The purpose of this thesis is to plan, design, and implement a real and complete lifetime solution for many applications to provide developers and designers with a strong and a good pattern for future development. We have developed a well structured solution, which is basically meant for helping anyone who is involved in the software development cycle in (i) separating the layers, as well as (ii) shortening the development time of the user interface layer, and (iii) controlling the flow of these interfaces. Not to forget (iv) helping the developer with the creation of the data entities, this ...

Wireless sensor networking is an increasingly important technology that is used in a variety of applications, such as environmental monitoring, infrastructure management, public safety, medical, home and office security, transportation and military systems. However, until now, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and their applications have been developed without considering an integrated management solution. This thesis analyzes in detail emerging wireless sensor management schemes and proposes a hybrid network model that establishes a combination between event-driven and continuous WSNs. The main ...

The 80/20 rule says that 20% of the customers produce 80% of the sales; this rule indicates the existence of hidden sales potentials that must be revealed. Those hidden sales potentials can only be discovered by building acustomer profile. A smart customer profile finds the high potential targets, creates CRM strategies, and starts programs to sell the hidden targets. Shifting just a small percentage of the customers whom are not generating profit to the top group of customers generating profit adds significantly sales growth increase profits. Customer profile puts the full picture together to ...

With the current rising trend in wireless based systems, applications such as video on demand, remote monitoring and surveillance are now being used in greater abundance. Coupled with this growth comes the ongoing need for improved network performance. This is due to the resource hungry nature of video data which places stringent requirements on communication networks. This study investigates performance improvement for remote surveillance applications over hybrid 2-stage disordering networks. It specifically focuses on resequencing alternatives for video data. A resequencing and batch aggregation ...

The term spatial data signifies all geometric objects of different dimensions and the relations that could bind these objects together. Spatial data is, in general, divided into two parts: crisp spatial data and vague spatial data. Crisp spatial data has determinate coordinates and boundaries, whereas vague spatial data has indeterminate ones. The demand for spatial data support in database management systems is growing every day, yet not all commercial products provide spatial data support natively, and those that do merely provide it partially. Since database management systems are at the heart ...

Retail space planning is an accurate and complex process affecting the overall performance of a retail environment. Such task, confronting large retailers consisting of huge malls and hypermarkets, appears infinite in the absence of a complete automated process, starting from the store plan generation, passing by the optimal product assortment and finishing with the product-to-shelf allocation problem. Moreover, the ever-changing factors affecting the retail space planning process, such as merchandising rules, competitive strategies and consumer behavior require continuous follow-up and optimization ...

The scheduling problem is one of the most challenging problems faced in many different areas of everyday life. This problem can be formulated as a combinatorial optimization problem, and it has been solved with various methods using heuristics and intelligent algorithms. We present in this research an efficient solution to the scheduling problem using two different heuristics namely Simulated Annealing and Ant Colony Optimization. A study comparing the performances of both solutions is described and the results are analyzed.

Web services are form of middleware to exchange information between systems over a network. With the advent of the age of mobile devices and their diversity, the importance of web services became all the more apparent. Every web service grants certain functionality and can utilize other web services to gain more functionality and more robustness. Such a service that combines the functionality of other services is called a composite service and the process of designing such a service is called a composition. This thesis studies an on-the-fly algorithm that efficiently checks for the possibility ...

Anomaly detection is the process of finding outlying record from a given data set. This problem has been of increasing importance due to the increase in the size of the data and the need to efficiently extract those outlying records that can have important indications in real-life problems. Anomaly detection is applied in many different sectors. There are many approaches to solve the anomaly detection problem. However, those that are more widely applicable are unsupervised approaches as they do not require labeled data. The aim of this thesis is to study a well-known anomaly detection technique ...

In the last few years, Cloud Storage has taken a new turn in becoming the latest trend to create a huge impact in the IT world. Amazon Drive is a cloud storage mobile applications created by Amazon. This application provides online and easy access to documents, music, photos and videos saved in your cloud drive. Due to the importance and widespread of the cloud, not only regular users, but also criminals have taken advantage of the services provided by this new technology to commit digital crimes. Digital forensics is a branch of forensic sciences that aims at ...