11 research outputs found
Effect of oil palm empty fruit bunches (OPEFB) fibers to the compressive strength and water absorption of concrete
Growing popularity based on environmentally-friendly, low cost and lightweight building materials in the construction industry has led to a need to examine how these characteristics can be achieved and at the same time giving the benefit to the environment and maintain the material requirements based on the standards required. Recycling of waste generated from industrial and agricultural activities as measures of building materials is not only a viable solution to the problem of pollution but also to produce an economic design of building
A peer to peer approach to large scale information monitoring
Issued as final reportNational Science Foundation (U.S.
Sampling, information extraction and summarisation of Hidden Web databases
Hidden Web databases maintain a collection of specialised documents, which are dynamically generated using page templates. This paper presents the Two-Phase Sampling (2PS) technique that detects and extracts query-related information from documents contained in databases. 2PS is based on a two-phase framework for the sampling, information extraction and summarisation of Hidden Web documents. In the first phase, 2PS samples and stores documents for further analysis. In the second phase, it detects Web page templates from sampled documents and extracts relevant information from which a content summary is then generated. Experimental results demonstrate that 2PS effectively eliminates irrelevant information from sampled documents and generates terms and frequencies with improved accuracy
Broker-based service-oriented content adaptation framework
Electronic documents are becoming increasingly rich in content and varied in format
and structure. At the same time, user preferences vary towards the contents and their
devices are getting increasingly varied in capabilities. This mismatch between rich
contents and user preferences along with the end device capability presents a challenge
in providing ubiquitous access to these contents. Content adaptation is primarily used to
bridge the mismatch by providing users with contents that is tailored to the given
contexts e.g., device capability, preferences, or network bandwidth. Existing content
adaptation systems employing these approaches such as client-side, server-side or
proxy-side adaptation, operate in isolation, often encounter limited adaptation
functionality, get overload if too many concurrent users and open to single point of
failure, thus limiting the scope and scale of their services. To move beyond these
shortcomings, this thesis establishes the basis for developing content adaptation
solutions that are efficient and scalable. It presents a framework to enable content
adaptation to be consumed as Web services provided by third-party service providers,
which is termed as âservice-oriented content adaptationâ. Towards this perspective, this
thesis addresses five key issues â how to enable content adaptation as services (serviceoriented
framework);
how
to
locate
services
in
the
network
(service
discovery
protocol);
how
to select best possible services (path determination); how to provide quality
assurance (service level agreement (SLA) framework); and how to negotiate quality of
service (QoS negotiation). Specifically, we have: (i) identified the key research
challenges for service-oriented content adaptation, along with a systematic
understanding of the content adaptation research spectrum, captured in a taxonomy of
content adaptation systems; (ii) developed an architectural framework that provides the
basis for enabling content adaptation as Web services, providing the facilities to serve
clientsâ content adaptation requests through the client-side brokering; (iii) developed a
service discovery protocol, by taking into account the searching space, searching time,
match type of the services and physical location of the service providers; (iv) developed
a mechanism to choose the best possible combination of services to serve a given
content adaptation request, considering QoS levels offered; (v) developed an
architectural framework that provides the basis for managing quality through the
conceptualization of service level agreement; and (vi) introduced a strategy for QoS
negotiation between multiple brokers and service providers, by taking into account the
incoming requests and server utilization and, thus requiring the basis of determining
serving priority and negotiating new QoS levels. The performance of the proposed
solutions are compared with other competitive solutions and shown to be substantially
better
A selective approach for energy-aware video content adaptation decision-taking engine in android based smartphone
Rapid advancement of technology and their increasing affordability have transformed mobile devices from a means of communication to tools for socialization, entertainment, work and learning. However, advancement of battery technology and capacity is slow compared to energy need. Viewing content with high quality of experience will consume high power. In limited available energy, normal content adaptation system will decrease the content quality, hence reducing quality of experience. However, there is a need for optimizing content quality of experience (QoE) in a limited available energy. With modification and improvement, content adaptation may solve this issue. The key objective of this research is to propose a framework for energy-aware video content adaptation system to enable video delivery over the Internet. To optimise the QoE while viewing streaming video on a limited available smartphone energy, an algorithm for energy-aware video content adaptation decision-taking engine named EnVADE is proposed. The EnVADE algorithm uses selective mechanism. Selective mechanism means the video segmented into scenes and adaptation process is done based on the selected scenes. Thus, QoE can be improved. To evaluate EnVADE algorithm in term of energy efficiency, an experimental evaluation has been done. Subjective evaluation by selected respondents are also has been made using Absolute Category Rating method as recommended by ITU to evaluate EnVADE algorithm in term of QoE. In both evaluation, comparison with other methods has been made. The results show that the proposed solution is able to increase the viewing time of about 14% compared to MPEG-DASH which is an official international standard and widely used streaming method. In term of QoE subjective test, EnVADE algorithm score surpasses the score of other video streaming method. Therefore, EnVADE framework and algorithm has proven its capability as an alternative technique to stream video content with higher QoE and lower energy consumption
Wedding planner in a box
Marriage describes the connection of two souls who promise to become one heart. Everyone dreams their marriage to be nearly perfect and that will happen only if they are able to make their wedding plan with best packages. In this busy world, many couples delay their wedding mainly because of high budget required to meet their dream wedding ceremony. Wedding ceremony requires careful and meticulous planning from many aspects such as choosing the food, make up, decoration, and gifts
BlogForever D2.6: Data Extraction Methodology
This report outlines an inquiry into the area of web data extraction, conducted within the context of blog preservation. The report reviews theoretical advances and practical developments for implementing data extraction. The inquiry is extended through an experiment that demonstrates the effectiveness and feasibility of implementing some of the suggested approaches. More specifically, the report discusses an approach based on unsupervised machine learning that employs the RSS feeds and HTML representations of blogs. It outlines the possibilities of extracting semantics available in blogs and demonstrates the benefits of exploiting available standards such as microformats and microdata. The report proceeds to propose a methodology for extracting and processing blog data to further inform the design and development of the BlogForever platform