{"title":"Loopback Virtual Channel Router Architecture for Network on Chip","authors":"J. Suseela, V. Muthukumar","doi":"10.1109/ITNG.2012.117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNG.2012.117","url":null,"abstract":"Low-level design parameters - such as router micro-architecture, switching techniques and packet sizes - have a huge impact on performance and cost of Network on Chip (NoC) implementation. This work proposes a router micro-architecture that has a mechanism for buffer structure, allocation, and arbitration, which minimizes latency, area overhead of the router, and power consumption. The proposed router micro-architecture can be adapted to various switching techniques used in current NoC implementations, and is independent of the topology. The architecture was developed, simulated, and synthesized using hardware description language (HDL). The performance of the architecture was evaluated for hotspot congestion scenarios and compared to classical router micro-architectures. Compared to classical router micro-architectures, this architecture achieves better performance for area, latency and power.","PeriodicalId":117236,"journal":{"name":"2012 Ninth International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116877525","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}
Yun-Ke Chang, M. Chavez, Miguel A. Morales Arroyo, J. Jimenez-Guzman
{"title":"An Active Cinema Experience: A Study on User Expectation and Perceived Gratifications of a Real-time Animated Film System","authors":"Yun-Ke Chang, M. Chavez, Miguel A. Morales Arroyo, J. Jimenez-Guzman","doi":"10.1109/ITNG.2012.165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNG.2012.165","url":null,"abstract":"Active Cinema is a brand-new cinematic experience in which the audience's emotion will be detected and the style of the scenes in the film will change in order to bring the audience's emotion to the state desirable by the film maker. This paper reports on a user study to understand the expectation and motivation of potential audience of the proposed active cinema, as well as to investigate the various aspects of gratification. The factors that may cause majority of data dispersion in our sample, and the overall user's experience and expectations of interaction modes are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":117236,"journal":{"name":"2012 Ninth International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132174096","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":"Context-Based Testing of COTs Using Petri Nets","authors":"H. Reza, Liang Cheng","doi":"10.1109/ITNG.2012.123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNG.2012.123","url":null,"abstract":"The persistent problem with using reusable components is adequate integrations, compositions, and certifications testing that are related to the factors such as the lack of access to source code, lack of composition support, lack of standards and contexts in which Components of the Shelves (COTS) must be deployed. Existing approaches to testing reusable components heavily focus on interface and integration testing of COTS without specifying contexts. The theory of Petri nets has been used in the model-based engineering of software systems to specify dependency, concurrency, conflict, distribute ness, composition, choice, randomness, etc. In this work, we attempt to utilize Petri nets theory to specify and analyze contextual dependency (data, control, etc) among Cots and their environments. A simple case study known as Car Dashboard Control System (DCS) has been used to demonstrate our proposed idea.","PeriodicalId":117236,"journal":{"name":"2012 Ninth International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131469252","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":"Design and Implementation of an Open Network and Host-Based Intrusion Detection Testbed with an Emphasis on Accuracy and Repeatability","authors":"Michael J. Shevenell, R. Erbacher","doi":"10.1109/ITNG.2012.99","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNG.2012.99","url":null,"abstract":"The Open Network and Host Based Intrusion Detection Test bed (ONBIT) has been designed to make use of both network and host-based monitoring while validating and evaluating IDS tools and algorithms. This test bed was found to be of critical need for scenarios in which external test beds cannot be used. The ONBIT test bed can be used to verify algorithms, concepts, and protocols, as well as discover more practical problems for future security research. This test bed is unique in its real-time nature and real-world performance and efficiency metrics, critical metrics for capabilities being readied for deployment. The ONBIT test bed was built using open source software and was designed to take accuracy and repeatability into consideration at each step of experimentation. Using a link emulator called Dummy Net, the ONBIT test bed has the ability to control how the network behaves. Dummy Net creates controlled packet loss, introduces latency, and allows for the configuration of various size network pipes. We show the benefit of correlating host-based and network-based IDS data in a real-world demonstration of the testbed's use.","PeriodicalId":117236,"journal":{"name":"2012 Ninth International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123616264","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":"Loan System in Brazilian Financial Institution - A SOA Application","authors":"C. G. Bernardo","doi":"10.1109/ITNG.2012.50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNG.2012.50","url":null,"abstract":"With the intention of offering financial products to its customers in a fast, secure and high technological value, the financial institutions has been highlighted by constant investment in the area of Information Technology. This article presents the technology by a Brazilian institution and developed by a software provider, using the Service Oriented Architecture, enabling customers to access the functionalities of a System of Financing and Loan. Through architecture are generated financial affairs with confidence, performance and security that customers expect from a financial institution. Its unique feature is to present the development of mainframe subprograms with the profile of componentization, but without losing original features such as robustness, high performance and information security. Its main contribution is to demonstrate that it is possible to unify completely different platforms in a Service Oriented Architecture, provided that it has focused on the fact that the most important features of each of these platforms are utilized. How was extracted lessons learned that should be followed important points of attention in the definition of the architecture such as not using SOA as hype or without sufficient technical knowledge.","PeriodicalId":117236,"journal":{"name":"2012 Ninth International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116356070","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":"Human Body Parts Tracking Using Torso Tracking: Applications to Activity Recognition","authors":"Aras Dargazany, M. Nicolescu","doi":"10.1109/ITNG.2012.132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNG.2012.132","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposed an approach for human body part tracking which is based on torso tracking. The main goal in this paper is tracking main human body parts such as torso, head and hands. In the proposed method for human body part tracking, we are using connected components to improve the detected silhouette (i.e. detected foreground using background subtraction) in order to detect the body parts with respect to torso location and size. We are also using a blob tracking module which is composed of foreground detection, blob detection and blob tracking in order to find the approximate location and size of torso in each frame (i.e. torso tracking). By tracking torso, we will be able to track other body parts based on their location with respect to the torso. Having found torso size and location, the region of certain body parts on the silhouette will be modeled by an Gaussian ellipse using Gaussian blob modeling in each frame with different color in order to show its location, size and pose. The proposed HBPT approach helps us robustly identify and track human body parts in real-time for further use in Human Activity Recognition in vision-based HCI.","PeriodicalId":117236,"journal":{"name":"2012 Ninth International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127176606","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}
Qunzhi Zhou, Sreedhar Natarajan, Yogesh L. Simmhan, V. Prasanna
{"title":"Semantic Information Modeling for Emerging Applications in Smart Grid","authors":"Qunzhi Zhou, Sreedhar Natarajan, Yogesh L. Simmhan, V. Prasanna","doi":"10.1109/ITNG.2012.150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNG.2012.150","url":null,"abstract":"Smart Grid modernizes power grid by integrating digital and information technologies. Millions of smart meters, intelligent appliances and communication infrastructures are under deployment allowing advanced IT applications to be developed to secure and manage power grid operations. Demand response (DR) is one such emerging application to optimize electricity demand by curtailing/shifting power load when peak load occurs. Existing DR approaches are mostly based on static plans such as pricing policies and load shedding schedules. However, improvements to power management applications rely on data emanating from existing and new information sources with the growth of Smart Grid information space. In particular, dynamic DR algorithms depend on information from smart meters that report interval-based power consumption measurement, HVAC systems that monitor buildings heat and humidity, and even weather forecast services. In order for emerging Smart Grid applications to take advantage of the diverse data influx, extensible information integration is required. In this paper, we develop an integrated Smart Grid information model using Semantic Web techniques and present case studies of using semantic information for dynamic DR. We show the semantic model facilitates information integration and knowledge representation for developing the next generation Smart Grid applications.","PeriodicalId":117236,"journal":{"name":"2012 Ninth International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126603824","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}
Mohammed Rokibul Alam Kotwal, Tasneem Halim, Md. Mehedi Hassan Almaji, Imtiaz Hossain, M. N. Huda
{"title":"Extraction of Local Features for Tri-Phone Based Bangla ASR","authors":"Mohammed Rokibul Alam Kotwal, Tasneem Halim, Md. Mehedi Hassan Almaji, Imtiaz Hossain, M. N. Huda","doi":"10.1109/ITNG.2012.135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNG.2012.135","url":null,"abstract":"Inherent features of the Bangla (widely used as Bengali) language like long and short vowels and many instances of allophones make it difficult to build a continuous speech recognizer for the language. Stress and accent vary in spoken Bangla language from region to region. But in formal read Bangla speech, stress and accents are ignored. There are three approaches to continuous speech recognition (CSR) based on the sub-word unit viz. word, phoneme and syllable. Pronunciation of words and sentences are strictly governed by set of linguistic rules. Many attempts have been made to build continuous speech recognizers for Bangla for small and restricted tasks. However, medium and large vocabulary CSR for Bangla is relatively new and not explored. In this paper, the authors have attempted for extracting local features (LFs) from a Bangla input speech for tri-phone based automatic speech recognition (ASR) method. The method comprises two stages, where the first stage extracts LFs from input speech and the final stage generates word strings based on trip hone hidden Markov models (HMMs). The objective of this research is to build a medium vocabulary trip hone based continuous speech recognizer for Bangla language by extracting LFs over mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs). In this experimentation using Bangla speech corpus prepared by us, the recognizer provides higher word accuracy, word correct rate as well as sentence correct rate for trained and tested sentences with fewer mixture components in HMMs.","PeriodicalId":117236,"journal":{"name":"2012 Ninth International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126791268","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":"Selection of Suitable Evaluation Function Based on Win/Draw Parameter in Othello","authors":"B. Shahzad, Lolowah R. Alssum, Y. Al-Ohali","doi":"10.1109/ITNG.2012.175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNG.2012.175","url":null,"abstract":"Computer games have made their presence vocal by making themselves present in the homes and industry. Games have emerged to provide a simulated experience of the outdoor games with ease and customization. Another class of games come into play when the indoor games are played without any physical opponent. In such case computer itself takes the responsibility of being an opponent and tests the human intelligence. Board games are especially very popular to be played on computer with computer as an opponent. This paper discusses on of the board games: Othello. The game of Othello has proved its prominence by being an active research area since long time now and has been successful to grab extensive focus of researchers, knowledge engineers and game developers. Othello is not as simple as Checkers and not as complex as Chess: both in its execution time and complexity, therefore it is an appropriate choice to be considered as a benchmark in the games development. Finding a better evaluation function to implement Othello has been an open question of research since long. In this paper we have compared different available strategies at length. Extensive experimentation (approaching to 144,000 experiments collectively) has been done to measure the effectiveness of each evaluation function. After thorough experimentation it is proved that Multi Layer Perceptron Neural Network (MLPNN) is the best strategy among available with respect to its win/draw comparisons. As winning a game in slightly more time is considered to be effective instead of losing it quickly.","PeriodicalId":117236,"journal":{"name":"2012 Ninth International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128535957","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":"The Application of the Component-based Product Line in the Data Processing Domain","authors":"Xinyu Zhang, Rui Wang","doi":"10.1109/ITNG.2012.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNG.2012.47","url":null,"abstract":"During the procedure of component-based product line development, this paper selects the Cobra approach and designs product line architecture, core asset library framework and trustworthiness assurance framework. The development method realizes the software reuse and reduces development costs, shorten development time, and helps data processing system's user to resolve requirements for product customization. Finally, this paper makes a detailed introduction to the development process in the data processing domain with a practical application.","PeriodicalId":117236,"journal":{"name":"2012 Ninth International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations","volume":"1 7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130891469","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}