Summary: Social networks are in the midst of a boom in terms of connecting and linking people. People are more active in this medium as compared to other mediums of communication, such as telephonic conversations or personal meetings. Conferring an estimate, Facebook holds 900,000,000 active users every month, while Twitter has 310,000,000 mon

Summary: Skyline queries attempts to return the superior data items from a database which are not being dominated by any other data items. In some real-world databases where data might not be complete, i.e. data items often have missing values in one or more dimensions, applying skyline algorithms designed for complete data is inappropriate du

Summary: The fundamental advantage of WSN is the ability to deploy them in an ad hoc manner. The clustering phenomenon plays an important role in the organization of the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), as well as dramatically affects network performance. For this reason, there has been a considerable amount of researches into ways of creating t

Summary: The evolution of mobile communication systems began with the 1st generation (1G) in the 1980s, the second generation Global System for Mobile Communications (2G-GSM) in the early 1990s, the third generation Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (3G-UMTS) in 2002, and the fourth generation Long Term Evolution (4G-LTE) technology i

Summary: There has been a great interest in manipulating and controlling quantum systems, since Shor proposed an efficient quantum algorithm for factorizing integers into the product of prime numbers by demonstrating that quantum computer can perform interesting computations much faster than any classical computer. Since then different algorit

Summary: Instructors’ use of learning management systems in higher education institutions is a central concern for researchers, academicians, and practitioners. Although learning management systems are emerging as a useful tool for facilitating teaching and learning activities, the number of users is not increasing as fast as expected. In th

Summary: Generally, Test First is a programming practice that needs a developer to design test cases at the beginning of a project that will lead to the failure of those test cases. The process then continues with the development of the production code which is written to match the test cases designed. This research is an empirical research th

Summary: Web Usage Mining (WUM) is the application of data mining methods in extracting potentially useful information from web usage data. Its application includes improving website design, personalised service, target marketing etc. Even though there has been an extensive study in WUM, lack of related product commercialisation indicates that

Summary: After 9/11, security and safety become one of the main concerns of governments around the world. Automatic accurate individual identification and authentication systems are becoming more critical in day-to-day activities like money transactions, access control, travel, medical services, and numerous others. The most prominent individu

Summary: Research-support librarians must make themselves visible in the processes surrounding academic research. They have to play their part in supporting learning, enhancing teaching, improving research, providing services and anticipating the needs of academic researchers. By helping to drive research, learning and teaching outcomes, libra