Browsing by Author "Radovanovic, Aleksandar"

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    Concept Based Knowledge Discovery From Biomedical Literature
    (University of the Western Cape, 2009) Radovanovic, Aleksandar; Bajic, Vladimir
    Advancement in biomedical research and continuous growth of scientific literature available in electronic form, calls for innovative methods and tools for information management, knowledge discovery, and data integration. Many biomedical fields such as genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, genetics, and emerging disciplines like systems biology and conceptual biology require synergy between experimental, computational, data mining and text mining technologies. A large amount of biomedical information available in various repositories, such as the US National Library of Medicine Bibliographic Database, emerge as a potential source of textual data for knowledge discovery. Text mining and its application of natural language processing and machine learning technologies to problems of knowledge discovery, is one of the most challenging fields in bioinformatics. This thesis describes and introduces novel methods for knowledge discovery and presents a software system that is able to extract information from biomedical literature, review interesting connections between various biomedical concepts and in so doing, generates new hypotheses. The experimental results obtained by using methods described in this thesis, are compared to currently published results obtained by other methods and a number of case studies are described. This thesis shows how the technology presented can be integrated with the researchers' own knowledge, experimentation and observations for optimal progression of scientific research.
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    Ellection markup language (EML) based tele-voting system
    (University of the Western Cape, 2009) Gong, XiangQi; Radovanovic, Aleksandar; Dept. of Computer Science; Faculty of Science
    Elections are one of the most fundamental activities of a democratic society. As is the case in any other aspect of life, developments in technology have resulted changes in the voting procedure from using the traditional paper-based voting to voting by use of electronic means, or e-voting. E-voting involves using different forms of electronic means like; voting machines, voting via the Internet, telephone, SMS and digital interactive television. This thesis concerns voting by telephone, or televoting, it starts by giving a brief overview and evaluation of various models and technologies that are implemented within such systems. The aspects of televoting that have been investigated are technologies that provide a voice interface to the voter and conduct the voting process, namely the Election Markup Language (EML), Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS).
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    SIP-based location service provision
    (University of the Western Cape, 2005) Wu, YanHao; Radovanovic, Aleksandar; Tucker, William; Dept. of Computer Science; Faculty of Science
    Location-based service (LBS) is a geographical location-related service that provides highly personalized services for users. It is a platform for network operators to provide new and innovative ways of increasing profits from new services. With the rapidly growing trend toward LBS, there is a need for standard LBS protocols. This thesis started with introducing the Internet Engineering Task Force GEOPRIV working group, which endeavors to provide standard LBS protocols capable of transferring geographic location information for diverse location-aware applications. Through careful observation, it was found that Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is well suited to the GEOPRIV requirements. The aim of this research was therefore to explore the possibility of the integration of LBS and the SIP protocol and, to some extent fulfill the GEOPRIV requirements.