Applied Computing and Informatics: Volume 16 Issue 1/2 , Open Access

Tuning of power system stabilizer for small signal stability improvement of interconnected power system

Prasenjit Dey, Aniruddha Bhattacharya, Priyanath Das

This paper reports a new technique for achieving optimized design for power system stabilizers. In any large scale interconnected systems, disturbances of small magnitudes are…

Quality of classification with LERS system in the data size context

M. Sudha, A. Kumaravel

Rough set theory is a simple and potential methodology in extracting and minimizing rules from decision tables. Its concepts are core, reduct and discovering knowledge in the form…

Energy-efficient chain-cluster based intelligent routing technique for wireless sensor networks

Natasha Ramluckun, Vandana Bassoo

With the increasing acclaim of Wireless Sensor Networks and its diverse applications, research has been directed into optimising and prolonging the network lifetime. Energy…

Interference-aware multipath routing for WSNs: overview and performance evaluation

Moufida Maimour

Multipath routing holds a great potential to provide sufficient bandwidth to a plethora of applications in wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we consider the problem of…

The cognitive function and the framework of the functional hierarchy

Ulla Gain

Cognitive computing is part of AI and cognitive applications consists of cognitive services, which are building blocks of the cognitive systems. These applications mimic the human…

Hybrid binary bat enhanced particle swarm optimization algorithm for solving feature selection problems

Mohamed A. Tawhid, Kevin B. Dsouza

In this paper, we present a new hybrid binary version of bat and enhanced particle swarm optimization algorithm in order to solve feature selection problems. The proposed…

Improving accessibility and security on document management system: A Malaysian case study

Siti Salbiah Zainal Abidin, Mohd Heikal Husin

Document management system is an essential approach that should be managed well to ensure an effective and faster overall working process in an organization. Hardcopy documents…

Intensive summer course in robotics – Robotcraft

N.M. Fonseca Ferreira, André Araujo, M.S. Couceiro, David Portugal

This paper describes a two-month summer intensive course designed to introduce participants with a hands-on technical craft on robotics and to acquire experience in the low-level…

Intuitionistic fuzzy model for reliability management in wind turbine system

Daniel O. Aikhuele

A flexible model which is based on a Triangular intuitionistic flexibility ranking and aggregating (TIFRA) operator is proposed for failure detection and reliability management in…

Implementation of new hybrid lightweight cryptosystem

C.G. Thorat, V.S. Inamdar

Embedded systems, Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile computing devices are used in various domains which include public-private infrastructure, industrial installation and…

A framework for big data analytics approach to failure prediction of construction firms

Hafiz A. Alaka, Lukumon O. Oyedele, Hakeem A. Owolabi, Muhammad Bilal, Saheed O. Ajayi, Olugbenga O. Akinade

This study explored use of big data analytics (BDA) to analyse data of a large number of construction firms to develop a construction business failure prediction model (CB-FPM)…

New road anomaly detection and characterization algorithm for autonomous vehicles

H. Bello-Salau, A.M. Aibinu, A.J. Onumanyi, E.N. Onwuka, J.J. Dukiya, H. Ohize

This paper presents a new algorithm for detecting and characterizing potholes and bumps directly from noisy signals acquired using an Accelerometer. A wavelet transformation based…

A novel intelligent object-oriented three-dimensional simulation system for physics experimentation

Rania M. Ghoniem, H.A. Abas, H.A. Bdair

Despite the fact that there being a large literature on simulation, there is as yet no generic paradigm or architecture to develop a three-dimensional (3-D) simulator which…

RadioPharmaDose, a java-based open-source software for estimating and reporting internal radiation doses

Jaafar EL Bakkali, Hamid Mansouri, Abderrahim Doudouh

In this work, a user-friendly Java-based open-source software has been developed for internal radiation dosimetry. Based on values published by the International Commission on…