Tse-Ming Tsai, Shih-Chun Chou, Bo-Fu Liu, Yuting Lin, Rong-Sheng Wang, Ren-Dar Yang, S. T. Chou
Modern smart mobile devices offer media-rich and native features that are highly useful for e-book applications. In particular, many e-book application developers have chosen Apple's iOS mobile devices such as iPad, or iPhone as the target device to provide more creative and richer user experience, as evidenced by the rapidly increasing number of publication apps in Apple's App Store. In this paper, three major types of e-book apps from the App Store were examined from a developer's perspective to provide a focused overview of the status and trends of iOS e-book apps and an analysis of related technology, architecture, and user interface design issues. The three representative e-book apps were analyzed according to their purposes, functions, and user satisfaction, so that user interface design guideline is established for the developer implementation. It was clear that e-book apps still had plenty of room to grow to take full advantage of unique mobile platform features and truly fulfill their potential. In particular, introduction of two-or three-dimensional visualization and context-awareness for the behavior component could further enhance e-book app's usability and utility. This paper aims to serve as a reference point and guide for developers and practitioners interested in using iOS as a platform for e-book applications, particular from the technical point of view.
{"title":"Status and Trend of E-book Applications for iOS Devices: A Developer's Perspective","authors":"Tse-Ming Tsai, Shih-Chun Chou, Bo-Fu Liu, Yuting Lin, Rong-Sheng Wang, Ren-Dar Yang, S. T. Chou","doi":"10.1109/SNPD.2012.125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SNPD.2012.125","url":null,"abstract":"Modern smart mobile devices offer media-rich and native features that are highly useful for e-book applications. In particular, many e-book application developers have chosen Apple's iOS mobile devices such as iPad, or iPhone as the target device to provide more creative and richer user experience, as evidenced by the rapidly increasing number of publication apps in Apple's App Store. In this paper, three major types of e-book apps from the App Store were examined from a developer's perspective to provide a focused overview of the status and trends of iOS e-book apps and an analysis of related technology, architecture, and user interface design issues. The three representative e-book apps were analyzed according to their purposes, functions, and user satisfaction, so that user interface design guideline is established for the developer implementation. It was clear that e-book apps still had plenty of room to grow to take full advantage of unique mobile platform features and truly fulfill their potential. In particular, introduction of two-or three-dimensional visualization and context-awareness for the behavior component could further enhance e-book app's usability and utility. This paper aims to serve as a reference point and guide for developers and practitioners interested in using iOS as a platform for e-book applications, particular from the technical point of view.","PeriodicalId":387936,"journal":{"name":"2012 13th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126319082","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}
The feedback Group Method of Data Handling (GMDH) -type neural network algorithm is applied to the medical image diagnosis of lung cancer. In this feedback GMDH-type neural network algorithm, the structural parameters such as the number of feedback loops, the number of neurons in the hidden layers and the relevant input variables are automatically selected so as to minimize the prediction error criterion defined as Akaike's Information Criterion (AIC) or Prediction Sum of Squares (PSS). The identification results show that the feedback GMDH-type neural network algorithm is useful for the medical image diagnosis of lung cancer since the optimum neural network architecture is automatically organized so as to fit the complexity of the medical images.
{"title":"Feedback GMDH-type Neural Network Self-Selecting Various Functions and Its Application to Medical Image Diagnosis of Lung Cancer","authors":"T. Kondo, J. Ueno, S. Takao","doi":"10.1109/SNPD.2012.94","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SNPD.2012.94","url":null,"abstract":"The feedback Group Method of Data Handling (GMDH) -type neural network algorithm is applied to the medical image diagnosis of lung cancer. In this feedback GMDH-type neural network algorithm, the structural parameters such as the number of feedback loops, the number of neurons in the hidden layers and the relevant input variables are automatically selected so as to minimize the prediction error criterion defined as Akaike's Information Criterion (AIC) or Prediction Sum of Squares (PSS). The identification results show that the feedback GMDH-type neural network algorithm is useful for the medical image diagnosis of lung cancer since the optimum neural network architecture is automatically organized so as to fit the complexity of the medical images.","PeriodicalId":387936,"journal":{"name":"2012 13th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121456090","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}
Since its establishment in 2004, Facebook has become the most popular social networks platform in the world. Among its various interfaces, the Pages, also known as “fan clubs”, are chosen as the main topic in this study. Previous studies have corroborated that the brand image has some influence on the trust of consumers and web quality is positively related to the trust and cohesiveness of community. Therefore, this study further investigates and discusses the relationships among trust, cohesiveness, and sense of community. Through literature reviews and inferences, some distinct hypotheses were presented. Previous researchers often argued that the cohesiveness was affected by the sense of community. However, our inference showed the reversed hypothesis that the sense of community was affected by the cohesiveness. This distinction may imply that these two constructs are related each other, not just through a single path. Since the members of Facebook Pages are our main subjects, electronic questionnaires will be adopted to survey this sample.
{"title":"Cohesiveness and Sense of Community of Fan Club Members at Facebook Pages","authors":"Dauw-Song Zhu, Min-Jon Kuo, TingFang Lee","doi":"10.1109/SNPD.2012.74","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SNPD.2012.74","url":null,"abstract":"Since its establishment in 2004, Facebook has become the most popular social networks platform in the world. Among its various interfaces, the Pages, also known as “fan clubs”, are chosen as the main topic in this study. Previous studies have corroborated that the brand image has some influence on the trust of consumers and web quality is positively related to the trust and cohesiveness of community. Therefore, this study further investigates and discusses the relationships among trust, cohesiveness, and sense of community. Through literature reviews and inferences, some distinct hypotheses were presented. Previous researchers often argued that the cohesiveness was affected by the sense of community. However, our inference showed the reversed hypothesis that the sense of community was affected by the cohesiveness. This distinction may imply that these two constructs are related each other, not just through a single path. Since the members of Facebook Pages are our main subjects, electronic questionnaires will be adopted to survey this sample.","PeriodicalId":387936,"journal":{"name":"2012 13th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128744590","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}
In Modern Japanese, emotive adjectives and verbs can be used to express the same emotions, such as kanashii and kanashimu. In the case of emotive adjectives, the agent of emotion is restricted to the first grammatical person. In Heian Japanese, the agent of emotive adjective sentences is limited to the first person, as in Modern Japanese, while the agent of emotive verbs is limited to the second and third person, contrary to Modern Japanese usage. We conclude that the restrictions on choosing between emotive adjectives and verbs in a sentence based on the grammatical person of the agent of emotion are clearer in kanbun-kundoku-tai than in wab un-tai.
{"title":"A Corpus Study of Emotive Adjectives and Verbs of the Heian Japanese","authors":"Makiro Tanaka, Hilofumi Yamamoto","doi":"10.1109/SNPD.2012.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SNPD.2012.101","url":null,"abstract":"In Modern Japanese, emotive adjectives and verbs can be used to express the same emotions, such as kanashii and kanashimu. In the case of emotive adjectives, the agent of emotion is restricted to the first grammatical person. In Heian Japanese, the agent of emotive adjective sentences is limited to the first person, as in Modern Japanese, while the agent of emotive verbs is limited to the second and third person, contrary to Modern Japanese usage. We conclude that the restrictions on choosing between emotive adjectives and verbs in a sentence based on the grammatical person of the agent of emotion are clearer in kanbun-kundoku-tai than in wab un-tai.","PeriodicalId":387936,"journal":{"name":"2012 13th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130987124","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}
Agent-based modeling and simulation tools have been mainly focusing on creating standalone applications based on some client-server model. There has been little or no focus on developing support for easy adaptation and evolution of application data models and logics, support for integration and deployment on other types of enabling infrastructures such as mesh or mobile ad-hoc networks, or synthesis with other existing applications. To simultaneously address these issues we present our Common Hybrid Agent Platform (CHAP) as a means to create and sustain multi-agent systems as a part of the collective of humans and ICT systems. CHAP assets are presented and involve a general-purpose associative memory, a set of reusable AI modules, a re-configurable agent component deployment engine, and a toolset for data synchronization and visualization, all of which can be tuned and adapted to a particular application or business domain using diverse (enabling) ICT infrastructures.
{"title":"Common Hybrid Agent Platform -- Sustaining the Collective","authors":"R. Serban, Hongliang Guo, A. Salden","doi":"10.1109/SNPD.2012.110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SNPD.2012.110","url":null,"abstract":"Agent-based modeling and simulation tools have been mainly focusing on creating standalone applications based on some client-server model. There has been little or no focus on developing support for easy adaptation and evolution of application data models and logics, support for integration and deployment on other types of enabling infrastructures such as mesh or mobile ad-hoc networks, or synthesis with other existing applications. To simultaneously address these issues we present our Common Hybrid Agent Platform (CHAP) as a means to create and sustain multi-agent systems as a part of the collective of humans and ICT systems. CHAP assets are presented and involve a general-purpose associative memory, a set of reusable AI modules, a re-configurable agent component deployment engine, and a toolset for data synchronization and visualization, all of which can be tuned and adapted to a particular application or business domain using diverse (enabling) ICT infrastructures.","PeriodicalId":387936,"journal":{"name":"2012 13th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131278426","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}
The paper outlines a method for modelling largescale commercial, social, socio-technological and engineering problems. The method is derived from twelve years of experience in designing and implementing large complex systems for real-time scheduling of taxis, air taxis, car rentals, seagoing tankers, trucks, space crafts; dynamic data mining; dynamic knowledge discovery and semantic search. The same approach has been also used for designing adaptive engineering systems and for research into social issues such as eradication of poverty.
{"title":"Modelling Large Complex Systems Using Multi-agent Technology","authors":"G. Rzevski","doi":"10.1109/SNPD.2012.138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SNPD.2012.138","url":null,"abstract":"The paper outlines a method for modelling largescale commercial, social, socio-technological and engineering problems. The method is derived from twelve years of experience in designing and implementing large complex systems for real-time scheduling of taxis, air taxis, car rentals, seagoing tankers, trucks, space crafts; dynamic data mining; dynamic knowledge discovery and semantic search. The same approach has been also used for designing adaptive engineering systems and for research into social issues such as eradication of poverty.","PeriodicalId":387936,"journal":{"name":"2012 13th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132882367","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}
Ryohei Azuma, T. Hochin, Hiroki Nomiya, H. Nakanishi, M. Kojima
This paper uses Postgre SQL, a database management system, in the data management of the similarity retrieval of subsequences of waveforms. By using Postgre SQL, the management of data could become easy, and a multi-dimensional index structure named the R tree could be used. This paper examines the parallel processing of the similarity retrieval by dividing a table into several tables. It is shown that high retrieval performance can easily be obtained by using a high performance computer. It is shown that using Postgre SQL could make the division of a table easy because R tree indexes are automatically constructed.
{"title":"Towards Parallel Processing of Similarity Retrieval System of Time Series","authors":"Ryohei Azuma, T. Hochin, Hiroki Nomiya, H. Nakanishi, M. Kojima","doi":"10.1109/SNPD.2012.86","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SNPD.2012.86","url":null,"abstract":"This paper uses Postgre SQL, a database management system, in the data management of the similarity retrieval of subsequences of waveforms. By using Postgre SQL, the management of data could become easy, and a multi-dimensional index structure named the R tree could be used. This paper examines the parallel processing of the similarity retrieval by dividing a table into several tables. It is shown that high retrieval performance can easily be obtained by using a high performance computer. It is shown that using Postgre SQL could make the division of a table easy because R tree indexes are automatically constructed.","PeriodicalId":387936,"journal":{"name":"2012 13th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134092686","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}
Text data are a major type of data in the modern society. Literatures have pointed out that more than 80% of data are in text form. It is important to study the insights from text data in addition to quantitative data. The development of text mining techniques started in the early 80's. The methodology has become much more mature in the recent years. In this article, we conduct a case study using text mining technique to analyze the patterns of the president's State of the Union address in USA. The speeches analyzed include the recent four USA presidents, Bush (1989-1992), Clinton (1993 - 2000), G.W. Bush (2001-2008), and Obama (2009-2011). Using two different text mining techniques, we identify six clusters from the 23 speeches using one technique and obtain seven topics based on the other technique.
{"title":"Does it Matter What They Said? A Text Mining Analysis of the State of the Union Addresses of USA Presidents","authors":"Steven Crockett, Carl Lee","doi":"10.1109/SNPD.2012.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SNPD.2012.13","url":null,"abstract":"Text data are a major type of data in the modern society. Literatures have pointed out that more than 80% of data are in text form. It is important to study the insights from text data in addition to quantitative data. The development of text mining techniques started in the early 80's. The methodology has become much more mature in the recent years. In this article, we conduct a case study using text mining technique to analyze the patterns of the president's State of the Union address in USA. The speeches analyzed include the recent four USA presidents, Bush (1989-1992), Clinton (1993 - 2000), G.W. Bush (2001-2008), and Obama (2009-2011). Using two different text mining techniques, we identify six clusters from the 23 speeches using one technique and obtain seven topics based on the other technique.","PeriodicalId":387936,"journal":{"name":"2012 13th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116738952","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}
E-mail system is one of the most popular and easy-to-use communication tools on the Internet. In these days, many people have more than one e-mail address. While automatic e-mail forwarding mechanism is useful under such situation, it has a serious problem during forwarding procedures. If user changes his/her own e-mail address that is a forwarding destination address and leaves forward settings untouched on the original destination e-mail server, then forwarded e-mails lose their way and cause a pile of error notification e-mails. This is often the case with some kind of e-mail addresses such as for mobile phones. Since an error notification e-mail only goes to the original sender and administrators of related e-mail servers, the original receiver would not be aware of the error. This paper describes a system to solve this problem.
{"title":"Implementation and Evaluation of a Mail Gateway System Reducing Bounce Mail Caused by Erroneous Forward Settings","authors":"Yoshiko Ishibashi, Takumi Kouga, Hideo Masuda","doi":"10.1109/SNPD.2012.80","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SNPD.2012.80","url":null,"abstract":"E-mail system is one of the most popular and easy-to-use communication tools on the Internet. In these days, many people have more than one e-mail address. While automatic e-mail forwarding mechanism is useful under such situation, it has a serious problem during forwarding procedures. If user changes his/her own e-mail address that is a forwarding destination address and leaves forward settings untouched on the original destination e-mail server, then forwarded e-mails lose their way and cause a pile of error notification e-mails. This is often the case with some kind of e-mail addresses such as for mobile phones. Since an error notification e-mail only goes to the original sender and administrators of related e-mail servers, the original receiver would not be aware of the error. This paper describes a system to solve this problem.","PeriodicalId":387936,"journal":{"name":"2012 13th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115600563","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}
Ryota Henmi, Y. Nishimura, Hiroaki Suzuki, S. Fukuma, S. Mori, Akinori Yamaguchi, S. Tomita
This paper reports a prototype implementation of 3D Fluid-Structure Simulation. In this implementation, heartbeat fluid flows inside a rectangular tube where the operator can interactively change the width of the tube. In order to achieve interactive simulation speed, some parts of the simulation is accelerated by GPU. For further improvement of the simulation speed, two techniques have been examined: the first one reduces the communication between CPU and GPU, and the second one offloads a whole fluid flow simulation onto GPU.
{"title":"Prototype Implementation of a GPU-based Interactive Coupled Fluid-Structure Simulation","authors":"Ryota Henmi, Y. Nishimura, Hiroaki Suzuki, S. Fukuma, S. Mori, Akinori Yamaguchi, S. Tomita","doi":"10.1109/SNPD.2012.107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SNPD.2012.107","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports a prototype implementation of 3D Fluid-Structure Simulation. In this implementation, heartbeat fluid flows inside a rectangular tube where the operator can interactively change the width of the tube. In order to achieve interactive simulation speed, some parts of the simulation is accelerated by GPU. For further improvement of the simulation speed, two techniques have been examined: the first one reduces the communication between CPU and GPU, and the second one offloads a whole fluid flow simulation onto GPU.","PeriodicalId":387936,"journal":{"name":"2012 13th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114370820","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}
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