TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF THE PHILIPPINES

QUEZON CITY
CTI003/ ITE503-CURRENT TRENDS AND ISSUES IN COMPUTING

Journal Synthesis
PRELIM
Student Name: JESSA MAE L. ABELARDE
Program: (BSIT)
Mr. Gerald Cayabyab
Section: IT33FB1
Adviser

Prelim Topics/Area of Research:

1. Cloud Computing
a. A Review on Contemporary Security Issues of Cloud Computing
2. Computer Vision/ Recognition
a. A new method based on computer vision for non-intrusive orange peel sorting
3. Expert Systems
a. Intelligent Agent based Expert System for Blended Learning Evaluation
4. Human Computer Interaction
a. Design of Human-Computer Interaction Control System Based on Hand-Gesture Recognition

5. Computer Security
a. Computer network security and defense technology research

Journal Synthesis:

The study entitled A Review on Contemporary
Security Issues of Cloud Computing by Tejashri A.
Pati (2017) Quantities of innovations are coming in the
distributed computing condition, these give Internet-based
administration and utilization of PC framework. Putting
away data into the distributed storage offers assistance to
clients since they don't need to think about the issues of
equipment issues. Subsequently, clients are at the
enthusiasm of the cloud specialist organizations for the
accessibility and respectability of their information. From
one perspective, despite the fact that the cloud
administrations are significantly more capable and solid
than individualized computing gadgets and wide scope of
both inward and outside dangers for information
trustworthiness still exist Distributed computing offers
client to get to all applications from anyplace on the
planet, liberating you from the confines of the desktop and
making it simpler for assemble individuals in various
areas to work together. Cloud specialist organizations
have joined to manufacture cloud conditions and give
administrations to the client.
The real problem with the paper presents a review of
the current security issues in cloud computing
environments like lack of control of data, lack of trust and
multi-tenancy. Ensuring cloud data integrity is to be the
big issue. To overcome unauthorized access to data users
by Cloud Service Provider, integrity verification is done
through Trusted Third Party Auditor. The proposed
Algorithm handles encrypted data and performs
auditing without decrypting data. The algorithm performs
auditing over encrypted data. As data is not decrypted by
auditors during auditing process, the proposed algorithm
becomes more secure than an existing algorithm. Third
party auditing process removes auditing overhead of data
owner.
Security is the prime requirement because of the
increasing usage of the internet. With the fast progression
of remote data storage information security is becoming
much more important in data storage and transmission.
Security is needed for preserving the integrity,
confidentiality, availability of the information system
resources. The cloud supplier gives a processing stage,
instruments, and improvement condition with the goal
that the clients can fabricate, test, and send electronic
applications. The client can't oversee or control the cloud
foundation yet can control the conveyed applications and
application facilitating condition configurations.
The cloud supplier gives the client handling offices,
storerooms, systems, and other central registering assets
that the client can convey and run the arbitrary
programming, which can incorporate working
frameworks and applications. The buyer may not be
required to oversee or control this cloud foundation,
however, can control the capacity, working frameworks,
sent applications, and specific systems administration
parts. In cloud storage service, remote verification of data
integrity is a critical issue. The concept of public audit
solves the remote verification of data integrity and
extends to verify the shared data. Public auditing
requirements contain function, security, and performance
from the many relevant kinds of literature. From
comparison table, one can clearly understand the
advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Public
auditing schemes need to check data privacy, ensure data
privacy, provide easy Retrievability and prevent from an
unauthenticated user.
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Hahn, and Junbeom Hur. "Privacy-preserving public
auditing for educational multimedia data in cloud
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international conference on Security and privacy in
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"Enhancing Distributed Data Storage Security for Cloud
Computing Using TPA and AES Algorithm." In
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(ICCUBEA), 2015 International Conference on, pp. 35-
39. IEEE, 2015.
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Wenjing Lou. "Privacy-preserving multi-keyword ranked
search over encrypted cloud data." IEEE Transactions on
parallel and distributed systems 25, no. 1 (2014): 222233.
[6] Lordemann, David, Daniel Robinson, and Paul
Scheibe. "Method and system for establishing an audit
trail to protect objects distributed over a network." U.S.
Patent Application 09/952,696, filed September 14, 2001.
[7] Yang, Kan, and Xiaohua Jia. "An efficient and
secure dynamic auditing protocol for data storage in cloud
computing." IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed
systems 24, no. 9 (2013): 1717-1726.
[8] Li, Ling, Lin Xu, Jing Li, and Changchun Zhang.
"Study on the third-party audit in cloud storage service."
In Cloud and Service Computing (CSC), 2011
International Conference on, pp. 220-227. IEEE, 2011.
[9] Yu, Yong, Lei Niu, Guomin Yang, Yi Mu, and
Willy Susilo. "On the security of auditing mechanisms for
secure cloud storage." Future Generation Computer
Systems, 30 (2014): 127-132.
[10] Yang, Guangyang, Jia Yu, Wenting Shen,
Qianqian Su, Zhangjie Fu, and Rong Hao. "Enabling
public auditing for shared data in cloud storage supporting
identity privacy and traceability." Journal of Systems and
Software 113 (2016): 130-139.
The study entitled A new method based on
computer vision for non-intrusive orange peel sorting
by Juan Ignacio Arribas. (2017). Orange peel is used for
making jam and oil. For this purpose, orange samples
with high peel thickness are best. In order to predict peel
thickness in orange fruit, we present a system based the
image features, comprising: area, eccentricity, perimeter,
length/area, a blue value, green value, red value, wide,
contrast, texture, wide/area, wide/length, roughness, and
length.
Orange peel is used to make jam and oil. Orange peel
can be thick or thin. Thus, oranges with higher peel
thickness potentially have more oil and jam inside. But
how can one anticipate orange peel thickness non-
intrusively? Peel fruit grading provides information about
its peel thickness. The use of machine vision techniques
for the examination of vegetables and fruits has increased
during the last decade. Nowadays, many producers
around the world apply grading machines capable of pre-
grading fruits by mass, color, and size.
A novel identification solution based on the hybrid of
particle swarm optimization (PSO), genetic algorithm
(GA) and artificial neural network (ANN) is proposed. In
addition, principal component analysis (PCA) has been
applied to reduce the number of dimensions, optimization
technique has been applied to determine the optimal
setting for parameters of PSO, GA, and ANN. The
optimal level of factors was: Number of Neuron in the
first layer=7, Number of Neuron in the second layer=2,
Maximum Iteration=400, Crossover probability=0.7,
Mutation probability=0.1, and Swarm (Population)
Size=200. Results for prediction of orange peel thickness
based on levels that are achieved by Taguchi method were
evaluated by five performance measures: the coefficient
of determination ( 2 R ), mean squared error (MSE),
mean absolute error (MAE), sum square error (SSE), and
root mean square error (RMSE), reaching values of
0.8571, 0.0123, 0.0924, 1.392, and 0.1109, respectively.
The result of the proposed Hybrid PSO-GA-ANN
system parameters tuning Taguchi method was used in
order to statistically calibrate the parameters in the
algorithm. We implement these experiments under
MatLab (ver. R2014a) and run on a PC with 2.27GHz
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU and 4 GB of RAM memory.
Considered an orthogonal array with six factors and three
levels in Taguchi method is 27 L. The orthogonal array
27L and results of the experiment as the mean square
errors (MSE) are presented in Table II. The relative
percentage deviation (RPD) is used as a common
performance measure to parameter setting; 100 sol sol sol
Algorithm Min RPD Min u (3)
Where sol Algorithm results for a given algorithm and
sol Min is the minimum result for all experiments, [9].
Results for each level are shown in Fig. 8 and 9. Fig.9
shows the mean S/N ratio for each level of the factors.
The optimal level of factors A, B, C, D, E, and F become
3, 1, 2, 1, 1, and 3 respectively, being Number of Neuron
in first layer(A)=7, Number of Neuron in second
layer(B)=2, Maximum Iteration(C)=400, Crossover
probability(D)=0.7, Mutation probability(E)=0.1, and
Swarm (Population) Size(F)=200.
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orange using image processing combined with ANFIS,"
Measurement, vol. 46, pp. 3573±3580, 2013.
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system and artificial neural networks," Journal Food
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"Prediction of firmness and the soluble solids content of
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dynamic systems using principal component analysis
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The study entitled Intelligent Agent-based Expert
System for Blended Learning Evaluation by Maria
Viorela Muntean (2017). Nowadays there are a great
number of applications based on expert systems
implementing the expertise of a human academic
evaluator. Many of them refer to the self-evaluation of
students` academic performance. The actual research
targets the evaluation of academic courses from the
blended learning point of view. In this work, we present
the design and implementation of an Intelligent Agent-
based Expert System that uses a set of rules in order to
decide if a course respects or not the blended learning
strategies from students' perspective. A conclusion that the
proposed application is suitable for course quality
evaluation is finally made.
As concerning quality management in higher
education, there are a lot of studies regarding relationships
between students' knowledge level and learning methods
and strategies. Most of them target evaluation of students
in order to improve learning processes.
A multi-agent system and a competency-based
ontology are proposed in order to identify the student's
doubts and to direct them to the community members of a
Virtual Learning Environment. These members are
selected according to their profile in order to find the
persons that have the best skills and competencies to give
the suitable answers. Use intelligent agents as e-assistants
making the e-learning process to suit the need of the user
and to identify the user level of knowledge and the
learning style.
The result of the proposed multi-agent system that
evaluates courses in order to decide if contain or not
blended learning strategies. The evaluation is performed
by a StudentAgent and the decisions and computations are
made by an ExpertSystemAgent. The last one contains a
rule-based expert system that averages the scores given by
students for all considered course components. This agent
also decides if a course is a blended learning course by
computing a final score and by comparing the obtained
result with a globally defined value. In the end,
StudentAgent will be notified regarding the course
decision and the validity of the system and the viability of
the solution are proved.
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educational process", IEEE International Conference on
Soft Computing and Measurements (SCM), 2017 XX, 24-
26 May 2017, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2017.
[2] Kotova, E. E., "Application of intelligent agents
to control the process of blended learning in an
educational environment", 2016 IEEE V Forum Strategic
Partnership of Universities and Enterprises of Hi-Tech
Branches (Science. Education. Innovations), 16-18
November 2016, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2016.
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"Improving collaborative learning by personalization in
Virtual Learning Environments using agents and
competency-based ontology", 2012 Frontiers in Education
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System for Collaborative E-Learning", IEEE/ACS template classified accurately, this paper proposes an
International Conference on Computer Systems and improved PSO-SVM classification algorithm. Overcome
Applications 2008 (AICCSA 2008), 31 March-4 April the traditional PSO algorithm was easy to fall into the
2008, Doha, Qatar, 2008. local optimal problem. Through the Human-Computer
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Evolutionary Agent‐Based Systems", AIP Conference gesture data were used to control the sampling robot in
Proceedings, Volume 1117, 116, 2009, BICS 2008: real- time. It could be seen from the experimental results
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Bio‐ that the improved PSO-SVM classification algorithm to
Inspired Computational Methods Used for Solving the correct rate of recognition had been significantly
Difficult Problems: Development of Intelligent and improved, made the whole set of Human-Computer
Complex Systems, 5–7 November 2008, Tg. Mures Interaction system in the sampling robot real-time control
(Romania), 2008. more convenient and efficient, thus it reduced the number
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The study entitled Design of Human-Computer

Interaction Control System Based on Hand-Gesture
Recognition by Wang Zhi-heng, Cao Jiang-tao (2017).
A gesture recognition based Human-Computer Interaction
control system is developed via LabVIEW in this paper.
Furthermore, to solve the existing problems of lower
precision and poor real-time ability in gesture recognition
algorithm, an improved PSO-SVM classification
algorithm for hand-gesture recognition is proposed.

The existing problems of lower precision and poor

real-time ability in gesture recognition algorithm. There
are some problems just like the complex and unknown
space operating environment when studying the sample of
the extraterrestrial planet surface.
To solve the existing problems improved PSO-SVM
classification algorithm for hand-gesture recognition is
proposed. Firstly, the gesture sample data is collected by
using five bending sensors of the data glove, then, in order
to improve the recognized precision, the data collected is
preprocessed and the optimize the SVM kernel parameter
value is found by using the improved PSO algorithm.
Finally, the recognized hand-gesture is divided into
numbered 1-11 control status values, and sent to the
sample robot controller by wireless transmission module
and achieving the realization of sampling robot motion
control. The simulation results illustrate the effectiveness
of designed method on
This paper designed a Human-Computer
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network information. This article mainly analyzes the
present situation of computer network security problems,
analyzes the main source of computer security threats, and
puts forward some effective network security defense
technology, to maximize the guarantee the safety of
computer network information to provide a reliable
guarantee.

Computer network security, can cause extensive

damage is a computer virus, a virus attack is highly
contagious, also has high concealment, its destructive
potential is worthy of attention. Once the computer is
virus invasion, will affect the normal operation of the
system, but in the case of the failure to remove it is
possible to make the computer system collapse, leading to
loss of data, and caused an estimated losses.

To solve the problems or errors need to use the

firewall is a computer of a fence, it can effectively protect
the computer and network security. The following figure 1
is a firewall structure diagram. On the physical and
logical, a firewall is an analyzer, to analyze the
information from the Internet is damaging or threatening;
Also can effectively limit on the network traffic, and will
not need separation and isolation of information.

The result of Firewall can effectively prepare

computer dynamic information between internal network
and external Internet monitoring, effectively ensure the
security of computer information. Security vulnerability
defense is according to different application software and
adopted a defense technology, there are two main ways.
First, is the operating system and application software
installed, download the official patches, for timely update
and maintenance; The second is to give full play to the
role of the tools and professional tools, according to
different network connection port scanning, to ensure the
safety of computer network system.

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