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Article Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 2Potential of Support-Vector Regression for Forecasting Stream Flow(Univ Osijek, Tech Fac, 2014) Radzi, Mohd Rashid Bin Mohd; Shamshirband, Shahaboddin; Aghabozorgi, Saeed; Misra, Sanjay; Akib, Shatirah; Kiah, Laiha Mat; Computer EngineeringStream flow is an important input for hydrology studies because it determines the water variability and magnitude of a river. Water resources engineering always deals with historical data and tries to estimate the forecasting records in order to give a better prediction for any water resources applications, such as designing the water potential of hydroelectric dams, estimating low flow, and maintaining the water supply. This paper presents three soft-computing approaches for dealing with these issues, i.e. artificial neural networks (ANNs), adaptive-neuro-fuzzy inference systems (ANFISs), and support vector machines (SVMs). Telom River, located in the Cameron Highlands district of Pahang, Malaysia, was used in making the estimation. The Telom River's daily mean discharge records, such as rainfall and river-level data, were used for the period of March 1984-January 2013 for training, testing, and validating the selected models. The SVM approach provided better results than ANFIS and ANNs in estimating the daily mean fluctuation of the stream's flow.Article Citation - WoS: 9Citation - Scopus: 14A Comparative Study of Agile, Component-Based, Aspect-Oriented and Mashup Software Development Methods(Univ Osijek, Tech Fac, 2012) Patel, Ahmed; Seyfi, Ali; Taghavi, Mona; Wills, Christopher; Na, Liu; Latih, Rodziah; Misra, Sanjay; Computer EngineeringThis paper compares Agile Methods, Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE), Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) and Mashups as the four most advanced software development methods. These different approaches depend almost totally on their application domain but their usability can be equally applied across domains. The purpose of this comparative analysis is to give a succinct and clear review of these four methodologies. Their definitions, characteristics, advantages and disadvantages are considered and a conceptual mind-map is generated that sets out a foundation to assist in the formulation and design of a possible new integrated software development approach. This includes supportive techniques to benefit from the examined methods' potential advantages for cross-fertilization. It is a basis upon which new thinking may be initiated and further research stimulated in the software engineering subject field.Article Citation - WoS: 21Citation - Scopus: 22A Discussion on the Role of People in Global Software Development(Univ Osijek, Tech Fac, 2013) Misra, Sanjay; Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo; Pusatli, Tolga; Soto-Acosta, Pedro; Computer EngineeringLiterature is producing a considerable amount of papers which focus on the risks, challenges and solutions of global software development (GSD). However, the influence of human factors on the success of GSD projects requires further study. The aim of our paper is twofold. First, to identify the challenges related to the human factors in GSD and, second, to propose the solution(s), which could help in solving or reducing the overall impact of these challenges. The main conclusions of this research can be valuable to organizations that are willing to achieve the quality objectives regarding GSD projects.Article Citation - Scopus: 1Maintaining Software Through Bit-Parallelism and Hashing the Parameterized q-grams(Univ Osijek, Tech Fac, 2012) Prasad, Rajesh; Agarwal, Suneeta; Misra, Sanjay; Sharma, Anuj Kumar; Singh, Alok; Computer EngineeringIn the software maintenance, it is often required to find duplicity present in the codes. Two code fragments are equivalent, if one can be transformed into the other via consistent renaming of identifiers, literals and variables. This equivalency can be detected by parameterized string matching. In this matching, a given pattern is said to match with a substring of the text, if there exists a one-to-one correspondence between symbols of and symbols of. In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm for this problem by using both the overlapping and non-overlapping q-gram. We show the effect of running time of the algorithm on increasing the duplicity present in the code.Article Citation - WoS: 11Citation - Scopus: 13Choice Functions for Autonomous Search in Constraint Programming: Ga Vs. Pso(Univ Osijek, Tech Fac, 2013) Soto, Ricardo; Crawford, Broderick; Misra, Sanjay; Palma, Wenceslao; Monfroy, Eric; Castro, Carlos; Paredes, Fernando; Computer EngineeringThe variable and value ordering heuristics are a key element in Constraint Programming. Known together as the enumeration strategy they may have important consequences on the solving process. However, a suitable selection of heuristics is quite hard as their behaviour is complicated to predict. Autonomous search has been recently proposed to handle this concern. The idea is to dynamically replace strategies that exhibit poor performances by more promising ones during the solving process. This replacement is carried out by a choice function, which evaluates a given strategy in a given amount of time via quality indicators. An important phase of this process is performed by an optimizer, which aims at finely tuning the choice function in order to guarantee a precise evaluation of strategies. In this paper we evaluate the performance of two powerful choice functions: the first one supported by a genetic algorithm and the second one by a particle swarm optimizer. We present interesting results and we demonstrate the feasibility of using those optimization techniques for Autonomous Search in a Constraint Programming context.Article Citation - WoS: 7Citation - Scopus: 6Present and Future of Web Content Accessibility: an Analysis(Univ Osijek, Tech Fac, 2013) Hilera, Jose R.; Fernandez-Sanz, Luis; Misra, Sanjay; Computer EngineeringThe Web was created as a universal network of knowledge. It represented a huge qualitative and quantitative leap in terms of acquisition and processing of information. However, even today, significant barriers make difficult the access of a large number of citizens to the web, including disabled users and old people with diminished skills as an effect of age. Accessibility is the feature which facilitates access to and successful usage of a web site or service for as many people as possible, regardless of their personal limitations or limitations imposed by their environment. This article reviews the main aspects of web accessibility and its future, passing through the effective implementation of guidelines known as 2.0, which ensure compliance with existing legislation at national and international level.Article Citation - WoS: 3Citation - Scopus: 3The Impact of Cognitive and Socio-Demographic Factors at Meetings During Software Development Process(Univ Osijek, Tech Fac, 2011) Akman, Ibrahim; Misra, Sanjay; Altindag, Tugba; Computer EngineeringMost of the important decisions are taken at team meetings during software development process (SDP) and the way of thinking of project leader plays an important role in achieving quality objectives at these team meetings. Considering this important issue, this paper investigates the impact of cognitive and socio-demographic factors on manager's simple thinking style towards improving the quality of team meetings in SDP. We have performed experimentations among Information and Communication Technologies' (ICT) senior professionals and managers from government and private sector organizations for this purpose. The hypotheses have been developed under different empirical categories and then statistical analysis techniques have been used to draw inferences. The results indicate that "type of team meetings", "project leader's cognitive characteristics" and "adoption of a cognitive model at team meetings" have statistically significant impact on manager's simple thinking in terms of improving productivity and contribution of team meetings.
