global communication system. They have some advantages like low power requirement and low end-to-end delay, more efficient frequency spectrum utilization between satellites and spot beams over GEO and MEO. So in future they can be used as a replacement of modern terrestrial… Read full abstract & cite →

Component Handover latency LEO satellite Mobile Node (MN) Billboard Manager (BM).

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031123 PDF

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An agent based approach for simulating complex systems with spatial dynamics application in the land use planning

Author 1: Fatimazahra BARRAMOU Author 2: Malika ADDOU

In this research a new agent based approach for simulating complex systems with spatial dynamics is presented. We propose an architecture based on coupling between two systems: multi-agent systems and geographic information systems. We also propose a generic model of agent-oriented simulation that we will apply to the field of… Read full abstract & cite →

Multi-agent system Geographic information system Modeling Simulation Complex system Land use planning.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031124 PDF

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Improving Web Page Prediction Using Default Rule Selection

Author 1: Thanakorn Pamutha Author 2: Chom Kimpan Author 3: Siriporn Chimplee Author 4: Parinya Sanguansat

Mining user patterns of web log files can provide significant and useful informative knowledge. A large amount of research has been done in trying to predict correctly the pages a user will most likely request next. Markov models are the most commonly used approaches for this type of web access… Read full abstract & cite →

web mining web usage mining user navigation session Markov model association rules Web page prediction rule-selection methods.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031125 PDF

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Multilayer Neural Networks and Nearest Neighbor Classifier Performances for Image Annotation

Author 1: Mustapha OUJAOURA, Author 2: Brahim MINAOUI Author 3: Mohammed FAKIR

The explosive growth of image data leads to the research and development of image content searching and indexing systems. Image annotation systems aim at annotating automatically animage with some controlled keywords that can be used for indexing and retrieval of images. This paper presents a comparative evaluation of the image… Read full abstract & cite →

Image annotation region growing segmentation multilayer neural network classifier nearest neighbour classifier Zernike moments Legendre moments Hu moments ETH-80 database.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031126 PDF

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Minimization of Call Blocking Probability using Mobile Node velocity

Author 1: Suman Kumar Sikdar Author 2: Uttam Kumar Kundu, Author 3: Debabrata Sarddar

Due to rapid growth in IEEE 802.11 based Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN), handoff has become a burning issue. A mobile Node (MN) requires handoff when it travels out of the coverage area of its current access point (AP) and tries to associate with another AP. But handoff delays provide… Read full abstract & cite →

component Next Generation Wireless Systems (NGWS) Handoff BS (Base Station) MN (Mobile Node) RSS (Received signal strength) IEEE802.11

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031127 PDF

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A Pheromone Based Model for Ant Based Clustering

Author 1: Saroj Bala Author 2: S. I. Ahson Author 3: R. P. Agarwal

Swarm intelligence is a collective effort of simple agents working locally but resulting in wonderful patterns. Labor division, decentralized control, stigmergy and self organization are the major components of swarm intelligence. Ant based clustering is inspired by brood sorting in ant colonies, an example of decentralized and self organized work… Read full abstract & cite →

Ant colony optimization Clustering Stigmergy Pheromone.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031128 PDF

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Modern and Digitalized USB Device With Extendable Memory Capacity

Author 1: J Nandini Meeraa Author 2: S.Devi Abirami Author 3: N.Indhuja Author 4: R.Aravind Author 5: C.Chithiraikkayalvizhi Author 6: K.Rathina Kumar

This paper proposes a advance technology which is completely innovative and creative. The urge of inventing this proposal lies on the bases of the idea of making a pen drive have an extendable memory capacity with a modern and digitalized look. This device can operate without the use of a… Read full abstract & cite →

extendable memory capacity in-built USB slots computerized pen drive operating system processor.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031129 PDF

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Enhanced ModifiedSecurity Framework for Nigeria Cashless E-payment System

Author 1: Fidelis C Obodoeze Author 2: Dr. Francis A. Okoye Author 3: Samuel C.Asogwa Author 4: Frank E.Ozioko Author 5: Calister N.Mba

In January 2012, the Nigeria Apex Bank, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) rolled out guidelines for the transition of Nigeria’s mainly cash-based economy and payment system to cashless and electronic payment (e-payment) system ending over 50 years of mainly cash-based operated economy and payment system. This announcement elicited mixed reactions… Read full abstract & cite →

Cashless economy electronic payment security CBN Nigeria PoS ATM Bank Server PCI DSS.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031130 PDF

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Cashless Society: An Implication To Conomic Growth & Development In Igeria

Author 1: N A YEKINI Author 2: I. K. OYEYINKA Author 3: O.O. AYANNUGA Author 4: O. N. LAWAL Author 5: A. K. AKINWOLE

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announced a new cash policy (Cashless Society), which began on 1st of January 2012 in Lagos state. The policy will be effective nationwide from June 1st 2012. The various technologies and issues involved in cashless society are discussed. This research work sampled the opinions… Read full abstract & cite →

Cashless Society Corruption Development Economic growth Electronic Card.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031131 PDF

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The Analysis of the Components of Project-Based Learning on Social Network

Author 1: Kuntida Thamwipat Author 2: Napassawan Yookong

This research aims to analyze the components of project based learning on social network, case study of presentation skill course. The study was carried out with 98 representatives of 2nd – 3rd year students of Educational Communications and Technology Department, 2nd semester, academic year 2554, who was studying ETM 205… Read full abstract & cite →

analysis of the componenst project-based learning social network Presentation Skill course.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031132 PDF

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A Database Creation for Storing Electronic Documents and Research of the Staff

Author 1: Pornpapatsorn Princhankol Author 2: Siriwan Phacharakreangchai

The research study aims at creating the database for storing Electronic Documents and Research of the staff in the Department of Educational Communications and Technology, evaluating its quality and measuring the satisfaction of the database by users. The sample subjects are 14 instructors and officers in the Department of Educational… Read full abstract & cite →

database creation electronic documents research.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2012.031133 PDF