Yvette E. Gelogo

LotG: A Design of Adaptive u-learning System

The concept of ubiquitous computing and u-learning goes beyond portable computers. As new technologies evolve and more pervasive forms of technology emerge, computers will become ‘invisible’ and will be embedded in all aspects of our life. Wearable computers and embedded microchips are not as unbelievable or mind boggling. These innovations may have appeared strange and futuristic at first but, over time they blended into our everyday lives. In this age of progress and great change, we tend to easily adapt to the technologies and pedagogies that emerge. Ubiquitous technology and u-learning may be the new hope for the future of education. We want that learning doesn’t only happen in four corners of classroom, house or inside the building but learning should be anytime and anywhere with the help of technologies. In this paper, we proposed a concept of LotG (Learning on the Go), a design of adaptive u-learning system.

Mobile Component Integration Agent (MCIA) for Social Business Application

The Social Business solutions are developed through the integration of different components. Distributed software agents offer great promise in building an increasingly pervasive middleware and component technology. Agents are specialized kinds of components that offer great flexibility than traditional components. This study is focus in developing a software agent that could be used to assemble different type of frameworks which were written and built by different developers of different platforms. This paper proposed a Mobile Component Integration Agent (MCIA) for Social Business Application as a software development methodology to simply integrate the different technology building blocks into one web-based solution. We propose a systematic development process for software agent using component and UML. We first developed the agent components specification and modeled it. Based on this, we developed a mobile application for social business application as a case study. We integrate the developed software framework as a module in Drupal content management System.

Internet of Things (IoT) Driven U-Healthcare System Architecture

The IoT plays an important role in healthcare applications, from managing chronic diseases at one end of the spectrum to preventing disease at the other. IoT aims to provide means to access and control all kinds of ubiquitous and uniquely identifiable devices, facilities and assets. In this paper we discussed the background of Internet of Things (IoT) and its application to u-healthcare. This study aims to make mobile device gateway an integrated gateway which supports heterogeneous devices for u-healthcare convergence.

A Review on Facial Recognition for Online Learning Authentication

Nowadays, there is a vast proliferation of online learning which provides innovative methods for educating people and other online users. Online learning provides a diversity of effective and efficient benefits compared to traditional education. In addition, facial biometrics contributes competitive authentication methods and advances while ensuring reliability and effectiveness to e-learning systems. To make sure that the user is authentic, the facial biometrics is recommended. This will provide the effective authentication method for learners and reduce probability of cheating and other user authentication anomalies. This paper reviews on virtual classrooms, digital libraries and the basic approach on online learning assessment with key features of facial identification.

Automatically Extracting Embedded Schemas from Regular Applications

A RDBMS is usually accessed using blocking drivers like JDBC/ODBC which require clients to block and wait for the result of each query they issue. An asynchronous database access mechanism would eliminate the need for such blocking and greatly improve client performance. Thread-Per-Connection and Thread Pooling are two methods currently being used to provide this asynchrony. This is inefficient since a lot of memory and computing power is spent in creating, scheduling and switching multiple threads. By these methods we cannot show how asynchronous database access can be achieved with a single thread using the Fork-Join mechanism which employs Future objects in Java. So, in this paper we propose an approach for automatically extracting embedded schemas from regular applications, e.g., written in java and automatically computing how schemas change as applications evolve. To showcase our approach, we perform a long-term schema evolution study. Our platform can be used for performing long-term, large-scale embedded schema evolution studies that are potentially beneficial to dynamic updating and schema evolution researchers.