International Journal of Scientific Research in Information Systems and Engineeing

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Authors: Ndubuisi Divine Utazi

This paper examines the energy use pattern of the staff lodges and student hostels of Madonna University Nigeria, Akpugo Campus in a bid to achieve energy efficiency. The electricity utility bills of 2 years (2013 – 2015) were extracted from the University to complement data collected from walk-through and comprehensive audits. Investigations show that 57% of the respondents are not aware of energy efficiency; 87.6% of the total number of the respondents sampled use incandescent light bulbs in their rooms while 12.5% use compact fluorescent lights. Out of the number, only 39.8% remember to turn off lights when leaving a room while 60.2% do not, thus suggesting the need for awareness creation for energy efficiency promotion in the hostels/lodges in addition to replacement of the inefficient incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent lights. An internal energy policy, awareness creation and establishment of an energy management unit in the University system are some of the measures that can guarantee good savings.

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Authors: Ercan Semerci, Huseyin Kusetogullari, Öner Tekin

In this paper, centralized regional-based decision making and management system is proposed for effective advertisement on the billboards in the urban areas. The system will be used in the advertising industry and will analyze big data obtained through the social media (e. g., Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc.) for decision making on corresponding advertisements. Nowadays, advertisements have been published and displayed on digital billboards randomly and most of those adverts don’t address to the people who are shopping or travelling in the regional areas. This will cause several issues such as visual pollution, non-effective advertisement visualization, cost consumption etc. With the proposed approach, the data entered on the social media by the people in regional areas will be obtained for analyzing the requirements and desires of the community. Thus, advertisements will be chosen based on the social demand in specific regional areas and the selected advertisements addressing to the people will be displayed on the digital billboards. Based on the people’s demand in the urban areas, different advertisement may be published for each region. Also, duration and frequency of the advertisements on digital billboards may also be organized depending on the needs and behaviors of people in the public areas.

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Authors: Ezurike Okechukwu B.O, Okoronkwo Chukwunenye. A, Okwu Modestus. O

In a bid to make a difference in the service industry, XRIKE decided to embark on an innovative approach that would satisfy and add value to the customers. This project was done to ascertain the profitability of a business venture and things to be considered before going into the food business. Some of the factors include; rates of returns, investment appraisals, payback periods, cash flows to mention but a few. The purpose of the proposed business is to provide food services to customers, create employments, and provide an innovative approach to meeting customer’s food demands, making profits while satisfying them optimally without quality being compromised. This paper dealt with so many questions an investor should ask before embarking on any investment, provided some examples and some calculations for investment analysis and conclusions.

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Authors: Hamit Erdem, Ali Berkol, Mustafa Sert

The Fuzzy Logic (FL), Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) are known as universal function approximator which has been used in various applications. In general, a function approximator needs to select a function or a mapping algorithm among the well-defined methods that closely capture the input – output variables relation. This study compares the application of aforementioned artificial intelligence approximators by using two non-linear functions. The curve-fitting capability of approximators has been compared considering three main metrics. These metrics are; fitting accuracy (Root Mean Square Error (RMS)), memory occupation, program code size and running time. Additionally, the parameters which affect the performance of each system have been investigated in details. The entire analysis has been developed and accomplished by MATLAB.

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Authors: ERBUG CELEBI, OLUWAJANA DOKUN

In this study we have evaluated the existing methods of automatic document summarization system and we proposed two approaches in English documents that are based on Latent semantic analysis. Summary selection four existing and two proposed methods for automatic summarization are also used. The evaluated methods that are used include Gong and Liu, Steinberger and Jezek, Murray, Renal & Chaletta, Cross approach and the proposed methods are avesvd and ravesvd. Latent semantic analysis (LSA) is a technique that uses vectorial semantics, for analyzing relationships between a set of documents and the terms they contain by producing a set of concepts related to the documents and terms. LSA brings out latent relationships within a collection of documents rather than looking at each document isolated from the others. It looks at all the documents as a whole and the terms they contain to identify relationships between them. We have compared the performance of our systems with existing systems in the literature which was developed for this document summarization. The document set used for evaluation of our system is the Document Understanding Conferences (DUC) datasets are document summaries on corpus DUC-2002 and 2004. The evaluation and comparisons of the summaries are performed with ROUGE-L.

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Authors: Yohanna Panshak, Yohanna Panshak

This research seeks to evaluate Kuhn’s idea of historical development of science in terms of paradigm guiding scientific knowledge and how it helps in explaining the revolution in cashless payment systems around the globe. Kuhn demonstrates science as discontinuous process with a set of alternating normal and revolutionary phases in which communities of authorities in a particular field are pushed into uncertainty. Therefore, the progress of science is both cumulative in periods of normal science and non cumulative during revolution contrary to older scientific and philosophical perspectives. Thomas Kuhn philosophy of paradigm shifts clearly illustrates the dramatic revolution and progress in payment system from barter-paper/notes to the present cash-less payment system. This research submits that the world will continue to see progress toward a cashless/paperless society, in both the advanced and developing. However, the total acceptance and switch to cash-less payment system would on the other hand, would be the function of the country’s precise, cultural, political and socio economic metrics and characteristics. As Kuhn noted, there will always be unresolved crisis left by a paradigm. These unaddressed problems in our contemporary world could be seen in terms of proliferation of cyber crime, sovereignty of Central Banks in monetary control, and how to integrate the developing regions in this transformation. Keeping pace with current revolution would never be an option to economies desirous of efficient and sound development.

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Authors: Suat Özdemir, Metin DEMİRTAŞ, Serkan AYDIN

Power quality is an important criterion in electrical power systems. Harmonics negatively affect the power quality. Harmonic analysis and estimation have been made with various methods in the literature. In this study Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Curve Fitting (CF) and linear regression (LR) models have been developed for the estimation of the values. Some of the measured data have been used to generate models, the remaining part have been used to test the model. Estimation results obtained from the ANN, CF, LR models have been compared each other. Estimated values obtained from ANN, CF, LR models were close to real values so that ANN, CF, LR models can be used for the estimations. With this way, planning of the power systems can be made to increase the power quality in electrical power systems.

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Authors: Yusuf Sait Erdem, Feyza Galip, Ibrahim Furkan Ince, Huseyin Kusetogullari, Md. Haidar Sharif

Sundry years ago people played video games for fun merely. Nowadays, video games are correlated to education, medicine, and re- searches. In this paper, we have addressed a computer game which takes input from a video camera by detecting the user looking direction as well as eye gestures. Since webcam is easily accessible, we have carefully weighed it as a video input device. We have tried to use the eye movements as the human computer interaction (HCI) tool, which would be used instead of a mouse. In general, this furnishes much easier and faster interac- tion with computer for everyone, especially elders, children, and disabled people who cannot use mice. We have also evinced that eye tracking and eye gaze estimation can be very easy and fast way to obtain HCI. Experimental results show the potential usages of our proposed game.

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Authors: Amir Yavariabdi, Huseyin Kusetogullari, Ali Bulent Usakli

This paper proposes a new unsupervised satellite change de- tection method, which is invariant to shadow and shading effects. To achieve this, firstly, the RGB satellite images are transformed into spher- ical colour space to remove illumination artifacts. Then, a new unsuper- vised change detection is used. The resultant optimal binary change mask is obtained by minimisation a mean square error based cost function us- ing Binary Particle Swarm Optimisation (BPSO). The proposed method is compared with three other satellite change detection methods and the results demonstrate that our method provides a significant improvement of obtaining the changed and unchanged regions on the difference image. The total errors show that our method at least 39.62% better than the best compared method and are utmost 176.18% better than the worst one.

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Authors: Burak Sarp, Tolga Karalar, Huseyin Kusetogullari

This paper presents a real time smart door system for home security. Most of the proposed smart home systems try to bring solutions for this security problem, but many of those systems use numerous sensor devices. With the increasing security issues, it is necessary to use new technologies. Video based smart home security systems have recently become an efficient approach with the development of video technology and Raspberry Pi is a strong and reliable embedded system device for the complex and challenging tasks. Using these both technologies in the proposed system will bring several advantages in providing safety and security in terms of visualizing and identifying people who visit the home. In the overall proposed system, there will be two different significant techniques to provide home security. One is to use video technology to see the front door in real time even home is empty and another is to provide communication between the door system and smart phone device. By connecting the smart door system with the mobile phone through the cellular network, the owner of the house may have several opportunities such as controlling the house, getting instant video streaming, receiving and sending message, talking to the visitor and starting the alarm system. The experimental results indicate that the proposed system may provide the consistent support and assistance for safe and secure life.

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Authors: Acheme Oklobia Odeh

This survey research was conducted to investigate the impact of agriculture on the economic development of Northern Cyprus. Data were collected from scholarly articles, Journals, and the North Cyprus Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The analysis of the impact of agriculture on the economic development of North Cyprus is a challenging task, but critical considering the role agriculture plays in the economic development of countries and nations such as Northern Cyprus. The significant finding of this study shows that the agricultural sector of TRCN has a lot of untapped potentials. The reasons for the dearth or decline in the productivity of the agricultural sector is discussed and analysed in this project. A couple of recommendations, following the challenges facing the promising agricultural sector of Northern Cyprus included: increase in agricultural-based research in the Ministry of Agriculture and in higher educational levels, which will boost the industry a lot, and encourage the discovery of new, better, and improved agricultural practices; more foreign investors should be allowed to come into the agricultural sector of TRNC; The Government should set up a system to monitor and evaluate the success of implementation of funds allocated to the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources; The Introduction and Encouragement of Agriculture related courses such as Agricultural Economics in Colleges & Universities is also a sure way to alleviate the challenges agriculture is facing currently in TRNC; lastly but not the least, we recommend that the Government of TRNC should consider an increase in the overall financial allocation to the agricultural sector, to boost its activities, and encourage loan to farmers and further development in the agricultural sector.

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Authors: Odeh Adoikwu Pius, Atsa’am D. D.

With the advent of computers, a lot has been achievable including the use of computers to solve Mathematics and Mathematically related problems. In this work an appraisal of the solution to second order linear ordinary differential equations with constant coefficients is done. Methods of solution of homogeneous second order ordinary differential equations, Initial Value Problem inclusive are described, considering three cases: distinct roots, repeated roots and complex roots. Non-homogeneous differential equations, IVP inclusive are also treated using the method of undetermined coefficients. Object oriented software is developed to solve these second order linear ordinary differential equations with constant coefficients. The core essence of this work is to develop a system which would be user-friendly, reliable (accurate in solution), fast and timely to meet the demands which are not achievable by the traditional method.

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Authors: Joshua CHIBUIKE SOPURU

The desire of every nation is to provide goods and services that can actually satisfy citizens and also be enough for export in other to acquire foreign exchange. Due to scarce resources and diversity in human behavior, proper strategizing and planning built on Positive and negative science need to be considered. Human behavior cannot be determined with concrete certainty; we can only make assumptions based on certain conditions or occurrences. These assumptions help managers in managing limited resources. This goes a long way in helping a nation plan its production in matters of; what to produce, the quantity to produce and whom to produce for. The task of decision making, a must for every nation is one of the most difficult and unpredictable task faced by managers. However, with the advent of information Systems supported with decision support tools, managers can now to a greater extent make proper decisions. Information system is a collection and integration of components for data collection, storing, and processing in other to deliver information, knowledge, and digital products. Businesses and cooperation rely on Information systems to carry out operations, manage staff, and even lead customers. There is no doubt information systems have revolutionized virtually every sector of the economy it has been applied in. For example, in developed countries like the USA, Information systems have decongested highways through traffic management. Despite all the success stories resulting from the implementation of information systems, Agriculture in developing countries still struggles with implementation of information systems. With the design of several Farm management information systems (FMIS), one should have predicted an end to the shortage of Agricultural products in Africa, mismanagement of the farm or an end to the high rate of loss in agricultural commodities as a result of disease outbreak. However, this is not the case in Africa because; the implementation of information systems in Agriculture is faced with numerous design/implementation problems ranging from designer's ignorance to end-users illiteracy. We are interested in uncovering the importance of information system in Agricultural farms in Africa and highlighting some limitations facing its implementation.

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Authors: Vanye Zira Vanduhe

Organization faces computation due to technological ideas that is put in place to satisfy their customers. Therefore, the Human Resource has to be on the move to make sure employee work had to make sure customers meet their needs. Organization need to know their performance capacity in other to make arraignment on when a product or service could be ready. This paper provide possible way by the use of HRIS being synchronized with behaviormetrics to study the capacity of employee production when sad or happy mood. Also, steps in of implementing Human resource information system in an organization and possible ways why the system fails is been discussed in this paper. Due to the uniqueness of human conscious and sub-conscious behavioral action profiling of this action are being created to have history of staff emotion study are managed. At the end study, sad and angry mood facial expression is analyzed in a way that it affects human productivity in an organization. Furthermore, with this HRM could forecast employee performance at the end of the day.

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Authors: John Akpesiri Olotewo, Samson Oluwaseun Fadiya

Mobile marketing has gained immense popularity in the contemporary business world because of its convenience in sending promotional messages to individual customers. In Turkey, this method of advertising has enhanced effective dissemination of information and is thus highly regarded; both by the business community and the consumers. Mobile marketing is well known for its ability to overcome barriers of place and time that are often associated with traditional advertising methods. Using mobile marketing, companies are in a position to reach out to customers from wherever they are due to the portable nature of the mobile phone. This study seeks to explore the impact of mobile marketing in Turkey’s consumer market. It aims at establishing whether mobile marketing is an effective marketing tool in Turkey’s consumer market, why there is an increasing popularity of mobile marketing and whether there is a general acceptability of mobile marketing in Turkey. The study begins by exploring the concept of mobile marketing and its effectiveness as a marketing media. The nature and potential of mobile marketing are discussed and so are the ethical issues affecting mobile marketing. Given the level of popularity and convenience that mobile marketing exudes, it can be established that mobile marketing is an effective form of advertising in the Turkish consumer market and that companies could tap this potential to enhance profitability. Olotewo Akpesiri John.