008625   Tarar S;Ela Kumar (NO, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, Email: tarar.sandhya@gmail.com) : Modeling and simulation of autonomous vehicle management system using fuzzy theory. Curr Trends Inf Technol 2012, 2(1), 39-47.

Fuzzy techniques have demonstrated a surge in the practical applications of fuzzy set theory. Presents the speed control mechanism that solves the problem intelligently by learning, adaptation and incorporating human knowledge. The proposed speed controller is used to manage the speed of the trains while at the same time managing the uncertainty in the condition of railway tracks. To deal with the aforesaid issues of uncertainty a Fuzzy Inference System has been proposed. This helps in maintaining the optimum speed of railway vehicles, based on some rules derived from expert knowledge. The proposed system has been aided by some active agents such as environment monitoring and time scheduling that minimizes the risk of undesired circumstances. This paper presents the simulated form of a vehicle control system, which is controlling speed by controlling vehicle deviation index, channelizing the traffic and maintaining track condition. Designing of Fuzzy Inference Systems for this speed controller is based on fuzzy set theory and it requires the computation to be carried out in real time.

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008624   Sharma A;Vijay R;Sohony R A (Environmental System Design & Modeling Div, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, CSIR-NEERI, Nehru Marg, Nagpur-440 020, Email: a_sharma@neeri.res.in) : Development of tidal current analysis and visualization software. Indian J Geomar Sci 2012, 41(3), 199-202.

Present development consists tidal current analysis software for current data visualization in more precised and desired format This software provides facility to generate report and records of current data for various marine and coastal research studies. Software is generic, user friendly and platform independent, developed in Visual Basic Dot Net Framework (VB.Net). It can be used as a first hand tool for research studies in marine and coastal environment like navigation, waste and sewage disposal, accidental releases and dye experiment.

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008623   Prajapati J B;Modi N K (NO, Acharya Motibhai Patel Institute of Computer Studies, Ganpat Vidyanagar, Kherva) : Performance improvements in thin client through software fault tolerance. Curr Trends Inf Technol 2011, 1(2-3), 16-21.

We have already moved towards hi-tech technology in each field of study in a cost effective manner. Thin client technology boasts of an impressive range of financial, technical, and administrative benefits combined with virtualization technology, higher bandwidth availability, and cheaper and high performance processors. In thin client systems, the server must function with a very high availability even under any fault condition. Focuses on the thin client environment, and the working of thin client. Further, we discuss its performance issues and highlight its weak spots. Discusses ways to make the thin client system more accurate by incorporating fault tolerance using a diverse design approach. The technique of design diversity applied to a thin client system will make it more effective in handling faults and enable them to be more consistent. We will approach the problems by focusing on the software and hardware faults and then apply the techniques of software and hardware fault tolerance, respectively.

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008622   Molla M K I;Ghribi W;Hamid M E (Information and Communication Engineering Dep, The Tokyo Univ, Tokyo, Japan, Email: ekram_hamid@yahoo.com) : Principal component analysis based dominant features selection method for speaker identification. Curr Trends Signal Process 2011, 1(1), 10-21.

Cepstrum based features are mostly used in speaker identification. Mel-frequency cepstrum coefficients (MFCCs) and their statistical properties (skewness, kurtosis and standard deviation) are used in this paper for text-dependent speaker identification. Principal component analysis (PCA) is employed to select the dominant feature vector representing the speaker characteristics. Multi-layer neural network is used as the classification engine. There occurs the inter-speaker variation of speech length uttering the same word. The feature speaker specific vector of defined dimension is derived with PCA. The statistical properties of the selected features and the effects of the first MFCC are studied in terms of speaker identification performanc and convergence speed of neural network as illustrated by the experimental results.

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008621   Mohanty R;Behera H S;Jha R K;Bishi S K (Computer Science Engieering Dep, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla, Orissa, Email: hsbehera_india@yahoo.com) : Off-line accessing algorithms with circular doubly linked list and partial cost model. Curr Trends Inf Technol 2011, 1(1), 16-22.

List Accessing Problem (LAP) has been an interesting and challenging research area for computer scientists sincne last four decades. Various algorithms have been developed to access the records by different researchers with an intention to minimize the cost of traversal. Describes two newly proposed algorithms, which are variants of FC and MTF for circular doubly linked list with the use of partial cost model. A theoretical as well as experimental comparative study of the proposed algorithms is performed. The total cost of searching of records for different input sequence is generalized using mathematical expression.

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008620   Behera H S;Panda J;Thakur D;Sahoo S (Computer Science and Engineering Dep, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla, Odisha, Email: hsbehera_india@yahoo.com) : Clustering based CPU scheduling algorithm for real time systems. Curr Trends Inf Technol 2011, 1(1), 1-7.

CPU scheduling is a fundamental function of operating system. The performance and efficiency of multitasking operating systems mainly depend upon the uses of CPU scheduling algorithm. When an operating system wants to execute a process, it does not know the execution time it needs. After running, the exact execution time of that process would appear. Here we present a new scheduling approach using the Partitioning Around Medoid (PAM) clustering algorithm in conjunction with Shortest Job First (SJF). This proposed approach is able to estimate the execution time (next CPU-burst time) of a process. The processes in each cluster are processed in the ready queue, for the time period of one time quantum, equal to medoid of respective cluster. The remaining processes, which are not completely processed in first cycle, are clustered again with remaining burst time and time quantum equal to medoid is assigned to the processes in respective clusters. This process continues until there is no process in the ready queue.

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008619   Abdul Shabeer H;Wahidabanu R S D (NO, Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Email: abdulshabeer@gmail.com) : Risk precaution measure on mobile phone usage while driving. Curr Trends Inf Technol 2011, 1(1), 23-30.

Mobile phones are small, compact, easy to use and have become an essential part of life for many people. It enables people to maintain contact with family, friends and business associates. As well as the general communication benefits, access to a mobile phone also provides safety benefits by enabling people to alert breakdown or emergency services when necessary. Talking on the phone and sending text messages while driving are obvious distractions that can lead to fatal accidents on the road. According to Indian National Crime Records Bureau at least 13 people die every hour in road accidents. Various Statistics also reveal that a large portion of road accidents in India is caused by mobile phone usage while driving. Though various measures and rules placed on mobile phone usage, still it's highly impossible to prevent this type of occurrence. So in order to overcome this serious issue, authors developed an application which will helps in reducing the number of mobile accident significantly and further extend the research, by comparing the results obtained after installing this application with recent study of US National Safety Council, conducted on 2010.

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007593   Shukla A;Jibhakate S S (SOST Dep, International Institute of Information Technology, Pune, Maharashtra) : Design and implementation of real-time security system in highly crowded zone on embedded platform. J Commun Engng Syst 2012, 2(3), 26-32.

Gist of this paper is to find answer to a very fundamental question: How safe and free are we as individuals? If not, then how the latest technologies can be used to make us safe and free. This question looks very simple but it is one that is attracting the interest of both the normal human beings like us and the technologists who spend their lifetime to make our life easier and safe. Human security could be said to further enlarge the scope for examining the causes and consequences of the existing ways for the same and at the same time how the implementation of technologies can be done to overcome these issues and make human life as secure as possible. The present paper is an attempt to fill the gap between human safety and technologies which discusses as to how the advanced technology like embedded system can be used to make real-time security systems for highly crowded places like shopping malls, cinema halls, etc., and how these two fields need to be more fully integrated in order to enhance security for all.

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007592   Shukla A;Huddar S;Sangeetham S (School of Interdisciplinary Science & Technology, International Institute of Information Technology, Pune, Email: abhisheks@isquareit.ac.in) : 'Cloud computing': a virtual way of accessing technology. J Commun Engng Syst 2011, 1(1), 17-23.

Cloud computing is the latest innovation for today's virtual accessing demands. One needs to be updated with every new era as well as, with latest available technologies as quick as possible. Cloud computing provides the best suited environment platform to the end user who is willing to be the part of the development of latest innovative technologies. Thorough knowledge of the functioning, infrastructure as well as the power of cloud computing has been explained. This paper provides the complete understanding of the methodologies, limitations and advantages of using cloud computing. This paper elaborates the necessity for computing, demands for accessing virtual tools and the earlier ways for fulfilling the same. The paper also covers some of the significant application based case studies of cloud computing & also discuss some security issues. Overall, it has been explained that how this latest technology is emerging as the latest way to access the tools virtually and globally.

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005513   Subbarayan A (Computer Applications Dep, SRM Univ, Kattankulathur-603 203, Email: subbarayan1948@gmail.com) : Birth and death processes in a proposed single server queue to control the perishable inventory. Int J agric statist Sci 2012, 8(2), 529-40.

Presented two queuing models with solutions, which control the perishable inventory systems in different situations.

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005512   Pandey J;Pathak D (NO, G.E.U., Dehradun, Uttarakhand) : Data protection and data security strategies in cyber space. Chem Sci Trans 2012, 2(3), 1-10.

"You can have security and not have privacy, but you cannot have privacy without security." - Tim Mather Data security is the means of ensuring that data is kept safe from corruption and that access to it is suitably controlled. Thus, data security helps to ensure privacy. It also helps in protecting personal data. This study deals with the basic definition of data protection, different methods of data protection, privacy issue in Indian perspective with respect to challenges in three different dimensions like legal, technical and political domains. It then provides an integrated framework for data security and data protection strategies by examining the available ones and proposing a new enhanced one.

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005511   Khare V;Bhatnagar S (NO, Amity School of Engineering & technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan) : MATNOB- multi access to network browsers. Chem Sci Trans 2012, 2(2), 12-17.

People in the developing countries always face the problem of internet; the major problem is that if a connection of internet is based upon LAN and Wireless, then it is not possible to use both connections at the same time. The operating system (OS) allows only one connection at a time. So, designing a software is the solution to solve this problem (software is designed only for internet browsers because basic requirement of Internet is only web surfing), which will be able to connect internet browsers to the required connection. It will work as a medium between the browser and the connection. The software is designed to use all available connections at one time, not for increasing the speed of internet. All possibilities of connections are included in the software, e.g., Bluetooth, LAN, Wireless, USB modem, USB phone modem, etc. Basically, the algorithm is designed in Microsoft Visual Studio 8.0 software.

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005510   Gupta S K;Tripathi A K;Gupta M (School of Studies in Computer Science, Jiwaji Univ, Gwalior-474 002, Email: sanjaygupta917@yahoo.co.in) : Some observations on improving testability of object-oriented software. Int J Inf Comput Sci 2011, 14(2), 1-11.

Object-Oriented approach is considered superior than traditional structured approach. There are several benefits of this approach over structured approach. Even then it cannot be said that a system developed using this approach will have all the qualities that are expected. One of the expected qualities of a software system is testability. It is always required to improve testability. During development of object-oriented software there are many places where natural language is used. There are several drawbacks of natural language. In this paper, we try to find impact of some of these drawbacks (noise, silence, over-specification, contradiction, ambiguous, forward reference, dilemma, inconsistent-vocabulary and non-clarity) on testability (unit, integration, system) of the system. This work will help developers to improve testability of an object-oriented software system by concentrating the affects of drawbacks of natural language on testability.

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005509   Groach M;Garg A;Ram Singh (ECE Dep, BGSB Univ, Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, Email: manikgroach11@gmail.com) : Hybrid image compression algorithm DCSPIHT. Int J Inf Comput Sci 2011, 14(2), 12-19.

Author present an efficient hybrid image compression method by combining the features of two different techniques DCT and SPIHT. First the image is compressed using DCT to compress low frequency component. Subsequently, compressed image is decomposed using biorthogonal wavelet transform. The decomposed output is further compressed using SPIHT encoding for high frequency component. The reconstruction of the original image involves the linear combination of its corresponding processes as in image encoding. The reconstructed image quality achieved after decoding is of desirable quality. Experimental results show that the DCSPIHT gives better or close quality to the SPIHT.

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005508   Dey P K;Ghosh D N (Computer Application Dep, Dr. B.C Roy Engineering College, Jemua Road, Fuljihore, Durgapur-713 206, Email: dey_pabitra@yahoo.co.in) : Multi criteria fuzzy classification of IPL3. Int J Inf Comput Sci 2011, 14(1), 43-52.

In order to handle imprecise and ambiguous information, the application of fuzzy set theory with fuzzy classification is widely used in data mining. This paper represents the use of MATLAB language to produce a multi-criteria fuzzy classification technique to classify the bowling statistics of Indian Premier League (IPL) T-20 version-3 cricket tournament. The definition of classes as well as the membership function has been implemented using MATLAB. The results obtained from Indian premier league bowling statistics dataset classify into four classes (Poor Bowling Class, Below Average Bowling Class, Average Bowling Class and Good Bowling Class). Finally, this article proposed a multi-criteria fuzzy classification technique which provides efficient and accurate data analysis.in the field of data mining.

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005507   Chandra G R;Venkasteswarlu S (E.C.M. Dep, K.L. Univ, Andhra Pradesh, Email: grajeshchandra@gmail.com) : New algorithm for security in cloud computing. Chem Sci Trans 2012, 2(2), 1-6.

This article provides a concise introduction to cloud computing and its relationship with security issues The forecast is cloudy with a good chance of performance improvements and meaningful connectivity. In this paper, authors discuss about a brief introduction to cloud computing and network security. Also a few security issues related to cloud computing areprovided.

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005506   Barua M (L.M. Thapar School of Management, Thapar Univ, Patiala, Punjab) : e-governance in the provincial government of India. Chem Sci Trans 2012, 2(3), 11-28.

The State of West Bengal, is one the federal units of India. e-Governance which became the national mandate for bringing transformation in the public administration has been embraced by the Government of West Bengal. The Finance Department, Government of West Bengal, consists of branches, directorates, units and cells. The department has successfully implemented e-governance initiatives in its various units. Under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), Government of India, the public financial management system would be moving towards the formation of an integrated structure which will create horizontal and vertical integration. The Government of West Bengal is also heading towards an integrated system popularly termed as Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS). The present paper first describes the e-governance initiatives in the finance department. After that, the problem of effective management and monitoring of the e-governance project has been highlighted and lastly, an attempt has been made to suggest an effective program management framework.

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004391   Singh P K;Prasad H N (Library and Information Science Dep, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, Email: pkslib68@rediffmail.com) : Access web-based electronic resources in agricultural research. Trends Biosci 2011, 4(1), 5-7.

Developments in telecommunications, computers and internet are revolutionizing agricultural research. New information technology has the potential to improve the quality of agricultural research, the efficiency of its management and the relevance and timeliness of research results. Scientists, students and managers can now access more information than ever before. At the same time, they can disseminate information to users more easily through internet. The Internet is now widely accepted as an important source of information. Covers some useful Web-based electronic resources available in the agriculture including those providing general information, databases and electronic resources and their websites.

003323   Sehgal N K;Sohoni S;Xiong Y;Fritz D;Mulia W; Acken J M (Data Center Group, Intel Corp, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dep, Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma) : Cross section of the issues and research activities related to both information security and cloud computing. IETE Tech Rev 2011, 28(4), 279-91.

Cloud computing amplifies computer security issues that have proliferated with the growth of the Internet. A broad range of security research is being applied to cloud computing. This paper gives a description of cloud computing followed by a general description of information security issues and solutions, and a brief description of issues linking cloud computing with information security. Security solutions must make a trade-off between the amount of security and its performance cost and impact on the end-user experiences. This is accentuated in a cloud computing environment where users desiring different levels of security share the same resources. An essential issue for cloud computing is the perception of security, which is beyond the simple technical details of security solutions. This paper includes a list of a few key information security challenges that also present significant research opportunities. Solving these key problems will encourage the widespread adoption of cloud computing.

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002194   Anurag Kumar;et al. (NO, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) : Wireless sensor networks for human intruder detection. J Indian Inst Sci 2010, 90(3), 347-80.

In this paper authers report on the outcomes of a research and demonstration project on human intrusion detection in a large secure space using an ad hoc wireless sensor network. This project has been a unique experience in collaborative research, involving ten investigators (with expertise in areas such as sensors, circuits, computer systems, communication and networking, signal processing and security) to execute a large funded project that spanned three to four years. In this paper we report on the specific engineering solution that was developed: the various architectural choices and the associated specific designs. In addition to developing a demonstrable system, the various problems that arose have given rise to a large amount of basic research in areas such as geographical packet routing, distributed statistical detection, sensors and associated circuits, a low power adaptive micro-radio, and power optimising embedded systems software. We provide an overview of the research results obtained.

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001190   Singh B;Agarwal P (Computer Science Dep, Lucknow Univ, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh) : Algorithm for web server security. IETE J Res 2011, 57(5), 413-22.

The Web application layer is the number one target for malicious online attacks. Millions of Web sites regulate access to highly sensitive information including social security numbers, credit card numbers, names, addresses, birthdates, intellectual property, financial records, trade secrets, medical data, and more. These data must be rigorously protected from intruders. To reduce the risk of losses, brand damage, theft of intellectual property, legal liability, and fines, enterprises need timely information about how Web sites are penetrated and how they can be defended. This article presents an algorithm to generate the security report. The proposed algorithm uses the experimental data of 69 different Indian research/educational Web sites and the generated security report took place after checking all the possible prospective of obtained experimental attributes dataset. This article also presents the changes in the security settings of the Indian Web sites within 3 years, on the bases of open port's study of 3 years experimental result. Based on port scanning, preventive security measures can be taken by organizations as a policy matter.

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001189   Moussavi S Z;Moghadam H F (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, , Email: smoussavi@srrtu.edu) : Computation of all stabilizing PID controllers for high-order systems with time delay in a graphical approach. Curr Trends Technol Sci 2012, 1(1), 53-8.

Problem of computation of all stabilizing high-order time delay systems using well known and efficient proportionalintegral- derivative (PID) controller is investigated in a graphical approach. An efficient approach to this important problem is presented. Based on this approach, all PID controllers that will ensure stability are determined in a (k_p, k_i, k_d) plane and then the stability boundary in a (k_i, k_d) plane for a constant value of k_p is determined and analytically described. It is shown that the stabilizing (k_i, k_d plane consists of triangular regions. The generalized Hermite- Biehler theorem which is applicable to quasipolynomials and finite root boundaries which will be described in detail in continuation are studied to establish results for this design and also determining region of stability of designed PID controllers. Bode diagram criterion is used to show the stabilizing PID gain and phase margins. Step response is also used to show the correctness and advantage of the approach in two examples which are given to illustrate the method.

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001188   Laosuwan T (Physics Dep, Faculty of Science, Mahasarakham University, Kantarawichai district, Maha Sarakham-44150, Thailand, Email: teerawong@msu.ac.th) : Online web GIS- based services for spatial data and sharing of leptospirosis epidemiology information; Development of pilot project in Mahasarakham province Thailand. Int J Geomatics Geosci 2012, 3(1), 121-33.

Leptospirosis epidemiology Information sharing is important for the shared preparation, response, and recovery stages of sickness control. Leptospirosis epidemiology phenomena are powerfully associated with spatial and temporal factors. Online web GIS-based service provides a real-time and dynamic leptospirosis epidemiology way to represent leptospirosis epidemiology information on maps. Nevertheless, data integration, interoperability, and cartographic representation are still major challenges in the health geographical fields. These challenges cause and effect obstacles to sharing health information and stifle the success in understanding and responding to disease and epidemiology. To endeavor these challenges in leptospirosis epidemiology data mapping and sharing, the authors have designed Interoperability through Service Oriented Architectures(SOAs). Based on the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Free Open Source Software (FOSS) specifications to share spatial-temporal leptospirosis epidemiology information. In this research, the authors developed service oriented architecture for online leptospirosis epidemiology mapping that is distributed, service implementation, and interoperable. The pilot project in this study was shown that the development of standard online health services and spatial data infrastructure could enhance the efficiency and effectiveness sharing leptospirosis epidemiology information.

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001187   Garg R;Waoo A A;Patheja P S (NO, BIST, Bhopal, Email: richaagar20@gmail.com) : Computational analysis of part of speech tagging. Curr Trends Technol Sci 2012, 1(2), 92-9.

In order, to make text a suitable input to an automatic method of information extraction it is usually transformed from unstructured source of information into a structured format. Part of Speech Tagging is one of the preprocessing steps which assign one of the parts of speech to the given word. Authors had discussed various models of supervised and unsupervised technique shown the comparison of various techniques based on accuracy, and experimentally compared the results obtained in models of Condition Random Field and Maximum Entropy model. Authors had deployed a model of part of speech tagger for which we had compared the results with other models. The developed is based on HMM approach and had shown good results in terms of efficiency in comparison with other models.

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001186   Arul L S;Kiran D N (NO, T.John College, Bangalore) : Compute the remoteness connecting two points by means of Euclidean distance task in an picture dealing out applications. Curr Trends Technol Sci 2012, 1(1), 19-21.

Studies the advantage of using different distance functions in image processing Applications. The proposed Methods are based on well-known algorithms that use Distance measurement. Authors final purpose is to find the distance between two points in a single image using Euclidean Distance functionthat provide the best results for a given problem, so they present some tools that help with finding them.

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000011   Zaveri M A;Merchant S N;Desai U B (Computer Engineering Dep, SVNIT, Gujarat) : Genetic algorithm-based data association and multiple filter bank-based target tracking in infrared image sequences. IETE J Res 2011, 57(4), 308-17.

Simultaneous tracking of multiple maneuvering and nonmaneuvering point targets in the presence of dense clutter and in the absence of any a priori information about target dynamics is a challenging problem. Moreover, a successful solution to this problem requires to assign an observation to track for state update, i.e. data association. Investigates a tracking algorithm based on multiple filter bank to track an arbitrary trajectory in the presence of dense clutter. The novelty about the proposed tracking algorithm is the use of genetic algorithm for data association, i.e. observation to track fusion. Extensive simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach for real-time tracking in infrared image sequences.

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000010   Yuan S;Wang C;Ma M (College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Univ, Changsha, China) : 2.4 GHz high linearity subthreshold current mode folded CMOS mixer. IETE J Res 2011, 57(4), 357-62.

New CMOS active mixer using a parallel-folded topology which can operate at sub-1 V supply voltage is proposed. Such current mode mixer requires less voltage headroom with good linearization. In the proposed circuit, LC resonators were adapted to replace a commonly used current source, and current mirrors replace the common load resistances to export currents, the core of mixer works in a subthreshold region. Analyzes the performance of the high-linearity current mode mixer, comparing with other current mode mixer; this circuit demonstrates competitive performance with a lower supply voltage, higher linearity. A layout was designed and simulated in the standard chartered 0.18 μm RF CMOS process with Spectre in Cadence Design Systems. Simulation results show a satisfied mixer performance at 2.4 GHz. The simulated 11P3 of 13.48 dBm, with a power gain of-0.21 dB is obtained. A low dissipation power of 5.3 mW at 1V supply voltage is also achieved.

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000009   Singh S K;Pal K;Nigam M J (Earthquake Engineering Dep, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee) : Fuzzy edge detection based on maximum entropy thresholding. IETE J Res 2011, 57(4), 325-30.

Presents a fuzzy edge detection technique based on the maximum fuzzy entropy principle. The concept of fuzzy probability and fuzzy partition is introduced first. Then, based on the conditional probabilities and fuzzy partition, a two-level optimal thresholding is searched adaptively through the maximum fuzzy entropy principle of the gradient image and then the edge images are obtained.

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000008   Shingala A;Chavda R;Virparia P (MCA Dep, SVIT, Vasad, Gujarat, Email: am_bt@yahoo.com) : Natural language interface for student information system (NLSIS). Prajna 2011, 19(Dec), 41-4.

Any computer system that interacts with user has a high utility value and ease. Natural Language Interface is a concept for making computer interface with a user who wants to retrieve the information from a computer database with its own language rather than learning a specialized language. The challenges in Natural language arise due to difficulty in correct interpretation, disambiguation and context resolution. The Natural Language Interface for querying Student Information System. It semantically parses the natural language question and built corresponding structured query from the database. The data which is to be retrieved can be in the form of a spreadsheet or database. The system is developed in Java using JDBC for Student Information System.

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000007   Patel H N;Virparia P V (NO, Anand Institute of Information Science, Anand, Gujarat, Email: hnp.aiis@gmail.com) : Bootstrapping of phone models for a large vocabulary continous speech recognition for gujarati. Prajna 2011, 19(Dec), 37-40.

In the bootstrapping approach, an already existing acoustic model of a speech recognition system for a different language is used to obtain initial phone models for a new language. There are primarily two approaches used for bootstrapping. Explain these approaches using English as the base language and Gujarati as the new or target language: In this paper authors present a technique that has been used to build a large-vocabulary continuous Gujarati speech recognition system. We present a technique for fast bootstrapping of initial phone models of a Gujarati language. The training data for the Gujarati language is aligned using an existing speech recognition engine for English language. This aligned data is used to obtain the initial acoustic models for the phones of the Gujarati language. Following this approach requires less training data.

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000006   Jain A;Agrawal S S;Prakash N (IT Dep, School of Info.Tech Univ, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha Univ, NLP Di, Noida) : Transformation of emotion based on acoustic features of intonation patterns for Hindi speech and their perception. IETE J Res 2011, 57(4), 318-24.

Changes in intonation patterns may convey not only different meaning, but also different emotions even if the sequence of speech segments is the same in a sentence. The patterns change depending upon the structure and emotion of the sentence and require being stored in speech database. It is a difficult and time-consuming task to store all utterances of all the expressive style, which also consumes huge memory space. Therefore, there should be an approach that minimizes the time and memory space for emotion-rich database. A number of studies in this respect have been carried out for several languages and models developed. However, for Hindi not many studies have been carried out. Taking this fact into consideration, the intonation patterns have been studied and analysed for Hindi language and compared with some other languages. On the basis of the analysis on intonation patterns, an algorithm has been proposed for emotion conversion. This algorithm requires storing of neutral utterances only in the database and other expressive style utterances can be derived from these neutral utterances. The proposed algorithm is based on the linear modification model, where fundamental frequency is a major factor to convert emotions. In this paper, surprise, sadness, happiness, and anger are taken as target emotions. For performing experiments and verification of results, an emotion-rich speech database is prepared with the help of 15 native speakers. Each speaker has been given 20 sentences and asked to generate utterances in five expressive states "neutral", "sadness", "anger", "surprise", and "happiness". These sentences are recorded in normal laboratory conditions with a 44.1 KHz sampling rate and 16-bit precision with mono channel. In the perception test, group of listeners were asked to listen to the utterances from database and judge the emotion. This perception test involves classification of the emotions already available in the database by the listener and to judge the quality of converted neutral utterances. The results are analysed and performance of the experiment is evaluated. The accuracy of the perception test on transformed emotions was found out to be 93.2% for surprise, 91.6% for sadness, 83% for happiness, and 95.3% for anger.

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000005   Ingole P V;Kulat K D (Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Dep, G H Raisoni College of Engineering and Management, Anjangaon Bari Road, Amravati) : Morphological segmentation based fuzzy features for retrieval of brain MRI. IETE J Res 2011, 57(4), 331-45.

Retrieval of domain-specific images is an important research area. Morphological skull stripping and segmentation is proposed for highlighting and extraction of the region-based features of human brain T₂-weighted magnetic resonance (MR) images. Further, fuzzy representation of these features and its use in retrieval of brain MR imaging (MRI) is demonstrated in this paper. Unified Fuzzy Matching technique is used to assess the image-to-image similarity of MRI. Segmentation results show a marked improvement in the quality of segmentation as compared to fuzzy c-means clustering method and it is confirmed with manual segmentation. Further, the use of features obtained with this technique in retrieval has also been found to give better retrieval results in terms of precision, average rank and mean standard deviation. Such brain MRI retrieval system is useful tool to assist doctors in diagnosis by quickly searching similar cases in this domain.

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000004   Dutta A;Kar A;Chatterji B N (Computer Science & Engineering Dep, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Kolkata Campus) : Adaptive corner detection algorithm and its extension using window-based approach for fray-scale images. IETE J Res 2011, 57(3), 286-93.

In computer vision, the corners of an object play an important role in shape representation and analysis. In this paper, we carried out a dozen popular and most cited corner detection algorithms and studied their performances based on several performance measures proposed by us as well as in the literature over a varied range of images and categorized the corner detectors based on different image types and rank their performances with suitable threshold ranges corresponding to different image types. After obtaining a suitable corner detector for a given type of images, the paper describes a new approach to corner detection in a digital image based on the assumption that corners are those image points with high information content, and hence corners in an image exist in those regions having considerably high-intensity variation. Consequently, a complex corner response function is computed only within those regions with considerable high-intensity variation instead of entire image, reducing the computational cost of the whole procedure. Experiments conducted with the help of a few images showed the efficiency of the technique, both in terms of execution time and false-positive corners.

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000003   Choi H;Lee S;Chung Y;Cho H;Choi W;Pan S (Computer and Information Science Dep, Korea Univ, Korea) : Smartcard-based secret distribution for secure fingerprint verification. IETE J Res 2011, 57(4), 299-307.

Recently, in the smartcard-based authentication system, there is an increasing trend of using fingerprint for the card holder verification, instead of passwords. However, the security of the fingerprint data is particularly important as the possible compromise of the data will be permanent. In order to protect the fingerprint data, the fuzzy vault scheme has emerged as a promising solution to the user privacy problem. The techniques, such as "fuzzy vault," which is based on the difficulty of the polynomial reconstruction need to be developed for the smartcard-based environment. Proposes a secure and efficient approach, which reconstructs a polynomial on a smartcard with the aid of a server by using fuzzy fingerprint vaults distributed into the smartcard and the server. The goal of the approach is, under the real-time constraint, to enhance the security level of the fuzzy vault scheme against not only the typical brute-force attack, but recently reported correlation attack which finds the real minutiae using multiple fuzzy vaults enrolled for different applications. Based on the experimental results, we confirmed that our secret distribution-based approach can perform the fuzzy vault-based fingerprint verification more securely (by a factor of 177 in brute-force attack, and by a factor of 10⁹ in correlation attack) and quickly (by a factor of 17) on a combination of a smartcard and a server.

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000002   Alarcon-Aquino V;Garcia-Baleon H A; Ramirez-Cortes J M;Gomez-Gil P;Starostenko O (Computing Dep, Las Americas Univ, Puebla Cholula, Puebla, CP 72820) : Biometric cryptosystem based on keystroke dynamics and K-medoids. IETE J Res 2011, 57(4), 385-94.

Approach for a biometric cryptosystem based on keystroke dynamics and the k-medoids algorithm is proposed. The stages that comprise the approach are training enrollment and user verification. The proposed approach is able to verify the identity of individuals offline avoiding the use of a centralized database. The approach as reported in this paper may be implemented in stand-alone terminals or embedded in password-based systems to increase the security. The performance of the proposed approach is assessed using 20 samples of keystroke dynamics from 20 different users. Simulation results show a false acceptance rate of 2.89% and a false rejection rate of 3.35%. The cryptographic key released by the proposed architecture may be used in several potential applications such as user login, file encryption or even portable authentication to gain access to virtual private networks.

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025615   Zainuddin M;Baswaraj D (NO, CMR Institute of Technology, JNTUH, Hyderabad, Email: iamzainuddin@gmail.com) : Blocking of mischievous users in anonymizing networks using nymble system. Int J Adv Comput Inf Technol 2012, 1(3), 312-24.

There are some networks called "Anonymizing networks" which allow users to gain access to internet services without revealing their identity (IP-addresses) to the servers. Networks such as "Tor (The Onion Router)","Crowds" and "I2P" gained popularity in the years 2002-2007, but the success of such networks however has been limited by users employing this anonymity for abusive purposes such as defacing popular websites such as "Wikipedia". Website Administrators blocks entire network which is connected to the abusive system to get rid of the abuser. Hence, well-behaved users also get blocked due to this action. To address this problem, authors present a Nymble system in which servers can "blacklist" mischievous users without affecting good users and also maintaining anonymity across the network.

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025614   Yadav R;Gupta M (NO, GCEW, Gurgaon, Email: rajeevtpo@gmail.com) : Data mining life cycle development in project management. Invertis J renewable Energy 2012, 2(3), 160-5.

Data mining projects are complex and can have a high failure rate. In order to improve project management and success rates of such projects a life cycle is very important to the overall success of the project. tStudy is concerned with the life cycle development for data mining projects. Provides a detailed view of the design and development of the data mining life cycle called DMLC. The life cycle aims to support all members of data mining project teams as well as IT managers and academic researchers and may improve project success rates and strategic decision support. An extensive analysis of life cycle leads to a list of advantages, disadvantages, and characteristics of the life cycle. This is extended and generates a corporation of several guidelines which serve as the foundation for the development of a new generic data mining life cycle.

025613   Taneja K;Bhalla V K (Computer Science Dep, Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab, Email: khushbootaneja@gmail.com) : Web page categorization: types, techniques and evaluation. Int J Adv Comput Inf Technol 2012, 1(2), 229-36.

Internet is the only source of huge amount of information accessed by large number of people every day. Now a day's web is comprised of trillions of pages and everyday tremendous amount of requests are made to put more web pages on the World Wide Web (WWW). The ability to create information has far exceeded to the ability to manage information. Web page categorization can be defined as an approach to categorize the web pages based on a set of predefined categories to manage huge web content. Yahoo! [1] and ODP (Open Directory Project) [2] are the examples of web directories in which web pages are categorized manually, which is a very time consuming task. Gives a brief review about the types of web categorization, techniques used for web page categorization and the performance measures for categorizers.

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025612   Sunita;Deo A (Computer Science and Engineering Dep, Institute of Technology and Management, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, Email: sunitasani89@gmail.com) : Energy storage in the bio-networking architecture with applications. Invertis J renewable Energy 2012, 2(3), 166-70.

Bio-Networking Architecture is inspired by the observation that the biological systems (e.g. bee colonies) have already developed mechanisms necessary to achieve future network requirements such as autonomy, scalability, adaptability, and simplicity Bio-networking Architecture is autonomous mobile agents that construct network applications. The energy in the Bio-networking Architecture is a unit of exchange for service or use of resources and the behavior of a cyber-entity are influenced by its energy level. The effective protection techniques depend on the location where the energy level is stored. We explore and discuss the security techniques and their limitations for three storage models: energy level in cyber-entity, energy level in trusted node, energy level in platform.

025611   Ruchika;Shaweta (NO, Doon Valley Institute of Engineering and Technology, Karnal, Email: ruchika.dahiyajune@gmail.com ) : Comparative study of software development models. Int J Adv Comput Inf Technol 2012, 1(3), 265-74.

Organizations that are developing custom software solution are faced with the difficult choice of picking the right software development life cycle (SDLC). Summarizes the steps an organization would have to go through in order to make the best possible choice.

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025610   Parkavi A (NO, M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore-560 054, Email: parkavi@yahoo.com) : e-college time table retrieval system based on service oriented architecture. Int J Adv Comput Inf Technol 2012, 1(3), 260-4.

Large system like e-college time table retrieval systems with web accesses are difficult to develop due to their complex and immobility nature. The Service oriented architecture (SOA) facilitates the development of such systems by supporting modular design, application integration and inter operation and software reuse. With open standards, such as XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI, the SOA supports interoperability between services operating on different platforms and between applications implemented in different programming languages. An e-college time table retrieval model that uses the service oriented architecture as a basis for designing, implementing, deploying, invoking and managing college services is described. The e-college time table retrieval model that is developed provides support for staffs, HODs, Principal, Directors and other societies interested in e-college time table retrieval systems, as well as for students. This system provides the facility for coordinator to enter the time table or change the time table and the staffs to access the time table using their PDAs or by using their smart phones. They can get the alerts about their duties over the mobiles and exchanging of duties can also be done using the mobile devices with the help of web services. Multimedia input and output, with text, images and speech, make the system more user friendly than existing e-college time table systems.

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025609   Naresh Kumar;Sinnika (NO, U.I.E.T. Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Email: Naresh_duhan@rediffmail.com) : Review of deadlock free dynamic reconfiguration in high-speed LANS. Int J Adv Comput Inf Technol 2012, 1(3), 245-9.

Performance of the computer has increased in recent years, so the communication subsystems have become the main problem within the system. So, the switch based interconnection networks are used in the current high performance systems to solve this problem. To solve this problem, whenever the topological change occurs, the connectivity between the network devices must be re-established by the management mechanism. The reduction in the performance of the network occurs during updation of the routing table, which becomes the main challenge in the network reconfiguration. Authors propose the reconfiguration method that does not stop the packets injection during the reconfiguration process. In this scheme no extra additional network are required.

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025608   Mousavi M;Marthandan G (NO, Multimedia University, Malaysia, Email: mrym.mousavi@gmail.com) : Global website usability guidelines versus the perception of Iranian users. Asian J Mgmt Res 2012, 2(2), 782-91.

Websites have been used as important media for education, marketing and sales in different domains, and their effectiveness highly depends on their usability. Hence, website usability has been the focus of much contemporary research. To characterize and ensure website usability, international standards and guidelines have been developed. However, usability also has a culture-related nature. The purpose of this study is to compare the usability of websites as defined by international standards on the one hand, with usability as perceived by Iranian end-users on the other hand. To this end, we extract the common key factors of two sets of international usability standards, namely, ISO 9241-151:2008(E) and HHS 2006 guidelines developed by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and measure the usability of two university websites. Then, we compare the outcome with the perception of a sample group of Iranian users by means of a usability questionnaire. Study provides us with two major outcomes: firstly, there is a meaningful difference between the usability score given based on the guidelines and the perceived usability by Iranian users due to culturally steered factors. Secondly, the usability factors and the priorities set by the international guidelines are not irrelevant to the preferences of Iranian users but they only partially reflect local users' interests. In conclusion, in order to improve website usability for local users, international standards can be adopted, but they should be adapted and prioritized according to local cultural preferences.

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025607   Meenakshi;Chhibber A (Computer Science and Applications Dep, Guru Nanak Khalsa Institute of Technology and Management Studies, Yamuna Nagar, Email: nandalmeenakshi@gmail.com) : Overview on cloud computing technology. Int J Adv Comput Inf Technol 2012, 1(2), 219-23.

Cloud computing is a technology of computing in which internet and central remote servers are provided "as a service" to users. Describes cloud computing model where users access virtual shared server on payment as per usage. Cloud Providers offer services that can be grouped into three categories termed as SaaS, PaaS, IaaS. Aims to provide a means of understanding the model and exploring research investors for complementing cloud computing technology.

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025606   Malhotra R;Garg A K (Electronics and Communication Dep, M.M. University, Mullana, Ambala, Haryana, Email: ruchimalhotra29@gmail.com) : Capacity and delay analysis in passive optical networks (PONs). Int J Adv Comput Inf Technol 2012, 1(2), 182-7.

Dramatic increase of internet users and development of new high volume internet applications has a profound impact on design of next generation passive optical network (NG-PON). Today, most of the available networks are quite busy networks and as the number of nodes increases in the network, the communication over the network also increases. A reliable end packet delivery is always one of the basic requirements of a user as well as network. When the data is transferred over the network there are many major causes that can result packet loss, such as congestion over the network. Any kind of active or the passive attack over the network can make packet loss while transferring the data and also, heavy traffic over any network gives the problems like congestion, degradation in throughput. The Passive Optical Network (PON) and Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) resolve most of the above defined problem. As it provide such a large bandwidth that it will never gives efficiency problem in a network. PON also resolve the bottleneck problem along with delay analysis over bottleneck congested network.

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025605   Madan R;Sharma A K;Dixit A;Kapri D;Mudgal R (Computer Science and Engineering Dep, Echleon Institute of Technology, Haryana, Email: madaan.rosy@gmail.com) : Comparative study of web based and IR based question answering systems. Int J Adv Comput Inf Technol 2012, 1(2), 188-94.

With the enormous growth of Web, users are able to find the information of his interest. Asking a question, a search engine returns a list of results in form of Web pages containing the required information. Then, the user needs to move through the result pages to find the answer. On the other hand, a Question answering system provides a set of answers to the user for his question i.e. when the user submits his question to a QA system, as the response he receives a precise answer or a set of answers that satisfies his request. The study is a review of Web based and IR based QA systems.

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025604   Gursewak Singh;Gagandeep Kaur (NO, Yadawindra College of Engineering, Guru Kashi Campus, Punjabi Univers, Patiala, Punjab, Email: sewakrajput@yahoo.com) : Robust Stability of LTI (SISO) System with System Gain (A) under uncertainty set using PID controller. Int J Adv Comput Inf Technol 2012, 1(2), 128-43.

Third order nominal plant as system gain variations under perturbed conditions with additive nominal uncertainity weight senstivity is considered. In particular, it has been shown that all gains that robustly stabilize a given uncertain (SISO) (LTI) system by keeping the robust stability criterian <157> <157>W(s) Gp(s) S(s) <157> <157><157> ∞≤1 can be found by calculating the PID controller gains Kp,Ki and Kd.

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025603   Gupta S;Parteek Kumar (Computer Science Dep, Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab, Email: shruti2306@gmail.com) : Comparative study of text to speech system for Indian language. Int J Adv Comput Inf Technol 2012, 1(2), 199-209.

Speech synthesis is a process of converting an input text into speech waveforms. This technology is a great help to people with physical impairments like visually handicapped and vocally disabled. The ability to convert text to voice reduces the dependency, frustration, and sense of helplessness of these people. Four Indian languages text-to-speech systems, namely Dhvani, Shruti, HP Lab system based on Festival framework and Vani system are discussed. These systems are compared on the basis of languages it support, size of the speech units, methodologies used to code, store and synthesize the speech and prosody.

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025602   Garg D;Garg R (NO, UIET, Punjab University, Chandigarh, Email: deeptigarg25@gmail.com) : Angled-Leach in wireless sensor networks. Int J Adv Comput Inf Technol 2012, 1(2), 144-52.

Need for efficient energy utilization, scalability and load balancing has increased the interest in wireless sensor networks. WSNs are being widely used all over the world in many applications such as weather monitoring, combat field reconnaissance, intrusion detection, disaster management, traffic monitoring, etc. The clustering algorithms aim to prolong the lifetime of the sensor networks as the node batteries are not rechargeable in nature. Hierarchical clustering has proven to be an effective approach in energy efficiency. Discusses various clustering algorithms that are used for energy efficiency and bandwidth utilization. Traffic at the sink node induces delay and destruction of the nodes colliding with each other and with cluster heads. Authors have proposed a new protocol (Angled-LEACH) in which information is transferred between the nodes which may not collide. It reduces the traffic and helps in energy efficiency.

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025601   Desai A V;Kulkarni R V (NO, COSMOS Bank, Pune, Email: anup_dsi@rediffmail.com) : Role of Information technology to improve financial inclusion activity in banking sector. Int J Adv Comput Inf Technol 2012, 1(2), 224-8.

Situation where in people are not able to access the various basic financial services /products such as saving loan, remittances etc from formal financial institution is known as 'Financial exclusion' the reason for the same could be anything like distance from the bank branch, branch timing, difficult physical access, low income/assets, ease of availability of informal credit, gender, illiteracy, documentation process at bank branch, etc. This situation could result in various economical and social undesirable consequences and ultimately lead to social exclusion, therefore, for peaceful and happy living of a society, social inclusion is must and first step towards this, is financial inclusion. There for financial inclusion is the key to sustain equitable growth. Accesses to financial services will provide the un-banked and poor people an opportunity to built saving, make investment, avail credit etc. also such access help them to ensure themselves against income shocks and equip them to meet emergencies such as, illness, death in family or loss of employment; also it protects the poor from the clutches of the injurious money lenders, thus issue before policy makers was how to provide comfortable access to financial services in un-banked areas. To resolve RBI had come out with frame work, permitting intermediaries known as Business correspondent / Business Facilitator for providing financial services to the un-banked areas on behalf of the banks using I.T. as the facilitator between customer, BC/BF and bank so as to ensure transparency, control and confidence in the system. The objective of the study is to know and understand how Information Technology can helps in implementing the Financial Inclusion activity.

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