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Enersave Api: Android-Based Power-Saving Framework For Mobile Devices, Y Beeharry, A.M Muharum, V Hurbungs, Vershley Joyejob

Future Computing and Informatics Journal

Power consumption is a major factor to be taken into consideration when using mobile devices in the IoT field. Good Power management requires proper understanding of the way in which it is being consumed by the end-devices. This paper is a continuation of the work in Ref. [1] and proposes an energy saving API for the Android Operating System in order to help developers turn their applications into energy-aware ones. The main features heavily used for building smart applications, greatly impact battery life of Android devices and which have been taken into consideration are: Screen brightness, Colour scheme, CPU frequency, …

Forecasting Of Nonlinear Time Series Using Ann, Ahmed Tealab, Hesham Hefny, Amr Badr

Future Computing and Informatics Journal

When forecasting time series, it is important to classify them according linearity behavior that the linear time series remains at the forefront of academic and applied research, it has often been found that simple linear time series models usually leave certain aspects of economic and financial data unexplained. The dynamic behavior of most of the time series in our real life with its autoregressive and inherited moving average terms issue the challenge to forecast nonlinear times series that contain inherited moving average terms using computational intelligence methodologies such as neural networks. It is rare to find studies that concentrate on …

Designing Fuzzy Rule Base Using Spider Monkey Optimization Algorithm In Cooperative Framework, Joydip Dhar

Future Computing and Informatics Journal

The paper focusses on the implementation of cooperative Spider Monkey Optimization Algorithm (SMO) to design and optimize the fuzzy rule base. Spider Monkey Optimization Algorithm is a fission-fusion based Swarm Intelligence algorithm. Cooperative Spider Monkey Algorithm is an off-line algorithm used to optimize all the free parameters in a fuzzy rule base. The Spider Monkeys are divided into various groups the solution from each group represents a fuzzy rule. These groups work in a cooperative way to design the whole fuzzy rule base. Simulation on fuzzy rules of two nonlinear controllers is done with a parametric study to verify the …

Interesting Association Rule Mining With Consistent And Inconsistent Rule Detection From Big Sales Data In Distributed Environment, Dinesh J. Prajapati, Sanjay Garg, N.C. Chauhan

Future Computing and Informatics Journal

Nowadays, there is an increasing demand in mining interesting patterns from the big data. The process of analyzing such a huge amount of data is really computationally complex task when using traditional methods. The overall purpose of this paper is in twofold. First, this paper presents a novel approach to identify consistent and inconsistent association rules from sales data located in distributed environment. Secondly, the paper also overcomes the main memory bottleneck and computing time overhead of single computing system by applying computations to multi node cluster. The proposed method initially extracts frequent itemsets for each zone using existing distributed …

A Survey On Exploring Key Performance Indicators, Amira Idrees

Future Computing and Informatics Journal

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) allows gathering knowledge and exploring the best way to achieve organization goals. Many researchers have provided different ideas for determining KPI's either manually, and semi-automatic, or automatic which is applied in different fields. This work concentrates on providing a survey of different approaches for exploring and predicting key performance indicators (KPIs).

A Survey Of Iot Cloud Platforms, Partha Pratim Ray

Future Computing and Informatics Journal

Internet of Things (IoT) envisages overall merging of several “things” while utilizing internet as the backbone of the communication system to establish a smart interaction between people and surrounding objects. Cloud, being the crucial component of IoT, provides valuable application specific services in many application domains. A number of IoT cloud providers are currently emerging into the market to leverage suitable and specific IoT based services. In spite of huge possible involvement of these IoT clouds, no standard cum comparative analytical study has been found across the literature databases. This article surveys popular IoT cloud platforms in light of solving …

A Cloud Interoperability Broker (Cib) For Data Migration In Saas, Hassan Ali, Ramdan Mowad, Amira Farouk

Future Computing and Informatics Journal

Cloud computing is becoming increasingly popular. Information technology market leaders, e.g., Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, are extensively shifting toward cloud-based solutions. However, there is isolation in the cloud implementations provided by the cloud vendors. Limited interoperability can cause one user to adhere to a single cloud provider; thus, a required migration of an application or data from one cloud provider to another may necessitate a significant effort and/or full-cycle redevelopment to fit the new provider's standards and implementation. The ability to move from one cloud vendor to another would be a step toward advancing cloud computing interoperability and increasing customer …

Fixing Rules For Data Cleaning Based On Conditional Functional Dependency, Asmaa Abdo

Future Computing and Informatics Journal

Most existing databases suffer from data inconsistencies. Enhancing data quality efforts are necessary to resolve this issue. In this paper, two techniques are proposed for mining accurate conditional functional dependencies rules from such databases to be employed for data cleaning. The idea of the proposed techniques is to mine firstly maximal closed frequent patterns, then mine the dependable conditional functional dependencies rules with the help of lift measure. Moreover, data repairing algorithm is proposed for fixing inconsistent tuples found in the database exploiting the generated rules. An extensive experimental is conducted study to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed techniques …

Benefits And Challenges Of Cloud Erp Systems – A Systematic Literature Review, Mohamed Abd Elmonem, Eman Nasr, Mervat Geith

Future Computing and Informatics Journal

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems provide extensive benefits and facilities to the whole enterprise. ERP systems help the enterprise to share and transfer data and information across all functions units inside and outside the enterprise. Sharing data and information between enterprise departments helps in many aspects and aims to achieve different objectives. Cloud computing is a computing model which takes place over the internet and provides scalability, reliability, availability and low cost of computer reassures. Implementing and running ERP systems over the cloud offers great advantages and benefits, in spite of its many difficulties and challenges. In this paper, we …

Centrifi: A Centralizedwireless Access Point Management Platform, Andreas Anderhub, Zac Wilson

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

With the ubiquity of wireless end-devices, more strain is placed on standard network deployment architectures. Mesh networks have started to rise in popularity in order to meet the needs of modern wireless networks. However, the existent solutions for deploying and centrally configuring mesh networks leave much to be desired, as most are either too expensive or too cumbersome. This paper showcases a solution to this problem, CentriFi—an open source platform, built to run on OpenWrt access points, providing a quick and easy way to set up and configure mesh networks in a central location using the 802.11s standard. CentriFi provides …

The Character Jar: Trait-Based Facial Feature Generation Software, Angela Shao

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

While AI has come a long way in random facial generation, very limited research has been done on targeted generation. Initial impressions given by faces vary widely depending on the shape and proportions of the features. This project will design a program that manipulates a face shape according to given traits. By using preexisting research on the correlation between facial features and associated characteristics and impressions, the practical uses of facial generation increase many fold. This allows facial generation to be applied to marketing and design, as well as increasing the overall accessibility to any laypersons seeking such applications.

Creation Of Mobile Applications For The Shrines Of Al-Hakim Al-Termizi, Mavlyuda Xodjayeva, Turdali Jumayev, Alimjon Dadamuhamedov, Barno Saydakhmedova

The Light of Islam

We recognize that the sustainable development of tourism has great potential for the development of cultural and humanitarian ties around the world. We emphasize the importance of information technology in tourism, especially in the areas of advertising, marketing, differentiation and specialization of tourism products. In addition, we reaffirm our commitment to pilgrimage tourism for the individual growth of people and the strengthening of basic social norms and national values. The program uses modern programming languages such as Php, Java, C ++. Al-Hakim at-Termizi is one of the most famous places of worship in Uzbekistan, which is also known for its …

Cloud Technologies In Islamic Education Institutions, Alimjon Dadamuhamedov Irgashevich

The Light of Islam

Information and Communication Technology is making use of ICT tools to store and retrieves information. It plays an important role in growing and maintaining a country’s economic growth. One of the latest technologies prevailing nowadays is cloud computing. By sharing IT services as platform-based, software-based, and infrastructure-based in the cloud, educational institutions in Uzbekistan can now out-source non-core services and better concentrate on offering students, teachers, faculty and other staff the essential tools to help them succeed. This paper looks at how Cloud Computing can be applied in the study of ICT and focuses on the role of cloud computing …

Galapago!, Kristina Anderson, Kat Hibbert, Mariah Manzano, Catrina Nguyen

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

When traveling to the Galápagos Islands, tourists are unaware of all the Islands have to offer and only visit popular tourist spots. They bring in pests which are damaging to the ecological structure and do not contribute to the local economy. There is very limited Internet services on the Islands and not many online resources to be found. We have created a mobile and web application that show users recommendations for their visit. Because the Galápagos Islands do not have reliable internet connectivity, our application must not rely on connectivity to function. Instead, users will only need to connect once …

Omwanathrive: A Neonatal Survival App, Story Deweese, Tiffany Lee, Samantha Sy, Emily Zhang

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

Uganda’s infant mortality rate is alarmingly high, ranking twenty-first in the world for highest infant mortality; eighty-one babies die within their first month of life each day in Uganda. The UN reports the greatest risk factors are rural location, prematurity, and young impoverished mothers with limited educational opportunities. Thus, young women are giving birth to children before they even learn about how to take care of their newborn infant. Our solution to this problem is in the form of a mobile application called OmwanaThrive: Neonatal Survival App. The purpose of the app is to educate women about how to properly …

Youlearn: Offline Media Streaming Application For Rural Uganda, Emma Allegrucci, Jiabei Luo, Brianna Mcgovern

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

The country of Uganda has implemented universal primary and secondary education. But still, some families cannot afford to send their children to school. When young people drop out of school, they often must resort to working illegal, unsafe, and low-paying jobs. Job prospects are even worse for disabled children. The objective of this project is to bring digital educational resources into rural villages in a low-cost manner.

YouLearn is an educational system that allows for o✏ine media streaming. Our system includes a Raspberry Pi to store the media locally and allows for streaming without WiFi being necessary. Our system supports …

Deep Reinforcement Learning For Dialogue Systems With Dynamic User Goals, Glen Chandler

Computer Science and Engineering Master's Theses

Dialogue systems have recently become a widely used system across the world. Some of the functionality offered includes application user interfacing, social conversation, data interaction, and task completion. Most recently, dialogue systems have been developed to autonomously and intelligently interact with users to complete complex tasks in diverse operational spaces. This kind of dialogue system can interact with users to complete tasks such as making a phone call, ordering items online, searching the internet for a question, and more. These systems are typically created by training a machine learning model with example conversational data. One of the existing problems with …

Drive Health: Road Condition Detection, Peter Ferguson, Brian Walker

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

Roadways play an essential role in toady’s society by contributing to economic growth and development, providing social benefits and fast routes to travel around efficiently. With more and more cars on roads, the quality of the streets is deteriorating faster than before. This decrease in road health contributes to hazards such as potholes and can cause significant damage to vehicles on the road. Currently, the process of improving and monitoring roads’ health is done infrequently and is time-consuming for the government. Therefore, many road quality issues are manually reported by the people who drive on them. This requires filling out …

Learning Acoustic Word Embeddings With Dynamic Time Warping Triplet Networks, Denis Shitov, Elena Pirogova, Tadeusz A. Wysocki, Margaret Lech

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications

In the last years, acoustic word embeddings (AWEs) have gained significant interest in the research community. It applies specifically to the application of acoustic embeddings in the Query-by Example Spoken Term Detection (QbE-STD) search and related word discrimination tasks. It has been shown that AWEs learned for the word or phone classification in one or several languages can outperform approaches that use dynamic time warping (DTW). In this paper, a new method of learning AWEs in the DTW framework is proposed. It employs a multitask triplet neural network to generate the AWEs. The triplet network learns acoustic representations of words …

Mobile Application To Distribute Water Quality In Rural Nicaragua, Rachael Freitag, Sarah Ortiz-Jones

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

The organization ASDENIC provides the citizens of northern Nicaragua with many resources to help them become more informed farmers and improve the quality of their lives. ASDENIC currently holds weekly meetings to distribute information such as water quality, weather conditions, and other important agricultural updates. However, technological limitations still prevent Nicaraguan farmers from getting updates from ASDENIC in real-time. We have partnered with Santa Clara University’s Frugal Innovation Hub and ASDENIC to create a mobile application to distribute necessary information to communities in rural Nicaragua in realtime.

Our mobile application is a platform for community leaders to share relevant information …

Photo-Realistic Image Synthesis From Text Descriptions, Ryan Cain, Gabriel Kralik, Campbell Munson

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

Deep convolutional generative adversarial networks (DCGANs) have proven capable at generating diverse, photorealistic images of human faces, but it is difficult and often time-consuming to choose what kind of image these generative adversarial networks (GANs) produce. We create a simple, intuitive web application through which users may write a description of a human face in plain text and generate photos that appear to match the given description. In this paper, we show how text can be used to direct the output of a conditional GAN with a DCGAN architecture. While our images did somewhat resemble human faces, they often had …

Smart Quizzes, Andres Cisneros-Munoz, Cole Sanchez

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

Standardized testing, while efficient for testing a large amount of people, is not an effective or holistic method of evaluating test takers. They fail to take into consideration factors such as stress, which can inhibit a student’s ability to perform well on a test. Our goal is to create a framework for creating tests that are dynamic, adaptive assessments, minimize stress levels, and overall improve student performance. This solution will produce in tests that even out the academic playing field while being more informative in their assessments.

Neptune: Marine Robot Rov Control System, Alex Achramowicz, Chris Layco, Cooper Zediker

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

The mysteries of the aquatic world and the dangers human activity poses to its environmental health are important considerations. It is pivotal we find ecient methods to study and monitor the subsea environments in order to maintain and improve their health. This document provides insight into the planning, design, implementation, and testing in developing an enhanced control system for a marine remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to eectively control various mounted hardware components. Our goal for this design is to greatly assist scientists and environmentalists observe and collect subsea data to improve the subsea environment.

Clubgrove, Travis Le, Lyman Shen

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

The current Santa Clara University Club system does not provide the necessary information in a relevant and concise fashion. As a solution, we built a system that caters towards students who are looking for clubs. In addition, the system also caters towards club leaders who want to increase their clubs’ visibility. Our system allows students to look up clubs, search club events, and look at interested clubs as well as previously joined clubs. The goal of this project is to provide an easy way for students to be involved in more clubs and allow clubs to gain members without spending …

A Low-Cost And Energy-Effcient Wearable Device For Posture Monitoring, George Shappell, Ying Huang, Ali Nazemi

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

Millions of Americans suffer every year from back problems, now imagine if there was a way to help track and prevent back problems. Our solution to this problem is PostureBot a device that will help its users to correct their back posture and maintain good back posture.In doing so this device can help elevate and prevent people from developing minor and serious back problems in their future.

Flomosys: A Flood Monitoring System, Tai Groot

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

The expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to numerous innovations in the industry, including improvements to existing systems. Disaster prevention and monitoring systems are a prime example of such systems. Every year, there are significant and preventable financial losses, not to mention the safety hazards caused by floods. To warn people ahead of time, it is possible to deploy low-power wireless sensor nodes to send readings across any terrain to a cloud platform, which can perform pattern analysis, prediction, and alert forwarding to anyone's cellular device. In this paper, I propose Flomosys, a low-cost, low-power, secure, scalable, …

Advocasea, Emily Dang

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

Plastics and pollution in the ocean pose a tremendous threat to the world’s biodiversity and human life on the planet. However, this issue is characterized by a lack of visibility and urgency. People do not understand the importance of this pollution because they do not sense an immediate or tangible impact on their lives. AdvocaSea is a virtual reality experience that teaches people about plastics in the ocean in a more immersive and engaging way, and by doing so, gives them more motivation and agency to make change in the world. This experience was delivered at Santa Clara’s Senior Design …

Acas: Always Connected, Always Secure, Blaise Aranador, Antonio Gigliotti, Shining Liu

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

There is no place where safety is more important than in the home. Research has shown that home security systems are effective in deterring burglars; additionally, these security systems allow residents to monitor their property at all times, even while they are away. More and more of these home security devices rely on a stable Internet connection and cannot provide functionality without it. ACAS is a system that helps keep smart devices connected to the Internet, even in the event of a home internet outage.

ACAS includes a programmable router that can connect to multiple Internet sources, which sets it …

Securely Updating Iot Using Blockchain, Rachael Brooks

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

Because of the extensive growth of loT devices in the last few years, researchers have been looking for ways to reduce the amount of power they use. One cause for concern is the energy used to communicate with manufacturers when an update has to occur. Our solution to this problem is to move those communications off the device and onto a blockchain, with the owner of the device as an intermediary. The update is handled through the blockchain and is mediated by a smart contract. Overall, the owner pays for the update, the manufacturer passes the encrypted keys for the …

Truck Routing Application, Adam Miller

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

This application aims to provide dispatchers with an accessible tool to assist them in routing a fleet of trucks in the most ecient way. The vehicle routing problem is a notoriously complex and inecient problem to solve, yet dispatchers are tasked with solving it every single day by hand. Rather than radically transform a dispatcher’s time-sensitive workflow, my application seeks to provide them with a simple, powerful tool that can supplement their daily duties. This application will ultimately help dispatchers perform their jobs more eciently and contribute to the reduction of fuel consumption, carbon emissions, and vehicle maintenance costs.