Volume 4, Issue 6 (2008) | Journal of Computer Science

Mining Functional Dependency from Relational Databases Using Equivalent Classes and Minimal Cover

Jalal Atoum — 2008-06-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 June 2008; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2008.421.426

Data Mining (DM) represents the process of extracting interesting and previously unknown knowledge from data. This study proposes a new algorithm called FD_Discover for discovering Functional Dependen...

Decreasing Overhead and Power Consuming in Ad-Hoc Networks by Proposal a Novel Routing Algorithm

A. Barati — 2008-06-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 June 2008; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2008.427.436

An Ad-Hoc network has been constructed from a fabric of mobile nodes intercom connected by temporary wireless links. Nodes located beyond a single hop are reached using intermediate neighbors to forwa...

Feature Analysis of Ontology Mediation Tools

Ravi Lourdusamy — 2008-06-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 June 2008; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2008.437.446

Ontology mediation is enabled through interoperability of semantic data sources. It helps data sharing between heterogeneous knowledgebase and reuse by semantic applications. Ontology mediation includ...

Deterministic Parallel Sorting Algorithm for 2-D Mesh of Connected Computers

Hamed Al Rjoub — 2008-06-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 June 2008; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2008.447.453

Sorting is one of the most important operations in database systems and its efficiency can influences drastically the overall system performance. To accelerate the performance of database systems, par...

The Conceptual Design of Module Documentation Based Testing Tool

Salmi Baharom — 2008-06-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 June 2008; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2008.454.462

Software testing plays an important role to assure the quality of software and can be highly effective if performed rigorously. Studies found that testing can benefit from formal specification as it p...

A Novel Database System Model Design for Tender Management System

A. Noraziah — 2008-06-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 June 2008; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2008.463.466

This research focus on the software design and database system model for Tender Management System (TMS) in Kadastra. TMS in Kadastra is an automated system that can calculates tender payment claims fo...

Development of Deduced Protein Database Using Variable Bit Binary Encoding

B. Parvathavarthini — 2008-06-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 June 2008; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2008.467.473

A large amount of biological data is semi-structured and stored in any one the following file formats such as flat, XML and relational files. These databases must be integrated with the structured da...

A Survey of Content-Based Video Retrieval

P. Geetha — 2008-06-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 June 2008; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2008.474.486

This study surveys current trends/methods in video retrieval. The major themes covered by the study include shot segmentation, key frame extraction, feature extraction, clustering, indexing and video ...

Response Time Optimization for Replica Selection Service in Data Grids

Husni H.E. AL-Mistarihi — 2008-06-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 June 2008; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2008.487.493

Problem Statement: Data Grid architecture provides a scalable infrastructure for grid services in order to manage data files and their corresponding replicas that were distributed across the globe. Th...

Self-Organizing Map and Multi-Layer Perceptron Neural Network Based Data Mining To Envisage Agriculture Cultivation

E. T. Venkatesh — 2008-06-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 June 2008; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2008.494.502

Study on characteristics of soil, to determine the types of crops suitable for cultivation in a particular region can increase the yield to greater extent, which minimizes the expenditures involved in...