Volume 13, Issue 6 (2017) | Journal of Computer Science

Ant Colony Optimization Approaches in Wireless Sensor Network: Performance Evaluation

Husna Jamal Abdul Nasir — 2017-06-24

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 24 June 2017; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2017.153.164

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has been widely implemented in large sectors such as military, habitat, business, industrial, health and environment. WSN is part of a distributed system where elements s...

Open Source Software in the UAE: Opportunities, Challenges and Recommendations (A Survey Research Study)

Manar Abu Talib — 2017-06-20

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 20 June 2017; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2017.165.174

The UAE is one of the most technologically advanced countries in the Gulf region and the Middle East. IDC expects total IT spending in the UAE to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 6.0% over...

A Framework for Systematizing Personalized Thai Herbal Medicine: A Case Study Covering Gynecological Conditions

Charinee Prompukdee — 2017-06-24

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 24 June 2017; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2017.175.183

Thai Traditional Medicine (TTM) is an integral part of Thai traditional culture, with a history which spans many centuries. As part of this tradition, a significant number of historical pharmacopoeias...

Arabic Text Steganography Using Unicode of Non-Joined to Right Side Letters

Atef A. Obeidat — 2017-06-24

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 24 June 2017; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2017.184.191

Steganography is a technique for hiding data in media in a way that makes its existence hard to detect. Text files are a preferable format for use in steganography due to the small storage size of suc...

A Fast Access Big Data Approach for Configurable and Scalable Object Storage Enabling Mixed Fault-Tolerance

Carlos Roberto Valêncio — 2017-07-01

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 1 July 2017; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2017.192.198

The progressive growth in the volume of digital data has become a technological challenge of great interest in the field of computer science. That comes because, with the spread of personal computers ...

Optimising Pair Programming in a Scholastic Framework: A Design Pattern Perspective

Smitha Rajagopal — 2017-05-20

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 20 May 2017; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2017.199.210

Pair programming is one of the widely used practices of Extreme Programming (XP). XP is a software development process which intends to enhance quality of software code in order to cater to the ever i...