Special Issue on Extended Papers from Science and Information Conference 2014

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An Enhanced Version of the MCACC to Augment the Computing Capabilities of Mobile Devices Using Cloud Computing

Author 1: Mostafa A. Elgendy Author 2: Ahmed Shawish Author 3: Mahmoud I. Moussa

Recently as smartphones have a wide range of capabilities a lot of heavy applications like gaming, video editing, and face recognition are now available. However, this kind of applications need intensive computational power, memory, and battery. A lot of researches solve this problem by offloading applications to run on the… Read full abstract & cite →

smartphones android offloading mobile Cloud computing battery security

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/SpecialIssue.2014.040301 PDF

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Design of a Content Addressable Memory-based Parallel Processor implementing (-1+j)-based Binary Number System

Author 1: Tariq Jamil

Contrary to the traditional base 2 binary number system, used in today’s computers, in which a complex number is represented by two separate binary entities, one for the real part and one for the imaginary part, Complex Binary Number System (CBNS), a binary number system with base (-1+j), is used… Read full abstract & cite →

binary number complex binary parallel processing content-addressable memory associative dataflow compiler operating system

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User Satisfaction Determinants for Digital Culture Heritage Online Collections

Author 1: Zaihasriah Zahidi Author 2: Yan Peng Lim Author 3: Peter Charles Woods

The aim of this paper is to identify the possible determinants that influence user satisfaction in the context of digital cultural heritage (DCH) online collections. The data was collected in 3 stages. For the first stage, literature studies were conducted in understanding the general overview about user satisfaction in various… Read full abstract & cite →

User experience user satisfaction digital culture heritage online collections

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Dissecting Genuine and Deceptive Kudos: The Case of Online Hotel Reviews

Author 1: Snehasish Banerjee Author 2: Alton Y. K. Chua

As users continue to rely on online hotel reviews for making purchase decisions, the trend of posting deceptive reviews to heap praises and kudos is gradually becoming a well-established e-business malpractice. Conceivably, it is not trivial for users to distinguish between genuine and deceptive kudos in reviews. Hence, this paper… Read full abstract & cite →

e-business user-generated content online reviews opinion spam readability genre writing style

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Process Knowledge Discovery in Social BPM

Author 1: Mohammad Ehson Rangiha Author 2: Bill Karakostas

the utilization of process knowledge for future execution is an effective way of improving the efficiency of business processes and benefit from the knowledge captured in previous executions. This paper attempts to discuss how social tagging can be used in the context of social business process management to assist and… Read full abstract & cite →

Social BPM BPM Goal-Based Modelling Process Recommendation Social Tagging

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A new algorithm for detecting SQL injection attack in Web application

Author 1: Ouarda Lounis Author 2: Salah Eddine Bouhouita Guermeche Author 3: Lalia Saoudi Author 4: Salah Eddine Benaicha

Nowadays, the security of applications and Web servers is a new trend that finds its need on the Web. The number of vulnerabilities identified in this type of applications is constantly increasing especially SQL injection attack. It is therefore necessary to regularly audit Web applications to verify the presence of… Read full abstract & cite →

SQL injection attack scanner Web Web Application Web vulnerabilities security

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Introducing Concurrency to Workflows: Theory and A Real-World Case Study

Author 1: Laird Burns Author 2: Wai Yin Mok Author 3: Wes N. Colley

Making use of the concepts of the activity diagrams of the Unified Modeling Language, this paper defines an important class of workflows, called flow independent workflows, which are deterministic in the sense that if a flow independent workflow is given the same multi-set of resources as input over and over… Read full abstract & cite →

Business process re-engineering Unified Modeling Language activity diagrams flow independent workflows concurrency

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Quantum Gravity Sensor by Curvature Energy: their Encoding and Computational Models*

Author 1: Francisco Bulnes

Through of the concept of curvature energy encoded in non-harmonic signals due to the effect that characterizes the curvature as a deformation of field in the corresponding resonance space ( and an obstruction to the displacement to the corresponding shape operator) is developed and designed a sensor of quantum gravity… Read full abstract & cite →

Curvature energy magnetic dilaton quantum gravity sensor strong interactions quantum computing

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Developing a Framework for Examining the use of Mobile Transactions in Saudi Arabia: the User’s Perspective

Author 1: Mohammed A. Alqahtani Author 2: Pam J. Mayhew

Both the recent advances in mobile technologies and the high penetration rate of mobile communication services have had a profound impact on our daily lives, and are beginning to offer interesting and advantageous new services. In particular, the mobile transaction (m-transaction) system has emerged, enabling users to pay for physical… Read full abstract & cite →

Mobile Technologies E-Commerce M-Transactions Conceptual Framework Acceptance Developing Countries

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A Safety Analysis Approach to Clinical Workflows: Application and Evaluation

Author 1: Lamis Al-Qora’n Author 2: Neil Gordon Author 3: Martin Walker Author 4: Septavera Sharvia Author 5: Sohag Kabir

Clinical workflows are safety critical workflows as they have the potential to cause harm or death to patients. Their safety needs to be considered as early as possible in the development process. Effective safety analysis methods are required to ensure the safety of these high-risk workflows, because errors that may… Read full abstract & cite →

clinical workflows safety analysis radiology HiP-HOPS

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Benchmarking the Higher Education Institutions in Egypt using Composite Index Model

Author 1: Mohamed Rashad M El-Hefnawy Author 2: Ali Hamed El-Bastawissy Author 3: Mona Ahmed Kadry

Egypt has the largest and most significant higher education system in the Middle East and North Africa but it had been continuously facing serious and accumulated challenges. The Higher Education Institutions in Egypt are undergoing important changes involving the development of performance, they are implementing strategies to enhance the overall… Read full abstract & cite →

Key Performance Indicators Composite Index Analytic Hierarchy Process Performance Measurement Higher Education Institutions Ranking Systems Benchmark Models

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New Approach of Using Structural Modelling for Personalized Study Planning

Author 1: Raita Rollande Author 2: Janis Grundspenkis Author 3: Antons Mislevics

The planning of individual studies becomes more and more topical. Alongside the fast and diverse rhythm of life, people need individual approach to study planning. It ensures wider availability of learning for different social groups. The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the process of studies makes it… Read full abstract & cite →

intelligent tutoring system personalized education graphs structural modelling element ranking and structural analysis

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Extended 4-Dimensional OpenGL e-book associated with electric material

Author 1: Kazu-masa YAMADA Author 2: Nobuaki MATSUHASHI

The aim of this research is to develop a kind of 4 Dimensional electronic textbook (4D-Text) regarding a typical dielectrics material structure of Perovskit crystalline formations of Barium Titanate where 4D means a combined 1D direction-freely-viewing and 3D animation-ing is continuously extracting while being changed and scaled viewpoint as user… Read full abstract & cite →

component OpenGL e-textbook Perovskit structure dielectrics material Barium Titanate

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SMP-Based Approach for Intelligent Service Interaction

Author 1: Hosam AlHakami Author 2: Feng Chen Author 3: Helge Janicke

Service-oriented computing is establishing itself as a new computing paradigm in which services advertise their capabilities within a network, and then are used, composed and orchestrated by other services and end-users. Whilst many approaches to matching service providers with consumers of their services have been developed in the past, the… Read full abstract & cite →

Service Selection Stable Marriage Problem (SMP) Selective Strategy

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Reducing the Correlation Processing Time by Using a Novel Intrusion Alert Correlation Model

Author 1: Huwaida Tagelsir Ibrahim Elshoush

Alert correlation analyzes the alerts from one or more Collaborative Intrusion Detection Systems (CIDSs) to produce a concise overview of security-related activity on the network. The correlation process consists of multiple components, each responsible for a different aspect of the overall correlation goal. The sequential order of the correlation components… Read full abstract & cite →

Alert Correlation Alert Reduction Intrusion Detection Systems False Alarm Rate

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