International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications (IJISA)

IJISA Vol. 8, No. 5, May. 2016

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REGULAR PAPERS

Proposed Representation Approach Based on Description Logics Formalism

By Yasser Yahiaoui Ahmed Lehireche Djelloul Bouchiha

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2016.05.01, Pub. Date: 8 May 2016

The most familiar concept in Artificial intelligence is the knowledges representation. It aims to find explicit symbolization covering all semantic aspects of knowledge, and to make possible the use of this representation to produce an intelligent behavior like reasoning.
The most important constraint is the usability of the representation; it’s why the structures used must be well defined to facilitate manipulation for reasoning algorithms which leads to facilitate their implementation.
In this paper we propose a new approach based on the description logics formalism for the goal of simplification of description logics system implementation. This approach can reduce the complexity of reasoning Algorithm by the vectorisation of concept definition based on the subsumption hierarchy.

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Reliable Mobile Ad-Hoc Network Routing Using Firefly Algorithm

By D Jinil Persis T Paul Robert

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2016.05.02, Pub. Date: 8 May 2016

Routing in Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork (MANET) is a contemporary graph problem that is solved using various shortest path search techniques. The routing algorithms employed in modern routers use deterministic algorithms that extract an exact non-dominated set of solutions from the search space. The search efficiency of these algorithms is found to have an exponential time complexity in the worst case. Moreover this problem is a multi-objective optimization problem in nature for MANET and it is required to consider changing topology layout. This study attempts to employ a formulation incorporating objectives viz., delay, hop-distance, load, cost and reliability that has significant impact on network performance. Simulation with different random topologies has been carried out to illustrate the implementation of an exhaustive search algorithm and it is observed that the algorithm could handle small-scale networks limited to 15 nodes. A random search meta-heuristic that adopts the nature of firefly swarm has been proposed for larger networks to yield an approximated non-dominated path set. Firefly Algorithm is found to perform better than the exact algorithm in terms of scalability and computational time.

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Sensitivity Analysis Using Simple Additive Weighting Method

By Wayne S. Goodridge

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2016.05.04, Pub. Date: 8 May 2016

The output of a multiple criteria decision method often has to be analyzed using some sensitivity analysis technique. The SAW MCDM method is commonly used in management sciences and there is a critical need for a robust approach to sensitivity analysis in the context that uncertain data is often present in decision models. Most of the sensitivity analysis techniques for the SAW method involve Monte Carlo simulation methods on the initial data. These methods are computationally intensive and often require complex software. In this paper, the SAW method is extended to include an objective function which makes it easy to analyze the influence of specific changes in certain criteria values thus making easy to perform sensitivity analysis.

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Motion Control of Five Bar Linkage Manipulator Using Conventional Controllers Under Uncertain Conditions

By Gopal Krishan V. R. Singh

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2016.05.05, Pub. Date: 8 May 2016

Robot trajectory tracking has been the core functioning unit in the modern industrial environment wherein the accuracy in the motion control of robotic manipulators is the main area of research. Based on the fact that the working of these automatic robotic machines is highly influenced by the disturbances, this paper constitutes various conventional controllers for the motion control of five bar linkage manipulator. To verify the performance of proposed conventional controllers, these are made to work with two different trajectories. Common disturbances like payload & friction has been incorporated in the five bar linkage manipulator system for validation purpose. Simulation results prove that the performance of SMC based controller is better when compared with other conventional controllers.

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Muscle and Baseline Wander Artifact Reduction in ECG Signal Using Efficient RLS Based Adaptive Algorithm

By Gowri T. Rajesh kumar P.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2016.05.06, Pub. Date: 8 May 2016

When we acquiring the Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal from the person, the signal amplitude (PQRST) and timing values are changes due to various artefacts. The different artefacts are Baseline wander, power line interference, muscle artefact, motion artefact and the channel noise also added sometimes during the transmission of the signal for diagnosis purpose. The adaptive filters play vital role for reduction of noise in the desired signals. In this paper we proposed, block based error normalized Recursive Least Square (RLS) adaptive algorithm and sign based RLS adaptive algorithm, which are used for reduction of muscle artifact noise and base line wander noise in the ECG signal. From the simulation result we analyzed that, comparing to Least Mean Square algorithm, the proposed RLS algorithm gives fast convergence rate with high signal to noise ratio and less mean square error.

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Fuzzy Logic Based Modified Adaptive Modulation Implementation for Performance Enhancement in OFDM Systems

By Kuldeep Singh

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2016.05.07, Pub. Date: 8 May 2016

Adaptive modulation is one of the recent technologies used to improve future communication systems. Many adaptive modulation techniques have been developed for the improving the performance of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system in terms of high data rates and error free delivery of data. But uncertain nature of wireless channel reduces the performance of OFDM system with fixed modulation techniques. In this paper, modified adaptive modulation technique has been proposed which adapts to the nature of communication channel based upon present modulation order, code rate, BER and SNR characterizing uncertain nature of communication channel by using a Fuzzy Inference System which further enhances the performance of OFDM systems in terms of high transmission data rate and error free delivery of data.

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Fuzzy-Based XML Knowledge Retrieval Methods in Edaphology

By K. Naresh kumar Ch. Satyanand Reddy N.V.E.S. Murthy

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2016.05.08, Pub. Date: 8 May 2016

In this paper, we propose a proficient method for knowledge management in Edaphology to assist the edaphologists and those related with agriculture in a big way. The proposed method mainly consists two sections of which the first one is to build the knowledge base using XML and the latter part deals with information retrieval by searching using fuzzy. Initially, the relational database is converted to the XML database. The paper discusses two algorithms, one is when the soil characteristics are inputted to have the plant list and in the other, plant names are inputted to have the soil characteristics suited for the plant. While retrieving the query result, the crisp numerical values are converted to fuzzy using the triangular fuzzy membership function and matched to those in database. And those which satisfy are added to the result list and subsequently the frequency is found out to rank the result list so as to obtain the final sorted list. Performance metrics used in order to evaluate the method and compare it to baseline paper are number of plants retrieved, ranking efficiency, and computation time and memory usage. Results obtained proved the validity of the method and the method obtained average computation time of 0.102 seconds and average memory usage of 2486 Kb, which all are far better than the previous method results.

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