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Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology
March 2018 | Vol. 96 No.6

Title:	DESIGN OF DISINFECTANT MANUFACTURING SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATIC CONCENTRATION CONTROL
Author:	WON-KEE HONG , KYUNG-AE CHA
Abstract:	HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) is a systematic preventive approach that has been first developed for astronaut food safety in the 1960s. Recognized as an effective tool to suppress food poisoning broken out by pathogens, toxins and chemicals, it has been adopted by many countries. Preventive procedures based on HACCP processes are becoming increasingly important since food poisoning accidents at large meal service stations, which can infect a large number of people at once, are not decreasing each year. The chemical disinfection is a common method to remove pathogens and the chlorine solution is mainly used. Since chlorine can harm not only the bacteria but also the human body, the concentration of the chlorine solution should be suitably adjusted. In addition, the disinfectant solution must be prepared immediately so that the disinfection process is carried out on the spot. Therefore, the chlorine solution should be able to accurately measure in a short time. The disinfectant management system proposed in this paper is a device that can prevent the contamination of tableware and food materials by manufacturing disinfectant of exact concentration and measuring its concentration in real time. The proposed system detects the inflection points of the ORP and pH changed by applying the reducing agent to the disinfectant and measures the concentration. Experimental results show that the average measurement accuracy is 97.42% and the measurement elapsed time is 97.9 seconds.
Keywords:	Measurement system, Disinfectant, Chlorine Concentration, ORP, pH
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Title:	AN XML-BASED USER DESCRIPTION SCHEME AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDATION SERVICE
Author:	SI HWAN JANG, YONG SOO CHOI, CHEONG GHIL KIM
Abstract:	ISO/IEC 21000-22 User Description is being developed by ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 (MPEG: Moving Picture Experts Group) that aims to achieve interoperability among different applications and services in the context for enhancement of user satisfaction. In this paper, we analyze an ISO/IEC 21000-22 User Description including with current status and future application plans. To realize the proposed newly description, it performs the experiment of XML-based recommending service for visual communication (VC) using ISO/IEC 21000-22 User Description. Finally, it prove the XML-Based description for Recommendation service can be implemented and show the visual effectiveness.
Keywords:	ISO/IEC 21000-22 User Description, User, Context, Service, Recommendation, Description
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Title:	ANALYZE USER PATTERN AND DERIVE NEEDS OF BLUETOOTH LOCATION TRACKER
Author:	HAEKYUNG CHUNG
Abstract:	This study focuses on rapidly growing internet of Things(IoT) products, especially Bluetooth embedded location tracker. We used Bluetooth locator to figure out the needs of people who need it, and to analyze their usage patterns if they are already using it. Based on the results, we generated Affinity Diagram and Per sonar to derive the practical requirements of users who use the location tracker. The requirement tells you the location of your first item to prevent it from being lost. Second, when the baby is out of sight of the parents of infants or companion animals, it can be confirmed through smart phone application. Third, if the smartphone is lost, it informs the loss of the smartphone by an alarm. Fourth, it provides design and color that can reveal personality. We propose a prototype of application interface design that works with location tracker through created person.
Keywords:	Bluetooth Location Tracker, UX Design, Affinity Diagram, Persona, Chipolo
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Title:	A STUDY ON NLP APPLICATIONS AND AMBIGUITY PROBLEMS
Author:	SHAIDAH JUSOH
Abstract:	Natural language processing (NLP) has been considered as one of the important area in Artificial Intelligence. However, the progress made in natural language processing is quite slow, compared to other areas. The aim of this study is to conduct a systematic literature review for identifying the most prominent applications, techniques and challenging issues in NLP applications. To conduct this review, I had screened 587 retrieved papers from major databases such as SCOPUS and IEEE Explore, and also from Google search engine. In searching relevant papers search keywords such as "natural language processing, NLP applications, and complexity of NLP applications" had been used. However, to focus to the scope of the study 503 papers were excluded. Only the most prominent NLP applications namely information extraction, question answering system and automated text summarization were chosen to be reviewed. It is obvious that the challenging issue in NLP is the complexity of the natural language itself, which is the ambiguity problems that occur in various level of the language. This paper also aims at addressing ambiguity problems which occur at lexical and structural levels and significance techniques or approaches for solving the problems. Finally, the paper briefly discuss the future of NLP.
Keywords:	Natural language processing, NLP applications, Ambiguity in NLP
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Title:	MEASURING INTERNET ADDICTION IN ARAB BASED KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES: A CASE STUDY OF SAUDI ARABIA
Author:	HABIB ULLAH KHAN, YOSER GADHOUM
Abstract:	As the technology is getting entwined with the lives of people, the adverse impacts are also mushrooming. Since decades, researchers have been trying to identify the reasons for such negative impacts with the help of various measuring tool. The present study used the modified version of the Widyanto’s Internet Addiction Test questionnaire designed by introducing ‘culture’ construct to the existing three constructs. This tool is exercised for 306 respondents, selected at random in Saudi Arabia to know the extent of internet addiction prevalence and the triggering factors. Three levels of analysis are done on the data – basic analysis for demographic characteristics, binary logistic regression analysis and principal component analysis. The results revealed interesting facts about the internet usage phenomenon in Saudi Arabia. Though culture is added in the study tool to understand its impact on the level of internet usage, it is not highlighted in the final result. However, education level is proved to be the most influencing factor internet addiction. The principal component analysis also revealed that only the demographic factors like age, gender, income level and education are the variables that could explain the variation in the internet usage phenomenon to a greater extent. Thus, this study not only throws light on the influencing factors but also gives room for further analysis to look for the possible influencing factors such as the emotional/psychological, time management, mood management and culture in all the regions.
Keywords:	Internet Addiction (IA), Internet Addiction Test (IAT), Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD),, Online Cognitive Scale, Pathological Internet Use Scale (PIUS).
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Title:	NEW PHISHING HYBRID DETECTION FRAMEWORK
Author:	YOUNESS MOURTAJI, MOHAMMED BOUHORMA, DR. DANIYAL ALGHAZZAWI
Abstract:	Internet use is growing every day, accessing a website via its URL (Uniform Resource Locator) address is a daily task, but not all websites are benign to be accessed without any fear from malicious aims - not matter where those websites are being accessed from (Web Browsers, e-mails body, chat application, SMS, VoIP) neither the nature of the operating system or the device. Our thesis aim is being able to detect the kind of websites that try to steal any user’s (normal users, communities, societies, laboratories, etc.) personal information like name, date of birth, e-mail, credentials, login and passwords from e-banking services for example or any other web services. Unlike traditional techniques that consists of penetrating data sources of web services providers by decrypting algorithms, the man idea of this kind of criminal activities is letting the victims give those informations unconsciously, by creating fake emails or websites that looks very similar of original ones and tell victims to fill some forms with their informations for some fake reason, this technique is called phishing. This article aims to discuss some used techniques in detecting phishing websites, like Black-list based, Lexical based, Content based and Security and Identity based methods combined with some machine learning classifier to classify if a test URL is a safe or phishing website and to propose a new hybrid framework to detect phishing web pages from only their URL without need to access it visually with a browser. The data used for building the model and classification is a collection of active phishing websites gathered from PhishTank[1].
Keywords:	Machine Learning, Malicious URL Detection, Network Security Intelligence, Phishing, Smart Systems and Communication
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Title:	A NOVEL AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION MODEL BASED ON MULTIPLE ENCRYPTION TECHNIQUES FOR ADOPTING SECURE E-LEARNING SYSTEM
Author:	SHADI R.MASADEH, JAMAL S.ZRAQOU, MOUTAZ ALAZAB
Abstract:	The era of e-learning systems among educational organisations has grown exponentially. Educational organisations have a competition to provide a secure wireless network service to staff members. In this paper, a novel authentication and authorization model (NAAM) has been presented to securely transmit the data in e-learning environment without affecting the system resources. As a part of the analysis, multiple encryption methods and face recognition technique are utilized to develop a complete secure e-learning model. MAC address filtering over the wireless network together with the application of pretty good privacy (PGP) encryption algorithm are presented. This model may be termed as hybrid security and authentication scheme (HSAS). The main contribution of this research is to achieve maximum security level. This was achieved by integrating the strength of OpenVPN, HMAC, AES, VLAN, sWIFI, PGP, SSL and faces recognition. The conducted experiments revealed that the performance of the proposed model has surpassed the related works in terms of security enhancements during data transmission in e-learning environment systems.
Keywords:	OpenVPN, PGP, sWIFI, HMAC, cryptography, face recognition, and firewall.
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Title:	RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) ENERGY HARVESTING USING METAMATERIAL STRUCTURE FOR ANTENNA/RECTENNA COMMUNICATION NETWORK: A REVIEW
Author:	NORNIKMAN HASSAN, BADRUL HISHAM AHMAD, MOHAMED FAREQ ABD MALEK, MOHAMAD ZOINOL ABIDIN ABD AZIZ, HAMIZAN ABU BAKAR, MUHAMMAD SYAFIQ NOOR AZIZI, MOHD KHAIRY ISMAIL
Abstract:	Starting from the year 2000, metamaterial structure has been one of the favorite techniques used by several researchers to improve the performance of many radio frequency (RF) device designs, especially in the microwave range area. Wireless charging technologies that have emerged are also one of the highlighted discussions among users, fabricators and researchers. This paper presents a literature review of radio frequency energy harvesting, using a split ring resonator (SRR) and other metamaterial structure in antenna network applications. The objective of this paper is to define and compare the several performances such as the technique used, the material of the substrate, dimension, return loss and the resonant frequency of the antenna. The split ring resonator is an interesting metamaterial structure, that is applied in several researcher’s work compared with other metamaterial structure such as electronic band gap (EBG), photonic band gap (PBG), and artificial magnetic conductor (AMC). This structure has the capability to improve the performance of the resonant frequency, minimizing the size and improving the return loss of the design, while sometimes creating a filter notch to the design. SRR structure is a good candidate for energy harvesting because it can increase the conversion efficiency.
Keywords:	Radio Frequency, Energy Harvesting, Antenna Network, Split Ring Resonator, Metamaterial, Rectenna
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Title:	TRANSMISSION EFFICIENT PROTOCOL USING POPULATION-BASED META-HEURISTIC TECHNIQUE WITH MOBILE SINK FOR LIFETIME ENHANCEMENT OF HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Author:	A.KARTHIKEYAN , DR.T.SHANKAR
Abstract:	Wireless sensor Networks are small sized devices which work on the small batteries which cannot be recharged again, due to this optimization of battery resources are the most important design criteria for wireless sensor networks A hybrid algorithm incorporating social insect colony and double cluster head approach, with improved Mobile Balanced Energy Efficient Network Integrated is proposed to improve the intra and inter cluster organization of the existing four level heterogeneous wireless sensor networks. The social insect colony algorithm reduces the energy loss due to long distance transmission within the cluster by introducing layered multi hop transmission. The double cluster head approach helps in load balancing. The burden of the cluster head is shared by the vice cluster head which will reduce the energy loss in cluster heads due to long distance transmissions. The proposed algorithm increases the life time, throughput and stability of the network by reducing the energy losses due to long distance transmissions.
Keywords:	Mobile Sin, Heterogeneous, Social Insect Colony Clustering, Routing, Energy Efficient, BEENISH, Ibeenish, Imbeenish
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Title:	COMPARING TWO FEATURE SELECTIONS METHODS (INFORMATION GAIN AND GAIN RATIO) ON THREE DIFFERENT CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS USING ARABIC DATASET
Author:	ADEL HAMDAN MOHAMMAD
Abstract:	Text classification is a very important topic. Nowadays there are a huge amount of available data. This data need to be classified and categorized. Number of researches applied on Arabic dataset still need more investigation. There are several available methods and techniques to classify data. Also, there are several feature selection methods used in pre-processing stage. Experiments in this paper done using two feature selections (information gain and gain ratio) on three classification methods (Naïve Bayes, Decision tree C4.5 and Support Vector Machine SVM. Experiments done using Arabic dataset. Results shows that feature selection done in pre-processing stage is a key success factor for success. Also results demonstrate that gain ratio is a little bit better than information gain and SVM is approximately very closed to Naïve Bayes and both of SVM and Naïve Bayes is more accurate than C4.5.
Keywords:	Text classification, information retrieval, Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machine, Decision tree, C4.5.
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Title:	A NOVEL MODIFICATION OF SURF ALGORITHM FOR FINGERPRINT MATCHING
Author:	KADHIM H. KUBAN , WASAN M. JWAID
Abstract:	Fingerprint detection and recognition process is a critical task in many biometric systems. Hence, the accuracy of detection and matching fingerprint plays an important role in many research works. Many fingerprints sample are degraded through such other transformations. Therefore, there is a need to find a method that able to detect and match fingerprints sample over all other circumstances and give high accuracy rate. There are two approaches are commonly used, minutiae based and image based approach, minutia approach faced several problems when fingerprint samples are degraded or rotated which lead to poor performance result, image-based approach is seem that its very robust against such other degradation issues. In this paper, we proposed a novel modification to one of the most robust algorithms that used to extract the interest points, called SURF. These points also called feature are later used for matching process after eliminating outlier sets. The proposed system is tested on FVC2002 DB1, and FVC2004 DB2 according to set of performance evaluation metrics such as FAR, FRR, SMR, EER and accuracy, which shows our proposed system can successfully find matching between one fingerprint and other one (1:1) matching, as well as (1:M) matching when more than one fingerprint images may have related to the query image.
Keywords:	Fingerprint, Minutiae, Image Pattern, Descriptor Points, SURF, Matching Score.
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Title:	EFFICIENT APPROACH OF DETECTION AND VISUALIZATION OF THE DAMAGED TABLETS
Author:	RIHAB HAZIM QASIM , AND MUZHIR SHABAN. AL-ANI
Abstract:	People affected by many diseases in their lives and this effect with the productivity of the individual in society and the lives of the entire person and most of these diseases can be cured by medicines. The problem in pharmaceutical industries, in the actual situation, existing a number of defects incorporated in tablets inadequate fines to granules ratio, inadequate moisture content and poor machine settings can be some of the reasons for those visual defects such as faults in a cover of tablet pill. In addition, the production of medicines and pharmaceutical factories are expanded so it is difficult to control the quality of the tablets after packaging. The aim of this paper is to upgrade this manual tablet-sorting machine into an automated system with the aim of improving the speed and accuracy of the sorting process. The hole in the cover plastic package is common defects that can be found in tablets. Therefore, this defect was considered for the purpose of this paper. Damage on the Cover plastic package can be produced during the production of the packaging and can be produced before packaging therefore; will design system inspection the cover plastic before packaging for less damage money as much as possible, also inspection the cover plastic after packaging because the damage on the cover plastic packaging causes damage in pills and capsules. The proposed system algorithm includes preprocessing and feature extraction using opponent local binary patterns &opponent coordinated clusters representation (its the contribution research) and finally the classification of tablets for damage or undamaged issue using an artificial neural network algorithm (ANN) and specifically feed forward back propagation learning.The neural network training with feature extraction from the data after it has been tested. The experimental results are acceptable, the performances of the check pill cover plastic system indicated the total accuracy of 94.4% for testing. Also, the approach using opponent features provides better recognition accuracy than other approaches. The system is evaluated using sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy. The programs are done using Matlab package.
Keywords:	Hole in the Covered Plastic, LBP, CCR, Packaging, Texture.
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Title:	M-SANIT: A FRAMEWORK FOR EFFECTIVE BIG DATA SANITIZATION USING MAP REDUCE PROGRAMMING IN HADOOP
Author:	Y.SOWMYA, Dr. M NAGARATNA, Dr.C SHOBA BINDU
Abstract:	Sanitization of big data before it is subjected to mining or publishing is very important for privacy reasons. Though sanitization is not new, sanitization of big data based on a measurability score is a novel idea. We proposed a framework known as M-Sanit to realize this idea. The framework is meant for big data sanitization prior to processing it. We proposed an extended misusablity score function that can return misuse probability of given dataset. This score plays an important role in determining the level of sanitization needed. This kind of sanitization provides expected level of anonymity and protects data from privacy attacks. The rationale behind this is that outsourced data may be misused by insiders. To get rid of this problem, the data is subjected to sanitization after finding measurability score. Our contributions in this paper are two-fold. First we provided mathematical model for extended measurability score. Second we proposed an algorithm to utilize the measurability score to determine the level of sanitization. We built a prototype application using locally configured Hadoop in clustered environment to demonstrate proof of the concept. Our results revealed the utility of M-Sanit for protecting big data from privacy problems.
Keywords:	Big data, Hadoop, Map Reduce, Misusability measure, sanitization
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Title:	FACTORS FOR MINIMIZING CYBER HARASSMENT AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: CASE STUDY IN KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA (KSA)
Author:	FAHAD ABDULLAH MOAFA, KAMSURIAH AHMAD, WALEED MUGAHED AL-RAHMI, NORMA ALIAS, MAHMOOD ALI MOQBEL OBAID
Abstract:	This study attempted to mitigate the gap in literature concerning a one serious problem in Saudi society and government is cyber harassment. This problem is caused through the increasing use of technology. Accordingly, the main objective was to explore the factors that influence the intention to minimize cyber harassment among Saudi citizen. In this research were employed two theories the first Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), the second selected Technology Acceptance Model TAM. However, based on TPB, the researcher has identified eight factors, to minimize cyber harassment, which is: technological support, attitude, subjective norms, social pressure, the influence of the mass media, perceived behavioral control, regulatory support and the role of the government, and security awareness. Nevertheless, the researcher has assured that the Saudis will remain at risk of cyber harassment, until these factors are fully investigated among the Saudi community. In conclusion, this research specifically proposed in future a model and framework for identifying the significant factors that are anticipated to play a major in minimizing cyber harassment among Saudis. The proposed framework will help the administration and decision-makers in the KSA to formulate strategies that can significantly affect anti-cyber harassment among youths.
Keywords:	Factors, Cyber Harassment, Behavioural Intention, Saudi Arabia (KSA)
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Title:	HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF DIGITAL IMAGE CODING USING FDCT
Author:	MUZHIR SHABAN AL-ANI
Abstract:	Image coding becomes an interested issue for its extensive use in wide range of applications. This work deals with the Fast approaches of hardware implementation for Forward Discrete Cosine Transform (FDCT) and the Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform (IDCT). These approaches are normally used for image coding and decoding applications. The implemented approaches are built using hardware design with specific control parameters to speed up the processing. The implemented approach based on one dimensional Discrete Cosine Transform (1D-DCT) and fast transposing through high access memory that offer real time operation. The control system of flow of pixels is built to have two principal processing of rows and columns and the flow of coefficients comes from high speed access memory. The implementation of the system is done to achieve high speed and accurate results. The differences between the original image and the recovered image for all tested sizes are very small and it is about 10 -16.
Keywords:	FDCT, IDCT, Image Coding, Image Decoding.
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Title:	CRITICAL FACTORS INFLUENCING EFFECTIVE OF ICT RESOURCES AND CAPABILITIES
Author:	HANY MOHAMED, ADAMU ABUBAKAR, AKRAM ZEKI
Abstract:	Substantial research on the importance of strategic Information and Communication Technology (ICT) resources and capabilities for higher institution has mainly focused on developed countries. The results of these studies may not hold for developing nations and in particular, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). To address this gap, this research therefore, builds on theory of DeLone and McLean to examine the strategic links between the success of effective utilization of ICT Resources and ICT Capabilities of KSA higher institutions. Quantitative research methodology has been used. The study was conducted in a KSA context from a sample of 68 higher institutions. Nine main hypotheses were formulated and tested. Analysis of the data provided support for all the nine main hypotheses, except for relationship between “User Involvement and Effective utilization of ICT resources and capabilities
Keywords:	Hardware; Software; Data; Network; ICT human capabilities.
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Title:	MULTIPLE DATA TRANSMISSION PROTOCOL BASED ON NODE GROUPING IN UNDERWATER SENSOR NETWORKS
Author:	WOOJIN KANG, SUNMYENG KIM
Abstract:	Underwater sensor networks (USNs) are characterized by the limited bandwidth and long propagation delay because they use radio waves to transmit data packets. The characteristics pose challenges to the design of medium access control (MAC) protocol. In particular, handshaking based MAC protocols are not appropriate in USNs because of the large delay in exchanging control and data packets. In this paper, we propose a new MAC protocol, called node grouping based multiple data transmission (NG-MDT) protocol to improve performance in USNs. In the proposed protocol, nodes are grouped in a distributed manner according to the distance between themselves and the destination node. When a node obtains a channel access right, it selects one node in the next group. And then, it transmits its own data packet, including the address of the selected node. The selected node also selects another node in its next group, and transmits its data packet including the address of the selected another node. This process is repeated until the last group is reached. In the proposed protocol, multiple nodes transmit their data packets consecutively with one handshaking for channel reservation. Performance evaluation is conducted using simulation, and confirms that the proposed protocol significantly outperforms the previous protocol in terms of throughput, end-to-end delay, and frame success ratio.
Keywords:	Data Transmission, MAC, Node Grouping, Propagation Delay, USN
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Title:	A NOVEL FILTERING TECHNIQUE FOR REDUCING REDUNDANT UNICAST TRAFFIC IN HSR NETWORKS
Author:	NGUYEN XUAN TIEN, JONG MYUNG RHEE, SANG YOON PARK
Abstract:	High-availability seamless redundancy (HSR) is one of the seamless redundancy protocols providing fault-tolerance for Ethernet networks. HSR is very useful for applications that demand high availability with fault-tolerance. However, redundant unicast traffic is excessively generated in HSR networks. This drawback causes high consumption of network bandwidth and may degrade network performance in HSR networks. In this paper, we propose a novel single-filtering technique called FQR that filters unicast frames for unused QuadBox rings in HSR networks. The FQR technique reduces duplicated unicast frames in an HSR network by filtering the frames for passive QuadBox rings that are not used to forward the unicast frames for a communication session between a source and a destination in the network. The FQR uses a simple mechanism to discover passive QuadBox rings and then prevent QuadBoxes from forwarding unicast frames into the passive QuadBox rings. By pruning unicast frames for passive QuadBox rings, the proposed technique dramatically decreases duplicated unicast frames in HSR networks compared to the standard HSR protocol. Traffic performance of FQR is analyzed and several simulations were carried out to validate the analysis. Numerical results showed that, for the sample network used in this paper, network unicast traffic under the proposed technique was reduced by 37% compared to that under the standard HSR protocol, resulting in the save of network bandwidth and the improvement of network traffic performance. The proposed single-filtering technique can be combined with other single-filtering techniques to propose a very effective combined-filtering technique for HSR networks.
Keywords:	High-availability Seamless Redundancy (HSR) Protocol, Filtering Unicast Frames for Passive QuadBox Rings, Traffic Reduction Technique, Fault-tolerant Communications, Smart Grids
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Title:	MEDIATION BETWEEN DIGITAL SURROGATES AND VIEWERS BASED ON THE TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL
Author:	BOA RHEE, JISOO KIM
Abstract:	This study investigates the values of engaging with digital surrogates, including Van Gogh Inside (VIE; 2016), Monet’s Impression Exhibition 2016 (MIE; 2015–16), and Hello Michelangelo (2016-2017), based on a Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Both usability for learning and usability for appreciation in perceived usefulness have significant correlations with the degree of satisfaction (DOS) and degree of immersion (DOI). Our findings show that the DOS not only has a significant correlation with the DOI but also influences the intention to use digital surrogates (intention to visit the exhibition, recommend the exhibition, and intention to visit digital exhibition) in all digital surrogates. It was found that the perceived ease of use has an influence on DOS and DOI in the case of VGI and MIE. This study unveils an insight on the values and qualities associated with the digital surrogates to evoke a sense of authentic experience as well as foster learning. In addition, it also demonstrates the suitability of TAM as an evaluation model for digital surrogates of remediating the originals.
Keywords:	Digital Surrogate, Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), Perceived Usefulness (PU), Perceived Ease of Use (PEOU)
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Title:	DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EXPERT SYSTEM FOR HEALTH AND MEDICAL TREATMENT USING INTEGRATION OF BIG DATA
Author:	YOO-JIN MOON, EUNJOO CHOI, YOUNG-HO HWANG
Abstract:	This paper designs and implements the expert system for health and medical treatment using integration of public medical big data. According to the trend that the health and medical treatment data are gradually open to the public in the world, the integrated medical information system is required for the patients. By implementation of the medical expert system, representatives of the analytical results are average treatment expenses per medical center per disease, medical institutions frequently treating patients per disease, diseases susceptibility in the age group, number of patients per disease by region, and number of the medical clinics per department and district. The expert system makes the big data helpful for the medical centers, patients, governments, the medicine importers, pharmacists and insurance agencies etc. Overall, the expert system deals with not only the fundamental analysis of the diseases per age or per gender but also the practically beneficial information for all the interested parties with analysis of the public medical treatment big data. Furthermore, the expert system can easily be extended with increasing public medical big data open.
Keywords:	Big data, Expert system, Medical expense, Insurance agency, Medical center
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Title:	STUDY ON MANAGEMENT ALTERNATIVES ON AGILE METHOD BASED FINANCIAL SECURITY SOFTWARE PROJECT
Author:	YONG-GUK JEONG, KOO-RACK PARK, DONG-HYUN KIM
Abstract:	In tandem with development of information technologies, telecommunication environment, infrastructure and device etc. are getting smarter and converged. As non-facing service transactions are expanded, financial institutions provide internet banking service, which customers are using with convenience. Accordingly, the information system market related with finance is anticipated to experience much changes in system setup due to change in business and financial environment, and upgrade or new development is continuously performed. However due to the development of informatized society, hacking and virus attack technics are becoming sophisticated and diversified, and also as the cases of infringement of personal privacy etc. are continuously occurring, much efforts are required to resolve these situations. Especially, the current attack paradigm on electronic financial service is concentrated on the customers using electronic finance, so the need for security system is ever increasing to resolve this situation. However, in pursuit of any effort to resolve such situation by proceeding financial security related project, mostly the time and cost incurred for the project is burdensome. Especially, most of such projects accompany numerous risks, and representatively any change in requirements of customers is exercising so heavy influence as to determine the success of the project. Any change in requirements related to financial security shall be immediately processed, but delay of project often occurs due to poor communication between developer and customer. In this regard, this thesis proposes the system to compose development team based on Agile Methods, to differentiate the role of team members and manage the project period, in case financial security software project is performed while development period and development cost is fixed. Also in order to verify the proposed system, actual project is implemented and comparison is made with the waterfall model which is the traditional development methodology. The result of verification shows effect of reduced number of 8% days required for development saving effect. By the proposed system, it is expected that successful progress of financial security related software project would be possible. In the future, subsequent studies on flexible expandability and systematic management methodology are necessary.
Keywords:	Cloud Computing, Project Management, Agile Methods, Scrum, ICT
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Title:	AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF BUNDLING SERVICE ON USER ACCEPTANCE OF IOT SERVICES
Author:	SAE-BOM LEE, WON-HEE LEE
Abstract:	Recently, product using Internet of Things (IoT) have appeared. However, IoT products are not popular yet. This study aims to research the intention of using IoT products. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect the characteristic of internet of things and the bundling service of mobile provider on the acceptance of IoT products. The bundled service means that the mobile provider offers two or more services such as internet service + TV + regular phone + smart phone. Therefore, this study establishes hypothesis and research model that the bundling (bundled service, bundled fee), service stability, compatibility is set as independent variables, and the perceived ease of use, and perceived usefulness are used as parameters, and the intention to use is used as a dependent variable. To test the hypothesis, we analyze the structural equation model using AMOS 20.0. As a result, three of the hypotheses are rejected. Stability is not statistically significant for perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness, and the loyalty of mobile provider is not affect perceived usefulness. This study will provide implications for the IoT service market and business.
Keywords:	Internet of Things, Bundle service, Intention to use, Loyalty of Mobile Provider, Technology Acceptance Model
Source:	Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology 31^st March 2018 -- Vol. 96. No. 6 -- 2018
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Title:	STUDY ON PORT BASED ON USER AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM USING IEEE 802.1X
Author:	Young-Geun Yu, Koo-Rack Park, Dong-Hyun Kim
Abstract:	Recently due to electronic weight lightening and miniaturization of devices, dissemination of devices such as smartphone is expanding abruptly. Concurrently with the convenience in carrying services using smartphone are increasing abruptly, leading us to many variations in life due to IOT environment realized. Especially as BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) ubiquitous environment is briskly realized, the business focused on use of internet is becoming the general trend in human living. Most of the businesses at government institutions, corporate or research laboratory, general households, are performed through network service. However, dependence on network is so high that any problem at network may cause paralysis of all businesses. Also operator maintaining the network requires much time and effort to resolve the problem of failure. Especially in case of any failure occurred in relation to security, the system to grasp the information comprising MAC, IP, access time, user etc in prompt and intuitive way is lacking, consuming much time in resolving problems. Recently as the IEEE 802.1x based wireless network expands, various services being provided. However, in the situation where many attacks through wireless network are occurring, this thesis proposes the authentication system that resolves the simple, repetitive problems which may occur between network user and the person in charge of network maintenance and can expedite user authentication, through user authentication based network design that can manage the authentication of dispersed network in centralized and flexible manner. Through the proposed system, threat to security would minimized and the user and network managers are anticipated to break from the simple, repetitive duties on internet service and management. Future studies shall be directed to the IP back tracking that can respond positively to the judgment and classification of wired-wireless traffic, and to the threat to security.
Keywords:	IEEE 802.1x, Authentication, Authorization, RADIUS, Firewall
Source:	Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology 31^st March 2018 -- Vol. 96. No. 6 -- 2018
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Title:	THE DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF ONLINE CONTENT ON HEALTHCARE ADOPTION: HIERARCHICAL MODELLING
Author:	JAE-YOUNG MOON, JAE-WON HONG
Abstract:	With increasing interest in health, the medical tourism market has become more important than ever. This study was to analyze the factors of consumer keywords used online search in healthcare. To this end, we based the amount of searches on the text mining by Google. We used hierarchical modeling to categorize consumer’s adoption of healthcare. The findings are as follows: First, medical tourism has positive effects on various categories of travel, health, beauty, social, and other categories as well. In particular, it is found that its impact on travel category was greater than the other categories and its impact on the social category was important as well among the online consumers. Second, the categories of healthcare, finance, business, government have positive effect on healthcare adoption. This study was intended to contribute to finding out consumer behavior patterns in healthcare industry using big data. In conclusion, it’s suggested that adoption strategy should be used differently according to the type of its content, in order to diffuse medial tourism.
Keywords:	Keyword Analysis, Text Mining, Healthcare, IT content, Big Data, Adoption, Differential effect
Source:	Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology 31^st March 2018 -- Vol. 96. No. 6 -- 2018
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Title:	CYBER HARASSMENT PREVENTION THROUGH USER BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS ONLINE IN KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA (KSA)
Author:	FAHAD ABDULLAH MOAFA, KAMSURIAH AHMAD, WALEED MUGAHED AL-RAHMI, NORAFFANDY YAHAYA, YUSRI BIN KAMIN, MAHDI M ALAMRI
Abstract:	This research attempted to mitigate the gap in literature concerning a one serious problem in Saudi society and government is cyber harassment. This problem is caused through the increasing use of technology. Accordingly, the main objective was to explore the factors that influence the intention to minimize cyber harassment among Saudi citizen. Nevertheless, the researcher has assured that the Saudis will remain at risk of cyber harassment, until these factors are fully investigated among the Saudi community. In conclusion, this research specifically proposed in future a model and framework for identifying the significant factors that are anticipated to play a major in minimizing cyber harassment among Saudis. The proposed framework will help the administration and decision-makers in the KSA to formulate strategies that can significantly affect anti-cyber harassment among youths.
Keywords:	Cybercrime, Cyber-Harassment, Behavior Analysis, online threats
Source:	Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology 31^st March 2018 -- Vol. 96. No. 6 -- 2018
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