{"title":"Expert system approach in diagnosing mental health: A proposal","authors":"Rozita Yati Masri, H. Jani, Alicia Tang Yee Chong","doi":"10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4631566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4631566","url":null,"abstract":"Mental Health Diagnostic Expert System is proposed to facilitate the inexperienced psychotherapists in Malaysia to build up their expertise in diagnosing and treating their patients, thus granting them the experience, trusts and confidence. The proposed Expert System (ES) will be used to assist the psychotherapists as if they are supervised by a real expert. Since the ES is to cater for the Malaysian public, a survey was conducted to observe public norms and abnormalities, and to learn the public’s awareness regarding mental health and mental disorders. This paper discusses the results from the survey and how these results are useful in developing the ES.","PeriodicalId":314159,"journal":{"name":"2008 International Symposium on Information Technology","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121346605","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}
T.Y.C. Alicia, S. M. Zain, N. Abdul Rahman, R. Abdullah
{"title":"QRIOM: A QPT-based simulator for composing and reasoning qualitative models for learning organic reactions","authors":"T.Y.C. Alicia, S. M. Zain, N. Abdul Rahman, R. Abdullah","doi":"10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4631972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4631972","url":null,"abstract":"The work discusses the application of an artificial intelligence technique called qualitative reasoning (QR) and a process-based ontology in constructing qualitative models for organic reaction simulation. We present a framework architecture that uses the QPT ontology as the knowledge representation scheme to model the behaviors of a number of organic reactions. The main focus of this paper placed on the design of two main components (model constructor and reasoning engine) for a tool abbreviated as QRIOM for predicting and explaining organic reactions. The discussion starts by presenting the workflow of the reasoning process and the automated model construction logic. We then move on to demonstrate how the constructed models can be used to reproduce the behavior of organic reactions. Finally, behavioral explanation manifestation is discussed. The simulator is implemented in bi lingual; Prolog is at the backend supplying data and chemical theories while Java handles all front-end GUI and molecular pattern updating.","PeriodicalId":314159,"journal":{"name":"2008 International Symposium on Information Technology","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122334526","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":"SRL TOOL: Heuristics-based Semantic Role Labeling through natural language processing","authors":"N. Omar, Siti Salwa Bt Hasbullah","doi":"10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4631716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4631716","url":null,"abstract":"The Semantic Role Labeling (SRL Tool) is developed to label the semantic roles that exist in English sentences. This paper proposed a set of new heuristics to assist the semantic role labeling using natural language processing. The preliminary result shows that the use of heuristics can improve the process of assigning the correct semantic roles. This application tool is useful for researchers in Natural Language processing field and also for experts or students in Linguistics.","PeriodicalId":314159,"journal":{"name":"2008 International Symposium on Information Technology","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116339198","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":"Diversity versus anonymity for privacy preservation","authors":"M. Mirakabad, Aman Jantan","doi":"10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4632044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4632044","url":null,"abstract":"Although k-anonymity prevents disclosure individualspsila identity but it fails to prevent inferring sensitive information which is aimed by l-diversity. Most of the recent efforts that address diversity have focused on extending of k-anonymization methods to satisfy diversity as well. In this paper we show that diversity is lonely sufficient to protect private information of individuals and no need to apply k-anonymity first. Moreover l-diversity is stronger than k-anonymity and even some simple proposed techniques (like Anatomy) that consider only diversity are better than advanced k-anonymization techniques from privacy preservation point of view. We show all the cases by different scenarios and explain how diversity outperforms k-anonymity. Only in the case with some restricted assumptions about external data, some k-anonymization techniques give some protection in addition to l-diversity. We show even in this case the anonymity is related to number of tuples in external data instead of k, which is not so realistic.","PeriodicalId":314159,"journal":{"name":"2008 International Symposium on Information Technology","volume":"262 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127142928","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":"KI evaluation using displacement etrapolation technique under adaptive dense mesh with parallel finite element","authors":"M. Hadi, A. Ariffin","doi":"10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4632034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4632034","url":null,"abstract":"The work of Guinea et al. [1] on the influence of element size, element shape, and element mesh arrangement on numerical values of mode I stress intensity factor, I K determined by the displacement extrapolation technique (DET) is revisited and extended to some further. In this paper the three different DET configurations are tested along with the generation of very fine adaptive triangular finite element mesh. Since the resulted structural stiffness equation matrix is considerably large, it is solved using parallel processing. The processing procedure follows element-by-element approach using a pre-conjugate gradient solver. In addition, the evaluation is performed to a few more specimens to acquire thorough study on the configurations behaviors. Basically, the behaviors confirm the conclusions obtained by the previous study; nevertheless some unfamiliarities are observed which lead to a different strategy of obtaining the accurate KI.","PeriodicalId":314159,"journal":{"name":"2008 International Symposium on Information Technology","volume":"61 13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125704118","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 data mining technique to explore anthropometric data towards the development of sizing system","authors":"N. Zakaria, Jamil Salleh Mohd, Nasir Taib, Yong Yuan Tan, Yap Bee Wah","doi":"10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4631721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4631721","url":null,"abstract":"An anthropometric survey of 629 girls aged between 7and 12 years old were conducted covering major ethnic groups namely Malays, Chinese and Indians from schools in rural and urban districts of Selangor state in Malaysia. 33 different body dimensions were taken from each subject following the ISO8559-1998 standard for body measurement. Firstly, the whole data was analysed using descriptive analysis of average, mean and standard deviation. The data was then further explored using the factor analysis method. Principal component analysis technique (PCA) was done to reduce the variables to similar factor components. Two components that have Eigen value more than 1 were selected. As a result, two important components were determined which is PC1 named as girth dimensions and PC2 is length dimensions. Next, two key variables were used to segment the children into 4 distinct clusters using Kmeans cluster method. Four body types were obtained from the segmentation known as stout, petite, slim and big groups. These cluster groups were validated using decision tree. These segmented groups will then be converted into size tables.","PeriodicalId":314159,"journal":{"name":"2008 International Symposium on Information Technology","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124099244","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":"Face recognition using local geometrical features - PCA with euclidean classifier","authors":"F. Khalid, Tengku Mohd. Tengku, K. Omar","doi":"10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4631687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4631687","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of this research is to get the minimum features and produce better recognition rates. Before doing the feature selection, we investigate automatic methods for detecting face anchor points with 412 3D-facial points of 60 individuals. There are 7 images per subject including views presenting light rotations and facial expressions. Each images have twelve anchor points which are Right Outer Eye, Right Inner Eye, Left Outer Eye, Left Inner Eye, Upper nose point, Nose Tip, Right Nose Base, Left Nose Base, Right Outer Face, Left Outer Face, Chin, and Upper Face. All the control points are based on the measurement on an absolute scale (mm). After all the control points have been determined, we will extract a relevant set of features. These features are classified in 3 : (1) distance of mass points, (2) angle measurements, and (3) angle measurements. There are fifty-three local geometrical features extracted from 3D points human faces to model the face for face recognition and the discriminating power calculation is to show the valuable feature among all the features. Experiment performed on the GavabDB dataset (412 faces) show that our algorithm achieved 86% of success when respectively the first rank matched.","PeriodicalId":314159,"journal":{"name":"2008 International Symposium on Information Technology","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126407716","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. Vahabi, M. Rasid, M. Hossein Fotouhi G., Raja Syamsul Azmir Raja Abdullah
{"title":"Adaptive MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks in periodic data collection applications","authors":"M. Vahabi, M. Rasid, M. Hossein Fotouhi G., Raja Syamsul Azmir Raja Abdullah","doi":"10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4631921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4631921","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a new medium access control (MAC) protocol for wireless sensor networks for environmental monitoring applications. The proposed MAC scheme is specifically designed for wireless sensor networks which have periodic traffic with different sampling rates. In our protocol design, only sink can start and maintain synchronization and also determine the time schedule for all other nodes in the network. We discuss the design of TA-PDC-MAC protocol and provide a comparison with the previous PDC-MAC protocol through simulation. Under different traffic generation rate, our protocol outperforms the previous one in terms of energy consumption, packet loss rate and packet delay.","PeriodicalId":314159,"journal":{"name":"2008 International Symposium on Information Technology","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117343838","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":"Predicting students’ academic achievement: Comparison between logistic regression, artificial neural network, and Neuro-fuzzy","authors":"Nordaliela Mohd. Rusli, Z. Ibrahim, R. Janor","doi":"10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4631535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4631535","url":null,"abstract":"Predicting students’ academic performance is critical for educational institutions because strategic programs can be planned in improving or maintaining students’ performance during their period of studies in the institutions. The academic performance in this study is measured by their cumulative grade point average (CGPA) upon graduating. In this study, the students’ demographic profile and the CGPA for the first semester of the undergraduate studies are used as the predictor variable for the students’ academic performance in the under-graduate degree program. Three predictive models have been developed, namely, logistic regression, artificial neural network (ANN) and Neuro-fuzzy. Performances of all the models were measured using root mean squared error (RMSE). The experiments indicate that Neuro-fuzzy model is better than logistic regression and ANN.","PeriodicalId":314159,"journal":{"name":"2008 International Symposium on Information Technology","volume":"9 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120821034","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 space: Bridging the divide between cognitive science, information processing technology and quantum mechanics","authors":"P. Bruza","doi":"10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4631529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4631529","url":null,"abstract":"Human beings are adept and drawing context-sensitive associations and inferences across a broad range of situations ranging from the mundane to the creative inferences that lead to scientific discovery. Such reasoning has a strong pragmatic character and is transacted with comparatively scarce cognitive assets. The question is how to get technology to reliably replicate this? The need for such technology is pressing. Paradoxically, the information explosion is leading to diminished awareness. Expertise is becoming ever more specialized: Individuals, groups, communities, enterprises are becoming increasingly insular. We need computational systems which have the capability to enhance our awareness, for example, by suggesting associations in context that we could make, but increasingly don’t, as we generally lack the cognitive resources to do so. The premiss behind this paper is that the technology has to manipulate context sensitive meanings which accord with those that we harbour. In other words, the “meanings” manipulated by the technology should be socio-cognitively motivated. A class of cognitively validated computational model called “semantic space” is introduced together with means for computing associations between words. It is argued that such associations can be usefully deployed to underpin human pragmatic reasoning. The paper concludes with some intriguing, highly speculative connections between semantic space and quantum mechanics.","PeriodicalId":314159,"journal":{"name":"2008 International Symposium on Information Technology","volume":"178 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128950373","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}