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Discriminant Neighborhood Embedding (DNE) is one of the most popular methods for dimensionality reduction, which constructs an adjacency graph to preserve the local structure of original data in the subspace. However, there exist two shortcomings, first, DNE just constructs an adjacency graph, which may not achieve the goal of balancing the within-class and between-class samples. Second, DNE cannot...
This study was carried out to explore the steps of User-centered Design in development of health information technology. The technology was developed in two research projects: the European Union project United4Health that created a collaborative telemedicine system for remote monitoring of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and the Southern Norway regional project eHealth-extended Care Coordination...
Sentiment is the only things that separate human and machine. To simulate the feelings for machines many researchers have been trying to create method and automated the process to extract opinion of particular news, product or life entity. Sentiment Analysis (SA) is a combination of opinions, emotions and subjectivity of a text. Currently SA is the most demanding task in Natural Language Processing...
Meeting is a gathering of people to exchange information and plan joint activities for achieving a goal through verbal interactions. In a good meeting, participants' ideas are heard, decisions are made through discussions and activities are focused on desired results. The challenging part is to mine the most relevant interaction pattern from the meeting. Tree structures are not able to capture all...
With the growing interests in social networking, the interaction of social actors evolved to a source of knowledge in which it become possible to perform context aware reasoning. The information extraction from social networking specially Twitter and Facebook is on of the problem in this area. To extract text from social networking, we need several lexical features and large scale word clustering...
The prevalence of social media, in the whole world and the Arab region in particular, has fueled the active engagement and participation of large swaths of the Arabic society in current events. Social media has been used to rally public opinion, increase awareness, spread information/misinformation, and organize large events. Data analysis is necessary to drive decision making, advertisement, political...
This paper presents a framework for the undergraduate research experience that Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Senior Undergraduate students at Khalifa University, UAE pursue through a fourth-year technical elective course entitled Independent Study that is one-semester long. This course is an excellent example of self-directed learning as one of the most influential educational experiences...
One of factors to determine success in educational is the ability of the lecturer to deliver teaching material and assess students according to their personalities. This becomes a problem if the lecturer does not have ability to assess students' personalities. Therefore, the issue mentioned above makes this causes the lecturers to generalize teaching methods for all students. Another issue occurs...
Information technology project failure is the problem which quite hard to avoid. The main problems of IT project failure are scope, time, and cost. These three contains is affecting to each other. Time and cost are the impact of the changing in scope. About 50% – 80% of IT Projects are defined as failure project which is mostly caused by over time and over cost. In client side, the problems come from...
The smartphone market and the technology of mobile networking have been quite mature. Undoubtedly, smartphones have become an essential communicative tool in people's daily life. The rapid prevalence of smartphones can be attributed to a variety of factors. The mobile operating system (mobile OS), the so-called mobile platform, is definitely the most crucial factor. To probe into potential factors...
The goal of this panel is to engage the computing education community in perspectives on developing and delivering diversity-focused faculty professional development. Panel session attendees will gain an understanding of the role and importance of diversity-focused professional development and knowledge about the critical instructional components that affect successful online and face-to-face professional...
Engineers and information technology professionals often work in international settings or teams, as well as across diverse cultures in today's global economy. Ever expanding globalized society has required updates in organizational procedures and practices, especially for engineering and information technology organizations, to keep up with increasingly competitive and technology-oriented markets...
The revolutionary development of e-training has made its way into Malaysian organisations, and the most obvious defect of the evolving technology is the focus on the technology (the “e”) and not in the training. This paper seeks to review on how e-training among IT employees affect their performance at work. Furthermore, it is intensively important to evaluate the effect of e-training towards the...
Scoring short answer question (consisting of at most 100 words) requires a special treatment, particularly on the term weighting process. With such limitation, it is therefore infeasible to have term weighting with term frequency model because the frequency of term appearance is very rare. This paper proposes a new method, named Weighted Cosine Coefficient. The experiment result shows that Weighted...
Being aware of the rapidly changing environment in the information technologies (IT) era, many B&M organizations aware, envisage, and transform by themselves to develop creative IT-generated contents and/or innovative IT-enabled services. However, there is an unanswered theoretical and practical question regarding the awareness-vision-transformation process of a B&M organization in the rapidly...
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Offline handwritten signature is still widely used for person verification in financial and business transactions. Most research in offline handwritten signature at-tempts to improve feature extraction and classification for the better recognition rate. The deformation and unsteadiness of handwritten signatures, such as direction, declination, and size, are also the key factors sensitive to recognition...
Cultivation, adding up to an important aspect in GDP (Gross Domestic Produce), has been affected tremendously over the past few decades due to the use of chemicals. Due to rapid urbanization and industrialization, arable land under cultivation is decreasing enormously. Organic farming, being the need of the hour, is opted as one of the widely chosen methodology to overcome the prevailing problem in...
Nowadays, an industrial wireless sensor (IWS) is interested and widely used by various industries. There are many industries trying to adopt qualified IWS products in competitive market for gaining advantage. The challenge in choosing IWS includes not only the price, but also several factors, e.g., operating frequency, data rate, output power, interface, brand, and so on. These factors cause difficulty...
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