{"title":"Evaluating User Expectancy and Satisfaction of e-Government Portals","authors":"D. Nariman","doi":"10.1109/CISIS.2011.115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISIS.2011.115","url":null,"abstract":"Most essential issues in e-Government services are how to improve the e-government information quality, usability, accessibility and effectiveness of e-government services for citizen. Current studies on e-government evaluations are focusing on measuring the rating of services to evaluate the website source and services. However, it is difficult to know a factual satisfaction of users with this method. This study provides a model based on a rating of services and user needs/expectancy to evaluate user satisfaction of website resources and services. The paper presents a case study on Evaluating Indonesian central government institutional e-Government, based on the concept of public value methodology of e-government portals evaluation. The paper also describe designing evaluation sheet, data collection and analysis strategies of a case study in Indonesian central government's e-government portals evaluation.","PeriodicalId":203206,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130440560","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":"Simulation Evaluation of AODV, OLSR and DYMO Protocols for Vehicular Networks Using CAVENET","authors":"Evjola Spaho, L. Barolli, Gjergji Mino, F. Xhafa","doi":"10.1109/CISIS.2011.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISIS.2011.31","url":null,"abstract":"A Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network, or VANET, is a form of mobile ad-hoc network, which enables communication between vehicles and nearby road-side infrastructure through a wireless sensing device installed in the vehicles. In this paper, we present a simulation system for VANET called CAVENET (Cellular Automaton based Vehicular Network). In CAVENET, the mobility patterns of nodes are generated by an 1-dimensional cellular automata. We implemented three routing protocols on CAVENET. We investigated the performance of the implemented routing protocols by CAVENET. The simulation results have shown that DYMO protocol has better performance than AODV and OLSR protocols.","PeriodicalId":203206,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116535030","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}
S. Franchini, A. Gentile, F. Sorbello, G. Vassallo, S. Vitabile
{"title":"A New Embedded Coprocessor for Clifford Algebra Based Software Intensive Systems","authors":"S. Franchini, A. Gentile, F. Sorbello, G. Vassallo, S. Vitabile","doi":"10.1109/CISIS.2011.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISIS.2011.55","url":null,"abstract":"Computer graphics applications require efficient tools to model geometric objects and their transformations. Clifford algebra (also known as geometric algebra) is receiving a growing attention in many research fields, such as computer graphics, machine vision and robotics, as a new, interesting computational paradigm that offers a natural and intuitive way to perform geometric calculations. At the same time, compute-intensive graphics algorithms require the execution of million Clifford operations. Clifford algebra based software intensive systems need therefore the support of specialized hardware architectures capable of accelerating Clifford operations execution. In this paper the architecture of CliffoSorII (Clifford coprocessor II), an embedded coprocessor that offers direct hardware support to Clifford algebra operations, is introduced. The coprocessor has been designed, implemented and tested on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) board. The experimental results show the potential to achieve a 20x speedup for Clifford sums and differences and a 5x speedup for Clifford products against the analogous operations in Gaigen, a standard geometric algebra software library generator for general purpose processors. An execution analysis of a ray tracing application is also presented.","PeriodicalId":203206,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130209380","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":"Development of a Bluetooth Intelligent Multi-user Environment Based on Wireless CORBA","authors":"S. T. Marín, F. Cortés, F. Barrero, D. Gregor","doi":"10.1109/CISIS.2011.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISIS.2011.56","url":null,"abstract":"The wireless CORBA specification provides a basic framework for wireless based mobile distributed environments, suggesting a generic solution which still hides the underlying network level details from applications. However, its application over Bluetooth networks exhibits some problems when dealing with multi-user environments, like power consumption constraints of mobile devices or Bluetooth roles. This paper proposes the creation of two new CORBA services and some changes in the LTP transport layer to facilitate the management of Bluetooth multi-user environments.","PeriodicalId":203206,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130731822","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":"Agent-based Pickup and Delivery Planning: The Learnable Evolution Model Approach","authors":"Janusz Wojtusiak, T. Warden, O. Herzog","doi":"10.1109/CISIS.2011.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISIS.2011.11","url":null,"abstract":"The Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem (DVRP) is an optimization problem in which agents deliver orders that are not known in advance to the routing. Partial solutions need to be adapted to continuously accommodate new orders within dynamically changing conditions. This research focuses on using a combination of multiagent-based autonomous control with non-Darwinian evolutionary optimization. In order to compile transport plans and render optimized decisions agents managing transport vehicles employ a guided evolutionary computation method, called the learnable evolution model (LEM). Implementation and experimental evaluation of the method is performed within the Plasma multiagent simulation platform.","PeriodicalId":203206,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems","volume":"201 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134178557","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. Martínez-Torres, S. T. Marín, M. Perales, F. Barrero
{"title":"Analysis of the Core Team Role in Open Source Communities","authors":"M. R. Martínez-Torres, S. T. Marín, M. Perales, F. Barrero","doi":"10.1109/CISIS.2011.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISIS.2011.25","url":null,"abstract":"Open source software represents a new paradigm of software development based on a subjacent community. It is widely accepted in the literature the layered structure of open source communities, being the core group the most active contributors usually located at the center of the community. The tasks of this group include not only an intense activity in terms of contributions but also to promote participation among the rest of the community members. In this paper, the general role of this group is analyzed by modeling communities as Social Networks and applying Social Network Analysis techniques. Findings related their brokerage activity with open source software success.","PeriodicalId":203206,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132276492","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}
O. Terzo, L. Mossucca, A. Albanese, R. Vigna, N. Premachandra
{"title":"A Distributed Environment Approach for a Worldwide Rainfall Hydrologic Analysis","authors":"O. Terzo, L. Mossucca, A. Albanese, R. Vigna, N. Premachandra","doi":"10.1109/CISIS.2011.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISIS.2011.46","url":null,"abstract":"Distributed architecture is a fundamental way for science and engineering data application by aggregate power of computing resources connected by networks of the grid. This paper describes a innovative scenarios for intensive rainfall data analysis. The Flood Early Warning System is performed to give an alert in advance about the occurrence of heavy rainfalls around the world. The aim of the project is to evaluate the critical flood events and understand the potentially floodable areas where their assistance is needed. The World Food Programme and other humanitarian assistance organizations needs to understand the potential alert in order to organize the logistic helps. This system is based on precipitation analysis and it uses rainfall data from satellite at worldwide extent. The analysis and alert are delivered in near real-time to monitor the current rainfall condition over the world. Considering the global coverage area and the great deal of data to process, this paper presents a infrastructure solution based on grid computing technology. Our focus is on the advantages of using a distributed architecture in terms of performances in this specific context.","PeriodicalId":203206,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130096304","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":"An Atomatic Fundus Image Analysis System for Clinical Diagnosis of Glaucoma","authors":"C. Ho, Tun-Wen Pai, Hao-Teng Chang, Hsin-Yi Chen","doi":"10.1109/CISIS.2011.92","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISIS.2011.92","url":null,"abstract":"Glaucoma is a serious ocular disease and leads blindness if it couldn¡¦t be detected and treated in proper way. The diagnostic criteria for glaucoma include intraocular pressure measurement, optic nerve head evaluation, retinal nerve fiber layer and visual field defect. The observation of optic nerve head, cup to disc ratio and neural rim configuration are important for early detecting glaucoma in clinical practice. However, the broad range of cup to disc ratio is difficult to identify early changes of optic nerve head, and different ethnic groups possess various features in optic nerve head structures. Hence, it is still important to develop various detection techniques to assist clinicians to diagnose glaucoma at early stages. In this study, we developed an automatic detection system which contains two major phases: the first phase performs a series modules of digital fundus retinal image analysis including vessel detection, vessel in painting, cup to disc ratio calculation, and neuro-retinal rim for ISNT rule, the second phase determines the abnormal status of retinal blood vessels from different aspect of view. In this study, the novel idea of integrating image in painting and active contour model techniques successfully assisted the correct identification of cup and disk regions. Several clinical fundus retinal images containing normal and glaucoma images were applied to the proposed system for demonstration.","PeriodicalId":203206,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems","volume":"220 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116280892","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 Genetic Algorithm for Ground Station Scheduling","authors":"Junzi Sun, F. Xhafa","doi":"10.1109/CISIS.2011.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISIS.2011.29","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we address the resolution of the Ground Station Scheduling problem by Genetic Algorithms. Ground Stations (GS) are required during spacecraft (S/C) operations to provide communications links between operations teams and the S/C systems. Basic communication types, such as telemetry, tele-command and tracking, are all supported by the same satellite and GS systems. The allocation of ground resources to S/C is a highly constrained problem and traditionally has been conducted manually: stations are selected for communication support with certain S/C for certain periods. The manual approach has clear limitations and new modern scheduling approaches are needed to tackle with the complexity of the problem and produce optimal solutions to scheduling operations. We propose the use of Genetic Algorithm, a well-known family of population-based methods, for solving the problem. A series of genetic operators have been designed to find the configuration that outputs the best GA solution for the problem. The proposed GA has been implemented in Matlab and experimentally studied on a set of randomly generated instances. The results of the study showed the effectiveness of the proposed GA algorithm.","PeriodicalId":203206,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133879565","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}
Tetsuya Oda, Admir Barolli, Evjola Spaho, F. Xhafa, L. Barolli, M. Takizawa
{"title":"A GA-based System for WMN and its Performance Evaluation for Different Scenarios","authors":"Tetsuya Oda, Admir Barolli, Evjola Spaho, F. Xhafa, L. Barolli, M. Takizawa","doi":"10.1109/CISIS.2011.65","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CISIS.2011.65","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have become an important networking infrastructure for providing cost efficient broadband wireless connectivity. WMNs are showing their applicability in deployment of medical, transport and surveillance applications in urban areas, metropolitan, neighboring communities and municipal area networks. In this paper, we deal with connectivity and coverage problem of WMN. Because these problems are known to be NP-Hard, we propose and implement a system based on Genetic Algorithms (GAs). We evaluate the performance of the proposed system by different scenarios using different metrics such as client distribution, crossover rate, mutation rate, coverage area and giant component. The simulation results show that for 32 x 32 and 64 x 64 grid area, Linear Ranking is good selection operator and offers the best network connectivity and user coverage.","PeriodicalId":203206,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134048849","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}