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Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology
February 2016 | Vol. 84 No.1

Title:	HIGH-LEVEL DESIGN FOR REAL TIME IMPLEMENTATION OF CSC ALGORITHM ON FPGA USING MATLAB & SIMULINK SIMULATION
Author:	MOHAMMED ALAREQI , R.ELGOURI , A.ZEMMOURI1, L.HLOU
Abstract:	This paper presents a methodology for very high-level image processing design and implementation real-time image processing applications on a re-configurable logic platform field programmable get array. This methodology aims to improve the design verification efficiency for such complex system. It presents a design and develops for two colors space converters (RGB to YCbCr and YCbCr to RGB), and application. The proposed technique was implemented using Xilinx System Generator in MATLAB/SIMULINK environment on field programmable get array. To improve the implementation time, Xilinx system generator software for generating “hardware description language code” from a high-level MATLAB description has been used. A field-programmable gate array, Provide a major alternative in hardware platform scenario because of its reconfiguration character, marketing speed and low price and it provides us a custom hardware platform where we can design and develop the required algorithm and architecture by using different built-in a custom logic, Digital signal processing cores and automatic “hardware description language code” generation facility. A field-programmable gate array offer high performance in terms of processing speed and high chip density, thus suiting every conceivable application, whether small or high end, yet remaining cost-effective. The objective is to have a converter, which will be useful for number of applications due to the diversity of computers, Internet and a wide variety of video devices, all using different color representations, is forcing the digital designer today to convert between them. Performance of these design implemented in FPGA card XUPV5-LX110T.
Keywords:	Color Space Converters (CSC), Field Programmable Get Array (FPGA), Xilinx System Generator (XSG).
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Title:	VISION BASED INSPECTION SYSTEM FOR MISSING FOOTPRINT DETECTION ON PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS
Author:	MARZIEH MOGHARREBI, SHAHNORBANUN SAHRAN, MEI CHOO ANG, ANTON SATRIA PRABUWONO
Abstract:	An automated visual inspection system is needed to inspect missing component footprints on bare Printed Circuit Board (PCB). Missing component footprints on the PCB will result in lack of electronic components. Since the surface of electronic products is more compact and complex, the inspection task has become more difficult in order to achieve the required quality of finished products. The general aim of this research is to develop a real time automated visual inspection system to identify missing footprints on PCB. The specific objectives are: to implement production rules and Fuzzy logic techniques for quality classification of footprints. An experimental setup for a real time AVIS which consists of hardware and software frameworks has been developed. The hardware framework included a web camera, four florescent lamps, a conveyor belt, and the software framework included Image Processing System (IPS). The Region of Interest (ROI) of the PCB would be transferred to IPS under suitable light and specific speed of conveyor belt. The footprints are segmented based on their coordination. Feature extraction will be accomplished to classify the uncompleted footprints on PCBs. Ultimately, the production rule, Mamdani, and Sugeno fuzzy classifiers are implemented to classify the footprints. The experimental result confirmed that the proposed AVIS has a high accuracy rate.
Keywords:	Printed Circuit Board (PCB); Image Segmentation; Feature Extraction; Fuzzy Logic; Automated Visual Inspection
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Title:	RECOGNITION OF OTOLITHS HAVING A HIGH SHAPE SIMILARITY
Author:	EL HABOUZ YOUSSEF , ES-SAADY YOUSSEF, EL YASSA MOSTAFA, MAMMASS DRISS, NOUBOUD FATHALLAH, CHALIFOUR ALAIN, MANCHIH KHALID
Abstract:	In recent years, several approaches have been proposed in the recognition of fish species using the otolith shape. Some techniques give good recognition results when otoliths have different forms, but when we have a high shape similarity, the recognition is not completely successful. In order to ensure a sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources, and help scientists to detect the poor of certain demersal stocks in their countries, we present in this paper a new approach for recognition of fish species by image analysis based on the extraction of the median distance of otoliths contour. To show the efficiency of the approach proposed, we have tested this approach on an otoliths database which have a high similarity in external otolith form. This database of otoliths is from Moroccan Atlantic Ocean and it contains 162 otoliths image of three species of the genus Merluccius (Merluccius merluccius, Merluccius polli and Merluccius senegalensis). The correct classification rate obtained was 96%.
Keywords:	Otoliths, Shape Analysis, High Shape Similarity, Pattern Recognition, Classification.
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Title:	SOLVING A MULTI-DEPOT INVENTORY ROUTING PROBLEM ARISING IN THE MOROCCAN FOOD MARKET
Author:	JAMAL LMARIOUH, DRISS BOUAMI, ANOUAR JAMALI, ABDESLAM MOZHER
Abstract:	In this paper, a real-life distribution problem faced by a Moroccan food company is solved. This problem is combining inventory and routing decisions. Vendor-managed inventory system is proposed to manage the company’s distribution. Transportation and inventory costs are simultaneously minimized which is known as the Inventory-Routing Problem (IRP). In our real-life problem, several plants deliver a set of customers with several types of products which can be defined as a multi-depot, multi-product and multi-vehicle IRP. A fleet of homogeneous vehicles is used to deserve customers and the inventory costs are paid at both the plant and at the customers. We propose a mixed integer linear program for this problem. Computational tests were carried out in four real-life instances which concern representative periods for the company. The results show the effectiveness of our approach.
Keywords:	Inventory-Routing Problem; Vendor Managed Inventory; Multi-Depot; Multi-Vehicle; Multi-Product
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Title:	INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (IP) MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING PROTOTYPE SYSTEM FOR UNIVERSITY INNOVATION CENTRE
Author:	KAIRULANUAR AB KADIR, JUHANA SALIM
Abstract:	Knowledge is considered a principal economic asset for the knowledge economy in which the management and protection of the knowledge assets are critical to an organization strategy. The knowledge assets which exists in various organizations including the education industry has to be protected through efficient management of the intellectual property rights (IPR). Universities around the world have realized that there is a need to improve the IPR monitoring and management to respond to the internal and external expectations. Research outcomes which are scattered in various faculties of the university can be better managed through the use of information technology (IT) specifically through an Intellectual Property (IP) management system. This paper highlights the concepts for managing IP through an IPR management and monitoring framework. This framework will serve as a guideline to enable efficient IPR management tailored to the specific environment of the University’s Innovation Centre that is responsible for managing IPR for the university. A semi-structured interview was conducted to the IP management unit of the university innovation center to understand the as-is scenario and challenges in managing IPR in the university. Results of the interview were analysed and used as a basis to develop a framework for the IP management and monitoring system. The framework comprises of IP Awareness, IP Mining and IP Screening processes. In order to verify the user’s acceptance of the framework, a think-aloud technique was used to validate the concepts that was proposed in the framework through a prototype system. Qualitative data analysis results indicated that the IP management and monitoring framework and prototype system provides significant improvement to the existing IP management issues and work practices. The framework was carefully designed to enable relevant information pertaining to IP to be acquired, stored, managed and deployed in a manner that is more efficient based on effective information management concepts.
Keywords:	Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Right, Intellectual Property Management, Intellectual Property Monitoring, Knowledge Assets
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Title:	NEW METHOD TO IMPROVING HYDROGEN PRODUCTION BY AN ADAPTIVE PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM AND P&O ALGORITHM
Author:	SANAE DAHBI , ABDELHAK AZIZ , NAIMA BENAZZI, MOHAMED ELHAFYANI
Abstract:	The idea of hydrogen production by water electrolysis from renewable sources is one of the most obvious methods. It could not only lead to a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, but also to increase the security of energy supply due to the method of clean storage. In this paper, we have borrowed a new method for hydrogen production by adapting the electrolysis to a photovoltaic (PV) source, in order to produce the maximum of hydrogen. The electrolysis is considered as well as an electrical load connected to the photovoltaic system via a DC/DC buck converter, having a system control tracking of maximum power point MPPT P&O, which allows the maximization and control of the power transferred to the electrolysis. Furthermore, this study shows that the maximum hydrogen production is not related to the quantity of water to be electrolyzed, but the need to control the water flow which enters electrolysis according to variations of the power arising from weather changes. The overall results show that for constant power, water flows are simulated by injecting constant resistive loads.
Keywords:	Hydrogen, Electrolysis Of Water, Photovoltaic Systems, MPPT Control, P&O, DC-DC Converter, Electric Charge, Water Flow
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Title:	BROADCAST BY FLOODING IMPROVEMENT IN IEEE 802.11S BASED WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS
Author:	YOUSSEF SAADI, BOUCHAIB NASSEREDDINE, SOUFIANE JOUNAIDI
Abstract:	Network wide broadcasting in IEEE 802.11s based wireless mesh network provides a considerable amount of broadcast traffic that may lead to the broadcast storm problem and consequently degrade the network performance. Contention, collisions and redundancy are features of the broadcast storm problem that may hinder the transmission of unicast data packet if not a carefully designed scheme for managing broadcast traffic is adopted. In this paper, we develop and enhance our approach, namely Control of Broadcast Forwarding (CBF), which is a self-pruning method using 2-hop neighborhood knowledge to make decision on forwarding or filtering the received broadcast messages. We perform a deeply investigation including a comparison between CBF and the most suitable broadcasting techniques for wireless mesh networks according to various simulation environments. Simulations results reveal that CBF achieves comparatively better performance in term of average end to end delay and reachability. The only cost brought by CBF is a slightly increase in overhead and consequently in the number of retransmitting nodes.
Keywords:	Wireless Mesh Network, IEEE 802.11s, Flooding, Broadcasting Protocols, Broadcast Storm
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Title:	A PERCEPTUAL STUDY ON FACTORS OF MEDICAL DATA SECURITY IN INDIAN ORGANIZATIONS
Author:	NIRMALYA CHAKRABORTY, DR. (MS) VANDNA SHARMA, DR. (MS) JAYANTHI RANJAN
Abstract:	Objective of the research: Risk management in the IT world is quite a complex, multi faced activity, with a lot of relations with other complex activities (Rainer et al, 1991; Bahli and Rivard, 2005). The purpose of the study is to find out the major factors impacting medical data security in the Indian organizations. Current state of Research Area: Information security awareness is considered very vital because of the fact that security techniques as well as procedures are vulnerable to misuse and non-usage by the end users (see Ceraolo, 1996; and Straub, 1990). Medical data too is a crucial element of the overall information system of an organization. Any breach in the security of medical data may have detrimental effects on the organizations. Straub and Welke (1998) have argued that security breaches are far more regular and destructive than it is usually though to be. This is mainly because of the fact that the managers are generally not concerned with issues related to information security and unaware of the nature of risk. Thus there exists an immediate need to secure medical data and ensure its reliability and availability at the right time and to the right person. Methodology: For the quantitative study a survey has been conducted with the help of a close ended questionnaire. The responses were collected from employees of companies operating in the Healthcare, Telecom industry, and IT industry in India. The questionnaire was circulated in the physical mode. Convenience sampling was deployed in order to select the respondents. The validity of the constructs was assessed by means of factor analysis. Descriptive as well as inferential statistics like t-test, ANOVA have been used for obtaining the desired results. Conclusion : The study also highlighted that there are multiple constructs that should be considered while measuring the overall information security within an organization. These constructs or factors should be evaluated both individually as well as collectively in order to make the information secure and reliable. Limitations: One of the biggest limitations of the current study is that it is confined to only three sectors namely Healthcare, Telecom & IT. Further we have studied only one country i.e. India. Scope for further Research: medical data management practices in advanced as well as in emerging economies differ a lot. Such differences can be studied to provide a comprehensive framework of medical data management.
Keywords:	Medical Data, Risk Analysis, Factor Analysis, Information Security.
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Title:	A PROPOSAL FOR MITIGATION OF GRAY HOLE ATTACK IN WIRELESS MESH AD-HOC NETWORKS USING S-DSDV
Author:	K.SUMANTH, DR.SRIDEVI GUTTA, DR. SYED UMAR, DR.K.KIRAN KUMAR, DR. MD ALI HUSSAIN
Abstract:	Wireless Mesh Networks have its desired features like Self-organization and self-configuration it provides advantages for Wireless Mesh Networks like market coverage, scalability, good reliability and low upfront cost. These networks have an effective quality that they are ease of scalability with heterogeneous multi-hop with very low cost. It is a mobile which is of connectionless-oriented and vigorous traffic of the routed packets. These infrastructure network forms the multi-hop transmission of data packets from peripherals and forms the multiple chains of WLANS. In Wireless Mesh Networks, security is a limitation and which can be overhead easily. Small analysis of this had explained in this paper like security threats such as GRAY HOLE ATTACK [GHA] in DSDV routing protocol. GHA is a special type of DOS attack which is similar to black hole attack which will change the state to various states like selective packet dropping is challenging one. With the effect of this GHA there will be impact on various parameters like E2E delay, throughput etc., A variety of Gray Hole attack solutions have been proposed in the literature. We surveyed and identified different detection and mitigation techniques of Gray Hole attack and explored a new concept that supports the network in various ways with detecting malicious activities of any node in the network and which will increases the network performance in parameters such as packet drop rate, throughput, normalized routing overhead and PDR
Keywords:	MANETS, DSDV, Security Threats, Gray hole Attacks, Routing Protocols, SEAD, S-DSDV
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Title:	SENTIMENT ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND CORRELATION ANALYSIS ON HOSPITALITY IN BALI
Author:	I GEDE SUARDIKA
Abstract:	Bali is one of the favorite tourist destinations for foreign visitors who are currently experiencing over-capacity accommodation facilities. One way to stabilize between positive and negative impacts is by improving tourism marketing which can be done by increasing the number of rating and review on online media. Review valence (positive or negative review) is one of the aspects that affect consideration to a hotel guest. Classification to review valance can be done with sentiment analysis. In this research, sentiment analysis to hotel review is conducted by Naïve Bayes Method. The dataset used is reviews of some hotel in some areas in Bali are selected based on its ranking on Tripadvisor. Review of several hotels in several areas in Bali are selected based on its ranking on Tripadvisor is used as dataset. A web-based system is built to perform sentiment analysis. Tests conducted to determine the level of classification accuracy. Correlation analyzes were conducted to determine whether there is a relationship between ratings with the classification results. Sentiment Analysis System can be built using the PHP programming language, MySQL database, and Naïve Bayes classifier algorithm with average accuracy level is 81%. Correlation analysis proved the hypothesis that the lower rating of the hotel on the TripAdvisor website, the greater percentage of negative sentiment. Results of tests of significance of the correlation coefficient indicates that the data and coefficients obtained in the sample used in this study can be generalized to the population.
Keywords:	Sentiment Analysis System; Hotel Reviews; Correlation Analysis
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Title:	VELOCITY INTEGRATION BASED PIPELINE MAINTENANCE USING WSN
Author:	ABDULAZIZ S. ALMAZYAD, QIANG MA
Abstract:	Pipeline is used worldwide daily to transfer liquid. This process covers large area and may pass through inhospitable environment and face many accidents such as leakage causing lose of resources and may cause hazards. It is necessary to monitor the pipeline system in order to prevent the waste from leakage, and at the same time to calculate the accurate location of the leakage so that it will be easy to maintain under the hot weather especially in desert. Thus we propose this new algorithm called Velocity Integration Method (VIM) for locating of the leakage. This method is easy to implement with lower cost and with high accuracy comparing to other approaches currently exist.
Keywords:	Pipeline, Leakage, Solar Unit, Velocity Integration Method (VIM), Trapezoidal Area Method
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Title:	AVGSIM: RELEVANCE MEASUREMENT ON MASSIVE DATA IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS
Author:	DING XIAO, XIAOFENG MENG, YITONG LI, CHUAN SHI, BIN WU
Abstract:	Heterogeneous information network includes multiple types of objects and multiple types of links. Compared with Homogeneous information network which only contains objects of the same type, heterogeneous information network has more abundant semantic information. Heterogeneous information network is very common in our daily life, such as social networks. Similarity search in heterogeneous information network can mine more precise and accurate knowledge. However, real social networks such as Sina Microblog and Facebook have a huge amount of data, which significantly increases the difficulty of similarity search. Unfortunately, many existing methods can only measure similarities between objects of the same type, moreover, the limitation of computing memory size results in quite limited measurable data amount, thus they can't be actually applied to real relation networks. In this paper, we propose a novel measure, called AvgSim, which can measure similarity between objects at the ends of any searching path in heterogeneous information networks. In addition, we apply parallel computing method in the realization of AvgSim in order to enable the handle of massive data and the application in real networks. Experiments on real datasets verify the effectiveness and efficiency of this novel algorithm.
Keywords:	Heterogeneous Information Network, Similarity Search, Random Walk, MapReduce
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Title:	IDENTIFICATION OF A PRODUCTION SYSTEM USING HAMMERSTEIN-WIENER AND NARX MODELS
Author:	HICHAM FOURAIJI, BAHLOUL BENSASSI
Abstract:	In this paper we present a new approach to modeling dynamic production systems with discrete flow. This method is based on the automatic knowledge domain, in order to build a mathematical model that accurately formalizes the behavior of the studied system. The approach adopted for this study is the parametric identification of nonlinear systems (Hammerstein-Wiener system and NARX model). The production system studied will be considered as a black box, which means that the inputs and outputs data of the system will be used to identify the internal system parameters.
Keywords:	Production System, Hammerstein-Wiener Model, NARX Model, Parametric Identification
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Title:	MODEL OF AN ADAPTATION AND INTERFACING SOA MIDDLEWARE FOR THE INFORMATION SYSTEMS INTEROPERABILITY
Author:	KHALIFA MANSOURI, BOUCHAÎB RIYAMI, MOHAMED YOUSSFI, OMAR BOUATTANE
Abstract:	Today, the IT becomes the key pillar for effective structural and organizational management. All the scenarios related to the activity, the communication and the management of current businesses are made of information systems (IS). Besides, the need of companies cooperation converge them to exchange and communicate information about their information systems. This interconnection faces many complex challenges especially when it comes to real-time exchange or mergence of all or parts of IS connected. The aim of the model driven engineering (MDE) and the model driven architecture (MDA) is to bring good solutions to interoperability challenges between companies and organizations IS. They offer several significant improvements in the development of complex systems and enable to focus on abstract goals independent of technical platform. Moreover, service-oriented architecture (SOA) has established for some time as a good methodology for encapsulation of the complexities of the various components of IT as services, to implement major motivations such as: business alignment, technology neutrality and automation of business processes. In this paper, we propose a middleware layer composed of services, according to the SOA architecture for the interoperability of IS. It is composed of several transformation, integration, homogenization and adaptation services.
Keywords:	Interoperability, Middleware Layer, Information System’s Adaptation, BPMN, BPEL, Reverse Engineering, ATL, BDD Anthology.
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Title:	THE RESTORATION OF DEFOCUS IMAGES WITH LINEAR CHANGE DEFOCUS RADIUS
Author:	LUOYU ZHOU
Abstract:	T A novel approach is proposed to restore the defocus image with the linear change defocus radius. Firstly, by studying the space-invariant defocus blurring model, the space-variant defocus blurring model with the linear change defocus radius is obtained. Then, a nonlinear coordinate transforms for blurred image is used to convert the space-variant images blurring into space-invariant blurring images, which is easier restored. The experimental results demonstrate the restoration image has more details and fewer ringing. The restoration effect of the proposed method reveals its practicability in the space-variant defocus image restoration.
Keywords:	Defocus Image, Linear Change Defocus Radius, Space-Variant Blurring, Nonlinear Coordinate Transforms
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Title:	SOFTWARE APPLICATION DESIGN AND 3D MODELING FOR EVACUATION OF PEOPLE FROM EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Author:	E.N. AMIRGALIYEV, А.U. KALIZHANOVA, A. KH. KOZBAKOVA, G.B. KASHAGANOVA, ZH.S. AITKULOV, O.V. ZHIRNOVA
Abstract:	Evacuation is one of people protection means. Evacuation of people from dangerous areas. The urgency of the evacuation as a way to protect the population in war and peace times over recent years, has not decreased, but increased. The practice of modern life suggests that the population is increasingly exposed to the dangers of natural disasters, accidents and catastrophes in industry and transport. The article is devoted to the design of software applications and 3D modeling for the evacuation of people in case of emergency. The article deals with the general provisions on evacuation and the main components of the designed application software and modeling.
Keywords:	CASE Means, Design, Evacuation, Software, Software Design, Use Case, Game Engine.
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Title:	REASONING ON STARVATION IN AODV USING ABSTRACT STATE MACHINES
Author:	ALESSANDRO BIANCHI, SEBASTIANO PIZZUTILO, GENNARO VESSIO
Abstract:	Abstract State Machines (ASMs) are very helpful in analyzing critical and complex systems, but they lack of inherent, domain-independent characterizations of computationally interesting properties. Our long-term research aims at providing an ASM-based characterization of the starvation-freedom property. To this end, in the present paper the Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol for Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs) is modeled through ASMs, and starvation is studied. This experience suggests us to focus on vulnerable rules as the key issue that drives the risk of starvation within the ASM framework.
Keywords:	Abstract State Machines, Verification, Starvation, MANETs, AODV
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