Pub Date : 2011-03-20DOI: 10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958991
J. Ang, Sook Bing Leong, Chin Fei Lee, U. K. Yusof
Expert system has the least focus on requirement engineering. In facts, requirement engineering is important to get all the requirements needed for an expert system. If the requirements do not meet the clients' needs, the expert system is considered fail although it works perfectly. Currently, there are a lot of studies proposing and describing the development of expert systems. However, they are focusing in a specific and narrow domain of problems. Also, the major concern of most researchers is the design issues of the expert system. Therefore, we emphasize on the very first step of success expert system development — requirement engineering. Hence, we are focusing in the requirement engineering techniques in order to present the most practical way to facilitate requirement engineering processes. In this paper, we analyze expert system attributes, requirement engineering processes in expert system developments and the possible techniques that can be applied to expert system developments. Next, we propose the most appropriate techniques for the expert system developments based on the analysis. From this paper, a set of techniques for expert system development will be provided.
{"title":"Requirement engineering techniques in developing expert systems","authors":"J. Ang, Sook Bing Leong, Chin Fei Lee, U. K. Yusof","doi":"10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958991","url":null,"abstract":"Expert system has the least focus on requirement engineering. In facts, requirement engineering is important to get all the requirements needed for an expert system. If the requirements do not meet the clients' needs, the expert system is considered fail although it works perfectly. Currently, there are a lot of studies proposing and describing the development of expert systems. However, they are focusing in a specific and narrow domain of problems. Also, the major concern of most researchers is the design issues of the expert system. Therefore, we emphasize on the very first step of success expert system development — requirement engineering. Hence, we are focusing in the requirement engineering techniques in order to present the most practical way to facilitate requirement engineering processes. In this paper, we analyze expert system attributes, requirement engineering processes in expert system developments and the possible techniques that can be applied to expert system developments. Next, we propose the most appropriate techniques for the expert system developments based on the analysis. From this paper, a set of techniques for expert system development will be provided.","PeriodicalId":166647,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Symposium on Computers & Informatics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129304144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-03-20DOI: 10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958957
Gek Hong Sim, Yoong Choon Chang, T. Chuah
Ultra-wideband (UWB) serves the high bandwidth demand for high definition video transmission over short-range wireless networks. Nevertheless, bursty errors due to harsh channel conditions during video transmission greatly deteriorate video quality. In order to improve the quality of video transmission over UWB, we propose the use of a subpacket based hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) scheme instead of the conventional packet based HARQ scheme. The proposed subpacket based HARQ scheme only retransmits erroneous subpackets and avoids retransmission of other correctly decoded subpackets. Simulation results show that in comparison with the conventional packet based HARQ scheme, the proposed subpacket based HARQ scheme achieves significant performance improvement in terms of delay, percentage of overhead, throughput and reconstructed video quality.
{"title":"Video transmission over WiMedia-UWB using subpacket hybrid ARQ","authors":"Gek Hong Sim, Yoong Choon Chang, T. Chuah","doi":"10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958957","url":null,"abstract":"Ultra-wideband (UWB) serves the high bandwidth demand for high definition video transmission over short-range wireless networks. Nevertheless, bursty errors due to harsh channel conditions during video transmission greatly deteriorate video quality. In order to improve the quality of video transmission over UWB, we propose the use of a subpacket based hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) scheme instead of the conventional packet based HARQ scheme. The proposed subpacket based HARQ scheme only retransmits erroneous subpackets and avoids retransmission of other correctly decoded subpackets. Simulation results show that in comparison with the conventional packet based HARQ scheme, the proposed subpacket based HARQ scheme achieves significant performance improvement in terms of delay, percentage of overhead, throughput and reconstructed video quality.","PeriodicalId":166647,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Symposium on Computers & Informatics","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124437985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-03-20DOI: 10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958925
W. H. Ling, Woo Chaw Seng
Incorporation of a good machine vision into mobile device can create a powerful application. With such advancement, mobile users can use their existing smartphone as their third-eye to perceive the world. This paper introduces a framework using the smartphone to increase ambient intelligence and road safety of moving vehicles through traffic sign alert application. The driver is alerted of the incoming traffic signs in different modes depending on the user's preference. However, the competency of the application is still bounded with the capability of a normal human vision. Unlike conventional research work, this paper emphasizes on portability and expandability. Portability means there is no additional installation or placement of electronic hardware required in the vehicle in order to make the system work. Expandability focuses on the transparency of the traffic sign recognition output to other applications within same hardware device or external devices. This provides an option to other developers to use or expand their own applications by using the result of the proposed application. An interaction model of the traffic sign recognition system on mobile device is introduced.
{"title":"Traffic sign recognition model on mobile device","authors":"W. H. Ling, Woo Chaw Seng","doi":"10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958925","url":null,"abstract":"Incorporation of a good machine vision into mobile device can create a powerful application. With such advancement, mobile users can use their existing smartphone as their third-eye to perceive the world. This paper introduces a framework using the smartphone to increase ambient intelligence and road safety of moving vehicles through traffic sign alert application. The driver is alerted of the incoming traffic signs in different modes depending on the user's preference. However, the competency of the application is still bounded with the capability of a normal human vision. Unlike conventional research work, this paper emphasizes on portability and expandability. Portability means there is no additional installation or placement of electronic hardware required in the vehicle in order to make the system work. Expandability focuses on the transparency of the traffic sign recognition output to other applications within same hardware device or external devices. This provides an option to other developers to use or expand their own applications by using the result of the proposed application. An interaction model of the traffic sign recognition system on mobile device is introduced.","PeriodicalId":166647,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Symposium on Computers & Informatics","volume":"6 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122407634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-03-20DOI: 10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958876
S. A. Jafari, S. Mashohor
Combining a set of suitable experts can improve the generalization performance of the group when compared to single experts alone. The classical problem in this area is to answer the question about how to combine the ensemble members or the individuals. Different methods for combining the outputs of the experts in a committee machine (ensemble) are reported in the literature. The popular method to determine the error in every prediction is Mean Square Error (MSE), which is heavily influenced by outliers that can be found in many real data such as geosciences data. In this paper we introduce Robust Committee Neural Networks (RCNNs). Our proposed approach is the Huber and Bisquare function to determine the error between measured and predicted value which is less influenced by outliers. Therefore, we have used a Genetic Algorithm (GA) method to combine the individuals with the Huber and Bisquare as the fitness functions. The results show that the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) and R-square values for these two functions are improved compared to the MSE as the fitness function and the proposed combiner outperformed other five existing training algorithms.
{"title":"Robust combining methods in committee neural networks","authors":"S. A. Jafari, S. Mashohor","doi":"10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958876","url":null,"abstract":"Combining a set of suitable experts can improve the generalization performance of the group when compared to single experts alone. The classical problem in this area is to answer the question about how to combine the ensemble members or the individuals. Different methods for combining the outputs of the experts in a committee machine (ensemble) are reported in the literature. The popular method to determine the error in every prediction is Mean Square Error (MSE), which is heavily influenced by outliers that can be found in many real data such as geosciences data. In this paper we introduce Robust Committee Neural Networks (RCNNs). Our proposed approach is the Huber and Bisquare function to determine the error between measured and predicted value which is less influenced by outliers. Therefore, we have used a Genetic Algorithm (GA) method to combine the individuals with the Huber and Bisquare as the fitness functions. The results show that the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) and R-square values for these two functions are improved compared to the MSE as the fitness function and the proposed combiner outperformed other five existing training algorithms.","PeriodicalId":166647,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Symposium on Computers & Informatics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123008635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-03-20DOI: 10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958956
Hassaan Ajaz, Omer Ihsan, Usman Javed, Moaaz Ali Hafeez, A. Khan, S. Irteza
Fading remains the prime problem in wireless communications, and line of sight communication is not possible everywhere. Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) is a technique used to mitigate multi path fading effects by physically placing multiple antennas to create independent channel realizations. Cooperative MIMO on the other hand generates the effect of MIMO through cooperation of distributed radio nodes within the network. The paper identifies performance gains achieved in terms of frame error rate versus average signal to noise ratio of cooperative communication networks over conventional SISO and multiple collocated antenna array systems. An experimental testbed is developed on a Software Defined Radio (SDR) platform comprising of three distributed network nodes operating in the 2.4GHz unlicensed ISM band. A Selective Decode and Forward (DF) cooperative protocol is developed and established between the nodes. The results have been evaluated in terms of diversity gains as measured from the experimental curves of FER versus average SNR. A comparative analysis reflects that at a fixed value of SNR the FER of CMIMO communication systems is less than SISO, SIMO and single antenna cooperation networks.
{"title":"Performance of real time cooperative MIMO using an SDR platform","authors":"Hassaan Ajaz, Omer Ihsan, Usman Javed, Moaaz Ali Hafeez, A. Khan, S. Irteza","doi":"10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958956","url":null,"abstract":"Fading remains the prime problem in wireless communications, and line of sight communication is not possible everywhere. Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) is a technique used to mitigate multi path fading effects by physically placing multiple antennas to create independent channel realizations. Cooperative MIMO on the other hand generates the effect of MIMO through cooperation of distributed radio nodes within the network. The paper identifies performance gains achieved in terms of frame error rate versus average signal to noise ratio of cooperative communication networks over conventional SISO and multiple collocated antenna array systems. An experimental testbed is developed on a Software Defined Radio (SDR) platform comprising of three distributed network nodes operating in the 2.4GHz unlicensed ISM band. A Selective Decode and Forward (DF) cooperative protocol is developed and established between the nodes. The results have been evaluated in terms of diversity gains as measured from the experimental curves of FER versus average SNR. A comparative analysis reflects that at a fixed value of SNR the FER of CMIMO communication systems is less than SISO, SIMO and single antenna cooperation networks.","PeriodicalId":166647,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Symposium on Computers & Informatics","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115231840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-03-20DOI: 10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958902
Satish K. Shah, J. Shah, N. Parmar
The purpose of speech enhancement techniques is to improve quality and intelligibility of speech without producing any artifact. The speech enhancement algorithms are designed to suppress additive background noise and convolutive distortion or reverberation. The need for enhancement of noisy speech in communication systems increases with the spread of mobile and cellular telephony. Calls may originate from noisy environments such as moving vehicles or crowded public gathering places. The corrupting noise is not always white rather it is colored and contains reverberation. The currently employed noise suppressors in communication systems use spectral subtraction based on short time spectral attenuation (STSA) algorithms as a preprocessor in speech coder. They can perform well in white noise condition but failed in real colored noise environments with different SNRs. This leads to the use of RelAtive SpecTrAl (RASTA) algorithm for speech enhancement which was originally designed to alleviate effects of convolutional and additive noise in automatic speech recognition (ASR). RASTA does this by band-pass filtering time trajectories of parametric representations of speech in the domain in which the disturbing noisy components are additive. This paper evaluates the performance of RASTA algorithm for white and colored noise reduction as well as suggests modifications in parameters and filtering approach to perform quite well than original RASTA approach. The NOIZEUS database is used for objective evaluation in different noise conditions with 0 to 10dB SNRs. The results shown here give improvements compared to spectral subtraction methods.
{"title":"Evaluation of RASTA approach with modified parameters for speech enhancement in communication systems","authors":"Satish K. Shah, J. Shah, N. Parmar","doi":"10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958902","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of speech enhancement techniques is to improve quality and intelligibility of speech without producing any artifact. The speech enhancement algorithms are designed to suppress additive background noise and convolutive distortion or reverberation. The need for enhancement of noisy speech in communication systems increases with the spread of mobile and cellular telephony. Calls may originate from noisy environments such as moving vehicles or crowded public gathering places. The corrupting noise is not always white rather it is colored and contains reverberation. The currently employed noise suppressors in communication systems use spectral subtraction based on short time spectral attenuation (STSA) algorithms as a preprocessor in speech coder. They can perform well in white noise condition but failed in real colored noise environments with different SNRs. This leads to the use of RelAtive SpecTrAl (RASTA) algorithm for speech enhancement which was originally designed to alleviate effects of convolutional and additive noise in automatic speech recognition (ASR). RASTA does this by band-pass filtering time trajectories of parametric representations of speech in the domain in which the disturbing noisy components are additive. This paper evaluates the performance of RASTA algorithm for white and colored noise reduction as well as suggests modifications in parameters and filtering approach to perform quite well than original RASTA approach. The NOIZEUS database is used for objective evaluation in different noise conditions with 0 to 10dB SNRs. The results shown here give improvements compared to spectral subtraction methods.","PeriodicalId":166647,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Symposium on Computers & Informatics","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132651063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-03-20DOI: 10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958900
L. Po, C. K. Wong, C. Ting, K. Ng, K. Wong, C. Cheung, K. Cheung
With the popularity of touchscreen devices, physical button-based keyboards are being replaced by finger-operated virtual keyboards. Entering text on these touchscreen devices is no longer limited by finger tapping activities on the keys. Text input can be performed by finger sliding over the virtual keyboard, which is well realized by the Swype technology on a typical QWERTY keyboard. Such shorthand gesturing for text input, however, may be inefficient when directly applied to Chinese input, especially in Chinese stroke-based input method. In this paper, a novel dynamic candidate keypad with use of unidirectional finger gesture on the stroke key for character selection is proposed for enhancing stroke-based Chinese input method. The new design can enhance frequently used Chinese characters searching and input using stroke-based input. The new method is implemented on the Android 2.2 platform for performance evaluation using Traditional Chinese characters set. Experimental results show that the proposed method enables users to input popular Chinese characters easier than conventional stroke-based input methods.
{"title":"Dynamic candidate keypad for stroke-based Chinese input method on touchscreen devices","authors":"L. Po, C. K. Wong, C. Ting, K. Ng, K. Wong, C. Cheung, K. Cheung","doi":"10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958900","url":null,"abstract":"With the popularity of touchscreen devices, physical button-based keyboards are being replaced by finger-operated virtual keyboards. Entering text on these touchscreen devices is no longer limited by finger tapping activities on the keys. Text input can be performed by finger sliding over the virtual keyboard, which is well realized by the Swype technology on a typical QWERTY keyboard. Such shorthand gesturing for text input, however, may be inefficient when directly applied to Chinese input, especially in Chinese stroke-based input method. In this paper, a novel dynamic candidate keypad with use of unidirectional finger gesture on the stroke key for character selection is proposed for enhancing stroke-based Chinese input method. The new design can enhance frequently used Chinese characters searching and input using stroke-based input. The new method is implemented on the Android 2.2 platform for performance evaluation using Traditional Chinese characters set. Experimental results show that the proposed method enables users to input popular Chinese characters easier than conventional stroke-based input methods.","PeriodicalId":166647,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Symposium on Computers & Informatics","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131478909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-03-20DOI: 10.1109/ISCI.2011.5959005
M. Eze, J. Labadin, Terrin Lim
Even with a lot of efforts by researchers, malaria eradication is yet to become a reality. The link between malaria infected and non-infected human beings, which led to transmission of the disease, is bridged by infected malaria vectors, through blood sucking bites. Such bites take place either in residential homes or public places. Suppose the residential homes are placed under reliable vector control, malaria transmission will still persist unless the public places are taken into consideration. The emerging computational strategy is about leveraging on the interactions between human beings and mosquitoes in public places to build realistic network models with the ultimate aim of applying relevant search techniques to such models, so as to determine the public places which act as reservoir of infected malaria vectors. The overall result will form a key resource for realistic vector control. Hence the idea is to be more proactive and offensive against malaria vectors, by locating the vectors in their hiding places, rather than human beings being located and bitten by the infected vectors. The emerging computational strategy discussed here is part of an ongoing research project in application of computational techniques towards eradication of malaria. This paper documents the result of an initial survey on malaria vector existence in public places.
{"title":"Emerging computational strategy for eradication of malaria","authors":"M. Eze, J. Labadin, Terrin Lim","doi":"10.1109/ISCI.2011.5959005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCI.2011.5959005","url":null,"abstract":"Even with a lot of efforts by researchers, malaria eradication is yet to become a reality. The link between malaria infected and non-infected human beings, which led to transmission of the disease, is bridged by infected malaria vectors, through blood sucking bites. Such bites take place either in residential homes or public places. Suppose the residential homes are placed under reliable vector control, malaria transmission will still persist unless the public places are taken into consideration. The emerging computational strategy is about leveraging on the interactions between human beings and mosquitoes in public places to build realistic network models with the ultimate aim of applying relevant search techniques to such models, so as to determine the public places which act as reservoir of infected malaria vectors. The overall result will form a key resource for realistic vector control. Hence the idea is to be more proactive and offensive against malaria vectors, by locating the vectors in their hiding places, rather than human beings being located and bitten by the infected vectors. The emerging computational strategy discussed here is part of an ongoing research project in application of computational techniques towards eradication of malaria. This paper documents the result of an initial survey on malaria vector existence in public places.","PeriodicalId":166647,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Symposium on Computers & Informatics","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127360264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-03-20DOI: 10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958903
Y. Zehforoosh, Ramazanali Sadegzadeh, N. MirMotahhary
In this paper, we present a novel design of printed monopole antenna for UWB applications. The radiating element of the proposed antenna is composed of an octagonal patch fed by a 50 ohm microstrip. It has a very compact size of 20mm×12mm, which can be integrated easily with other RF front-end circuits. The antenna parameters and performances have been investigated through a large amount of EM simulations. It has been demonstrated that the proposed antenna provides an ultra wide bandwidth from 2.95 GHz to 13.35 GHz, completely covering the range set by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) for UWB operations (3.1GHz to 10.6GHz). It also enjoys advantages such as low profile, low cost, high gain and satisfactory radiation characteristics.
{"title":"A modified planar monopole antenna for UWB applications","authors":"Y. Zehforoosh, Ramazanali Sadegzadeh, N. MirMotahhary","doi":"10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958903","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a novel design of printed monopole antenna for UWB applications. The radiating element of the proposed antenna is composed of an octagonal patch fed by a 50 ohm microstrip. It has a very compact size of 20mm×12mm, which can be integrated easily with other RF front-end circuits. The antenna parameters and performances have been investigated through a large amount of EM simulations. It has been demonstrated that the proposed antenna provides an ultra wide bandwidth from 2.95 GHz to 13.35 GHz, completely covering the range set by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) for UWB operations (3.1GHz to 10.6GHz). It also enjoys advantages such as low profile, low cost, high gain and satisfactory radiation characteristics.","PeriodicalId":166647,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Symposium on Computers & Informatics","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114341447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-03-20DOI: 10.1109/ISCI.2011.5959007
M. R. Rahman, Shujon Naha, P. Roy, Ishrat Ahmed, Samiha Samrose, Md. Mahmudur Rahman, S. I. Ahmed
The burgeoning growth of the e-Learning technologies implies the fact that the future education system will largely depend upon the electronic devices and computer aided technologies. It has already been proved that the computer aided teaching techniques are much more effective for the children than the traditional teaching system in most of the cases. A large number of software has been designed to assist the teachers in the classroom to teach and evaluate the students. Although those software systems are good enough for a class with normal (neurotypical) children, those very often fail to address the special needs of the autistic children. Hence, the autistic children face various challenges in participating with neurotypicals in the same classroom. We have addressed this problem by designing and implementing an intelligent classroom software, named “A-Class”, which takes care of the diversity of tastes among the autistic children of a classroom and helps the teacher to teach in a class participated by both autistic and neurotypical children. In this paper we discuss the idea, design and implementation of A-Class based upon our five months of intervention with the autistic children at Autism Welfare Foundation (AWF) in Dhaka.
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