Mobility attracts many developers and system designers; it will give us the ability to use our computers with no physical limitations with respect to connections. This thesis will try to introduce the main concepts that define mobile computing in our days. It will identify the challenges that face mobile computing and their impact on current developments in this area. Location management and how the cellular networks function is defined and described. We will conduct a comparison between protocols in location management with respect to network messages and database operations. In the IS-41 model ...

This thesis discusses Artificial Economy with applications to Reinforcement Learning. It focuses first on Reinforcement Learning, comparing it to other types of learning such as Supervised Learning. It then covers a historical overview of the field and summarizes the current works. The work described in this thesis has a psychological approach as we focus on reward and punishment. We experiment Artificial Economy with a prototype which solves the Blocks World problem. We then show how the Artificial Economy approach can be integrated with other concepts of Reinforcement Learning techniques.

This thesis uses the HITS algorithm as a basis to propose an interactive internet search engine. With the Web becoming a major source of information for many users, it became a necessity to be able to search the Web efficiently. The main problem resides with broad topic queries. These are queries for which a typical text-based search engine like AltaVista would return thousands of pages. A remedy for these situations was proposed by Kleinberg in his 1-IITS algorithm in which he uses the hyperlink structure of the Web as a major source of information about the contents of the Web. In this thesis, ...

This thesis starts by exploring background areas of study such as incomplete and uncertain information in relational database, belief change in artificial intelligence. It also reminds of how some types of incompleteness and uncertainly can be modeled through disjunctive databases. The paper describes the language being used in addition to some update operators. This thesis then brings to light a new theory in belief change called the weak revision. It first shows the need for such a new operator through a real life example. Second it introduces this new operator by defining its general behavior. ...

The emerging field of wireless sensor networks combines sensing, computation, and communication into a single tiny device. Through advanced mesh networking protocols, these devices form a sea of connectivity that uses any possible communication path by hopping data from one node to another in search of its destination. While the capabilities of any single device are minimal, the collection of hundreds of sensors offers major new technological possibilities. Examples of usage scenarios for these devices are real-time tracking and security monitoring, issues that will be studied in this thesis. ...

This thesis aim is defining a new meaning for microprogramming as we know it. Microprogramming was seen from two different views. In commercial applications microprogramming was treated primarily as an emulation tool. This allowed systems such as the IMB system/386 to implement both backward and forward compatibility. In military applications microprograming was considered as a tool for building optimized and fault tolerance control units. Dynamic and user microprogramming are usually used to refer to the same concept. In this thesis we will make a clear distinction between the two terms. User ...

The classic way for communication between database and applications is performed using ODBC (for standard applications) and DLL files (for distributed applications). The job of theses API's is to connect to database for sending and retrieving information. We introduce the WDBC pattern that is designed to do the same tasks but in addition, it guarantees the safety of data (by doing backup of database over the network) and can be integrated in an application that is created with different programming languages and running on different operating systems.

Metadata is considered a very useful and valuable component in handing data and delivering decisional information, in managing contents on the Internet, in databases and warehouses, in enabling the finding of relevant information, and in effectively providing a multiplicity of useful services. Data, in point of facts, can be metaphorically compared to a dead substance; and all acknowledge the fact that data, by merely existing in systems, represents almost nothing. However, it is the awareness of the exact length and value of this data that builds the valuable expensive information. This thesis ...

Enterprise resource planning – ERP – is among the latest technologies that companies have undertaken. Typically it is a software package that has a centralized database for several modules; these modules could be customized based on the organization’s needs. Since the cost of an ERP implementation is considered to be very high, it is critical for organizations to make it a success and start having return on their investment. But what makes an ERP implementation project successful? How to evaluate its success? These are the questions addressed by the thesis. Answering these questions, a research ...

UML is an acronym for Unified Modelling Language. It has become de facto the standard for the object-oriented software analysis and design stages in software development. UML is a visual modelling language, and it consists of a set of diagrams. Static diagrams are used to depict static structure of a program, where is dynamic diagrams specify how the control flow(s) of the program should behave. The examples of behavioral diagrams are a Sate diagram, which describes the behavior of objects of a given class, and a Sequence diagram, which describes inter-object interactions in a given scenario. A ...