{"title":"An information provision system based on a Multi-Hop RFID scheme for ITS (Intelligent Transportation System)","authors":"H. Togashi, S. Yamada","doi":"10.1109/ICOS.2010.5720071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOS.2010.5720071","url":null,"abstract":"The information provision systems in ITSs (Intelligent Transportation Systems) currently use licensed bandwidth (e.g, VICS, DSRC), and requires a large-scale client-server system to gather “probe information”. The authors are researching an information provision system based on RFID schemes, aiming to make the system inexpensive to construct. One problem is that the basic RFID technology does not have enough communication distance for this purpose. In this paper, the authors propose an information provision system based on a Multi-Hop RFID scheme in order to overcome this problem. A Multi-Hop RFID scheme also enables information provision systems to provide “probe information” since they can exchange their information with each other at every hop. Since several types of information are to be handled, the proposed system adopts a hybrid transmission method that combines infrequent periodic transmission and transmission at information update. Although some problems still remain, the proposed system is advantageous in several ways. For example, it can provide traffic congestion information in real time without requiring a large server-client system.","PeriodicalId":262432,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Conference on Open Systems (ICOS 2010)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116509710","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 pilot study in using web 2.0 to aid academic writing skills","authors":"A. Tulaboev, A. Oxley","doi":"10.1109/ICOS.2010.5720062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOS.2010.5720062","url":null,"abstract":"Today a wide range of Web 2.0 applications (such as Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, RSS, Podcasts and Wikis) are giving new challenges and opportunities in teaching and learning. The work described here concerns a pilot study to investigate the acceptability and effectiveness of using web 2.0 as an aid to learning. The work focuses on a university course on academic writing skills. The role of Web 2.0 applications are studied in building informal classes for traditional students and in adopting Web 2.0 practices by educators responsible for delivering existing courses. The extension of the UTAUT model is used as a research framework to evaluate the acceptability and effectiveness of web 2.0 applications.","PeriodicalId":262432,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Conference on Open Systems (ICOS 2010)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130747977","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}
G. V. Rao, K. Sundararaman, Jinka Parthasarathi, Prashant Parekh
{"title":"Context-aware ubiquitous musafir","authors":"G. V. Rao, K. Sundararaman, Jinka Parthasarathi, Prashant Parekh","doi":"10.1109/ICOS.2010.5720070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOS.2010.5720070","url":null,"abstract":"Population using Mobile phones and Mobile applications is increasing every day. Emergence of Cloud Computing and advances in Wireless Communication technologies has changed the dynamics of mobile applications by providing Scalable On-Demand High Available Infrastructure at minimal cost with zero maintenance and empowered with faster data transfer. Enterprises have started to develop Cloud based mobile applications that can target their Customers who are on the move. This paper presents a Cloud based Context Aware mobile application that targets Travel, Healthcare, Education and Retail Enterprises and their Users. Machine Learning techniques such as Association rules were used to analyze the mobile end user data on the Cloud towards predicting the services preferred by the End User.","PeriodicalId":262432,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Conference on Open Systems (ICOS 2010)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120939054","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 dashboard for hospital logistics management","authors":"ER Mahendrawathi, D. Pranantha, J. Utomo","doi":"10.1109/ICOS.2010.5720069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOS.2010.5720069","url":null,"abstract":"Logistics as an important process in providing high quality and responsive health services has not received enough attention in the literature to date. This paper presents an initial work that attempt to fill this gap by developing a prototype of a dashboard for logistics management in hospital XYZ. The methodology used in this research is divided into intelligence, design and implementation phases. The intelligence phase starts with literature study, survey, gathering objectives and Key Performance Indicator, and collecting necessary data. The design phase consists of designing and constructing database, defining presentation model for each KPI, and designing the storyboard. The dashboard is developed based on the design in the implementation phase. Implementation using several items as samples has demonstrated the potential use of the dashboard. It was found that the item category that contributes highly to the total inventory value (50%) of the hospital has a low service level. Further investigation shows that one item in this category has very low service level because the amount of item received is lower than demand. These findings can be used by management as starting point to identify the root cause and take the necessary actions to solve the problem.","PeriodicalId":262432,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Conference on Open Systems (ICOS 2010)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126530362","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":"Grid workflow recovery as Dynamic constraint satisfaction problem","authors":"Stanimir Dragiev, Joerg Schneider","doi":"10.1109/ICOS.2010.5720067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOS.2010.5720067","url":null,"abstract":"With service level agreements (SLAs) the Grid broker guarantees to finish the Grid jobs by a given deadline. There are a number of approaches, to plan reservations to fulfil these deadline requirements and to handle currently running jobs in the case of a resource failure. However, there is a lack of strategies to handle the already planned but not yet started jobs. These jobs will be most likely also affected by the resource failure and can be remapped to other resources well in advance. Complex Grid jobs (Grid workflows) consisting of multiple sub-jobs introduce a higher complexity to determine a remapping saving as much Grid jobs as possible. In this paper a recovery scheme for Grid workflows using a dynamic constraint solver is presented and the gain in the number of saved Grid jobs is evaluated using extensive simulations.","PeriodicalId":262432,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Conference on Open Systems (ICOS 2010)","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124486115","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":"Using Genetic Algorithm to break a mono - alphabetic substitution cipher","authors":"S. Omran, A. S. Al-Khalid, D. M. AL-saady","doi":"10.1109/ICOS.2010.5720065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOS.2010.5720065","url":null,"abstract":"Genetic algorithms (GAs) are a class of optimization algorithms. GAs attempt to solve problems through modeling a simplified version of genetic processes. There are many problems for which a Genetic Algorithm approach is useful. It is, however, undetermined if cryptanalysis is such a problem. Therefore, this work trying to explore the use of Genetic Algorithms in cryptography. The focus is to be on substitution cipher. The principles used in this cipher form the foundation for many of the modern cryptosystems. The frequency analysis is used as an essential factor in objective function.","PeriodicalId":262432,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Conference on Open Systems (ICOS 2010)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124038909","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":"Adaptive window method of FIR filter design","authors":"A. M. Awad","doi":"10.1109/ICOS.2010.5720064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOS.2010.5720064","url":null,"abstract":"There are several windows used for truncated the impulse response in order to fixed the filter size. Kaiser window is the most important type and from it is possible to generate other types of windows depending on the value of α. The proposed adaptive Finite Impulse Response (FIR) Filter is designed and implemented to merge many filter parameters. The results are obtained in different window sizes and different attenuations. These results indicate good performances during the implementation of the filter. This filter is stable and linear phase when implement in non-recursive form, and the ample hardware support that exists for them among other reasons. The Kaiser window provides a simple to calculate set of window coefficients, whose parameters can be adjusted to produce the desired maximum side lobe levels for the near minimal filter length.","PeriodicalId":262432,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Conference on Open Systems (ICOS 2010)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133648655","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":"Prototype of semantic search engine using ontology","authors":"Ahmad Maziz Esa, S. Taib, Hong Nguyen Thi","doi":"10.1109/ICOS.2010.5720073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOS.2010.5720073","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we discuss the fundamental problem of information retrieval on the Web. Information on the Web is not semantically categorized and stored. This research focuses on applying semantic capabilities using ontology on search engine. By using ontology, search engine can search keywords that are conceptually linked instead of just similarity of the words used. This paper also provides in depth description of the architecture design of our proposed modified search engine. This paper describes how the mechanism is designed so that the search engine can extract information stored based on the ontology and present a semantically linked search results. The benefits and future improvements are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":262432,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Conference on Open Systems (ICOS 2010)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133387687","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":"Making DC-DC converters easy to understand for undergraduate students","authors":"R. A. Kordkheili, M. Yazdani-Asrami, A. M. Sayidi","doi":"10.1109/ICOS.2010.5720059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOS.2010.5720059","url":null,"abstract":"Power electronic laboratory may seem to be a good method of education. Despite the benefits of a laboratory-based education, some serious limitations make it difficult to consider this method as a main educating tool. In addition, power electronic laboratory is one of the most expensive laboratories in both foundation and operation. Moreover, the complexity of power electronic circuits makes it hard to repeat the test for different conditions. The increasing number of students accessing university educational program make the problem even more complicated. Adding probable risks of electrical accidents in laboratory for students, breaking down of circuit equipment due to misuse, limited access to the laboratory for students can clarify other aspects of problem. To overcome such problems, computer-based education have been widely developed and used in universities. Different software programs with different features have been developed to help understanding the concepts and operation of different power electronic circuits. One of the most effective software programs in education context is MATLAB/SIMULINK software, an easy to used software with so many capabilities and tools. Thus, to make students more familiar with power electronic circuits and show the effect of different parameters on the behavior and output of these circuits, our educational classes were based on MATLAB/SIMULINK software. This paper covers “buck-boost” and “cuk” converters taught and simulated in power electronic course.","PeriodicalId":262432,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Conference on Open Systems (ICOS 2010)","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125093504","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":"Semantic query for Quran documents results","authors":"M. A. Yunus, R. Zainuddin, N. Abdullah","doi":"10.1109/ICOS.2010.5719959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOS.2010.5719959","url":null,"abstract":"The query-based on the result is less relevant documents results. In this study, a query has been improved in order to retrieve more relevant documents across language boundaries, a mechanism for query translation with semantic which is applied on as semantic query (SQ). Therefore, this study is conducted with the purposes to investigate semantic approach against the queries and vice versa. Furthermore, it is also conducted to investigate the performance query based on total retrieve and relevant. The retrieval however, included the irrelevant documents because of the translation polysemy. Results from the experiments suggest that semantic approach is most important process in cross language information retrieval (CLIR). It also found that semantic approach contributes to better performance in retrieving more relevant and related Quran document results.","PeriodicalId":262432,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Conference on Open Systems (ICOS 2010)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122263056","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}