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Advanced Database Management System
February 18, 2010, 12:00am PST
Advanced Database Management System is a core course for students who are trying to acquire the Master of Science in Information Technology. This paper provides information about the Database...
Provided by National Open University of Nigeria
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Model-Based Security Analysis of the German Health Card Architecture
July 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The use of health-care information systems has experienced an explosive growth. However, this usage carries critical risks concerning information security that are particularly significant for...
Provided by Open University
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Usability Issues in Mobile-Wireless Information Systems
May 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Usability is one of the characteristics that compose the multi-dimension concept of information systems' quality. Technology improvements enable the building of information systems to be used "Any...
Provided by Open University of Israel
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Efficient Cancellable Biometric Key Generation Scheme for Cryptography
February 12, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper puts forth a fresh methodology for the se-cure storage of fingerprint template by generating Secured Feature Matrix and keys for cryptographic techniques applied for data Encryption or...
Provided by Indira Gandhi National Open University
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Virtual Microscope 1.1 (Mobile)
July 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Rock samples from a new Open University course in Geology are shown in this demonstration of the Virtual Microscope. Students on the course learn how to identify the spectrum of common...
Provided by The Open University
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Push Pull Services Offering SMS Based M-Banking System in Context of Bangladesh
June 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
m-Banking technology has become one of the most familiar banking features throughout the world. Nowadays millions of inhabitants of Bangladesh are within a network through mobile network coverage....
Provided by Arab Open University - Jordan
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Moving Toward M-Learning by Using WAP Technology
November 28, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates the move to a new era of learning by using mobility technology. M-learning is distinct in its focus on learning across contexts and learning with mobile devices. It takes...
Provided by Arab Open University - Jordan
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From XML to XML: The Why and How of Making the Biodiversity Literature Accessible to Researchers
May 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents the ABLE document collection, which consists of a set of annotated volumes of the Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). These were developed during the ongoing work...
Provided by Open University
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Java Programming Lab
January 18, 2010, 12:00am PST
Only at the age of ten, Java became master of programming languages. It's interesting success has made Java the fastest growing programming language ever. It is a bouquet of different programming...
Provided by Indira Gandhi National Open University
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Introduction to Java Beans
September 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Software has been evolving at a tremendous speed since its inception. It has gone through various phases of development from low level language implementation to high level language implementation...
Provided by Indira Gandhi National Open University
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Towards Data Fusion in a Multi-ontology Environment
April 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
With the growing amount of semantic data being published on the Web the problem of finding individuals in different datasets which correspond to the same entity is gaining importance. Given that...
Provided by Open University
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Dynamic Channel Allocation for User Demanded Packet Optimality-Focus on Network Initialization Procedure
November 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
The IEEE 802.16 Wireless MAN is a broadband wireless access network, which provides high-rate network connections to stationary sites, operates over greater distances, provides more bandwidth,...
Provided by Karnataka State Open University (KSOU), Mysore
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A Prototype for Educational Planning Using Course Constraints to Simulate Student Populations
March 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Distance learning universities usually afford their students the flexibility to advance their studies at their own pace. This can lead to a considerable fluctuation of student populations within a...
Provided by Hellenic Open University
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A Comparative Case Study of Code Reuse With Language Oriented Programming
March 30, 2011, 12:00am PDT
There is a gap between the ability to reuse high-level concepts in software design and the ability to reuse the code implementing them. Language Oriented Programming (LOP) is a software...
Provided by Open University of Israel
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MODELTALK: A Framework for Developing Domain Specific Executable Models
June 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Developing and maintaining complex, large-scale, product line of highly customized software systems is difficult and costly. Part of the difficulty is due to the need to communicate business...
Provided by Open University of Israel
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Examples as Interaction: On Humans Teaching a Computer to Play a Game
November 5, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper reviews an experiment in human-computer interaction, where interaction takes place when humans attempt to teach a computer to play a strategy board game. The authors show that while...
Provided by Hellenic Open University
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Mining the Successful Binary Combinations: Methodology and a Simple Case Study
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The importance of finding the characteristics leading to either a success or a failure is one of the driving forces of data mining. The various application areas of finding success/failure factors...
Provided by Open University of Israel
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Developing an Online Library System for AOU as a Knowledge Management Tool
May 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
From an educational perspective, today's world of information technology has two of the most growing fields, Knowledge Management (KM) and e-learning. In this paper, the need for developing an...
Provided by Arab Open University - Jordan
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Towards Safer Composition
May 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Determining whether a set of features can be composed, or safe composition, is a hard problem in software product line engineering because the number of feature combinations can be exponential....
Provided by Open University
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Protocol Modelling Semantics for Embedded Systems
May 26, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The properties of a domain oriented modeling approach or language are determined by the dominant semantics of the domain. A significant subclass that needs particular attention, because of its...
Provided by Open University
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Software
ChineseChars 1.2 (Mobile)
September 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This application teaches you the basic rules in writing Chinese characters using the first 20 characters, some basic greetings and numbers introduced in the Open University's Beginners' Chinese...
Provided by The Open University
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PhotoFit Me 1.1 (Mobile)
April 7, 2011, 12:00am PDT
PhotoFit MeWould you be a good eyewitness? Now is your chance to find out with this free app from The Open University.Create a PhotoFit of yourself, your friends or take our celebrity challenge...
Provided by The Open University
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Our Story 1.1 (Mobile)
May 16, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Reading, even in the digital age, is probably one of the most important skills that children acquire. It can be an important source of pleasure which also develops vital language and social...
Provided by The Open University
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A New Algorithm for Call Setup From a Fixed Wireline to a Roaming Mobile Station in an Adjacent Network
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The objective of the paper is to propose a new algorithm for call setup from a fixed wireline to a roaming Mobile Station in an adjacent network. Hence, forth, fixed wireline is referred to as...
Provided by Indira Gandhi National Open University
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Credit Constraints, Heterogeneity Of Firms And International Trade: An Empirical Analysis Of Exports Determinants For India
January 25, 2010, 12:00am PST
In India a number of studies have been conducted determining the factors responsible for export determinants. The factors have varied both from demand and supply side and include among others...
Provided by Indira Gandhi National Open University
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RDF and XML: Towards a Unified Query Layer
May 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
One of the requirements of current Semantic Web applications is to deal with heterogeneous data. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is the W3C recommended standard for data representation,...
Provided by Open University
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Role of ANN in Secured Wireless Multicast Routing during Dynamic Channel Allocation for User Demanded Packet Optimality
July 27, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The application of Artificial Neural Network (ANN's to mobile Ad Hock Network) for multicasting where the problem is to find an efficient route to transmit packets over many nodes in the network....
Provided by Karnataka State Open University (KSOU), Mysore
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Inapproximability of Survivable Networks
December 30, 2008, 12:00am PST
In the Survivable Network Design Problem (SNDP) one seeks to find a minimum cost subgraph that satisfies prescribed node-connectivity requirements. The authors give a novel approximation ratio...
Provided by Open University of Israel
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Distributed Primal-Dual Approximation Algorithms for Network Design Problems
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Distributed approximation algorithms aim to establish a trade off between optimality of a distributed algorithm solution for the communication complexity - number of communication rounds and...
Provided by Open University of Israel
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Placement of Entities in Object-Oriented Systems by Means of a Single-Objective Genetic Algorithm
May 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Behavior and state allocation in object-oriented systems is a rather non-trivial task that is hard to master and automate since it is guided by conceptual criteria and therefore relies on human...
Provided by Hellenic Open University
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OUNews 1.1 (Mobile)
November 4, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Keep up-to-date with information from around The Open University with the OU News app. This application makes the latest OU news available from Platform (the OU's student and alumni community...
Provided by The Open University
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A Domain-Specific Language for Cryptographic Protocols Based on Streams
October 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Developing security-critical systems is difficult and there are many well-known examples of security weaknesses exploited in practice. Thus a sound methodology supporting secure systems...
Provided by The Open University
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StudyAtOU 2.0 (Mobile)
November 23, 2010, 12:00am PST
Want to get a qualification that will help you develop or change your career? The Open University is the UK's largest university for part-time higher education providing the flexibility, the...
Provided by The Open University
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Linked Services and the Future Internet
December 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
It has often been argued that Web services would have a tremendous impact on the Internet, as a core enabling technology supporting a highly efficient service-based economy at a global scale....
Provided by Open University
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Security and Dependability Engineering
December 19, 2008, 12:00am PST
The current state of the art in security-critical ambient systems is far from satisfactory: new security vulnerabilities are discovered on an almost daily basis. To improve this situation, there...
Provided by Open University
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Traceability for the Maintenance of Secure Software
June 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Traceability links among different software engineering artifacts make explicit how a software system was implemented to accommodate its requirements. For secure and dependable software system...
Provided by Open University
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Model-Based Run-Time Checking of Security Permissions Using Guarded Objects
February 7, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors deal with the application of run-time checking to enforce requirements which, because of their nature, cannot be enforced statically. More specifically, it deals with...
Provided by Open University
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Developing Secure Embedded Systems: Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
February 25, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors give an overview over the challenges in developing secure embedded systems and show how to use the approach of Model-Based Security Engineering (MBSE) to address them. In MBSE,...
Provided by Open University
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Model-Based Quality Assurance of Automotive Software
November 29, 2008, 12:00am PST
Software in embedded (e.g. automotive) systems requires a high level of reliability. Model-based development techniques are increasingly used to reach this goal, but so far there is relatively...
Provided by Open University
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Automated Analysis of Permission-Based Security Using UMLsec
January 4, 2008, 12:00am PST
To guarantee the security of computer systems, it is necessary to define security permissions to restrict the access to the systems' resources. These permissions enforce certain restrictions based...
Provided by Open University
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Routing Security in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
May 2, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The role of infrastructureless Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) in ubiquitous networks is outlined. In a MANET there are no dedicated routers and all network nodes must contribute to routing....
Provided by The Open University
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CORE Research Mobile 1.0 (iOS)
May 7, 2012, 12:00am PDT
CORE (http://core.kmi.open.ac.uk) is a system that aims to facilitate free access to scholarly publications. CORE provides access to millions of scholarly articles distributed across many Open...
Provided by The Open University
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Some Notes on Models and Modelling
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Analytical models are a fundamental tool in the development of computer-based systems of every kind: their essential purpose is to support human understanding and reasoning in development. To...
Provided by The Open University
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A New OTIS-Arrangment Interconnection Network
October 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose a new interconnection network called Optical Transpose Interconnection Systems (OTIS) Arrangement Network which is constructed from the cross product of the...
Provided by Arab Open University - Jordan
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Tracing and Validating Goal Aspects
June 19, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Aspects promote a clear separation of concerns so that tangled and scattered concerns are modularized throughout software development. The authors propose a framework to trace aspects identified...
Provided by The Open University
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Ontology Selection: Ontology Evaluation on the Real Semantic Web
May 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The increasing number of ontologies on the Web and the appearance of large scale ontology repositories has brought the topic of ontology selection in the focus of the semantic web research agenda....
Provided by The Open University
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Tools for Traceable Security Verification
August 2, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Dependable systems evolution has been identified by the UK Computing Research Committee (UKCRC) as one of the current grand challenges for computer science. The authors present work towards...
Provided by Open University
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Model-Based Security Engineering of Distributed Information Systems Using UMLsec
February 11, 2007, 12:00am PST
Given the explosive growth of digitally stored information in modern enterprises, distributed information systems together with search engines are increasingly used in companies. By enabling the...
Provided by Open University
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Automated Analysis of Permission-Based Security Using UMLsec
January 4, 2008, 12:00am PST
To guarantee the security of computer systems, it is necessary to define security permissions to restrict the access to the systems' resources. These permissions enforce certain restrictions based...
Provided by Open University
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White Papers
Model-Based Quality Assurance of Automotive Software
November 29, 2008, 12:00am PST
Software in embedded (e.g. automotive) systems requires a high level of reliability. Model-based development techniques are increasingly used to reach this goal, but so far there is relatively...
Provided by Open University
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White Papers
Developing Secure Embedded Systems: Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
February 25, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors give an overview over the challenges in developing secure embedded systems and show how to use the approach of Model-Based Security Engineering (MBSE) to address them. In MBSE,...
Provided by Open University
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White Papers
Model-Based Run-Time Checking of Security Permissions Using Guarded Objects
February 7, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors deal with the application of run-time checking to enforce requirements which, because of their nature, cannot be enforced statically. More specifically, it deals with...
Provided by Open University
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White Papers
Traceability for the Maintenance of Secure Software
June 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Traceability links among different software engineering artifacts make explicit how a software system was implemented to accommodate its requirements. For secure and dependable software system...
Provided by Open University
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White Papers
Security and Dependability Engineering
December 19, 2008, 12:00am PST
The current state of the art in security-critical ambient systems is far from satisfactory: new security vulnerabilities are discovered on an almost daily basis. To improve this situation, there...
Provided by Open University
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White Papers
Linked Services and the Future Internet
December 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
It has often been argued that Web services would have a tremendous impact on the Internet, as a core enabling technology supporting a highly efficient service-based economy at a global scale....
Provided by Open University
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Software
StudyAtOU 2.0 (Mobile)
November 23, 2010, 12:00am PST
Want to get a qualification that will help you develop or change your career? The Open University is the UK's largest university for part-time higher education providing the flexibility, the...
Provided by The Open University
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Chinese Characters First Steps. 2.2 (Mobile)
June 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Learning to read and write Chinese characters presents two challenges to both non-native learners as well as Chinese children who first start learning characters: - the complexity of characters,...
Provided by The Open University Worldwide
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White Papers
A Domain-Specific Language for Cryptographic Protocols Based on Streams
October 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Developing security-critical systems is difficult and there are many well-known examples of security weaknesses exploited in practice. Thus a sound methodology supporting secure systems...
Provided by The Open University
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Software
OUNews 1.1 (Mobile)
November 4, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Keep up-to-date with information from around The Open University with the OU News app. This application makes the latest OU news available from Platform (the OU's student and alumni community...
Provided by The Open University
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White Papers
Placement of Entities in Object-Oriented Systems by Means of a Single-Objective Genetic Algorithm
May 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Behavior and state allocation in object-oriented systems is a rather non-trivial task that is hard to master and automate since it is guided by conceptual criteria and therefore relies on human...
Provided by Hellenic Open University
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White Papers
Distributed Primal-Dual Approximation Algorithms for Network Design Problems
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Distributed approximation algorithms aim to establish a trade off between optimality of a distributed algorithm solution for the communication complexity - number of communication rounds and...
Provided by Open University of Israel
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White Papers
Inapproximability of Survivable Networks
December 30, 2008, 12:00am PST
In the Survivable Network Design Problem (SNDP) one seeks to find a minimum cost subgraph that satisfies prescribed node-connectivity requirements. The authors give a novel approximation ratio...
Provided by Open University of Israel
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White Papers
Role of ANN in Secured Wireless Multicast Routing during Dynamic Channel Allocation for User Demanded Packet Optimality
July 27, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The application of Artificial Neural Network (ANN's to mobile Ad Hock Network) for multicasting where the problem is to find an efficient route to transmit packets over many nodes in the network....
Provided by Karnataka State Open University (KSOU), Mysore
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Devolve Me 1.3 (Mobile)
November 17, 2009, 12:00am PST
Ever wondered what you would've looked like as an early human? Well now's your chance to find out with The Open University's Devolve Me app...Simply upload your photo and see yourself travel back...
Provided by The Open University
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White Papers
RDF and XML: Towards a Unified Query Layer
May 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
One of the requirements of current Semantic Web applications is to deal with heterogeneous data. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is the W3C recommended standard for data representation,...
Provided by Open University
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White Papers
Credit Constraints, Heterogeneity Of Firms And International Trade: An Empirical Analysis Of Exports Determinants For India
January 25, 2010, 12:00am PST
In India a number of studies have been conducted determining the factors responsible for export determinants. The factors have varied both from demand and supply side and include among others...
Provided by Indira Gandhi National Open University
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White Papers
A New Algorithm for Call Setup From a Fixed Wireline to a Roaming Mobile Station in an Adjacent Network
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The objective of the paper is to propose a new algorithm for call setup from a fixed wireline to a roaming Mobile Station in an adjacent network. Hence, forth, fixed wireline is referred to as...
Provided by Indira Gandhi National Open University
-
Software
Our Story 1.1 (Mobile)
May 16, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Reading, even in the digital age, is probably one of the most important skills that children acquire. It can be an important source of pleasure which also develops vital language and social...
Provided by The Open University
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Software
PhotoFit Me 1.1 (Mobile)
April 7, 2011, 12:00am PDT
PhotoFit MeWould you be a good eyewitness? Now is your chance to find out with this free app from The Open University.Create a PhotoFit of yourself, your friends or take our celebrity challenge...
Provided by The Open University
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Software
ChineseChars 1.2 (Mobile)
September 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This application teaches you the basic rules in writing Chinese characters using the first 20 characters, some basic greetings and numbers introduced in the Open University's Beginners' Chinese...
Provided by The Open University
-
White Papers
Protocol Modelling Semantics for Embedded Systems
May 26, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The properties of a domain oriented modeling approach or language are determined by the dominant semantics of the domain. A significant subclass that needs particular attention, because of its...
Provided by Open University
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White Papers
Towards Safer Composition
May 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Determining whether a set of features can be composed, or safe composition, is a hard problem in software product line engineering because the number of feature combinations can be exponential....
Provided by Open University
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Software
Virtual Microscope 1.1 (Mobile)
July 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Rock samples from a new Open University course in Geology are shown in this demonstration of the Virtual Microscope. Students on the course learn how to identify the spectrum of common...
Provided by The Open University
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White Papers
Developing an Online Library System for AOU as a Knowledge Management Tool
May 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
From an educational perspective, today's world of information technology has two of the most growing fields, Knowledge Management (KM) and e-learning. In this paper, the need for developing an...
Provided by Arab Open University - Jordan
-
White Papers
Mining the Successful Binary Combinations: Methodology and a Simple Case Study
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The importance of finding the characteristics leading to either a success or a failure is one of the driving forces of data mining. The various application areas of finding success/failure factors...
Provided by Open University of Israel
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White Papers
Examples as Interaction: On Humans Teaching a Computer to Play a Game
November 5, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper reviews an experiment in human-computer interaction, where interaction takes place when humans attempt to teach a computer to play a strategy board game. The authors show that while...
Provided by Hellenic Open University
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White Papers
MODELTALK: A Framework for Developing Domain Specific Executable Models
June 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Developing and maintaining complex, large-scale, product line of highly customized software systems is difficult and costly. Part of the difficulty is due to the need to communicate business...
Provided by Open University of Israel
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White Papers
A Comparative Case Study of Code Reuse With Language Oriented Programming
March 30, 2011, 12:00am PDT
There is a gap between the ability to reuse high-level concepts in software design and the ability to reuse the code implementing them. Language Oriented Programming (LOP) is a software...
Provided by Open University of Israel
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White Papers
A Prototype for Educational Planning Using Course Constraints to Simulate Student Populations
March 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Distance learning universities usually afford their students the flexibility to advance their studies at their own pace. This can lead to a considerable fluctuation of student populations within a...
Provided by Hellenic Open University
-
White Papers
Dynamic Channel Allocation for User Demanded Packet Optimality-Focus on Network Initialization Procedure
November 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
The IEEE 802.16 Wireless MAN is a broadband wireless access network, which provides high-rate network connections to stationary sites, operates over greater distances, provides more bandwidth,...
Provided by Karnataka State Open University (KSOU), Mysore
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