IJSK VOLUME 3

ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE (BI) TOOLS ADOPTION IN BRAZILIAN COMPANIES

Carlos Henrique Pilz, Fernando Toledo Ferraz

Brazil is top 10 GDP since 2005 in a new era of economic growth. Businesses marvel that data is now an actual asset and appreciate that computer programs are the tools to treat and give quality to data. To extract, transform and load data into information and knowledge by decision support tools is the “next wave” for Information Technology. ….

AN INTROSPECTIVE VIEW OF DENIAL OF SERVICE (DOS): DETECTION, PREVENTION, AND MITIGATION

Hak J. Kim

Growth and advancements in technology have paved the way for people to have unlimited connectivity, but with this limitless connection to the Internet and extensive use of online resources there are many chances for malicious activities including hacking attacks. One of the most popular types of attacks in the Internet is Denial of Service (DoS). ….

ACCESSIBILITY OF HEALTH CARE INSTITUTIONS: A CASE STUDY BY USING GIS

Fatih KARA & Dr. Istvan Oliver EGRESI

Equitable provision of health care services is a major challenge for developing countries. The degree of accessibility of health care institutions is one of the most significant indicators for measuring the efficiency of a health care system. Accessibility is a complex indicator that reflects the number of health care institutions, their geographical distribution and the impact of different types of barriers (economic, social, cultural, etc.). Geographers have been mainly concerned with geographical accessibility for the calculation of which they have tried different methods ….

THE EFFECT OF LANGUAGE ON THE ADOPTION OF THE GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE AMONG THE BANYANKORE

Joan Byamugisha

We are living in an information age, and the use of technology to perform daily tasks has become very common, with new technologies being developed to solve more and more of our daily needs. The adoption of these new technologies into new markets has been explained to be determined by several factors: social, economic, political, infrastructural, organizational, and cultural. ….

A GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH OF FACILITIES BROUGHT BY HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES IN DETERMINING PLANT SPECIES

Fatih KARA & Dr. Fikret TUNA

Remote sensing technologies provide us with the facilities of observing wide oceans and mainland, agricultural fields, urban developments, natural disasters like volcanic activities and flood, and forest fires. At the same time, precious data can be obtained on short and long term repeating events through remote sensing technologies, especially satellites, which paves the way for data on how earth has been changed by human activities in time. One of the most significant areas of the use of remote sensing is the detection and inventory of forest areas. The aim of this study is to manifest that remote sensing method . ….

SECURITY ARCHITECTURE FOR MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING

Ali Newaz Bahar, Md. Ahsan Habib, Md. Manowarul Islam

Cloud computing has become another buzzword to its tremendous business prospects. On the other hand cloud computing application on mobile internet are developed frequently, its leads security problems, in particular, is one of the most argued-about issues in the mobile cloud computing field .. ….

SCHEDULING AND OPTIMIZATION OF TRAFFIC LIGHTS ON A T-JUNCTION USING A WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK

Evarist Nabaasa and Tonny E Bulega

This paper provides an overview of how to schedule and optimize traffic lights using Intelligent Transport Systems. In this work we present the scheduling and optimization algorithms that we developed and how we tested them by connecting different simulators to evaluate their efficiency… ….

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES IN REDUCING ROAD CARNAGE IN MASVINGO URBAN.

Ndhlovu Pardon and Chigwenya Average

Traffic calming is a useful way of controlling speeds where it is unnecessarily excessive and inappropriate for the place and uses in the surroundings, (Taylor et al, 2000). There are high incidents of road carnage in Masvingo urban and its peripheral areas despite the constructed traffic calming measures.The rationality of traffic calming measures was based on the need to improve safety and enhancing quality of life in urban areas and its neighbourhoods. The motivation behind carrying out the research was to assess the effectiveness of implemented traffic calming in Masvingo Central Business District and the high density residential areas of Mucheke and Rujeko. Research methodology used was explanatory research based on formative and evaluation research to gather qualitative and quantitative data. . ….

THE EFFECTS OF CHEMICAL REACTION AND RADIATION ON UNSTEADY MHD FREE CONVECTIVE FLUID FLOW EMBEDDED IN A POROUS MEDIUM WITH TIME-DEPENDENT SUCTION WITH TEMPERATURE GRADIENT HEAT SOURCE

B. Seshaiah* S.V.K.Varma* M.C.Raju

The objective of the present study is to investigate the effects of chemical reaction and radiation on unsteady MHD free convection fluid flow embedded in a porous medium with time dependant suction with temperature gradient heat source are studied. A variable time-dependent suction velocity is considered normal to the flow. The plate is taken along – axis in vertical upward direction against the gravitational field. – axis is taken normal to the flow in the direction of applied transverse magnetic field. .. ….

ON THE LOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF VECTOR CALCULUS

Temur Z. Kalanov

A critical analysis of the foundations of standard vector calculus is proposed. The methodological basis of the analysis is the unity of formal logic and of rational dialectics. It is proved that the vector calculus is incorrect theory because: (a) it is not based on a correct methodological basis – the unity of formal logic and of rational dialectics; (b) it does not contain the correct definitions of “movement”, “direction” and “vector”;… ….

FPGA IMPLEMENTATION OF CORDIC ALGORITHM ARCHITECTURE

Ramanpreet Kaur, Parminder Singh Jassal

The Coordinate Rotation DIgital Computer (CORDIC) algorithm has been used for many years for efficient implementation of vector rotation operations in hardware. It is executed merely by table look-up, shift, and addition operations. Thus, the corresponding hardware can be implemented in very economic fashion. … ….

POST-HARVEST QUALITY LOSS OF SHRIMP (Penaeus monodon) IN THE VALUE CHAIN OF SOUTHWESTERN REGION (SATKHIRA) IN BANGLADESH

Muhammad Yousuf Ali, Zakaria Mahmud, Md. Abdur Rashed, Momotaz Khanom and Md. Golam Sarower

The present study was conducted to assess the post-harvest quality loss of shrimp (Penaeus monodon) in the value chain of Satkhira region in Bangladesh. The investigation was carried out in August 2011 to November 2011 in nine selected shrimp farms, three faria, three depot and two factory receiving point of different locations including Kaligong, Munsigong and Asasoni in Satkhira region of Bangladesh. Quality assessment included proximate analysis of protein, total volatile base nitrogen (TVB-N) an tri- methylamine (TMA). TVB-N and TMA contents were determined by using Conway’s micro-diffusion technique .. ….

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA OF IAAS SOLUTION IN CLOUD COMPUTING

Ren-Chiun Wang, Jeng-Ping Lin, Tai-Chun Wang

Most companies have adopted cloud solutions to deploy their application services for earning more profits or reducing operating costs. Unfortunately, most buyers of cloud solutions have no ideas how to make the best decision for purchasing a cloud solution. The intention of this paper is to propose some assessed criteria from the IaaS point of view. ….

THE THREE DIMENSIONAL ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM MODEL FOR BRAINWAVE SUB BAND OF POWER SPECTRAL

N. Fuad and M.N.Taib

Human Brain produces four bands of frequency such as delta, alpha, beta and theta. Every frequency bands have different range delta (0.2- 3 Hz), theta (3- 8 Hz), alpha (8-12 Hz) and beta (12-30 Hz) can be used for analyzing brain activities. The power spectral density (PSD) is generated from frequency band through electroencephalogram (EEG) application. In this paper, the proposed methods for producing three dimension (3D) EEG model using signal and image processing techniques are presented.. ….

DESIGN AND DEVELOPING ONLINE IRAQI BUS RESERVATION SYSTEM BY USING UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE

Asaad Abdul-Kareem Al-Hijaj, Ayad Mohammed Jabbar , Hayder Naser Kh

The Online Iraqi Bus Reservation System (OIBRS) is a web-based system. It allows customer to check the ticket availability and search for the most possible prices. Our system is available in online twenty four hour and seven days per a week. The most advantages of this system are allowing the customers to search and choose his/her seat position and ticket payment procedure. In this research, we gather the inf ormation to define the requirements of the new application… ….

THE PERVASIVE ADVERTISING SYSTEM FOR MOBILE DEVICES

Zinnia Sultana; Mohammed Mahmudur Rahman

In pervasive advertising distribution systems, the relevance of advertisements sent to users is an aspect of paramount importance, because it benefits both the advertiser, who increases the likelihood of a purchase by the user, and the user itself, who uses the advertising channel with grater satisfaction. In order to send relevant advertisements, an advertiser must know the situation, the interests, the activities and the intentions of users: in one word, their context. However, the disposal of this personal information to advertisers has clear repercussions on users’ privacy. The purpose of this work is the design and implementation of a pervasive advertisement distributio n platform for mobile devices which maximizes the relevance of advertisements sent to users … ….