Abstract The key question of this paper is what will come as the next e-book after the present ebook, which is merely a digitalized version of the paper book? This paper extracts three elements of book, and categorizes three generations of books by news analyzing. This paper suggests a new e-book model that can be realized with the advance of media... The key question of this paper is what will come as the next e-book after the present ebook, which is merely a digitalized version of the paper book? This paper extracts three elements of book, and categorizes three generations of books by news analyzing. This paper suggests a new e-book model that can be realized with the advance of media technology, from the viewpoint of three elements of books. In particular, the Multi-Device e-Book prototype was made and simulated. This simulation suggests novel reading experience the new e-book will bring. Read More Read Less

Abstract This paper presents a new technique for region-based skin color classification using texture features. Texture features were extracted from a new introduced technique called Color Mapping Co-occurrence Matrix (CMCM). Thirteen Haralick’s texture features were extracted from CMCM at four directions and were used as input parameters for two skin color classifiers namely stepwise Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and Multi-Layer Perceptron... This paper presents a new technique for region-based skin color classification using texture features. Texture features were extracted from a new introduced technique called Color Mapping Co-occurrence Matrix (CMCM). Thirteen Haralick’s texture features were extracted from CMCM at four directions and were used as input parameters for two skin color classifiers namely stepwise Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) Neural Network. The performance indicator of each skin color classifier is measured based on true positive rate and false positive rate. The experimental results showed that the skin color classifier using input features from [RGB] CMCM at direction (1, 0o) provides the most superior performances as compared to other CMCM’s directions for both classifiers. It can also be concluded that MLP performs slightly better in classification performance as compared to stepwise LDA. Read More Read Less

Abstract In industrial fields, decision making systems are very helpful. At critical situations such as failure occurrence, human being could not make the right decision at reasonable delays. This paper dealt with the conception and the development of an on line fuzzy system that simulates an hydraulic process and detects its abnormal behavior. Fuzzy logic is used to analyze residues of... In industrial fields, decision making systems are very helpful. At critical situations such as failure occurrence, human being could not make the right decision at reasonable delays. This paper dealt with the conception and the development of an on line fuzzy system that simulates an hydraulic process and detects its abnormal behavior. Fuzzy logic is used to analyze residues of significant variables and to calculate certainty coefficient about generated alarms. Read More Read Less

Abstract The nature of information sources together with the multiple document description alternatives offered by these sources are permanently changing. This evolvement was accelerated by the expansion of the Web and, therefore has increased the volume of information available as XML documents. These latter are described through semantic-less tags (e.g., Content, Section, Paragraph). Despite the real and urgent need for a... The nature of information sources together with the multiple document description alternatives offered by these sources are permanently changing. This evolvement was accelerated by the expansion of the Web and, therefore has increased the volume of information available as XML documents. These latter are described through semantic-less tags (e.g., Content, Section, Paragraph). Despite the real and urgent need for a semantically exploitation of these XML documents, there are too few research issues tackling the semantic aspects of XML documents. Therefore, the development of automated tools able to determine semantic structures for XML documents is becoming a necessity and a challenge. In this paper, we propose a novel automated approach to create semantic structures for XML documents in order to perform semantic OLAP analyses. The software prototype developed to support this approach is also described. Read More Read Less

Abstract Networks are undoubtedly the effective and efficient source for communication and resource sharing that enables and facilitates both business and personal usage globally. The technologies which are associated with networks have opened the new doors to an increasing number of security threats from which the companies must protect their networks. To resolve this issue the network should be protected with... Networks are undoubtedly the effective and efficient source for communication and resource sharing that enables and facilitates both business and personal usage globally. The technologies which are associated with networks have opened the new doors to an increasing number of security threats from which the companies must protect their networks. To resolve this issue the network should be protected with well managed and well planned policies which can help to defend against the attacks and also troubleshoot the highlighted issues that are raised during the attacks. As the network is composed of the 7 OSI layers with each layer having its own sets of protocols, so if these layers are secured individually the risk of any kind of security breaches could be reduced. In this paper we have suggested policies for a network which is well managed and strongly configures the security on each OSI layer individually. This will defiantly help to secure the network and highlight the major issues of the network security and recovery plans. With the constraint that each layer has its own set of protocols that provide different functions and services so the security level must be different in each layer. In our work we have used and suggested different policies to secure the network by installing ASA routers, Firewalls, Secure blocks, SNMP applications, Password Authentications Radius servers and TACASA Server within the network and VPNS, SSH, Telnet, IP SEC tunnels for the remote access through these secure channels the data is encrypted in different techniques like MD5 (message digests 5) algorithms. In some layers of the network we have installed the IPS and IDS configured devices which secure the network as well as the data which is encrypted by these algorithms. Read More Read Less