International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing

Volume 6, Issue 2, April 2018
Research Article

1. Developer Experience Considering Work Difficulty in Software Development*

Taketo Tsunoda, Hironori Washizaki, Yosiaki Fukazawa, Sakae Inoue, Yoshiiku Hanai, Masanobu Kanazawa
Pages: 53 - 62
Previous studies have researched how developer experience affects code quality, but difficulty was ignored although experienced developers are more likely to work on more complex parts of a project. We examine work difficulty by focusing on revised files. Using product metrics, we evaluate file complexity...
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2. Improvement of CSF, WM and GM Tissue Segmentation by Hybrid Fuzzy – Possibilistic Clustering Model based on Genetic Optimization Case Study on Brain Tissues of Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease

Lilia Lazli, Mounir Boukadoum
Pages: 63 - 77
Brain tissue segmentation is one of the most important parts of clinical diagnostic tools. Fuzzy C-mean (FCM) is one of the most popular clustering based segmentation methods. However FCM does not robust against noise and artifacts such as partial volume effect (PVE) and inhomogeneity. In this paper,...
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3. Implementation of Emotional Features on Satire Detection

Pyae Phyo Thu, Than Nwe Aung
Pages: 78 - 87
Recognition of satirical language in social multimedia outlets turns out to be a trending research area in computational linguistics. Many researchers have analyzed satirical language from the various point of views: lexically, syntactically, and semantically. However, due to the ironic dimension of...
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4. Real-time Multi-Agents Architecture for E-commerce Servers

Sylvanus A. Ehikioya, Cong Zhang
Pages: 88 - 98
Electronic commerce applications have strict timing constraints on the interactions between e-commerce servers and customers. Customers prefer real-time services, which mean immediate response from the server shortly after submission of a request. This trend of demand gives e-commerce servers high pressure,...
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5. Handoff Delay Optimization Using Hybrid Prediction Model

M R Regitha, Varghese Paul, Shailesh Sivan, Nijo Antony
Pages: 99 - 107
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6. Internet of Things in the 5G Mobile Communication System: The Optimal Number of Channels in Channel Hopping*

Gayoung Kim, Minjoong Rim
Pages: 108 - 117
One of the typical goals of the 5G mobile communication system1 is to establish an Internet of Things (IoT)2 environment in which all objects are connected to the network to generate and share information through not only mobile terminals but also mobile communication infrastructure. 5G must support...