IJACSA Vol. 4 Issue 4 (2013)

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E-learning in Higher Educational Institutions in Kuwait: Experiences and Challenges

Author 1: Mubarak M Alkharang Author 2: George Ghinea

E-learning as an organizational activity started in the developed countries, and as such, the adoption models and experiences in the developed countries are taken as a benchmark in the literature. This paper investigated the barriers that affect or prevent the adoption of e-learning in higher educational institutions in Kuwait as… Read full abstract & cite →

e-learning higher education adoption Kuwait developed countries e-learning barriers.

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A Cost-Efficient and Reliable Resource Allocation Model Based on Cellular Automaton Entropy for Cloud Project Scheduling

Author 1: Huankai Chen Author 2: Frank Wang Author 3: Na Helian

Resource allocation optimization is a typical cloud project scheduling problem: a problem that limits a cloud system’s ability to execute and deliver a project as originally planned. The entropy, as a measure of the degree of disorder in a system, is an indicator of a system’s tendency to progress out… Read full abstract & cite →

Resource Allocation Cloud Project Scheduling Entropy Cellular Automaton Cost-efficiency Reliability Complex System Local Activity Global Order Disorder

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Analysis of an Automatic Accessibility Evaluator to Validate a Virtual and Authenticated Environment

Author 1: Elisa Maria Pivetta Author 2: Carla Flor Author 3: Daniela Satomi Saito Author 4: Vania Ribas Ulbricht

This article’s objective is to analyze an automatic validation software compatible with the guidelines of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 in an authenticated environment. To the evaluation it was utilized as a test platform the authenticated environment of Moodle, which is an open source platform created for educational environments… Read full abstract & cite →

automatic validation tool WCAG 2.0 accessibility WAVE)

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2013.040403 PDF

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Narrowing Down Learning Research: Technical Documentation in Information Systems Research

Author 1: Thomas Puchleitner

learning how to use technical products is of high interest for customers as well as businesses. Besides product usability, technical documentation in various forms plays a major role for the acceptance of innovative products. Software applications partly integrate personalized learning strategies but late developments in information and communication technology extend… Read full abstract & cite →

problem-based learning self-regulated learning self-directed learning product learning customer learning consumer learning

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2013.040404 PDF

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Detection and Isolation of Packet Dropping Attacker in MANETs

Author 1: Ahmed Mohamed Abdalla Author 2: Ahmad H. Almazeed Author 3: Imane Aly Saroit Author 4: Amira Kotb

Several approaches have been proposed for Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). Due to lack of MANETs infrastructure and well defined perimeter MANETs are susceptible to a variety of attacker types. To develop a strong security mechanism it is necessary to understand how malicious nodes can… Read full abstract & cite →

MANETS IDS OLSR DIPDAM

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Comparative Analysis of K-Means and Fuzzy C-Means Algorithms

Author 1: Soumi Ghosh Author 2: Sanjay Kumar Dubey

In the arena of software, data mining technology has been considered as useful means for identifying patterns and trends of large volume of data. This approach is basically used to extract the unknown pattern from the large set of data for business as well as real time applications. It is… Read full abstract & cite →

clustering k-means fuzzy c-means time complexity

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2013.040406 PDF

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Developing a Stochastic Input Oriented Data Envelopment Analysis (SIODEA) Model

Author 1: Basma E. El-Demerdash Author 2: Ihab A. El-Khodary Author 3: Assem A. Tharwat

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a powerful quantitative tool that provides a means to obtain useful information about efficiency and performance of firms, organizations, and all sorts of functionally similar, relatively autonomous operating units, known as Decision Making Units (DMU). Usually the investigated DMUs are characterized by a vector of… Read full abstract & cite →

Data Envelopment Analysis Stochastic Variables Input Oriented Performance Measure Efficiency Measurement.

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Studies and a Method to Minimize and Control the Jitter in Optical Based Communication System

Author 1: N. Suresh Kumar Author 2: R. Sridevi Author 3: Dr. D.V. R. K. Reddy Author 4: V. Sridevi

In the years, optical communication systems have been using significantly for attractive solutions to the increasing high data rate in telecommunication systems and various other applications. In the present days mostly, two types of communication schemes are using in data communication, namely asynchronous transmission and synchronous transmission depending on their… Read full abstract & cite →

Optics Jitter pipeline Clock propagation delay high speed data.

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2013.040408 PDF

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Novel Steganography System using Lucas Sequence

Author 1: Fahd Alharbi

Steganography is the process of embedding data into a media form such as image, voice, and video. The major methods used for data hiding are the frequency domain and the spatial domain. In the frequency domain, the secret data bits are inserted into the coefficients of the image pixel's frequency… Read full abstract & cite →

Steganography LSB Lucas PSNR PRNG

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3D CAD model reconstruction of a human femur from MRI images

Author 1: Mohammed RADOUANI Author 2: Youssef AOURA Author 3: Benaissa EL FAHIME Author 4: Latifa OUZIZI

Medical practice and life sciences take full advantage of progress in engineering disciplines, in particular the computer assisted placement technique in hip surgery. This paper describes the three dimensional model reconstruction of human femur from MRI images. The developed program enables to obtain digital shape of 3D femur recognized by… Read full abstract & cite →

biomechanic MRI imaging 3D reconstructionl femur

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Impact of other-cell interferences on downlink capacity in WCDMA Network

Author 1: Fadoua Thami Alami Author 2: Noura Aknin Author 3: Ahmed El Moussaoui

Before the establishment of the UMTS network, operators are obliged to make the planning process to ensure a better quality of service (QOS) for mobile stations belonging to WCDMA cells. This process consists of estimating a set of parameters characterizing the radio cell in the downlink direction. Among them, we… Read full abstract & cite →

WCDMA planning process downlink capacity estimation other-cell interferences own-cell interferences Node B total required power admission control.

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Hierarchical Low Power Consumption Technique with Location Information for Sensor Networks

Author 1: Susumu Matsumae Author 2: Fukuhito Ooshita

In the wireless sensor networks composed of battery-powered sensor nodes, one of the main issues is how to save power consumption at each node. The usual approach to this problem is to activate only necessary nodes (e.g., those nodes which compose a backbone network), and to put other nodes to… Read full abstract & cite →

wireless sensor networks geographical adaptive fidelity energy conservation network lifetime

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2013.040412 PDF

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Translation of Pronominal Anaphora from English to Telugu Language

Author 1: T. Suryakanthi Author 2: Dr. S.V.A.V. Prasad Author 3: Dr. T. V. Prasad

Discourses are linguistic structures above sentence level. Discourse is nothing but a coherent sequence of sentences. Discourse analysis is concerned with coherent processing of text segments larger than the sentence and this requires something more than just the interpretation of the individual sentences. A phenomenon that operates at discourse level… Read full abstract & cite →

—GNP Gender number person SL: Source language English TL target language: Telugu S-singular P-plural Mmasculine F-feminine N-neuter VBD – past tense verb form VBZ- 3rd person singular present verb form VBP- non 3rd person singular present verb form MD- Modal

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2013.040413 PDF

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Learning by Modeling (LbM): Understanding Complex Systems by Articulating Structures, Behaviors, and Functions

Author 1: Kamel Hashem Author 2: David Mioduser

Understanding the behavior of complex systems has become a focal issue for scientists in a wide range of disciplines. Making sense of a complex system should require that a student construct a network of concepts and principles about the learning complex phenomena. This paper describes part of a project about… Read full abstract & cite →

learning by modeling simulation complexity mental models educational technology

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A Review of Computation Solutions by Mobile Agents in an Unsafe Environment

Author 1: Anis Zarrad Author 2: Yassine Daadaa

Exploration in an unsafe environment is one of the major problems that can be seen as a basic block for many distributed mobile protocols. In such environment we consider that either the nodes (hosts) or the agents can pose some danger to the network. Two cases are considered. In the… Read full abstract & cite →

Distributed algorithm Mobile Agent Network Decontamination Black Hole Search and Network Exploration

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Semantic Conflicts Reconciliation as a Viable Solution for Semantic Heterogeneity Problems

Author 1: Walaa S. Ismail Author 2: Mona M. Nasr Author 3: Torky I. Sultan Author 4: Ayman E. Khedr

Achieving semantic interoperability is a current challenge in the field of data integration in order to bridge semantic conflicts occurring when the participating sources and receivers use different or implicit data assumptions. Providing a framework that automatically detects and resolves semantic conflicts is considered as a daunting task for many… Read full abstract & cite →

Data Integration Heterogeneous Sources Interoperability Semantic Conflicts Context Reconciliation Ontology.

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An Intelligent mutli-object retrieval system for historical mosaics

Author 1: Wafa Maghrebi Author 2: Anis B. Ammar Author 3: Adel M. Alimi Author 4: Mohamed A. Khabou

In this work we present a Mosaics Intelligent Retrieval System (MIRS) for digital museums. The objective of this work is to attain a semantic interpretation of images of historical mosaics. We use the fuzzy logic techniques and semantic similarity measure to extract knowledge from the images for multi-object indexing. The… Read full abstract & cite →

retrieval mosaics metadata classification multi-objects

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Optimization Query Process of Mediators Interrogation Based On Combinatorial Storage

Author 1: L. Cherrat Author 2: M. Ezziyyani Author 3: M. Essaaidi

In the distributed environment where a query involves several heterogeneous sources, communication costs must be taken into consideration. In this paper we describe a query optimization approach using dynamic programming technique for set integrated heterogeneous sources. The objective of the optimization is to minimize the total processing time including load… Read full abstract & cite →

Mediation Datawarehouse Optimisation Classification

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A Hybrid Framework using RBF and SVM for Direct Marketing

Author 1: M. Govidarajan

one of the major developments in machine learning in the past decade is the ensemble method, which finds highly accurate classifier by combining many moderately accurate component classifiers. This paper addresses using an ensemble of classification methods for direct marketing. Direct marketing has become an important application field for data… Read full abstract & cite →

Direct Marketing Ensemble Radial Basis Function Support Vector Machine Classification Accuracy.

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Time Variant Change Analysis in Satellite Images

Author 1: Rachita Sharma Author 2: Sanjay Kumar Dubey

This paper describes the time variant changes in satellite images using Self Organizing Feature Map (SOFM) technique associated with Artificial Neural Network. In this paper, we take a satellite image and find the time variant changes using above technique with the help of MATLAB. This paper reviews remotely sensed data… Read full abstract & cite →

Satellite Images SOFM ANN Supervised Classification Unsupervised classification.

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Reducing Attributes in Rough Set Theory with the Viewpoint of Mining Frequent Patterns

Author 1: Thanh-Trung Nguyen Author 2: Phi-Khu Nguyen

The main objective of the Attribute Reduction problem in Rough Set Theory is to find and retain the set of attributes whose values vary most between objects in an Information System or Decision System. Besides, Mining Frequent Patterns aims finding items that the number of times they appear together in… Read full abstract & cite →

accumulating frequent patterns attribute reduction maximal set maximal random prior set mining frequent patterns rough set

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2013.040421 PDF

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Distributed Deployment Scheme for Homogeneous Distribution of Randomly Deployed Mobile Sensor Nodes in Wireless Sensor Network

Author 1: Ajay Kumar Author 2: Vikrant Sharma Author 3: D. Prasad

One of the most active research areas in wireless sensor networks is the coverage. The efficiency of the sensor network is measured in terms of the coverage area and connectivity. Therefore these factors must be considered during the deployment. In this paper, we have presented a scheme for homogeneous distribution… Read full abstract & cite →

Active MSNs Desired location Candidate location Communication range Sensing range etc.

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Towards a Fraud Prevention E-Voting System

Author 1: Dr. Magdi Amer Author 2: Dr. Hazem El-Gendy

Election falsification is one of the biggest problems facing third world countries as well as developed countries with respect to cost and time. In this paper, the guidelines for building a legally binding fraud-proof Electronic-Voting are presented. Also, the limitations are discussed. Read full abstract & cite →

e-voting security

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2013.040423 PDF

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Impact of Medical Technology on Expansion in Healthcare Expenses

Author 1: Shakir Khan Author 2: Dr. Mohamed Fahad AlAjmi

the impact of medical technology on expansion in health care expenses has long been a subject of essential interest, mainly in the context of long-term outcrops of health spending, which must deal with the issue of the applicability of historical trends to future periods. The idea of this paper is… Read full abstract & cite →

medical technology health costs health care research and development

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Graph Mining Sub Domains and a Framework for Indexing – A Graphical Approach

Author 1: K. Vivekanandan Author 2: A. Pankaj Moses Monickaraj Author 3: D. Ramya Chithra

Graphs are one of the popular models for effective representation of complex structured huge data and the similarity search for graphs has become a fundamental research problem in Graph Mining. In this paper initially, the preliminary graph related basic theorems are brushed and showcased on with various research sub domains… Read full abstract & cite →

Graph Graph Mining Graph Classification Graph Searching Graph Indexing Graph Clustering

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Feedback Optimal Control of Low-thrust Orbit Transfer in Central Gravity Field

Author 1: Ashraf H. Owis

Low-thrust trajectories with variable radial thrust is studied in this paper. The problem is tackled by solving the Hamilton- Jacobi-Bellman equation via State Dependent Riccati Equation( STDE) technique devised for nonlinear systems. Instead of solving the two-point boundary value problem in which the classical optimal control is stated, this technique… Read full abstract & cite →

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2013.040426 PDF

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