IJACSA Vol. 4 Issue 11 (2013)

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Implicit sensitive text summarization based on data conveyed by connectives

Author 1: Henda Chorfi Ouertani

So far and trying to reach human capabilities, research in automatic summarization has been based on hypothesis that are both enabling and limiting. Some of these limitations are: how to take into account and reflect (in the generated summary) the implicit information conveyed in the text, the author intention, the… Read full abstract & cite →

Automatic summarization implicit data topoi topos argumentation

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The Development of Learning Resource for the Saleng Community under the Bridge of Zone 1 Entitled “How to Repair Electrical Appliances”

Author 1: Pornpapatsorn Princhankol Author 2: Kuntida Thamwipat Author 3: Paveena Thambunharn Author 4: Wuttipong Phansatarn

This research was aimed to develop a learning resource for the Saleng community under the bridge of zone 1 entitled “How to Repair Electrical Appliances” in order to determine the quality of learning community and to examine the satisfaction of the sampling group which was chosen using specified sampling method… Read full abstract & cite →

learning resource Saleng community under the bridge of zone 1 repairing electrical appliances

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Image fusion approach with noise reduction using Genetic algorithm

Author 1: Gehad Mohamed Taher Author 2: Mohamed Elsayed Wahed Author 3: Ghada El Taweal Author 4: Ahmed Fouad

Image fusion is becoming a challenging field as for its importance to different applications, Multi focus image fusion is a type of image fusion that is used in medical fields, surveillances, and military issues to get the image all in focus from multi images every one is in focus in… Read full abstract & cite →

Multi-focus image fusion Curvelet transform genetic algorithm Introduction

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Security of Mobile Phones and Their Usage in Business

Author 1: Abdullah Saleh Alqahtani

The purpose of this document is to provide an overview on the growth on mobile phone and PDA devices and use in business-oriented modern day life style. The explosion of smartphones in enterprise and personal computing heighten the concerns of security and privacy of users. Now a day’s use of… Read full abstract & cite →

Smartphone PDA security business-oriented applications

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Performance Comparison between Naïve Bayes, Decision Tree and k-Nearest Neighbor in Searching Alternative Design in an Energy Simulation Tool

Author 1: Ahmad Ashari Author 2: Iman Paryudi Author 3: A Min Tjoa

Energy simulation tool is a tool to simulate energy use by a building prior to the erection of the building. Commonly it has a feature providing alternative designs that are better than the user’s design. In this paper, we propose a novel method in searching alternative design that is by… Read full abstract & cite →

energy simulation tool classification method naïve bayes decision tree k-nearest neighbor

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Modification of Contract Net Protocol (CNP) : A Rule-Updation Approach

Author 1: Sandeep Kaur Author 2: Harjot Kaur Author 3: Sumeet Kaur Sehra

Coordination in multi-agent system is very essential, in order to perform complex tasks and lead MAS towards its goal. Also, the member agents of multi-agent system should be autonomous as well as collaborative to accomplish the complex task for which multi-agent system is designed specifically. Contract-Net Protocol (CNP) is one… Read full abstract & cite →

Multi-Agent System Coordination Communication Language Norm-based Contract Net Protocol utility parameters

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2013.041106 PDF

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Blind Turing-Machines: Arbitrary Private Computations from Group Homomorphic Encryption

Author 1: Stefan Rass

Secure function evaluation (SFE) is the process of computing a function (or running an algorithm) on some data, while keeping the input, output and intermediate results hidden from the environment in which the function is evaluated. This can be done using fully homomorphic encryption, Yao's garbled circuits or secure multiparty… Read full abstract & cite →

secure function evaluation homomorphic encryption chosen ciphertext security cloud computing

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An Exploratory study of proposed factors to Adopt e-government Services

Author 1: Sulaiman A. Alateyah Author 2: Richard M Crowder Author 3: Gary B Wills

this paper discusses e-government, in particular the challenges that face adoption of e-government in Saudi Arabia. In this research we define e-government as a matrix of stakeholders: governments to governments, governments to business and governments to citizens, using information and communications technology to deliver and consume services. e-government services still… Read full abstract & cite →

adoption citizens’ intention e-government e-government models influential factors Saudi Arabia

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Grouping-based Scheduling with Load Balancing for Fine-Grained Jobs in Grid Computing

Author 1: Rabab Mohamed Ezzat Author 2: Amal Elsayed Aboutabl Author 3: Mostafa Sami Mostafa

Grid computing is characterized by the existence of a collection of heterogeneous geographically distributed resources that are connected over high speed networks. Job scheduling and resource management have been a great challenge to researchers in the area of grid computing. Very often, there are applications having a large number of… Read full abstract & cite →

grid computing job scheduling job grouping load balancing resource utilization Gridsim

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Performance Evaluation for the DIPDAM scheme on the OLSR and the AODV MANETs Routing Protocols

Author 1: Ahmad Almazeed Author 2: Ahmed Mohamed Abdalla

the DIPDAM scheme is a fully-distributed message exchange framework designed to overcome the challenges caused by the decentralized and dynamic characteristics of mobile ad-hoc networks. The DIPDAM mechanism is based on three parts Path Validation Message (PVM) enables E2E feedback loop between the source and the destination, Attacker Finder Message… Read full abstract & cite →

Ad hoc networks AODV Computer network management IDS MANETS OLSR

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Control of Single Axis Magnetic Levitation System Using Fuzzy Logic Control

Author 1: Tania Tariq Salim Author 2: Vedat Mehmet Karsli

This paper presents a fuzzy logic controller design for the stabilization of magnetic levitation system (Maglev 's).Additionally, the investigation on Linear Quadratic Regulator Controller (LQRC) also mentioned here. This paper presents the difference between the performance of fuzzy logic control (FLC) and LQRC for the same linear model of magnetic… Read full abstract & cite →

Magnetic Levitation System MAGLEV Fuzzy Control Linear Quadratic Regulator Controller

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Developing Parallel Application on Multi-core Mobile Phone

Author 1: Dhuha Basheer Abdullah Author 2: Mohammed M. Al-Hafidh

One cannot imagine daily life today without mobile devices such as mobile phones or PDAs. They tend to become your mobile computer offering all features one might need on the way. As a result devices are less expensive and include a huge amount of high end technological components. Thus they… Read full abstract & cite →

Mobile phone Parallel programming Multi-core processor Lane detection

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Cross Correlation versus Mutual Information for Image Mosaicing

Author 1: Sherin Ghannam Author 2: A. Lynn Abbott

This paper reviews the concept of image mosaicing and presents a comparison between two of the most common image mosaicing techniques. The first technique is based on normalized cross correlation (NCC) for registering overlapping 2D images of a 3D scene. The second is based on mutual information (MI). The experimental… Read full abstract & cite →

mosaicing normalized cross correlation mutual information

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Service Pyramid Concept of Knowledge Intensive Business Services in the Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Sector

Author 1: Sándor Nagy

The activity of service companies is more complex today than before the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) became widespread in business. Fewer service companies can be found on the market based solely on physical customer interaction; however, they have been replaced with standardized and automated services. This structural… Read full abstract & cite →

knowledge intensive business services information and communication technology small and medium sized enterprises productisation service product service pyramid

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Software Development Effort Estimation by Means of Genetic Programming

Author 1: Arturo Chavoya Author 2: Cuauhtemoc Lopez-Martin Author 3: M.E. Meda-Campaña

In this study, a genetic programming technique was used with the goal of estimating the effort required in the development of individual projects. Results obtained were compared with those generated by a statistical regression and by a neural network that have already been used to estimate the development effort of… Read full abstract & cite →

genetic programming feedforward neural network software effort estimation statistical regression

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An analysis of Internet Banking in Portugal

Author 1: João Pedro Couto Author 2: Teresa Tiago Author 3: Flávio Tiago

In recent years, mobile operations have gained wide popularity among mainstream users, and banks tend to follow this trend. But are bank customers ready to move forward? Mobile banking appears to be a natural extension of Internet banking, . Thus, to predict consumer decisions to adopt mobile banking, it’s useful… Read full abstract & cite →

internet banking mobile banking technology adoption models Portugal

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Using Learning Analytics to Understand the Design of an Intelligent Language Tutor – Chatbot Lucy

Author 1: Yi Fei Wang Author 2: Stephen Petrina

the goal of this article is to explore how learning analytics can be used to predict and advise the design of an intelligent language tutor, chatbot Lucy. With its focus on using student-produced data to understand the design of Lucy to assist English language learning, this research can be a… Read full abstract & cite →

learning analytics intelligent tutor chatbot second language acquisition learning design

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Web Resources Annotation for the Web of Learning

Author 1: Jawad Berri

Semantic annotation of web resources is an essential ingredient to leverage the web of information to the semantic web where resources are easily shared and reused. In the education field, reusing hypermedia web resources can support to a great deal the design of modern instructional environments and the development of… Read full abstract & cite →

Web resources semantic annotation web of learning contextual exploration

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2013.041118 PDF

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An Assessment of 3G Mobile Service Acceptance in Bangladesh

Author 1: Tajmary Mahfuz Author 2: Subhenur Latif

This paper aims to find out the key factors influencing mobile users to adopt 3G technology and affecting the subscriber’s feedback while using third generation (3G) mobile services that are available for one year in Bangladesh. An interesting fact that motivated this research was the significant low rate of 3G… Read full abstract & cite →

Awareness Adoption 3G mobile service usage pattern

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CAPTCHA Based on Human Cognitive Factor

Author 1: Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury Author 2: Narayan Ranjan Chakraborty

A CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is an automatic security mechanism used to determine whether the user is a human or a malicious computer program. It is a program that generates and grades tests that are human solvable, but intends to be beyond… Read full abstract & cite →

CAPTCHA Usability Security Cognitive Psychology

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2013.041120 PDF

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A Pilot Study Examining the Online Behavior of Web Users with Visual Impairments

Author 1: Julian Brinkley Author 2: Nasseh Tabrizi

This report presents the results of a pilot study on the online behavioral habits of 46 internet users; 26 of whom self-identified as having a visual impairment (either blind or low vision). While significant research exists which documents the degree of difficulty that users with visual impairments have in interacting… Read full abstract & cite →

Web Accessibility Social Networking Human Computer Interaction

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Inverted Indexing In Big Data Using Hadoop Multiple Node Cluster

Author 1: Kaushik Velusamy Author 2: Deepthi Venkitaramanan Author 3: Nivetha Vijayaraju Author 4: Greeshma Suresh Author 5: Divya Madhu

Inverted Indexing is an efficient, standard data structure, most suited for search operation over an exhaustive set of data. The huge set of data is mostly unstructured and does not fit into traditional database categories. Large scale processing of such data needs a distributed framework such as Hadoop where computational… Read full abstract & cite →

Hadoop Big data inverted indexing data structure

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Mobile Robots in Teaching Programming for IT Engineers and its Effects

Author 1: Attila Pásztor Author 2: Róbert Pap-Szigeti Author 3: Erika Török

in this paper the new methods and devices introduced into the learning process of programming for IT engineers at our college is described. Based on our previous research results we supposed that project methods and some new devices can reduce programming problems during the first term. These problems are rooted… Read full abstract & cite →

programmable mobile robots project method positive effects

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Building future generation service-oriented information broker networks

Author 1: Sophie Wrobel Author 2: Eleni Kosta Author 3: Mohamed Bourimi Author 4: Rafael Giménez Author 5: Simon Scerri

Future generation networks target collecting intelligence from multiple sources based on end-users' data and their social interaction in order to draw useful conclusions on enabling users to execute their rights to online privacy. These networks form a rising class of service-oriented broker platforms. Designers and providers of such network platforms… Read full abstract & cite →

di.me online privacy social media software design legal and ethical issues broker platform context-aware web services user data

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pGBbBShift - Perceptual Generalized Bitplane-by-Bitplane Shift

Author 1: Jaime Moreno

The paper we present pGBbBShift. This algorithm permits to code any Region of Interest (ROI) in a perceptual way, i.e. the presented algorithm introduces some characteristics of the Human Visual System. Furthermore, it introduces features of chromatic induction to the GBbBShift method when bitplanes of ROI and background areas are… Read full abstract & cite →

Image Coding JPEG2000 Hi-SET region of interest (ROI) bitplane coding wavelet coding maximum shift (MaxShift) bitplane-by-bitplane shift (BbBShift) generalized bitplane-by-bitplane shift (GBbBShift)

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2013.041125 PDF

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Personalized Real Time Weather Forecasting With Recommendations

Author 1: Abhishek Kumar Singh Author 2: Aditi Sharma Author 3: Rahul Mishra

Temperature forecasting and rain forecasting in today's environment is playing a major role in many fields like transportation, tour planning and agriculture. The purpose of this paper is to provide a real time forecasting to the user according to their current position and requirement. The simplest method of forecasting the… Read full abstract & cite →

Weather Forcasting NOAA

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Software Effort Estimation Inspired by COCOMO and FP Models: A Fuzzy Logic Approach

Author 1: Alaa F. Sheta Author 2: Sultan Aljahdali

Budgeting, bidding and planning of software project effort, time and cost are essential elements of any software development process. Massive size and complexity of now a day produced software systems cause a substantial risk for the development process. Inadequate and inefficient information about the size and complexity results in an… Read full abstract & cite →

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A General Framework of Generating Estimation Functions for Computing the Mutual Information of Terms

Author 1: D. Cai Author 2: T.L. McCluskey

Computing statistical dependence of terms in textual documents is a widely studied subject and a core problem in many areas of science. This study focuses on such a problem and explores the techniques of estimation using the expected mutual information measure. A general framework is established for tackling a variety… Read full abstract & cite →

mutual information of terms (MIT) term dependence statistical semantic analysis probability estimation.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2013.041128 PDF