The performance of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets has been rapidly improving in recent years. However, these improvements have been seriously affecting power consumption. One of the greatest challenges is to achieve efficient power management for battery-equipped mobile devices....

Information and communication technology (ICT) including broadband networks, cloud computing, a variety of mobile devices, point-card systems, and “virtual coins” can induce complicated situations concerning customer management. In particular, billing management is very critical, and it is...

The flipped classroom approach has recently begun to attract attention. In a flipped classroom, the conventional roles of classroom and homework are reversed: students study on their own using digital teaching materials or e-learning prior to class and then apply their learning in classroom...

In this paper, the authors elucidate the characteristics of the computer game Daihinmin, a popular Japanese card game that uses imperfect information. They first propose a method to extract feature values using n-gram statistics and a cluster analysis method that employs feature values. By...

The authors are concerned with a card game called Daihinmin (Extreme Needy), which is a multi-player imperfect information game. Using Marvin Minsky's “Society of Mind” theory, they attempt to model the workings of the minds of game players. The UEC Computer Daihinmin Competitions (UECda)...

In this research, the authors propose an intelligent system that can recommend songs to user according to his choice. They predict the next song a user might prefer to listen based on their previous listening patterns, currently played songs and similar music based on music data. To calculate...

Due to the advancement of Information Technology (IT), the hospitality industry is seeing a great value in gathering various kinds of and a large amount of customers' data. However, many hotels are facing a challenge in analyzing customer data and using it as an effective tool to understand the...

Scorecard-based measurement techniques are used by organizations to measure the performance of their business operations. A scorecard approach could be applied to a database system to measure performance of SQL (Structured Query Language) being executed and the extent of resources being used by...

The Choquet integral based on fuzzy measure is a generalization of the weighted average operator. Due to flexibility in the aggregation of information and ability to take into account possible uncertainties in data the integral has been gaining popularity in the application of multicriteria...

Mobile and other PDA devices allow us to access the World Wide Web anytime and anywhere using fully functional mobile web browsers. This study utilizes the mobile web to deliver services to register students for courses at Fiji National University (FNU). Developing dynamic web based applications...