...Chapter 1 The Problem and its Background INTRODUCTION The University of Cagayan Valley (UCV), formerly known as the Cagayan Colleges Tuguegarao (CCT) and Cagayan Teachers College (CTC), was founded in April 1948k from the rubbles and devastating aftermath of World War II. The country was still in economic chaos; most schools have been destroyed or burned and were being built and rehabilitated. There was a dearth of teachers all over the country and people were just getting over their travails and horrifying experiences during the war. It was during the long war years while on evacuation that Atty.Matias Ponce Perez Sr. concretized his life-long dream and promise to the Cagayan electorate in the early 30’s of founding a school which can offer affordable higher education. At that time, there were no institutions of higher learning in Tuguegarao nor in nearby areas, have that one to go to Manila to obtain a college education. The University of Cagayan Valley started modestly. Its course offering during its first year of academic operation limited to Elementary Teacher’s Certificate. Soon after, other courses were offered. The imperative to innovate, the reason to create faster, stronger, better solutions that advance society in significant ways these are the forces driving the researchers to study at expanding the realm of what’s possible. Every Election happened in a country, school or in community people doubted how their votes secured in a ballot or how can they be sure...
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...Chapter 1 Introduction Problem and Background of the Study AMA Computer College Campus was founded last June 1999 with SEC. Reg. No. 183768 under the leadership of its President and founding Chairman of the Board, Mr. Amable Mendoza Aguiluz V, it variably offers 4 year degree courses: BS Computer Science, BS Computer Engineering, BS Information Technology, BS Accountancy and other technical courses. The core objective and desire of its founder is to enable the vast majority of the youth and masses to acquire international-level education at a very affordable local cost, thus acquiring available viable employment upon completion. Its graduates not limited to territorial constraints but possibly venture into foreign companies. Thus AMA Computer College was born into reality at Plaza Nova building, Santiago Boulevard General Santos City. The following are the school director after its first operation, Ms. Glenda Guirrero, Mr. Pareja, succeeded by Mr. Alcaraz, Mr. Lornito Beaniza and Presently Ms. Leah Y. Tolimao, AMA Computer College – Gensan campus has acquired a nationwide status on the Philippine archipelago. It strives to soon acquire Socsargen area under the leadership of school BS Information Technology, BS Computer Science, and BS Electronics and Communication Engineering. Computer Programming was implemented under Pangulong Gloria Scholarship Program. Software developer in Java and Micro.net will soon to be offered this school year 2009-2010. AMA Computer...
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...Automated Election System Does automation = clean elections? Possible Problems: Preliminary Results Technical Briefing What is the AES? l “A system using appropriate technology which has been demonstrated in the voting, counting, consolidating, canvassing, and transmission of election result, and other electoral process” process” Public perception of the AES It would lead to clean elections l Cheating would be impossible in an automated election l AES System l Election Management System (EMS) Configuration of precinct data l Election Mark– Up Language (EML) Mark– l l Precinct– Precinct–Count Optical Scan (PCOS) System l Precinct Machine BOC Computer l Consolidation / Canvassing System (CCS) l PCOS Machine SMARTMATIC AUTOMATED ELECTION SYSTEM (SAES 1800) SAES 1800 lPrecinct Count Optical Scan / Optical Mark Reader (OMR) • Detects the absence or presence of a mark in predefined positions on a form SAES 1800 Components RF Key Thermal Printer •2-1/4 inch roll paper •Rated to last 5 years Digital Scanner •4-bit mono – color scanner •16 shades of gray Processor And Memory Not Specified Compact Flash (CF) Card Input / Output Ports •CF Card Reader •UTP Ethernet Port •Disabled USB •RJ – 11 Modem Port Ballot Box Cast and Return •Buttons Disabled Display • Touch screen, mono-color display •Quarter VGA in size, 320x240 pixels Ballot Boxes with Transparent Panels Compartments the Ballot Box in Transparent Panels ...
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...School, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Engineering in Software Engineering Department of Computer Science Prepared by Hakan Evecek CS701 Dr. Chow Spring 2007 This project for the Masters of Engineering in Software Engineer degree by Hakan Evecek has been approved for the Department of Computer Science By _______________________________________________________ Dr. C. Edward Chow, Chair _______________________________________________________ Dr. Richard Weiner _______________________________________________________ Dr. Xiaobo Zhou Date Table of Contents Online E-Voting System Project Documentation 4 Abstract 6 1. Introduction 7 2. E-Voting System Related Literature 9 2.1. Public Key Cryptography 9 2.2. Homomorphic Encryption 10 2.3. Zero Knowledge Proofs 10 2.4. Threshold Cryptography 10 2.5. Cryptographic Voting Protocol 11 2.6. Issues in secure e-voting system 12 2.7. Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) 13 2.8. Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT) 14 3. Online E-Voting System Project Description 17 3.1. Paillier Threshold Crytosystem Web Services Architecture and Design 17 4. Online E-Voting Prototype System 22 4.1. E-Voting System Overview 22 4.1.1 User Login 23 4.1.2. Election Set-Up...
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...Literature review The American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) is a group of educational institutions that have made efforts to reduce GHG emissions from their campuses, and supported higher education level researches related to climate change. As a participating institution Chatham University is required to submit reports and create programs to advance the sustainability on campus. Chatham as a member and by signing the ACUPCC they commit to eliminate operational greenhouse gas (GHG) emission, to provide the education, research, and community engagement to enable the rest of society to do the same to publicly report progress on an annual basis. Signed in 2007, this propelled the need to be carbon net zero. To effectively understand the entire process, one must grasp the concept of how a solar panel actually works. Paul Kruger, Author of Alternative Energy Resources “The Quest for sustainable energy”, and Dan Chiras, author of The Homeowner’s guide to renewable energy, illustrates how it work. Sunlight and Solar radiation hits the solar panel and the Adjacent layers. He describes them as N type semiconductors and P type Semiconductors. Each layer has different charges (Positive and negative) and sandwiched by Silicon layers. The light rays activate the process which adds the electric field by forcing electrons around causing excess electrons to be available. From this, components take the elections and convert the energy/flow into electric power...
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...to any resources or services available for use to create a general security for that institution. In an educational institution, a clearance signifies that a student is cleared from all his requirements and liabilities so that he can proceed to the next step on any transaction or process that he or she is undertaking. Student clearance is often used during the end of a school year or semester to verify if the student has paid all his or her fines and submitted all requirements. This prevents problems that might occur due to the unsettled school requirements. The AMA Computer College General Santos City is a small privately owned school that offers four courses in computer and information technology. It is a branch of the AMA Computer University and is located in J.P Laurel Avenue, General Santos City. Being a member of the AMA Education System, the school uses the same system as that of the main campuses. Although having a computerized system, it does not have an integrated student clearance system. The school currently uses a manual clearance system which involves a clearance form printed on paper that is then signed by authorized school personnel. Students are required to approach each personnel to check for any requirements not cleared. A big part of it comes from the Student Council and some departments of the school that have none of their records linked to the system of the School Registrar. This makes for a faulty system since the students can just forge the signatures...
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...1 Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE Introduction Now more than ever, technology is changing on how we vote. Voting schemes have evolved from counting hands on early days to systems that includes papers, punch cards, mechanical levers and optical machines. Electronic voting systems provide some characteristic different from the traditional voting technique. As an effect of vast change in modern technology, several techniques in voting arises in order to solve various drawbacks like time consuming and large volume of paper works can be consumed. So the solutions are televoting, android phone voting and web voting. Televoting was also known as voting via SMS text messages. Mobile phone connects through GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) in which it searches for cells in the immediate vicinity. Televoting uses a format in which the public viewer follows and replies error whenever they send an invalid format. Like in a real television shows, televoting was a very common method that opens the public to vote its favorite contestant to remain and not to be evicted. The outcome will be decided by the number of votes in which a contestant garners. On the other hand, android phone voting and web voting has this similarity. Both use an internet in order to gain access and make vote counts. In web voting, it uses a browser to view the page and users just simply browse, follow some steps and vote, and if successful, the vote is counted. The most common method before a user...
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...Social Networking on the Internet Soc/105 University of Phoenix February 9, 2010 Social Networking on the Internet Social networking on the Internet started with mostly a bunch of hobbyist in the 70s using the Bulletin Board System (BBS) for sharing files, games, and photos that were usually pirated. The BBS lasted throughout the 80s to the mid-90s. In 1995 Yahoo and Amazon set up shop and Classmates.com became the first popular social networking site, with 40 million registered users today. The Internet has sites in the likes of Facebook, Myspace, YouTube, and others that people can use for social, personal, political, and even religious reasons to connect around the world for Social networking purposes. Social networking has changed the way people live their lives. People just sit in front of their computers chatting, updating, or even watching videos like mindless zombies. In some ways its good and other ways its bad. “More than anything else, social sites provide better ways to keep in touch with our classmates, friends, and family” and on the other hand, “Identity theft and fraud are two bothersome concerns that have come out of social networking sites” (JJC13, n.d.). More people are using the Internet for social networking on more of a personal note. People who use social networking for personal reasons are most likely to use the Internet for entertainment, communication, and to share like-minded ideas. Sports fans use sites like Footballsfutre.com to communicate...
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...Chapter I THE PROBLEM AND REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES Introduction: Some schools right now, especially those with huge numbers of students who are not yet using computerized based grading system has difficulty/problems concerning the records of grades of the students. The grades are the important record to keep even for the longest time for the referral and credentials of the student to enter their next level of attaining their goals. It is the tract record that recognizes of one student, this maybe use for analyzing of your attitude and values. Manual computation is very prompt to risk for any circumstances. It is time consuming in terms of recording grades, computation using of calculator. If some records are lost, they never retrieve it in case of unexpected calamity. Accuracy and security is not been so defined. Grading System is the most commonly used in computing and analyzing the performance, talent and skills of students. It is designed to provide incentive reward for achievement and assist in identifying problems of the student. The Computerized Grading System will help both the faculty staffs and the students to have easy access on the records and past records, the easier way. The said system will also lessen the staffs on consuming too much time recording and effort locating records of the students. It will also be connected to the schools’ website (if...
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...2.4 LOCAL LITERATURE 2.4.1 Electronic Voting Literature Review Computer scientists who have done work in, or are interested in, electronic voting all seem to agree on two things: * Internet voting does not meet the requirements for public elections * Currently widely-deployed voting systems need improvement Voting on the Internet using every day PC's offers only weak security, but its main disadvantages are in the areas of anonymity and protection against coercion and/or vote selling. It's such a truly bad idea that there seems to be no credible academic effort to deploy it at all. The Presidential elections of 2000 brought national attention to problems with current American methods of casting and counting votes in public elections. Most people believe that the current system should be changed; there is much disagreement on how such changes should be made. The MIT/Caltech researchers [1] “see a promising future for electronic voting, despite its problems today” (under a few conditions). They advocate using the methods currently in use which result in the lowest average numbers of “uncounted, unmarked, and spoiled ballots,” like in-precinct optical scanning. Their report even proposes a framework for new voting system with a decentralized, modular design. Other researchers have done work in electronic voting; while they may not explicitly mention voting from remote poll sites, their work is nonetheless relevant to any effort at designing or implementing...
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...C YBER-PHYSIC AL-SOCIAL SYS TE MS Editor: Daniel Zeng, University of Arizona, zeng@email.arizona.edu Harnessing the Crowdsourcing Power of Social Media for Disaster Relief Huiji Gao and Geoffrey Barbier, Arizona State University Rebecca Goolsby, US Office of Naval Research S ocial media has recently played a critical role in natural disasters as an informa- tion propagator that can be leveraged for disaster relief. After the catastrophic Haiti earthquake on 12 January 2010, people published numerous texts and photos about their personal experiences during the earthquake via social media sites such as Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, and blogs, and videos were posted on YouTube. In just 48 hours, the Red Cross received US$8 million in donations directly from texts,1 which exemplifies one benefit of the powerful propagation capability of social media sites. Survivors also use social media sites to keep in touch with the world after a disaster. The jammed mobile phone network in Japan caused by the recent tsunami and earthquake made it difficult for people to communicate with each other. In response, they used Twitter, Facebook, Skype, and local Japanese social networks to communicate and keep in touch with their loved ones.2 Although social media can positively impact disaster relief efforts, it does not provide an inherent coordination capability for easily coordinating and sharing information, resources, and plans among disparate relief organizations...
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...Performance Management Framework and Automated Balanced Scorecard in a Medical Devices Company [pic] Implementation Case Study Becton Dickinson ANZ Copyright This publication is © Copyright 2004 ASVP Consulting Pty Ltd with all rights reserved. Except to the extent of the uses permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means including information storage and retrieval systems, without the prior written consent of ASVP Consulting Pty Ltd. Trade Marks Advanced Strategic Value Propositions™ is a trade mark of ASVP Consulting Pty Ltd. PulseSuite®, PulseManager®, PulseFinder® and Primed Online® are registered trade marks of Primed Online Pty Ltd. PulseProject™ is a trade mark of Primed Online Pty Ltd. Becton Dickinson, BD, and Helping All People Lead Healthy Lives are trademarks of Becton Dickinson Pty Ltd. Acknowledgements The kind assistance of Michael Lyon, CEO and the management team of BD Australia, and Grant Alecock, General Manager, and the management team of BD NZ is gratefully acknowledged. ASVP Consulting Pty Ltd ASVP Consulting Pty Ltd has written this independent case study on the implementation of a Balanced Scorecard Framework Solution in order to quantify the benefits accruing to BD and to highlight the potential benefits available to other organisations considering the implementation of an Automated Balanced Scorecard Framework or...
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...In Search of the Black Swan: Analysis of the Statistical Evidence of Electoral Fraud in Venezuela Ricardo Hausmann Harvard University Roberto Rigobón Massachusetts Institute of Technology September 3, 2004 *This study was requested by Súmate who also provided the databases we used. We appreciate the great information gathering effort carried out by this organization. We are equally indebted to a hard working collaborator who, because of institutional reasons, must remain anonymous. We thank Andrés Velasco as well for his useful comments. The opinions expressed in this report and the errors we may have incurred are our responsibility and do not compromise either Súmate, or the universities to which we belong. 1 Abstract This study analyzes diverse hypotheses of electronic fraud in the Recall Referendum celebrated in Venezuela on August 15, 2004. We define fraud as the difference between the elector’s intent, and the official vote tally. Our null hypothesis is that there was no fraud, and we attempt to search for evidence that will allow us to reject this hypothesis. We reject the hypothesis that fraud was committed by applying numerical maximums to machines in some precincts. Equally, we discard any hypothesis that implies altering some machines and not others, at each electoral precinct, because the variation patterns between machines at each precinct are normal. However, the statistical evidence is compatible with the occurrence of fraud that has affected every machine...
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...Employment Conflict Management Worksheet Musa Aydemir University of phoenix Employment Conflict Management Concepts Worksheet Concept Application of Concept in Scenario Citation of Concept in Reading Personal Experience in your Organization Imbalanced power County government is shaken by a major reorganization as recently-elected County Clerk of Court Stan Accord follows through on a campaign promise of ‘efficiency and accountability’ by eliminating 15 jobs in the office of County Clerk of Court. Accord has eliminated all the jobs associated with data records management and computer systems, replacing them with contracted services from a competitive bid. One of the more controversial layoffs is Deputy Clerk of Court Dennis Munger, who has had a strained relationship with County Clerk Accord since Accord beat Munger in last November’s election. Accord says that Munger’s position, like all county employees, is an “at will” job with no job protection, and that he has violated no statutes or employee rights in eliminating the jobs, including Munger‘s. "In most relationships, there are times when the participants become aware of discrepancies in their relative power with one another. If one party has more power than the other, the conflict is unbalanced; many of the choices the parties then make are attempts to alter these imbalances. Keep in mind that who has power is always a relative judgment—each party has sources of power even during times of power imbalance...
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...Graham Katz,1 Kristen Summers,1 Chris Ackermann,1 Ilya Zavorin,1 Zunsik Lim,1 Sathappan Muthiah,2 Patrick Butler,2 Nathan Self,2 Liang Zhao,2 Chang-Tien Lu,2 Rupinder Paul Khandpur,2 Youssef Fayed,3 and Naren Ramakrishnan2 Abstract Developed under the Intelligence Advanced Research Project Activity Open Source Indicators program, Early Model Based Event Recognition using Surrogates (EMBERS) is a large-scale big data analytics system for forecasting significant societal events, such as civil unrest events on the basis of continuous, automated analysis of large volumes of publicly available data. It has been operational since November 2012 and delivers approximately 50 predictions each day for countries of Latin America. EMBERS is built on a streaming, scalable, loosely coupled, shared-nothing architecture using ZeroMQ as its messaging backbone and JSON as its wire data format. It is deployed on Amazon Web Services using an entirely automated deployment process. We describe the architecture of the system, some of the design tradeoffs encountered during development, and specifics of the machine learning models underlying EMBERS. We also present a detailed prospective evaluation of EMBERS in forecasting significant societal events in the past 2 years. Introduction Anticipatory intelligence is considered to be one of the next frontiers of ‘‘big data’’ research, wherein myriad data streams are fused together to generate predictions of critical societal events. One of the...
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