Volume 4, Issue 9 (2008) | Journal of Computer Science

RETRACTED: Object Oriented and Multi-Scale Image Analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats-A Review

B. Naga Jyothi — 2008-09-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2008.706.712

Publication of this article is cancelled due to plagiarism.

Parsing Arabic Texts Using Rhetorical Structure Theory

H. I. Mathkour — 2008-09-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2008.713.720

Problem Statement: Processing texts based on rhetorical structure theory has shown interesting results. Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) improves the ability of extracting the semantic behind the pro...

Impact of MD5 Authentication on Routing Traffic for the Case of: EIGRP, RIPv2 and OSPF

K. A. Al-Saud — 2008-09-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2008.721.728

Problem Statement: With the free flow of routing data and the high availability of computer resources, possible threats to the networks can result in loss of privacy and in malicious use of informatio...

Extending the Concepts of Normalization from Relational Databases to Extensible-Markup-Language Databases Model

H.J. F. El-Sofany — 2008-09-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2008.729.740

In this study we have studied the problem of how to extend the concepts of Functional Dependency (FD) and normalization in relational databases to include the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) model. W...

The Relationship between Exclusive-Or and the Unique Existential Quantifier

M. A. Nabulsi — 2008-09-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2008.741.743

Problem Statement: The efficiency of computer architecture design is affected by the components used. Establishing a relationship between exclusive-or (XOR) and the unique existential quantifier provi...

Back Propagation Neural Network Arabic Characters Classification Module Utilizing Microsoft Word

A. A. Hamza — 2008-09-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2008.744.751

Problem statement: Arabic character recognition has been one of the last major languages to receive attention. This may be attributed to the inherent complexity of both printed and handwritten Arabic ...

Architectural Review of Load Balancing Single System Image

B. S. Ahmed — 2008-09-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2008.752.761

Problem statement: With the growing popularity of clustering application combined with apparent usability, the single system image is in the limelight and actively studied as an alternative solution f...

An Entropy Based Method for Removing Web Query Ambiguity in Hindi Language

S. K. Dwivedi — 2008-09-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2008.762.767

Problem statement: WSD is core problem of many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks; information retrieval is one of them. Information Retrieval in Hindi language also faces the similar problem of ...

A Survey of Protein Fold Recognition Algorithms

Mohammed Said Abual-Rub — 2008-09-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2008.768.776

Problem statement: Predicting the tertiary structure of proteins from their linear sequence is really a big challenge in biology. This challenge is related to the fact that the traditional computation...

Control Techniques in Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Systems

H. Mirinejad — 2008-09-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2008.777.783

Problem statement: Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems are among the main installations in residential, commercial and industrial buildings. The purpose of the HVAC systems is nor...