{"title":"ON A NEW GENERALIZED BETA FUNCTION DEFINED BY THE GENERALIZED WRIGHT FUNCTION AND ITS APPLICATIONS","authors":"U. Abubakar, Soraj Patel","doi":"10.24191/mjoc.v6i2.12018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24191/mjoc.v6i2.12018","url":null,"abstract":"Various extensions of classical gamma, beta, Gauss hypergeometric and confluent hypergeometric functions have been proposed recently by many researchers. In this paper, we further generalized extended beta function with some of its properties such as symmetric properties, summation formulas, integral representations, connection with some other special functions such as classical beta, error, Mittag – Leffler, incomplete gamma, hypergeometric, classical Wright, Fox – Wright, Fox H and Meijer G – functions. Furthermore, the generalized beta function is used to generalize classical and other extended Gauss hypergeometric, confluent hypergeometric, Appell’s and Lauricella’s functions.","PeriodicalId":129482,"journal":{"name":"MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF COMPUTING","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130401975","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}
Nizam Udin, F. A. M. Amin, A. Malek, Nur Annisa Zulkifili, Nur Atiqah Ghazali, Siti Aisyah Mohd Ridzuwan
{"title":"IMPLEMENTATION OF BLOM’S KEY PREDISTRIBUTION SCHEME BY USING ELLIPTIC CURVE CRYPTOGRAPHY","authors":"Nizam Udin, F. A. M. Amin, A. Malek, Nur Annisa Zulkifili, Nur Atiqah Ghazali, Siti Aisyah Mohd Ridzuwan","doi":"10.24191/mjoc.v6i2.11508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24191/mjoc.v6i2.11508","url":null,"abstract":"Cryptography, along with its various methods is used to serve the security communication purpose. Cryptography is said to be secure if the encryption key is hard to break by the attacker. Initially, Blom’s Key pre-distribution uses an integer finite field which makes this scheme easy to be intervened by attackers and criminal activists. Hence, this study suggests implementing the Elliptic Curve Cryptography to better enhance the security of the original Blom’s. In this proposed scheme, points generated from the elliptic curve will be appointed as public identifiers to be used in the original scheme. The private key and session key of each user are generated using the addition law mathematical operation with public identifiers assigned. Two users who intend to communicate with each other will obtain a common session key. Overall, the modification of Blom’s Key pre-distribution scheme will be presented in this study.","PeriodicalId":129482,"journal":{"name":"MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF COMPUTING","volume":"2012 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127403364","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":"ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINANT OF RURAL HOUSEHOLDS’ VULNERABILITY TO WATER SCARCITY IN SEMI-ARID NIGERIA","authors":"Mohammed Baba-Adamu, I. A. Jajere","doi":"10.24191/mjoc.v6i2.10423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24191/mjoc.v6i2.10423","url":null,"abstract":"Though water resource is an important natural endowment for the attainment of improved living conditions and sustainable development, man’s consumptive demand for it continued to fall short of the supplies. This is especially in the rural communities of the semi-arid region of Nigeria, whose most water sources are unimproved and the supplies from which fall below the demand, resulting in water scarcity. The study assessed the environmental perspective of the rural households’ susceptibility to water scarcity in Nigeria. The study employed multistage sampling, the mixed-method approach of data sourcing, and the data were analyzed with the basic descriptive and inferential statistical tools. The study findings show the continued practice of extended family system, characterized with low literacy rate and weak income levels, use of shared latrines, as well as defecation in the bushes and open spaces. It also demonstrated nine-in-ten households are vulnerable to the complex conditions of water scarcity, especially those in Kerri-Kerri Formation and the Fika Shale, as the Pearson correlation of the conditions revealed. The linear regression model of the correlated variables statistically proved to have accounted for more than 60% of the water crisis. However, the households’ adaptation strategies to water scarcity were traditional and highly ineffective to the problem of water scarcity conditions of the area. This denotes that the environmental variability influences both water availability and vulnerability to scarcity. Therefore, the study recommends the mainstreaming of the physical environmental conditions into the rural water policy, in addition to upgrading and maintenance of the available water facilities.","PeriodicalId":129482,"journal":{"name":"MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF COMPUTING","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120950633","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 HYBRID SERENDIPITY SOCIAL RECOMMENDER MODEL","authors":"Ahmad Subhi Zolkafly, R. Ahmad","doi":"10.24191/mjoc.v5i2.9680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24191/mjoc.v5i2.9680","url":null,"abstract":"Social support is essential, especially in a working environment, because it can reduce psychological strain. The psychological strain associated with mental health in daily lives could have been gained from mismatched staffing and indirect control of the staffs. In order to meditate the problem, in this study, a hybrid serendipity social recommender model is proposed. This model is a combination of several proposed models encountered during the development process. Firstly, Rough Set Theory (RST) has been used in the early development stage to compute an automated attribute selection. RST is a mathematical tool that is widely used for knowledge discovery and feature selection. At the same time, it, minimizes redundancies among variables in classifying objects and extracts rules from the database. In the next stage, the classification model is used to classify the data into subclasses by using a deep learning algorithm. This algorithm aims to define the higher matching suggested attributes and used for processing massive data. Lastly, a reasoning approach is applied by using case-based reasoning from the result produced. The reasoning approach is used to finding the reasons why the attributes are selected. This approach searches the history of the selected attributes or compute a reason by digging back in the database.","PeriodicalId":129482,"journal":{"name":"MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF COMPUTING","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130135543","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}
Khairul Pakhrudin, Kamalia Azma Kamaruddin, F. Ahmad
{"title":"TRADER HUB SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT USING VAN K THARP EXPECTANCY THEORY TO ANALYSE RETAIL FOREX TRADING SYSTEM PERFORMANCE","authors":"Khairul Pakhrudin, Kamalia Azma Kamaruddin, F. Ahmad","doi":"10.24191/mjoc.v5i2.8995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24191/mjoc.v5i2.8995","url":null,"abstract":"With the advance of technology, foreign exchange trading, known as forex or FX trading, has been conducted electronically using the Internet. Forex traders were using technical analysis to project the best price when buying or selling currencies, and by using the technical analysis tools, they have created their own trading system. Forex traders need to make consistent profitability in the long term to sustain in the forex market, therefore a good trading system is vital. In order to evaluate their trading system performance, forex traders can use the backtesting and forward testing methods. However, these two methods took a long time to perform and did not provide the exact benchmark quality of the trading system. This paper describes how Van K Tharp Expectancy Theory was applied in the development of the Trader Hub System (THS) to evaluate forex trading systems quality. By using the system development life cycle (SDLC) methodology, four phases have been undertaken, which were requirements gathering, requirements analysis, system design, and system development. The outcome is a system that can easily evaluate forex trading system performance; thus, it may help retail forex traders in Malaysia to do technical analysis on their foreign exchange pairs.","PeriodicalId":129482,"journal":{"name":"MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF COMPUTING","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133857438","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":"INSTRUMENT VALIDATION TO DETERMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL MEDIA ACCEPTANCE AND CUTI-CUTI 1 MALAYSIA FACEBOOK USER ENGAGEMENT","authors":"M. S. Ibrahim, Khairulhimi A Manap, N. Ibrahim","doi":"10.24191/mjoc.v5i1.7823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24191/mjoc.v5i1.7823","url":null,"abstract":"The organisation is struggling to find a way to use social media effectively as it creates much interest and could offer so many things to users. Thus, many organisations have changed to use social media to keep up with the current trend and to stay relevant. The online community tends to be influenced by social networking tool and its interactive ability. Social media content for tourism for example can become an alternative source of information for users to plan their holiday to the preferred destinations. Facebook also acts as main user source of information because they could get direct and most recent feedback from the Facebook community. Thus, this study is conducted to determine the relevance variable related to Facebook user involvement to search for information. Relevance variables are identified using factor analysis for its validity and reliability. The analysis omitted 31 items from 61 in total after the validation and reliability test. Thus, the study found that only subjective norms, perceived behaviour control, Facebook user experience, Facebook user response, and Facebook user engagement are the remaining variables that are relevant in this research context. In addition, correlation test results indicate that there is a relationship between the subjective norms and perceived behaviour control with Facebook user experience, the Facebook user experience and Facebook user response with Facebook user engagement.","PeriodicalId":129482,"journal":{"name":"MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF COMPUTING","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129968635","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}
Shuhadah Othman, Rukhiyah Adnan, Mohamed Ghazali Khairuzzaman, N. Ismail
{"title":"ANALYZING USER BEHAVIOUR AND PAGE VIEWS BASED ON VISITOR TRAFFIC IN KOLEJ UNIVERSITI POLY-TECH MARA WEBSITE USING GOOGLE ANALYTIC","authors":"Shuhadah Othman, Rukhiyah Adnan, Mohamed Ghazali Khairuzzaman, N. Ismail","doi":"10.24191/mjoc.v5i1.8387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24191/mjoc.v5i1.8387","url":null,"abstract":"The approach of the Internet has affected organizations in numerous features. The website has become an integral part of the organizations, from publicizing the organization's profile to giving web services. This study is to evaluate and analyze user behaviour pattern at Kolej Universiti Poly-Tech MARA (KUPTM) website using Google Analytics (GA) as one of the web analytic tools. Website design and its services have become a crucial part for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to attract users in visiting their website. Therefore, the use of web analytic tools can be an effective solution in measuring, analyzing and identifying the traffic sources for a website. Google tag was added to all KUPTM’s website and the measurement periods has been done between May 2019 and October 2019. Results have shown that the number of visitors is significantly higher during the weekdays and are affected by external stimulus. An external stimulus, such as promotional activities would increase the number of website visitors. The visit trends show weekly fluctuation in the numbers. It records high numbers of visits during the weekdays and fewer visitors during the weekend. The fluctuation could be due to the number of visits were from internal users, i.e. KUPTM employees and students. The capability of Google Analytics to analyze website traffics in terms of collecting data regarding page views, user interaction flow and visitor behaviour will benefit the organization for making a decision.","PeriodicalId":129482,"journal":{"name":"MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF COMPUTING","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134158962","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":"OPTIMAL FEASIBLE SOLUTIONS TO A ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM","authors":"T. Latunde, J. O. Richard, O. O. Esan, D. D. Dare","doi":"10.24191/mjoc.v5i1.7786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24191/mjoc.v5i1.7786","url":null,"abstract":"For twenty decades, there is a visible ever forward advancement in the technology of mobility, vehicles and transportation system in general. However, there is no \"cure-all\" remedy ideal enough to solve all life problems but mathematics has proven that if the problem can be determined, it is most likely solvable. New methods and applications will keep coming to making sure that life problems will be solved faster and easier. This study is to adopt a mathematical transportation problem in the Coca-Cola company aiming to help the logistics department manager of the Asejire and Ikeja plant to decide on how to distribute demand by the customers and at the same time, minimize the cost of transportation. Here, different algorithms are used and compared to generate an optimal solution, namely; North West Corner Method (NWC), Least Cost Method (LCM) and Vogel’s Approximation Method (VAM). The transportation model type in this work is the Linear Programming as the problems are represented in tables and results are compared with the result obtained on Maple 18 software. The study shows various ways in which the initial basic feasible solutions to the problem can be obtained where the best method that saves the highest percentage of transportation cost with for this problem is the NWC. The NWC produces the optimal transportation cost which is 517,040 units.","PeriodicalId":129482,"journal":{"name":"MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF COMPUTING","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131694982","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}
M. R. Malim, F. A. Halim, Sherey Sufreney Abd Rahman
{"title":"OPTIMISING TRAFFIC FLOW AT A SIGNALISED INTERSECTION USING SIMULATION","authors":"M. R. Malim, F. A. Halim, Sherey Sufreney Abd Rahman","doi":"10.24191/MJOC.V4I2.6104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24191/MJOC.V4I2.6104","url":null,"abstract":"Traffic signal lights system is a signalling device located an intersection or pedestrian crossing to control the movement of traffic. The timing of traffic signal lights has attracted many researchers to study the problems involving traffic light management and looking for an inexpensive and effective solution that requires inexpensive changes in the infrastructures. A simple traffic lights system uses a pre-timed control setting based on the latest traffic data, and the setting could be manually changed. It is a common type of signal control and sometimes the setting was not correctly configured with the traffic data, thus leading to congestion at an intersection. Many mathematical strategies were applied to get an optimal setting. This study aims to model the traffic flow at Persiaran Kayangan and Persiaran Permai Intersection, Section 7, Shah Alam, as the case study, by using AnyLogic simulation software. The model was used to determine the best timings of traffic green lights that minimise the average time at the intersection and reduce traffic congestion. The findings showed that the best timings of traffic green lights for four directions at the intersection are 120 seconds, 75 seconds, 130 seconds and 100 seconds, respectively. These timings of green lights produced the lowest average time at the intersection (55.65 seconds).","PeriodicalId":129482,"journal":{"name":"MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF COMPUTING","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125613444","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 CASE STUDY OF EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN (ERP) IMPLEMENTATION DURING THE MALAYSIA AIRLINES FLIGHT MH370 DISAPPEARANCE","authors":"A. Saroni, Muhammad Asraf Abd Samat, J. Ibrahim","doi":"10.24191/mjoc.v4i2.4809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24191/mjoc.v4i2.4809","url":null,"abstract":"The unsolved mystery on the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH370 has been one of the most highly discussed air crashed incidents in recent times. The doomed flight was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with a total of 239 people on board. Even after years of investigation and searching efforts that ended recently, investigators have not been able to identify the reason that led to the deviation from its original route shortly after taking off. Accordingly, this case study evaluates the implementation of Malaysia Airlines’ Emergency Response Plan (ERP) in handling the incident, particularly in the early crucial weeks. The data were collected from the ERP practices retrieved from several articles, reports, and journals; and they were analyzed by using a qualitative case study methodology. This study hypothesizes that there were a number of loopholes that led to an ineffective implementation of Malaysia Airlines (MAS)’ ERP steered by the Emergency Response Team (ERT) and Malaysian authorities; that was further worsened by both internal and external crisis elements ranging from unverified information to the shortcomings in the Search and Rescue (SAR) operation conducted.","PeriodicalId":129482,"journal":{"name":"MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF COMPUTING","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121780463","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}