International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE, ISSN: 2088-8708, a SCOPUS indexed Journal, SNIP: 1.001; SJR: 0.296; CiteScore: 0.99; SJR & CiteScore Q2 on both of the Electrical & Electronics Engineering, and Computer Science) is the official publication of the Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES). The journal is open to submission from scholars and experts in the wide areas of electrical, electronics, instrumentation, control, telecommunication and computer engineering from the global world.
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Intranet Design Strategies
Rohith Roshan Devu;
Subba Rao Katta
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 6, No 3: June 2016
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v6i3.pp936-944
The intranets have been deployed extensively in large and small-scale organizations. It has grown rapidly by offering features like collaborative communication channels, easing the business processes etc. Typically organizations faced difficulties but they are prevalent while implementation. But the organizations lack clear strategies in designing intranet. It leads to loss on investment, time and productivity, a complete intranet failure. Previous studies mainly focused on management, security and usage etc. This paper presents 9 design strategies for intranet addressing system oriented plan that can be applied in real-time to achieve improvement in organizational performance.
Synthesis and Implementation (In STM8S) of Phased Circular Antenna Arrays Using Taguchi Method
Nadhem Nemri;
Hani Wadie Badri;
Ridha Ghayoula;
Hichem Trabelsi;
Ali Gharsallah
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 6, No 3: June 2016
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v6i3.pp1077-1085
This paper is aimed at assessing the effectiveness of the phase-only control strategy based on a customized Taguchi method when applied to Uniform Circular Arrays (UCA). The objective of this paper consists to contribute the main lobe optimization of the smart antenna using Taguchi's method. We used the cited method in order to determine phase's weights for each element of the circular antenna array in order to steer the principal lobe from -65° to 65° covering all angular space. After that, we made an electronic platform using the microcontroller STM8S in order to implement an intelligent system. The architecture of this work had used a digital phase shifters, a demodulator AD8347, a modulator AD8349, an array antenna, cards STM8S-Discovery.
A Numerical Model of Joule Heating in Piezoresistive Pressure Sensors
Abdelaziz Beddiaf;
Fouad Kerrour;
Salah Kemouche
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 6, No 3: June 2016
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v6i3.pp1223-1232
Thermal drift caused by Joule heating in piezoresistive pressure sensors affects greatly the results in the shift of the offset voltage of the such sensors. The study of the thermal behavior of these sensors is essential to define the parameters that cause the output characteristic drift. The impact of Joule heating in a pressure sensor has been studied. The study involves the solution of heat transfer equation considering the conduction in Cartesian coordinates for the transient regime using Finite Difference Method. We determine how the temperature affects the sensor during the applying a supply voltage. For this, the temperature rise generated by Joule heating in piezoresistors has been calculated for different geometrical parameters of the sensor as well as for different operating time. It is observed that Joule heating leads to important rise temperature in the piezoresistor and, hence, causes drift in the output voltage variations in a sensor during its operated in a prolonged time. This paper put emphasis on the geometric influence parameters on these characteristics to optimize the sensor performance. The optimization of geometric parameters of sensor allows us to reducing the internal heating effect. Results showed also that low bias voltage should be applied for reducing Joule heating.
Review of Software Fault-Tolerance Methods for Reliability Enhancement of Real-Time Software Systems
Anjushi Verma;
Ankur Ghartaan;
Tirthankar Gayen
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 6, No 3: June 2016
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v6i3.pp1031-1037
Real time systems are those systems which must guarantee to response correctly within strict time constraint or within deadline. Failures can arise from both functional errors as well as timing bugs. Hence, it is necessary to provide temporal correctness of programs used in real time applications in addition to providing functional correctness. Although, there are several researches concerned with achieving fault tolerance in the presence of various functional and operational errors but many of them did not address the problem concerned with the timing bugs which is an important issue in real time systems. As for real time systems, many times it becomes a necessity for a given service to be delivered within the specified time deadline. Therefore, this paper reviews the existing approaches from the perspective of real time systems to analyse the shortcomings of these approaches to present a versatile and cost effective approach in the presence of timing bugs for providing fault tolerance to enhance the reliability of the real time software applications.
Walsh Transform based Feature vector generation for Image Database Classification
Jagruti Ketan Save
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 6, No 3: June 2016
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v6i3.pp1176-1182
Thousands of images are generated everyday, which implies the need to build an easy, faster, automated classifier to classify and organize these images. Classification means selecting an appropriate class for a given image from a set of pre-defined classes. The main objective of this work is to explore feature vector generation using Walsh transform for classification. In the first method, we applied Walsh transform on the columns of an image to generate feature vectors. In second method, Walsh wavelet matrix is used for feature vector generation. In third method we proposed to apply vector quantization (VQ) on feature vectors generated by earlier methods. It gives better accuracy, fast computation and less storage space as compared with the earlier methods. Nearest neighbor and nearest mean classification algorithms are used to classify input test image. Image database used for the experimentation contains 2000 images. All these methods generate large number of outputs for single test image by considering four similarity measures, six sizes of feature vector, two ways of classification, four VQ techniques, three sizes of codebook, and five combinations of wavelet transform matrix generation. We observed improvement in accuracy from 63.22% to 74% (55% training data) through the series of techniques.
Rotational Load Flow Method for Radial Distribution Systems
Diego Issicaba;
Jorge Coelho
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 6, No 3: June 2016
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v6i3.pp1344-1352
This paper introduces a modified edition of classical Cespedes' load flow method to radial distribution system analysis. In the developed approach, a distribution network is modeled in different complex reference systems and reduced to a set of connected equivalent subnetworks, each without resistance, while graph topology and node voltage solution are preserved. Active power losses are then not dissipated in the modeled subnetworks and active power flows can be obtained as a consequence of radiality. Thus, the proposed method preprocesses a series of variable transformations concomitant to an iterative algorithm using a forward-backward sweep to arrive at the load flow solution. The proposed approach has been tested using literature and actual distribution networks, and efficiency improvements are verified in comparison to Cespedes' load flow method.
A Thorough Insight to Techniques for Performance Evaluation in Biological Sensors
Subhas Meti;
V G Sangam
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 6, No 3: June 2016
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v6i3.pp986-994
The biological sensor has played a significant and contributory role in the area of medical science and healthcare industry. Owing to critical healthcare usage, it is essential that such type of sensors should be highly robust, sustainable under the adverse condition and highly fault tolerant against any forms of possible system failure in future. A massive amount of research work has been done in the area of the sensor network. However, works done in biological sensors are quite less in number. Hence, this manuscript highlights all the significant research work towards the line of discussion for evaluating the effective in the techniques for performance evaluation of biological sensor. The study finally explores the problems and discusses it under research gap. Finally, the manuscript gives highlights of the future direction of the work to solve the research gap explored from the proposed review of the existing system.
DNA Bar-coding: A Novel Approach for Identifying an Individual Using Extended Levenshtein Distance Algorithm and STR analysis
Likhitha C P;
Ninitha P;
Kanchana V
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 6, No 3: June 2016
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v6i3.pp1133-1139
DNA bar-coding is a technique that uses the short DNA nucleotide sequences from the standard genome of the species in order to find and group the species to which it belongs to. The species are identified by their DNA nucleotide sequences in the same way the items are recognized and billed in the supermarket using barcode scanner to scan the Universal Product Code of the items. Two items may look same to the untrained eye, but in both cases the barcodes are distinct. It was possible to create DNA-barcodes to characterize species by analysing DNA samples from fish, birds, mammals, plants, and invertebrates using Smith-waterman and Needleman-Wunsch algorithm. In this work we are creating human DNA barcode and implementing Extended Levenshtein distance algorithm along with STR analysis that uses less computation time compared to the previously used algorithms to measure the differential distance between the two DNA nucleotide sequences through which an individual can be identified.
Mitigating Electricity a Price Spike under Pre-Cooling Method
Marwan Marwan;
Pirman Pirman
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 6, No 3: June 2016
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v6i3.pp1281-1293
The growing demand for air-conditioning is one of the largest contributors to Australia overall electricity consumption. This has started to create peak load supply problems for some electricity utilities particularly in Queensland. This research aimed to develop a consumer demand side response model to assist electricity consumers to mitigate peak demand on the electrical network. The proposed model allows consumers to independently and proactively manage air conditioning peak electricity demand. The main contribution of this research is how to show consumers can mitigate peak demands by optimizing energy costs for air conditioning in a several cases such as no spike and spike considering to the probability spike cases may only occur in the middle of the day for half hour, one hour and one and half hour spikes. This model also investigates how air conditioning applied a pre-cooling method when there is a substantial risk of a price spike. The results indicate the potential of the scheme to achieve energy savings and reducing electricity bills (costs) to the consumer. The model was tested with the Queensland electricity market data from Australian Energy Market Operator and Brisbane temperature data from Bureau statistic during hot days.
Fast document summarization using locality sensitive hashing and memory access efficient node ranking
Ercan Canhasi
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 6, No 3: June 2016
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v6i3.pp945-954
Text modeling and sentence selection are the fundamental steps of a typical extractive document summarization algorithm. The common text modeling method connects a pair of sentences based on their similarities. Even thought it can effectively represent the sentence similarity graph of given document(s) its big drawback is a large time complexity of $O(n^2)$, where n represents the number of sentences. The quadratic time complexity makes it impractical for large documents. In this paper we propose the fast approximation algorithms for the text modeling and the sentence selection. Our text modeling algorithm reduces the time complexity to near-linear time by rapidly finding the most similar sentences to form the sentences similarity graph. In doing so we utilized Locality-Sensitive Hashing, a fast algorithm for the approximate nearest neighbor search. For the sentence selection step we propose a simple memory-access-efficient node ranking method based on the idea of scanning sequentially only the neighborhood arrays. Experimentally, we show that sacrificing a rather small percentage of recall and precision in the quality of the produced summary can reduce the quadratic to sub-linear time complexity. We see the big potential of proposed method in text summarization for mobile devices and big text data summarization for internet of things on cloud. In our experiments, beside evaluating the presented method on the standard general and query multi-document summarization tasks, we also tested it on few alternative summarization tasks including general and query, timeline, and comparative summarization.