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Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology
December 2014 | Vol. 70 No.1

Title:	AN EFFICIENT SUPER PEER SELECTION ALGORITHM FOR PEER-TO-PEER (P2P) LIVE STREAMING NETWORK
Author:	NARAYANAN.M, ARUN.C
Abstract:	Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing is the fast emergent overlay network distribution system, the main gains of P2P is each peer in the network can act autonomous. Super peer network representation is an advancing design of centralized topology embedded in a decentralized system in the Peer-to-Peer system. Super peer overlay helps to improve the performance of P2P applications such as live streaming. To avoid the risk of super peer node failure in the network communication model, this paper proposes the gossip communication based established protocol and firefly algorithm to select the fail over super peer node from a cluster of peers in order to maintain the reliability, scalability and robustness of the network. We simulated this network model in peersim simulator to accomplish great performance.
Keywords:	Convergence Time, Distributed Network, Firefly Algorithm, Gossip, Super peer overlay
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Title:	PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF TCP CONGESTION CONTROL ALGORITHMS THROUGHPUT FOR CVE BASED ON CLOUD COMPUTING MODEL
Author:	ABDULSALAM YA’U GITAL, ABDUL SAMAD ISMAIL, HARUNA CHIROMA
Abstract:	Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE) is becoming popular in the last few years; this is because CVE is designed to allow geographically distributed users to work together over the network. Currently, in the development of CVE Systems, Client server architectures with multiple servers are used with TCP as update transmitting transport protocol because of its reliability. With the increasing number of collaborators, the transport protocol is inadequate to meet the system requirements in terms of timely data transmission. The transport protocol (TCP) throughput deteriorates in the network with large delay which leads to unsatisfactory consistency requirement of the CVE systems.We proposed a cloud based architectural model for improving scalability and consistency in CVE in an earlier study. The current paper aims at evaluating and comparing the performance of different TCP variants (Tahoe, Reno, New Reno, Vegas, SACK, Fack and Linux) with the cloud based CVE architecture to determine the suitability of each TCP variant for CVE. A comparative analysis between the different TCP variants is presented in terms of throughput verses elapse time, with increasing number of users in the system. TCP Vegas with the cloud based model was found to be effective for CVE systems based on Cloud Computing .
Keywords:	CVE Architecture, Cloud Computing, TCP Variants (Congestion Control Algorithm).
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Title:	DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF PID CONTROL BASED BABY INCUBATOR
Author:	ADHI KSATRIA THEOPAGA, ACHMAD RIZAL, ERWIN SUSANTO
Abstract:	The birth in early pregnancy and the lack of pregnancy nutrition can lead to birth problems and premature birth so that the baby easily induces hypothermia. Therefore, these babies require an incubator as a means of heating with standard temperatures between 32-37°C to help babies survive and to be able to adapt to the outside temperature. Nowadays, baby incubator on the market is using on-off control on the heating system. This condition has the disadvantage because the transient response time of the position of living long enough to off or conversely. This process certainly requires a large enough power to turn on and turn off the heater continuously. Therefore, we need a technology that is capable of controlling temperature conveniently. To overcome these problems we apply temperature control technique using Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID). In this prototype, a designed baby incubator inside there is a two-piece box (top and bottom). Top box is used to put sensors and sensor display. While the bottom one is used to put electronic circuits, heater, and fan. The temperature sensor used is a room temperature sensor SHT11, while the temperature sensor for baby is NTC type. Baby incubator temperature changes and can be seen in the form of the temperature display on the display device. PID values are obtained by using the Ziegler-Nichols 1st method. Plant was fed by a unit-step input and the output response is obtained from the values of Kp = 13,827, Ki = 0,576, and Kd = 82,962. Each value is used into the heating system and the obtained time achievement is 4 minutes 44 seconds with set point at 32°C. Hopefully, in the future this system can be very useful for nurses and hospitals, as well as it can be redeveloped for enhancement purposes
Keywords:	Baby Incubator, PID Controller, Ziegler-Nichols
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Title:	A SURVEY OF COPY-MOVE FORGERY DETECTION TECHNIQUES
Author:	SALAM A.THAJEEL, GHAZALI SULONG
Abstract:	Copy-Move forgery is one of the significant image manipulations, where some image parts are copied and pasted in original image. In this survey, we firstly review about digital image forensics and its types. The brief discussion about current research presented here with an analysis of the existing approaches for detect image tampering, which are classified into block-based method and key point-based method. Then we demonstrate the popular techniques of two methods and analysis of several techniques. Finally, the all techniques advantages and disadvantages summarized and some future research directions were pointed out.
Keywords:	Block Matching, Digital Image, Forgery Detection, Copy-Move Forgery,
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Title:	ONE DIMENSIONAL WITH DYNAMIC FEATURES VECTOR FOR IRIS CLASSIFICATION USING TRADITIONAL SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES
Author:	AHMAD NAZRI ALI , MOHD ZAID ABDULLAH
Abstract:	This paper proposes an iris classification for small and imbalance dataset employing traditional Support Vector Machine classifier. A technique from the combination of modified conventional moving average and histogram equalization are proposed to produce the figurative and interpretability iris texture. In doing so, the smooth effect of the iris texture will take place for feature extraction. This study also proposed one-dimensional features with dynamic vector which are extracted by manipulating the global mean and intensity variation on the un-normalized iris image. The uniqueness of the proposed feature extraction technique is where eyelid, eyelashes and lighting effect will be merged together in the calculation in order to produce the feature vector. Therefore, this study has not considered the noise removal method, and this differs compared to most previous works, which have implemented noise removal method for eliminating the eyelid and eyelashes information. The images from CASIA Version 1 and Version 4-Interval are used to assess the proposed method. The results obtained on these data sets reveal the effectiveness of the suggested method.
Keywords:	Iris Classification, Support Vector Machines, Global Mean, One-dimensional
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Title:	A NOVEL DATA MINING METHOD FOR MALWARE DETECTION
Author:	HAMID REZA RANJBAR, MEHDI SADEGHZADEH, 3AHMAD KESHAVARZ
Abstract:	Losses caused by malware are irrecoverable. Detection of malicious activity is the most challenge in the security of computing systems because current virulent executable are using sophisticated polymorphism and metamorphism techniques. It make difficult for analyzers to investigate their code statically. In this paper, we present a data mining approach to predict executable behavior. We provide an Application Programming Interface (API) which provides sequences captured of a running process with the aim of its predicting intention. Although API calls are commonly analyzed by existing anti-viruses and sandboxes, our work presents for the first time that using an API and the number of iteration as a countermeasure for malware detection in the API. The experiments have shown the effectiveness of our method on polymorphic and metamorphic malware by achieving an accuracy of 93.5% while keeping detection rate as high as 95%.
Keywords:	Malware, Polymorphic, Metamorphic malware, Data Mining, API calls.
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Title:	MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION OF INFORMATION SYSTEM QUALITY ENHANCEMENT
Author:	ABIR ELMIR, NORELISLAM EL HAMI, BADR ELMIR, BOUCHAIB BOUNABAT RACHID ELLAIA, MHAMED ITMI
Abstract:	Organizations have to efficiently manage efforts they deploy in order to enhance and ensure information system quality. Unlike other research works addressing this issue, the present proposal handle quality characteristics, such interoperability and security, by taking into account the subsisting complementarity between the different quality factors, their interactions and mutual effects. This paper considers the use of multiobjective optimization techniques in order to plan effectively quality evolution in inter organizational context. To ensure this effectiveness goal, this paper proposes initially a model to represent quality evolution and planning. Quality degrees are evaluated using ratio metrics taking into account all operational assessment aspects. In a second stage, a Multi Objective Particle Swarm optimization (MOPSO) algorithm is used as a heuristic optimization technique to obtain the best efforts distribution in collaborative networks.
Keywords:	Information system quality, Project planning, Effort dispatching, Multi objective optimization, Particle Swarm optimization
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Title:	ROTATION AND SCALE INVARIANT FEATURE EXTRACTION FOR MRI BRAIN IMAGES
Author:	NAVEEN KISHORE GATTIM, V RAJESH
Abstract:	Texture classification of images with varied orientations and scale changes is a challenging and considered to be important in image analysis. Feature extraction can be used to increase the efficiency of texture classification using log polar wavelet energy signatures. For the image to be rotation and scale invariant two major steps are applied which involves applying log polar transform and adaptive row shift invariant wavelet transform. Log polar transform eliminates the rotation and scale effects and causes a row shifted log polar image, which undergoes adaptive row shift invariant wavelet transform to remove the row shift effects. Finally they obtained output wavelet coefficients are rotation and scale invariant. The complexity of O (n log n) is efficient with adaptive row shift invariant wavelet packet transform. From the log polar wavelet energy signatures a feature vector is generated which are extracted from each sub band of wavelet coefficients. In the experiments the features are extracted for images considering different orientation and scale changes and simultaneously experiment is simulated for few wavelet families. The experiment results show the efficiency of few wavelets in extracting the features of a given image. The overall accuracy rate for this approach is 87.05 percent representing that the extracted energy signatures are effective rotation and scale invariant features.
Keywords:	Log polar transform, Row shift invariant wavelet transform, Rotation and scale invariance, Feature extraction.
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Title:	FEATURE EXTRACTION IN SEGMENTED WORDS FOR SEMI-AUTOMATIC TRANSCRIPTION OF HANDWRITTEN ARABIC DOCUMENTS
Author:	NOUREDDINE EL MAKHFI AND RACHID BENSLIMANE
Abstract:	Scanning is a widely used solution for the preservation of ancient manuscripts. However, this solution gives masses of document images which content is not easily exploitable. In this work, we propose a new method that reduces considerably the manual transcription. The aim is to explore the content of digitized manuscripts. The proposed method is based on two main phases: the first one consists to segment the digitized manuscripts on words, while the second searches in a database of image words and their equivalent in text mode the corresponding text words of each image word if it exists. This search phase is based on a matching operation between features extracted words and those stored in the database. To characterize each word, we use SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) algorithm as a feature extractor for interest words points. The results of the comparison provide a set of words in text mode which helps transcription of Arabic manuscripts
Keywords:	Semi-Automatic Transcription; SIFT; Interest Points; XML; TEI; Word Segmentation; Image / Text; Arabic Manuscripts.
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Title:	COOPERATIVE INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEM FRAMEWORK USING MOBILE AGENTS FOR CLOUD COMPUTING
Author:	HICHAM TOUMI, AHMED EDDAOUI, MOHAMED TALEA
Abstract:	Cloud computing improves collaboration, flexibility, scaling, and availability, and provides the potential for cost reduction through optimized and efficient computing. Cloud computing allows the use of a collection of services, applications, information, and infrastructure composed of group of compute, network, information, and storage resources. In brief, the Cloud Computing is undergoing an incontestable success, which could be indeed compromised by concerns about the risks related to potential misuse of this model aimed at conducting illegal activities. To address these problems, a framework of cooperative Hybrid intrusion detection system (Hy-IDS) and Mobile Agents is proposed. This framework allows protection against the intrusion attacks. Our Hybrid IDS is based on two types of IDS, the first for the detection of attacks at the level of virtual machines (VMs), the second for the network attack detection and Mobile Agents. After the collection of malicious data from infected sources (VMs) via the first category of IDS; the second category of IDS is also used for the generation of new signatures from the collected data based on a signature generation algorithm. However, these new signatures are used to update the database of the IDS itself. The mobile agents play an important role in this collaboration. They are used in our framework for investigation of Hosts, transfer data malicious and transfer update of a database of neighboring IDS in the cloud. With this technique, the neighboring IDS will use these new signatures to protect their area of control against the same type of attack. By this type of close-loop control, the collaborative network security management system can identify and address new distributed attacks more quickly and effectively. In this paper, the existing IDS and Mobile Agents technology are studied. Then we develop a collaborative approach based on Hy-IDS and Mobile Agents in Cloud Environment, to define a dynamic context which enables the detection of new attacks.
Keywords:	Cloud Computing, Hy-IDS, Mobile Agents, Collaborative, Signatures.
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Title:	WIRELESS MACHINE TO MACHINE HEALTH CARE SOLUTION USING ANDROID MOBILE DEVICES IN GLOBAL DEVICES
Author:	Dr.P.CHANDRASEKAR , A.RAJASEKAR , VINOTH JOHN PRAKASH ,K.PRABU4, N.UDHAYARAJ, K.SENTHILKUMAR
Abstract:	The research and design of embedded pulse monitoring instrument overcome the shortcoming of traditional pulse diagnosis system. The instrument has simple structure stable and reliable operation, high accuracy, low power consumption, good portability full featured function, and extensive application occasion. The real time monitoring system for cardiac patient physical state is based on wireless transceiver module technology. It can be taken by patient and keep the patient moment intact because it is miniature and portable .The system can monitor and record the physical states and moment parameters real time, and the provide auxiliary means for the correct diagnosis of doctor. With intelligent transceiver module, the sign of acute disease for patient can be found early, and then the patient can be helpe in time, the sudden death of patient can be avoid. The wireless transceiver module technology can be suite for short distance communication, and the transmission distance is limit only about 10 meters, and then it can be suitable for in- patient monitoring.
Keywords:	Wireless Transceiver, Wpan, Temparature Sensor, Data Acquisition System
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Title:	A RECOMMENDER SYSTEM USING COLLABORATIVE FILTERING AND K MEAN BASED ON ANDROID APPLICATION
Author:	KUNYANUTH KULARBPHETTONG, SUNISA SOMNGAM, CHOLTICHA TONGSIRI, PATTARAPAN ROONRAKWIT
Abstract:	The objective of this research is to develop the diamond recommendation system by using K-Means and Collaborative Filtering techniques. The prototype system suggests users automatically in order to maximize users’ satisfaction. The system design and development will be in the form of Android (android operating system). We illustrate the methodologies and experimental results of this system. In this project, it was divided the result by the research purposes into 2 parts: developing the Mobile application for diamond recommender users and evaluating and testing the system. The results showed that the experts and users are satisfied with the system at a good level. The guide to buying diamonds actually works.
Keywords:	Recommendation system; K-Mean; Collaborative filtering; Android
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Title:	THE EVALUATION OF LOGISTIC INFORMATION SYSTEM PERFORMANCE AT UNIVERSITY USE FRAMEWORK COBIT 4.1 DOMAIN MONITORING AND EVALUATE (STUDY CASE: SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY)
Author:	IMANUEL SUSANTO, AGUSTINUS FRITZ WIJAYA, ANDEKA ROCKY TANAAMAH
Abstract:	Information technology develops rapidly. It makes all the existing business processes in an organization cannot be separated from the use of computers. One of the existing business processes in an organization that use the benefits of IT is logistic department. Logistics system of an organization is always related to the inventory management process. One of the organizations that use logistics system is Satya Wacana Christian University Salatiga. The use of Logistics Information System still found many obstacles such as; management of transaction data that is not on the time and discrepancy information data items that are shown in the Information System. One of the standards in evaluating the InformationSystem’s performance is using the COBIT framework as one of the major frameworks with the goal of providing clear policies and best practices to assist the organization in achieving its business objectives. Performance evaluation of LogisticsInformation System in Satya Wacana Christian University(SWCU) is to use one of the domains in COBIT 4.1, domains about Monitoring and Evaluate. The achievement of the research can be used as a reference for Logistics Department in SWCU to improve the performance of the organization so that it can compete with other universities that can improve competitive advantage of SWCU Salatiga.
Keywords:	Logistics Information Systems, Performance, COBIT 4.1, Monitoring and Evaluate, Competitive Advantage.
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Title:	WALL-FOLLOWING USING A KINECT SENSOR FOR CORRIDOR COVERAGE NAVIGATION
Author:	MUHAMMAD FUAD, DJOKO PURWANTO
Abstract:	Navigation system based on Kinect sensor for wall-following robot that operated in stright corridor environment consist of two problems, visual perception to get the distance to border of the corridor, and velocity control of the robot. Schema, scenario, methods, and experiments to answer those problems using only a single sensor was explained in this publication.
Keywords:	Visual Navigation, Kinect Sensor, Wall-Following, Stright Corridor.
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Title:	INCORPORATION OF REDUCED 09, 0B, 0D AND 0E STRUCTURES INTO INVERSE MIX COLUMNS FOR AES-128 TECHNIQUE
Author:	M.SENTHIL KUMAR, Dr.S.RAJALAKSHMI
Abstract:	Cryptography technique plays a vital role in Signal Processing, Wireless Communication, Satellite Communication, Cellular Mobile Communication and Wi-Max for high security features. AES Encryption is performed to convert plain text into cipher text, and AES Decryption is used to retrieve the original information through some secure Key. Encryption process is divided into Sub-Bytes, Shift-Rows, Mix-Column and Add Round key. Decryption process is split into Inverse Sub-Bytes, Inverse Shift-Rows, Add Round Key and Inverse Mix-Columns. Conventional AES Mix-Columns and Inverse Mix-columns are designed using X-Time unit. X-time unit is used to perform shift and XOR operation more than one time. Hence it consumes more area, delay and power. To overcome this problem, Inverse Mix-Columns unit is designed using reduced 09, 0B, 0D and 0E structures which perform 3 shift operations directly than XOR with fixed coefficient 1B. Number of Shift and XOR operation is reduced in proposed Inverse Mix-Columns structure. Hence reduced Inverse Mix-Columns based AES decryption provides less area, delay and power than conventional X-Time based AES decryption process. Simulation is performed by ModelSim6.3c and Synthesis is carried out Xilinx10.1. Implementation is performed on FPGA Spartan3 device.
Keywords:	Cryptography, X-Time unit, Reduced Inverse Mix-Columns, Modified 09, 0B, 0D and 0E structures FPGA.
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Title:	A PERSPECTIVE OF AUTOMATED PROGRAMMING ERROR FEEDBACK APPROACHES IN PROBLEM SOLVING EXERCISES
Author:	S. SUHAILAN, S. ABDUL SAMAD and M.A BURHANUDDIN
Abstract:	Programming tools are meant for student to practice programming. Automated programming error feedback will be provided for students to self-construct the knowledge through their own experience. This paper has clustered current approaches in providing automated error programming feedback to the students during problem solving exercises. These include additional syntax error messages, solution template mismatches, test data comparison, assisted agent report and collaborative comment feedback. The study is conducted based on published papers for last two decades. The trends are analyzed to get the overview of latest research contributions towards eliminating programming difficulties among students. The result shows that future direction of automated programming error feedback approaches may combine agent and collaborative feedback approaches towards more interactive, dynamic, end-user oriented and specific goal oriented. Such future direction may help other researchers fill in the gap on new ways of assisting learners to better understand feedback messages provided by automated assessment tool.
Keywords:	Programming Language, Automated Programming Error Feedback, Computer Aided Learning System, e-Learning
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Title:	ANALYSISING OF DNA MICROARRAY DATA USING PRINCIPLE COMPONENT ANALYSIS (PCA)
Author:	BAYAN M. SABBAR , MENA R. SULYMAN
Abstract:	In DNA analysis, Microarray technology is a new tool that can automate the diagnostic task and improve the accuracy of the traditional diagnostic techniques. With microarrays, it is possible to examine the expression of thousands of genes in the same time. In this paper is used the Principle Component Analysis (PCA) to extract the feature using BAC (Bayan –Anas Criteria) algorithm that reduce the high dimensionality of data without losing the important information that needed to identify Human DNA feature And to Diagnosis specific disease.
Keywords:	Principle Component Analysis, DNA ,Diagnosis disease , Microarrays , Feature extraction.
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Title:	A NEW STATIC RESOURCE AND BANDWIDTH UTILIZATION APPROACH USING WIMAX 802.16E FRACTIONAL FREQUENCY REUSE BASE STATION
Author:	M. K. Salman, R. B. Ahmad, Muayad S. Al-Janabi, A. Munam O
Abstract:	This paper proposed a new Static Resource Assignment (SRA) approach to enhance resource and bandwidth utilization in traditional Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) WiMAX Base Station (BS) which widely used in cellular network deployment to overcome the inter-cell interference. The new SRA FFR efficiently tackled the wastage of resources and bandwidth in traditional FFR. The work aimed to enhance the resource exploitation in the downlink subframe of WiMAX BS by using Partial Usage of Sub-channel (PUSC) mode and Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA). Four cases were designed modeled as a trade-off study to specify the best way of exploiting BS resources in traditional FFR technique. Quantitative measurements (Case 1 and Case 3) illustrated that the SRA FFR model had an advantage over traditional FFR technique in various metrics, where the study concluded with two optimal solutions: The number of served users and slots utilization are reached to 87.77% and 85.89% respectively of the full DL subframe capacity when Case 3 is considered. In contrast, the data rate (8.611 Mbps), subcarrier efficiency (3.210 b/subcarrier/burst), and spectral efficiency (1.395 bps) were improved more when Case 1 was applied. The spectral efficiency increased more than twice in SRA FFR that due to exploitation all the available BW in DL subframe. The new SRA FFR succeeded in solving the problems related to user’s rejection as a result of a lack of resources and inefficient use of the bandwidth in cellular network. Therefore it can be considered a strong candidate in cellular networks deployment.
Keywords:	Bandwidth Utilization, FFR, Resource Utilization, Static Resource Assignment (SRA), WiMAX
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Title:	ACTIVE VORTEX INDUCED VIBRATION CONTROLLER AND NEURO IDENTIFICATION FOR MARINE RISERS
Author:	MOHAMMED JAWAD MOHAMMED, INTAN Z. MAT DARUS
Abstract:	In this work, a vortex induced vibration controller within discrete time has been investigated on marine cylinder pipe risers which represented by using nonlinear neuron identification models namely NARX and NAR. Input-output data have been extracted from the experimental rig of vortex induced vibration marine riser. A proposed work in this paper is to create the nonlinear system identification model undergoing for vortex induced vibration of marine riser depends on Neural Network which didn’t represented before this time in this application and using PID controller to suppress the vibration. Two nonlinear system identification methods used to represent the models which are: Neural Network based on Nonlinear Auto-Regressive External (Exogenous) Input (NARX) and Neural Network based on Nonlinear Auto-Regressive (NAR). Also, the best model has been chosen based on the lowest value of Mean Square Error (MSE) between actual and predicted response. While, PID controller has been used to suppress the oscillation of pipe cylinder for all models and the comparison of the controller’s performance on each model by tuning the controller parameter (KP, KI and KD) using heuristic method. Finally, the outcomes show that the NARX model performed better than the NAR model to predict the dynamic response of the system. On the other hand, PID controller has been managed to reduce the pipe cylinder fluctuation for all models specially the NARX model. Using particle swarm optimization (PSO) to improve the stability for marine riser on the parameters of PID controller are planned for future work.
Keywords:	Neuro Identification, NARX Model, NAR Model, PID Controller, Vortex Induced Vibration
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Title:	MULTI-CORE FRAMEWORKS INVESTIGATION ON A REAL-TIME OBJECT TRACKING APPLICATION
Author:	MEI CHOO ANG, AMIRHOSSEIN AGHAMOHAMMADI, KOK WENG NG, ELANKOVAN SUNDARARAJAN, MARZIEH MOGHARREBI, TECK LOON LIM
Abstract:	The current computer vision-based systems (CVS) are becoming computationally demanding due to the improvement of their functionalities that is difficult to be achieved with single-core frameworks. Such deficiencies of the single-core frameworks have led to the introduction multi-core frameworks to meet the required performance of their functionalities. However, in order to obtain good performance for CVS on multi-core frameworks, it is crucial to utilise parallelism tools efficiently. These parallelism tools need to be utilised on hotspots (most time-consuming functions in algorithm) in order to minimise development time and to reduce application development costs. This is a challenging task and requires an in-depth investigation of multi-core frameworks. This research work investigates the utilisations of multi-core frameworks capability for a real-time object tracking application problem using a parallel software tool known as Intel© Parallel Studio XE tool. In the investigation, two established multi-core frameworks, namely, Threading Building Blocks (TBB) and Open Multi-Processing (OpenMP) were implemented at identified hotspot functions of the tracking algorithm. The performances of these two multi-core frameworks were then evaluated and compared based on computed speedup, efficiency and scalability. The results from this investigation demonstrated that the processing time of real-time object tracking was improved by using hotspots identification. In addition to that, multi-core frameworks could make the tracking algorithm explicitly faster when compared to single-core frameworks and OpenMP outperformed TBB.
Keywords:	Multi-core Frameworks, Parallel Programming, Image Processing, Real-time Object Tracking, OpenMP, Threading Building Blocks (TBB), Intel® Parallel Studio XE
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Title:	ENERGY REALIZATION FISHEYE STATE ROUTING ALGORITHM FOR MOBILE ADHOC NETWORKS
Author:	R. HEMALATHA, Dr.R.S.BHUVANESWARAN
Abstract:	Energy consumption is prominent and critical issue faced by mobile adhoc network. Maximum energy is consumed when the data is send from one node to another node. Therefore energy efficient routing mechanisms are required. In this paper, a routing scheme based on the fisheye state routing with two groups of selection of nodes are achieved. One group of nodes having maximum energy and another group of nodes having minimum energy. According to the number of packet received the particular group of nodes are selected to send the data from the source to the sink. In this way the energy is utilized efficiently in the data sending process. This gives the reduction in the overall energy consumption of the network. This scheme is named as Energy-Realization Fisheye State Routing (ER-FSR). The parameters of FSR and ER-FSR are compared. Results show that the proposed algorithm effectively utilizes the energy to all nodes. For comparison various parameters like end-to-end delay average, Jitter and throughput have been considered.
Keywords:	Fish eye state routing, Mobile ad-hoc network, Energy, Throughput, Jitter, End to end delay
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Title:	A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF LITERATURE ON ROBOT PATH PLANNING IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT
Author:	MOHAMMAD NAIM RASTGOO, BAHAREH NAKISA, MOHAMMAD FAIDZUL NASRUDIN, MOHD ZAKREE AHMAD NAZRI
Abstract:	Robot Path Planning (RPP) in dynamic environments is a search problem based on the examination of collision-free paths in the presence of dynamic and static obstacles. Many techniques have been developed to solve this problem. Trapping in a local minima and maintaining a Real-Time performance are known as the two most important challenges that these techniques face to solve such problem. This study presents a comprehensive survey of the various techniques that have been proposed in this domain. As part of this survey, we include a classification of the approaches and identify their methods.
Keywords:	Path Planning, Dynamic Environment, Real-Time Performance, Local Minima.
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Title:	A STUDY ON THE PSO MODEL BASED QUICK TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE FOR SMALL AND TINY ENTERPRISES
Author:	G.ANANTH, B.K VINAYAGAM
Abstract:	The Significance of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), its applicability in small and tiny enterprises (STEs), the condition of the STEs, their survival problems, lack of any modern management/maintenance methodology that helps improve the productivity are what the driving forces of this work. A fast track version is designed, considering Critical Success Factors (CSF) and it can be called as Quick Total Productive Maintenance (Q-TPM), without diluting the essence of original TPM, in this study. The study is also an attempt to develop a mathematical model called Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) specifically for the STEs. Thus, the model developed can be handled/extrapolated /interpolated in various manners, so that selective parameters may be altered to improve productivity and Synthetic Data Generation (SDG) may be done for further enhancement.
Keywords:	TPM, Q-TPM, CSF, STEs, SDG, PSO, Mathematical Model, Productivity
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Title:	ONTOLOGY KNOWLEDGE MAP FOR ENHANCING HEALTH CARE SERVICES: A CASE OF EMERGENCY UNIT OF SPECIALIST HOSPITAL
Author:	MAHDI ALHAJI MUSA , MOHD SHAHIZAN OTHMAN , WALEED MUGAHEED AL-RAHIMI
Abstract:	In developing countries, the health care spending has been constantly increasing in the last decades, and statistics has shown a lot of lapses in the running of the affairs of the health care systems. As a result, there is serious need to introduce new and innovative way of doing certain transaction in the hospitals in order to improve the total efficiency of the hospitals. To address this, we propose a method based on Ontology knowledge map to locate the unnecessary transactions that must be redesigned to improve the healthcare management. We carefully choose this methodology to address the problem statement because it tend to gives a better understanding of the general and dynamic situation of the Hospital emergency unit (EU), and at the same time provides a good alignment between the operation and enterprise design. The method was tested in the EU of the state specialist Hospital Damaturu, where we have succeed in locating some transactions that can be redesign or removed. Evaluation of this methodology was done by means of observations, interviews and feedback from practitioners. . A result shows that there are a lot of unnecessary process in the emergency unit which we are able to removed/redesign, it is also observe that there is also need for the hospital to deploy Electronic Health Record (EHR) to reduce error due to manual recording and reduce time response as well.
Keywords:	Ontology, Knowledge map, Heath care, Emergency unit (EU), Design Science Research Methodology (DSRM)
Source:	Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology 10^th December 2014 -- Vol. 70. No. 1 -- 2014
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Title:	ETHICAL BEHAVIORS IN E-TENDERING PROCESS FOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECT IN MALAYSIA
Author:	ROZANA ZAKARIA, LEE ZHI KWONG, MEHRBAKHSH NILASHI, MUHD ZAIMI ABD. MAJID, OTHMAN IBRAHIM, ROSLI MOHAMAD ZIN
Abstract:	Nowadays, application of electronic commerce is increasing in commercial fields; this includes procurement process which introduced e-Tendering in construction industry. e-Tendering concept is to engage lesser paperwork and provide higher transparency in every transaction of procurement process. The aim of this paper is to study ethical issues related e-Tendering in Malaysia construction industry. This paper reviewed previous and recent literature in order to identify the ethical issues and risk of corruption encountered in electronic commerce. Questionnaire survey was used to identify the current situation of e-Tendering involving ethical issues and factors that contributed to these issues. This study proposed potential initiatives to resolve the issues of procurement transparency that improve ethical behavior of parties in managing and bidding tender. This study utilized Average Index method and ideal solution (TOPSIS) for data analysis. TOPSIS which is one of the multi-criteria decision making methods for ranking the factors contributed to ethical issue in e-tendering and the potential initiatives for improvement. Results of TOPSIS showed that the most critical factor that contributed to the ethical issue in e-Tendering was cronyism, followed by lack of meritocracy, collusion, unpublicized process, long-term relationship, human greed and transparency feature of e-Tendering. In addition, from the result, it was concluded that the initiative that was known to be most potential in enhancing e-Tendering process was the features of the e-Tendering system and the ethical awareness among tendering authorities.
Keywords:	TOPSIS, Ranking, Ethical behavior, E-Tendering, Procurement process, Construction industry
Source:	Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology 10^th December 2014 -- Vol. 70. No. 1 -- 2014
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