Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractInterventions and Patterns of Risk in Adolescent HIV/AIDS PreventionRobert M. Malow, Rhonda Rosenberg, Geri Donenberg, Jessy G. DévieuxMid-way through the third decade of experience in preventing HIV/AIDS among adolescents, behavioral interventions and outcomes for high risk subgroups have generated evidence extremely instructive for navigating future priorities in reducing transmission risk behavior. Youth who abuse alcohol or drugs, who are detained or incarcerated, or have mental health co-morbidity such as externalizing disorders, represent the most significant challenge to … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 2, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2006 · 7,288 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMobile Agents in Wireless LAN and Cellular Data NetworksR. B. Patel, V. K. Katiyar, Vishal GargAdvancing technology in wireless communication offers users anytime, anywhere access to information and network resources without restricting them to the fixed network infrastructure. Mobile computing represents a shift in the distributed systems paradigm. The potential of decoupled and disconnected operation, location-dependent computation and communication and powerful portable computing devices gives rise to opportunities for new patterns of distributed computation that … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 2, Issue 5 · 31 May 2006 · 7,086 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractImplementation of Load Balancing Algorithm in a Grid ComputingAbdallah Boukerram, Samira Ait Kaci AzzouThe emergence of the grid computing constituted by several resources stood out as platform of development for the industrial applications treating big quantities of data. In these environments of high- throughput computing, numerous researches were dedicated these last five years to the load balancing to make profitable the power of calculations in the grid. This paper describes the complete implementation … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 4 · 30 Apr 2006 · 7,417 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSoftware Cost Estimation Model Based on Integration of Multi-agent and Case-Based ReasoningHasan Al-SakranAccurate software cost estimation is a vital task that affects the firm's software investment decisions before committing required resources to that project or bidding for a contract. This study proposes an improved Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) approach integrated with multi-agent technology to retrieve similar projects from multi-organizational distributed datasets. The study explores the possibility of building a software cost estimation model … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 2, Issue 3 · 31 Mar 2006 · 6,744 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Definition of Extended High-level Timed Petri NetsCheng Guangming, Liao Minghong, Wu XianghuMany extensions of Petri nets have been proposed to model the behaviors and time relations of embedded system, yet these models are all based on some assumptions about the behaviors of embedded systems. Especially they all do not have the actual ability to model interrupt mechanism of embedded system. A new net which is called Extended High Level Timed Petri … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 2, Issue 2 · 28 Feb 2006 · 7,042 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEstimation of the COCOMO Model Parameters Using Genetic Algorithms for NASA Software ProjectsAlaa F. ShetaDefining the project estimated cost, duration and maintenance effort early in the development life cycle is a valuable goal to be achieved for software projects. Many model structures evolved in the literature. These model structures consider modeling software effort as a function of the developed line of code (DLOC). Building such a function helps project managers to accurately allocate the … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 2, Issue 2 · 28 Feb 2006 · 9,364 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstracte-Learning Based on Context Oriented Semantic WebS. Hatem Muna, A. Ramadan Haider, C. Neagu DanielThe Semantic Web has opened new horizons for internet applications in general and for e-Learning in particular. The e-Learning community is aiming at having much more effective services than what is currently provided by any of the available computer aided tutoring, or learning management systems. The e-Learning process is no more restricted to providing courses online. Nowadays, knowledge is distributed … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 1, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2005 · 6,640 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSQIMSO: Quality Improvement for Small Software OrganizationsRabih Zeineddine, Nashat MansourSoftware quality improvement process remains incomplete if it is not initiated and conducted through a wide improvement program that considers process quality improvement, product quality improvement and evolution of human resources. But, small software organizations are not capable of bearing the cost of establishing software process improvement programs. In this work, we propose a new software quality improvement model for … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 1, Issue 3 · 30 Sep 2005 · 7,053 accessesView PDFCite