{"title":"Wireless Webcam Based Omnidirectional Health Care Surveillance System","authors":"Wai Kit Wong, Yen Chee Poh, C. Loo, W. Lim","doi":"10.1109/ICCRD.2010.178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCRD.2010.178","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an efficient omnidirectional surveillance system for health care purposes. The proposed surveillance system is used to detect fainted person at health care centers such as old folk's home, hospital, and handicapped center and is located at the place with good light condition. When a fainted person is detected, it send immediate signal and thus alerts/treatments can be carried out. In this system, a wireless webcam attached with a hyperbolic mirror is used to capture the omnidirectional scene at health care centers. The captured scenes are then fed into a laptop computer for image processing, faint detection and alarm purposing. Log-polar mapping is used to map the omnidirectional images into panoramic images. An effective faint detection algorithm is designed to detect a fainted human at health care centers. Experimental results show that the proposed wireless omnidirectional surveillance system achieves high accuracy (92.99 % out of 10000 testing images under good light condition) in monitoring a selected private nursing home. The observed significances of this new proposed surveillance system include: omnidirectional coverage, high data compression output images, wireless, and with effective faint detection capability.","PeriodicalId":158568,"journal":{"name":"2010 Second International Conference on Computer Research and Development","volume":"251 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121421915","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":"Investigating the Use of Semantic-Based Websites to Improve Recommendation Quality","authors":"Taees Eimuri, Sara Salehi","doi":"10.1109/ICCRD.2010.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCRD.2010.48","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we aim to investigate the use of semantic-based websites to improve recommendation quality by testing a knowledge based recommendation system whose results completely depends on the product descriptions, on two different databases. In one of our relational MySQL databases, product descriptions are stored in form of RDF files and in the other one the data is stored in human language. We show that, the RS results are more accurate and intelligent when it is working with the semantic based database that stores product information in form of RDF graphs. Since, the welldefined data can help the recommendation system to analyze an extract the data better and make \"smart\" decisions.","PeriodicalId":158568,"journal":{"name":"2010 Second International Conference on Computer Research and Development","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122811205","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}
Abraham Jun Jiang Lock, C. H. Loh, Siti Hasanah Juhari, A. Samsudin
{"title":"Compression-Encryption Based on Fractal Geometric","authors":"Abraham Jun Jiang Lock, C. H. Loh, Siti Hasanah Juhari, A. Samsudin","doi":"10.1109/ICCRD.2010.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCRD.2010.40","url":null,"abstract":"Efficient and secured transmissions are necessary to ensure proper data protection and transmission speed. Compression and encryption techniques are used to meet these requirements. Fractal geometric is one of the techniques that can combine both compression and encryption together. In this paper, we introduce a new idea of combining image compression and encryption based on fractal geometric. Presently, the fractal encryption and compression are done individually. This compression-encryption is proposed to satisfy a fast and secure image transmission. We propose to convert Mandelbrot set and compressed image into square matrix. The image is compressed by using Iterated Function System (IFS). Then, matrix operation is applied to encrypt the image. The preliminary results, both theoretical and experimental are encouraging.","PeriodicalId":158568,"journal":{"name":"2010 Second International Conference on Computer Research and Development","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124281580","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":"Identifying Quality Factors within Data Warehouse","authors":"Alaaeddin Almabhouh, Azizah Ahmad","doi":"10.1109/ICCRD.2010.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCRD.2010.18","url":null,"abstract":"The popularity of data warehouses for data analysis has grown tremendously. Data warehouse systems have emerged as the core of management information systems. Data warehouse is part of a larger infrastructure that includes legacy data sources, external data sources, data acquisition software, a repository, analytical tools, and user interface. The difficulties of data warehouse implementations have been widely cited in the literature but research on the factors for initial and ongoing data warehouse implementation success is rare and fragmented. Through a comprehensive review of the literature, 10 factors were found to be critical to DW implementation success — Organizational, Technical, Project, Environmental, Infrastructure, Information Quality, System Quality, Service Quality, Relationship Quality, and Net Benefits. A proposed research model is developed in this paper to determine the impact of quality and success factors on the implementation of data warehouse by adapting the updated (2003) DeLone and McLean Information System Success Model, new dimensions are proposed to the model.","PeriodicalId":158568,"journal":{"name":"2010 Second International Conference on Computer Research and Development","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130126363","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":"Study of Elastic Constants under the Effect of Temperature","authors":"K. Raju, Suneeta","doi":"10.1109/ICCRD.2010.120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCRD.2010.120","url":null,"abstract":"A simple theoretical model is proposed to predict the second, third and fourth order elastic constants for TmTe crystal as a function of temperature. A theory for obtaining higher order elastic constants has been developed starting from primary physical parameters viz. nearest neighbour distance and hardness parameter assuming long- and short- range potentials. In this study, elastic constants are computed upto 1000K for TmTe. It is found that the elastic constants, in general, decrease with temperature. The theoretical prediction reported in this paper is well supported by the available data.","PeriodicalId":158568,"journal":{"name":"2010 Second International Conference on Computer Research and Development","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128553946","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":"Advanced Classification Using Genetic Algorithm and Image Segmentation for Improved FD","authors":"S. Venkatesan, M. Karnan","doi":"10.1109/ICCRD.2010.96","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCRD.2010.96","url":null,"abstract":"In certain applications face detection may require advance classification methods that would precisely identify the faces even if the face visibility measure is less. This paper proposes face detection based on usage of Genetic algorithm for advance classification of cases and objects of the input image. This paper suggests preliminary segmentation of images into regions that contain \"Non-face\" objects and \"face\" objects. this idea may greatly accelerate the efficiency of face detection.","PeriodicalId":158568,"journal":{"name":"2010 Second International Conference on Computer Research and Development","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122232597","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":"Per-Priority Flow Control (PPFC) for Enhancing Metro Ethernet QoS","authors":"B. Pahlevanzadeh, Imad J. Mohamad, T. Wan","doi":"10.1109/ICCRD.2010.80","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCRD.2010.80","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel scheme called perpriority flow control (PPFC) as an extension to the IEEE802.3x standard using a simple and efficient node buffer management strategy, where a physical channel was divided into several virtual channel based on the bandwidth value (QoS parameter) embedded into the IPv6 flow label field of each flow. Moreover, it investigates performance of new proposed priority PAUSE, which includes two new flexible programmable fields (predetermined pause time and priority) in order to provide granular flow control. The proposed PPFC is fair in the sense that it distributes the resources among the flows based on their priorities during congestion. Moreover it reduces the amount of buffer overflow and packet loss and it would provide an efficient use of link bandwidth with high throughput. In addition, priority PAUSE enables optimal bandwidth management of virtual channel for different IPv6 traffic priorities and it enhances the QoS in Metro Ethernet.","PeriodicalId":158568,"journal":{"name":"2010 Second International Conference on Computer Research and Development","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127704463","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":"Study on DFT Algorithm Detecting Coriolis Phase Difference","authors":"Yang Jun, W. Qianjiao","doi":"10.1109/ICCRD.2010.153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCRD.2010.153","url":null,"abstract":"An improved algorithm of using DFT (Digital Fourier Transform) to detect phase difference in CMF (Coriolis Mass Flow meter) is described. In the algorithm, firstly an estimated frequency is used to calculate phase difference several times; from the phase difference change, a more precise estimation of the current period can be got. By adjusting the length of the DFT calculation, a more precise phase difference is achieved. This method can also overcome the spectral leakage in the phase difference calculation, which is mainly induced by the change of the CMF natural frequency. Our CMF experiment has demonstrated that the accuracy of CMF is improved by adopting the improved algorithm.","PeriodicalId":158568,"journal":{"name":"2010 Second International Conference on Computer Research and Development","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128793219","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":"Maintenance Workforce Scheduling Using Arena Simulation","authors":"Z. Alwadood, I. Kassim, R. M. Rani","doi":"10.1109/ICCRD.2010.111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCRD.2010.111","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyzed the problem faced by a maintenance department of an Information Technology company, which recorded a huge amount of penalty cost each month. The cost is incurred when a service breakdown is solved beyond the agreed-upon duration, as distinctively stated in the Service Level Agreement established with its customers. Therefore, the objective of the paper is to present a workforce schedule model that would minimize the average total time of service in the system and maximize the total number of completed jobs. A simulation modeling was used and two alternatives of workforce schedule are compared. In comparison to the existing schedule, switching to the first alternative of Grouped-Efficiency-based Staff Schedule is expected to reduce the average total time in system of the highest severity service by 69% and increase the total number of completed jobs by 15.7%.","PeriodicalId":158568,"journal":{"name":"2010 Second International Conference on Computer Research and Development","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129019365","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":"Performance Analysis of Selective Minimum Delay Value (SMDV) Algorithm for Packet Contention Resolution of Optical Packet Switch","authors":"A. G. Reza, T. S. Chin, F. M. Abbou","doi":"10.1109/ICCRD.2010.156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCRD.2010.156","url":null,"abstract":"Packet contention is a major issue in optical packet switching network and it is not a trivial task to resolve contention due to lack of optical RAM technology. In order to resolve contention optical buffering approach is used which is usually implemented using fiber delay line (FDL). Most of the existing optical buffering schemes are output-based which require huge number of FDLs as well as larger switch size that incur extra implementation cost. In this paper, shared FDL buffering approach is considered to reduce implementation cost. However, shared buffering scheme requires an effective scheduling algorithm to utilize the buffers efficiently. This paper proposes a new algorithm called selective minimum delay value (SMDV) to resolve contention of an optical packet switch. In SMDV, contended packets are assigned to fiber delay line (FDL) in such a way that no two contended packets release from FDLs destined for same output port at the same time. The performance of the proposed scheme is analyzed based on normalized throughput and delay under different traffic load. Simulation result shows that proposed scheme can achieve a normalized throughput of ~93.7% even at heavy traffic load of 0.9 for a 32×32 switch using 32 FDLs of different length.","PeriodicalId":158568,"journal":{"name":"2010 Second International Conference on Computer Research and Development","volume":"574 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132703036","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}