Technological Developments in Networking, Education and AutomationKhaled Elleithy, Tarek Sobh, Magued Iskander, Vikram Kapila, Mohammad A. Karim, Ausif Mahmood Springer Science & Business Media, 18.06.2010 - 643 Seiten Technological Developments in Networking, Education and Automation includes a set of rigorously reviewed world-class manuscripts addressing and detailing state-of-the-art research projects in the following areas: Computer Networks: Access Technologies, Medium Access Control, Network architectures and Equipment, Optical Networks and Switching, Telecommunication Technology, and Ultra Wideband Communications. Engineering Education and Online Learning: including development of courses and systems for engineering, technical and liberal studies programs; online laboratories; intelligent testing using fuzzy logic; taxonomy of e-courses; and evaluation of online courses. Pedagogy: including benchmarking; group-learning; active learning; teaching of multiple subjects together; ontology; and knowledge management. Instruction Technology: including internet textbooks; virtual reality labs, instructional design, virtual models, pedagogy-oriented markup languages; graphic design possibilities; open source classroom management software; automatic email response systems; tablet-pcs; personalization using web mining technology; intelligent digital chalkboards; virtual room concepts for cooperative scientific work; and network technologies, management, and architecture. Coding and Modulation: Modeling and Simulation, OFDM technology , Space-time Coding, Spread Spectrum and CDMA Systems. Wireless technologies: Bluetooth , Cellular Wireless Networks, Cordless Systems and Wireless Local Loop, HIPERLAN, IEEE 802.11, Mobile Network Layer, Mobile Transport Layer, and Spread Spectrum. Network Security and applications: Authentication Applications, Block Ciphers Design Principles, Block Ciphers Modes of Operation, Electronic Mail Security, Encryption & Message Confidentiality, Firewalls, IP Security, Key Cryptography & Message Authentication, and Web Security. Robotics, Control Systems and Automation: Distributed Control Systems, Automation, Expert Systems, Robotics, Factory Automation, Intelligent Control Systems, Man Machine Interaction, Manufacturing Information System, Motion Control, and Process Automation. Vision Systems: for human action sensing, face recognition, and image processing algorithms for smoothing of high speed motion. Electronics and Power Systems: Actuators, Electro-Mechanical Systems, High Frequency Converters, Industrial Electronics, Motors and Drives, Power Converters, Power Devices and Components, and Power Electronics. |
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Online Academic Advising Support | 25 |
Using Computer Game to Share knowledge | 30 |
Measuring the Economic and Environmental Impactof Digital Content Delivery | 37 |
Context Driven Personalized eLearning EnvironmentProvided as a State Service | 42 |
A Novel Ballistics Imaging System for FirearmIdentification | 326 |
Color Seal Segmentation and Identification | 333 |
Efficient SOPCbased Multicore System Designusing NOC | 339 |
Architecture and Initial Performance Indicatorsof New OPCUA Automation Protocol Stack JavaImplementation | 345 |
Automatic Segmentation of Cardiac Cavity ImagesUsing Collinear and Triangle Equation | 351 |
Both Side MoreOutput Transmission with Harmonic Gear | 356 |
Intelligent Plasma Monitoring Systems Based on Optical Methods and Chromatic Modulation
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A Neoteric Chaotic Adaptive Watermarking Scheme forColored Images | 367 |
Exploring Teachers Beliefs about Digital Citizenshipand Responsibility | 49 |
National Dissemination of the CAT Instrument | 55 |
Enhancing the Instruction of Introductory ElectricCircuit Courses using MATLAB | 59 |
Design Issues and Evaluation Results ofan Integrated WebBased Educational Application | 65 |
Educational Robotic Platform forImproving TeachingLearning Processes ofTechnology in Developing Countries | 71 |
Selecting Patterns for the Evaluation of Systems | 77 |
Effectiveness of Collaborative Learning in TeachingInformation Systems | 83 |
Implementation of a Curriculum ManagementSystem at a Faculty of Medicine Lessons Learnedfrom a Pilot Project | 89 |
Use of Ontology for Reusing Web Repositoriesfor eLearning | 96 |
Actual and Future Trends of the Eeducationand Its Costs Specification in the Czech Republic | 103 |
Modern Improvementsin the Digital Logic Laboratory | 109 |
eCheating and CalculatorTechnology | 115 |
Perspectives on Critical Thinking through OnlineDiscussion Forums in Engineering Mathematics | 120 |
Digital System Description Knowledge Assessment | 127 |
Findings from a Case Study | 133 |
The Impact of the Context of an InformationSystem on Strategic Information Quality TheInstitute of Technology Sector in Ireland | 139 |
Can Mobile Computing Help Reverse the Decline inInformatics Studies? | 145 |
Towards an Academic Social Network for Bologna Process | 151 |
Supporting Knowledge Discovery in an eLearningEnvironment Having Social Components | 157 |
Computer Numerical Control Mass Customizationand Architectural Education in an Emergent Economy | 163 |
A Case Study | 168 |
Interdisciplinary Automation and Controlin a Programmable Logic Controller PLCLaboratory | 175 |
Stereo Spectral Imaging System for Plant HealthCharacterization | 181 |
A Case Study | 187 |
Computational Modeling and Simulationof a New EnergySaving Sealing Unitin Industrial Applications | 193 |
Design of An Intelligent Solar Tracking System UsingPIC18F452 Micro Controller | 196 |
Adaptive Two Layers Neural NetworkFrequency Controller for Isolated ThermalPower System | 203 |
Optimal Controller Comparison Using Pareto Fronts | 208 |
Interaction with Objects in VirtualEnvironments | 215 |
One Approach for Training of Recurrent NeuralNetwork Model of IIR Digital Filter | 219 |
Classification of the Power Transformers usingDissolved Gas Analysis | 225 |
Modelling Control of Pore Number and RadiiDistribution in SingleCell Electroporation | 230 |
Single Allocation PHub Median Problem toMonitor Land Borders by Using Unmanned | 237 |
LPT to RS232 communication converter | 243 |
Simulation Model of Coremaking Plant | 247 |
Depth Calculation using ComputerVision and Sift | 252 |
Dynamic of New Technologies in Switching PowerDevices IGBTs | 257 |
Anisotropic Percolating Pathways in the Thin Filmsof Polymeric PEDTPSS Complex and their Relationto the Electrical Conductivity as Revealed byt... | 263 |
Predicting Trading Signals of Sri Lankan StockMarket Using Genetic Algorithms andNeural Networks | 269 |
An Automatic Measurement Algorithm for theDiameters of Carbon Nanotubes by UsingImage Processing | 275 |
Object Detection in Foveated Images | 281 |
Digital SemiControlled Rectifier using aMicrocontroller | 286 |
Generalized Minimum Variance Controller withDynamic Pole Assignment to Improve Performancein Industrial Applications | 291 |
Automated Detection of Sunspots and SunspotGroups in FullDisk Solar Images | 297 |
Stochastic Model Based Approach for BiometricIdentification | 303 |
A New Stochastic Model Based Approach for ObjectIdentification and Segmentation in Textured ColorImage | 309 |
An Unsupervised Stochastic Model for Detection andIdentification of Objects in Textured Color ImagesUsing Segmentation Technique | 315 |
Automated Classification of Sunspot Groupswith Support Vector Machines | 321 |
Rotary Transducer | 373 |
Regression Analysis about Humidity Eliminationfrom Diesel Fuel Via Bioorganic Compounds toIncrease Antifouling Action | 377 |
Optimal Threshold for Locating Targets Withina Surveillance Region Using aBinary Sensor Network | 381 |
A Proposal of a Nonlinear Observer Applied to the HeatExchange Phenomena in a Double Pipe Heat Exchanger | 387 |
Vibration Signal Processingby Deconvolution Method | 392 |
An IT Change Management Tool to OptimizeScheduling and Planning | 399 |
A LowPower ContentAddressable Memory CAM using Pipelined Search Scheme
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Design and Optimization of PiezoelectricDualMode MicroMirror | 411 |
Device for Measurement of Clamped JointsFriction Torque | 417 |
SelfOptimization for Dynamic Scheduling inManufacturing Systems | 420 |
A Decomposition Method in Modeling QueuingSystems | 427 |
Modular Design and Structure for a Mobile SensoryPlatform | 433 |
A Didactic Server for IPv6 Stateless Autoconfiguration
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Securing P2P Wireless Communications byDeploying Honeytokens in a CooperativeMaritime Network | 449 |
Integrating Information Security intoQuality Management Systems | 455 |
Evaluation of Asynchronous Event Mechanisms forBrowserbased Realtime Communication Integration | 461 |
An Ontologybased Intrusion Detection for RFIDSystems | 467 |
A New Algorithm and its Imp lementations for RC Filters | 473 |
A Computationally Dynamic ResourceManagement for Multicarrier Communicationsin Downlink for OFDMA Systems | 478 |
A General Method for Synthesis of Familiesof Orthogonal Complementary Codes | 487 |
ESpeed Start A Window Based AdditiveIncrease Multiplicative Decrease NetworkCongestion Control Technique | 493 |
CommonWavelengths Design Scheme for EfficientManagement of Spare Resources in WDM Networks | 499 |
ICMP Covert Channel Resiliency | 503 |
Chiptochip Freespace Optical Interconnection Using LiquidcrystaloversiliconSpatial light modulator | 507 |
GA Based Neural Network Retraining Using Adaptive Genetic Operations
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Decision Support for IP Uplink and Routing Choice | 516 |
Differential Cryptanalysis of BlowCASTFish | 523 |
A Keyless Polyalphabetic Cipher | 529 |
Vertical Handover between WiFi Network andWiMAX Network According to IEEE 80221 Standard | 533 |
Study on the Impact of Node Density and Sink Locationin WSN | 539 |
An Algorithm for Synthesis of Families of GeneralizedOrthogonal Complementary Pairs | 543 |
Low Message Overhead Clustering Algorithmfor Wireless Sensor Networks | 549 |
On the Design of SOHO Networks | 555 |
Study of UMTS Handover Scenarios | 561 |
Reduction of Energy Consumption in WSN using anApproach Geocast | 567 |
Conflicts in Online Social Network Privacy Policy | 573 |
Developing a Feedback Model for ManagingCongestion in Packet Switched Wide Area Networks | 579 |
Voice Gateway to IPPSTN Integration and NGN Architecture | 585 |
An Algorithm for Route Selection on MultisinkWireless Sensor Network Using Fuzzy Logic | 590 |
Mining Mobile Sequential Patterns in Wireless Cellular Networks | 597 |
Agile Software Development Methods and its Advantages | 603 |
Toward a High Performance Grid Site RO14ITIMand the Contribution to WLCG | 609 |
A MFI4ORbased Approach of Semantic Annotationfor Web Service | 614 |
Ethernet Node for Serial Communications | 621 |
EvalTool for Evaluate the PartitioningScheme of Distributed Databases | 627 |
Automatic Creation of Daily News Digests fromInternet News Sites | 633 |
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