Computers - General

The continuously increasing demand for mobility more and more frequently asks for the best driving directions to one's destination saving time and money. Using simple-minded approaches to the computation of suitable routes yields slow response times or suboptimal results. Therefore, there is considerable interest...

UN/CEFACT's Modeling Methodology (UMM) is a UML-based approach for capturing the collaborative space between enterprises. It provides a language and a methodology for accomplishing B2B integration projects. UMM guides a business analyst from requirements elicitation to the design phase of a B2B system. The...

Author: Walid AliISBN-10: 3836472295ISBN-13: 9783836472296Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Language: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2008Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.67d

Personalisation systems provide individualised services. Their usefulness and success depend on the accuracy of their knowledge about their respective users. In this context, user modelling refers to the acquisition, creation, storage, maintenance, and delivery of knowledge about users. Further, a personalisation system can also...

Author: Kok Cheow YeohISBN-10: 3836453037ISBN-13: 9783836453035Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Language: EnglishPublished: 07/18/2008Pages: 260Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d

While a single fiber strand in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) has over a terabit-per-second bandwidth and a wavelength channel has over a gigabit-per-second transmission speed, the network may still be required to support traffic requests at rates that are lower than the full wavelength...

Context-awareness is a requirement of many modern applications. While several solutions exist to gather, represent and process context, very few provide management of context-aware data. In this book, a two-dimensional version model is presented, that allows managing context-dependent variants, while, at the same time,...

Plant modeling is a well established field of research of highly interdisciplinary character. First attempts date back into the 60's and since then the proposed models have been continuously improved throughout institutes in the whole world. Today these models find their way into areas...

Master's Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Computer Science - Bioinformatics, grade: 90, Punjabi University (Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana), course: Masters of Technology, language: English, abstract: Computational screening of databases has gained immense popularity in the pharmaceutical research and development....

Scientific Study from the year 2017 in the subject Computer Science - Bioinformatics, grade: 10, language: English, abstract: In observing interactive processes, conversion of observed uncertainty to observer certainty is natural phenomenon creating Yes-No actions of information Bit and its information observer. Observer emerges...

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2017 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: A, language: English, abstract: Online shopping is having very bright future. Perception towards online shopping is getting better in India. With the use of internet,...

Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Communications - Multimedia, Internet, New Technologies, grade: 9.0, language: English, abstract: The study provides quantitative results of the performance improvements obtained by new enhancements as observed by a single mobile user with respect to handoff...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Computer Science - Bioinformatics, Technical University of Munich, language: English, abstract: Nuclear transport of proteins is a basic cellular mechanism preceding a lot of biological processes. The classical transport mechanism for nuclear proteins involves karyopherins...

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2016 in the subject Computer Science - Bioinformatics, language: English, abstract: Schmallenberg (SBV) is a new virus of the Bunyaviridae family within the genus Orthobunyavirus. The viral infection causes mild clinical signs: fever, reduced milk production and diarrhea,...

Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Computer Science - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,0, University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna (Telecommunications and Internet Technologies), language: English, abstract: Operator-provided voice services will gradually migrate from today's circuit-switched (CS) voice networks to packet-switched IP networks,...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Computer Science - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,3, University of Cooperative Education Mannheim, language: English, abstract: In Computer Aided Design (CAD) 3D objects are often represented in form of trimmed NURBS surfaces. However, the rendering of NURBS...

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2013 in the subject Computer Science - Miscellaneous, course: Computer Science and Engineering - Human Computer Interaction, language: English, abstract: This book addresses to some of the important issues, challenges and approaches related to web accessibility in...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Computer Science - Miscellaneous, grade: 2,5, University of Applied Sciences Oberösterreich, Hagenberg, language: English, abstract: Near Field Communication (NFC) gained more and more popularity over the past few years. As a result, the number of...

Brain-computer interface (BCI), sometimes called a direct neural interface or a brain-machine interface (BMI), is a direct communication pathway between the brain and an external device. BCIs are often aimed at assisting, augmenting or repairing human cognitive or sensory-motor functions. In this book, study...

Today, in web based environment we are surrounded by data. And we all understand the importance of data at many a times. So, if we want to sustain i.e. to make our data visible & discoverable in present scenario, we have to make our...

Software engineering is a well-established field for the design and development of software systems that support each type of enterprise from the midsize to the large-scale. The software development life cycle (SDLC) consisting of requirements, design and development phases. Cloud computing provides many benefits...

Gentry's bootstrapping technique is still the only known method for obtaining fully homomorphic encryption. I propose a new fully homomorphic encryption scheme on non-associative octonion ring over finite field without bootstrapping technique. The security of the proposed fully homomorphic encryption scheme is based on...

The main aim of the project is to implement a real-time system that converts hand gestures from the American Sign Language(ASL) to voice signals. This could be used by the people with speaking disabilities to communicate with other people. For this purpose, surface Electromyogram(EMG)...

Block cipher algorithms are commonly used to secure confidential information in everyday user applications like smart cards. However, it is quite common for ignorant users to use familiar dictionary words or even names as their personal passwords. Two optimisation heuristic cryptanalytic attack methods (Tabu...

Opinion mining is used to improve the decision making of new user in various domains such as product, movie, news media, social networking shares etc. Feature based opinion mining rely only on single domain corpus in most of the existing methodology. Feature based opinion...

The purpose of the book is to advance in the understanding of brain functions by defining a general framework for representation based on granular computing theory. The idea is to bring this mathematical formalism into the domain of fuzzy neural representation of visual cognition,...

In this book, the objective pursued, the first objective is to provide the estimated time that the internal auditors on audit organization's IT(Information Technology) spend, in addition to a brief introduction of advanced technology, artificial intelligence, particularly with regard to their unique properties are...

This book is based on a Postgraduate thesis at University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. This book investigates the performance (in terms of speed (runtime) and memory usage) of three Database Management Systems (DBMSs) i-e Object Relational (PostgreSQL), Relational (SQL) and Non-relational/NoSQL (MongoDB) Databases using...

This work is purely based on traffic congestion as pertains to public transport traffic flow in Kenya. Simulation of traffic flow of public service vehicles has been used to bring home the scenario of congestion in a town in Kenya (Nakuru), and how this...

The book mainly discusses the features within the particular platforms for web development backing by three major sections. The first section demonstrates the research and study of the web technologies. The second section covers the full practical view which includes designing and implementation of...

This project work deals with reality mining and decision tree. Reality mining is the collection and analysis of data where human social behavior is analyzed through machine-sensed environment, with the goal of identifying predictable patterns of behavior. Classification is the process of finding a...

This book is designed to analyse data wifi signal and the comparison with and without antenna. The reason why we chose to do this "The Wifi signal booster with frying pan" is because overcome numerous problems that have been faced by many individual who...

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) V3 is made up of a collection of "best practices" found across the range of IT services. Applicable ITIL implementation guidance is lacking; particularly for the U. S. government agency which is faced with the task of providing the...

Cloud computing is a thriving technology that most organizations here in Kenya are considering for adoption as a cost effective strategy for managing IT. However, organizations also still consider the technology to be associated with many business risks that are not yet resolved. In...

It is tough to know intention of the steganography users .So it is difficult for investigators or forensic examiners to detect an image. Examiners need to develop other forensic tools like steganography, steganalysis and sterilization for better advancement. As key may or may not...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Computer Science - Bioinformatics, grade: 165/200 (A+), language: English, abstract: Aim: I sought to determine trauma-specific transcriptomic signatures for septic sub-cohorts. Methods: In retrospective large-scale data analysis, I applied (old and new methods), including lagged...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Computer Science - Bioinformatics, grade: 8.26, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, course: b.tech honors biotechnology, language: English, abstract: As the number of genomes sequenced is increasing at high rate, there is a need of gene prediction...

Many security primitives are based on hard mathematical problems. Using hard AI problems for security is emerging as an exciting new paradigm, but has been underexplored. In this project, we present a new security primitive based on hard AI problems, namely, a novel family...

Scheduling of real time tasks on clouds is one of the research problem, Where the matching of machines and completion time of the tasks are considered. Cloud computing is an internet-based computing, where resources, softwares and information are shared on demand basis i.e. The...

Mutli-agent based simulation models allow for the research of economic questions differently than before. This thesis builds a multi-agent based simulation model of the U.S. financial market, to examine the behavior of banks within it. Although the focus is on the credit market, a...

This book studies exponential time algorithms for NP-hard problems. In this modern area, the aim is to design algorithms for combinatorially hard problems that execute provably faster than a brute-force enumeration of all candidate solutions. After an introduction and survey of the field, the...

The remarkable computational power of the brain has motivated researchers to investigate computational systems which draw inspiration from the nervous system whose exact workings are still very much a mystery. Several neural models and encoding schemes were proposed and a number of learning rules...

Problems which originate in early development stages can have a lasting influence on the reliability, safety, and cost of a software system. This book explores the use of a software measurement for early software faults detection and reliability prediction. The preselected software measurement, originally...

This book is concerned with planning and acting under uncertainty in partially-observable continuous domains. It focusses on the problem of mobile robot navigation given a known map. The dominant paradigm for robot localisation is to use Bayesian estimation to maintain a probability distribution over...

An ancient Chinese text already shows an impassioned plea for customer oriented service as a way to develop customer relations and guarantee future business. This is similar to recent Customer Relationship Management literature which describes service encounters as 'the moments of truth' in which...

The field of algorithms is now a well-established part of computer science and mathematics, with its theoretical elegance and practical importance. On the one hand, computer practitioners can directly use good algorithms in complex programming projects. On the other hand, efficient algorithms often pose...

Author: Therese HellandISBN-10: 3639096169ISBN-13: 9783639096163Publisher: VDM VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/19/2008Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d

Databases in mobile telecommunications have become more and more important due to growing data volumes. More efficient database solutions are needed to support temporal and logical consistency. This book presents a possible database architecture for the growing data dilemma. It presents a database architecture...

The advent of internet as a means of conducting trade has created new challenges. It is not the first time that technology challenges the efficiency of the current legal framework but the extent of the threat to privacy renders a new approach imperative. In...

Throughout history, handwriting has been the primary means of recording information that is persevered across both time and space. With the coming of the electronic document era, we are challenged with making an enormous amount of handwritten documents available for electronic access. Though many...