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Transformation literacies required in the new economy characterized by changes in social, political, economic and civic life that have come in the wake of globalisation in the 21st century, demand Malaysians to possess new literacies to help them cope with the enormous changes. New literacies include e-literacy which consists of awareness of the IT and the information environment, confidence in using...
As the information contained in the Web is increasing, organizing this information is a necessary requirement. Classification is a way to organize the webpsilas information. While there is different ways to classify the web information, swarm intelligence is a new one in this field. This paper investigates usage of a swarm intelligence algorithm in the field of the web page classification; Focusing...
The objective of this paper is to put forward an intelligent system to assist and enable potential users who intend to make investment on micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) products. The system functions as a decision support system to help users the potentiality of investment in MEMS industry by predicting future sales and profitability based on past knowledge. In this paper work fuzzy logic...
Along with distributed problem solving and parallel artificial intelligence, agents and multi-agent systems collectively form one of the three broad areas which fall under distributed artificial intelligence (DAI). In this paper, we explore and review the general concepts of software agent technology; definitions, types, architectures, agent communication, multiagent systems and agent development...
Asynchronous Discussion Forum (ADF) is now regularly as a component of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) and take a central place in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL). However, it is apparent that the field of CMC or CSCL lacks established methodologies to analyze it. This paper discusses the problem overview and offers a solution concept to integrate between Content Analysis (CA)...
Major corporations are often restricted by a narrowed view of the future. This viewpoint is based on the belief that time is linear and that the future is merely an empty space that can be shaped to the present and bombarded with ever more technologies. Nevertheless, this technology and consumer determinism now threatens to compromise the wellbeing and prosperity of major corporations. Shifting emphasis...
E-learning has emerged as an attractive alternative for the delivery of teaching and learning or training. It has the potential to benefit student, instructor and the society at large. The advent of Internet and multimedia has injected a paradigm shift in training, teaching and learning thus contributes to easier, flexible, attractive, meaningful and effective learning without the constraint of time...
Scientific Data Grid provides geographically distributed resources for large-scale data-intensive applications that generate large scientific data sets and it mostly deals with large computational problems. Research in the area of grid has given various ideas and solutions to address these requirements. However, since the number of participants (scientists and institutes) that involve in this kind...
In a complex project environment, project teams face multi-dimensional communication problems that can ultimately lead to project breakdown. Team Performance varies in Face-to-Face (FTF) environment versus groups working remotely in a computer-mediated communication (CMC) environment. A brief review of the Input_Process_Output model suggested by James E. Driskell, Paul H. Radtke and Eduardo Salas...
This paper explores a unique way in which the thinking algorithm adds an extra logical substrate to a Web search query using artificial intelligence. Instead of just going after keyword searching, the algorithm tries to assess the motives of the user behind entering a query. The algorithm tries to find the reasons as to why a user has entered a particular query by adding this question with every query:...
Selection of the best wavelet from various wavelet families for image compression is challenging problem. There are many wavelets that can be used to transform an image in a wavelet-based codec. However, it is necessary to use only dasiaonepsila wavelet to compress an image. The most appropriate wavelet will give a good compressed image; otherwise the wrong selection will produce a low quality image...
Aspect-oriented requirements engineering shows encouraging results in improving, identification, modularization and composition of crosscutting concerns. For instance, many techniques have been developed for crosscutting concern identification activity. This crucial activity is useful at the requirements level; it avoids coupling between requirements, improves traceability among requirements, eases...
We present a novel approach for the measurement and estimation of network traffic utilization between network nodes in heterogeneous environment. We propose an enhanced equation to evaluate the performance of network interface via little law and queuing theories to improve the evaluation algorithm. To get accuracy results on the performance of simulation model, we verify and validate data from local...
Secure buildings are currently protected from unauthorized access by a variety of devices. Nowadays, there are many kinds of devices to guarantee the building security such as PIN pads, keys both conventional and electronic, identity cards, cryptographic and dual control procedures. However, these conventional devices can be stolen, forgotten, lost, guessed or impersonated with accuracy. Biometric...
Ants are a fascinating creature that demonstrates a capability of finding food and bring it back to their nest. Their ability as a colony to find paths or routes to the food sources has inspired a newly developed algorithm called dynamic ant colony system 3 level updates (DACS3). The principle of cooperation and the behavior of a single ant finding path has been the backbone in this algorithmic development...
Web has grown to a huge mass of information resource and is diverse in content. To search such rich source of information one has to be very precise in using keywords in queries to retrieve the relevant documents. Most of the queries issued to search engines are short and have ambiguous context. One way to produce effective queries is by automatic query expansion. Work has been done in this field...
The ldquoe-Taiwan Programrdquo implemented by Taiwan government is aimed to show the e-advantage in peoplepsilas life and bring about essential benefits. This research follows the Quality of Life measurement system developed by the ldquoe-Taiwan Programrdquo, which including Quality of Life indicators and e-Life indicators. By using telephone interview, 3,563 respondents aged 15 and above were validly...
Clustering protein sequences is becoming important in helping biologists analyze the large protein sequences produced by wet lab experiments. Graph based partitioning methods which is an important and stable algorithm in computer science can be used to cluster protein sequences such that each identified subgraph can be considered as a cluster. Each cluster represents a family of protein sequences...
Modeling human (agent) in evacuation planning is not just simply as controlling its movement but the challenge is how to quantify some behavior aspects of human as agent flexibility. Prometheus methodology for agent-based simulation has been applied in this paper to develop a simulation for evacuation planning in the building. Interaction and communication during evacuation between agents through...
ViSOMpsilas (Visualization induced SOM) final map can be seen as a smooth net embedded in the input space, where the distances among neurons are controlled by a regularization control parameter which is usually heuristically chosen on a trial and error basis. Empirical studies shown that ViSOM suffers from dead neuron problem, since a big number of neurons fall outside of the data region due to the...
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