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Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
Volume 28
Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
Proceedings of the European Computing Conference: Volume 2
Mastorakis, Nikos, Mladenov, Valeri (Eds.)
978-0-387-84818-1, Vol. 28
Proceedings of the European Computing Conference: Volume 1
Mastorakis, Nikos, Mladenov, Valeri (Eds.)
978-0-387-84813-6, Vol. 27
Electronics System Design Techniques for Safety Critical Applications
Sterpone, Luca
978-1-4020-8978-7, Vol. 26
Data Mining and Applications in Genomics
Ao, Sio-Iong
978-1-4020-8974-9, Vol. 25
Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics: Selected Papers from the
International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics 2007
Filipe, J.B.; Ferrier, Jean-Louis; Andrade-Cetto, Juan (Eds.)
978-3-540-85639-9, Vol. 24
Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting Networks
Beutler, Roland
ISBN 978-0-387-09634-6, Vol. 23
Logic Synthesis for Compositional Microprogram Control Units
Barkalov, Alexander, Titarenko, Larysa
ISBN: 978-3-540-69283-6, Vol. 22
Sensors: Advancements in Modeling, Design Issues, Fabrication and Practical Applications
Mukhopadhyay, Subhas Chandra; Huang, Yueh-Min (Eds.)
ISBN: 978-3-540-69030-6, Vol. 21
Smart Sensors and Sensing Technology
Mukhopadhyay, Subhas Chandra; Sen Gupta, Gourab (Eds.)
ISBN: 978-3-540-79589-6 , Vol. 20
Basic Principles of Fresnel Antenna Arrays
Minin, Igor V., Minin, Oleg V.
ISBN: 978-3-540-79558-2, Vol. 19
(Continued after index)
Nikos Mastorakis l Valeri Mladenov l
Vassiliki T. KontargyriEditors
Proceedings of theEuropean ComputingConference
Volume 2
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Editors
Nikos MastorakisHellenic Naval Academy, MilitaryInstitutes of University EducationLeoforos Chatzikyriakou185 39 Piraeus, [email protected]
Valeri MladenovDepartment of Theoretical ElectricalEngineering
Technical University of SofiaKl. Ohridski St. 8, 1000 Sofia, [email protected]
Vassiliki T. KontargyriNational Technical University of AthensRoumelis 6, 152 35 VrilissiaAthens, [email protected]
ISSN 1876-1100 e-ISSN 1876-1119ISBN 978-0-387-84818-1 e-ISBN 978-0-387-85437-3DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-85437-3
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Contents
Part I Computer Applications in Power Systems
1 Wind Energy Production Forecasting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3G. Atsalakis
2 Operation Management on Autonomous Power System. . . . . . . . . . . 15E. S. Karapidakis
3 A Low-Power Portable H.264/AVC Decoder Using
Elastic Pipeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Yoshinori Sakata, Kentaro Kawakami, Hiroshi Kawaguchi,and Masahiko Yoshimoto
Part II Computational Techniques and Algorithms
4 Computational Methods for Detecting Types of Nonlinear
Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35Mirela-Catrinel Voicu
5 The Worm Cutter Tool Profiling Based on Discreet Surfaces
Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49Virgil Teodor, Marian Cucu, and Nicolae Oancea
6 Suggesting Correct Words Algorithms Developing in FarsiTeX . . . . . 63Youssef Rezvan, Majid Ghandchi, and Farshad Rezvan
7 On the Analytical and Numerical Computation in Mechanical
Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73Marcel Migdalovici
8 Real Genetic Algorithm for Traveling Salesman Problem
Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79A.R. Awad, I. Von Poser, and M.T. Aboul-Ela
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9 The COTECOMO: COnstractive Test Effort COst MOdel . . . . . . . 89Ljubomir Lazic and Nikos Mastorakis
10 A Semantics of Core Computational Model for ODP
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111Youssef Balouki and Mohamed Bouhdadi
11 Computer Simulation Via Direct Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123Alex Soiguine
12 Image Segmentation with Improved Artificial Fish
Swarm Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133Mingyan Jiang, Nikos E. Mastorakis, Dongfeng Yuan,and Miguel Angel Lagunas
13 Propagation of Elastic-Plastic Waves in Bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139Olga Martin
14 Shahyat Algorithm as a Clustering Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151Omid Khayat and Hamid Reza Shahdoosti
15 A Modified Electromagnetism-Like Algorithm Based
on a Pattern Search Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161Ana Maria A.C. Rocha and Edite M.G.P. Fernandes
16 Latency Hiding and Adaptability for Parallel Iterative
Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169Javier Roca, Jose Antonio Alvarez, and Jose Jesus Fernandez
17 Clustering the Linearly Inseparable Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177Hamid Reza Shahdoosti and Omid Khayat
18 A Top-Down Minimization Algorithm for Non-Deterministic
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185Adrian Zafiu and Stefan Holban
Part III Natural Phenomena and Computer Models
19 Multi-Layer Finite Volume Solution of Wind Induced
Basin Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193Saeed-Reza Sabbagh-Yazdi, Hamed Arabi,and Nikos E. Mastorakis
20 NASIR Heat Generation and Transfer Solver for RCC Dams . . . . . . 203Saeed-Reza Sabbagh-Yazdi, Ali-Reza Bagheri,and Nikos E. Mastorakis
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21 Water Hammer Modeling Using 2nd Order Godunov Finite Volume
Method. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215Saeed-Reza Sabbagh-Yazdi, Ali Abbasi, and Nikos E. Mastorakis
22 Simulation of Wind Pressure on Two Tandem Tanks. . . . . . . . . . . . . 225Saeed-Reza Sabbagh-Yazdi, Farzad Meysami-Azad, andNikos E. Mastorakis
23 Tropical Cyclone Forecaster Integrated
with Case-Based Reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235James N. K. Liu, Simon C. K. Shiu, and Jane You
Part IV Knowledge Engineering, Decision Rules and Data Bases
24 Toward an Understanding of Knowledge Reuse in an On-Line
Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245Hsieh-Hua Yang, Jui-Chen Yu, and Hung-Jen Yang
25 Handling Contradictions in Knowledge Discovery
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261David Anderson
26 A Cooperative Distributed Query-Processing Approach. . . . . . . . . . . 275Saeed K. Rahimi and Frank S. Haug
27 Estimating Join and Projection Selectivity Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287Carlo dell’ Aquila, Ezio Lefons, and Filippo Tangorra
28 Decision Rules: A Metamodel to Organize Information . . . . . . . . . . . 299Sabina-Cristiana Mihalache
29 A Computerized Solution for the Financial Diagnose
of the SMEs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309Vasile Daniel Pavaloaia
30 DELP System: Tracking Deadlocks and Phantoms
in Databaseas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319Cristea Boboila, Simona Boboila, and Constantin Lupsoiu
31 Concurrency Control for Multilevel Secure Distributed Real-Time
Databases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325Valuchandhar Vadivelu, and S. Albert Rabara
32 A New Framework for Nondeterministic Multi-valued System
Minimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339Adrian Zafiu and Ion Stefanescu
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Part V Web-Based Applications
33 Thread Pool-Based Improvement of the Mean-Value Analysis
Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347Agnes Bogardi-Meszoly, Takeshi Hashimoto,Tihamer Levendovszky, and Hassan Charaf
34 Security Enhancements for Web-Based Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361Shivanand B. Hiremath and Sameer S. Saigaonkar
35 Description and Discovery of Web Applications in Grid . . . . . . . . . . . 375Serena Pastore
36 An Approach to Treat the User’s Preferences About
Personal Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383Sergio D. Zorzo, Reginaldo A. Gotardo, Paulo R. M. Cereda,Bruno Y. L. Kimura, Ricardo A. Rios, and Robson E. Grande
37 Ssort: Peak Analysis for Efficient String Sorting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389Sunil Mallya and Kavi Mahesh
38 Parametric Studies for the AEC Domain Using
InteliGrid Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399Matevz Dolenc and Robert Klinc
39 An Auction-Based Resource Allocation Strategy with a Proportional
Share Model for Economic-Based Grid Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407Kuan- Chou Lai, Chao-Chin Wu, and Jhen-Wei Huang
Part VI Advances in Computer Science and Applications
40 Propagation in Cylindrical Inset Dielectric Guide Structures . . . . . . . 415Ioannis O. Vardiambasis
41 On the Damage in Nonlinear Mesoscopic Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421Veturia Chiroiu, Dan Dumitriu, Ana Maria Mitu,Daniel Baldovin, and Cornel Secara
42 Diagnosis of Robotized Assembling Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427C. Ciufudean, R. Serban, C. Filote, and B. Satco
43 Open Architecture Systems for MERO Walking Robots
Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437Luige Vladareanu, Radu Munteanu, Adrian Curaj,and Ion N. Ion
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44 Mass Transfer Analysis in the Case of the EFG Method . . . . . . . . . . 445Liliana Braescu, Thomas F. George, and Stefan Balint
45 Information System Architecture for Data Warehousing . . . . . . . . . . 457Francisco Araque, Alberto Salguero, and Cecilia Delgado
46 Dimensional Dynamics Identification of Reconfigurable Machine
Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465Ciprian Cuzmin, Virgil Teodor, Nicolae Oancea,Vasile Marinescu, and Alexandru Epureanu
47 Compaction-Induced Deformation on Flexible Substrate . . . . . . . . . . 473B. Punantapong
48 Robust and Accurate Visual Odometry by Stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485Aldo Cumani and Antonio Guiducci
49 Financial Auditing in an E-Business Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495L. D. Genete and Al. Tugui
50 Reputed Authenticated Routing Ad-Hoc Networks Protocol . . . . . . . 505Ahmed Sameh, Abdalla Mahmoud, and Sherif El-Kassas
51 Quantum Mechanical Analysis of Nanowire FETs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515Alireza Kargar and Rahim Ghayour
Part VII Software Tools and Programming Languages
52 Impact of Quality Factors on the Success of Software
Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523M. Sepehri, A. Abdollahzadeh, M. Sepehri, and M. Goodarzi
53 Sisal 3.2 Language Structure Decomposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533V. N. Kasyanov and A. P. Stasenko
54 An Embedded Application for Driverless Metro Train . . . . . . . . . . . . 545Vivek Kumar Sehgal and Nitin
55 A Post-mortem JavaSpaces Debugger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553Jason Howarth and Edward Stow
56 Stochastic Numerical Simulations Using C# . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563Edita Kolarova and Csaba Torok
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57 Visualization and Analyses of Multi-Dimensional Data Sets Using
OLAP- A Case Study of a Student Administration System . . . . . . . . 569Che-Chern Lin, Fun-Chi Hsu, Chun-Hung Wu, Chia-Jui Hsu,Chia-Hsun Wu, Chung-Ping Lee, and Hung-Jen Yang
58 Design of a Computer-Based Triangle Chess Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . 575Che-Chern Lin, Chia-Jung Hsu, Ming-Jun Chan, Chih-Hung Chung,Chong-Cheng Hong, and Hung-Jen Yang
59 A Taxonomy Model for Analyzing Project-Based Learning Using
Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP): A Case Study of Design of a
Beer Company Website in an Elementary School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581Chung-Ping Lee, Che-Chern Lin, Rong-Jyue Fang, Howard Lo,and Ming-Chih Wu
60 A Framework of Mixed Model of a Neural Network and Boolean
Logic for Financial Crisis Prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587Che-Chern Lin, Ghuan-Hsien Mao, Howard Lo,and Hung-Jen Yang
61 Chinese Document Clustering Using Self-Organizing Map-Based
on Botanical Document Warehouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593Howard Lo, Che-Chern Lin, Rong-Jyue Fang, Chungping Lee,and Yu-Chen Weng
62 Linear Discriminant Analysis in Ottoman Alphabet Character
Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601Zeyneb Kurt, H. Irem Turkmen, and M. Elif Karsligil
63 User Requirements Engineering and Management in Software
Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609Zeljko Panian
64 SSAF – A Tool for Active Filter Synthesis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621Elena Doicaru, Lucian Barbulescu, and Claudius Dan
Part VIII Theoretical Approaches in Information Science
65 On the Complexity of the Auxetic Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631Ligia Munteanu, Dan Dumitriu, Stefania Donescu,and Veturia Chiroiu
66 New Verification of Reactive Requirement for Lyee Method . . . . . . . 637Osamu Arai and Hamido Fujita
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67 A Tree Derivation Procedure for Multivalent and Paraconsistent
Inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651David Anderson
68 On the Feedback Stabilization of Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659JianDa Han, Zhe Jiang, YiWen Zhao, and YiYong Nie
69 Maxwell Geometric Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677Constantin Udriste
70 Fractional Right Ideals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689Ulrich Albrecht
71 A Distributed Approach for Concurrent Password Recovery
of Archived Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695Esra Celik, Z. Cihan Taysi, and A. Gokhan Yavuz
72 Solutions for an Integral-Differential Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703Nikos E. Mastorakis and Olga Martin
73 Development of Genetic Algorithms and C-Method for Optimizing
a Scattering by Rough Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713N. Lassouaoui, H. Hafdallah Ouslimani, and A. Priou
Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719
Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723
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Contributors
Ali Abbasi Department of Civil Engineering, K.N. Toosi University
of Technology, 19697 Tehran, Iran, [email protected]
A. Abdollahzadeh Department of Computer Engineering, Amir Kabir
University, Tehran, Iran
M.T. Aboul-Ela Civil Engineering Department, Minia University, Egypt
Ulrich Albrecht Department ofMathematics, AuburnUniversity, Auburn, AL
36849, USA, [email protected]
Jose Antonio Alvarez Departamento de Arquitectura de Computadores y
Electronica, Universidad de Almerıa, Almeria, Spain, [email protected]
David Anderson School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth
PO1 2EG, UK, [email protected]
Hamed Arabi Science and Research, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Osamu Arai Faculty of Software and Information Science, Iwate Prefectural
University, Morioka, Iwate, Japan, [email protected]
Francisco Araque Dpto. De Lenguajes y Sistemas Informaticos, University
of Granada, 18071, Granada (Andalucıa), Spain, [email protected]
G. Atsalakis Department of Production Engineering and Management,
Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, [email protected]
A.R. Awad Department of Environmental Engineering, Tishreen University,
Lattakia, Syria
Ali-Reza Bagheri Department of Civil Engineering, K.N. Toosi University
of Technology, 1346 Valiasr St. 19697 Tehran, Iran
Daniel Baldovin Institute of Solid Mechanics, Romanian Academy, Bucharest
010141, Romania
Stefan Balint
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Youssef Balouki Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,Mohammed V University, Ibn Bettouta, Rabat Morocco
Lucian Barbulescu Faculty of Automation, Computer Science and Electronics,University of Craiova, 200646 Craiova, Romania, [email protected]
Cristea Boboila Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Universityof Craiova, Craiova, Romania, [email protected]
Simona Boboila Computer Science Department, Stony Brook University,Stony Brook, NY, USA, [email protected]
Agnes Bogardi-Meszoly Department of Automation and Applied Informatics,Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Goldmann Gyorgy ter 3.IV. em., 1111 Budapest, Hungary
Mohamed Bouhdadi Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,Mohammed V University, Ibn Bettouta, Rabat Morocco
Liliana Braescu Department of Computer Science, West Universityof Timisoara, Blv. V. Parvan 4, Timisoara 300223, Romania
Esra Celik Department of Computer Engineering, Yildiz TechnicalUniversity, Besiktas/Istanbul, Turkey, [email protected]
Paulo R.M. Cereda Computer Science Department, Federal University of SaoCarlos, Rod. Washington Luis, km 235 - 13565-905, Sao Carlos – SP – Brasil,[email protected]
Ming-Jun Chan National Kaohsiung Normal University, 116 Heping FirstRoad, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (R.O.C), [email protected]
Hassan Charaf Department of Automation and Applied Informatics,Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Goldmann Gyorgy ter 3.IV. em., 1111 Budapest, Hungary
Veturia Chiroiu Continuum Mechanics Department, Institute of SolidMechanics, Bucharest 010141, Romania
Chih-Hung Chung National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung City,Taiwan (R.O.C), [email protected]
C. Ciufudean Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,University ‘‘Stefan cel Mare’’, Suceava, Romania, [email protected]
Aldo Cumani Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Str. delle Cacce, 91,I-10135 Torino, Italy, [email protected]
Adrian Curaj Institute of Solid Mechanics, Romanian Academy, Bucharest,Romania
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Ciprian Cuzmin Department ofManufacturing Engineering, ‘‘Dunarea de Jos’’
University of Galati, Galati, 800201, Romania, [email protected]
Claudius Dan Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunication and Information
Technologies, Politehnica University of Bucharest, blvd. Iuliu Maniu,
Bucharest 77209, Romania, [email protected]
Cecilia Delgado Dpto. De Lenguajes y Sistemas Informaticos, University
of Granada, 18071, Granada (Andalucıa), Spain, [email protected]
Carlo dell’Aquila Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita di Bari, Via E.
Orabona 4, I-70125 Bari, Italy, [email protected]
Elena Doicaru Faculty of Automation, Computer Science and Electronics,
University of Craiova, Craiova 200646, Romania, [email protected]
Matevz Dolenc Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University
of Ljubljana, Jamova 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, [email protected]
Stefania Donescu Mathematics Department, Technical University of Civil
Engineering, Bd. Lacul Tei nr.122-124, Bucharest 020396, Romania
Dan Dumitriu Continuum Mechanics Department, Institute of Solid
Mechanics, Bucharest 010141, Romania
Sherif El-Kassas Department of Computer Science, The American University
in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Alexandru Epureanu Department ofManufacturing Engineering, ‘‘Dunarea de
Jos’’ University of Galati, Galati, 800201, Romania
Rong-Jyue Fang Department of Information Management, Southern Taiwan
University of Technology, Kaohsiung City 806, Taiwan (R.O.C.),
Edite M. G. P. Fernandes Minho University, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057
Braga, Portugal, [email protected]
Jose Jesus Fernandez Departamento de Arquitectura de Computadores y
Electronica, Universidad de Almerıa, Almeria, Spain, [email protected]
C. Filote Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University
‘‘Stefan cel Mare’’, Suceava, Romania, [email protected]
Hamido Fujita Faculty of Software and Information Science, Iwate Prefectural
University, Morioka, Iwate, Japan, [email protected]
L. D. Genete Business Information System Department, ‘‘Alexandru Ioan
Cuza’’ University of Iasi, 22 Carol I Blvd., Ro-700505, Romania
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Thomas F. George Office of the Chancellor and Center for Nanoscience,Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Physics and Astronomy,University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63121, USA
Majid Ghandchi Department Electrical Engineering and Computer, AharBranch, Islamic Azad University, Ahar, Iran
Rahim Ghayour Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering,Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, [email protected]
M. Goodarzi
Reginaldo A. Gotardo Computer Science Department, Federal Universityof Sao Carlos, Rod. Washington Luis, km 235 - 13565-905, Sao Carlos – SP –Brasil, [email protected]
Robson E. Grande Computer Science Department, Federal University of SaoCarlos, Rod. Washington Luis, km 235 - 13565-905, Sao Carlos – SP – Brasil,[email protected]
Antonio Guiducci Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Str. delle Cacce,91, I-10135 Torino, Italy, [email protected]
Jianda Han State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Shenyang Instituteof Automation, Academia Sinica. 110016 Shenyang, China
Takeshi Hashimoto Department of Automation and Applied Informatics,Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Goldmann Gyorgy ter 3.IV. em., 1111 Budapest, Hungary
Frank S. Haug Opus College of Business, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul,MN 55105, USA
Shivanand B. Hiremath National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai,India
Stefan Holban Departament of Computer Science, University ‘‘Politehnica’’of Timisoara, 300006 Timisoara Pta Victoriei No. 2, Timis, Romania,[email protected]
Chong-Cheng Hong National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung City,Taiwan (R.O.C), [email protected]
Jason Howarth School of Computing and Mathematics, Charles SturtUniversity, Boorooma St. Wagga Wagga, NSW, 2678 Australia
Fun-Chi Hsu National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung City,Taiwan (R.O.C.), [email protected]
Chia-Jui Hsu National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung City,Taiwan (R.O.C.), [email protected]
xvi Contributors
Chia-Jung Hsu National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan(R.O.C), [email protected]
Chia-Hsun Wu National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung City,Taiwan (R.O.C.), [email protected]
Jhen-Wei Huang Department of Computer and Information Science, NationalTaichung University, Taiwan (R.O.C)
Ion N. Ion Institute of Solid Mechanics, Romanian Academy, Bucharest,Romania
Zhe Jiang State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Shenyang Instituteof Automation, Academia Sinica, 110016 Shenyang, China
Mingyan Jiang Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya
(CTTC), Av. Del, Canal Olımpic s/n, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain;School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan,
250100 China, [email protected], [email protected]
E.S. Karapidakis Technological Educational Institute of Crete, 3 Romanou
str, 73133, Chania, Greece
Alireza Kargar Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering,
Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
M. Elif Karsligil Department of Computer Engineering, Yildiz Technical
University, 34349 Besiktas/Istanbul, Turkey, [email protected]
V.N. Kasyanov A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems/Novosibirsk
State University, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia
Hiroshi Kawaguchi Graduate School, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo,
657-8507 Japan, [email protected]
Kentaro Kawakami Graduate School, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo,
657-8507 Japan, [email protected]
Omid Khayat Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University,
Iran
Bruno Y. L. Kimura Computer Science Department, Federal University of Sao
Carlos, Rod. Washington Luis, km 235 - 13565-905, Sao Carlos – SP – Brasil,[email protected]
Robert Klinc Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, Universityof Ljubljana, Jamova 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, [email protected]
Edita Kolarova Brno University of Technology, Technicka 8, 616 00 Brno,Czech Republic
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Zeyneb Kurt Department of Computer Engineering, Yildiz Technical
University, 34349 Besiktas/Istanbul, Turkey, [email protected]
Miguel Angel Lagunas Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya
(CTTC), Av. Del, Canal Olımpic s/n, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain,
Kuan-Chou Lai Department of Computer and Information Science, National
Taichung University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan (R.O.C)
N. Lassouaoui University Paris X, Nanterre, Pole Scientifique et Technique de
Ville d’Avray, Groupe Electromagnetisme Applique, 50 rue de Sevre 92410,
Ville d’Avray, France
Ljubomir Lazic School of Electrical Engineering, Vojvode Stepe 283, Belgrade,
Serbia, [email protected]
Chung-Ping Lee Department of Industrial Technology Education, National
Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan (R.O.C.),
Chungping Lee Department of Industrial Technology Education, National
Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan (R.O.C.),
Ezio Lefons Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita di Bari, Via E. Orabona
4, I-70125 Bari, Italy, lefons, [email protected]
Tihamer Levendovszky Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,
Shizuoka University, 5-1, 3-chome Johoku, 432-8561 Hamamatsu, Japan
Che-Chern Lin Department of Industrial Technology Education, National
Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung City 806, Taiwan (R.O.C.),
[email protected], [email protected]
James N.K. Liu Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic
University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong,
Howard Lo Department of Industrial Technology Education, National
Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung City 806, Taiwan (R.O.C.),
Constantin Lupsoiu Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science,
University of Craiova, Romania, [email protected]
KaviMahesh Department of Computer Science and Engineering, PES Institute
of Technology, Bangalore 560085, India, [email protected]
Abdalla Mahmoud Department of Computer Science, The American
University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
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SunilMallya Department of Computer Science and Engineering, PES Instituteof Technology, Bangalore 560085, India, [email protected]
Ghuan-HsienMao Shu-Te University, Yen-Chau, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan(R.O.C.), [email protected]
Vasile Marinescu Department of Manufacturing Engineering, ‘‘Dunarea deJos’’ University of Galati, Galati, 800201, Romania
Olga Martin University ‘‘Politehnica’’ of Bucharest, 313, SplaiulIndependentei, Romania, [email protected]
Nikos E Mastorakis Military Insitutes of University Education (ASEI)Hellenic Naval Academy, Terma Chatzikyriakou, 18539, Piraues, Greece,[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Farzad Meysami-Azad Department of Civil Engineering, K.N. ToosiUniversity of Technology, 19697 Tehran, Iran
Marcel Migdalovici Institute of Solid Mechanics, Romanian Academy,Bucharest, Romania
Sabina-Cristiana Mihalache Business Information Systems Department,Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Carol I Blvd, no. 700505, Iasi,Romania, [email protected]
AnaMariaMitu Institute of SolidMechanics, Romanian Academy, Bucharest010141, Romania
Radu Munteanu Tehnical University of Cluj Napoca, Politehnica Universityof Bucharest, Romania
Ligia Munteanu Continuum Mechanics Department, Institute of SolidMechanics, Romanian Academy, Bucharest 010141, Romania
YiYong Nie State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Shenyang Institute ofAutomation, Academia Sinica, 110016 Shenyang, China
Nitin Member IEEE andACM,Department of CSE and IT, Jaypee Universityof Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan–173215, Himachal Pradesh,India, [email protected]
Nicolae Oancea Department ofManufacturing Engineering, ‘‘Dunarea de Jos’’University of Galati, Galati, 800201, Romania
H. Hafdallah Ouslimani University Paris X, Nanterre, Pole Scientifique etTechnique de Ville d’Avray, Groupe Electromagnetisme Applique, 50 rue deSevre 92410, Ville d’Avray, France
Zeljko Panian Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb,Croatia
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Serena Pastore INAF – Astronomical Observatory of Padova, VicoloOsservatorio 5 – 35122 – Padova, Italy
Vasile Daniel Pavaloaia Business Information Systems Department,Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Bdul Carol I nr.22, Iasi 700505,Romania, [email protected]
I. Von Poser Ingenierurtechnik, Merck KGaA., Darmstadt, Germany
A. Priou University Paris X, Nanterre, Pole Scientifique et Technique de Villed’Avray, Groupe Electromagnetisme Applique, 50 rue de Sevre 92410, Villed’Avray, France
B. Punantapong Biomaterials and Nanotechnology Research Unit,Department of Industrial Physics and Medical Instrumentation, KingMongkut’s Institute of Technology North Bangkok, Bangsue, Bangkok 10800,Thailand
S. Albert Rabara Department of Computer Science, St.Joseph’s College(Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli – 620 002, Tamilnadu, India
Saeed K. Rahimi Opus College of Business, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul,MN 55105, USA
Youssef Rezvan Department Electrical Engineering and Computer, AharBranch, Islamic Azad University, Ahar, Iran, [email protected]
Farshad Rezvan Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tabriz,Tabriz, Iran, [email protected]
Ricardo A. Rios Computer Science Department, Federal University of SaoCarlos, Rod. Washington Luis, km 235 - 13565-905, Sao Carlos – SP – Brasil,[email protected]
Javier Roca Departamento de Arquitectura de Computadores y Electronica,Universidad de Almerıa, Almeria, Spain, [email protected]
Ana Maria A. C. Rocha Minho University, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057Braga, Portugal, [email protected]
Saeed-Reza Sabbagh-Yazdi Department of Civil Engineering, K. N. ToosiUniversity of Technology, 19697 Tehran, Iran, [email protected]
Sameer. S. Saigaonkar Diploma in Industrial Engineering, National Instituteof Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, India
Yoshinori Sakata Graduate School, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8507Japan, [email protected]
Alberto Salguero Dpto. De Lenguajes y Sistemas Informaticos, Universityof Granada, 18071, Granada (Andalucıa), Spain, [email protected]
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Ahmed Sameh Department of Computer Science, The American University inCairo, Cairo, Egypt, [email protected]
B. Satco Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University‘‘Stefan cel Mare’’, Suceava, Romania, [email protected]
Cornel Secara Institute of Solid Mechanics, Romanian Academy, Bucharest010141, Romania
Vivek Kumar Sehgal Member IEEE and ACM, Department of ECE, JaypeeUniversity of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan–173215, HimachalPradesh, India, [email protected]
M. Sepehri Department of Computer Engineering and IT, Islamic AzadUniversity, Fars Sciences and Research Branch, Fars, Iran
R. Serban Instituite dIngenierie Informatique de Limoges et de Rodez,Limoges, France, [email protected]
Hamid Reza Shahdoosti Department of Biomedical Engineering, AmirkabirUniversity, Iran
Simon C.K. Shiu Department of Computing, Hong Kong PolytechnicUniversity, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, [email protected]
Alex Soiguine SOiGUINE LLC, 1333 N. Camino Alto, Vallejo, CA 94589,USA
A.P. Stasenko A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems/Novosibirsk StateUniversity, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Ion Stefanescu Department of Electronics, Communications and Computers,University of Pitesti, 110040 Pitesti Str. Targul din Vale, nr.1, Arges, Romania,[email protected], [email protected]
Edward Stow School of Computing and Mathematics, Charles SturtUniversity, Boorooma St. Wagga Wagga, NSW, 2678 Australia
Filippo Tangorra Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita di Bari, Via E.Orabona 4, I-70125 Bari, Italy, [email protected]
Z. Cihan Taysi Department of Computer Engineering, Yildiz TechnicalUniversity, Besiktas/Istanbul, Turkey, [email protected]
Virgil Teodor Department of Manufacturing Engineering, ‘‘Dunarea de Jos’’University of Galati, Galati, 800201 Romania, [email protected] MarianCucu
Csaba Torok Technical University Kosice, Letna 9, 042 00 Kosice, Slovakia
Al. Tugui Business Information System Department, ‘‘Alexandru Ioan Cuza’’University of Iasi, 22 Carol I Blvd., Ro-700505, Romania
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H. Irem Turkmen Department of Computer Engineering, Yildiz Technical
University, 34349 Besiktas/Istanbul, Turkey, [email protected]
Constantin Udriste Department of Mathematics, University Politehnica
of Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei 313, 060042 Bucharest, Romania,
Valuchandhar Vadivelu Department of Computer Science, St.Joseph’s College
(Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli – 620 002, Tamilnadu, India
Ioannis O. Vardiambasis Microwave Communications and Electromagnetic
Applications Laboratory, Division of Telecommunications, Department of
Electronics, Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Crete – Chania
Branch, Romanou 3, Chalepa, 73133 Chania Crete, Greece,
Luige Vladareanu Institute of Solid Mechanics, Romanian Academy,
Bucharest, Romania, [email protected]
Mirela-Catrinel Voicu Faculty of Economic Sciences, West University of
Timisoara, Romania, [email protected]
Yu-Chen Weng Department of Industrial Technology Education, National
Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung City 806 Taiwan,
Chao-Chin Wu Department of Computer Science and Information
Engineering, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Chun-Hung Wu National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung City,
Taiwan (R.O.C.), [email protected]
Ming-Chih Wu Graduate Institute of Educational Technology, National
Pingtung University of Education, Taiwan (R.O.C.), [email protected]
Hsieh-Hua Yang Department of Health Care Administration, Chang Jung
Christian University, Kway Jen, Tainan, Taiwan (R.O.C),
Hung-Jen Yang Department of Industrial Technology Education, National
Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan (R.O.C),
A. Gokhan Yavuz Department of Computer Engineering, Yildiz Technical
University, Besiktas/Istanbul, Turkey [email protected]
Masahiko Yoshimoto Graduate School, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo,
657-8507 Japan, [email protected]
Jane You Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, [email protected]
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Jui-Chen Yu National Science and Technology Museum, #720 Ju-Ru 1st Rd.,Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C., [email protected]
Dongfeng Yuan School of Information Science and Engineering, ShandongUniversity, Jinan, 250100 China, [email protected]
Adrian Zafiu Department of Electronics, Communications and Computers,University of Pitesti, 110040 Pitesti Str. Targul din Vale, nr.1, Arges, Romania,[email protected], [email protected]
YiWen Zhao State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Shenyang Instituteof Automation, Academia Sinica, 110016 Shenyang, China
Sergio D. Zorzo Computer Science Department, Federal University of SaoCarlos, Rod. Washington Luis, km 235 – 13565-905, Sao Carlos – SP – Brasil,[email protected]
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