Saturday 4 June 2011

Counter-based Traffic Management Scheme for Vehicular Networks

Author Tarun Prakash, Ritu Tiwari
ISSN 2079-8407
On Pages 251-256
Volume No. 2
Issue No. 6
Issue Date June 01, 2011
Publishing Date June 01, 2011
Keywords Vehicular networks, Road congestion, Vehicular traffic, Vehicles-to-vehicles communication (V2V), Counter approach, Road Side Unit (RSU).


Abstract

Vehicles traffic congestion on the road is reflected as delays while traveling. This congestion has a number of negative effects such as energy consumption, wastage of time and increased tailpipes emission of idling vehicles probably bad for our health. Vehicular congestion has become the serious problem and it is getting worse day by day as the growth of the vehicles significantly increased....
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Markovian Method of Finding the Availability of Repairable Systems

Author M. Y. Ashkar
ISSN 2079-8407
On Pages 243-250
Volume No. 2
Issue No. 5
Issue Date May 01, 2011
Publishing Date May 01, 2011
Keywords Point of Availability, Markovian Method, Transition Matrix


Abstract

In this paper the transition probability matrix is used to tackle the problem of the availability of repairable systems. The method is applicable to a system governed by a two-parameter distribution for the life-time and repair-time....
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Extraction of ROI in Geographical Map Image

Author Mehnaz Tabassum, Mohammad Shorif Uddin
ISSN 2079-8407
On Pages 237-242
Volume No. 2
Issue No. 5
Issue Date May 01, 2011
Publishing Date May 01, 2011
Keywords k-means, image segmentation, ROI, map image processing, transportation network


Abstract

Extraction of Region of Interest (ROI) from geographical map image is an important task of document analysis and recognition. The extracted segments are applied to different machine vision and embedded system. The task is very complex because of having overlapping objects, intersected lines etc in map.
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E-Government Adoption in Developing Countries; the Case of Indonesia

Author Ali Rokhman
ISSN 2079-8407
On Pages 228-236
Volume No. 2
Issue No. 5
Issue Date May 01, 2011
Publishing Date May 01, 2011
Keywords e-government adoption, innovation diffusion, public services


Abstract

Huge benefits and usefulness that offered by e-government and increasing number of Internet users Indonesia has raised government of the Republic of Indonesia to issue several policies on e-government development. The government has obligation to deliver better and faster public service through e-government. ...
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