Dainal Hooshyar, Rodina Binti Ahmad, M. Nasir, Wong Ching Mun
{"title":"Flowchart-based approach to aid novice programmers: A novel framework","authors":"Dainal Hooshyar, Rodina Binti Ahmad, M. Nasir, Wong Ching Mun","doi":"10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868826","url":null,"abstract":"Many tools have been used in the programming area to teach programming to novices. The most familiar tools comprise of flowchart-based notation along with programming environments depending on icons. Much more exploration on this area has disclosed that the deficiency of problem-solving abilities is directly tied with language syntax that they apply and the development environment. The main objective of this research is to develop a framework for improving the problem-solving skills of novice programmers. Hence, our research proposes a novel strategy, simulating human mechanism of solving problems in programming by converting the textual description of a problem, in English, into a flowchart. Two knowledge bases are employed to interpret the programming meaning of a given textual description in an attempt to draw its flowchart. Our future work will include the implementation and evaluation of this proposed framework.","PeriodicalId":368100,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS)","volume":"35 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":"129400363","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}
S. Sulaiman, D. R. A. Rambli, Hanis Iryani Hashim, Mahmud Mazuin Mokhtahir
{"title":"Synchronizing audio and haptic feedback to read webpage","authors":"S. Sulaiman, D. R. A. Rambli, Hanis Iryani Hashim, Mahmud Mazuin Mokhtahir","doi":"10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868406","url":null,"abstract":"The limitations of a Website's accessibility in terms of its text attributes representation in web pages hinder the visually impaired users from having a comprehensive understanding of the web content. Current assistive technology such as screen reader and refreshable Braille device are unable to represent this non-textual attributes to the visually impaired. This paper presents a study that examines the significance of text attributes to support Web accessibility and improve understanding of the content. It was hypothesized that the synchronization of audio and haptic feedbacks could improve Web accessibility through text attributes identification; thus, providing comprehensive understanding of the webpage. The study involves development of a prototype system that synchronizes audio and haptic to read webpage and represents text attributes. A mixture of qualitative and quantitative data collection methods was adopted. Interviews with the visually impaired users were conducted to gather their requirements for the prototype. A user testing involving those who suffer from high degree of visual impairment was carried out to evaluate the prototype. B The findings show significant improvement in web browsing performance and text attributes identification using the prototype as compared to the existing screen reader.","PeriodicalId":368100,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS)","volume":"92 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":"132892797","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 productivity in computer science field for Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2000–2013","authors":"Sharanjit Kaur, R. Ibrahim, A. Selamat","doi":"10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868441","url":null,"abstract":"Numerous studies have indicated enhanced productivity results for computer science (CS) researchers as well as their respective institutions. This paper aims to evaluate the research productivity of a Malaysian university, namely, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) concentrating in particular on the CS researchers. The author uses the Scopus database which is known as the most accessible bibliographic database to world scientific research. There are some 3102 research works which have been produced by CS researchers at UTM. The highest number of these (2095) have been published as conference papers; followed by 957 papers in the article category. These are covered by the database from the period 2000 to 2013. One of the most significant findings is that most publications have been co-authored. This serves to boost collaboration initiative with the respective faculty members in the university or from other universities.","PeriodicalId":368100,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS)","volume":"32 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":"124760173","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 driven software development: An overview","authors":"M. Q. Saleem, J. Jaafar, M. Hassan","doi":"10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868832","url":null,"abstract":"The vision of the MDSD is an era of software engineering where modelling completely replaces programming i.e. the systems are entirely generated from high-level models, each one specifying a different view of the same system. The MDSD can be seen as the new generation of visual programming languages which provides methods and tools to streamline the process of software engineering. Productivity of the development process is significantly improved by the MDSD approach and it also increases the quality of the resulting software system. The MDSD is particularly suited for those software applications which require highly specialized technical knowledge due to the involvement of complex technologies and the large number of complex and unmanageable standards. In this paper, an overview of the MDSD is presented; the working styles and the main concepts are illustrated in detail.","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":"130321707","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}
A. K. Jumaat, S. S. Yasiran, A. Malek, W. E. Rahman, Norzaituleha Badrin, Siti Hajar Osman, S. R. Rafiee, R. Mahmud
{"title":"Performance comparison of Canny and Sobel edge detectors on Balloon Snake in segmenting masses","authors":"A. K. Jumaat, S. S. Yasiran, A. Malek, W. E. Rahman, Norzaituleha Badrin, Siti Hajar Osman, S. R. Rafiee, R. Mahmud","doi":"10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868368","url":null,"abstract":"The most common problem in image processing is image segmentation. One of the methods which can segment an image with a high accuracy is Balloon Snake. It uses the energy minimization conception where it has a dynamic behavior that deforms from an initial position and converges to the boundary of the object in an image. However, we found that the accurateness always influences by the edge map detector that being used in implementing the Balloon Snake. Edge map detector is used to strengthen the boundary of the object before the object is segmented. Two popular edge map detectors are chosen in this research namely Canny and Sobel edge detector. Both edge detectors are implemented in Balloon Snake in segmenting 40 masses in breast ultrasound images. The pixel area traced by the two combination methods namely Canny and Balloon Snake and Sobel and Balloon Snake are evaluated. The accuracy is measured based on the percentage pixel area difference between radiologist and the both combination methods. It is found that the combination of using Canny and Balloon Snake give 3.5% percentage of pixel area difference which is smaller compared to the other combination which have 12.7% percentage pixel area difference.","PeriodicalId":368100,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS)","volume":"17 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":"129728504","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}
N. Kamarudin, S. Al-Haddad, Abd Rauf Hassan, M. Abushariah
{"title":"Al-quran learning using mobile speech recognition: An overview","authors":"N. Kamarudin, S. Al-Haddad, Abd Rauf Hassan, M. Abushariah","doi":"10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868401","url":null,"abstract":"The usage of mobile application in various aspects has been worldwide accepted and there are variety of mobile applications which developed to cater the usage of different background of the user. In this paper, a short survey which includes questionnaire is distributed to find the interest of user whom using application for learning Quran and concept of mobile speech apps. The main interest of this survey is to find the acceptance of user and explanation on the proposed usage of mobile speech recognition with feature of learning apps. Factors of mobile speech recognition and mobile learning are listed to support the results from the short survey.","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":"126364282","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":"Current limitations and opportunities in mobile augmented reality applications","authors":"N. Nazri, D. R. A. Rambli","doi":"10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868425","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile AR has evolved from the bulkiness of head-mounted device and backpack device to smart device (smartphone, tablet etc.). To date, the current implementation has made what AR is today. However, the advancement of AR technology has met with limitation and challenges on its own, which resulted in not able to reach mass-market. This paper in turn presents current limitations and challenges that need to overcome. We have done a review based on past research papers on limitation in technical (hardware, algorithms and interaction technique) and non-technical (social acceptance, privacy and usefulness) aspects of developing and implementing mobile augmented reality applications. We also presented some future opportunities in mobile AR applications.","PeriodicalId":368100,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS)","volume":"107 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":"117258270","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":"Maternity data management utilizing cloud computing","authors":"Oh Ying San, W. Husain","doi":"10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868422","url":null,"abstract":"The existing maternity data management in government maternity clinics lags behind most other industries in new technology adoption. No electronic system exists to share maternity data between hospitals and clinics. The existing systems continue to rely on hardcopy logbooks to record maternity data. Therefore, maternity data management system utilizing cloud computing (E-Maternity) is proposed in this paper to enhance the existing service handling and management of maternity and baby development data in government maternity clinics. The main objective of E-Maternity is to provide a convenient method to manage the maternity data and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of existing services. Existing pregnancy related applications are discussed, and the architecture of the proposed system is presented. Furthermore, the system requirements and design of the proposed system are presented.","PeriodicalId":368100,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS)","volume":"42 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120865585","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":"Pluggable scheduling on an open-source based volunteer computing infrastructure","authors":"G. Dinis, N. Zakaria, K. Naono","doi":"10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868823","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, there are different types of computing infrastructures, like grids and volunteer communities, which have distinct needs and the preservation of energy or other resources is chief among them. This paper presents an attempt to incorporate pluggable scheduling into an existing open-source volunteer computing system named BOINC. Our efforts proved valid, as we managed to re-engineer BOINC to support different scheduling applications and interchange between them dynamically, with additional support for thermal-aware scheduling algorithms. Our aim is to start a path into what could be a collection of middleware tools with standardized integration to sensor systems to support distinct types of scheduling policies, without the need to recompile the server system.","PeriodicalId":368100,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS)","volume":"211 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":"131996419","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}
Dr.Irshad Ahmed Sumra, Halabi Bin Hasbullah, Jamalul-lail Bin AbManan
{"title":"Effects of attackers and attacks on availability requirement in vehicular network: A survey","authors":"Dr.Irshad Ahmed Sumra, Halabi Bin Hasbullah, Jamalul-lail Bin AbManan","doi":"10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868376","url":null,"abstract":"Availability is one of the key security requirements in vehicular network. The purpose of vehicular network is to serve the user with its potential applications, but this purpose is to fulfill only when networks are available to the end users. Due to open nature of wireless medium, the attackers can affect the vehicular environment. In this paper, we are providing a survey on the attackers and all possible attacks on the availability requirement of vehicular network. The main aim of this study is to describe the threat levels of all possible attacks on the availability. It has been investigated that each level has its own priorities. Threats levels and its priorities will be useful to understand the behavior of attackers and attacks in the vehicular network.","PeriodicalId":368100,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS)","volume":"203 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":"131647090","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}