{"title":"MAC Protocol Analysis for Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"Huan Zhang, Feng Wang","doi":"10.4018/jitr.298617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jitr.298617","url":null,"abstract":"In wireless sensor networks, MAC protocol is used to achieve efficient, fair and balanced allocation of wireless channel resources and access control of nodes in the network, and to control the communication process of nodes in the network. The energy consumption of wireless sensor nodes is mainly concentrated in the communication unit, including: data transceiver, idle listening, protocol control overhead, etc. A good MAC protocol is beneficial to reduce unnecessary energy consumption and enhance node life time. At the same time, MAC protocol, as the bottom protocol of wireless sensor network, provides a stable and reliable communication foundation for the realization of the upper protocol. Therefore, a large number of scholars at home and abroad have carried out extensive and in-depth research on MAC layer protocol of network. In this paper, the research process and progress of MAC layer protocol in wireless sensor networks are analyzed, and the research progress of MAC layer protocol in multi-radio frequency and multi-channel wireless sensor networks is analyzed.","PeriodicalId":296080,"journal":{"name":"J. Inf. Technol. Res.","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114570343","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}
Amine El Hadi, Youness Madani, R. Ayachi, M. Erritali
{"title":"Finding Relevant Documents in a Search Engine Using N-Grams Model and Reinforcement Learning","authors":"Amine El Hadi, Youness Madani, R. Ayachi, M. Erritali","doi":"10.4018/jitr.299930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jitr.299930","url":null,"abstract":"The field of information retrieval (IR) is an important area in computer science, this domain helps us to find information that we are interested in from an important volume of information. A search engine is the best example of the application of information retrieval to get the most relevant results. In this paper, we propose a new recommendation approach for recommending relevant documents to a search engine’s users. In this work, we proposed a new approach for calculating the similarity between a user query and a list of documents in a search engine. The proposed method uses a new reinforcement learning algorithm based on n-grams model (i.e., a sub-sequence of n constructed elements from a given sequence) and a similarity measure. Results show that our method outperforms some methods from the literature with a high value of accuracy.","PeriodicalId":296080,"journal":{"name":"J. Inf. Technol. Res.","volume":"14 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116822880","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 Multi-Budget-Based Approach to Enhance the Responsiveness of Aperiodic Task for a Bandwidth-Preserving Server in Real-Time Systems","authors":"Ajitesh Kumar, S. Gupta","doi":"10.4018/jitr.299917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jitr.299917","url":null,"abstract":"Within the advanced computation time, real-time application pulled in much more attention. Implementing a better high-quality real-time system requires to improve the responsiveness of the tasks set. This research work aims to achieve the best quality of service (QoS) in terms of improving the responsiveness of aperiodic tasks and also improved acceptability domain, by accepting to execute multiple aperiodic functions while maintaining the feasibility of periodic tasks in Real-Time System.The functional analysis with simulation shows that proposed algorithm is highly effective in terms of task sets deemed schedulable and also by allowing aperiodic tasks that were rejected by existing approaches.The simulation results indicate that it reduces overall average response time of aperiodic task approximately 13% at lowest periodic load (35%), 7% at 60% periodic load and 4% at 80% periodic load and in all observed circumstances the proposed novel algorithm received 7%-10% improve over existing one.","PeriodicalId":296080,"journal":{"name":"J. Inf. Technol. Res.","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124485040","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":"COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights of Newspaper Trends","authors":"J. Kaur, A. Chhabra, M. Saini, N. Bačanin","doi":"10.4018/jitr.299390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jitr.299390","url":null,"abstract":"Our study aims to analyze the change in coverage of health issues awareness, printed on the front page of Indian E-Papers (The Hindustan Times and The Times of India) for the pre-and- peri coronavirus period. The collected news articles are examined by performing the Latent Dirichlet Allocation algorithm. The sentiment analysis is performed to analyze the change in the emotions aroused from news articles. The outcome regarding the pre-coronavirus period reveals that the focus of the e-papers was mostly on politics, crime, and economy whereas, in the peri-coronavirus period, the e-papers are focusing more (i.e. 40 % topics) on publishing the news related to disseminating the awareness about the Coronavirus disease. The priority of news topics includes the active number of cases, medical facilities, COVID-19 testing. The outcome regarding sentiment analysis reveals that negative sentiments are prominent in the peri-coronavirus period due to fear of the outbreak of the virus.","PeriodicalId":296080,"journal":{"name":"J. Inf. Technol. Res.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122369517","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":"Research on the Multi-Objective Optimization for Return Rate and Risk of Financial Resource Allocation","authors":"S. Wan","doi":"10.4018/jitr.299950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jitr.299950","url":null,"abstract":"Aiming at the problems existing in the optimal allocation of financial resources, this paper establishes an optimization model and calculates the optimal allocation coefficient. With the help of Markowitz's investment theory, two indicators, which are investment risk and return rate, are analyzed quantitatively. Firstly, by analyzing the allocation efficiency and risk of financial resources, the allocation efficiency model is established, and the problem is decomposed into a finite 0-1 programming problem, which is solved by Hungarian Method. Secondly, considering the minimum allocation risk and the expected maximum return, the multi-objective model is solved by progressive optimal algorithm. The model reflects both unsatisfaction and risk avoidance which are the two characteristics of rational investment behavior. The analysis shows that the model has strong applicability and can be expected to improve the allocation efficiency of financial resources and reduce the allocation risk.","PeriodicalId":296080,"journal":{"name":"J. Inf. Technol. Res.","volume":"346 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122646548","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":"Alignment Conservativity Under the Ontology Change","authors":"Yahia Atig, Ahmed Zahaf, D. Bouchiha, M. Malki","doi":"10.4018/jitr.299923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jitr.299923","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, many methods have appeared to solve the problem of the evolution of alignment under the change of ontologies. The main challenge for them is to maintain consistency of alignment after applying the change. An alignment is consistent if and only if the ontologies remain consistent even when used in conjunction with the alignment. The objective of this work is to take a step forward by considering the alignment evolution according to the conservativity principle under the change of ontologies. In this context, an alignment is conservative if the ontological change should not introduce new semantic relationships between concepts from one of the input ontologies. We give methods for the conservativity violation detection and repair under the change of ontologies and we carry out an experiment on a dataset adapted from the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative. The experiment demonstrates both the practical applicability of the proposed approach and shows the limits of the alignment evolution methods compared to the alignment conservativity under the change of ontologies.","PeriodicalId":296080,"journal":{"name":"J. Inf. Technol. Res.","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133062609","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}
Sam Goundar, Akashdeep Bhardwaj, S. Prakash, Pranil Sadal
{"title":"Use of Artificial Neural Network for Forecasting Health Insurance Entitlements","authors":"Sam Goundar, Akashdeep Bhardwaj, S. Prakash, Pranil Sadal","doi":"10.4018/jitr.299372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jitr.299372","url":null,"abstract":"A number of numerical practices exist that actuaries use to predict annual medical claims expense in an insurance company. This amount needs to be included in the yearly financial budgets. Inappropriate estimating generally has negative effects on the overall performance of the business. This paper presents the development of Artificial Neural Network model that is appropriate for predicting the anticipated annual medical claims. Once the implementation of the neural network models were finished, the focus was to decrease the Mean Absolute Percentage Error by adjusting the parameters such as epoch, learning rate and neuron in different layers. Both Feed Forward and Recurrent Neural Networks were implemented to forecast the yearly claims amount. In conclusion, the Artificial Neural Network Model that was implemented proved to be an effective tool for forecasting the anticipated annual medical claims. Recurrent neural network outperformed Feed Forward neural network in terms of accuracy and computation power required to carry out the forecasting.","PeriodicalId":296080,"journal":{"name":"J. Inf. Technol. Res.","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115981726","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":"Internet of Things and Its Significance on Smart Homes/Cities","authors":"Sam Goundar, Akashdeep Bhardwaj, Deepika Bandhana, Melvin Avineshwar Prasad, Krishaal Kavish Chand","doi":"10.4018/jitr.299936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jitr.299936","url":null,"abstract":"Smart homes and cities is one of the crucial topics for an individual of any age that requires almost zero computer literacy in order to benefit the leisure and luxury offered by smart homes and cities. Benefits offered by smart homes & cities are not only limited to leisure and luxury but other various areas of an individual’s life as well to aid them with information and communication; intelligent responses with the information collected and analyzed; environmental protection and public safety with surveillance. ‘Internet of things’ was invented in 1999 since then there has been a huge bloom in technologies, keeping in mind the present systematic development in sensors, wireless technology, artificial intelligence and machines & devices. This paper outlines the working prototypes that have been developed and deployed in developed countries and recommend to the pacific island nations to accept these technologies for the betterment of their countries. It will also compare the usage of energy and cost saving in smart city and how this can be beneficial to the nations in the Pacific.","PeriodicalId":296080,"journal":{"name":"J. Inf. Technol. Res.","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121567647","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":"Model-Based Test Sequence Generation and Prioritization Using Ant Colony Optimization","authors":"Gayatri Nayak, M. Ray","doi":"10.4018/jitr.299946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jitr.299946","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents an approach to generate and optimize test sequences from the input UML activity diagram. For this, an algorithm is proposed called “Unified Modelling Language for Test Sequence Generation\" (UMLTSG) that uses a search-based algorithm, named “Test Sequence Prioritization using Ant Colony Optimization\" (TSP ACO) to generate and optimize test sequences. The algorithms overcome the existing limitations of handling complex decision-making activity such as conditional activity, fork activity, and join the activity. The optimization process helps to reduce the number of processing nodes that leads to minimizing the time and cost. The proposed approach experiments on a well-known application “Railway Ticket Reservation System\" (RTRS). APFD metric measures the effectiveness of our approach and found that the prioritized order of test sequences achieved 20% higher APFD score. Apart from this, we have also experimented on six real life case studies and obtained an average of 52.16% reduction in redundant test paths.","PeriodicalId":296080,"journal":{"name":"J. Inf. Technol. Res.","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130319915","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":"Business Continuity in Data Centers and Seismic Isolation Applications","authors":"M. Esen","doi":"10.4018/jitr.299928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jitr.299928","url":null,"abstract":"Losses of earthquakes raised many questions regarding the adequacy of the current seismic design and seismic isolation in data centers. Organizations accommodated new explicit seismic isolation applications in their business continuity and disaster recovery plans. This aims acceptable damage levels that correspond acceptable business interruption for data centers in case of an earthquake. In this study, we aim to discuss the importance of seismic isolation applications which can be implemented for data centers within business continuity and disaster recovery planning contexts. To provide a clearer aspect on seismic isolation applications, the topic has been discussed within the framework of international standards. We conclude that GSA, ASCE and Uptime Institute provide internationally recognized standards which make raised floors a good option for data centers. These standards provide technical documentation for service functioning with high levels of availability during an outage.","PeriodicalId":296080,"journal":{"name":"J. Inf. Technol. Res.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128444070","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}