Showing papers in "IERI Procedia in 2014"

TL;DR: In this paper, adaptive beamforming techniques for smart antennas based upon Least Mean Squares, Sample Matrix Inversion (SMI), Recursive Least Squares (RLS) and Conjugate Gradient Method (CGM) are discussed and analyzed.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that the performance of KNN regression remains ordinarily unaffected with increasing number of interacting predictors and simultaneously provides superior performance over widely used multiple linear regression (MLR) is empirically established and validated.

TL;DR: The generalized Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is applied to increase the reliable lifespan of sensor nodes with energy constraints to extend the lifespan of WSNs.

TL;DR: Recurrent Cartesian Genetic Programming evolved Artificial Neural Network (RCGPANN) is demonstrated to produce computationally efficient and accurate model for forex prediction with an accuracy of as high as 98.872% for a period of 1000 days.

TL;DR: The role of e-procurement within a supply chain is discussed in this paper, showing the advantages and difficulties of implementing a systematic use of the Internet and defining the basic structure of an e-supply chain.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of FDI on the economic growth in China and the relevant factor for FDI during the period 1994-2010, based on dynamic panel data from 254 prefecture-level cities in China.

TL;DR: This paper will present the security limitations in the single Cloud and the usefulness of adopting rather Multi-Clouds strategy to reduce security risks, through the use of DepSky which is a virtual storage system that ensures better availability and high confidentiality of data.

TL;DR: SVM (Support Vector Machine), Multiple Linear Regression, Neural Network, and Bayesian Network based techniques are introduced, and some cases of their utilization are described.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of treatment on pyrolysis characteristic and the products evolution performance of rice straw had been investigated by thermogravimetric analyzer coupled with Fourier transform infrared spectrometry (TG-FTIR).

TL;DR: In the case of the Canary Islands, the challenge of developing a management model that solves the collection and treatment of new waste streams according to the EU, national and regional legislation is addressed in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the chemical composition of groundwater was found to have resulted from a complex of natural and anthropogenic factors, and a special attention was paid to main pollutants in the research area.

TL;DR: The gamma absorbed rate and annual effective dose equivalent were calculated so as to estimate the hazard index of the primordial radionuclides in Ewekoro cement factory soils using the gamma ray spectrometry method as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper built a model of cargo transport energy consumption, using the LMDI decomposition technique to analyze the influence factors of freight transport consumption of China in 2000-2012.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors employed GMM for the first time to estimate the dynamic relevance between real estate investment and the economic growth based on the panel data of 284 Chinese Prefecture cities from 1994 to 2010.

TL;DR: The evidence from the approach points a significant improvement in speed up and scale up with the response rate of more than 20 percent parallel efficiency on the Cloud in comparison to dedicated HPC cluster.

TL;DR: BrickWORK as mentioned in this paper is a software tool that allows one to analyze and compute, in 2D and 3D, the degree of safety and the vulnerability level of a masonry structure when it is subjected to vertical loads, foundations settlements and the horizontal action of an earthquake.

TL;DR: An approach to estimating workflow execution time based on stochastic estimates of tasks’ execution time is presented, which proposes a combination of Chebyshev-like distribution-free inequalities and distribution-based approaches to calculate better confidence bounds on runtime based on results of statistical tests.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a mathematical model of turbulent heat and mass transfer process occurring in the combustion chamber of SB-39 of Aksusskaya TPP for controlling the concentration of volatile and to recommend the optimize methods for burning process.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the distribution and risks of estrogenic compounds in rivers of southern Jiangsu, China and concluded that harmful ecological effects might happen in some rivers.

TL;DR: The basics of Quantum Computing and the existing Quantum Computing simulators are surveyed and the basic rules to ensure a proper translation of each capabilities from a classical system to a quantum system and vice versa are pointed out.

TL;DR: This paper presents an intelligent agent-based web mining model where users’ query is being searched by following existing traditional way, e.g. by Google and derives only those are the semantically related to users search parameter.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of added starch on flowability and pelletization of spruce sawdust, were prepared mixtures with addition of 0, 5, 10, 15 and 20% (w/w) starch.

TL;DR: A new optimal task selection scheme is introduced in to assist the scheduler when multiple local tasks are available for a node to improve the probability of percentage of local tasks launched for a job in future.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the environmental and health impacts of toxic emissions from the energy usage for cooking along with application of simple physics with detailed experimental studies on procedures of reducing "on-stove time" and cooking with minimum Energy (Heat) using a new innovative energy efficient cooking techniques with a simple inexpensive insulation box.

TL;DR: In this paper, the treatment ability of nanofiltration technology in printing and dyeing mercerization process alkali wastewater and investigated the effect of different pressures and alkalinities on membrane flux.

TL;DR: A method that combines Hidden Markov Random Fields (HMRF) and Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) to perform segmentation is presented and results show a supremacy of the HMRF-PSO method over threshold based techniques.

TL;DR: In this article, the formation processes and geological oddities that condition water uses in the volcanic islands, with a special spot for the underground resources, are described, and the transfer of technology and success cases on water resources between global volcanic islands is proposed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the potential of using renewable energy in the Canary Islands and gave conclusions, action paths and theoretical potentials, giving conclusions and action paths for the development of small power plants with similar fuels from agricultural activities, and these plants could supply rural areas that could have selfsufficiency energy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tested the performance of seven compost samples from six composting plants and found that the produced compost meets the legal requirements for application to agricultural land, it is suitable for application in the soil.

TL;DR: Design and performance analysis of fixed-point two sided Jacobi Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) algorithm on reconfigurable system using pipelined state-of-the-art CORDIC architecture and FPGA implementation with increasing dimension is found to be superior to its floating-point counterpart.