Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMAPREDUCE CHALLENGES ON PERVASIVE GRIDSL. A. Steffenel, O. Flauzac, A. S. Charao et al.This study presents the advances on designing and implementing scalable techniques to support the development and execution of MapReduce application in pervasive distributed computing infrastructures, in the context of the PER-MARE project. A pervasive framework for MapReduce applications is very useful in practice, especially in those scientific, enterprises and educational centers which have many unused or underused computing resources, which … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 10, Issue 11 · 24 Jul 2014 · 9,834 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordJob Type Approach for Deciding Job Scheduling in Grid Computing SystemsAsef AL-Khateeb, Rosni Abdullah, Nur’Aini Abdul RashidProblem statement: Meta-scheduling has become very important due to the increased number of submitted jobs for execution. Approach: We considered the job type in the scheduling decision that was not considered previously. Each job can be categorized into two types namely, data-intensive and computational-intensive in a specific ratio. Job ratio reflected the exact level of the job type in two … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 5, Issue 10 · 31 Oct 2009 · 6,829 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordSpatial Representation to Support Visual Impaired PeopleAbbas Mohamad Ali, Shareef Maulod ShareefThe rapid development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enhances the government services to its citizen. As a consequence affects the exchange of information between citizen and government. However, some groups can experience some difficulties accessing the government services due to disabilities, such as blind people as well as material and geographical constraints. This paper aims to introduce a novel … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 15 Apr 2015 · 6,194 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordGRID-IMAGE PASSWORD BASED SCHEME: ENHANCING MEMORABILITY FEATURES OF PASSWORDSObasan Adebola, Norafida Ithnin, Mohd Zalisham JaliPassword authentication has become a widely recognized element of computer security practices where human users are proven or confirmed as legitimate users for access to secure systems. Using this system, every user needs to recall its password correctly before access can be granted to an intended services or applications. Remembering the secure passwords is an everyday problem for users because … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 7 · 9 Sep 2014 · 6,673 accessesView PDFCite