Ant Colony Optimization for Tourist Route

Ant Colony Optimization is a relatively new meta-heuristic that has proven its quality and versatility on various combinatorial optimization problems such as the traveling salesman problem, the vehicle routing problem and the job shop scheduling problem. The inspiring source of ACO is the pheromone trail laying and following behavior of real ants, which use pheromones as a communication medium. In this project the ACO algorithm to routing problems in traveling cities under static and dynamic conditions. This study is divided into three parts. The first part aims to identify various connecting cities in Thailand with appropriate distances. The second part of this research involves formulating and applying the ACO algorithms to find the shortest path based on the distance calculated from source to destination cities. The ACO routing will then be applied on the constructed cities, taking into consideration different traffic conditions. The final part of the study focused on finding the shortest path and calculation of cost based on the distance traveled

Social media literacy and awareness of the youth in secondary school in Southern Thailand

The paper presents the outcome of a research that investigates the social media literacy, and to assess the level of awareness of media literacy from young people in secondary schools. This study used mixedmethod of both quantitative and quality research to collect data from four schools in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province.This study used activities – based with involves four levels of media literacy framework; access, analyze, evaluate and create.The data were collected after the respondents met all levels of media literacy framework.The results of this study found that most students know how to learn and use social media literacy as four levels; access, analyze, evaluate and create. But some students do not know about how to use social media as a benefit for classroom learning. They lacked awareness of the benefits and downsides of social media, parents should tell them how to learn and how to perceive the good things from social media

The digital divide and behavioral intention of ICT adoption for health information among people in rural communities

The purpose of this paper was to assess the basic knowledge of ICT among people in rural area.To determine the association between behavioral intention of ICT adoption and health information among people in rural communities. The study used a survey method to collect data from people in rural area.The results found that most people known about ICT and used mobile phone to communicate between each other.In addition, the hypothesis showed that there are 42 percent of people intent to used ICT for searching health information. The level of significance showed the p-value <.05

The factors affecting behavior intention to adopt ICT for health information in rural communities

Information communication and technology (ICT) is important for developing countries. In developed and developing countries, governments invest in the infrastructure of ICT to develop human capital. The purpose of this paper is to identify personal factors influencing the behavioral intention of rural communities’ acceptance and adoption of ICT and to determine the association between behavioral intention of ICT adoption and health information among people in rural communities.This study used a quantitative survey to collect data from eight provinces in the south of Thailand.The sample population was people living in rural communities.The study used hierarchical regression to analyze the data. Two hypotheses were analyzed. The results found that the knowledge of ICT on behavior intention was moderated by personal characteristics and shows the statistical significant at a level of .01. In addition, the influence of performance expectancy on behavioral intention moderated by personal characteristics show a statistical significance at the level of .01. Therefore, people who live in rural areas as farmers would like to learn more about how to use computers for searching health information.Thus, the Thai government should provide the infrastructure in rural areas and the people must have training courses to learn to use ICT for searching health information

A framework for health information adoption in Thailand

Issues in addressing the digital divide are poorly researched in Thailand. This study applied the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model to investigate the people’s behavioral intention to adopt and use ICT to access health information in rural communities. This study aims to construct a framework for health information adoption in selected rural areas in Thailand. The study used a quantitative and qualitative design with a sample of 367 respondents selected from eight provinces in rural communities of southern Thailand. The collected data is analyzed using is the Structural Equation Model (SEM). The study found that performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, and facilitating condition strengthened the positive relationship with behavioral intentions to adopt ICT for accessing health information. In addition, this study indicated that the personal characteristics such as gender, age, education, income, occupation and location have moderate positive effect on performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, and facilitating condition whilst there was negative relationship between knowledge of ICT and behavioral intention. Moreover, in rural community, mobile phones are the most commonly used device for accessing the Internet. The people perceived the benefits of using ICT for health information relates to the ability to facilitate in disease prevention. However, in some locations, the study reported that the locals are facing problems of weak signal and limited ICT infrastructure. Therefore, in order to bridge the digital divide, the government should provide wider coverage of basic ICT infrastructure and networking in rural areas in Thailand