Yoke Yie Chen, K. N. Goh, Yukihisa Fujita, K. Naono
{"title":"Exploration of communication process using Business Microscope®","authors":"Yoke Yie Chen, K. N. Goh, Yukihisa Fujita, K. Naono","doi":"10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868843","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes first results of ongoing research effort to investigate communication pattern within a procurement process in an organization. Previous studies have shown that the main reasons of long ordering cycle are it takes too long to deal with purchase order and unable to share information with vendors. The procurement process of an educational institution is chosen as a research sample. In this paper, we outline the opportunities for developing a future possible theoretical framework around the construct of effective communication pattern with the usage of Business Microscope®. In particular, we are able to identify typical communication patterns between inter- and intra-departments. We aim to explore the communication process that integrates efficient modes of communication that will influence and regulate the communication process.","PeriodicalId":368100,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130701369","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":"Prediction of Bottom-Hole Flowing Pressure using general regression neural network","authors":"P. Memon, S. Yong, W. Pao, Pau J. Seanl","doi":"10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868849","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the application of Surrogate Reservoir Model (SRM) for predicting the Bottom-Hole Flowing Pressure (BHFP) on an initially undersaturated reservoir. SRM is recently introduce technology that is used to replicates the results of numerical simulation model. High computational cost and long processing time limits our ability to perform comprehensive sensitivity analysis and quantify uncertainties associated with reservoir because reservoir model that contains large number of grids in its geological structure takes considerable amount of time for a single simulation run. And also making hundred and thousands simulation runs is considered as a cumbersome process and sometimes impractical. SRM is considered as as a solution tool to tackle this issue. SRM uses Artificial Neural Network (ANN) technique for the reservoir simulation and modeling. In this paper, the results of SRM for predicting BHFP is presented and a reservoir simulation model has been presented using Black Oil Applied Simulation Tool (BOAST). To build any SRM, it requires small number of runs to train the model. Once we train the SRM, it can generate hundred and thousands of simulation runs in a matter of seconds. As a part of this system, it is proposed to develop a SRM extraction based on ANN to enhance the realization run time.","PeriodicalId":368100,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115909857","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":"Improving effectiveness of testing using reusability factor","authors":"Maryam Ahmed, R. Ibrahim","doi":"10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868451","url":null,"abstract":"An important aspect of software development and engineering is software testing. Despite the indispensable role of testing, developers find the process as tiring and repetitive. Testing has been known to take more than half of system development time and effort. However, the concept of software reuse reduces the boredom of repeating the same activity by generating reusable codes that can be used to test other systems. This paper discusses the possible areas where reuse can be done in software testing, the economic effect of reusability in testing and the effect of reusability in testing effort. Reusability can be said to reduce testing effort and increase the economic value (profit) of software testers without compromising the quality of the software.","PeriodicalId":368100,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114471239","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}
Syed Ghayas, S. Sulaiman, J. Jaafar, Saipunidzam Mahamad, Muzafar Khan
{"title":"Mobile phone Icons recognition and cultural aspects","authors":"Syed Ghayas, S. Sulaiman, J. Jaafar, Saipunidzam Mahamad, Muzafar Khan","doi":"10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868833","url":null,"abstract":"There is a rapid growth in the development of mobile phone applications which are widely used around the globe. Different cultures may affect the usage of such applications; there is a need to explore the cultural differences in this context. In order to study such differences, those icons which interpretability might be affected by culture differences are taken into consideration and hypothesized. Two groups of ten subjects (twenty in total) from two different countries i.e. Malaysia and Estonia participated in the study. The factors considered in the study were navigation time, working with menu icons, and recognition test. The results indicated that Malaysian subjects performed well while interpreting the third generation of icons which were operating system provided icons. On the other hand, Estonian subjects were not much familiar with modern icons. There was no difference found in the both groups to interpret the most familiar icons. The results reveal that there are possible cultural differences on icons interpretability based on their levels of abstraction.","PeriodicalId":368100,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS)","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115002008","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 preliminary study on local folktales exposures to support the development of animated courseware","authors":"Norshahila Ibrahim, W. Ahmad, A. Shafie","doi":"10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868420","url":null,"abstract":"Although Malaysia has a wide variety of folktales, children's knowledge about local folktales are less compared to foreign folktales. Until this moment, not much Malay folktales animation courseware was developed and published in the market, as well as the application for tablet. This paper discusses a preliminary study conducted for the research on developing an animation courseware for Malay folktales. In order to choose the genres to be developed for this courseware, a preliminary study has been carried out, which comprises of a survey using questionnaire distributed to 394 children aged from 9 to 11 years old assisted by their teachers. The results of this preliminary study showed that children are interested in animal, humour and exemplary stories. The results also proved that children are more familiar with foreign folktales compared to local folktales. Children preferred foreign folktales over local folktales because of the animation, graphic, character and colours presented in the story.","PeriodicalId":368100,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS)","volume":"20 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114930555","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}
Ashraf Osman Ibrahim, S. Shamsuddin, Nor Bahiah Hj. Ahmad, M. Salleh
{"title":"Hybrid NSGA-II of Three-Term Backpropagation network for multiclass classification problems","authors":"Ashraf Osman Ibrahim, S. Shamsuddin, Nor Bahiah Hj. Ahmad, M. Salleh","doi":"10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868364","url":null,"abstract":"Hybridization has become one of the current focuses of new research areas of the evolutionary algorithms over the past few years. Hybridization offers better speed of convergence to the evolutionary approach and better accuracy of the final solutions. This paper presents a hybrid non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-II (NSGA-II) to optimize Three-Term Backpropagation (TBP) network in terms of two objectives which are: accuracy and complexity of the network. Backpropagation algorithm (BP) is often used as a local search algorithm and when combined with NSGA-II, the performance of NSGA II is enhanced due to the improvement of the individuals in the population. The experimental results show that the proposed method is effective in multiclass classification problems. The results of the hybrid approach to the classification problems are compared with multiobjective genetic algorithm based TBP network (MOGATBP) and some methods found in the literature. Moreover, the results indicate that the proposed method is a potentially useful classifier for enhancing classification process ability.","PeriodicalId":368100,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123953955","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}
Tahir Mustafa Madni, Yunus Nayan, S. Sulaiman, M. Tahir, M. Iqbal
{"title":"Design of interactive whiteboard system for collaborative learning","authors":"Tahir Mustafa Madni, Yunus Nayan, S. Sulaiman, M. Tahir, M. Iqbal","doi":"10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868840","url":null,"abstract":"The research in the education system describes that the students generally do not produce good results because of the use of traditional ways of educational system. It has been identified that the use of interactive technologies, constructive methods and appropriate interfaces has a great impact in improving creative education and learning. With the advancements of Interactive technologies provides initiative human-computer interaction as compared with conventional mouse and keyboards. A prototype of interactive whiteboard was developed to analyze the effectiveness of students learning system which enables co-location, multiple users, hands-on activities and multiple-modes of communication using hand-held laser pointer device(s). This collaborative learning prototype enables the use of laser pointer(s) to interact with the whiteboard. The laser pointer controls mouse events and additional gesture events as with same functionality provided by conventional mouse pointer. Furthermore, a quantitative investigation on the usefulness of collaborative learning system was conducted with twenty participants. The participants showed deeper and more interactive learning experience. The results of study show, substantial use of this technology in classrooms and meeting rooms which can improve the effectiveness of brainstorming sessions.","PeriodicalId":368100,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127207110","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}
Norzatul Natrah Binti, M. Nordin Bin Zakaria, Izzatdin Bin Abdul Aziz, Nazleeni Samiha Binti
{"title":"Optimizing BOINC scheduling using genetic algorithm based on thermal profile","authors":"Norzatul Natrah Binti, M. Nordin Bin Zakaria, Izzatdin Bin Abdul Aziz, Nazleeni Samiha Binti","doi":"10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868837","url":null,"abstract":"Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is an open source middleware for volunteer and grid computing. Main function of BOINC is to use the idle time of computer to run some computation at background. Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP) campus grid used BOINC as middleware in computer labs. However, computer can only process jobs during weekday and office hour because they want to reduce energy used for cooling power. In order to fully utilize the computer in labs, we proposed new jobs scheduling algorithm can run based on thermal constraint. The proposed algorithm is combination of thermal profile and heuristic approach. We use genetic algorithm to find the best combination of clients and jobs based on clients order and least execution time. Then we compare our algorithm with brute force method. Result from simulation it shows that proposed algorithm successfully distribute and execute job based on thermal constraints in an effective and efficient way compare to brute force method.","PeriodicalId":368100,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125376326","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}
Thinaharan Ramachandran, V. Ponnusamy, L. T. Jung, Anang Hudaya
{"title":"ZigBee wireless communication for monitoring renewable street light system","authors":"Thinaharan Ramachandran, V. Ponnusamy, L. T. Jung, Anang Hudaya","doi":"10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868398","url":null,"abstract":"The advancement of technology brings advantages to human race to certain extent. Unfortunately, some of the technological inventions not only brings advantages, but also disadvantages. One of the disadvantages is the pollution of environment. Therefore, to prevent the pollution from getting worse, environmental-friendly aspect is suggested to be included in new inventions nowadays. Thanks to the invention of solar panel, solar energy is able to become a renewable energy source that can be applied to various applications. Considering the increase of electricity consumption every year in Malaysia, solar powered street lighting system is proposed in order to reduce the burning of fossil fuels to generate electricity, hence reducing air pollution. The street lighting system will consist of automated switching mechanism to further reduce the electricity consumption of street lights. The system will also be able to provide energy measurement to determine the efficiency of street lights. Some security features provided by selected wireless communication protocol will also be implemented to secure the system.","PeriodicalId":368100,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS)","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126459428","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":"Multicolor recognition based on mini-max color threshold","authors":"Zacharie Mbaitiga","doi":"10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868353","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the multi-color recognition using the min-max color threshold for outdoor robot navigation. All colors used in this project are RGB orthogonal color space in order to see how much of each primary color between min and max that can be observed in the color to be recognized. The white color value in the color space is set as the object for which the target color to be recognized belongs, while the black color value is set as the object background. The recognition process is done by summing up first the values of the red, green and blue in each color to obtain the rgb sum value, which is then divided by the individual color element to obtain the color threshold. This threshold is compared to the originally color threshold for the recognition, where a satisfactory result is expected as the project is not yet finished.","PeriodicalId":368100,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121305165","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}