Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Study of Urban Quality of Life in a Developing CountrySedigheh Lotfi, Amin Faraji, Husain Hataminejad, Ahmad PourahmadProblem statement: The rapid growth of urbanization has led to degradation of quality of life in many developing countries. The qualitative approach towards development concepts provided background for studying the object of quality of life. This concept was declared by Raymond Bauer in 1966 in response to the increase of urban crisis. Today, quality of life refers to the capacity … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 2 · 21 Mar 2011 · 8,338 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractUsability Requirements of Formal Verification Tools: A SurveyRozilawati Razali, Paul GarrattProblem statement: Formal notations employ mathematical symbols and interpretation to illustrate system elements. The formality imposed by the notations allows the accuracy and consistency of a system model to be confirmed by verification tools. Formal notations on the other hand are difficult to understand and use by most users. As supporting instruments, verification tools are expected to be as usable … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 10 · 10 Aug 2010 · 7,185 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEmbedded Systems Education for Multiple DisciplinesAli H. El-Mousa, Ashraf Al-SuyyaghProblem statement: This study described the process and experience of designing and developing an embedded systems first course that serves different disciplines at the University of Jordan together with its associated laboratory. The course serves three different departments with varying requirements and varying student initial background. The stages of the design process of the course and associated labs are explored. … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 2 · 28 Jun 2010 · 7,095 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Effect of Contextual Learning in Civic Education on Students' Civic CompetenceKokom KomalasariProblem statement: Globalization demands civic education to develop civic competence involving civic knowledge, civic skills and civic disposition, which are multidimensional. Civic education learning oriented to “contextualized multiple intelligences” concept opened the view of the needs to manage more creative, active participation, meaningful and pleasant learning. This research aimed to describe the effects of contextual learning on civic education of … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2009 · 8,748 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEvaluating Defense Architecture Frameworks for C4I System Using Analytic Hierarchy ProcessAbdullah S. AlghamdiProblem statement: The Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) Systems provided situational awareness about operational environment and supported in decision making and directed to operative environment. These systems had been used by various agencies like defense, police, investigation, road, rail, airports, oil and gas related department. However, the increase use of C4I system had made it more important and … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 5, Issue 12 · 31 Dec 2009 · 7,370 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMining Fuzzy Weighted Browsing Patterns from Time Duration and with Linguistic ThresholdsTzung-Pei Hong, Ming-Jer Chiang, Shyue-Liang WangWorld-wide-web applications have grown very rapidly and have made a significant impact on computer systems. Among them, web browsing for useful information may be most commonly seen. Due to its tremendous amounts of use, efficient and effective web retrieval has become a very important research topic in this field. Techniques of web mining have thus been requested and developed to … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 12 · 31 Dec 2008 · 6,397 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractArchitectural Review of Load Balancing Single System ImageB. S. Ahmed, K. Samsudin, A. R. RamliProblem 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 for computational intensive applications as well as the platform for next evolutionary grid computing era. Approach: Existing researches in this field concentrated on various features of Single System Images like file system … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 4, Issue 9 · 30 Sep 2008 · 8,628 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Impact of Applying IT and E-Learning in Economic Information SystemsJihad A.A.Abu Al SondosThe purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of using the E-learning approach as well as IT technologies in the teaching process of Economics Information System (EIS) course to graduate students. Also, this study concentrates on two trends, the first one related to the befits of using E-learning approach in teaching EIS. The benefits of this approach are: … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 2 · 28 Feb 2006 · 6,712 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA New Text Mining Approach for Finding Protein-to-Disease AssociationsHisham Al-Mubaid, Rajit K. SinghDiscovering significant relationships between biological entities from text documents is an important task for biologists in order to develop biological models for research and discovery, especially with the existing gigantic amounts of biomedical documents and the rate at which they are increasing everyday. We propose a new text mining method to extract associations between biological entities from text documents; and … …American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Vol. 1, Issue 3 · 30 Sep 2005 · 7,012 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractModel for Load Balancing On Processors in Parallel Mining of Frequent ItemsetsRavindra Patel, S. S. Rana, K. R. PardasaniThe existence of many large transactions distributed databases with high data schemas, the centralized approach for mining association rules in such databases will not be feasible. Some distributed algorithms have been developed [FDM, CD], but none of them have considered the problem of data skews in distributed mining of association rules. The skewness of datasets reduces the workload balancing between … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 2, Issue 5 · 31 May 2005 · 7,341 accessesView PDFCite