Current Trends in Information Technology
Volume 6, Issue 1 (2016)
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Strategies to Control Quality in Crowdmining
Abstract: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Crowd sourcing is emerging as an effective method for data gathering and analysis, which introduces a new paradigm of data mining process. Crowd workers perform small chunks of larger tasks in return for a reward, which can be monetary, material, psychological and so on. One of the biggest challenges of crowd mining is controlling the quality of the answers collected from …
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Design of Controller to Evaluate Optimal Chemical Ratio in Starch Modification Process
Abstract: In modern times, the modified starch industry uses chemical modification process which involves physical monitoring and labor-intensive addition of chemicals with native starch. So, chemical modification process needs exact calculation of chemical proportion to be mixed with the native starch according to the applications of industrial requirements. In order to reduce the physical error during manual mixing of chemicals and monitor the environmental safety of chemicals, it is important to …
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Extraction of Retinal Features in Fundus Images for Glaucoma Diagnosis
Abstract: Glaucoma is a major cause for blindness, identified early by the structural changes of optic nerve head in the retina. Retinal image analysis is emerging as an important screening tool for prior detection of eye diseases. Glaucoma is a chronic eye disease in which damage to the optic nerve leads to progressive, irreversible vision loss and it is considered as second leading cause for blindness worldwide. In this research work, …
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Library Resources and Collection Development: A Study
Abstract: The selection activities of the public, academic and large special libraries will also vary depending upon their sizes. In small public libraries, most of the librarians are involved in the selection procedure. As the library system grows, adds branches and expands services, selection is usually delegated to the departmental heads or branch library supervisors. A large metropolitan public library system frequently assigns the selection activities to a committee composed of …
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Park Information System for Kolkata: A Low Cost Web Enabled Solution
Abstract: Green parks in urban environment play an important role in promoting public health, art, culture, tourism and economy. City dwellers require information about the parks to get the benefit of green spaces. Web GIS technology has a potential to maintain inventory and disseminate spatial and aspatial information over the Internet. Open source software enables cost effective and feature rich implementation, operation and maintenance of Web GIS application. In this study …
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Real Time Analysis of Twitter Data
Abstract: In last two decades, big data has emerged as one of the most trending fields of research. In today’s world, every minute, huge amount of structured and unstructured data is produced via various platforms. This data includes texts, images, and forums gathered from social media platforms. This increasing data implies a fundamental change in the way we analyze data since it is unable to analyze data using conventional methodologies and …
Published in Current Trends in Information Technology · Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2016 · pp. 6–14 Read article