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Adapting To The Information Age, Jens G. Pohl

Collaborative Agent Design (CAD) Research Center

This paper draws attention to the profound changes that human civilization is experiencing as it moves from an industrial environment into an information environment, in which unprecedented emphasis is placed on the knowledge and capabilities of the individual. A clear distinction is drawn between data and information in relationship to computer-based facilities, and the transition of data-processing to the higher levels of information and knowledge representation in quasi intelligent decision-support systems. It is argued that the cultivation of its human capital becomes a foundational requirement for the success of a knowledge-based organization. In such an organization traditional practices of hierarchical, …

Traffic Scheduling And Link Sharing Mechanisms For Controlled Load Service, Yun Choong Chin

Student Works (2000-2009)

The project studies and develops a simulator based on the link-sharing and traffic scheduling mechanism for Controlled Load service. The simulation adopts some of the features of the Class Based Queueing. The main factors that determine whether a packet scheduling algorithm is able to support integrated services or differentiated services on Internet is the ability to provide bandwidth guarantee. It is important to provide guarantee for minimum bandwidth when there are enough demands to ensure competing data flows do· not degrade each others' performance. The objective of this project is to observe the performance of the link-sharing and traffic scheduling …

Routing Optimization Through Computer-Aided Simulation, Madhusudhan Akundi

Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Routing has always been a challenging field, and the various techniques of mathematics and operations research have been developed. For commercial organizations, routing has begun to receive extensive attention because of the savings gained in terms of time, money, personnel, and the transportation fleet by developing optimized routing networks. Until recently, it was difficult to develop optimized networks due to the computational difficulties of the problem. However, with the advancement in computer technology and processing speeds, it has become possible to simulate a large number of routing scenarios and determine optimal solutions for a given set of constraints. Not only …

A Flowchart Structure For Modification Of A Modsim Process Model, Murali K. Adatrao

Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses & Dissertations

There are many software processes and software development models that support the development of a software model prior to implementation. However, more often than not, these practices are not followed resulting in a lack of documentation of the intended functionality of the software. As a result, software often becomes a black box for later developers. Even a simple bug fix can turn into an exhaustive task for the developers, as they must attempt to infer the intended system behavior. New designers cannot make any changes to the software or extend the software behavior, as the underlying model within the software …

Proceedings Of The 2000 Onr Decision-Support Workshop Series: The Human-Computer Partnership In Decision-Support, Collaborative Agent Design Research Center

Collaborative Agent Design (CAD) Research Center

The Decision Support Workshop of May 2-4, 2000 held in San Luis Obispo, Cal., was the second in a series that was started one year earlier as a joint project of the Office of Naval Research and the Collaborative Agent Design Research Center of Cal Poly.

The goal of this series of Workshops is to provide a forum where connections can be established on one hand between developers and proponents of decision support tools, with potential users such as managers of large, complex organizations/systems on the other. Clearly, the military belong to this class of users and it is therefore …

Pembangunan Laman Web Bermultimedia Bagi Sebuah Sekolah, Kaliappan Malathi

Student Works (2000-2009)

Laman web sekolah ini merupakan sebuah laman web bermultimedia yang mengandungi unsur-unsur multimedia seperti bunyi, grafik, imej dan animasi. Objektif utama laman web ini adalah untuk membangunkan satu sistem multimedia yang bermutu tinggi, mengetahui keputusan peperiksaan awam, mengetahui maklumat ahli-ahli organisasi sekolah iaitu guru-guru dan kakitangan lain kerana ke semua maklumat ini telah dimasukkan dalam pangkalan data, memberi maklumat tentang aktiviti tahunan dan ko-kurikulum sekolah. Dengan adanya laman web ini, maklumat dapat diperoleh tanpa mengunjungi sekolah tersebut. Secara amnya, laman web ini mengandungi semua maklumat tentang sekolah tersebut seperti sejarah sekolah, organisasi sekolah, pencapaian akademik, kurikulum, kokurikulum, aktiviti tahunan, kemudahan …

Decision Support Methods In Diabetic Patient Management By Insulin Administration Neural Network Vs. Induction Methods For Knowledge Classification, B. V. Ambrosiadou, S. Vadera, Venky Shankaraman, D. Goulis, G. Gogou

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Diabetes mellitus is now recognised as a major worldwide public health problem. At present, about 100 million people are registered as diabetic patients. Many clinical, social and economic problems occur as a consequence of insulin-dependent diabetes. Treatment attempts to prevent or delay complications by applying ‘optimal’ glycaemic control. Therefore, there is a continuous need for effective monitoring of the patient. Given the popularity of decision tree learning algorithms as well as neural networks for knowledge classification which is further used for decision support, this paper examines their relative merits by applying one algorithm from each family on a medical problem; …

Jotmail: A Voicemail Interface That Enables You To See What Was Said, Steve Whittaker, Richard C. Davis, Julia Hirschberg, Urs Muller

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Voicemail is a pervasive, but under-researched tool for workplace communication. Despite potential advantages of voicemail over email, current phone-based voicemail UIs are highly problematic for users. We present a novel, Web-based, voicemail interface, Jotmail. The design was based on data from several studies of voicemail tasks and user strategies. The GUI has two main elements: (a) personal annotations that serve as a visual analogue to underlying speech; (b) automatically derived message header information. We evaluated Jotmail in an 8-week field trial, where people used it as their only means for accessing voicemail. Jotmail was successful in supporting most key voicemail …

A Semantic-Based Middleware For Multimedia Collaborative Applications, Agustin Jose Gonzalez

Computer Science Theses & Dissertations

The Internet growth and the performance increase of desktop computers have enabled large-scale distributed multimedia applications. They are expected to grow in demand and services and their traffic volume will dominate. Real-time delivery, scalability, heterogeneity are some requirements of these applications that have motivated a revision of the traditional Internet services, the operating systems structures, and the software systems for supporting application development. This work proposes a Java-based lightweight middleware for the development of large-scale multimedia applications. The middleware offers four services for multimedia applications. First, it provides two scalable lightweight protocols for floor control. One follows a centralized model …

A Formal Methodology And Technique For Verifying Communication Protocols In A Multi-Agent Environment, Timothy H. Lacey

Theses and Dissertations

As network bandwidth increases, distributed applications are becoming increasingly prevalent. Systems using these applications are very complicated to build and must be dependable. Software agents are ideal for breaking complicated problems into manageable subtasks. Agent conversations, a series of messages passed between agents, are the cornerstone of multi-agent systems and must be deemed correct before being placed into service. The purpose of this research was to develop a formal methodology and technique to verify that the communication protocols defined in a multi-agent environment were valid. This was accomplished by examining agent conversations before deploying the system. An additional goal of …

Distributed Object System Engineering For Terminal Aerodrome Forecast Validation And Metrics Processing, James S. Douglas

Theses and Dissertations

Distributed object systems are a very complex intertwining of heterogeneous hardware, software, and operating systems coupled with communication networks of varying protocols and capacities. Distributed components offer improved performance through parallel processing, improved expansion and scalability opportunities through modularity, improved availability through replication, and improved resource sharing and interoperability through interconnection. This research provides a distributed system design methodology to validate terminal forecasts and gather metrics for the Air Force Weather Agency. Proven principles such as component reuse and architectural development are applied through the use of parameterized types and design patterns. A client/server measurement model is developed to show …

Formal Object State Model Transformations For Automated Agent System Synthesis, David W. Marsh

Theses and Dissertations

Automated agent system synthesis is the process of generating code from a requirements specification with appropriate inputs from the software engineer. Object-oriented (OO) specifications are frequently used to model intelligent software agent systems and software requirements in general; formal representations capture precisely the intentions of the specifier. Portions of OO specifications can be classified as the structural, functional, and state (or dynamic) models; major strides have been taken in the development of transformations for creating code from formal OO specifications, specifically the structural and functional aspects, and are captured within the AFIT Wide-Spectrum Object Modeling Environment (AWSOME). This research creates …

Crop Updates 2000 Cereals - Part 3, Roslyn J. Jettner, Blakely Paynter, Glenn Macdonald, Pierre Fievez, Ian Foster, David Tennant, Wal Anderson, James Ridsdill-Smith, Celia Pavri, Ross Chapman, Senthold Asseng, Steve Carr, Brad Nutt, Lindrea Latham, Roger Jones, Anyou Liu, Clinton K. Revell, David Ferris, Roy Latta, Lisa-Jane Blacklow, Chris Matthews, Ted Woodburn, Paul Yeoh, Ian Rose, Anita Lyons, Simon Cook, Matthew L. Adams, Robert J. Corner

Crop Updates

This session covers eighteen papers from different authors:

BARLEY AND OAT AGRONOMY

1. Unicorn barley must meet malting specifications to be a viable option, Roslyn Jettnerand Blakely Paynter, Agriculture Western Australia

2. Optimum oat seed rates, Glenn McDonald, Agriculture Western Australia

3. Production and Quality of export Oaten Hay (1998 and 1989), Pierre Fievez, Pierre Fievez and Associates

FROST

4. Climatology of Frost in Southern Western Australia, Ian Foster, Agriculture Western Australia

5. Flowering calculator, David Tennant, Agriculture Western Australia

6. Some options for managing the risk of frost damage, Wal Anderson, Agriculture Western Australia

PASTURE

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Applications Of Fuzzy Logic To Software Model, Yahaya Yuhanim Hani

Student Works (2000-2009)

This thesis investigates the use of fuzzy logic approach in software metrics application. Software metrics defines a standard way of measuring the properties of software products, development processes and resources. The most common application of software metrics is the software cost estimation where it predicts the effort required for completing certain stages of a software development life cycle. The ability to obtain an accurate effort prediction is essential for the cost estimation process, as it helps a project manager to specify the efforts needed for project development. In relation to this, cost estimation models such as COCOMO (Constructive Cost Model), …

Adap: A Component-Based Model Using Design Patterns With Applications In E-Commerce, Katrina Yun Ji

Theses Digitization Project

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Sistem Pengurusan Pameran, Othman Faisal

Student Works (2000-2009)

Dewasa ini, integrasi antara sistem maklumat pengurusan dengan sistem maklumat lain yang sedia ada seperti sistem maklumat eksekutif dan sistem sokongan keputusan dilihat umpama penerokaari yang tiada titik tamatnya. Ketiga-tiganya mempunyai pengaruh dalam pembuatan keputusan malah di dalam dunia sebenar, pengaruh ini dikamirkan kepada satu sistem maklumat gabungan atau fungsi bersaling (cross-functional) yang membekalkan pelbagai fungsian. O'Brien (1996) menggelarkan gabungan tiga kuasa sistem maklumat ini sebagai sistem sokongan pengurusan yang menekankan orientasi pengurusan bagi pemiagaan berasaskan teknologi maklumat[2]. Atas dasar itu, Sistem Pengurusan Pameran mengkamirkan lagi penggabungan O'Brien kepada pengurusan strategik supaya penyaluran maklumat boleh diperolehi pada masa yang tepat, …

Peralatan Membaca Untuk Golongan Kurang Penglihatan, Abd Rahman Fadzli

Student Works (2000-2009)

Oalam menghadapi cabaran era sains dan teknoIogi pada alaf ini teknologi maklumat rnenjadi tunjang utama dalam informasi dan kegunaan terhadap setiap goIongan masyarakat.Oieh itu setiap kelebihannya haruslah dapat dirasai Ieh setiap goIongan masyarakat. Oieh itu satu sistem telah dibangunkan untuk membantu golongan kurang penglihatan dalam pembacaan. Sistem ini dibangunkan dalah untuk menbantu golongan kurang penglihatan dalam pembacaan teks atau perkataan dengan penggunaan komputer. Sistem Peralatan Membaca Untuk Golongan Kurang Penglihatan Versi Bahasa Melayu ini adalah merupakan sistem yang menggunakan konsep text-to-speech. Input sistem adalah merupakan teks atau perkataan yang dimasukkan oleh pengguna dan pembacaan teks atau perkataan adalah merupakan output …

Sistem Pakar Bermultimedia Untuk Pengenalpastian Serangga, Osman Aizul Hussin

Student Works (2000-2009)

Sistem Pakar Bermultimedia untuk domain pengenalpastian serangga ,Insect Identification Expert System,(IIES ) merupakan sistem pakar untuk membantu proses pengenalpastian pangkat serangga dalam Hierarki Linnean. Sistem ini menggunakan pendekatan berorientasikan objek di mana konsep kelas dan objek akan digunakan untuk merekodkan pengetahuan ke bentuk yang akan difahami oleh sistem pakar. Strategi inferens yang digunakan ialah teknik rantaian ke hadapan di mana sistem pakar akan menghasilkan konklusi berdasarkan data-data yang diberi. Sistem pakar mempunyai ciri-ciri multimedia untuk membantu memberi panduan bagi pengguna untuk mengenal pasti ciri-ciri kunci serangga dan memberi penjelasan tentang domain di samping memberi pendekatan yang berlainan dari sistem pakar …

Laman Maklumat Berasaskan Web Untuk Pelajar-Pelajar Spm Khusus Matapelajaran Fizik Dan Bahasa Melayu, Kamis Faridah

Student Works (2000-2009)

Saya telah memilih untuk membangunkan sebuah halaman web yang mampu menyediakan capaian kepada laman-laman lain yang mengandungi nota latihan contoh-contoh soalan dan beberapa kaedah pembelajaran yang berguna untuk pelajar-pelajar tingkatan 5. Dengan kata lain, laman ini cuba bertindak sebagai pintu masuk ke laman-laman lain yang ada menawarkan pelbagai bahan-bahan keperluan untuk para pelajar. Untuk memastikan laman spm ini dapat bertindak sebagai tapak pengumpul yang cekap dan berkesan maka satu fungsi enjin pencari telah dilaksanakan untuk membolehkan pelajar-pelajar membuat pencarian sumber-sumber. Hasilnya, pelajar-pelajar tidak perlu membuang masa dan tenaga untuk menjelajah mana-mana Iaman yang tidak berkaitan serta belum pasti lagi menepati …

Intelligent Agent For E-Commerce Using Genetic Algorithm, Sun Sun Kok

Student Works (2000-2009)

This project report outlines the introduction, literature study and methodology, system analysis and design, system implementation, system testing and summary of the whole project. The major objective of this system is to develop an intelligent agent that can gather. analyze and categorize information from the Web on the printers that complying the parameters specified /identified by the web users, and to provide recommendations for online purchases for all types of printers. The recommended web sites are restricted to web pages that provide online purchase facilities and deliveries in Malaysia. The system is able to update the information from the database …

Sistem Waktu Solat Dan Tahun Hijrah (Laman Nurani) / Sharifah Haslinda Sayed Boniamin, Sayed Boniamin Sharifah Haslinda

Student Works (2000-2009)

Sistem Waktu Solat dan Tahun Hijrah ini adalah sistem yang akan memaparkan paparan kalender terkini, pertukaran kalender dari kalender Hijrah ke kalender Gregorian dan sebaliknya, serta paparan bagi waktu solat semasa meng1kut nama bandar atau daerah yang dipilih oleh pengguna.Selain daripada itu, pengguna juga dapat mengetahui perkara atau peristiwa yang penting di dalam Islam mengenai cara sambutan, kenapa diraikan, bila dan bagaimana. Sistem ini dibina berasaskan laman web, ini kerana pengguna akan lebih mudah mendapatkan sistem ini daripada internet berbanding dengan aplikasi perisian. Skop bagi sistem ini adalah merangkumi paparan waktu solat, pertukaran kalender dan juga peristiwa-peristiwa penting dalam Islam. …

Fsktm On-Line Room Booking System, Ah Ming Ser

Student Works (2000-2009)

The purpose of this report is to document the essential information and need to develop this system that is On-line Room Booking System. This report is mainly divided into 6 chapter. A brief synopsis of each chip is as follows: Chapter 1 The introduction: The Faculty background, project introduction, objective, scope and goals for projects, also have the overview projects and the project scheduling. Chapter 2 Literature Review: Such as the system analysis and synthesis project. This chapter include the fact-finding, requirement analysis, analysis of current system, reference to the existing system list of resources surveyed, the internet definitions and …

Control Application For Client Server/Based: Interactive Puzzle Game, Francis Evelyn

Student Works (2000-2009)

IPG is a web-enabled application developed through client/server based architecture. Client/server architecture can be define as a design approach that divides the functional processing of an application and distributes it across two or more processing platforms. IPG is design in fulfillment of the client/server environment, which provides the infrastructure of such as middleware, networks, operating systems, hardware that supports the current distributed applications. IPG gives the interactive utility that enables concurrent users in the networked computing. This application supports the gaming features such as winning, loss, and draw, create a new game and many else. IPG also acts and tries …

Sistem Alumni, Zainal Abidin Nor Azeani

Student Works (2000-2009)

Projek yang akan dibagunkan ini adalah Sistem Alumni yang dibina khusus untuk graduan Fakulti Sains Komputer Dan Teknologi Maklumat, Universiti Malaya. Sistem ini merupakan sebuah sistem yang berorientasikan web. Objektif utama sistem ini adalah untuk menyediakan satu medan perhubungan untuk para graduan disamping mendapat maklum balas mereka berkaitan program yang ditawarkan di fakulti ini. Aplikasi sistem ini terbahagi kepada dua modul iaitu modul pengguna dan modul pentadbir. Modul pengguna boleh diklasifikasikan kepada graduan fakulti ini serta pihak fakulti dimana kedua-duanya hanya boleh melakukan perkara tertentu yang dibenarkan sahaja manakala modul pentadbir diklasifikasikan kepada pembangun sistem ini dimana ianya boleh melakukan …

Web Wordpro, Yeu Wen Wong

Student Works (2000-2009)

Web WordPro is a Web based application that allows word processing via World Wide Web. The goal of the project is to develop a word processing program that is similar to Notepad or WordPad but the program is applied on the Internet platform. The motivation of the project is the Web WordPro is feasible for implementation because of Web allows widely distribution of information, to a wide audience at a low cost. Almost seven months is allocated to complete the project. Literature review has been carried out on the information that are related to Web and word processing. Web WordPro …

Web-Based System On Pregnancy - Giving Birth (Sistem Kehamilan - Kelahiran Anak), Hoi Yen Siow

Student Works (2000-2009)

From pregnancy until childbirth, it is always a process of tiring, joy and tribulations. Pregnancy women experience great changes in mentality and physically. They need to learn the related information to minimize their anxiety, to help them discover the danger signs earlier and to be well prepared for their baby's arrival. In Malaysia, pregnancy women tend to get the knowledge on pregnancy from their relatives, friends and books. An online system on pregnancy - giving birth could be developed as a good alternative of their information resources. The information could be delivered via World Wide Web (WWW). With the features …

Sistem Penjana Metadata (Metadata Generator), Zainal Zuraini

Student Works (2000-2009)

Sistem Penjana Metadata merupakan sistem atas talian yang dinamakan Metadata Generator. Sistem ini dibangunkan bagi keperluan penjanaan metadata dan juga metatag yang mana ia membenarkan metadata tersebut dimasukkan ke dalam laman web. Perkhidmatan yang disediakan oleh sistem ini merupakan salab satu altematif bagi memenuhi keperluan pengorganisasian maklumat yang berkesan. Ini adalah untuk memastikan segala maklumat disusun dengan baik bagi keperluan capaian yang cekap dan lebih efisyen. Sistem yang dibangunkan ini menyediakan dua fungsi utama iaitu menjana metadata dan metatag yang mana metadata yang digunakan adalab mengikut format-format tertentu mengikut pilihan pengguna. Selain itu juga ia menyediakan templat dan juga panduan …

Introduction To The Law Library Cd-Based Multimedia Package, Yuet Lai Chan

Student Works (2000-2009)

This project, Introduction to the Law Library, is a CD-based multimedia package which main objective is to provide information about the library to the new law students during orientation week. This proposal provides an overview about the development of this package. Literature reviews provide ideas and enable developers to have a clearer picture in developing a system. For this project, review has been done on multimedia development, development strategy, authoring tools, similar packages, and others library web pages. From the findings, lots of information for developing this project was obtained and the results were all shown in the chapter two …

Sistem Penjualan Dan Penghantaran Barang Berkonsepkan Multimedia, Muhammad Razlan

Student Works (2000-2009)

Projek Ilmiah Tahap Akhir 2 ini merupakan kursus yang diwajibkan oleh Fakulti Sains Komputer dan Teknologi Maklumat Universiti Malaya bagi melayakkan diri para pelajar bagi memenuhi sebahagian syarat-syarat penganugerahan Ijazah Sarjana Muda Sains Komputer dan Teknologi Maklumat. Laporan ini dibuat berdasarkan tentang pendedahan dan penyampaian melalui kajian terpennci, pembahagian masa pembikinan atau penjadualan kerja, pengagihan waktu, dan pelbagai lagi penekaan yang diberikan .Setiap latihan yang diperolehi dan dilakukan adalah mengikut jadual Laporan ini juga merupakan rentetan perjalanan projek yang telah dijalankan di serata halaman-halaman web terutamanya di sebelah barat. Segala perancangan dan pembanggunan projek diadaptasikan dalam laporan ini bertujuan untuk …

Higher Education Information System, Subramanian Suresh Kannan

Student Works (2000-2009)

Web based Higher Learning Education Information System is an information system developed to inform dissemination and retrieval of universities and colleges information online. This application makes fully use of web technology which enables users to access to the internet from their dekstops. Thus, making this system accessible by wider group of users compared to the local area network system application. Beside that, a web search engine also developed as extended function to enable web searching.this project starts with a report in chapter one by looking into the project background, defining the project objective, motivation and scope. Chapter two concerns on …