IJACSA Vol. 6 Issue 2 (2015)

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Effective Strategies for ROI and Image Matching

Author 1: Dr. Khaled M. G. Noaman Author 2: Dr. Jamil Abdulhamid M. Saif

The paper presents an exceptional four matching strategies: systematic, random, gradient and simulated annealing using diferent metrics. We consider two kinds of image matching algorithms. The first one oriented on the whole image matching where we compare corresponding pixels or chosen image characteristics. The second one is oriented on finding… Read full abstract & cite →

systematic random gradient simulated annealing

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060201 PDF

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kEFCM: kNN-Based Dynamic Evolving Fuzzy Clustering Method

Author 1: Shubair Abdulla Author 2: Amer Al-Nassiri

Despite the recent emergence of research, creating an evolving fuzzy clustering method that intelligently copes with huge amount of data streams in the present high-speed networks involves a lot of difficulties. Several efforts have been devoted to enhance traditional clustering techniques into on-line evolving fuzzy able to learn and develop… Read full abstract & cite →

Evolving Fuzzy Logic Clustering k-NN

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060202 PDF

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Constraint on Repair Resources, Optimal Number of Repairers and Optimal Size of a Serviced System

Author 1: Marin Todinov

The focus of this paper is the analysis of the constraint on the repair resources caused by breakdowns of components in large systems. The study has been conducted by creating a very efficient discrete-event simulator, based on a min-heap data structure, for determining the probability of constraint on the repair… Read full abstract & cite →

constraint on the repair resources discrete-event simulation optimization repairs optimal size of a system

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060203 PDF

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Supporting Self-Organization with Logical-Clustering Towards Autonomic Management of Internet-of-Things

Author 1: Hasibur Rahman Author 2: Theo Kanter Author 3: Rahim Rahmani

One of the challenges for autonomic management in Future Internet is to bring about self-organization in a rapidly changing environment and enable participating nodes to be aware and respond to changes. The massive number of participating nodes in Internet-of-Things calls for a new approach in regard of autonomic management with… Read full abstract & cite →

autonomic management Future Internet Internet-of-Things self-organization logical-clustering MediaSense

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060204 PDF

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Data Center Governance Information Security Compliance Assessment Based on the Cobit Framewok

Author 1: Andrey Ferriyan Author 2: Jazi Eko Istiyanto

One of control domain of Cobit describes information security lies in Deliver and Support (DS) on DS5 Ensure Systems Security. This domain describes what things should be done by an organization to preserve and maintain the integrity of the information assets of IT where this all requires a security management… Read full abstract & cite →

COBIT CVE maturity model

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060205 PDF

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Intelligent Traffic Information System Based on Integration of Internet of Things and Agent Technology

Author 1: Hasan Omar Al-Sakran

In recent years popularity of private cars is getting urban traffic more and more crowded. As result traffic is becoming one of important problems in big cities in all over the world. Some of the traffic concerns are congestions and accidents which have caused a huge waste of time, property… Read full abstract & cite →

Intelligent Traffic Internet-of-Things RFID Wireless Sensor Networks Agent Technology

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060206 PDF

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Development of a Decision Support System for Handling Health Insurance Deduction

Author 1: Shakiba Khademolqorani Author 2: Ali Zeinal Hamadani

Effective hospital management involves such activities as monitoring the flow of medication, controlling treatment, and billing for the patient’s treatment. A major challenge between insurance companies and hospitals lies in the way medical treatment expenses for insured patients are reimbursed. In some cases, the insurance deduction leads to the loss… Read full abstract & cite →

Hospital Management Insurance Deduction Decision Support Systems Data Mining Multiple Criteria Decision Making

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060207 PDF

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A Multi-Label Classification Approach Based on Correlations Among Labels

Author 1: Raed Alazaidah Author 2: Fadi Thabtah Author 3: Qasem Al-Radaideh

Multi label classification is concerned with learning from a set of instances that are associated with a set of labels, that is, an instance could be associated with multiple labels at the same time. This task occurs frequently in application areas like text categorization, multimedia classification, bioinformatics, protein function classification… Read full abstract & cite →

Classification Data mining Multi-label Classification

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060208 PDF

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Developing Software Bug Prediction Models Using Various Software Metrics as the Bug Indicators

Author 1: Varuna Gupta Author 2: Dr. N. Ganeshan Author 3: Dr. Tarun K. Singhal

The bug prediction effectiveness reasonably contributes towards enhancing quality of software. Bug indicators contribute significantly in determining the bug prediction approaches and help in achieving software reliability. Various comparative research studies have indicated that Depth of Inheritance (DIT), Weighted Method per Class (WMC), Coupling between Objects (CBO) and Lines of… Read full abstract & cite →

Bug Prediction DIT WMC CBO LoC SRGM

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060209 PDF

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The Effects of Different Congestion Management Algorithms over Voip Performance

Author 1: Szabolcs Szilágyi

This paper presents one of the features of DS (Differentiated Services) architecture, namely the queuing or congestion management. Packets can be placed into separate buffer queues, on the basis of the DS value. Several forwarding policies can be used to favor high priority packets in different ways. The major reason… Read full abstract & cite →

CBWFQ congestion CQ FIFO LLQ Pagent PQ queuing WFQ

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060210 PDF

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Study of Gamification Effectiveness in Online e-Learning Systems

Author 1: Ilya V. Osipov Author 2: Evgeny Nikulchev Author 3: Alex A. Volinsky Author 4: Anna Y. Prasikova

Online distance e-learning systems allow introducing innovative methods in pedagogy, along with studying their effectiveness. Assessing the system effectiveness is based on analyzing the log files to track the studying time, the number of connections, and earned game bonus points. This study is based on an example of the online… Read full abstract & cite →

elearning gamification marketing monetization viral marketing virality

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060211 PDF

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The Real-Time Research of Optimal Power Flow Calculation in Reduce Active Power Loss Aspects of Power Grid

Author 1: Yuting Pan Author 2: Yuchen Chen Author 3: Zhiqiang Yuan Author 4: Bo Liu

In order to research how to availably reduce the active power loss value in power grid system when the power system is operating, it offers a quantitative research in theory through conceiving the unbalanced losses of power grid system under the overloading bus as the investigative object, and establishing an… Read full abstract & cite →

optimal power flow voltage regulation reactive power compensation cross-sectional area active power loss

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060212 PDF

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Assessment of Potential Dam Sites in the Kabul River Basin Using GIS

Author 1: RASOOLI Ahmadullah Author 2: KANG Dongshik

The research focuses on Kabul River Basin (KRB) water resources infrastructure, management and development as there are many dams already in the basin and many dams are planned and are being studied with multi-purposes objectives such as power generation, irrigation and providing water to industry and domestics. KB has been… Read full abstract & cite →

Geographical Information System (GIS) Kabul River Basin (KRB) Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Map

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060213 PDF

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The Examination of Using Business Intelligence Systems by Enterprises in Hungary

Author 1: Peter Sasvari

Data are one of the key elements in corporate decision-making, without them, the decision-making process cannot be imagined. As a consequence, different analytical tools are needed that allow the efficient use of data, information and knowledge. These analytical tools are commonly called Business Intelligence systems that are introduced into the… Read full abstract & cite →

Business Intelligence Hungary Enterprises

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060214 PDF

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Sentiment Analysis Based on Expanded Aspect and Polarity-Ambiguous Word Lexicon

Author 1: Yanfang Cao Author 2: Pu Zhang Author 3: Anping Xiong

This paper focuses on the task of disambiguating polarity-ambiguous words and the task is reduced to sentiment classification of aspects, which we refer to sentiment expectation instead of semantic orientation widely used in previous researches. Polarity-ambiguous words refer to words like” large, small, high, low ”, which pose a challenging… Read full abstract & cite →

polarity-ambiguous word aspect sentiment analysis

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060215 PDF

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GPS-Based Daily Context Recognition for Lifelog Generation Using Smartphone

Author 1: Go Tanaka Author 2: Masaya Okada Author 3: Hiroshi Mineno

Mobile devices are becoming increasingly more sophisticated with their many diverse and powerful sensors, such as GPS, acceleration, and gyroscope sensors. They provide numerous services for supporting daily human life and are now being studied as a tool to reduce the worldwide increase of lifestyle-related diseases. This paper describes a… Read full abstract & cite →

component Lifelog machine learning GPS healthcare

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060216 PDF

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Age Estimation Based on AAM and 2D-DCT Features of Facial Images

Author 1: Asuman Günay Author 2: Vasif V. Nabiyev

This paper proposes a novel age estimation method - Global and Local feAture based Age estiMation (GLAAM) - relying on global and local features of facial images. Global features are obtained with Active Appearance Models (AAM). Local features are extracted with regional 2D-DCT (2- dimensional Discrete Cosine Transform) of normalized… Read full abstract & cite →

2D-DCT AAM Age estimation PCA Regression

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060217 PDF

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Personal Health Book Application for Developing Countries

Author 1: Seddiq Alabbasi Author 2: Andrew Rebeiro-Hargrave Author 3: Kunihiko Kaneko Author 4: Ashir Ahmed Author 5: Akira Fukuda

We introduce a Personal Health Book application that is used as a portable repository for Personal Health Records (PHR) in order to alleviate healthcare organizational problems in developing countries. The Personal Health Book application allows low literate people to access and carry their own medical history from a rural healthcare… Read full abstract & cite →

Personal health records Patient centered healthcare Database design Developing countries Extensible markup language

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060218 PDF

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En-Route Vehicular Traffic Optimization

Author 1: Saravanan M Author 2: Ashwin Kumar M

The pathways of information are changing, the physical world itself is becoming a type of information system. In what’s called the Internet of Things (IoT), sensors and actuators embedded in physical objects—from roadways to pacemakers—are linked through wired and wireless networks, often using the same Internet Protocol (IP) that connects… Read full abstract & cite →

IoT IP POC Central Node Dynamic Board Accident detection model

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060219 PDF

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Developement of Bayesian Networks from Unified Modeling Language for Learner Modelling

Author 1: ANOUAR TADLAOUI Mouenis Author 2: AAMMOU Souhaib Author 3: KHALDI Mohamed

First of all, and to clarify our purpose, it seems important to say that the work we are presenting here lie within the framework of learner modeling in an adaptive system understood as computational modeling of the learner .we must state also that Bayesian Networks are effective tools for learner… Read full abstract & cite →

Learner Modeling Bayesian networks Cognitive diagnosis Uncertainty

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060220 PDF

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High Accuracy Arabic Handwritten Characters Recognition Using Error Back Propagation Artificial Neural Networks

Author 1: Assist. Prof. Majida Ali Abed Author 2: Assist. Prof. Dr. Hamid Ali Abed Alasad

This manuscript considers a new architecture to handwritten characters recognition based on simulation of the behavior of one type of artificial neural network, called the Error Back Propagation Artificial Neural Network (EBPANN). We present an overview of our neural network to be optimized and tested on 12 offline isolated Arabic… Read full abstract & cite →

Character Recognition Neural Network Classification Error Back Propagation Artificial Neural Network

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060221 PDF

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The Parents' Perception of Nursing Support in their Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Experience

Author 1: Amani F. Magliyah Author 2: Muhamamd I. Razzak

NICU is an environment that has many challenges in information receiving and understanding. The infants that are cared for might have serious and complex medical problems. For Parents the NICU experience is filled with stress, fear, sadness, guilt and shock of having a sick baby in NICU. The aim of… Read full abstract & cite →

parents stress anxiety NICU nurse support neonate infant

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060222 PDF

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Hybrid PSO-MOBA for Profit Maximization in Cloud Computing

Author 1: Dr. Salu George

Cloud service provider, infrastructure vendor and clients/Cloud user’s are main actors in any cloud enterprise like Amazon web service’s cloud or Google’s cloud. Now these enterprises take care in infrastructure deployment and cloud services management (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS). Cloud user ‘s need to provide correct amount of services needed and characteristic of… Read full abstract & cite →

Cloud Computing Profit Maximization Admission Control SLA Optimization Hybrid Particle Swam Optimization – Multi Objective Bat Algorithm

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060223 PDF

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Semantic Web Improved with the Weighted IDF Feature

Author 1: Mrs. Jyoti Gautam Author 2: Dr. Ela Kumar

The development of search engines is taking at a very fast rate. A lot of algorithms have been tried and tested. But, still the people are not getting precise results. Social networking sites are developing at tremendous rate and their growth has given birth to the new interesting problems. The… Read full abstract & cite →

Text classification Semantic Web with weighted idf feature Expanded query New Semantic Web Algorithm Ranking Algorithm

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060224 PDF

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Consuming Web Services on Android Mobile Platform for Finding Parking Lots

Author 1: Isak Shabani Author 2: Besmir Sejdiu Author 3: Fatushe Jasharaj

Many web applications over the last decade are built using Web services based on Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), because these Web services are the best choice for web applications and mobile applications in general. Researches and the results of them show how architectures and the systems primarily designed for… Read full abstract & cite →

Web application Web services Android platform Mobile devices MyParking

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060225 PDF

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Improvement of Control System Performance by Modification of Time Delay

Author 1: Salem Alkhalaf

This paper presents a mathematical approach for improving the performance of a control system by modifying the time delay at certain operating conditions. This approach converts a continuous time loop into a discrete time loop. The formula derived is applied successfully to an applicable control system. The results show that… Read full abstract & cite →

Distributed control system control delay sampling scheme control system performance

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060226 PDF

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Use of Non-Topological Node Attribute Values for Probabilistic Determination of Link Formation

Author 1: Abhiram Gandhe Author 2: Parag Deshpande

Here we propose a probabilistic model for determining link formation, using Naïve Bayes Classifier on non-topological attribute values of nodes, in a social network. The proposed model gives a score which helps to determine the relationship strength in a non-formed link. In addition to Naïve Bayes Classifier, weighted Average of… Read full abstract & cite →

Non-Topological Attribute Link Prediction Naïve Bayes Classifier Weighted Average Graph Database Social Network Data Mining

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060227 PDF

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Different Classification Algorithms Based on Arabic Text Classification: Feature Selection Comparative Study

Author 1: Ghazi Raho Author 2: Riyad Al-Shalabi Author 3: Ghassan Kanaan Author 4: Asmaa Nassar

Feature selection is necessary for effective text classification. Dataset preprocessing is essential to make upright result and effective performance. This paper investigates the effectiveness of using feature selection. In this paper we have been compared the performance between different classifiers in different situations using feature selection with stemming, and without… Read full abstract & cite →

Text Classification Feature Selection Arabic Text Recall F-Measure

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060228 PDF

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Implementation of ADS Linked List Via Smart Pointers

Author 1: Ivaylo Donchev Author 2: Emilia Todorova

Students traditionally have difficulties in implementing abstract data structures (ADS) in C++. To a large extent, these difficulties are due to language complexity in terms of memory management with raw pointers – the programmer must take care of too many details to provide reliable, efficient and secure implementation. Since all… Read full abstract & cite →

abstract data structures C++ smart pointers teaching

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060229 PDF

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A Review on Feature Extraction and Feature Selection for Handwritten Character Recognition

Author 1: Muhammad ‘Arif Mohamad Author 2: Haswadi Hassan Author 3: Dewi Nasien Author 4: Habibollah Haron

The development of handwriting character recognition (HCR) is an interesting area in pattern recognition. HCR system consists of a number of stages which are preprocessing, feature extraction, classification and followed by the actual recognition. It is generally agreed that one of the main factors influencing performance in HCR is the… Read full abstract & cite →

HCR Feature Extraction Feature Selection Harmony Search Algorithm

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060230 PDF

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Resource Provisioning in Single Tier and Multi-Tier Cloud Computing: “State-of-the-Art”

Author 1: Marwah Hashim Eawna Author 2: Salma Hamdy Mohammed Author 3: El-Sayed M. El-Horbaty

Cloud computing is a new computation trend for delivering information as long as an electronic device needs to access of a web server. One of the major pitfalls in cloud computing is related to optimizing the resource provisioning and allocation. Because of the uniqueness of the model, resource provisioning is… Read full abstract & cite →

Cloud Computing Resource Provisioning

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060231 PDF

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Improving Web Movie Recommender System Based on Emotions

Author 1: Karzan Wakil Author 2: Rebwar Bakhtyar Author 3: Karwan Ali Author 4: Kozhin Alaadin

Recommender Systems (RSs) are garnering a significant importance with the advent of e-commerce and e-business on the web. This paper focused on the Movie Recommender System (MRS) based on human emotions. The problem is the MRS need to capture exactly the customer’s profile and features of movies, therefore movie is… Read full abstract & cite →

movie recommender system collaborative filtering content based filtering emotion CF CBF MRS

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060232 PDF

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Service Design for Developing Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction for Smart Tvs

Author 1: Sheng-Ming Wang Author 2: Cheih-Ju Huang

A Smart TV integrates Internet and Web features into a TV, as well convergence between computer and TV and can utilize as a computer. Smart TV devices facilitate the curation of content by combining Internet-based information with content from TV providers. Many techniques, such as those that focus on speech… Read full abstract & cite →

Smart TV Service Design Human-Computer Interaction Quality Function Deployment Analytical Hierarchy Process

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060233 PDF

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A General Model for Similarity Measurement between Objects

Author 1: Manh Hung Nguyen Author 2: Thi Hoi Nguyen

The problem to detect the similarity or the differ-ence between objects are faced regularly in several domains of applications such as e-commerce, social network, expert system, data mining, decision support system, etc. This paper introduces a general model for measuring the similarity between objects based on their attributes. In this… Read full abstract & cite →

object similarity multiple attributes similarity sim-ilarity measurement decision support.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060234 PDF

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Analysis of Significant Factors for Dengue Infection Prognosis Using the Random Forest Classifier

Author 1: A. Shameem Fathima Author 2: D.Manimeglai

Random forests have emerged as a versatile and highly accurate classification and regression methodology, requiring little tuning and providing interpretable outputs. Here, we briefly explore the possibility of applying this ensemble supervised machine learning technique to predict the vulnerability for complex disease - Dengue which is often baffled with chikungunya… Read full abstract & cite →

Data Mining Dengue Virus Machine learning Random Forest

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060235 PDF

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Confinement for Active Objects

Author 1: Florian Kammuller

In this paper, we provide a formal framework for the security of distributed active objects. Active objects com-municate asynchronously implementing method calls via futures. We base the formal framework on a security model that uses a semi-lattice to enable multi-lateral security crucial for distributed architectures. We further provide a security… Read full abstract & cite →

Distributed active objects formalization security type systems

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060236 PDF

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Processing the Text of the Holy Quran: a Text Mining Study

Author 1: Mohammad Alhawarat Author 2: Mohamed Hegazi Author 3: Anwer Hilal

The Holy Quran is the reference book for more than 1.6 billion of Muslims all around the world Extracting information and knowledge from the Holy Quran is of high benefit for both specialized people in Islamic studies as well as non-specialized people. This paper initiates a series of research studies… Read full abstract & cite →

Holy Quran Text Mining Arabic Natural Lan-guage Processing

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060237 PDF

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SOCIA: Linked Open Data of Context behind Local Concerns for Supporting Public Participation

Author 1: Shun Shiramatsu Author 2: Tadachika Ozono Author 3: Toramatsu Shintani

To address public concerns that threat the sustain-ability of local societies, supporting public participation by shar-ing the background context behind these concerns is essentially important. We designed a SOCIA ontology, which was a linked data model, for sharing context behind local concerns with two approaches: (1) structuring Web news articles… Read full abstract & cite →

Semantic Web social computing natural language processing linked open data e-Participation

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060238 PDF

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Timed-Release Certificateless Encryption

Author 1: Toru Oshikiri Author 2: Taiichi Saito

Timed-Release Encryption(TRE) is an encryption mechanism that allows a receiver to decrypt a ciphertext only after the time that a sender designates. In this paper, we propose the notion of Timed-Release Certificateless Encryption(TRCLE), and define its security models. We also show a generic con-struction of TRCLE from Public-Key Encryption(PKE), Identity-Based… Read full abstract & cite →

timed-release encryption identity-based encryption one-time signature

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060239 PDF

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Vehicle Embedded Data Stream Processing Platform for Android Devices

Author 1: Shingo Akiyama Author 2: Yukikazu Nakamoto Author 3: Akihiro Yamaguchi Author 4: Kenya Sato Author 5: Hiroaki Takada

Automotive information services utilizing vehicle data are rapidly expanding. However, there is currently no data centric software architecture that takes into account the scale and complexity of data involving numerous sensors. To address this issue, the authors have developed an in-vehicle data-stream management system for automotive embedded systems (eDSMS) as… Read full abstract & cite →

Android automotive data stream management system

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060240 PDF

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Ontology-based Change Propagation in Shareable Health Information Applications

Author 1: Anny Kartika Sari Author 2: Wenny Rahayu

One of the most important challenges to be ad-dressed when establishing an integrated smart health environ-ment is the availability of shareable health data and knowledge which standardize the interoperability of components within the environment. Health ontologies are commonly utilized to enable interoperability between applications in such environment. However, the dynamic… Read full abstract & cite →

health information system ontology-based applica-tion ontology evolution

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060241 PDF

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Similarity Calculation Method of Chinese Short Text Based on Semantic Feature Space

Author 1: Liqiang Pan Author 2: Pu Zhang Author 3: Anping Xiong

In order to improve the accuracy of short text similarity calculation, this paper presents the idea that use the history of short text messages to construct semantic feature space, then use the vector in semantic feature space to represent short text and do semantic extension, and finally calculate the short… Read full abstract & cite →

short text semantic feature space similarity semantic similarity

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