Volume 2, Issue 4 (2006) | Journal of Computer Science

A UDDI Search Engine for SVG Federated Medical Imaging Web Services

Sabah Mohammed — 2006-04-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 April 2006; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2006.303.313

With more and more medical web services appearing on the web, web service's discovery mechanism becomes essential. UDDI is an online registry standard to facilitate the discovery of business partners ...

Evaluating Web Usability from the User's Perspective

Hema Banati — 2006-04-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 April 2006; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2006.314.317

The presence of multiple websites offering similar services has changed the user outlook. The user now prefers to visit those sites, which are easy to use. Many different methods have been proposed to...

A New Incremental Updating Algorithm for Mining Sequential Patterns

Jia-Dong Ren — 2006-04-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 April 2006; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2006.318.321

This study discusses how to maintain discovered sequential patterns when some information is deleted from a sequence database. A new algorithm, called MA_D (Maintenance Algorithm when Deleting some in...

A Comparative Classification of Aspect Mining Approaches

Bounour Nora — 2006-04-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 April 2006; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2006.322.325

In object oriented paradigm, the implementation of a concern is typically scattered over many locations and tangled with the implementation of other concerns, resulting in a system that is hard to exp...

An Effective Transmission and Browsing Methodology for Streaming Video

K. K. Thyagharajan — 2006-04-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 April 2006; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2006.326.332

Browsing streaming video quickly through Internet with in the available bandwidth is a challenging one and it is also time consuming. The user has to browse, view and listen to the complete video to i...

Software Process Modeling Using Role and Coordination

Atil Fadila — 2006-04-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 April 2006; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2006.333.336

The term software process joins all activities that have to be achieved in order to develop software. It has been shown that modeling such processes is difficult and expensive task. It's confirmed by ...

Load Balancing on Open Networks: A Mobile Agent Approach

R. B. Patel — 2006-04-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 April 2006; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2006.337.346

In order to disperse the load on a Web server, generally the server cluster is configured to distribute access requests, or mirror servers are distributed geographically on different networks. Use of ...

A Simulation-Based Comparison of Multimedia Traffic Prioritization Schemes for High-Performance Input-Queued Packet Switches

Salman A. AlQahtani — 2006-04-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 April 2006; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2006.347.354

This study investigates the problem of enabling Quality of Service (QoS) of multimedia traffic at the input port of high-performance input-queued packet switches using a simulation-based evaluation. W...

Digital Hardware Implementation of a Neural System Used for Nonlinear Adaptive Prediction

Hassène Faiedh — 2006-04-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 April 2006; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2006.355.362

Neural networks have been widely used for many applications in digital communications. They are able to give solutions to complex problems due to their nonlinear processing and their learning and gene...

A Framework for Design of Intelligent Simulation Environment

Ali Azadeh — 2006-04-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 April 2006; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2006.363.369

This study describes a framework for design and development of intelligent simulation environment. The intelligent simulation environment prescribes an integrated rule-based approach to simulate and o...

Stochastically Simulating Low Morale - A Risk Factor Effect on Risk Management

P. K.A. Suri — 2006-04-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 April 2006; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2006.370.372

One of the proposed purposes for software process simulation is the management of software development risks, usually discussed within the category of project planning and management. However, modelin...

A New Software Quality Model for Evaluating COTS Components

Adnan Rawashdeh — 2006-04-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 April 2006; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2006.373.381

Studies show that COTS-based (Commercial off the shelf) systems that are being built recently are exceeding 40% of the total developed software systems. Therefore, a model that ensures quality charact...

Optimization of an Automatic Blast Furnace through Integrated Simulation Modeling

Ali Azadeh — 2006-04-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 April 2006; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2006.382.387

The objective of this study was to develop an integrated simulation model of an automatic blast furnace in a full-scale steelmaking factory. The integrated simulation model introduces a set of optimiz...