Volume 8, Issue 8 (2012) | Journal of Computer Science

Model Refinement in the Model Driven Architecture Context

Inali Wisniewski Soares — 2012-07-10

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 10 July 2012; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2012.1205.1211

Problem statement: Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is a software development approach based on the design and the transformation of models. In MDA, models are systematically translated to other models...

Dynamic Route Shortening and Route Repairing Mechanism for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

S. Revathi — 2012-07-11

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 11 July 2012; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2012.1212.1218

Problem statement: Ad hoc Networks are wireless networks without any fixed infrastructure. The network topology changes frequently and unpredictably due to the random movement of the nodes. The Ad Hoc...

Online Forums Hotspot Prediction Based on Sentiment Analysis

K. Nirmala Devi — 2012-07-11

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 11 July 2012; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2012.1219.1224

Problem statement: Online forums hotspot prediction is one of the significant research areas in web mining, which can help people make proper decision in daily life. Online forums, news reports and bl...

Performances of Partition Utility Accrual Real Time Scheduling Algorithm

Idawaty Ahmad — 2012-07-12

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 12 July 2012; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2012.1225.1234

Problem statement: This study proposed a TUF/UA real time scheduling algorithm known as Partition Preemptive Utility Accrual Scheduling (PUAS) also known as PPUAS algorithm. This algorithm addressed t...

Application of Near Field Communication Technology for Mobile Airline Ticketing

Wayan Suparta — 2012-07-12

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 12 July 2012; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2012.1235.1243

Problem statement: Near Field Communication (NFC) technology opens up exciting new usage scenarios for mobile devices based platform. Users of NFC-enabled devices can simply point or touch their devic...

Context Aware Middleware Model for Handling Vehicular Safety Issues

Arunkumar Thangavelu — 2012-07-12

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 12 July 2012; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2012.1244.1252

Problem statement: This study proposed a mathematical model for the existing framework InVANET; context prediction and simulation for vehicle safety. Approach: Markov process was used to model context...

Factors Affecting the Choice of Software Life Cycle Models in the Software Industry-An Empirical Study

Rupa Mahanti — 2012-07-13

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 13 July 2012; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2012.1253.1262

Problem statement: The aim of this study was to present the results of the survey conducted with software professionals in a few Indian software companies. Approach: The study initially presents an ov...

Minimizing Interference in Wireless Mesh Networks Based Telemedicine System

Mohammad Siraj — 2012-07-14

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 14 July 2012; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2012.1263.1271

Problem statement: It has been always a challenging task for the researchers to incorporate information technology advancements in the medical profession. In order to guarantee a reliable network infr...

Blind Digital Image Watermarking Robust Against Histogram Equalization

G. S. Kalra — 2012-07-14

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 14 July 2012; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2012.1272.1280

Problem statement: Piracy in the presence of internet and computers proves to be a biggest damage to the industry. Easy editing and copying of images yields a great damage to the owner as original ima...

Data Relay Clustering Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks: A Data Mining Approach

S. Nithyakalyani — 2012-07-14

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 14 July 2012; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2012.1281.1284

Problem statement: Nowadays sensors are very essential for today life to monitor environment where human cannot get involved very often. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are used in many real world app...

Arabic Named Entity Recognition Using Artificial Neural Network

Naji F. Mohammed — 2012-07-16

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 16 July 2012; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2012.1285.1293

Problem statement: Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a task to identify proper names as well as temporal and numeric expressions, in an open-domain text. The NER task can help to improve the performan...

Sleeping Cluster based Medium Access Control Layer Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

T. Nagamalar — 2012-07-16

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 16 July 2012; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2012.1294.1303

Wireless sensor networks play a vital role in remote area applications, where human intervention is not possible. In a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) each and every node is strictly an energy as well a...

RETRACTED: Automatic Detection of Exudates in Diabetic Retinopathy Images

Kittipol Wisaeng — 2012-07-19

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 19 July 2012; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2012.1304.1313

This article has been retracted at the request of the authors.

Tasks Scheduling using Ant Colony Optimization

A. P. Shanthi — 2012-07-25

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 25 July 2012; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2012.1314.1320

Problem statement: Efficient scheduling of the tasks to heterogeneous processors for any application is critical in order to achieve high performance. Finding a feasible schedule for a given task set ...

Feature Fusion in Improving Object Class Recognition

Noridayu Manshor — 2012-07-24

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 24 July 2012; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2012.1321.1328

Problem statement: Extraction of features in object class recognition researches previously gives attention to local features as discriminative features. This is because local features have invariant ...

An Enhanced Approach for Medical Brain Image Enhancement

J. Umamaheswari — 2012-07-27

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 27 July 2012; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2012.1329.1337

Problem statement: One of the most common degradations in medical images is their poor contrast quality and noise. The DICOM image consists of speckle (multiplicative noise). While the image is enhanc...

Hybrid Algorithm for Lossless Image Compression using Simple Selective Scan order with Bit Plane Slicing

S. N. Sivanandam — 2012-07-28

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 28 July 2012; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2012.1338.1345

Problem statement: Identifying the new lossless image compression algorithm for high performance applications like medical and satellite imaging; a high quality lossless image is most important when r...

Empirical Performance Metrics Study of Execution of Database Queries in Implementation of Web Services

K. Velmurugan — 2012-07-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 July 2012; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2012.1346.1352

Problem statement: Web services are increasingly being deployed in business applications, due to its unique features such as flexibility, interoperability and other features. Most of the business appl...

Testing Randomness: Poker Test with Hands of Three Numbers

Wael Mohamed Fawaz Abdel-Rehim — 2012-07-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 July 2012; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2012.1353.1357

Problem statement: The problem of testing randomness is motivated by the need to evaluate of the quality of different random number generators used by many practical applications including computer si...

An Efficient Bayesian Nearest Neighbor Search Using Marginal Object Weight Ranking Scheme in Spatial Databases

K. Balasaravanan — 2012-07-30

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 30 July 2012; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2012.1358.1363

Problem statement: A database that is optimized to store and query data that is related to objects in space, including points, lines and polygons is called spatial database. Identifying nearest neighb...

Shot Detection Using Genetic Edge Histogram and Object Based Video Retrieval Using Multiple Features

R. Kanagavalli — 2012-08-03

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 3 August 2012; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2012.1364.1371

As the usage of multimedia data increasing rapidly, how to get the video data we need efficiently become so important. Recent advances in multimedia technologies allow the capture and storage of video...

A Fuzzy Logic Based Power Control for Wideband Code Division Multiple Access Wireless Networks

N. Mohan — 2012-08-04

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 4 August 2012; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2012.1372.1379

Problem statement: Resource management is one of the most important engineering issues in 3G systems where multiple traffic classes are supported each being characterized by its required Quality of Se...

3D Object Recognition using Multiclass Support Vector Machine-K-Nearest Neighbor Supported by Local and Global Feature

C. Chandrasekar — 2012-08-04

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 4 August 2012; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2012.1380.1388

Problem statement: In this study, a new method has been proposed for the recognition of 3D objects based on the various views of the object. The proposed method is evolved from the two promising metho...

A Comparative Study of Enterprise Resource Planning Vs Service Oriented Architecture in Small Medium Enterprises

Ali Taei Zadeh — 2012-08-06

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 6 August 2012; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2012.1389.1396

Problem statement: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have such an important role in global success and become more complex over time. Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) follow large enterprises ...

A Policy Based Scheme for Combined Data Security in Mobile Ad hoc Networks

L. Kartheesn — 2012-08-06

Journal of Computer Science, Published online: 6 August 2012; doi:10.3844/jcssp.2012.1397.1406

Problem statement: In Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET) routing protocols, we require a network-level or link layer security. Since without appropriate security provisions, the MANETs is subjected to att...