{"title":"Student Designed CANBus Simulator Used as Teaching Aid in Autotronics Course","authors":"N. Yee, P. Chand, Sebastian Foehst","doi":"10.1109/APWCONCSE.2017.00023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWCONCSE.2017.00023","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to develop a low cost open source Controller Area Network system that simulates electronic controls in modern automotive vehicles and to evaluate its effectiveness as a teaching aid. The Arduino UNO microcontroller board was chosen as the desired hardware platform and the Arduino Integrated Development Environment (IDE) using the Arduino compiler was chosen as the software development environment. Both the Arduino Uno and Arduino IDE/compiler are open source and freely available to students and staff with no proprietary intellectual property costs. The Arduino UNO was interfaced with the Arduino Controller Area Network Bus (CANBus) shield which is also open hardware. Unitec Institute of Technology practices a holistic approach to teaching. As part of its holistic approach to teaching, senior students are encouraged to develop technical artefacts that can be used as teaching aids for junior students, the junior students are introduced to the artefact as part of their course and the artefact is used to encourage junior students to increase their technical proficiency so that when they reach a senior technical level they can develop artefacts too. The holistic approach is considered to be self-sustaining and provides positive role modelling for junior students. The project described in this paper was developed by a senior student and has been used as a teaching aid for junior students congruent with the holistic teaching philosophy practiced at Unitec. The code and circuitry was designed by an exchange Masters student and was used in the papers, APTE 7504 Vehicle Electronic Diagnostics and APTE 6505 Automotive Electronics, to help students understand CANBus operation and design features in an Automotive CANBus application.","PeriodicalId":215519,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Asia-Pacific World Congress on Computer Science and Engineering (APWC on CSE)","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129682532","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}
Manpreet Singh, Bhawick Ghutla, Reuben Lilo Jnr, Aesaan F S Mohammed, Mahmood A. Rashid
{"title":"Walmart's Sales Data Analysis - A Big Data Analytics Perspective","authors":"Manpreet Singh, Bhawick Ghutla, Reuben Lilo Jnr, Aesaan F S Mohammed, Mahmood A. Rashid","doi":"10.1109/APWCONCSE.2017.00028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWCONCSE.2017.00028","url":null,"abstract":"Information technology in this 21st century is reaching the skies with large-scale of data to be processed and studied to make sense of data where the traditional approach is no more effective. Now, retailers need a 360-degree view of their consumers, without which, they can miss competitive edge of the market. Retailers have to create effective promotions and offers to meet its sales and marketing goals, otherwise they will forgo the major opportunities that the current market offers. Many times it is hard for the retailers to comprehend the market condition since their retail stores are at various geographical locations. Big Data application enables these retail organizations to use prior year’s data to better forecast and predict the coming year’s sales. It also enables retailers with valuable and analytical insights, especially determining customers with desired products at desired time in a particular store at different geographical locations. In this paper, we analysed the data sets of world’s largest retailers, Walmart Store to determine the business drivers and predict which departments are affected by the different scenarios (such as temperature, fuel price and holidays) and their impact on sales at stores’ of different locations. We have made use of Scala and Python API of the Spark framework to gain new insights into the consumer behaviours and comprehend Walmart’s marketing efforts and their data-driven strategies through visual representation of the analysed data.","PeriodicalId":215519,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Asia-Pacific World Congress on Computer Science and Engineering (APWC on CSE)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127737145","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":"Experimental Study of Wave Forces on an Offshore Wind Turbine Tower Model","authors":"K. Ram, M. R. Ahmed, Young-Ho Lee","doi":"10.1109/APWCONCSE.2017.00054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWCONCSE.2017.00054","url":null,"abstract":"A study of a tapered wind turbine tower is performed using particle image velocimetry and numerical methods. A 1.5 MW wind turbine base was studied and re-designed. A scaled model of a simple tapered tower base was studied in a wave channel using Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) to understand the flow phenomena at the tower base. Theoreti9cal and experimental results were found using Morrison equations. The diffraction parameter shows that the linear wave theory is not valid for inertial co-efficient calculations. A direct value of 2.0 resulted for the inertial coefficient values while a lower drag influence was noted at coefficient of drag = 0.315. The turbine’s horizontal force profile is improved in this study to yield a 69% reduction in overturning moment by redesigning the turbines submerged tower.","PeriodicalId":215519,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Asia-Pacific World Congress on Computer Science and Engineering (APWC on CSE)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134015551","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":"Mobile Learning Readiness and ICT Competency: A Case Study of Senior Secondary School Students in the Pacific Islands","authors":"E. Reddy, B. Sharma, P. Reddy, M. Dakuidreketi","doi":"10.1109/APWCONCSE.2017.00031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWCONCSE.2017.00031","url":null,"abstract":"The use of mobile devices for learning is gaining popularity in the Pacific region. This new educational paradigm referred to as mobile learning or m-learning enables students to learn at their own pace and time. With the rapid growth of this new paradigm and adoption by higher education institutes in the learning and teaching pedagogy, it is important that the students ICT competency and mobile learning readiness is known. Therefore, this case study investigates the secondary school student’s ICT competency and mobile learning readiness in the Pacific Islands. The findings of this study indicated that the students had moderate ICT competency however they were ready to learn with mobile devices. In addition to this, a significant number of students have already begun to use their mobile devices for learning purpose.","PeriodicalId":215519,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Asia-Pacific World Congress on Computer Science and Engineering (APWC on CSE)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130722936","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":"Note on Mathematical Framework of Strongly Asymmetric Public Key Agreement","authors":"S. Iriyama, Koki Jimbo","doi":"10.1109/APWCONCSE.2017.00020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWCONCSE.2017.00020","url":null,"abstract":"A strongly asymmetric public key agreement (SAPKA) is the class of public key distribution between Alice and Bob where some processes are different in users. This class was introduced by Accardi et al. cite{A11,A11-2}, and it is shown that it includes usual symmetric public key agreement (PKA), for example Diffie-Hellman PKA. This framework has several free parameters more than symmetric PKAs, and security advantages based on mathematical conditions, so called compatibility condition. In this paper, we explain the definition of SAPKA, and discuss about its strength against attack by constructing an example.","PeriodicalId":215519,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Asia-Pacific World Congress on Computer Science and Engineering (APWC on CSE)","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126659552","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}
K. Prakash, F. Islam, K. Mamun, A. Lallu, M. Cirrincione
{"title":"Reliability of Power Distribution Networks With Renewable Energy Sources","authors":"K. Prakash, F. Islam, K. Mamun, A. Lallu, M. Cirrincione","doi":"10.1109/APWCONCSE.2017.00042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWCONCSE.2017.00042","url":null,"abstract":"To improve economical, technological and social growth of a community, table and reliable power supply is essential. The electric power companies around the world are working to meet the customer satisfaction with major concern of reducing power failure rates in distribution networks. Appropriate information on systems performance is required to measure and improve the reliability of the system. In this paper, IEEE 13 bus radial distribution network has been converted in to ring and mesh networks to identify their reliability based on reliability indices and factors. Finally, renewable energy sources have been integrated into the ring and mesh networks to determine the networks performance with comparison to the fossil fuel based distributed generation.","PeriodicalId":215519,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Asia-Pacific World Congress on Computer Science and Engineering (APWC on CSE)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115538949","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":"Decryption of Fast Burst Radio Fbr Using Big Data","authors":"J. Ronczka","doi":"10.1109/APWCONCSE.2017.00027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWCONCSE.2017.00027","url":null,"abstract":"Fast Radio Burst’s (FRB) are currently of great interest as they may allude to new knowledge driven by radio astronomers. But due to the complexities of signals generation and likely random radical disturbances, this leads to a view that a holistic data analysis of the documented FRB data is desirable. Occam's razor suggests either the FRB: (1) is not a packet or message segment. (2) maybe a packet or message segment. Here we show within the signal processing context that the FRB is plausibly an observed fragmented signal that appears to have a fragmented—fractal message with a packet format (Binary: header, Payload, Tail). Of particular note are the R² analyses of 14 FRB signal parameters and the distilling of 7 parameters that tends to indicate a packet or message segment signal detection. Within a communications signal context there appears to be plausible hypothesis that FRB properties and typologies might be a subspace packet of a ‘Quantum Simulations Location And Mapping' (C–SLAM) device—sensor (‘media access control’ (MAC)). Therefore the packets appear entangled frequencies (slipstreaming and backchannelling) using lag low behind high frequencies (repetitive events) with superposition properties.","PeriodicalId":215519,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Asia-Pacific World Congress on Computer Science and Engineering (APWC on CSE)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114285826","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":"Assessing Effect of POP Advertising on Decision Making of Product Purchase in Supermarket","authors":"Ken Ishibashi","doi":"10.1109/apwconcse.2017.00016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/apwconcse.2017.00016","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to examine an appropriate experimental design for the verification of effect of point-of-purchase (POP) advertising on product choice in supermarket through preliminary experiments using eye-tracking. In existing studies on POP advertising, their experimental designs have not been sufficient to consider influence of advertising types and product categories. In this study, preliminary experiments are performed in consideration of combinations with several types of POP advertising and some product categories. And then, this study compares effect of each POP advertising type on customer’s eye movements and product choice. In this way, elements of required for experimental design to verify the effect of POP advertising is examined.","PeriodicalId":215519,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Asia-Pacific World Congress on Computer Science and Engineering (APWC on CSE)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128384945","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":"Modified Neuron-Synapse Level Problem Decomposition Method for Cooperative Coevolution of Feedforward Networks for Time Series Prediction","authors":"Ravneil Nand, B. Sharma","doi":"10.1109/APWCONCSE.2017.00039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWCONCSE.2017.00039","url":null,"abstract":"Complex problems have been solved efficiently through decomposition of a particular problem using problem decompositions. Even combination of different distinct problem decomposition methods has shown good results in time series prediction. The application of different problem decomposition methods at different stages of a network can share its strengths to solve the problem in hand better. Hybrid versions of two distinct problem decomposition methods has showed promising results in past. In this paper, a modified version of latterly introduced Neuron-Synapse level problem decomposition is proposed using feedforward neural networks for time series prediction. The results shows that the proposed modified model has got better results in more datasets when compared to its previous version. The results are better in some cases for proposed method in comparison to several other methods from the literature.","PeriodicalId":215519,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Asia-Pacific World Congress on Computer Science and Engineering (APWC on CSE)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127750543","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 of a Hybrid Microgrid for a Rural Community in Pacific Island Countries_","authors":"S. S. Prakash, K. Mamun, F. Islam, M. Cirrincione","doi":"10.1109/APWCONCSE.2017.00049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWCONCSE.2017.00049","url":null,"abstract":"In Pacific Island Countries (PICs) villages are scattered due to the inherited islanding nature hence access to electricity from utility grids becomes difficult. As a result, rural communities depended on electricity that generated from fossil fuels (FFs) powered generators and renewable energy sources (RES). Localized hybrid microgrids can be designed to cater electricity needs for such communities. The prerequisite for the design of a rural microgrid is: a load model which can be extrapolated either from a similar system or loading information gathered from FF based existing systems. In this paper such an extrapolated model has been simulated to obtain optimum microgrid design for the Nasau Village (Koro Island, Fiji) located in the pacific region which includes a methodology for designing a hybrid microgrid. An estimated load model has been designed for the village based on the existing system load and then the system has been simulated using HOMER Pro (microgrid software by HOMER Energy) to determine the supply required from Photovoltaic (PV) cells, Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) and Diesel Generator in the hybrid microgrid. This paper will help to design a microgrid for a rural community which can serve as a reference for the future development of rural microgrid in PICs.","PeriodicalId":215519,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Asia-Pacific World Congress on Computer Science and Engineering (APWC on CSE)","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124163041","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}