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Technological Developments in Networking, Education and Automation

  • High-caliber research conference
  • Each paper received at least two reviews
  • Multi-discipline international contributions

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Table of contents (110 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Weak Orderings of Knowledge States

    • Sylvia Encheva, Sharil Tumin
    Pages 7-12
  3. Problem Based Learning: Obtaining Enzyme Kinetics Parameters Integrating Linear Algebra, Computer Programming and Biochemistry Curriculum

    • A. Regalado-Méndez, J. G. Báez-González, E. Peralta-Reyes, M. N. Trujillo-Tapia
    Pages 13-18
  4. Adaptive Assessments using Open Standards

    • Héctor G. Barbosa León, Francisco J. García Peñalvo, María José Rodriguez-Conde
    Pages 19-24
  5. Online Academic Advising Support

    • Fawzi Albalooshi, Safwan Shatnawi
    Pages 25-29
  6. Using Computer Game to Share knowledge

    • Mazeyanti M Ariffin, Nazleeni Samiha Haron @ Baharon, Mohd Izad Che Muda
    Pages 31-35
  7. Faculty Driven Assessment of Critical Thinking: National Dissemination of the CAT Instrument

    • Barry Stein, Ada Haynes, Michael Redding, Kevin Harris, Mark Tylka, Elizabeth Lisic
    Pages 55-58
  8. Enhancing the Instruction of Introductory Electric Circuit Courses using MATLAB

    • Thomas Yang, Ilteris Demirkiran, Jianhua Liu, Albert Helfrick, David Pedersen, Christopher Grant
    Pages 59-63
  9. Istopolis: Design Issues and Evaluation’ Results of an Integrated Web-Based Educational Application

    • C. T. Panagiotakopoulos, T. S. Papatheodorou, G. D. Styliaras
    Pages 65-70
  10. Selecting Patterns for the Evaluation of Systems

    • Dmitry Zub, Erki Eessaar
    Pages 77-82
  11. Implementation of a Curriculum Management System at a Faculty of Medicine – Lessons Learned from a Pilot Project

    • Aarti Paul, Daniel Yaworski, Keith McConnell, Bruce Martin, Dean Sandham, Sat Sharma
    Pages 89-95
  12. Use of Ontology for Reusing Web Repositories for eLearning

    • Punam Bedi, Hema Banati, Anjali Thukral
    Pages 97-101
  13. Modern Improvements in the Digital Logic Laboratory

    • K. M. Noga, M. Radwanski
    Pages 109-114

About this book

Technological Developments in Networking, Education and Automation includes a set of rigorously reviewed world-class manuscripts addressing and detailing state-of-the-art research projects in the following areas:

Computer Networks: Access Technologies, Medium Access Control, Network architectures and Equipment, Optical Networks and Switching, Telecommunication Technology, and Ultra Wideband Communications.

Engineering Education and Online Learning: including development of courses and systems for engineering, technical and liberal studies programs; online laboratories; intelligent testing using fuzzy logic; taxonomy of e-courses; and evaluation of online courses.

Pedagogy: including benchmarking; group-learning; active learning; teaching of multiple subjects together; ontology; and knowledge management.

Instruction Technology: including internet textbooks; virtual reality labs, instructional design, virtual models, pedagogy-oriented markup languages; graphic design possibilities; open source classroom management software; automatic email response systems; tablet-pcs; personalization using web mining technology; intelligent digital chalkboards; virtual room concepts for cooperative scientific work; and network technologies, management, and architecture.

Coding and Modulation: Modeling and Simulation, OFDM technology , Space-time Coding, Spread Spectrum and CDMA Systems.

Wireless technologies: Bluetooth , Cellular Wireless Networks, Cordless Systems and Wireless Local Loop, HIPERLAN, IEEE 802.11, Mobile Network Layer, Mobile Transport Layer, and Spread Spectrum.

Network Security and applications: Authentication Applications, Block Ciphers Design Principles, Block Ciphers Modes of Operation, Electronic Mail Security, Encryption & Message Confidentiality, Firewalls, IP Security, Key Cryptography & Message Authentication, and Web Security.

Robotics, Control Systems and Automation: Distributed Control Systems, Automation, Expert Systems, Robotics, Factory Automation, Intelligent Control Systems, Man Machine Interaction, Manufacturing Information System, Motion Control, and Process Automation.

Vision Systems: for human action sensing, face recognition, and image processing algorithms for smoothing of high speed motion.

Electronics and Power Systems: Actuators, Electro-Mechanical Systems, High Frequency Converters, Industrial Electronics, Motors and Drives, Power Converters, Power Devices and Components, and Power Electronics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, USA

    Khaled Elleithy, Tarek Sobh, Ausif Mahmood

  • Dept. Civil & Environmental Engineering, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, USA

    Magued Iskander, Vikram Kapila

  • Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA

    Mohammad A. Karim

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Technological Developments in Networking, Education and Automation

  • Editors: Khaled Elleithy, Tarek Sobh, Magued Iskander, Vikram Kapila, Mohammad A. Karim, Ausif Mahmood

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9151-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9150-5Published: 21 July 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-8977-7Published: 25 November 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9151-2Published: 18 June 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 643

  • Topics: Communications Engineering, Networks

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