{"title":"An Information Quality Framework for College and University Websites","authors":"J. Elliot, D. Berleant","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-70416-2_66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70416-2_66","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":104722,"journal":{"name":"World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126144539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ryan B. Escorial, Elmer A. Maravillas, Chris Jordan G. Aliac
{"title":"Intelligent System and Renewable Energy: A Farming Platform in Precision Agriculture","authors":"Ryan B. Escorial, Elmer A. Maravillas, Chris Jordan G. Aliac","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.3607888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.3607888","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract—This study presents a small-scale water pumping system utilizing a fuzzy logic inference system attached to a renewable energy source. The fuzzy logic controller was designed and simulated in MATLAB fuzzy logic toolbox to examine the properties and characteristics of the input and output variables. The result of the simulation was implemented in a microcontroller, together with sensors, modules, and photovoltaic cells. The study used a grand rapid variety of lettuce, organic substrates, and foliar for observation of the capability of the device to irrigate crops. Two plant boxes intended for manual and automated irrigation were prepared with each box having 48 heads of lettuce. The observation of the system took 22-31 days, which is one harvest period of the crop. Results showed a 22.55% increase in agricultural productivity compared to manual irrigation. Aside from reducing human effort, and time, the smart irrigation system could help lessen some of the shortcomings of manual irrigations. It could facilitate the economical utilization of water, reducing consumption by 25%. The use of renewable energy could also help farmers reduce the cost of production by minimizing the use of diesel and gasoline.","PeriodicalId":104722,"journal":{"name":"World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129677164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Complex Network Approach to Structural Inequality of Educational Deprivation in a Latin American Country","authors":"Harvey Sánchez-Restrepo, J. Louçã","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-40943-2_29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40943-2_29","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":104722,"journal":{"name":"World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116680854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"E-government Development in Nigeria, Bank Verification No (BVN) an Anti-Corruption Tool.","authors":"Ernest Nwadinobi, A. Peart","doi":"10.29007/h2tr","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29007/h2tr","url":null,"abstract":"E-government has moved from just providing electronic information to citizens and customers alike to serving their needs. In developing countries like Nigeria, the enablement of egovernment is being used as an anti-corruption tool. The introduction of the Bank Verification Number (BVN) scheme by the Central Bank of Nigeria, has helped the government in not just saving money but also protecting customer’s transaction and enhancing confidence in the banking sector. This has helped curtail the high rate of cyber and financial crime that has been part of the system. The use of BVN as an anti-corruption tool in Nigeria came at a time there was need for openness, accountability and discipline, after years of robbing the treasury and recklessness in handling finances. As there has not been a defined method for measuring the strength or success of e-government development, in this case, BVN, in Nigeria, progress will remain at the same level. The implementation strategy of the BVN in Nigeria has mostly been a quick fix, quick win solution. In fact, there is little or no indication to show evidence of a framework for e-government. Like other leading countries, there is the need for proper implementation of strategy and framework especially towards a customer orientated process, which will accommodate every administrative body of the government institution. E-government development must have a strategy and framework for it to work, and this strategy must enclose every public administration and will not be limited to any individual bodies or organization. A defined framework or monitoring method must be put in place to help evaluate and benchmark government development in e-government. In comparative analyses of the existing methods, this paper will denote areas that must be included in the existing approach to be able to channel e-government development towards its defined strategic objectives.","PeriodicalId":104722,"journal":{"name":"World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126174156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fusion of Shape and Texture for Unconstrained Periocular Authentication","authors":"D. Ambika, K. Radhika, D. Seshachalam","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.1131068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.1131068","url":null,"abstract":"Unconstrained authentication is an important component for personal automated systems and human-computer interfaces. Existing solutions mostly use face as the primary object of analysis. The performance of face-based systems is largely determined by the extent of deformation caused in the facial region and amount of useful information available in occluded face images. Periocular region is a useful portion of face with discriminative ability coupled with resistance to deformation. A reliable portion of periocular area is available for occluded images. The present work demonstrates that joint representation of periocular texture and periocular structure provides an effective expression and poses invariant representation. The proposed methodology provides an effective and compact description of periocular texture and shape. The method is tested over four benchmark datasets exhibiting varied acquisition conditions.","PeriodicalId":104722,"journal":{"name":"World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127601044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving Performance and Progression of Novice Programmers: Factors Considerations","authors":"Hala Shaari, Nuredin Ahmed","doi":"10.18178/IJIET.2018.8.1.1003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/IJIET.2018.8.1.1003","url":null,"abstract":"Teaching computer programming is recognized to be difficult and a real challenge. The biggest problem faced by novice programmers is their lack of understanding of basic programming concepts. A visualized learning tool was developed and used by volunteered first-year students for two semesters. The purposes of this paper are: Firstly, to emphasize factors which directly affect the performance of our students negatively. Secondly, to examine whether the proposed tool would improve their performance and learning progression or not. This tool provides many features and enhancement which were presented to students as pre-lecture material. The results of adopting this tool were conducted using a pre-survey and post-survey questionnaire. As a result, students who used the learning tool showed better performance in their programming subject. first programming course. With the assumption that students had no valuable knowledge, the methodological basis for the research was designed. Fig. 1. The learning environment.","PeriodicalId":104722,"journal":{"name":"World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115402605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a Robust Patch Based Multi-View Stereo Technique for Textureless and Occluded 3D Reconstruction","authors":"Benjamin A. Haines, Li-juan Bai","doi":"10.1201/b19241-55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/b19241-55","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":104722,"journal":{"name":"World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114991549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Model of a Context-Aware Middleware for Mobile Workers","authors":"Esraa Moustafa, G. Rey, S. Lavirotte, J. Tigli","doi":"10.4236/JCC.2017.54003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/JCC.2017.54003","url":null,"abstract":"With the development of Internet of things and Web of things, computing becomes more pervasive, invisible and present everywhere. In fact, in our environment, we are surrounded by multiple devices that deliver (web) services which meet the needs of the users. However, the mobility of these devices as the users has important repercussions that challenge software design of these applications because the variability of the environment cannot be anticipated at the design time. Thus, it will be interesting to dynamically discover the environment and adapt the application during its execution to the new contextual conditions. We therefore, propose a model of a context-aware middleware that can address this issue through a monitoring service which is capable of reasoning and observation channels capable of calculating the context during the runtime. The monitoring service evaluates the pre-defined X-Query predicates in the context manager and uses Prolog to deduce the services needed to respond back. An independent observation channel for each different predicate is then dynamically generated by the monitoring service depending on the current state of the environment. Each channel sends its result directly to the context manager which consequently calculates the context based on all the predicates’ results while preserving the reactivity of the self-adaptive system.","PeriodicalId":104722,"journal":{"name":"World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126623459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Neuro-Automata Decision Support System for the Control of Late Blight in Tomato Crops","authors":"G. K. Vianna, G. S. Oliveira, G. V. Cunha","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.1129873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.1129873","url":null,"abstract":"The use of decision support systems in agriculture may help monitoring large fields of crops by automatically detecting the symptoms of foliage diseases. In our work, we designed and implemented a decision support system for small tomatoes producers. This work investigates ways to recognize the late blight disease from the analysis of digital images of tomatoes, using a pair of multilayer perceptron neural networks. The networks outputs are used to generate repainted tomato images in which the injuries on the plant are highlighted, and to calculate the damage level of each plant. Those levels are then used to construct a situation map of a farm where a cellular automata simulates the outbreak evolution over the fields. The simulator can test different pesticides actions, helping in the decision on when to start the spraying and in the analysis of losses and gains of each choice of action.","PeriodicalId":104722,"journal":{"name":"World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129562888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Data Quality Enhancement with String Length Distribution","authors":"Q. Xiu, H. Hota, Yohsuke Ishii, T. Oda","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.1129633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.1129633","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, collectable manufacturing data are rapidly \u0000increasing. On the other hand, mega recall is getting serious as \u0000a social problem. Under such circumstances, there are increasing \u0000needs for preventing mega recalls by defect analysis such as \u0000root cause analysis and abnormal detection utilizing manufacturing \u0000data. However, the time to classify strings in manufacturing data \u0000by traditional method is too long to meet requirement of quick \u0000defect analysis. Therefore, we present String Length Distribution \u0000Classification method (SLDC) to correctly classify strings in a short \u0000time. This method learns character features, especially string length \u0000distribution from Product ID, Machine ID in BOM and asset list. \u0000By applying the proposal to strings in actual manufacturing data, we \u0000verified that the classification time of strings can be reduced by 80%. \u0000As a result, it can be estimated that the requirement of quick defect \u0000analysis can be fulfilled.","PeriodicalId":104722,"journal":{"name":"World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130358934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}