Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractRelational Contracting in the Building Sector in Jordan as a Substitute to Conventional Formal MethodsRazan Aleasawi, Sultan TarawnehThe socioeconomic policies within the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan aim to enhance the Public-Private Partnership (PPP), one of the Relational Contracting models, to encourage investment, improve public services, upgrade infrastructure and boost financial resources, in line with Jordan 2025 Vision (Ministry of Municipal Affairs, 2014). The construction sector itself has a growth plan of 5% in order to meet this … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 13, Issue 1 · 25 Mar 2020 · 6,673 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractParticle Swarm and Neural Network Approach for Fault Clearing of Multilevel InvertersR. M.S. Parvathi, M. SivakumarThis study presents a machine learning technique for fault diagnostics in induction motor drives. A normal model and an extensive range of faulted models for the inverter-motor combination were developed and implemented using a generic commercial simulation tool to generate voltages and current signals at a broad range of operating points selected by a Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) based machine … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 6 · 8 Jun 2013 · 6,486 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractTowards Some General Ecological PrinciplesArild WikanDiscrete deterministic age-structured, stage-structured and difference delay equation population models are analysed and compared with respect to stability and nonstationary behaviour. All three models show that species with iteroparous life histories tend to be more stable than species with semelparous life histories which allow us to conclude that this must be a fairly general ecological principle. Considering iteroparity, the precocious … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 8, Issue 4 · 3 Jan 2013 · 6,929 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Petri Net Based Agent Behavioral TestingZina Houhamdi, Belkacem AthamenaIn Multi-Agent System (MAS), developers concentrate on creating design models and evolving them, from higher level models to lower level models, in several steps. Considerable part of MAS implementations is automatically produced from the design models. If a design model contains faults, they are passed to the generated implementations. Practical model validation techniques are required to discover and delete faults … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 11 · 10 Sep 2012 · 6,682 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractTowards An XML-Based Normalization for Healthcare Data ExchangesI. El Azami, M. M.O. Cherkaoui, C. TahonProblem statement: Most of healthcare data exchanges are textual, poorly structured and often not accessible by clinical professionals. Otherwise, the variety of medical applications and medical standards makes difficult sharing and communicating healthcare data in a highly heterogeneous environment. Approach: XML and related standards (XML schema, XSL) provided an infrastructure that might change the situation. Our aim in this study … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 7 · 31 Jul 2010 · 7,402 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMemory Storage Issues of Temporal Database Applications on Relational Database Management SystemsSami M. Halawani, Nashwan A. Al-RomemaProblem statement: Many existing database applications manage time-varying data. These database applications are referred to as temporal databases or time-oriented database applications that are considered as repositories of time-dependent data. Many proposals have been introduced for developing time-oriented database applications, some of which suggest building support for Temporal Database Management Systems (TDBMS) on top of existing non-temporal DBMSs, while others … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 3 · 31 Mar 2010 · 7,731 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractLog data Approach to Acquisition of Optimal Bayesian Learner ModelChoo-Yee Ting, Somnuk Phon-AmnuaisukLog data provide valuable insight into observable behavioural patterns, which could be inferred to study a learner’s cognitive processes, levels of motivation and levels of knowledge acquisition. To date, most of the research work has been devoted to study the different methods to analyze and interpret log data. Little attention, however, has been given to use log data as a … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 5 · 31 May 2009 · 7,074 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractInformatics and Physics Models of Recognitions of DNA Replication and Their Biological ApplicationsKang Cheng, Chang Hua ZouWe initially propose concepts of Informative Intensity, Informative Response Intensity and Informative Flux, with different expressions. In a special expression of electrostatics, we describe Informative Intensity, Informative Response Intensity and Informative Flux in terms of electric field intensity, electric field force and electric field flux respectively. In a special expression of quantum mechanics, we originally propose a concept of Probability … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 10 · 31 Oct 2006 · 6,869 accessesView PDFCite