There is currently no established bacteriological beach quality monitoring (BQM) program in place in Malaysia. To initiate cost-effective, sustainable bacteriological BQM schemes for the ultimate goal of protecting public health, policy decision makers need to be provided robust, indigenous empirical findings that validate appropriate water quality parameters for inclusion in such monitoring pr...

In this paper the complete framework of a software package for real-time animation of 3D facial models according to the MPEG-4 specifications is described. The focus is mainly on the algorithmic solution that has been adopted for scaling the polygon mesh to a level of complexity suited to the specific hw/sw profile of the platform that hosts the decoder. The basic functionality of this system i...

Irrelevant inputs can cause deterioration of the network performance. This paper aims to implement features selection for water quality prediction model as the neural network generalization may be improved when the number of measured variables is reduced. Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) was introduced as a feature selection method, where it choose a subset of input variables by eliminat...

Many hydrologic and water quality computer models have been developed and applied to assess hydrologic and water quality impacts of land use changes. These models are typically calibrated and validated prior to their application. The Long-Term Hydrologic Impact Assessment (L-THIA) model was applied to the Little Eagle Creek (LEC) watershed and compared with the filtered direct runoff using BFLO...

Remote sensing techniques can be used to monitor water quality parameters (i.e., suspended sediments (turbidity), chlorophyll, and temperature). Optical and thermal sensors on boats, aircraft, and satellites provide both spatial and temporal information needed to monitor changes in water quality parameters for developing management practices to improve water quality. Recent and planned launches...

Determining the QoS (quality of service) of composite Web services is of crucial importance for both service providers and consumers. However, service descriptions of constituent services are often heterogeneous which makes the aggregation of multiple single-service QoS difficult. In this paper, we address the heterogeneity problem from the perspective of knowledge engineering. We propose a QoS...

This article proposes the XGOP-B deterministic traffic model for MPEG video services requiring strict bounds on the quality of service provided by the network. The XGOP-B model takes advantage of two characteristics of MPEG video traffic by performing a two-level analysis of such sources. In our scheme, the traffic parameters are directly obtained by a single-input single-output parameter extra...

In order to find out the key input parameters, which aroused the output quality out of control during the manufacturing process, an integrated quality diagnosis algorithm for input parameters was proposed. The diagnosis method extends the traditional quality control and diagnosis method that only for the output quality of manufacturing process. It can detect the input parameters of the manufact...