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System design and development methods need to be contextualized to the specific needs. Most developing countries are characterized by low economies and infrastructure, complex and heterogeneous culture. In these countries software development is characterized by big differences in education and livelihood. Culture has impacts in ICT development and use. Discount usability methods are lightweight methods...
As economies move towards the knowledge economy reinforced by high-speed computer networks and connectivity, skills required to be relevant is also shifting and at a pace difficult for existing skill transfer schemes to keep up, resulting in mismatch in industry requirement and actual transferred skills with attendant avalanche of youth unemployment. As it is, unemployment triggers and drives a number...
There are lots of efforts to improve interworking architectures for the purpose of offloading cellular traffic via complementary wireless technologies. Some offer a specific feature and others work on a generic one, and yet there is a need for feature-rich interworking architecture for offloading purposes. This paper proposes a fully integrated, hybrid and Quality of Service aware interworking architecture...
This paper investigates the application of spectral graph decomposition method in improving the discriminative quality of spectral components of the common spatial pattern for seizure classification. The aim is to improve the variance between the normal and abnormal EEG patterns in feature extraction process. The affinity matrix of the graph spectral decomposition that derive the Laplacian matrix...
Authors develop RVT-grammar to analyze and control dynamic workflows. We consider aspects of dynamic workflows: ensemble (orchestration, choreography) and transformation with saving connections.
Melanoma skin cancer is on the rise globally due to increased ultraviolet radiation and even in darker skinned communities, new cases are being discovered. Like many cancers if detected early the chances of successful treatment and cure are high but if detected at a later stage the chances become low. In the application of Computer Aided Diagnosis systems for detection of melanoma, image pre-processing,...
This paper presents a multi-instance fingerprint authentication system, which is immune to various problems encountered in unimodal systems. During enrolment all available fingerprints are captured and their unique features extracted, processed and stored in a database alongside the bio-data of individual subjects. Unique features of fingerprint were extracted using the crossing number (CN) technique...
This paper develops a framework for complex shape modeling with geometrical primitives. A skeleton based approximation method called Adaptive Circular Generalized cylinders (ACGC) is proposed for the description of natural porous media cavities using nondestructive images. The cavities skeleton are first approximated by spline curve running through a set of balls centers. Then, the ACGCs surfaces...
Cloud computing is a broad research area that uses many aspects of software and hardware solutions, including computing and storage resources, application runtimes or complex application functionalities. OpenStack is an open source cloud computing platform having a modular architecture, based on the IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) model. The aim of this paper is to provide a high-level view of...
Despite the great benefits of cloud computing on businesses, some organizations have had to withdraw from its service due to incomplete compliance to conditions from standards, bodies, or Service Level Agreements which have led to their being penalized. A structured and efficient model is helpful to aid small and medium scale enterprises (SMSEs) utilize cloud services safely and ascertain their fitting...
In most homes, electrical appliances are controlled and operated manually, this could be difficult and challenging to do when tiredness, handicap, morphological variations (height, aging etc.) and inadequate skill stands in the way as impediment. This study aims to implement a better and more flexible means of controlling home appliances by means of an automated switching mechanism using speech recognition...
There has been significant research efforts towards replacing the traditional voting approach with electronic voting (e-voting) because technological advancements have called for faster and more reliable means of voting. There are several nationwide voting systems in use all over the world. However, each of these systems has their various shortcomings. In this paper, a multi-factor authentication...
Call admission control (CAC) is one of the vital components in the management of the scarce wireless network resources in mobile broadband networks. Recently, a QoS-aware CAC algorithm with Bandwidth Reservation (BR) and Bandwidth Degradation (BD) (QACAC-BR-BD) was proposed to improve resource utilization and ensure QoS for all classes. However, the algorithm wastes network resources due to a static...
Popular use of various mobile operating systems like android and iOS, applications in these sectors are getting more significance than ever. Since each of these platforms requires different types of programming knowledge, developers need to spend much time and cost to build app for separate platforms. So, in order to mitigate these problems, web based solution can be used. Cross-platform development...
Nigeria generated over 40 million tonnes of waste between the years 2005 to 2010, while construction waste generated on construction sites accounts for 15% of that proportion. One of the actors of the alarming high rate of construction waste has been attributed to poor estimation of materials on construction sites. The aim of this research was to develop an on-site Builder's estimating application...
Enterprise data warehouse (EDW) with its ETL toolkit is not an adequate approach for today's business environment that is in a constant state of flux. Organizations will, in fact, improve their tactical and operational decisions by utilizing systems that can alert the organization to any critical situation in any of the business sectors and consolidate the corresponding real-time data on the spot...
Diabetes Mellitus is a dreadful disease characterized by increased levels of glucose in the blood, termed as the condition of hyperglycemia. As this disease is prominent among the tropical countries like India, an intense research is being carried out to deliver a machine learning model that could learn from previous patient records in order to deliver smart diagnosis. This research work aims to improve...
Nowadays is well known the relevance of requirements engineering in software development processes. Regrettably, the correct application of the activities is living aside for some developer's teams. This study presents the priority given by software factories in Sinaloa, México. A set of software factories (25 in total) in Sinaloa were interviewed in order to obtain the relevance given for requirements...
Cloud computing recently offers immense benefits. But higher education institutions (HEIs) are hesitating to adopt. As a result, they are not benefited more from such technology. This is because key adoption capabilities are not explored in detail in HEIs context. In addition to this, there is no comprehensive empirically validated adoption readiness assessment model which helps them to adopt Cloud...
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