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Keyword: ARAn Analysts’ Skills: Bespoke Software vs Packaged Software at Small Software Vendors
SMEs usually succeed in today market since they achieve unique things in the business market. Therefore, SMEs look to keep their business benefit by avoiding any regulation conducted of software. Executed software packaged at SMEs consequently provides obstacle concerning to misfits between software services process and SMEs business process. Hence software analysts’ skills are a…
Read MoreDeterminants of Technological and Innovation Performance of the Nepalese Cellular Telecommunications Industry from the Customers’ Perspective
The study aimed to understand and analyze the technological and innovation performance measures of the Nepalese cellular telecommunications industry from the customers’ perspective. The measures like network service quality, signal strength and coverage, voice quality, and calls drop are used for technological performance, whereas measures like product/service innovation, process innovation, customization, competitive innovation, and marketing…
Read MoreFeature Gate Computational Top-Down Model for Target Detection
Computer vision is a technique used for processing images and videos which are increasingly becoming ubiquitous day by day. Technologies developed are revolving around human needs and demands high computational power as volume of data increases. The extraction of the necessary information for processing, that is independent of various scene complexity is a challenging task.…
Read MoreDocker-C2A : Cost-Aware Autoscaler of Docker Containers for Microservices-based Applications
This article proposes a cost-aware autoscaler for microservices-based applications deployed with docker containers. This autoscaler decreases the cost of the application deployment as it reduces computing resources. In elastic treatment, microservice resources are scaled when the used metric as the central processing unit (CPU) exceeds the threshold. In case of threshold exceeding, an autoscaler adds…
Read MoreStandalone Operation of Modified Seven-Level Packed U-Cell Inverter for Solar Photovoltaic System
In this paper, a modified configuration of Single-Phase Seven-Level Packed U-Cell (PUC) Multilevel Inverter for solar photovoltaic system is presented & investigated for standalone operation. The Seven-Level MPUC Inverter comprises of six semiconductor switches & two DC links which generates seven voltage levels at the inverter output. The maximum amplitude of inverter output voltage is…
Read MorePrediction of Vessel Dynamic Model Parameters using Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation
Dynamic positioning, a system to maintain vessel position and heading, is a technology that is used in many vessels and being intensively used as research topic in marine engineering. In order to make this system work properly, an accurate parameters value is needed. This research focuses on finding several parameters needed in this control system,…
Read MoreBarriers and Supports in Engineering Career Development: An Exploration of First-Year Students
Previous research has found that first-years in college is challenging due to changes in academic demands and the adaptation process. In addition to this, research on career development has found that barriers and supports may influence career interest, motivation to continue and student retention. This study explores the influence of specific supports and barriers among…
Read MoreUpdated Analysis of Business Continuity Issues Underlying the Certification of Invoicing Software, Considering a Pandemic Scenario
Portuguese organizations that have invoicing software, certified by the Tax and Customs Authority, need to comply with technical requirements that involve business continuity and disaster recovery. The recent tax legislative changes created conditions for the dematerialization of documents, allowing waiving invoice printing, encouraging the adoption of an electronic invoicing and document archiving system. The pandemic…
Read MoreTowards a Smart Campus for Qassim University: An Investigation of Indoor Navigation System
With the advancements in technology, smart entities are becoming increasingly intelligent, therefore, increasing their interaction capabilities with their surrounding environment. Apart from the traditional smart low profile devices, these entities now involve cars, mobiles, televisions, and extend to universities and smart cities. One of the bi-product of the smart cities is the emergence of the…
Read MorePolarity Switch within Social Networks
It is the age of information. Social networks are the main reason why, following the increasing activity of online users. With this comes a big impact on the real world, it can be positive and highly negative as well. Therefore, research in this field is highly needed for the betterment of societal behaviors within social…
Read MoreAlgorithm Design for Accurate Steps Counting Based on Smartphone Sensors for Indoor Applications
This paper aims to design an accurate and robust algorithm for counting the steps based on the smartphone’s accelerometer for indoor applications. Different daily activities have been considered in the experimental scenarios, including normal walking with various smartphone positions and running activities. The detection process’s accuracy is ensured by setting an appropriate segregation approach and…
Read MoreDependency Head Annotation for Myanmar Dependency Treebank
Complete manual annotation of dependency treebank needs resources like annotators and annotation tools and takes long time and has high possibility of inconsistent annotations for free word order languages such as Myanmar. This paper describes a dependency head annotation scheme with Universal part-of-speech and Universal Dependencies for Myanmar dependency treebank. Currently 22,810 sentences and 680,218…
Read MoreAnalysis of Long-term Equilibrium Relationship Between KRW, RMB, JPY Exchange Rates and International Financial Market Variables: Comparative Analysis of KRW, RMB, JPY
This study used 15 VECM analysis models to analyze the relationship among exchange rates of South Korea, China and Japan; and between exchange rates of each country and international financial market variables. The analysis variables are the Won, Yuan, Yen spot exchange rates and international financial market variables. The results of the analysis are as…
Read MoreComparison of Support Vector Machine-Based Equalizer and Code-Aided Expectation Maximization on Fiber Optic Nonlinearity Compensation Using a Proposed BER Normalized by Power and Distance Index
Advances in optimizing optical fiber communications have been on the rise these recent years due to the increasing demand for larger data bandwidths and overall better efficiency. Coherent optics have focused on many kinds of research due to its ability to transport greater amounts of information, have better flexibility in network implementations, and support different…
Read MoreMinimizing Collisions of Self-Driving Cars by a Control System Using Predetermined Two-Dimensional Grid Localization
Most crossroads use a traffic light to communicate between human-driven vehicles by conveying to the drivers when to stop and when to proceed in an organized fashion. However, the stop and wait nature of traffic lights cause slower mobility, leading to congestion. This paper presents a localization scheme based on two-dimensional (2D) flat geometry adaptation…
Read MoreCognitive Cybernetics in the Foresight of Globalitarianism
This paper presents the results of the research conducted with the help of cognitive cybernetics about the “mass” factor from the theory of totalitarianism. According to the expert system model, “big data” analysis sought to discover knowledge for assessing the future status of digital social connectivity. Originally developed models and methods of cognitive and computer…
Read MoreNetwork Modeling with ANP to Determine the Appropriate Area for the Development of Dry Port in Thailand
One drawback of the Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) problem with the Analytic Network Process (ANP) is that the origin of the network cannot be clearly defined. In addition, it is not possible to specify internal relationship between criteria and sub-criteria. The application of Design Structure Matrix (DSM) with the Partitioning Reachability Matrix method resulted…
Read MorePerformance Analysis and Enhancement of Spline Adaptive Filtering based on Adaptive Step-size Variable Leaky Least Mean Square Algorithm
This paper presents an adaptive step-size and variable leaky least mean square algorithm based on nonlinear adaptive filter with the adaptive lookup table using spline interpolation. An adaptive step-size approach is proposed with the energy of squared previous and present errors to boost up the convergence rate. A modified variable leaky mechanism is proposed with…
Read MoreBurnout Among Primary School Teachers in the Wazzane Region in Morocco: Prevalence and Risk Factors
Introduction: Burnout is a real malaise that affects the mental health of teachers. The objective is to determine the prevalence of burnout among primary school teachers in the Wazzane region and to look for associated risk factors. Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in 2017- 2018 with a sample of 330 teachers. Socio-demographic and work-related data…
Read MoreStrategic Plan for the Achievement of the Competitiveness of Small Companies with Respect to Large Ones
The main objective of this research is to analyze the impact that the implementation of a strategic plan would have on achieving the competitiveness of the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) that are dedicated to bottling, marketing and distributing water in the city of Los Mochis. It is intended to offer a tool to…
Read MoreSharpniZer: A C# Static Code Analysis Tool for Mission Critical Systems
Until recent years, code quality was not given due significance, as long as the system produced accurate results. Taking into account the implications and recent losses in critical systems, developers have started making use of static code analysis tools, to assess the eminence of source code in terms of quality. Static code analysis is conducted…
Read MoreThe Effect of Different Starches in the Environmental and Mechanical Properties of Starch Blended Bioplastics
The problematic of plastic pollution in the world has led to an interest in the research and development of thermoset starch-protein blend bioplastics as a possible alternative for single use non-recyclable plastics. However, these bioplastics lack the physico-chemical characteristics that make them useful as a replacement for the currently used plastics. This work aims to…
Read MoreVariation Between DDC and SCAMSMA for Clustering of Wireless MultipathWaves in Indoor and Semi-Urban Channel Scenarios
The performance of Simultaneous Clustering and Model Selection Matrix Affinity (SCAMSMA) and Deep Divergence-Based Clustering (DDC) in clustering wireless mul- tipaths generated by COST 2100 channel model (C2CM) is compared. Enhancing the accuracy of clustering multipaths is an open area of research which the clustering ap- proaches try to improve. Jaccard index is used as…
Read MoreAccelerating Decision-Making in Transport Emergency with Artificial Intelligence
The paper addresses speeding up meetings in a networked environment during rescue works in a transport emergency. Several groups of representatives of various services and observers participate in those meetings. The number of wrong decisions tends to increase because remote participants cannot understand each other quickly. First, the meetings must be efficiently held to avoid…
Read MoreMicrocontroller Based Data Acquisition and System Identification of a DC Servo Motor Using ARX, ARMAX, OE, and BJ Models
This paper is carrying out a practical identification of a DC servomotor from input and output data. The system’s step response was obtained from an acquisition card that we have developed using a microcontroller. The data is collected and downloaded to the PC Thought RS232 Protocol to process the identification process using polynomial models (ARX,…
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