The Boston College Internal Audit Department has developed best practices that will enable its auditors to face the techno-logical challenges and changes of the next millennium. In ad-dition to automating the departme...
The Boston College Internal Audit Department has developed best practices that will enable its auditors to face the techno-logical challenges and changes of the next millennium. In ad-dition to automating the department's workpapers, the information-processing applications involved perform follow-up audits electronically. The department has accomplished these tasks not by purchasing an expensive software product, but by using existing software resources. The department cur-rently uses Microsoft Office for automating the creation and use of its workpapers; however, it developed this application before Microsoft Office was even a twinkle in Bill Gates' eye.
In this paper the authors propose a structural method for a genetic algorithm (GA) for the optimization problem of cable routing in which cables have to be laid optimally. When there are no limits on the layout routes...
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The Collaborative Large-scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research (CLEANER) Project Office has been established with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the University of Illinois...
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A scenario is envisaged in which agents have tasks to perform and are in a position to exchange tasks to improve their performance, and thus perhaps affect the overall performance of the system. Our model uses two com...
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A scenario is envisaged in which agents have tasks to perform and are in a position to exchange tasks to improve their performance, and thus perhaps affect the overall performance of the system. Our model uses two computing machines with their usual resources, and with random initial jobs to be processed. Their performance is dependent not only on absolute total load but also on how much of each machine's resources are in demand, thus giving scope for the beneficial exchange of jobs. This paper describes the development of a negotiation mechanism for job exchange between machines and measurement of system performance. The concept may be extended to multiple machines that act as agents exchanging resources and tasks.
We envisage a scenario where a system of network computer initially with random loads, exchange jobs to balance load among themselves to enhance their individual performance and to provide augmented quality of service...
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We envisage a scenario where a system of network computer initially with random loads, exchange jobs to balance load among themselves to enhance their individual performance and to provide augmented quality of service (QoS) to the user community. We model the individual machines as agents interacting with one another. The agents have beliefs and aspirations. The aspiration of an agent is seek load from other, when it did not have enough to begin with, and sheds the same of it finds itself excessively loaded. This paper develops the concept with a design of a utility function to reflect the agent aspiration. We also propose a measure of load imbalance between networked machines. Negotiation mechanism is developed for exchange of jobs between agents. We report our result of the simulation with two machines and extend the same for three machines. The extension of the idea to a large number of machines entail coming to term with complexity in form of administrative overloads. We discuss the "small word" concept in the content of a simulation massively large number of machines interconnected.
This session relates directly to this year's conference theme Sparking Synergies: Bringing Research and Practice Together as it brings together researchers from different disciplines (information science and educa...
This session relates directly to this year's conference theme Sparking Synergies: Bringing Research and Practice Together as it brings together researchers from different disciplines (information science and educational technology) to discuss current issues and trends related to Web usage across student populations. “Complex design problems require more knowledge than any single person possesses” (Arias, Eden, Fischer, Gorman, and Scharff, 2000, p. 84), thus each panelist will contribute highlights of his or her current research regarding the design, information, and pedagogical, needs of specific student populations (K-12 to higher education). After the panelists have presented their findings Diane Nahl will intertwine the threads of the panelists' conversations and, with the audience's assistance, begin to weave a fabric to uncover common usability issues.
There are many different terms when learner surf on web. When learner is reading an instructional material, he/she may not understand the meaning of specific term/keyword in a moment easily. At this time, the learner ...
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There are many different terms when learner surf on web. When learner is reading an instructional material, he/she may not understand the meaning of specific term/keyword in a moment easily. At this time, the learner will need to find out the definitions or references about the keyword. However, unfortunately, the learner will not be able to find out what he/ she is looking for in the most of time. It is because of the instruction designers of the learning materials who had never thought that would be a problem for learners. Therefore, it will be excellent, if the associated documents with the keyword which is the learner looking for could be retrieved automatically, and furthermore, the original document structure could be reconstructed to a more suitable for learning and reading in real-time. In this paper, the graph theorem and the data mining technique are applying to produce an association lattice of keywords and design a searching algorithm of reconstructing the necessary instructional materials on the website automatically.
There is a high demand for online graduate programs in various engineering and technology fields. The reasoning is simple: there is a large pool of working professionals needing graduate study, but cannot afford to in...
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There is a high demand for online graduate programs in various engineering and technology fields. The reasoning is simple: there is a large pool of working professionals needing graduate study, but cannot afford to in-person due to their job, family, or distance limitations. The Department of technology Systems, within the College of technology and computer Science (TECS) at East Carolina University has been offering several Internet-based graduate programs since 1995. This paper focuses on the Master of Science in Industrial technology (MSIT) that has several concentrations, including computer Networking Management, Digital Communications, and information Security. All courses in the MSIT program are delivered 100% online, with majority of the technical courses having lab-intensive, hands-on components. This paper shares information pertaining to some of the issues and experiences of offering graduate, hands-on programs in informationtechnology (IT) completely online.
The objective of this research is to evaluate the total quality of e-Leaming websites for university in Thailand by using quality criteria which based on IEEE 1061 and ISO/IEC 9126. In this research, we determine 6 qu...
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The objective of this research is to evaluate the total quality of e-Leaming websites for university in Thailand by using quality criteria which based on IEEE 1061 and ISO/IEC 9126. In this research, we determine 6 quality aspects (include 2 new aspects) such as functionality, reliability, usability, efficiency, maintainability and portability. In the research process, we categorize subjects into 5 groups. The result has found that the average of quality on e-Leaning websites in Thailand is 50.34% and this can be exploited as beneficial information for e-Leaming webmaster to motivate and improve the quality of e-Leaming website according to the proposed quality model for optimizing the effective e-Learning.
A user's profile, for the purpose of location management in a PCS network, is formalized as a subgraph of the network graph. This subgraph, the so-called individual profile graph (IPG), is determined after a perio...
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