Computer Internet Research Articles

Technography and design–actuality gap-analysis of internet computer technologies-assisted education: Western expectations and global education

In this paper, we provide a design–actuality gap-analysis of the internet infrastructure that exists in developing nations and nations in the global South with the deployed internet computer technologies (ICT)-assisted programs that are designed to use internet infrastructure to provide educational opportunities. Programs that specifically pinpoint females’ access to schooling are foregrounded in this paper. For our research, we aggregated data on internet infrastructure and data on where ICT-assisted educational endeavors were being deployed in order to create a technography – a series of maps – that would illustrate where there is internet infrastructure that might support ICT-assisted educational programs, where ICT-assisted educational programs are being deployed, and where there is a design–actuality gap. Our research highlights two types of design–actuality gaps: there are places where there is access to internet infrastructure, but very little access to ICT-assisted educational programs; and there are also places where ICT-assisted educational programs have been deployed, but there is very little access to the kind of internet infrastructure that is necessary to support these programs.

Attention deficiency hyperactivity disorder and Internet addiction comorbidity: A case report

IntroductionInternet addiction is a serious problem especially for children and adolescents. It is described by an individual's inability to control the Internet, which causes distress and functional impairment. Internet addiction symptoms can be Internet surfing, computer gaming, chatting and gambling by using Internet. Previous studies regarding Internet addiction can interfere with some psychiatric disorders; such as bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety or attention deficiency disorder (ADHD). Some researchers emphasized that psychiatric disorders and Internet addiction can be seen together and excessive use of the Internet has been associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.Case19 years old male patient discussed in this paper who was admitted to our psychiatric service for the first time in his life, complaining about uncontrollable use of internet. He spent time more than 10 hours/day. His family finally opposed and took his computer from him, just before he got depressive symptoms. We diagnosed him ADHD by using psychometric tests and psychiatric evaluations. After medical therapy and psychotherapy, we discussed changes his psychiatric situations and symptoms.DiscussionThis case emphasized possible relationship between Internet addiction and symptoms of ADHD.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Perencanaan Search Engine E-commerce dengan Metode Latent Semantic Indexing Berbasis Multiplatform

E-commerce is a sale and purchase transactions that occur through electronic systems such as the Internet, WWW, or other computer networks. E-commerce involves electronic data interchange and automated data collection systems. In all e-commerce search engine provided a column for the search items desired by the user. In e-commerce such as Tokopedia, Lazada, MatahariMall, Amazon, and other search engines that provided just use a regular search engine technology. In the usual search engines getting longer sentences from the input or output of goods search results will be more extensive and more. However, by utilizing the semantic indexing technology, the longer and clear input desired goods, the number of searches will be few and accurately in accordance with the input that helps the user in decision making. In this study discussed how to build a search engine on the web e-commerce by using Latent Semantic Indexing. The first starts from the use of Text Mining methods for word processing, and the method Levenshtein Distance to repair automatic word and the last Latent Semantic Indexing for information processing and input expenditure.

Examining secondary school students' safe computer and internet usage awareness: An example from Bartın province

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have been rapidly prevailed among the children and youths. Personal technologies facilitating the students to gain some learning experiences both in and out of the schools also include many threats. It is important for students to have high awareness of safe internet and computer use to overcome with these threats. In this research, it was aimed to reveal internet security and computer usage awareness profiles of students studying in the secondary school. The data were collected from 2029 students studying in the secondary schools in Bartın Province in Turkey by using a questionnaire developed by the researchers. The data obtained from the questionnaire were analyzed based on the pre-determined themes and the students' information security and computer usage awareness profiles were revealed. The findings indicate that the majority of the students are insufficient regarding information security and computer usage awareness and they could be under risk in online settings towards the threats. In the discussion section, some measures for the parents, schools and policy makers were mentioned to increase students' information security and computer usage awareness.

A framework for identifying the linkability between Web servers for enhanced internet computing and E-commerce

Existing Web session tracking techniques mainly work on huge web server log files, which limit their dynamicity and capability. We present a collaborative method for session tracking to identify direct and indirect web server interactions. The outcome could lead to building partnerships between organizations that do e-business, adapting links on websites to user click behavior, and deciding on the particular services offered by websites. We implemented a prototype that showed the usefulness and effectiveness of the system. We describe the significance and applications of our approach in e-commerce through information that describes traffic flows between websites.

Secure Data Access Control With Ciphertext Update and Computation Outsourcing in Fog Computing for Internet of Things

Fog computing is a paradigm that extends cloud computing to the edge of the network. It can provide computation and storage services to end devices in Internet of Things (IoT). Attribute-based cryptography is a well-known technology to guarantee data confidentiality and fine-grained data access control. However, its computational cost in encryption and decryption phase is linear with the complexity of policy. In this paper, we propose a secure and fine-grained data access control scheme with ciphertext update and computation outsourcing in fog computing for IoT. The sensitive data of data owner are first encrypted using attribute-based encryption with multiple policies and then outsourced to cloud storage. Hence, the user whose attributes satisfy the access policy can decrypt the ciphertext. Based on the attribute-based signature technique, authorized user whose attributes integrated in the signature satisfy the update policy can renew the ciphertext. Specifically, most of the encryption, decryption, and signing computations are outsourced from end devices to fog nodes, and thus, the computations for data owners to encrypt, end users to decrypt, re-encrypt, and sign are irrelevant to the number of attributes in the policies. The security analysis shows that the proposed scheme is secure against known attacks, and the experimental results show that the fog nodes perform most of the computation operations of encryption, decryption, and signing, and hence, the time of encryption for data owner, decryption, re-encryption, and signing for users is small and constant.

A Technological Perspective on Information Cascades via Social Learning

Collective behavior in human society is attracting a lot of attention, particularly as the result of novel emergent phenomena associated with online social media and networks. In effect, although crowd wisdom and herding behavior have been well studied in social science, the rapid development of Internet computing and e-commerce brings further needs of in-depth comprehension of their consequences and impact from a technological perspective. Based on social learning , an analytical knowledge originated in social science, we re-examine the well-known phenomenon of information cascade , whereby rational agents can ignore personal knowledge to follow a predominant social behavior triggered by earlier decisions made by peers. Moreover, we look into the cascade behavior from a communication theoretic perspective, interpreting social learning as a distributed data processing scheme. This perspective enables the development of a novel framework, which allows a characterization of the conditions that trigger information cascades and trace their impact on the accuracy of the collective inference. Finally, potential applications and examples of information cascade have been presented under various cyber technological scenarios, illustrating the prolific interplay between communication technology and computational social science.

Monetizing Autonomous Control

Somewhere in the intersection between networked software (the Internet of Things) and artificial intelligence lies an impressive opportunity for Internet Computing professionals. Here, Editor-in-Chief Brian Blake explores how the culmination of the two will create a new economy for monetized control software.

E-commerce : Role of E-commerce in Today's Business

Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce which consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the internet and other computer networks. Ecommerce stands for electronic commerce and pertains to trading in goods and services through the electronic medium. The amount of trade conducted electronically has grown dramatically since the spread of the internet. B2B, B2C, C2C and similar opportunity help consumer preferences and consumer markets developing electronic infrastructure for challenges of the future. E-commerce has revolutionized business, changing the shape of competition with internet, the computer communication network creating a e-commerce market place for consumers and business . With developments in the Internet and Web-based technologies, distinctions between traditional markets and the global electronic marketplace-such as business capital size, among others-are gradually being narrowed down. India is showing tremendous growth in the Ecommerce. The low cost of the PC and the growing use of the Internet is one of reasons for that. There is a growing awareness among the business community in India about the opportunities offered by ecommerce. The present paper mainly aims to discuss the Role of E - commerce in Today's Business.

Network Function Virtualization

Network function virtualization (NFV) is a series of upcoming technologies that allow the high-volume packet-processing functions forming the modern Internet's core to be virtualized, so that they can run on commodity cloud computing platforms. This special issue of IEEE Internet Computing highlights some of the opportunities, challenges, and solutions that will shape this transformational field in the years to come.

Predictability or Early Warning: Using Social Media in Modern Emergency Response

The authors of this Editor's Select column reflect on an article previously published in IEEE Internet Computing, discussing how social media can and can't be used with regard to disaster-related events.

Secured Icmp Based Ip Traceback Scheme To Trace The Spoofed Ip Locations

The Internet Protocol (IP) is the basic protocol for sending data over the Internet and many other computer networks. IP spoofing is the creation of Internet Protocol (IP) packets with a forged source IP address, with the purpose of thrashing the identity of the sender or an attacker can make it appear that the packet was sent by a different machine. The objective of this paper is to devise the passive IP trace back (PIT) scheme using Internet Control Message Protocol(ICMP) to avoid the operational obstacles of IP trace back schemes. PIT investigates ICMP error messages (path backscatter) triggered by spoofing traffic, and tracks the spoofers based on public available information (eg.topology). This scheme(PIT) discover the spoofers without any operational requirement and exhibits the causes, collection, and the statistical results on path backscatter, demonstrates the processes and effectiveness of PIT, and shows the captured locations of spoofers throughout applying PIT on the path backscatter data set. These results are capable of expose the spoofed IP locations.

A novel programming framework for architecting next generation enterprise scale information systems

The increasing popularity and usage of internet based services makes design of software system complex and their power unlimited in scale. These systems often involve heterogeneous environment and platforms. They continuously evolve in order to meet the changes in technology and business practices. Emergence of information system architecture based on disparate externally provided internet based services warrant incorporation of novel design primitives in the application design. Traditionally popular application design primitives includes separation, abstraction, compression, uniform composition, replication and resource sharing that has evolved and came to vogue based on past experience and expert practice. This work examines and evaluates approaches to incorporation of new and novel unit operations around which applications can be architected, designed and analyzed for the internet computing and big data era. Incidentally it is found that portions of agent technology provides several unit operations such as migration of code and speech-act based responsibility delegation/application composition as application architectural primitives. This work determines extensions to Web Services-Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) programming framework--called as ACtive Internet Application Framework (ACIAF) and is suited for incorporation of novel unit operations such as migration of code and speech-act based component orchestration/application composition to enable construction of next generation information systems. An analysis of merits and demerits of using WS-BPEL technology to realize ACIAF is also carried out here. Code mobility feature of ACIAF is demonstrated using a use case while loosely coupled application design using ACIAF is theoretically discussed. Formal analyzability of mobility behavior of ACIAF application is highlighted based on its conformance to Petri-net formalism. Further formal logical analyzability/interpolatability of individual actions performed by collaborating ACIAF applications is also highlighted. It is argued here that ACIAF shall provide necessary foundation, guidance and motivation for further detailed technical work on several ideas presented to realize next generation information systems. This work firmly establishes extension to WS-BPEL platform as a most viable approach to realize novel architectural primitives to the design and implementation of next generation information systems.

Future Internet and Reconfigurable Computing:Considerations on Flexibility and Security

<div data-canvas-width="547.27795779347">The Future Internet is expected to support services in both existing and new scenarios, in terms of mobility, quality, scalability and security, among other. In this work we present how reconfigurable Computing (RC) may contribute to build Future Internet (FI) flexibility and security. Therefore, we discuss some aspects of FI initiatives that can be addressed by Reconfigurable Computing. Then we show some features of the Reconfigurable Computing enabling technology – FPGA – which can help to build a more flexible and secure Future Internet. The concluding remarks concern the need to bring together FI and RC researchers.</div>

Proposing a new pedagogy-based website design: A usability test with lifelong learners

This study aimed to create a new pedagogy-based website based on the analysis of the needs of 7147 website users who visited the Thailand Cyber University (TCU) project website during 2011–2013. The study consisted of 4 stages: (1) examining learners’ needs and literature related to developing a lifelong learning framework, (2) designing a site structure and an interface for a pedagogy-based website, (3) conducting a usability test on the website with a sample of 204 users, and (4) modifying the website based on results of a website usability test. Analysis from t-test, one-way ANOVA, and LSD test show that the website is appropriate for users of all genders, ages, educational levels, positions, years of computer and Internet experience, computer possession, and experience in using the TCU website. The new pedagogy-based website design incorporating the lifelong learning framework was proposed by integrating the pedagogical aspects and the theoretical framework of the learning community, motivation, and interaction, while the technological aspects were integrated using an open source web portal, responsive design, and the Universal Design (UD) principle, which enables the website to work on a variety of devices and learning resources. The six elements of the new website include: (1) main page, (2) online courses, (3) media support, (4) learning resources, (5) conferences and seminars, and (6) ‘about us’ pages.

Enabling Human Health Care Monitoring using Ubiquitous Computing

Background/Objectives: Technology is moving from delicate computers to handheld, intellectual and everyday devices with embedded technology and connectivity. Methods/Statistical Analysis: Persistent computing is an innovative aspect of delicate computing that integrate portable communique, user electronics and the power of internet and persistent computing, envisage a future in which computation becomes part of the situation. Findings: The objective of the idea is to enable the health of human care with this concept of ubiquitous computing. The Wireless Patient Sensor Networks (WSPN) is used to find the blood pressure level of humans. Application/Improvements: The application is implemented using DMS architecture which improves the usage of ubiquitous computing in medical applications.

Cloud Storage [Guest editors' introduction

This special issue of Internet Computing surveys topics and challenges surrounding cloud storage. These include software-defined object storage in OpenStack Swift, shared services for file synchronization, convergent dispersal for secure cloud storage with high storage efficiency, quality of service for tiered storage in the cloud, and an application of cloud storage for the Internet of Things.

Wireless vital sign telemetry to hand held computers.

Most physicians and other health care providers share/access patient information via hard copy chart records, telephone conversations, or through hospital computer networks. These modalities are cumbersome when physicians are away from the hospital and ground wiring infrastructure is not readily available. In a prior study, we used wireless in-flight telephony and the Internet to transmit vital signs from an airborne Boeing 757 to three remote locations on the ground. However, because all recipient stations relied on an institutional network to receive the information, it was not possible to transfer data to a given location beyond the hospital campus. We now propose an innovative system capable of transmitting telemetry information from any location in the globe to a single portable computer using Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) technology for the Internet. Medical data including blood pressure, pulse, respiratory rate, end tidal CO2, oxygen saturation and EKG tracings were transferred from a G2 (digital cellular) phone linked to a hand held computer to a remote hand held device and were viewed in real time using customized software. Cellular Digital Packet Protocols (CDPD) enabled data transfer speeds up to 19,200 bps. Advances including the Internet and wireless computer technology may revolutionize the way medical information is shared, making it possible for physicians and health allies to directly access patient data from anywhere at any time.

Big Data Approaches for the Analysis of Large-Scale fMRI Data Using Apache Spark and GPU Processing: A Demonstration on Resting-State fMRI Data from the Human Connectome Project.

Technologies for scalable analysis of very large datasets have emerged in the domain of internet computing, but are still rarely used in neuroimaging despite the existence of data and research questions in need of efficient computation tools especially in fMRI. In this work, we present software tools for the application of Apache Spark and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to neuroimaging datasets, in particular providing distributed file input for 4D NIfTI fMRI datasets in Scala for use in an Apache Spark environment. Examples for using this Big Data platform in graph analysis of fMRI datasets are shown to illustrate how processing pipelines employing it can be developed. With more tools for the convenient integration of neuroimaging file formats and typical processing steps, big data technologies could find wider endorsement in the community, leading to a range of potentially useful applications especially in view of the current collaborative creation of a wealth of large data repositories including thousands of individual fMRI datasets.

ВИКОРИСТАННЯ ВІРТУАЛЬНОГО ІНФОРМАЦІЙНОГО ПРОСТОРУ У ПРОЦЕСІ САМОСТІЙНОЇ ПІДГОТОВКИ МАЙБУТНІХ ФІЛОЛОГІВ

This article is about the features of the virtual information space in the organization of self-study of students who enrolled in higher education institutions in profile departments and are trained as specialists in Foreign Languages and Translation; outlined are the main features and benefits of the use of information technology and Internet computer capabilities to achieve educational goals during self-study of future philologists; the components of students' self-study by use of information technologies; analyzed the verities of future philologists process in self-study with virtual information space. &nbsp