Overview: The Role of Information Policy in Resolving Global Challenges

Governments in many countries recognize the importance of knowledge-based societies whose citizens are adaptable and have the means to engage in continuous learning. Information societies can address global challenges far more readily than those that do not adopt its characteristics of ICTs (information and communication technologies) and connectivity; usable content; infrastructure and deliverability; and human intellectual capability

Cooperation as a Service in VANET: Implementation and Simulation Results

The past decade has witnessed the emergence of Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET), specializing from the well-known Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET) to Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) wireless communications. While the original motivation for Vehicular Networks was to promote traffic safety, recently it has become increasingly obvious that Vehicular Networks open new vistas for Internet access, providing weather or road condition, parking availability, distributed gaming, and advertisement. In previous papers [27,28], we introduced Cooperation as a Service (CaaS); a new service-oriented solution which enables improved and new services for the road users and an optimized use of the road network through vehicle\u27s cooperation and vehicle-to-vehicle communications. The current paper is an extension of the first ones; it describes an improved version of CaaS and provides its full implementation details and simulation results. CaaS structures the network into clusters, and uses Content Based Routing (CBR) for intra-cluster communications and DTN (Delay and disruption-Tolerant Network) routing for inter-cluster communications. To show the feasibility of our approach, we implemented and tested CaaS using Opnet modeler software package. Simulation results prove the correctness of our protocol and indicate that CaaS achieves higher performance as compared to an Epidemic approach

The behavior of CPW-Fed microstrip patch antenna with KOCH SNOWFLAKE Fractal Slots

This paper presents the behavior of CPW-Fed microstrip patch antenna with KOCH SNOWFLAKE Fractal slots on the borders of the radiating element and the ground plane. Increasing the number of iterations allows us obtaining lower resonant frequencies. The proposed antenna is an adequate solution for the 900MHz RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), 1710-1880 MHz LTE (Long Term Evolution), 1920-2170 UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) and for 3.3 WIMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) applications. The simulations were performed with FEKO 6.3

Transforming the Software Industry into a Platform for Development: Case of Egypt

During the 1960s, computing was introduced to Egypt. Its use and applications was limited to the government and the public sector throughout the 1970s. During the 1980s, the introduction and diffusion of information technology (IT) was diffused following the global personal computer evolution. Personal computers effectively affected business and organizational development and growth due to the continuous developments in the IT industry and caused by increasing hardware penetration, software innovations and creativity, research and development and the build-up of the telecommunications and information infrastructures. This paper assesses the recent developments in the software industry in Egypt. The focus is on the iterative and dynamic nature of the software industry with the evolving trends of outsourcing and offshoring and their growing active role as a contributor to development through a strong and much needed export-oriented software industry

An efficient bit-loading algorithm with peak BER constraint for the band-extended PLC

ISBN: 978-1-4244-2936-3International audiencePowerline communications (PLC) have become a viable local area network (LAN) solution for in-home networks. In order to achieve high bit rate over powerline, the current technology bandwidth is increased up to 100 MHz within the European project OMEGA. In this paper, an efficient bit-loading algorithm with peak BER constraint is proposed. This algorithm tries to maximize the overall data rate based on linear precoded discrete multitone (LP-DMT), which enables reliable high bit rate transmission. A fast computational algorithm with mean BER constraint is also proposed. Simulations are run over PLC channels and it is shown that peak BER constraint algorithm combined with linear precoding component gives better performance than mean BER constraint algorithm

Determinants of the continuous use of E-GOV information systems and services in Morocco : Proposing an integrative model

The digital transformation of public administration is a strategic project that has been initiated by Morocco several years ago. It is a very ambitious project that is of great importance for the development and growth of the country. Yet, its success depends highly on the involvement and participation of citizens. However, in Morocco, there is a lack of comprehensive information regarding the adoption and usage of these solutions, as well as the e-gov satisfaction levels among citizens. This research aligns with theories of information system usage behavior in a post-adoption context and focuses on the user's perspective, emphasizing the importance of studying the peculiarities of their usage behavior in order to promote the success of the systems and solutions offered to them. After addressing the situation of e-gov services in Morocco and presenting the theoretical basis of the research, this article proposes, in its third part, an integrative model composed of a fusion between several theories with the objective to study the continuous use behavior of e-gov services and systems in Morocco. This model includes motivation and satisfaction constructs to explain usage continuance. The proposed model will be the starting point of an empirical study whose goal is to explore all the assumed relationships in the model and to analyze them

Acacia 2006-2010 final report

The report was written ahead of the Acacia program’s closure, meaning, of the 157 research activities approved to date for this Prospectus period, 52% of Acacia’s projects were currently in progress. The program focuses on improving economic development and opportunities (how ICTs broadly influence social and economic development in Africa); enhancing social service delivery (how ICTs help African governments be more effective in the delivery of citizens’ services); and empowering citizens (how the use of ICTs can reinforce citizens’ capabilities). The report includes financial information, project outputs and outcomes, analysis, and lessons learned. Bibliographic references are included

Deep learning based Arabic short answer grading in serious games

Automatic short answer grading (ASAG) has become part of natural language processing problems. Modern ASAG systems start with natural language preprocessing and end with grading. Researchers started experimenting with machine learning in the preprocessing stage and deep learning techniques in automatic grading for English. However, little research is available on automatic grading for Arabic. Datasets are important to ASAG, and limited datasets are available in Arabic. In this research, we have collected a set of questions, answers, and associated grades in Arabic. We have made this dataset publicly available. We have extended to Arabic the solutions used for English ASAG. We have tested how automatic grading works on answers in Arabic provided by schoolchildren in 6th grade in the context of serious games. We found out those schoolchildren providing answers that are 5.6 words long on average. On such answers, deep learning-based grading has achieved high accuracy even with limited training data. We have tested three different recurrent neural networks for grading. With a transformer, we have achieved an accuracy of 95.67%. ASAG for school children will help detect children with learning problems early. When detected early, teachers can solve learning problems easily. This is the main purpose of this research