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Transactions ID Number: 27-574
Full Name: Murude Celikag
Position: Assistant Professor
Age: ON
Sex: Female
Address: Civil Engineering Department, Eastern Mediterranean University, Gazi Magusa
Country: CYPRUS
Tel: 00903926302423
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E-mail address: murude.celikag@emu.edu.tr
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Title of the Paper: Enhancement of Panel zone (PZ) contribution to the ductility of post-Northridge welded connections
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Amir A. Hedayat, Murude Celikag
Email addresses of all the authors: amir.hedayat@emu.edu.tr, murude.celikag@emu.edu.tr
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: In welded connections, beam-end and panel zone (PZ) are the only sources to dissipate the seismic energy released during an earthquake. Energy dissipation at the PZ is accompanied by the inelastic shear deformation at PZ. In seismic codes, in order to reach to the maximum plastic rotation capacity of connection, the inelastic shear deformation is controlled by a balance condition with respect to the initiation of flexural yielding of beam flanges. Hence, connections are classified as weak, balance and strong panel zone connections. In the case of weak PZ, balance condition can be obtained by increasing the thickness of the column's PZ or using doubler plates. This study was aimed to obtain balance condition for connections with strong panel zones. Therefore, a circular hole was opened at the column web in the PZ region. A pre-tested post-Northridge connection which has a strong panel zone was modeled using finite element analysis. Then the effects of different diam!
eter holes on the behavior of this type of connection were investigated. Further, a function was proposed to determine the PZ shear yielding resistance in the presence of a circular hole in PZ. Analytical results showed that the column with a PZ hole ratio (hole diameter divided by PZ height) of 18% associated with a PZ hole of 50 mm radius and balance ratio of 0.81 appears to be the best configuration for increasing the PZ plastic rotation from 0.05% to 0.2%. This increase in plastic rotation capacity of PZ would only increase the total plastic rotation capacity of the connection by 10%. This indicates that a connection of this type also require modifications at the beam-end to increase both the total plastic rotation capacity and contribution of panel zone to the inelastic behavior of connection.
Keywords: Post-Northridge connections; Panel zone; Ductility; Inelastic shear deformation
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Special (Invited) Session: Increasing the contribution of strong panel zones to the plastic deformation capacity of post-Northridge welded connections
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Transactions ID Number: 27-573
Full Name: Ismail Ahmad Rasdan
Position: Lecturer
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: Dept. Mechanical & Materials Engineering, National University of Malaysia, 43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
Country: MALAYSIA
Tel: 0389216775
Tel prefix: 0133942463
Fax: 0389259659
E-mail address: arasdan@gmail.com
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Title of the Paper: optimization of environmental factors towards industrial productivity by using taguchi method
Authors as they appear in the Paper: A. R. Ismail,M. R. A. Rani, Z. K. M. Makhbul, J.A.Ghani, K. Sopian and M.M Tahir
Email addresses of all the authors: arasdan@eng.ukm.my, matrebi@fkm.utm.my, zafir@ukm.my, jaharah@eng.ukm.my, ksopian@vlsi.eng.ukm.my, mazlan@vlsi.eng.ukm.my
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: - The objective of this study is to determine the dominance effects of environmental factors such as Illuminance, humidity and WBGT on the operators' productivity at Malaysian electronic industry. A case study was carried out at an electronic components assembly factory. The environmental factors examined were the Illuminance (lux), humidity and WBGT of the surrounding workstation area. Two sets of representative data including the illuminance, humidity and WBGT level and production rate were collected during the study. The production rate data were collected through observations and survey questionnaires while the illuminance level was measured using photometer model RS 180-7133, the humidity and WBGT level were measured by using Quest Temp apparatus and humidity . Taguchi Method was utilized to find the sequence of dominant factors that contributed to the productivity of operator at that specified production workstation. The study reveals that the dominant fact!
or contributed to the productivity was WBGT, followed by illuminance and humidity.
Keywords: Productivity, Illuminance, Humidity, WBGT, Dominant
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Special (Invited) Session: Optimum Solution of Environmental Factors Towards
Organizer of the Session: 588-302R
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Transactions ID Number: 27-572
Full Name: Anant Oonsivilai
Position: Assistant Professor
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: Alternative and Sustainable Energy Research Unit, School of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Engineering, 111 University Street, Muang District, Nakhon Ratchasima
Country: THAILAND
Tel: 0815487728
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Title of the Paper: Parameter Estimation of Frequency Response Twin-Screw Food Extrusion Process using Genetic Algorithms
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Anant Oonsivilai, Ratchadaporn Oonsivilai
Email addresses of all the authors: anant@sut.ac.th,roonsivi@sut.ac.th
Number of paper pages: 11
Abstract: Autonomic control of food extruders has attracted considerable in recent years. With limited understanding of the complex physio-chemical interactions during the food extrusion process, designing a control system for food extruder is not easy. The common approach is to determine the operating conditions and then to maintain these values as closely as possible using various control loops, if not manual control. This paper applies genetic algorithms to achieve the parameters of the twin-screw food extrusion process. The genetic algorithms are very suitable for searching discrete, noisy, multimodal and complex space. The sum of square error on magnitude and phase of the twin screw food extrusion process is minimize and receiving outstanding in shape the measured system extracted from the frequency response analysis of the food extrusion process. As recognized, exploitation of the optimization based on Genetic Algorithms gives advanced results.
Keywords: Parameter Estimation, Genetic Algorithms, Food, Extrusion Process, Frequency Response
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Special (Invited) Session: Genetic Algorithms Approach to Twin-Screw Food Extrusion Process Frequency Domain Parameter Estimation
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Transactions ID Number: 27-571
Full Name: Juan Cruz-Victoria
Position: Doctor (Researcher)
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: Calzada General Luís Caballero #1200, Colonia del Maestro, Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, México.
Country: MEXICO
Tel: 1720383
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Title of the Paper: Nonlinear system diagnosis:Bond graphs meet differential algebra
Authors as they appear in the Paper: J.C. Cruz-Victoria, D.I. González-Sánchez
Email addresses of all the authors: jccv99@yahoo.com, dgonzalezs@upv.edu.mx
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: In this paper we state the properties of fault diagnosis through differential algebra and how it can be used in conjunction with the Bond graphs modeling to design fault tolerant controllers. This controller is applied to a DC motor because it is a well known system has a wide range of applications. The faults are estimated through a reduced order observer to reject their effect on the system. This paper represents the first phase in a Bond Graphs´ based approach to determine the diagnosability condition.
Keywords: Fault, Diagnosis, Control, Motor, Bond, Tolerant, Differential, Algebra
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Special (Invited) Session: Design of a fault tolerant control through Bond Graphs and algebraic-differential tools: application on a DC motor
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Transactions ID Number: 31-248
Full Name: Subana Shanmuganathan
Position: Doctor (Researcher)
Age: ON
Sex: Female
Address: Auckland University of Technology, Auckland
Country: NEW ZEALAND
Tel: 921 9567
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Title of the Paper: Sensor data acquisition for climate change modelling
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Subana Shanmuganathan, Akbar Ghobakhlou and Philip Sallis
Email addresses of all the authors: subana.Shanmuganathan@aut.ac.nz : akbar.ghobakhlou@aut.ac.nz : philip.sallis@aut.ac.nz
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: This paper describes recent advances in sensor technology and wireless radio frequency (telemetry architecture) with the capability for measuring changes in weather and atmospheric conditions that permit modellers to analyse the climate change, its variability and effects on viticulture across the world's major wine producing regions. When combined with GPS (global positioning system) functionality enabling geo-referenced information to be gathered and analysed in real-time, new opportunities emerge for the development of wireless sensor networks (WSN) for decision making in precision agriculture (PA). The use of WSN technologies in precision viticulture (PV) to date is mostly confined to on-farm and narrow regions within a city or in the case of a larger region the data collection is limited to monitoring weather conditions alone. This paper reviews three application scenarios: a) within a vineyard b) regionally within the state of Washington in the USA and c) ci!
ties within the Asia Pacific Region. It then details the development of a system proposed for comparative analysis of viticulture management information from two countries, namely Chile and New Zealand that have the same latitude but are at different longitude points. The paper looks at a variety of remotely located real-time sensors (telemetry devices), associated hardware devices (server, workstation, architectures and topologies) and software suitable for data collection, logging, distribution and streaming. Data gathered by the sensors is relayed via a series of repeaters to a workstation, which logs the data and is connected directly to the Internet for transmission to a server acting as the final collection and data analysis point for a comparative information matching synthesis. The data collected is to be used for building models that could enhance our understanding about the effects of climate change on grapevine growth and wine quality within major wine regions !
in the two countries being studied in this initial research. Finally,
the paper describes variable parameters considered for analysis in this research so far in relation to plant growth, weather, climate, atmospheric influences such as climate change, pollution and also wine quality determinants such as soil, terrain and grape variety.
Keywords: Telemetry devices, plant growth factors, weather data, GPS and precision viticulture.
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Transactions ID Number: 27-570
Full Name: Daniele Casali
Position: Doctor (Researcher)
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: Via del Politecnico, 1
Country: ITALY
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Title of the Paper: SVM-based Method for Associative Memories Implementation
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Daniele Casali, Giovanni Costantini, Renzo Perfetti, Elisa Ricci
Email addresses of all the authors: daniele.casali@uniroma2.it, costantini@uiroma2.it, perfetti@diei.unipg.it, elisa.ricci@diei.unipg.it
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: Generalized brain-state-in-a-box (GBSB) is one of the most known kind of Associative Memories. GBSB is based on a neural model, and needs an algorithm to perform the "training" operation that stores the patterns as equilibrium points of a system with a given state equation. Finding the optimum weight matrix to store a given set of patterns is the main objective of the training algorithm, and it can be seen as a classification problem. One of the most effective classification algorithms that we can find in literature is the Support Vector Machine (SVM). In this paper, we describe an algorithm that exploits capabilities of SVM to implement an efficient GBSB Associative Memory. Some properties of the networks designed in this way are evidenced, like a surprising generalized Hebb's law. The performance of the SVM approach is compared to existing methods with non-symmetric connections, by some design examples.
Keywords: Associative memories, neural networks, support vector machines
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Transactions ID Number: 27-569
Full Name: Daniele Casali
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Title of the Paper: Realtime Retinal Vessel Segmentation by means of a CNN-based system
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Renzo Perfetti, Elisa ricci, Daniele Casali, Giovanni Costantini
Email addresses of all the authors: perfetti@diei.unipg.it, elisa.ricci@diei.unipg.it, daniele.casali@uniroma2.it, costantini@uniroma2.it
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: In order to design a real time system for performing a retinal vessel segmentation, we present method that can be implemented with cellular neural networks (CNNs). CNN is kind of neural network that can be very efficiently implemented on an analog chip, and allow us to operate in real-time. The algorithm is based on linear, space-invariant 3x3 templates, and can be realized using real-life devices with minor changes. The proposed design is capable to perform vessel segmentation within short computation time. It was tested on a publicly available database of color images of the retina, using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves.
Keywords: Cellular neural networks, line detection, vessel segmentation, retinal imaging
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Transactions ID Number: 27-568
Full Name: Daniele Casali
Position: Doctor (Researcher)
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: Via del Politecnico, 1
Country: ITALY
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Title of the Paper: Polyphonic music transcription by means of a dynamic classifier
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Giovanni Costantini, Massimiliano Todisco, Massimo Carota, Daniele Casali
Email addresses of all the authors: costantini@uniroma2.it,massimiliano.todisco@uniroma2.it, massimo.carota@uiroma2.it, daniele.casali@uniroma2.it
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: Two methods for automatic transcription of polyphonic piano music are presented in this paper, both of them makes use of neural networks. The input to these methods consists in piano music recordings stored in WAV files, while the pitch of all the notes in the corresponding score forms the output. The aim of this work is to compare the accuracy achieved using a feed-forward neural network, such as the MLP (MultiLayer Perceptron), with that supplied by a recurrent neural network, such as the ENN (Elman Neural Network). Signal processing techniques based on the CQT (Constant-Q Transform) are used in order to create a time-frequency representation of the input signals. Since large scale tests were required, the whole process (synthesis of audio data generated starting from MIDI files, comparison of the results with the original score) has been automated. Test, validation and training sets have been generated with reference to three different musical styles respective!
ly represented by J.S Bach's inventions, F. Chopin's nocturnes and C. Debussy's preludes
Keywords: Automatic piano music transcription, MultiLayer Perceptron, Elman Neural Network, Constant-Q Transform
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Special (Invited) Session: Static and Dynamic Classification Methods for Polyphonic Transcription of Piano Pieces in Different Musical Styles
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Transactions ID Number: 27-567
Full Name: Daniele Casali
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Title of the Paper: SVM-based Method for Associative Memories Implementation
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Daniele Casali, Giovanni Costantini, Renzo Perfetti, Elisa Ricci
Email addresses of all the authors: daniele.casali@uniroma2.it, costantini@uiroma2.it, perfetti@diei.unipg.it, elisa.ricci@diei.unipg.it
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: Generalized brain-state-in-a-box (GBSB) is one of the most known kind of Associative Memories. GBSB is based on a neural model, and needs an algorithm to perform the "training" operation that stores the patterns as equilibrium points of a system with a given state equation. Finding the optimum weight matrix to store a given set of patterns is the main objective of the training algorithm, and it can be seen as a classification problem. One of the most effective classification algorithms that we can find in literature is the Support Vector Machine (SVM). In this paper, we describe an algorithm that exploits capabilities of SVM to implement an efficient GBSB Associative Memory. Some properties of the networks designed in this way are evidenced, like a surprising generalized Hebb's law. The performance of the SVM approach is compared to existing methods with non-symmetric connections, by some design examples.
Keywords: Associative memories, neural networks, support vector machines
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Transactions ID Number: 31-247
Full Name: Saeed Al-Hajjar
Position: Assistant Professor
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: Ahlia University
Country: BAHRAIN
Tel: 0097336322493
Tel prefix: 0097317298954
Fax: 0097317290083
E-mail address: saidth2000@yahoo.com
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Title of the Paper: improving probability education through statistical experiments
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Saeed Al-Hajjar
Email addresses of all the authors: saidth2000@yahoo.com
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: This study analyze some hypothesis on the difficulties facing the teaching of probabilities, and see how models of probability are useful to solve any confusion. This will be clarified by formulating questions that can be addressed with data, collect , organize, and display relevant data to answer them. In this part we will see the solution of the problem " who will win the million ", which is a good example of improving probability education through statistical experiments.
Keywords: Hazard , Confirmed , Change , Probability , Modeling , Random Experiment , Equiprobable
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Transactions ID Number: 27-566
Full Name: shahram amin
Position: Researcher
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: shahid ansari , shahid mahallati Av , mahallat , iran
Country: IRAN
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Title of the Paper: Distributed Resource Scheduling in Grid Computing Using Fuzzy Approach
Authors as they appear in the Paper: shahram amin , mohammad ahmadi
Email addresses of all the authors: gr_sh_amin@yahoo.com , mahmadi@khomein.ac.ir
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: Scheduling is a fundamental issue in achieving high performance in multiclusters and computational grids. In this paper, we investigate the scheduling problem using the proposed scheduler uses a distributed approach with the capability of considering the local clusters advantages for executing the jobs. On the other hand, the distributed scheduler exploits the capabilities of fuzzy logic to qualitatively deal with different parameters available in the scheduling decision. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the algorithm in terms of job completion time.
Keywords: Fuzzy theory, Grid computing, Job scheduling, Distributed scheduling
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Special (Invited) Session: Distributed Resource Scheduling in Grid Computing Using Fuzzy Approach
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Transactions ID Number: 31-246
Full Name: Chakib Seladji
Position: Researcher
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: BP 119 Chétouane Tlemcen 13000
Country: ALGERIA
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Title of the Paper: Analysis of a drainage efficiency in stratified porous media
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Chakib Seladji
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Number of paper pages: 13
Abstract: The oil recovery from reservoirs formed of more subsurface rock formations can be hindered by the variability of the rocks permeability. This element can strongly influence the oil recovery and the efficiency of the drainage process. In order to understand this phenomenon and to propose a technical solution thereafter, the simulation of an ascending air phase flow in a saturated vertical porous channel, composed of two layers with different permeabilities is done. The numerical study is performed in order to evaluate the effect of injected air mass flow rate, the effect of the porous column width and their permeability variations. The results show that some regions in the channel are not correctly drained due to high pressure losses in those regions.
Keywords: Two-phase flow, Pressure drop, Recovery process, Stratified porous matrix, Saturation behavior.
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Transactions ID Number: 27-565
Full Name: José Teixeira
Position: Associate Professor
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: Instituto Superior de Agronomia,1349-017 Lisboa
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Title of the Paper: Regional analysis and calibration for the South of Portugal of a simple evapotranspiration model for use in an autonomous landscape irrigation controller
Authors as they appear in the Paper: JOSÉ TEIXEIRA, SHAKIB SHAHIDIAN, JOÃO ROLIM
Email addresses of all the authors: jlteixeira@isa.utl.pt; shakib@uevora.pt; joaorolim@isa.utl.pt
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Abstract: Abstract: - This work is part of the development of an automatic and autonomous landscape irrigation controller which uses a simpler method for computing ETo than the FAO Penman-Monteith method (FAO-PM) in order to reduce the number of sensors required and lower the system cost. It is also intended to select a simple equation, since one of the requirements of this controller is that it should use an ETo formula with a reduced number of programming instructions due to its limited capacity. The controller to be developed should be autonomous and inexpensive, enabling it to be installed in small green areas such as small parks and gardens, having as main users the municipalities. Thus a regional analysis was made about the suitability of 6 methods for computing reference evapotranspiration (Hargreaves, Hargreaves-Samani, Jensen-Haise, Makkink, Priestley-Taylor and Turc) based only on the weather parameters temperature and solar radiation in the Alentejo. For this anal!
ysis a network of automatic weather stations was used, providing the meteorological data with a daily time-step for the period from 2003 to 2007. Results show that after the calibration, for each station, these methods present a good correlation with the ETo values calculated by the FAO-PM method. The best results were obtained by the Jensen-Haise method, and the worst results were computed by the Priestley-Taylor, Makkink, and Hargreaves-Samani methods. A considerable variation exists in the adjustment parameters from one weather station to another, so one can not use a single set of medium parameters to calibrate these functions for the entire region. Thus, it can be concluded that the Jensen-Haise is the best method for the Alentejo conditions, and it should be calibrated for each meteorological station. The results obtained by the Hargreaves-Samani method, based only on temperatures, are similar to other 5 methods and is the only one that does not need calibration, whic!
h indicates that this method can be considered for the elimination of
the radiation sensor.
Keywords: Evapotranspiration, Landscape irrigation, Water management, Hargreaves, Hargreaves-Samani, Jensen-Haise, Makkink, Priestley-Taylor, Turc
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Special (Invited) Session: Selection of a simplified method to compute evapotranspiration for climatic input on an autonomous controller for landscape irrigation
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Transactions ID Number: 31-245
Full Name: Hamid Tairi
Position: Assistant Professor
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: LIIAN department of maths and computers Faculty of Science Dhar El mahraz BP 1796 Atlas FES
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Title of the Paper: A robust image watermarking based on the Empirical Mode Decomposition
Authors as they appear in the Paper: M. A. SABRI, M. KAROUD, H. TAIRI and A. AARAB
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Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: With the increasing amount of digital data sharing tools due to the growth of the internet; thing that increased the availability of images to the internet users; frauds are multiplied which accentuated the need to find robust marking techniques for digital data protection. Researches prove that watermarking is a valid solution for such a need. Here, we propose a robust watermarking technique based on the BEMD (Bidimensional Empirical Mode Decomposition) where an additive watermarking scheme is applied to each IMF (Intrinsic Mode Function) obtained by the BEMD and the watermark is a binary matrix differently ponderated for each one of the four first IMFs. The use of the BEMD in watermarking is motivated by the fact that it has better quality than Fourier, Wavelet and other decomposition techniques in extracting intrinsic components because of its fully data driven property, and this decomposition is also proven as a very powerful tool for multi-scale analysis of no!
n stationary and non linear signals and also by the characteristics of the IMF. All this mean that, our method can be applied to any image. Experimentation has ensured the mark invisibility, the facility of detection of the mark and the robustness against different kinds of attacks.
Keywords: Watermarking, invisibility, robustness, BEMD, IMF, noise, JPEG, private watermarking scheme
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Title of the Paper: A robust image watermarking based on the Empirical Mode Decomposition
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Abstract: With the increasing amount of digital data sharing tools due to the growth of the internet; thing that increased the availability of images to the internet users; frauds are multiplied which accentuated the need to find robust marking techniques for digital data protection. Researches prove that watermarking is a valid solution for such a need. Here, we propose a robust watermarking technique based on the BEMD (Bidimensional Empirical Mode Decomposition) where an additive watermarking scheme is applied to each IMF (Intrinsic Mode Function) obtained by the BEMD and the watermark is a binary matrix differently ponderated for each one of the four first IMFs. The use of the BEMD in watermarking is motivated by the fact that it has better quality than Fourier, Wavelet and other decomposition techniques in extracting intrinsic components because of its fully data driven property, and this decomposition is also proven as a very powerful tool for multi-scale analysis of no!
n stationary and non linear signals and also by the characteristics of the IMF. All this mean that, our method can be applied to any image. Experimentation has ensured the mark invisibility, the facility of detection of the mark and the robustness against different kinds of attacks.
Keywords: Watermarking, invisibility, robustness, BEMD, IMF, noise, JPEG, private watermarking scheme
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Transactions ID Number: 31-243
Full Name: Yang-Ta Kao
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Title of the Paper: Defects Detection and Removal on Aged Films
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Abstract: Reconstruction on aged films contains two important processes: defect detection and defect removal. Aged films may contain different types of defects, such as spikes and scratch lines. Each type of defect has its different properties. It is relatively hard to precisely detect these defects on aged films by using only a single solution. Besides, it is relatively hard to precisely restore aged films if the continuation of image property is not considered in the temporal domain. This paper proposes two techniques to detect spikes and scratch lines on aged films and we also propose a technique on restoring aged films based on simultaneously considering the outmost patches/pixels which are going to be inpainted. The inpainting order plays an important factor for human visualization. The results of defect detection have good accuracy as compared to two well-known approaches and by eliminating the inpainting order problem, the results of restored films have good quality a!
s compared to earlier approach. Application of our technique can be used in the recovery and restoration of aged films.
Keywords: motion estimation, reconstruction by erosions/dilation, spike defect detection, scratch line detection, video inpainting, motion picture restoration
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Transactions ID Number: 31-242
Full Name: Intan Mat Darus
Position: Senior Lecturer
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Address: Fakulti Kejuruteraan Mekanikal, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Skudai, Johor
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Title of the Paper: Numerical Simulation of a Flexible Plate System
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Abstract: This research presents an investigation into the numerical simulation of a flexible thin plate using Finite Difference (FD) and Finite Element (FE). Based on the FD method, an appropriate model of a thin plate was derived and its corresponding natural frequencies were estimated. Then, FE modeling of the plate system was implemented using the ANSYS software and the corresponding modes of vibration were computed by modal analysis. The obtained vibration modes for both models were then evaluated and compared. A number of attempts have been carried out to determine the nodal lines on the plate in order to identify the critical observation points for appropriate locations of the sensors using the FE simulation. Finally, the effectiveness of FD method for real time application was verified by comparative assessment of the obtained natural frequencies with the exact value reported by other researchers. The FD method was found to be the better choice than FE method to mode!
l a plate structure for real-time active vibration control.
Keywords: Finite difference, Finite element, Flexible plate, Vibration
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Title of the Paper: Numerical Simulation of a Flexible Plate System
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Abstract: This research presents an investigation into the numerical simulation of a flexible thin plate using Finite Difference (FD) and Finite Element (FE). Based on the FD method, an appropriate model of a thin plate was derived and its corresponding natural frequencies were estimated. Then, FE modeling of the plate system was implemented using the ANSYS software and the corresponding modes of vibration were computed by modal analysis. The obtained vibration modes for both models were then evaluated and compared. A number of attempts have been carried out to determine the nodal lines on the plate in order to identify the critical observation points for appropriate locations of the sensors using the FE simulation. Finally, the effectiveness of FD method for real time application was verified by comparative assessment of the obtained natural frequencies with the exact value reported by other researchers. The FD method was found to be the better choice than FE method to mode!
l a plate structure for real-time active vibration control.
Keywords: Finite difference, Finite element, Flexible plate, Vibration
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Transactions ID Number: 31-240
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Title of the Paper: Application of Non-Homogeneous Poisson Processes Modeling to Containership Arrival Rate
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Abstract: Abstract: - Estimating containership arrival rate is a key element in harbor operation and management; however, it is not easy to be described because of a wide range of external factors. Most of the literature discussing arrival processes is based on a homogeneous Poisson process, which is unable to describe the fluctuation status of growth or recession. In the paper, we propose the Non-Homogeneous Poisson Process to analyze the arrival process of containership. The Maximum Likelihood Method is used to estimate the parameters and the performance of the models. Finally, a real case of Taichung Harbor in Taiwan is taken as an example. The result shows that power law intensity function and logarithmic linear intensity function models all estimate that the containership arrival shows slow growth trend. Relative to power law intensity function, logarithmic linear intensity function is a model with better goodness-of-fit.
Keywords: Key-Words: - Non-homogeneous poisson process, containership arrival rate, power law intensity function, logarithmic linear intensity function.
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Title of the Paper: Application of Non-Homogeneous Poisson Processes Modeling to Containership Arrival Rate
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Abstract: Abstract: - Estimating containership arrival rate is a key element in harbor operation and management; however, it is not easy to be described because of a wide range of external factors. Most of the literature discussing arrival processes is based on a homogeneous Poisson process, which is unable to describe the fluctuation status of growth or recession. In the paper, we propose the Non-Homogeneous Poisson Process to analyze the arrival process of containership. The Maximum Likelihood Method is used to estimate the parameters and the performance of the models. Finally, a real case of Taichung Harbor in Taiwan is taken as an example. The result shows that power law intensity function and logarithmic linear intensity function models all estimate that the containership arrival shows slow growth trend. Relative to power law intensity function, logarithmic linear intensity function is a model with better goodness-of-fit.
Keywords: Key-Words: - Non-homogeneous poisson process, containership arrival rate, power law intensity function, logarithmic linear intensity function.
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Transactions ID Number: 27-564
Full Name: Suwarno Harjo
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Address: School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics ITB Jl. Ganesha 10 Bandung
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Title of the Paper: Investigation on Leakage Current Waveforms and Flashover Characteristics of Ceramics for Outdoor Insulators under Clean and Salt Fogs
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Suwarno Juniko P.
Email addresses of all the authors: suwarno@ieee.org,suwarno@hq.ee.itb.ac.id
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Abstract: Outdoor insulators play an important role in high voltage transmission lines. Since long time ago, ceramic insulators are widely being used in power systems at medium, high and extra high voltage levels. During operation, the insulators may severe a certain degree of pollution which may reduce their performances such as surface resistance and flash over voltages. Under these conditions a large leakage current (LC) may flow on the surface and degradation may take place. In long term the degradation may lead to the flash over of the insulators. This paper reports the experimental results on the leakage current characteristics of ceramics under various simulated environmental conditions. The samples used are blocks of ceramics with dimension of 250 x 50 x 20 mm3. The samples were made from same materials for outdoor ceramic insulators. The samples were put in a test chamber with controlled humidity and artificial pollution conditions. AC voltage with frequency of!
50 Hz was applied. The tests were conducted according to IEC 60-1 (1989) and IEC 507 (fog test). The LC waveforms up to flash over were measured. The magnitudes as well as harmonic content of the LC were analyzed. The correlation between LC waveforms and dry band arching phenomenon was also elaborated. Experimental results showed that for clean insulators leakage current was much smaller than polluted insulators. The waveform distortion was observed particularly at positive half cycle when applied voltage was increased to higher than 20 kV. This indicated that electric discharges initiated from air proximity of the sample surface. For kaolin-salt polluted insulators, the LC amplitude was much higher than clean insulators. LC waveform distortion started at 10 kV. Unbalance distortion of LC waveforms was observed similar to those of clean samples. However, for kaolin-salt polluted samples, the distortion was observed mainly at negative half cycles which indicated !
that the electric discharges were initiated from the salt-kaolin layer
embedded on the sample surface. Observation of LC waveforms during the process of flashover revealed that THD of increased with the applied voltage.
Keywords: outdoor insulator, ceramics, leakage current, harmonic, dry band, flashover
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Transactions ID Number: 31-238
Full Name: Aiqing Ma
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Title of the Paper: The application of MPCG Algorithm in the three dimensional electric field calculation of SF6 Circuit Breaker in three-phase-in-one-tank GIS
Authors as they appear in the Paper: aiqing ma, xiuchen jiang, yi zeng
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Abstract: Based on the character of the complex structure of the SF6 circuit breaker in three-phase-in-one-tank GIS (Gas Insulated Switchgear), the modified preconditioned conjugate gradient (MPCG) algorithm applied to solve multi-nodes and multi-elements large sparse real positive defined symmetric matrix is analyzed. The program diagram of MPCG algorithm is also proposed. The finite element calculation mathematical model and physical equations of SF6 circuit breaker are founded in this paper. The large sparse matrix is solved by using the MPCG algorithm. The electric field intensity and potential distribution is calculated under power frequency voltage and their corresponding cutaway charts and planforms are given. They can provide a useful and optimized design parameter for designing the circuit breaker configuration in GIS.
Keywords: MPCG(Modified Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient); Three-phase-in-one-tank; Circuit breaker; Finite element method; Sparse matrix
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Transactions ID Number: 27-563
Full Name: Edson Paladini
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Title of the Paper: A Pattern Recognition and Adaptive Approach to Quality Control
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Number of paper pages: 17
Abstract: Abstract: - The present paper describes some quality control tools that develop an interactive and on-line evaluation of industrial products. These tools use pattern recognition techniques in a dynamic way, it means, they control the variations of critical characteristics of industrial products during their effective use. They also make an adaptive evaluation because considers the characteristics of each product under analysis. The tools generate a dynamic and well structured model. The operation of the model considers a set of images of the product or parts of them during some specific use or specific moment. Using a Pattern Recognition Process, the images of the product or some parts of them are captured and they are associated to some special matrices. The model then analyses the properties of these images by evaluating the properties each corresponding matrix have. This process allows determining a set of values which describe the variations the product is s!
howing during its use. We gave so a model which develops a continuous evaluation of product quality. Thus, the model checks whether the variations of the characteristic under study are acceptable or not, considering a set of limits defined by procedures which take into consideration particularities of the product being studied. Thereto, the model itself determines which reference values are to be used to evaluate such variations. In the case of monochromatic analyses, the model seeks to define reference parameters for defect detection using maximum variation limits of gray levels on the product surface (this makes possible to detect the presence of a crack, for instance). In the case of polychromatic analyses, having established a specific property (such as intensity, saturation or chromatic hue), the model determines the most adequate values for that property. Variations complying with those parameters are considered to be acceptable. The top and bottom values of the accep!
table variations can accurately define product design characteristics
from the effective practical use the product is supposed to have. This paper describes the model, reports the most usual situations for its use, discusses practical cases where it was used and provides a critical evaluation of the results obtained.
Keywords: Quality control; Artificial intelligence; Pattern recognition; defect detection.
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Transactions ID Number: 31-237
Full Name: Ermira Shehi
Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Age: ON
Sex: Female
Address: Blvd. Deshmoret e Kombit, Sheshi Nene Tereza, Nr.3, Tirane
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Title of the Paper: Response surface methodology as a mathematical model for quality assessment of the sewing seam
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Ermira Shehi, Jorgaq Kacani
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Abstract: Abstract: - The deformation of the fabric during the sewing process is a continuous problem, while the quality control methods are being improved with difficulty. The conventional methods of the optimisation of the machine variables often tend to be subjective or determinant and also they need time because they depend on the technicians or managers skills. Most of the specialists in the process of the selection of the sewing seam specifications take the decision basing on one or several reasons as: Sewability, seam performance (seam resistance, seam strength, seam appearance (seam puckering, color, color resistance, fabric damage from the needle), availability of the sewn product, cost [2]. Seam performance will be studied here as the combination of only two factors. Seam strength and seam puckering.
Keywords: Input factors, Output responses, Seam strength, Seam puckering, Fabric damage, Optimisation, Experiment design, Desired area of work
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Transactions ID Number: 31-236
Full Name: Sameh Ghwanmeh
Position: Associate Professor
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Sex: Male
Address: Director, Computer Center, Irbid 211-63
Country: JORDAN
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Title of the Paper: Effect of Excessive Letter Location in Arabic Lexical Items: a Stemmer Algorithm Approach
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Riyad Al-Shalabi, Ghassan Kanaan, Sameh Ghwanmeh, Foud Nour
Email addresses of all the authors: sameh@yu.edu.jo, rshalabi@aabfs.org, GhKanaan@aabfs.org
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Abstract: The paper describes a new stemmer algorithm to find the roots and patterns for Arabic words based on excessive letter locations. The algorithm locates the trilateral (three consonants) root , quadri-literal (four consonants) root as well as the pentaliteral (five consonants) root. The algorithm is written with the goal of supporting natural language processing programs such as parsers and information retrieval systems. The algorithm has been tested on thousands of Arabic words. Results reveals an accuracy reached to 95%.
Keywords: Arabic Language, Arabic words, Roots and Patterns, Stemmer
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Title of the Paper: Effect of Excessive Letter Location in Arabic Lexical Items: a Stemmer Algorithm Approach
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Abstract: The paper describes a new stemmer algorithm to find the roots and patterns for Arabic words based on excessive letter locations. The algorithm locates the trilateral (three consonants) root , quadri-literal (four consonants) root as well as the pentaliteral (five consonants) root. The algorithm is written with the goal of supporting natural language processing programs such as parsers and information retrieval systems. The algorithm has been tested on thousands of Arabic words. Results reveals an accuracy reached to 95%.
Keywords: Arabic Language, Arabic words, Roots and Patterns, Stemmer
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Transactions ID Number: 27-562
Full Name: Joseph Raj Vaidyanathan
Position: Associate Professor
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Address: Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Architecture and Engineering, European University of Lefke, TRNC, Mersin 10
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Title of the Paper: Better Learning of Supervised Neural Networks Based on Functional Graph - An Experimental Approach
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Abstract: Multilayered feed forward neural networks possess a number of properties which make them particularly suited to complex problems. Neural networks have been in use in numerous meteorological applications including weather forecasting. As Neural Networks are being more and more widely used in recent years, the need for their more formal definition becomes increasingly apparent. This paper presents a novel architecture of neural network models using the functional graph. The neural network creates a graph representation by dynamically allocating nodes to code local form attributes and establishing arcs to link them. The application of functional graph in the architecture of Electronic neural network and Opto-electronic neural network is detailed with experimental results. Learning is defined in terms of functional graph. The proposed architectures are applied in weather forecasting and X-OR problem. The weather forecasting has been carried out based on various factors!
consolidated from meteorological experts and documents. The inputs are temperature, air pressure, humidity, cloudiness, precipitation, wind direction, wind speed, etc., and outputs are heavy rain, moderate rain and no rain. The percentage of correctness of the weather forecasting of the conventional neural network models, functional graph based neural network models and the meteorological experts are compared.
Keywords: Back propagation, Convergence, Functional Graph, Neural network, Optical neuron, Weather forecasting
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Transactions ID Number: 31-234
Full Name: Muhammad Shuaib Khan
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Address: Department of Statistics, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan
Country: PAKISTAN
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Title of the Paper: Quantile Analysis of the Generalized Exponential Distribution
Authors as they appear in the Paper: M. Shuaib Khan, G.R Pasha
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Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: This paper presents the Quantile analysis of the Generalized Exponential distribution also the properties of Quantile analysis as the percentile life used B-life in engineering terminology. The main interests are in the relationship between and various B-lives; measure of variability for B-lives as the numerical quantities that describe the spread of the values in a set of data. Here these quantiles models presented graphically and mathematically.
Keywords: Generalized Exponential distribution, Quantile analysis, percentile life.
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Title of the Paper: Simulation Analysis of Inverse Moment Estimation of Inverse Weibull Models
Authors as they appear in the Paper: M. Shuaib Khan, G.R Pasha
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Abstract: This study presents the simulation analysis of Inverse moment estimation of Inverse weibull Models. This paper presents the flexibility of the Inverse weibull distribution that approaches to different distributions. we presents the relationship of inverse moment estimation between shape parameter and other properties such as in probability function , mean, variance, coefficient of variation, coefficient of skewness and coefficient of kurtosis models are presented graphically and mathematically. Here we compare these relevant parameters such as shape, scale parameters by using Monte carol simulation.
Keywords: Inverse weibull Models, Inverse moment estimation, properties of Inverse weibull,
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Transactions ID Number: 31-232
Full Name: Hailun Huang
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Address: Department of Electrical Engineering,Shanghai Jiaotong University,Minhang District, Shanghai 200240
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Title of the Paper: the analysis on the l-index based optimal power flow considering voltage stability constraints
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Hailun Huang, Yigang Kong, Jian Zhang
Email addresses of all the authors: hailunhhl@sjtu.edu.cn, yigangkong@163.com, zxmc2002@yahoo.com.cn
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: In the environment of electricity markets, power systems are operated nearer against the voltage stability limit than before. For this reason, this paper presents a novel optimal power flow (OPF) formulation containing voltage stability constraints. By adopting the L index function that can reflect stability margin from the collapse point as voltage stability constraints, this model can obtain the demanded voltage security level by adjusting the upper limits of these constraints. So its optimal solution can satisfy the security and economical demand of power systems simultaneously. At the same time, the primal-dual interior point method (IPM) based on the perturbed Karush-Kuhn- Tucker (KKT) conditions is proposed to solve this problem. Simulation results on five test systems demonstrate the effectiveness of the presented OPF model with voltage stability constraints, and the proposed computation approach has good convergence.
Keywords: Optimal power flow, Voltage stability, L index, Primal-dual interior point method
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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON BIOLOGY AND BIOMEDICINE
Transactions ID Number: 31-231
Full Name: Cherfa Yazid
Position: Doctor (Researcher)
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: Cité des 402 lgts, Bt20, N°15, OULED YAICH, BLIDA
Country: ALGERIA
Tel: 07 73 02 01 91
Tel prefix:
Fax:
E-mail address: cherfa_yazid@yahoo.fr
Other E-mails:
Title of the Paper: Semi-Automatic Segmentation and Characterization of Stroke Lesion
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Cherfa Yazid, Cherfa Assia, Jaillard Assia, Hamami Mitiche Latifa
Email addresses of all the authors: cherfa_yazid@yahoo.fr. assia_bz@yahoo.fr.Assia.Jaillard@ujf-grenoble.fr.l_hamami@yahoo.fr
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: In this study, we present a semi automatic method to extract stroke lesion from 2D MR brain images, using edge and region cooperation. After an appropriate preprocessing using an improvement of image quality and skull stripping, we apply the cooperative segmentation to the preprocessed image. This segmentation is evaluated thereafter on reference image. The procedure is applied to several MR images from different subjects having undergone a cerebral vascular attack (stroke), this in order to extract the lesion and characterise them. Furthermore a comparison of our results with these obtained from manual measurements carried out by neurologists is presented. We apply the results of this extraction to do a reconstruction and visualisation of 3D stoke in the brain.
Keywords: Magnetic resonance image, Anisotropic filtering, Brain segmentation, Stroke, Characterisation
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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON BIOLOGY AND BIOMEDICINE
Transactions ID Number: 31-230
Full Name: Cherfa Yazid
Position: Doctor (Researcher)
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: Cité des 402 lgts, Bt20, N°15, OULED YAICH, BLIDA
Country: ALGERIA
Tel: 07 73 02 01 91
Tel prefix:
Fax:
E-mail address: cherfa_yazid@yahoo.fr
Other E-mails:
Title of the Paper: Semi-Automatic Segmentation and Characterization of Stroke Lesion
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Cherfa Yazid, Cherfa Assia, Jaillard Assia, Hamami Mitiche Latifa
Email addresses of all the authors: cherfa_yazid@yahoo.fr. assia_bz@yahoo.fr.Assia.Jaillard@ujf-grenoble.fr.l_hamami@yahoo.fr
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: In this study, we present a semi automatic method to extract stroke lesion from 2D MR brain images, using edge and region cooperation. After an appropriate preprocessing using an improvement of image quality and skull stripping, we apply the cooperative segmentation to the preprocessed image. This segmentation is evaluated thereafter on reference image. The procedure is applied to several MR images from different subjects having undergone a cerebral vascular attack (stroke), this in order to extract the lesion and characterise them. Furthermore a comparison of our results with these obtained from manual measurements carried out by neurologists is presented. We apply the results of this extraction to do a reconstruction and visualisation of 3D stoke in the brain.
Keywords: Magnetic resonance image, Anisotropic filtering, Brain segmentation, Stroke, Characterisation
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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTERS
Transactions ID Number: 27-561
Full Name: Peter Kurdel
Position: Researcher
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: Institute of Informatics, SAS, Dubravska cesta 9, 84507 Bratislava
Country: SLOVAKIA
Tel: +421 2 5941 1182
Tel prefix: +421 2
Fax: +421 2 5477 1004
E-mail address: peter.kurdel@savba.sk
Other E-mails: sebestyenova@savba.sk
Title of the Paper: Grid Workflows Specification and Verification
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Peter Kurdel, Jolana Sebestyénová
Email addresses of all the authors: peter.kurdel@savba.sk,sebestyenova@savba.sk
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: Grids are being adopted and developed in several scientific disciplines that deal with large-scale collaboration, massive distributed data, and distributed computing problems. The service orchestration is a problem of making multiple services coordinate themselves and communicate in an orderly fashion so as to accomplish a task more complex than the single tasks provided by the individual composing services. Composition is devoted to the aim of connecting services in a collaborative fashion. A Grid workflow system is a type of application-level Grid middleware that is supposed to support modelling, redesign and execution of large-scale processes. A grid workflow can be represented by a grid workflow graph, where nodes correspond to activities and edges correspond to dependencies between activities, called flows. Verification is usually based on an extension of a kind of formal method. Grid workflow verification and validation must be conducted so that we can identi!
fy any violations of the correctness in workflow specification and consequently remove them in time.
Keywords: Distributed computing, Grid infrastructure, Service orchestration, Workflow management system, Verification, Web portal
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Special (Invited) Session: Verification of Grid Workflows
Organizer of the Session: 591-211
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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ADVANCED DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE
Transactions ID Number: 31-229
Full Name: Ermira Shehi
Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Age: ON
Sex: Female
Address: Rr. Hasan Sufa, P.3, Sh.1, Ap.5, Tirane
Country: ALBANIA
Tel: 00355 4 2224889
Tel prefix: 00355 4
Fax:
E-mail address: ermira.shehi@gmail.com
Other E-mails: eshehi@worldlearning.org.al
Title of the Paper: Response Surface Methodology as a mathematical model for quality assessment of the sewing seam
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Dr. Ermira Shehi, Prof. Dr. Jorgaq Kacani
Email addresses of all the authors: jorkacani@yahoo.com
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: Abstract: The deformation of the fabric during the sewing process is a continuous problem, while the quality control methods are being improved with difficulty. The conventional methods of the optimisation of the machine variables often tend to be subjective or determinant and also they need time because they depend on the technicians or managers skills. Most of the specialists in the process of the selection of the sewing seam specifications take the decision basing on one or several reasons as: Sewability, seam performance (seam resistance, seam strength, seam appearance (seam puckering, color, color resistance, fabric damage from the needle), availability of the sewn product, cost [2]. Seam performance will be studied here as the combination of only two factors. Seam strength and seam puckering.
Keywords: Keywords: INPUT VARIABLES, OUTPUT RESPONSES, SEAM STRENGTH, SEAM PUCKERING, FABRIC DAMAGE, OPTIMIZATION, EXPERIMENT DESIGN, DESIRED AREA OF WORK.
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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS
Transactions ID Number: 31-228
Full Name: Sau loong Ang
Position: Lecturer
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: Department of Sciences and Mathematics, Universiti Sains Malaysia, USM, 11800, Minden, Gelugor, Penang, Malaysia
Country: MALAYSIA
Tel: 124592617
Tel prefix: +60
Fax:
E-mail address: dellphin1223@yahoo.com
Other E-mails: dellphin1223@hotmail.com
Title of the Paper: criterion in selecting the clustering algorithm in radial basis functional link nets
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Sau Loong Ang, Hong Choon Ong, Heng Chin Low
Email addresses of all the authors: dellphin1223@yahoo.com, hcong@cs.usm.my, hclow@cs.usm.my
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: K-means and k-median clustering algorithms can help in the selection of centres for the Radial Basis Functional Link Nets. Radial Basis Functional Link Nets is used to classify the data. In this paper, we will show the importance of knowing the skewness of the data in deciding to choose between k-means or k-median clustering algorithm in finding the centre of Radial Basis Functional Link Nets and we will also show that this initial selection criterion will result in the improvement of efficiency in terms of speed and accuracy in data classification. Two sets of real data are used to demonstrate our results.
Keywords: Radial Basis Functional Link Nets; Radial Basis Function Network; K-means; K-median; Clustering; Skewness.
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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS
Transactions ID Number: 27-560
Full Name: Carlos Parra Ortega
Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: Carrera 34 No. 12-23 los pinos
Country: COLOMBIA
Tel: 76454200
Tel prefix: 57
Fax: 76454200
E-mail address: cparra@ula.ve
Other E-mails: parra.carlos@gmail.com
Title of the Paper: Design Framework for Intelligent Supervision of industrial processes
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Carlos Parra Ortega, Eliezer Colina Morles, Edgar Chacon Ramirez
Email addresses of all the authors: cparra@ula.ve,ecolina@ula.ve,echacon@ula.ve
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: Timely faults detection in an industrial process is a key aspect for designing a framework for intelligent supervisory control. A way to perform supervisory control is by providing intelligence to the supervision mechanism in continuous processes exposed to faults in order to cope with the identification of a diversity of faults, classify them and to be able to anticipate the consequences derived by their occurrence. In this article we propose an extension of the multiresolutional models approach to construct a fuzzy logic-agent technology-event detection approaches-based supervisory framework. Also the suggested framework is validated by means of a discrete-event simulation program.
Keywords: Intelligent supervisory control, Multiresolutional models, Fault detection, Fuzzy events detection, Discrete-event simulation.
EXTENSION of the file: .doc
Special (Invited) Session: Intelligent Supervisory Control of Continuous Processes exposed to Faults: a practical approach.
Organizer of the Session: 577-853
How Did you learn about congress: Aldo Pardo García, apardo13@unipamplona.edu.co
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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS AND CONTROL
Transactions ID Number: 27-559
Full Name: Khalid Sorensen
Position: Doctor (Researcher)
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: 2470 Park Avenue
Country: UNITED STATES
Tel:
Tel prefix:
Fax:
E-mail address: KhalidS@gatech.edu
Other E-mails:
Title of the Paper: ZV, ZVD, and UMZV Input Shaping on Systems with Rate Limiting
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Philipp Andersch, Khalid L. Sorensen, William E. Singhose
Email addresses of all the authors: philipp.andersch@gmx.de, khalids@gatech.edu, Singhose@gatech.edu
Number of paper pages: 11
Abstract: Input Shaping is an effective method for reducing the oscillatory motion of flexible systems. However, hard non-linearities, such as rate limiting, can reduce the effectiveness of input shaping at suppressing oscillation. The aim of this paper is to quantify these effects for commonly used input shapers. The results provide a guideline to designers of input-shaped systems. Mitigation techniques are discussed.
Keywords: Input Shaping, Rate Limiting, Vibration, Command Shaping, R-Value Analysis
EXTENSION of the file: .pdf
Special (Invited) Session: Effects of Rate Limiting on Common Input Shaping Filters
Organizer of the Session: 587-281R
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Non-registered authors that have not their papers in the program
received a special extension and their papers will be published not now, but
in another Volume and CD (also be inscluded in ISI (Thomson).
Especially, if some of them have received additional Journal publication
they must do it until August 31. Contact us NOW!

Attention: Speakers that want to be involved in WSEAS Activities
like organizing WSEAS Conferences in their countries can contact now
us by email and we can arrange appointments to see them in Crete.

BANQUET FOR THE CONFERENCES CIRCUITS, SYSTEMS, COMMUNICATIONS and COMPUTERS:
21:30 - 24:30, July 23

A super self-service buffer menu with more than 50 different plates,
Traditional Folklore Dances and Live Music are waiting for us!!!

FOR THE CONFERENCES ENGINEERING EDUCATION, UPT, EMESEG and CUHT:
19:00-21:30 July 23

A super self-service buffer menu with more than 50 different plates,
Traditional Folklore Dances and Live Music are waiting for us!!!

Visit the Web pages of the Conferences via:
http://www.worldses.org/expired.htm
and Go to the Conference Program

http://acc2008.wseas.us/

http://www.ionio.gr/~mpoulos/wseas-conferences-wseas-books-wseas-journals.ht
m

http://wseas.blogspot.com/2008/02/wseas-in-wikipedia.html

The Hotel is in a walking distance from the Harbour of Heraklion as
well as from the IMPORTANT Archaeological Museum of Heraklion
(2nd in importance in Greece, after the Archaeological Museum of Athens)

From the Harbour of Herakleion you can catch super fast ferries and you can
go to SANTORINI, the most beautiful island of Greece (after Crete, of
course) with the famous Volcano of Santorini. See pictures of Santorini via
Google!
http://harvardconferences.blogspot.com/

You can get to the conference place
1) BY AEROPLANE
The Airport of Heraklion is connected by Charters and Regular Flights
with all the European Capitals during the summer and other
Capitals of the World and is the second airport in importance in Greece
after the Airport of Athens

2) BY BOAT (recommended because it is cheap)
Heraklion is connected with Athens with FAST FERRIES
(6 hours trip with Luxurious Modern Boats.
The trip during the summer is a pleasure and you can
travel with the modern Ships of MINOAN LINES
www.minoan.gr Internet Access is available inside the Boat

Our general Chairmen which are also Editor of the Proceedings are kindly
requested to supervise the Plenary Sessions each morning where
as the regular Session Chairmen must be 30 minutes before their session in
the Conference Place.

No entrance in the conference room is allowed after the opening of the
session and nobody can come out from the conference room until the end of
the session.

ATTENTION: Certification of Attendance and Receipt of Payment will be
collected from the Secretariat Desk, only after the end of the Session that
you present. The Secreatariat will check the Chairman Report and will grant
the relevant documents

For your participation in the Conference in CRETE, you must see the
following attached files

deliver.doc, you must fill in and give it to the Secretariat for receiving
the Conference Bag. Please, read it carefuly.

biography.doc, you must fill in and give it to your Session Chairman.
Session Chairman must have it in order to present it to the audience

complaints-improvements.doc, it is optional, you can send it to us by email
AFTER the conference or you can print it out and give it to the Secretariat

641 Lectures - Papers over than 1350 papers that were submitted in WSEAS
CSCC (acceptance rate 641/1350) compose the program
http://www.wseas.org/conferences/2008/greece/
Similar acceptance rates were also obtained for CUHT, UPT and EMESEG 2008.

From them, only 32 papers which is a very small number of the best of the
best papers were also promoted to the WSEAS Journals!!

Now, the program of all these conference are on-line (we have now Updated
Versions on the web, check your papers, please)

The Secretariat of the Conference will be open from 10:00 of the MONDAY
(one day before the conference) in order to distribute the conference
material. Each participant will receive the CD-ROM of all the conference and
one hard-copy (ISI Book) together with secondary material. These will be
given to you on Monday, July 21 from
10:00 - 22:00. Come and take them from Secretariat Desk on Monday , July 21.

By the way, visit

The Deputy Minister of National Defense (Greece), Mr. Ioannis Plakiotakis
www.worldses.org/programs/plakiotakis.doc
will be in the Conference and will award the Title of "WSEAS Fellow" to
Prof. Sifakis.
We remind that WSEAS had awarded the same title to Prof. Zadeh in the past.
Up to now only a few colleagues have been elevated to WSEAS Fellow Rank.

Prof. Joseph Sifakis ( Turing Award 2007, See please
http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/turing-award-07/)
will be with us in our Conference with a KEYNOTE LECTURE
He will give 1 hour Lecture, especialy for the WSEAS
on Wednesday, July 23, 16:00-17:00

During this CEREMONY no other activity will take place and the Secretariat
will be closed for one hour (the time that Prof. Sifakis will speak)

Nobel of Computing:
www.cmu.edu/homepage/practical/2008/winter/nobel-of-computing.shtml
Also: http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~sifakis/

30 (thirty) other PLENARY SPEAKERS will accompany our Distinguished
Professor (Nobel Level) Prof. J.Sifakis
See the web

VISA:
=====
To facilitate the authors that they need VISA to enter GREECE, we have
uploaded a letter with my stamp and my signature on the WSEAS site and you
can download it from:
http://www.worldses.org/forms/invitation.doc

IMPRESSIONS from recent WSEAS conferences
==================================================
http://www.wseas.org/reports

BEST PAPERS AWARD:
====================
We will follow a procedure similar to the procedure of the recent WSEAS
Conferences
http://www.wseas.org/reports

AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT:
=======================
Laser Pointers, Data Projector, Computer with PowerPoint, PDF, Word for
Windows
will exist in each conference room.
All the presentations will take place digitally by Computer.
Old-fashioned Overhead Projector(s) will not be used.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR YOUR PRESENTATION:
==================================
See:
http://www.worldses.org/drafts/presentation.htm
http://www.worldses.org/drafts/presentation.ppt

Before the beginning of each session, each present must deliver his CV
(Short Biography) which must be printed out according to the format:
http://www.worldses.org/drafts/biography.doc

BEST REGARDS.
WE WILL BE GLAD TO HELP IN EVERY ISSUE RELATED THE CONFERENCE

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UNIVERSITY ELECTION: The WSEAS Executive Director is now
HONORARY PROFESSOR in the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania (JUNE
2008).

The WSEAS Executive Director and former WSEAS President,
Prof. Nikos E. Mastorakis (University URL: http://tinyurl.com/2p7thl
and Institutional URL: http://www.wseas.org/mastorakis)
was elevated as Honorary Professor in the Technical University of
Cluj-Napoca
Romania in June 24th 2008. Mr. Rector of the University, Prof. Radu Munteanu
reported the exceptional scientific task
of Prof. Mastorakis and his outstanding worldwide contribution to the
development of Science and technology.
The Ceremony took place in the Academy of Romania in Bucharest in June 24,
2008.
See below pictures from this official ceremony.

For the academic year, 2008-2009, Prof. N.E.Mastorakis will be also Visiting
Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department
of the Technical University of Sofia in Bulgaria where he will teach the
Course: "Multidimensional Systems"

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Moral Reward to WSEAS. WSEAS Conf. in Univ. of Cambridge. WSEAS keynote
speech. WSEAS Blogs. WSEAS IEEE IASME IARAS Students. WSEAS Books. WSEAS
Proceedings. WSEAS Conferences in China (Hangzhou). WSEAS KEYNOTE and WSEAS
PLENARY SPEAKERS in WSEAS Upcoming Conferences. WSEAS at Wikipedia. WSEAS in
Harvard. WSEAS in MIT. WSEAS in Spain. WSEAS in Bulgaria. WSEAS in China.
WSEAS in Romania. WSEAS in NCD (USA). Outstanding WSEAS papers. WSEAS in
Canada. WSEAS in France. WSEAS in USA. WSEAS in MEXICO. WSEAS in Canada.
WSEAS in Brazil. WSEAS in Italy. WSEAS in Crete. WSEAS in Turkey. WSEAS in
Laredo. WSEAS in Corfu. WSEAS in Norway. WSEAS in Portugal. WSEAS discussion
for Evolution. WSEAS Internet Tutorial. WSEAS Izmir. WSEAS Students. WSEAS
Academical Affairs. WSEAS WOMAC. WSEAS ISI. WSEAS Indexing. WSEAS
International Collaboration. WSEAS Blogs. WSEAS Special Sessions. WSEAS
Staff. WSEAS Email accounts. copyrighted@ by WSEAS
Last updated by WSEAS Groups - Feb 27 - 1 author - 10 pages long
WSEAS Rejection Rates. WSEAS Conferences. WSEAS Books. WSEAS Journals. WSEAS
Indexing. WSEAS Reviewers. WSEAS Collaborators. WSEAS Conferences in a
prestigious University. WSEAS Members and WSEAS Friends. WSEAS Chairmen.
WSEAS Special Sessions. WSEAS Invited Speakers. WSEAS Plenary Speakers.
WSEAS keynote Speakers and many others

http://wseas2007.wordpress.com/

http://cordis.europa.eu/greece/rd_events170804.htm

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Moral Reward to WSEAS. WSEAS Conf. in Univ. of Cambridge. WSEAS keynote
speech. WSEAS Blogs. WSEAS IEEE IASME IARAS Students. WSEAS Books. WSEAS
Proceedings. WSEAS Conferences in China (Hangzhou). WSEAS KEYNOTE and WSEAS
PLENARY SPEAKERS in WSEAS Upcoming Conferences. WSEAS at Wikipedia. WSEAS in
Harvard. WSEAS in MIT. WSEAS in Spain. WSEAS in Bulgaria. WSEAS in China.
WSEAS in Romania. WSEAS in NCD (USA). Outstanding WSEAS papers. WSEAS in
Canada. WSEAS in France. WSEAS in USA. WSEAS in MEXICO. WSEAS in Canada.
WSEAS in Brazil. WSEAS in Italy. WSEAS in Crete. WSEAS in Turkey. WSEAS in
Laredo. WSEAS in Corfu. WSEAS in Norway. WSEAS in Portugal. WSEAS discussion
for Evolution. WSEAS Internet Tutorial. WSEAS Izmir. WSEAS Students. WSEAS
Academical Affairs. WSEAS WOMAC. WSEAS ISI. WSEAS Indexing. WSEAS
International Collaboration. WSEAS Blogs. WSEAS Special Sessions. WSEAS
Staff. WSEAS Email accounts. copyrighted@ by WSEAS

Last updated by WSEAS Groups - Feb 27 - 1 author - 10 pages long

WSEAS Rejection Rates. WSEAS Conferences. WSEAS Books. WSEAS Journals. WSEAS
Indexing. WSEAS Reviewers. WSEAS Collaborators. WSEAS Conferences in a
prestigious University. WSEAS Members and WSEAS Friends. WSEAS Chairmen.
WSEAS Special Sessions. WSEAS Invited Speakers. WSEAS Plenary Speakers.
WSEAS keynote Speakers and many others

http://wseas2007.wordpress.com/

http://cordis.europa.eu/greece/rd_events170804.htm

Bucharest, Romania, November 7-9, 2008
10th WSEAS Int. Conf. on MATHEMATICAL and COMPUTATIONAL METHODS in SCIENCE
and ENGINEERING (MACMESE'08)
7th WSEAS Int. Conf. on DATA NETWORKS, COMMUNICATIONS, COMPUTERS (DNCOCO
'08).
1st WSEAS Int. Conf. on SENSORS and SIGNALS (SENSIG '08).
1st WSEAS Int. Conf. on VISUALIZATION, IMAGING and SIMULATION (VIS'08).

OR

Bucharest, Romania, November 7-9, 2008
1st WSEAS Int. Conf. on NATURAL HAZARDS (NAHA'08)
1st WSEAS Int. Conf. on CLIMATE CHANGES, GLOBAL WARMING, BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
(CGB '08).
1st WSEAS Int. Conf. on URBAN REHABILITATION AND SUSTAINABILITY (URES'08)
1st WSEAS Int. Conf. on MATERIALS SCIENCE (MATERIALS'08)

RECENT IMPORTANT DISTINCTIONS of the Society:
======================================
1st
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All the recent WSEAS Books (hard-copy of the Proceedings)
have been selected as Books for Abstracting and Indexing by ISI (Thomson).

2nd
----
The IEE (IET) has in its citation index (INSPEC)
more than 7000 papers from WSEAS, only for the last 3 years.
Visit:
www.worldses.org/indexes/iee/2004-2007.txt

In WSEAS Conferences, the accepted papers are published in:

(1) Books (All these books participate in ISI, IEE, ELSEVIER, SCOPUS etc...)
http://www.worldses.org/books/index.html

(2) CD-ROM Proceedings

(3) Web Publishing: www.wseas.org/online

(4) Extended versions of the best papers (after further review) in a Journal
(participate in the most important
citation indices www.worldses.org/indexes/)