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Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology September 2011 | Vol. 31 No.2

Paper ID:	14378 -JATIT
Title:	MORPHOLOGICAL ADJUNCTIONS, MOORE FAMILY AND MORPHOLOGICAL TRANSFORMS
Author:	RAMKUMAR P.B
Source:	Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology pp 80 - 87 Vol 31. No. 2 -- 2011
Abstract	Mathematical Morphology arose in 1964 by the work of George Matheron and Jean Serra, who developed its main concepts and tools. It uses concepts from algebra and geometry. (Set theory, complete lattice theory, convexity etc,). The notion of adjunction is very fundamental in Mathematical Morphology. Morphological systems is a broad class of nonlinear signal operators that have found many applications in image analysis. Morphological Transforms are a type of non linear signal transform for morphological systems. The Moore family stands for the family of closed objects. When the ETI and DTI systems are related via an adjunction, then there is also a close relationship between their impulse responses. Namely ,let be an ETI system, and let be its adjoint dilation. It is easy to show that is a DTI system[11], and therefore ,where g is the lower impulse response. In this paper, we will try to present the inter-relationships between Moore family, adjunctions and Morphological transforms.
Keywords	Dilation, Moore Family, Adjunction, Slope Transforms, Support Function
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Paper ID:	14384 -JATIT
Title:	MELAKARTHA RAGA GENERATION THROUGH BREADTH FIRST SEARCH ALGORITHM
Author:	B.SANTHI, N.SAIRAM
Source:	Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology pp 88 - 90 Vol 31. No. 2 -- 2011
Abstract	Raga collections are mostly used in the music information systems. Melakartha ragas are the most important concept in the music theory. All the existing ragas in music theory are derived from mela kartha ragas. The main objective of this paper is to generate all 72 ragas automatically. This paper identifies an application of graph theory in music information technology. An undirected graph is constructed using the melakartha algorithm with seven swaras and its variations as its vertices. By applying the Breadth First Search algorithm, to the constructed graph, we generated all possible paths that represent the 72 Melakartha ragas.
Keywords	Melakartha Raga, Breadth First Search, Swaras
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Paper ID:	14345 -JATIT
Title:	AN AMBIENT HEALTH MONITOR FOR THE NEW GENERATION HEALTHCARE
Author:	VEERAMUTHU VENKATESH, M.PRASHANTH KUMAR, V.VAITHAYANATHAN, PETHURU RAJ
Source:	Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology pp 91- 99 Vol 31. No. 2 -- 2011
Abstract	Without an iota of doubt, the healthcare industry is the largest one across the globe not only in market value but also in profusely and powerfully applying a bevy of robust and resilient information and communication technologies (ICT) in order to do away with scores of manual tasks. As known widely, manual implementation and operation are liable for errors and faults. Being a life-critical domain, every promising and potential technology is being readily recognized and rewarded in the healthcare field. Precisely speaking, the hot healthcare field has become the dominant and prominent ICT-driven discipline today and tomorrow is still brighter. Electronics and instrumentation disciplines are also tremendously contributing for the unprecedented success and growth of the healthcare domain. The extensive leverage and usage of competent techniques, tips and tools for bringing in comprehensive and compact automation, optimization, and transformation in the healthcare landscape has been going successfully for a long time now. And this positive and progressive trend is all set to go further broader and deeper with the easy availability on-demand, online, dynamic, real-time, and adaptive computing systems. The prevailing trend clearly indicates that there would be myriad dramatic and drastic changes in the healthcare field with the insights-driven adoption of information technology (IT) and nanotechnology together and hence the ensuing healthcare systems would be cognition-attached, cloud-based, process-centric, service-oriented and knowledge-driven. With the persistent increase in aging population especially in developed countries, heightened healthcare costs, error-prone healthcare operations and the maturity and stability of medical care technologies, IT-enabled medical care is all set to reach newer heights in the days to unfold. This paper describes a prototype medical system, which could effectively monitor any patient’s health parameters such as pulse, blood pressure etc., administer salubrious drugs automatically and inform the doctor and the caretaker about the current conditions of the patient in time. All kinds of interactions are controlled ubiquitously by using an Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) system. The Open Service Gateway Initiative (OSGi) standard and one of its open source implementation is prescribed as the middleware for effectively discovering, connecting, and mediating all kinds of Ambient Sensor devices. In order to deliver the prescribed drugs dynamically to the patient, a new device has been freshly designed and we have named it as “Ubiquitous Drug Injector (UDI)”. In addition to this, a pervasive device is being provided for each patient and this device could receive inputs from the ambient devices and enable in correctly inferring the condition of the patient. The insights retrieved, processed and analyzed facilitate in administering appropriate drugs well in time. The whole system designed and prototyped is a highly scalable healthcare system with varying control flows. This work lays a strong and sustainable foundation in evolving novel techniques for next-generation healthcare.
Keywords	Ambient Assisted living (AAL), Healthcare, Knopflerfish, Open Service Gateway Initiative (OSGi), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)
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Paper ID:	14353 -JATIT
Title:	USING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION: RESEARCH CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Author:	ADIL LAOUFI, S. MOUHIM, E. MEGDER, C. CHERKAOUI, D. MAMMASS
Source:	Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology pp 100 - 108 Vol 31. No. 2 -- 2011
Abstract	During the past decade, higher education faces many pressures and changes. Understand and positively influence these changes calls for coordinated, controlled, larger and precise action plans. This requires effective management of the intellectual capital. Knowledge management wants more than necessary and universities can not escape. The present communication investigates an experiment of implanting the knowledge management within the university IBN ZOHR of Agadir. We propose an approach based on the e-learning and its components to establish an organizational memory of the scientific, technical and administrative holdings of the university. We were particularly interested in the constitution of a repository of resources intended for the training and for the research. This deposit of explicit knowledge include: administrative documents, courses, training pads, electronic books, etc.
Keywords	Knowledge management, e-learning, University organization, organizational memory, documents, Knowledge, information and communications technology.
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Paper ID:	14362 -JATIT
Title:	MINI TCP/IP FOR 8-BIT CONTROLLERS
Author:	R. MANIKANDAN
Source:	Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology pp 109 - 112 Vol 31. No. 2 -- 2011
Abstract	Internet introduced sweeping changes in communication and information Technology. Information super highway linked every nook and corner of this world and flow of information brought down and almost eliminated the time spent in searching and sifting information. The benefits are endless. In recent years the interest of connecting small embedded devices to the IP networks has increased. In order to communicate over Internet the TCP/IP protocol stack is required. Unfortunately, for most electronic devices, implementing the technology to achieve this networking connectivity based on open Internet standards does not come easily. For example, most household appliances are based on very low-cost 8-bit controller technology and chances are that the host MCU includes neither a network port nor the hardware resources to support TCP/IP and other Internet protocols without disrupting their primary function. So, the normal TCP/IP way of implementation will fail. Here we have to incorporate certain optimization techniques for developing small TCP/IP stack. The usage of this stack is for Remote data acquisition and control systems, and many more utilities. [1],[2],[4]
Keywords	TCP, IP, FITO buffer, RAM, Mini TCP/IP
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Paper ID:	14368 -JATIT
Title:	PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF A PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATION OF GLOBAL MOTION ESTIMATION ON MULTIPROCESSORS
Author:	HUSSEIN R. AL-ZOUBI, RAMI A. AL-NAMNEH
Source:	Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology pp 113 - 118 Vol 31. No. 2 -- 2011
Abstract	Video compression is an important field in our daily life. Motion inside videos can be classified as local or global. The two techniques: motion estimation and compensation are used in the modern compression and decompression standards. However, these two techniques require high computational power. This mandates the need for efficient methods to make video coding faster. To this end, we propose a parallel implementation for global motion estimation and present a performance analysis on shared memory multiprocessors.
Keywords	Video Compression, Global Motion Estimation (GME), Global Motion Compensation (GMC), Parallel Implementation, Levenberg-Marquardt Algorithm (LMA)
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Paper ID:	14370 -JATIT
Title:	STATIC POWER SYSTEM SECURITY ASSESSMENT VIA ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK
Author:	J.JASNI, M.Z.A AB KADIR
Source:	Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology pp 119 - 128 Vol 31. No. 2 -- 2011
Abstract	Maintaining system security is an important factor in the operation of a power system. The aim of this study is to evaluate the reliability using artificial neural network (ANN) in static security assessment to determine the security status of a power system. Feed Forward Back Propagation Neural Network is implemented to classify the security condition of IEEE 9 bus system. The input data of ANN are derived from offline Newton Raphson load flow analysis. The result obtained from the ANN method is compared with the Newton Raphson load flow analysis in terms of accuracy to predict the security level of IEEE 9 bus system and the computational time required by each method. The average time required by Newton-Raphson load flow analysis to evaluate security level of IEEE 9 bus system is 0.0481 seconds while the average time required by neural network is 0.0119 seconds. The accuracy of 13 hidden neurons feed forward back propagation neural network to predict the security level of IEEE 9 bus system is 98.57%. In conclusion, ANN is found to be reliable to evaluate the security level of IEEE 9 bus system.
Keywords	Newton-Raphson Load Flow, Contingency Analysis, Security Assessment, Feed Forward Back Propagation Neural Network
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Paper ID:	14373 -JATIT
Title:	IMPEDING BARRIERS FOR E-COMMERCE ADOPTION IN LIBYA
Author:	ABDULGHADER A., DALBIR SINGH, IBRAHIM MOHAMED
Source:	Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology pp 129- 133 Vol 31. No. 2 -- 2011
Abstract	Advances in electronic transaction have uniquely transform business transaction strategies through convenient and low cost medium. Though electronic commerce (e-commerce) has found its way into many organization globally, numerous studies reported that its adoption have been constrained by inefficient operation and lack of infrastructural facilities. These barriers have been recognized to have affected the size and profitability of companies that solely depend on electronic-based transaction for all business activities. E-commerce is a profit oriented transaction strategy that facilitates faster and wider business transaction from broad contexts of economic value and value creation via internet. Owing to the need to improve the effectiveness of business transaction network, this paper reported the barriers towards e-commerce adoption in Libya. These barriers represent the obstacles that prevent the successful adoption of e-commerce based economy in Libya. The viability and implementation concerns associated with the adoption of e-commerce application were reported. Result confirmed that barriers exist however; opportunities are within reach to enhance effectiveness and efficient e-commerce integration into organization in Libya. The outcome of this research could be integrated as apart of Libya’s strategic economic plan that harnesses the potentials of e-commerce.
Keywords	E-Commerce, Insecurity, Electronic Infrastructure, E-Commerce Adoption
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Paper ID:	14379 -JATIT
Title:	IMPROVED BIOMETRIC RECOGNITION AND IDENTIFICATION OF HUMAN IRIS PATTERNS USING NEURAL NETWORKS
Author:	M. GOPIKRISHNAN, T. SANTHANAM
Source:	Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology pp 134 - 139 Vol 31. No. 2 -- 2011
Abstract	A biometric system provides automatic identification of an individual based on a unique feature or characteristic possessed by the individual. Iris recognition is regarded as the most reliable and accurate biometric identification system available. An approach for accurate Biometric Recognition and identification of Human Iris Patterns using Neural Network has been illustrated by gopikrishnan etal. It has been concluded by Yingzi Du etal that the partial iris portion of the iris pattern describes the uniqueness and the pupil has no direct effect on the accuracy of the biometric recognition. In this paper the Iris recognition has been carried out employing a template of size 10 X 480 pixels instead of 20 X 480 pixels as employed in the earlier paper. The results of the two sizes of the templates have been compared and it has been observed that the accuracy of the results obtained with the limited template size is comparable with that of the one with the full size. The reason for this is also discussed in this paper. The improved methodology suggested has resulted in the reduction of the space requirement as well as time complexity with no loss in accuracy. This paper also provides results of iris recognition performed applying Hamming distance, Feed forward back propagation, Cascade forward back propagation, Elman forward back propagation and perceptron. It has been established that the method suggested applying perceptron provides the best accuracy in respect of iris recognition with no major additional computational complexity.
Keywords	Iris recognition, Biometric identification, Pattern recognition, Automatic segmentation.
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Paper ID:	14386 -JATIT
Title:	Optimization of fuel consumption using HHO in HDL technique Verified in FPGA
Author:	K. Chakrapani, Dr. P. Neelamegam
Source:	Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology pp 140 - 146 Vol 31. No. 2 -- 2011
Abstract	Fuel optimization plays a vital role all over the world. In this work, there are three major faces: The first face is designing HHO generator assembly which is related to mechanical designs and second face is designing a circuit board for Pressure sensor, Temperature sensor, and Oxygen sensor and its overall electrification, plumping works with gas tight protection, and also designing electronics circuits for different sensors to interface with FPGA the third face is designing electrolytic process control using a System on Chip as a Core in VHDL and implementing in FPGA. This Core monitors the HHO generator with sensors and its accessories continuously measuring the vehicle engine performance . From this design the fuel utility is reduced from 15% to 30% which minimizes the carbon deposition in the cylinder thereby increasing the changing period of engine oil, it also improves the efficiency of the engine and the life span. Engine torque also increased and pollution gets reduced to maintaining the green house effect. Overall the cost of the product is very low.
Keywords	HHO, CPU, VHDL, FPGA, Sensors
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Paper ID:	14394 -JATIT
Title:	ASPECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT VERSUS OTHER DEVELOPMENT METHODS
Author:	VAHDAT ABDELZAD, FEREIDOON SHAMS ALIEE
Source:	Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology pp 147 - 152 Vol 31. No. 2 -- 2011
Abstract	Nowadays, there are many software development methods that are used by developers in order to produce high-quality software systems. Aspect-oriented software development as a new software development method tries to obtain the quality of software systems through the modularity of crosscutting concerns in the whole of software development process. However, there are some doubts about using aspect-oriented software development instead of others in operational environments. Some questions that everyone asks are: why is aspect-oriented software development used? Why should we start to change our software development method? Therefore, in this paper to answer these questions, aspect-oriented software development is compared with use case driven development as one of the popular and proper methods for software development. The result of comparison is a set of technical and useful points that express clearly what improvements are obtained by using aspects in the process of software development.
Keywords	Aspect-Oriented Software Development, Use Case Driven Development, Crosscutting Concerns, Aspect-Oriented Programming
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