Volume 1, Issue 4 (2005) | Journal of Computer Science

A Note towards Reshaping Java's Features

N. S. Kutti — 2005-12-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 December 2005; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2005.450.453

Programming Languages continually go through the refinement process due to several findings such as lack of robustness, lack of flexibility, lack of simplicity and lack of standard. This may require p...

Meta Architecting: Towered a New Generation of Architecture Description Languages

Adel Smeda — 2005-12-31

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 31 December 2005; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2005.454.460

The techniques of meta-modeling and meta-levels have become a mature concept and have been largely used to solve real problems in programming languages, distributed environments, knowledge representat...

Performance Evaluation of a QoS-Aware Mechanism for Polling-Based High-Speed Network Interfaces

Salman Al-Qahtani — 2005-12-31

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 31 December 2005; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2005.461.470

The explosive growth of the high-speed multimedia networks and the widespread use of web-based related applications place new demands on the network servers. The network end systems such as PC-Router,...

Real-time Optimistic Concurrency Control based on Transaction Finish Degree

Han Qilong — 2005-12-31

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 31 December 2005; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2005.471.476

Concurrency control is one of the main issues in the studies of real-time database systems. Optimistic concurrency control algorithms have the attractive properties of being non-blocking and deadlock-...

The Use of Neural Network to Recognize the Parts of the Computer Motherboard

Abbas M. Ali — 2005-12-31

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 31 December 2005; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2005.477.481

This study suggests a new approach of learning which utilizes the techniques of computer vision to recognize the parts inside the motherboard. The main thrust is to identify different parts of the mot...

A Proposed Adaptable Quality Model for Software Quality Assurance

Souheil Khaddaj — 2005-12-31

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 31 December 2005; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2005.482.487

Many of the early quality models have followed a hierarchical approach in which a set of factors that affect quality are defined, with little scope for expansion. More recent models have been develope...

E-Learning under WebCT

Z. A. Al-Khanjari — 2005-12-31

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 31 December 2005; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2005.488.494

With the introduction of Web-Based Instruction (WBI) the traditional classroom-based higher education could be made more effective form of instruction. But the studies have shown the negative results[...

Adaptive Update Policy for Proactive Management of Deadline Miss Ratio and Data Freshness in Real-Time Database Models

Sanjay Tanwani — 2005-12-31

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 31 December 2005; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2005.495.499

Important applications, like e-commerce, online stock trading, traffic control demand real-time data services. Conventional database perform poor at these applications. A database for real-tim...

e-Learning Based on Context Oriented Semantic Web

S. Hatem Muna — 2005-12-31

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 31 December 2005; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2005.500.504

The Semantic Web has opened new horizons for internet applications in general and for e-Learning in particular. The e-Learning community is aiming at having much more effective services than what is c...

Bayesian Regularization in a Neural Network Model to Estimate Lines of Code Using Function Points

K. K. Aggarwal — 2005-12-31

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 31 December 2005; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2005.505.509

It is a well known fact that at the beginning of any project, the software industry needs to know, how much will it cost to develop and what would be the time required ? . This paper examines the pot...

Petri Net Based Spatio-temporal Relationships for Moving Objects

Yong-shan Liu — 2005-12-31

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 31 December 2005; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2005.510.514

This study presents the spatio-temporal constraint relationships of moving objects by employing Petri Net technology. The spatial constraints of moving objects are first presented in this study based...

Improved AIMD- A Mathematical Study

V. S.P. Srivastav — 2005-12-31

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 31 December 2005; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2005.515.520

One of the crucial elements in the Internet is the ability to adequately control Congestion. AIMD (Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease) is the best algorithm among the set of liner algorithms be...

BDD Path Length Minimization Based on Initial Variable Ordering

P. W.C. Prasad — 2005-12-31

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 31 December 2005; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2005.521.529

A large variety of problems in digital system design, combinational optimization and verification can be formulated in terms of operations performed on Boolean functions. The time complexity of Binary...

Towards Autonomously Developed Software: A genetic Approach in Critical and Embedded Systems

Djamel Meslati — 2005-12-31

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 31 December 2005; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2005.530.537

Nowadays, we are still considering changes undergone by a software system as a sporadic phenomenon and we do not sufficiently anticipate future changes during the development phase. Consequently, many...

Measurement of Software Maintainability Using a Fuzzy Model

K. K. Aggarwal — 2005-12-31

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 31 December 2005; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2005.538.542

Software maintenance is a task that every development group has to face when the software is delivered to the customers' site, installed and is operational. The time spent and effort required for keep...