Determining the Citizen Loyalty Factor of COVID-19 Website Using the Trust Model

One of the information technology (IT) utilization by the government is the establishment of an official website for public access, designed to disseminate information about the COVID-19. Gaining public trust in the information dissemination is getting harder due to the amount of information, while the government is striving to provide reliable information. The service quality provided on the official website will affect the public’s trust and desire to use these services. Citizen loyalty is known when people intensively use the government electronic services because they believe in the government and its e-services based on perceived satisfaction and service quality. This research studied the effect of service quality, trust, and user satisfaction on user loyalty when using e-services by the Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY) government. The study used a trust model developed by Alkraiji and Ameen and applied it to the official COVID-19 website. Data were collected from 100 respondents in the DIY who were in the productive age range. The experiment was carried out using explanatory and inferential techniques with multiple linear regression methods. The results of the study indicate that all model hypotheses are accepted. The relationship between antecedents and citizen loyalty was more influenced by trust in government and e-government. This finding explains why Yogyakarta citizen trust the government and its electronic services and will be loyal to use these services during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as other facilities in the future.

Serendipity Identification Using Distance-Based Approach

The recommendation system is a method for helping consumers to find products that fit their preferences. However, recommendations that are merely based on user preference are no longer satisfactory. Consumers expect recommendations that are novel, unexpected, and relevant. It requires the development of a serendipity recommendation system that matches the serendipity data character. However, there are still debates among researchers about the available common definition of serendipity. Therefore, our study proposes a work to identify serendipity data's character by directly using serendipity data ground truth from the famous Movielens dataset. The serendipity data identification is based on a distance-based approach using collaborative filtering and k-means clustering algorithms. Collaborative filtering is used to calculate the similarity value between data, while k-means is used to cluster the collaborative filtering data. The resulting clusters are used to determine the position of the serendipity cluster. The result of this study shows that the average distance between the recommended movie cluster and the serendipity movie cluster is 0.85 units, which is neither the closest cluster nor the farthest cluster from the recommended movie cluster

Bidirectional Battery Interface in Standalone Solar PV System for Electrification in Rural Areas

In a standalone photovoltaic (PV) system, a bidirectional DC converter (BDC) is needed to prevent the battery from damage caused by DC bus voltage variation. In this paper, BDC was applied in a standalone solar PV system to interface the battery with a DC bus in a standalone PV system. Therefore, its bidirectional power capability was focused on improving save battery operation while maintaining high power quality delivery. A non-isolated, buck and boost topology for the BDC configuration was used to interface the battery with the DC bus. PID controller-based control strategy was chosen for easy implementation, high reliability, and high dynamic performance. A simulation was conducted using MATLAB Simulink program. The simulation results show that the implementation of the BDC controller can maintain the DC bus voltage to 100 V, have high efficiency at 99.18% in boost mode and 99.48% in buck mode. To prevent the battery from overcharging condition, the BDC stops the charging process and then works as a voltage regulator to maintain the DC bus voltage at reference value

A Review on Face Anti-Spoofing

The biometric system is a security technology that uses information based on a living person's characteristics to verify or recognize the identity, such as facial recognition. Face recognition has numerous applications in the real world, such as access control and surveillance. But face recognition has a security issue of spoofing. A face anti-spoofing, a task to prevent fake authorization by breaching the face recognition systems using a photo, video, mask, or a different substitute for an authorized person's face, is used to overcome this challenge. There is also increasing research of new datasets by providing new types of attack or diversity to reach a better generalization. This paper review of the recent development includes a general understanding of face spoofing, anti-spoofing methods, and the latest development to solve the problem against various spoof types

Performance of MPSO-MPPT on PV-Based DC Microgrid in Partial Shading Conditions

Microgrid is a controllable decentralized group of energy resources and loads with the ability to operate both in grid-connected or island modes. Photovoltaic (PV) is one of the sources that are commonly used in microgrid. PV has a good ability to convert solar irradiation into electrical energy, especially under ideal condition, namely uniform irradiation or non-shading condition. However, PV often has some problems when facing partial shading condition. In this condition, PV does not produce optimal power because it stucks at the local maximum power point (MPP), thus it unables to track the global MPP. For this reason, it is necessary to implement a smart maximum power point tracker (MPPT) that can solve this problem. Furthermore, MPPT will be implemented in pulse width modulation (PWM) to control the buck converter. This study is focused on designing a laboratory scaled microgrid system with PV sources and controlled by modified particle swarm optimization (MPSO)-based MPPT. The 360 Wp PV array used consisted of two strings of three series modules Solarex MSX-60. The performance of the proposed method was compared with perturb and observe (P&O)-based MPPT, which was the commonly used method on MPPT. Furthermore, it was found that P&O and MPSO performed relatively similar accuracy (with difference of 0.04%) in non-shading condition. However, in partial shading condition, MPSO could perform better by producing greater output power so that it delivers better accuracy (98.74% to 99.11%) compared to P&O (57.95% to 71.87%). However, MPSO required a slightly longer time to converge because it had more complicated method and more computational load

The Evaluation of AR Mobile App as a Learning Media for Children

A user evaluation stage is an integral part of designing an application. A practical evaluation can provide an overview of the problems that arise in the application and improve the user experience. The Kupuku application is an augmented reality (AR)-based game application for learning about butterflies. The Kupuku application is specifically intended for children aged 6-13 years. The user sample was selected using a purposive sampling method with the criteria for users of elementary school-age children for the child user segment and their companions as the adult user segment. This study aims to evaluate the usability of the Kupuku game application to users. User evaluation was carried out to measure the application’s usability. The evaluation process was conducted on two user segments, namely 20 child users and 16 adult users. Assessment of children employed the Fun Toolkit and usability factor-based question - Nielsen method. The obtained results showed positive feedbacks. In contrast, the assessment for adult users utilized the system usability scale (SUS) and the user experience questionnaire (UEQ). The SUS score of 76 was included in the good category, and the UEQ score produced an excellent average. The test results indicate that this application can be accepted by users, both children, and adults

A Review on Face Anti-Spoofing

The biometric system is a security technology that uses information based on a living person's characteristics to verify or recognize the identity, such as facial recognition. Face recognition has numerous applications in the real world, such as access control and surveillance. But face recognition has a security issue of spoofing. A face anti-spoofing, a task to prevent fake authorization by breaching the face recognition systems using a photo, video, mask, or a different substitute for an authorized person's face, is used to overcome this challenge. There is also increasing research of new datasets by providing new types of attack or diversity to reach a better generalization. This paper review of the recent development includes a general understanding of face spoofing, anti-spoofing methods, and the latest development to solve the problem against various spoof types

Load Flow Allocation to Improve the Fairness of MW-Mile Method

In a deregulated power system, an appropriate wheeling cost is required to provide valuable economic information to market participants, such as generation and transmission companies. The load flow method is used in power wheeling to determine the condition of the existing system after the wheeling participant is added to the system.  In the load flow method, it can be seen how much power is generated from a generator. However, the power flow method cannot determine wheeling generator allocation to the power flow in each transmission network. For this reason, power tracing will be used to determine the wheeling generator allocation. Power tracing is also a solution that could improve the fairness of determining wheeling costs. This paper discusses the power tracing method to determine load flow allocation for wheeling generators using the genetic algorithm (GA) method. GA is one of the optimization techniques, where in power tracing with GA, the load flow allocations (LFA) problem will be assumed as an optimization problem. Calculation with tracing and without tracing will be compared to demonstrate the benefits of the proposed technique. Experimental results showed that the MW-mile method with LFA yielded more expensive wheeling costs than the conventional method. The cost is more expensive due to the absence of cost reduction as in the conventional MW-mile method, and wheeling users pay wheeling costs based on the transmission usage. Although wheeling costs are high, the LFA method provides a fair price because wheeling users pay a fee based on the actual usage. In the future, another power tracing may be used to help determine wheeling costs

Analysis of Information Technology Security Management UKSW SIASAT Using ISO/IEC 27001:2013

IT security management is essential for organizations to notice the occurring risks and opportunities because they will profoundly affect the ongoing business processes within the organization. The Satya Wacana Academic Information System, more often called SIASAT, is an IT component playing an essential role in running core business processes at Satya Wacana Christian University under the control of the Information Systems and Technology Bureau. At this time, the implementation of SIASAT has been going well, but there are still some obstacles. Lack of human resources is one of the findings and one it becomes of the most significant risks as it affects the use of infrastructure and information security. This research was conducted using the international standard ISO/IEC 27001:2013, prioritizing information security by taking a planning clause focusing on risk assessment. From the results of this study, there were nine recommendations given. Some of which were the most important, i.e., creating separated standard operating procedure documents for SIASAT, which previously were still affiliated with the Academic Administration Bureau; distributing job descriptions; and providing clear and documented access rights for everyone. It is expected that this research can reduce the occurring risks and can be considered for establishing improvements to enhance academic services in the future

SMIMO Radar: MIMO Radar with Subarray Elements of Phased-Array Antenna

Unlike Phased-MIMO Radar (PMIMO) which employs overlapping equal subarrays (OES) only on the transmit (Tx), Subarray-MIMO (SMIMO) radar utilizes the combination of subarrays, both in the transmit (Tx) and receive (Rx). SMIMO radar is MIMO radar with subarray elements acting as Phased-Array (PA). It simultaneously combines the primary advantages of PA and the MIMO radar; they are high directional gain and high diversity gain, respectively. High directional gain is beneficial to improve the range target, while high diversity gain is beneficial to improve the number of target detection. The use of the subarray methods in the Tx-Rx array could be configured such as in verlapping subarray (OS), non-overlapping subarray (NOS), equal subarray (ES), unequal subarray (US), and/or the combination of all configurations. Various configurations in Tr-Rx would determine the performance of radar, such as the number of virtual arrays, the maximum number of target detections, the detection accuracies, and the angular resolutions along with its effectivity compared to PA, MIMO, and Phased-MIMO radar. Numerical results and simulation showed that SMIMO provided higher flexibility than other radars by configuring Tx-Rx to easily adapt to various changes of target conditions and their surroundings