IJACSA Vol. 5 Issue 12 (2014)

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Policy-Based Automation of Dynamique and Multipoint Virtual Private Network Simulation on OPNET Modeler

Author 1: Ayoub BAHNASSE Author 2: Najib EL KAMOUN

The simulation of large-scale networks is a challenging task especially if the network to simulate is the Dynamic Multipoint Virtual Private Network, it requires expert knowledge to properly configure its component technologies. The study of these network architectures in a real environment is almost impossible because it requires a very… Read full abstract & cite →

VPN multipoint Opnet automation DMVPN cloud policy-based WEB-BASED

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051201 PDF

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Development of Social Recommendation GIS for Tourist Spots

Author 1: Tsukasa IKEDA Author 2: Kayoko YAMAMOTO

This study aims to develop a social recommendation media GIS (Geographic Information Systems) specially tailored to recommend tourist spots. The conclusions of this study are summarized in the following three points. (1) Social media GIS, an information system which integrates Web-GIS, SNS and recommendation system into a single system, was… Read full abstract & cite →

Social Recommendation GIS Web-GIS Social Media SNS Recommendation Systems

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051202 PDF

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A Feasibility Study on Porting the Community Land Model onto Accelerators Using Openacc

Author 1: D. Wang Author 2: W. Wu Author 3: F. Winkler Author 4: W. Ding Author 5: O. Hernandez

As environmental models (such as Accelerated Climate Model for Energy (ACME), Parallel Reactive Flow and Transport Model (PFLOTRAN), Arctic Terrestrial Simulator (ATS), etc.) became more and more complicated, we are facing enormous challenges regarding to porting those applications onto hybrid computing architecture. OpenACC emerges as a very promising technology, therefore… Read full abstract & cite →

OpenACC Climate Modeling Community Land Model Functional Testing Performance Analysis Compiler-assisted Analysis

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051203 PDF

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B2C E-Commerce Fact-Based Negotiation Using Big Data Analytics and Agent-Based Technologies

Author 1: Hasan Al-Sakran

The focus of this study is application of intelligent agent in negotiation between buyer and seller in B2C Commerce using big data analytics. The developed model is used to conduct negotiations on behalf of prospective buyers and sellers using analytics to improve negotiations to meet the practical requirements. The objective… Read full abstract & cite →

negotiations e-commerce agent technology big data analytics

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051204 PDF

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A Study of MCA Learning Algorithm for Incident Signals Estimation

Author 1: Rashid Ahmed Author 2: John N. Avaritsiotis

Many signal subspace-based approaches have already been proposed for determining the fixed Direction of Arrival (DOA) of plane waves impinging on an array of sensors. Two procedures for DOA estimation based neural network are presented. Firstly, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is employed to extract the maximum eigenvalue and eigenvector from… Read full abstract & cite →

Direction of Arrival Neural networks Principle Component Analysis Minor Component Analysis

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051205 PDF

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Empirical Analyis of Public ICT Development Project Objectives in Hungary

Author 1: Márta Aranyossy Author 2: András Nemeslaki Author 3: Adrienn Fekó

E-government development in most European countries was ensured from Structural Funds in the period of 2007-2014. In our paper we show how Hungary has used these funds in order to achieve efficiency and effectiveness in its public services. The main objective of our research has been to explore the budgetary… Read full abstract & cite →

eGovernment eGovernment strategy eGovernment policy eGovernment goals

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051206 PDF

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Investigating the Idiotop Paratop Interaction in the Artificial Immune Networks

Author 1: Hossam Meshref

The artificial immune system is a new computational intelligence technique that has been investigated for the past decade. By reviewing the literature, two observations were found that could affect the network learning process. First, most researchers do not focus on Paratop-Epitop and Paratop-Idiotop interactions within the network. Second, most researchers… Read full abstract & cite →

Artificial Immune Systems Idiotopic Networks Paratop-Epitop Paratop-Idiotop

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051207 PDF

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Using Object-Relational Mapping to Create the Distributed Databases in a Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

Author 1: Oleg Lukyanchikov Author 2: Evgeniy Pluzhnik Author 3: Simon Payain Author 4: Evgeny Nikulchev

One of the challenges currently problems in the use of cloud services is the task of designing of data management systems. This is especially important for hybrid systems in which the data are located in public and private clouds. Implementation monitoring functions querying, scheduling and processing software must be properly… Read full abstract & cite →

cloud database object-relational mapping data management cloud services hybrid cloud

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051208 PDF

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Definition of Tactile Interactions for a Multi-Criteria Selection in a Virtual World

Author 1: Robin Vivian Author 2: David Bertolo Author 3: Jérôme Dinet

Tablets, smartphones are becoming increasingly common and interfaces are predominantly tactile and often multi-touch. More and more schools are testing them with their pupils in the hope of bringing pedagogic benefits. With this new type of devices, new interactions become possible. A lot of studies have been done on the… Read full abstract & cite →

tactile Surface tablets gestures cognitive human-centred design iPad

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051209 PDF

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Natural Language Processing and its Use in Education

Author 1: Khaled M. Alhawiti

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is an effective approach for bringing improvement in educational setting. Implementing NLP involves initiating the process of learning through the natural acquisition in the educational systems. It is based on effective approaches for providing a solution for various problems and issues in education. Natural Language Processing… Read full abstract & cite →

Natural Language Processing education application e-learning scientific studies educational system

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051210 PDF

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An Upper Ontology for Benefits Management of Cloud Computing

Author 1: Richard Greenwell Author 2: Xiaodong Liu Author 3: Kevin Chalmers

Benefits Management provides an established approach for decision making and value extraction for IT/IS investments and, can be used to examine cloud computing investments. The motivation for developing an upper ontology for Benefits Management is that the current Benefits Management approaches do not provide a framework for capturing and representing… Read full abstract & cite →

Ontology Generation Benefits Management Cloud Computing

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051211 PDF

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Determining the Efficient Structure of Feed-Forward Neural Network to Classify Breast Cancer Dataset

Author 1: Ahmed Khalid Author 2: Noureldien A. Noureldien

Classification is one of the most frequently encountered problems in data mining. A classification problem occurs when an object needs to be assigned in predefined classes based on a number of observed attributes related to that object. Neural networks have emerged as one of the tools that can handle the… Read full abstract & cite →

Hidden Layers Number of neurons Feed Forward Neural Network Breast Cancer Classification Performance

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051212 PDF

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Use of Geographic Information System Tools in Research on Neonatal Outcomes in a Maternity-School in Belo Horizonte - Brazil

Author 1: Juliano de S. Gaspar Author 2: Thabata Sá Author 3: Zilma S. N. Reis Author 4: Renato F. N. Júnior Author 5: Marcelo S. Júnior Author 6: Rafael R. Gusmão

Aim: This study proposes to evaluate the spatial distribution of the public obstetric care in the city of Belo Horizonte. It will also correlate the primary care units (PCU) with the immediate neonatal outcomes of a maternity-school of Belo Horizonte, according to risk pregnancy and obstetric outcome. Method: Descriptive geographic-spatial… Read full abstract & cite →

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Fetal Malformation Health Indicators Obstetrics Result Primary Care Unit (PCU) Public Health

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051213 PDF

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A Grammatical Inference Sequential Mining Algorithm for Protein Fold Recognition

Author 1: Taysir Hassan A. Soliman Author 2: Ahmed Sharaf Eldin Author 3: Marwa M. Ghareeb Author 4: Mohammed E. Marie

Protein fold recognition plays an important role in computational protein analysis since it can determine protein function whose structure is unknown. In this paper, a Classified Sequential Pattern mining technique for Protein Fold Recognition (CSPF) is proposed. CSPF technique consists of two main phases: the sequential mining pattern phase and… Read full abstract & cite →

Data mining grammatical inference sequential mining protein fold recognition

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051214 PDF

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Facial Expression Recognition Using 3D Convolutional Neural Network

Author 1: Young-Hyen Byeon Author 2: Keun-Chang Kwak*

This paper is concerned with video-based facial expression recognition frequently used in conjunction with HRI (Human-Robot Interaction) that can naturally interact between human and robot. For this purpose, we design a 3D-CNN(3D Convolutional Neural Networks) by augmenting dimensionality reduction methods such as PCA(Principal Component Analysis) and TMPCA(Tensor-based Multilinear Principal Component… Read full abstract & cite →

convolutional neural network facial expression recognition deep learning

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051215 PDF

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Social Media in Azorean Organizations: Policies, Strategies and Perceptions

Author 1: Nuno Filipe Cordeiro Author 2: Teresa Tiago Author 3: Flávio Tiago Author 4: Francisco Amaral

Social media have brought new opportunities, and also new challenges, for organizations. With them came the rise of a new context of action, largely influenced by the changing habits and the behavior of the consumer. The purpose of the following research is to analyze the views and strategies embraced by… Read full abstract & cite →

Internet Web 2.0 Social Media User Generated Content

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051216 PDF

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Weighted Marking, Clique Structure and Node-Weighted Centrality to Predict Distribution Centre’s Location in a Supply Chain Management

Author 1: Amidu A. G. Akanmu Author 2: Frank Z. Wang Author 3: Fred A. Yamoah

Despite the importance attached to the weights or strengths on the edges of a graph, a graph is only complete if it has both the combinations of nodes and edges. As such, this paper brings to bare the fact that the node-weight of a graph is also a critical factor… Read full abstract & cite →

Centrality measures Graph Network Clique

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051217 PDF

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Social Networks’ Benefits, Privacy, and Identity Theft: KSA Case Study

Author 1: Ahmad A. Al-Daraiseh Author 2: Afnan S. Al-Joudi Author 3: Hanan B. Al-Gahtani Author 4: Maha S. Al-Qahtani

Privacy breaches and Identity Theft cases are increasing at an alarming rate. Social Networking Sites (SN’s) are making it worse. Facebook (FB), Twitter and other SN’s offer attackers a wide and easily accessible platform. Privacy in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is extremely important due to cultural beliefs besides… Read full abstract & cite →

social network identity theft fraud privacy fake identities

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051218 PDF

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Software Architecture Reconstruction Method, a Survey

Author 1: Zainab Nayyar Author 2: Nazish Rafique

Architecture reconstruction belongs to a reverse engineering process, in which we move from code to architecture level for reconstructing architecture. Software architectures are the blue prints of projects which depict the external overview of the software system. Mostly maintenance and testing cause the software to deviate from its original architecture… Read full abstract & cite →

Software architecture reverse engineering architecture reconstruction architecture erosion architecture mismatch architecture chasm architecture drift forward engineering architectural aging

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051219 PDF

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Zigbee Routing Opnet Simulation for a Wireless Sensors Network

Author 1: ELKISSANI Kaoutar Author 2: Pr.Moughit Mohammed Author 3: Pr.Nasserdine Bouchaib

Wireless sensor network are nowadays considered as a viable solution for medical application . A zigbee network model is more suitable for battery capacity, bandwidth, and computing limitation for WSN. This paper will present an Opnet simulation of a zigbee network performance in order to compare routing results in 3… Read full abstract & cite →

WSN Zigbee rooting Opnet

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.051220 PDF