Ganiyu Rafiu Adesina

Ladoke Akintola University of Technology · Department of Computer Science and Engineering

The key lubricants for the necessary functioning of any organization are money, machines, time, and humans. Human resources is the most important ingredient among them. Most projects fail because of ineptitude of those who administer the project, notably in government projects. Alternatively, advertisement for expert positions suffers as a result o...

Computer-Based Test (CBT) system has become the order of the day in terms of assessing examinee capability in examinations which is not limited to students but also to job seekers because of its instant delivery of results.This paper studied each event that contributed to the adoption of CBT in the tertiary institutions and the correlation between...

Scheduling vehicles at multiple intersections remain an issue of concern in road traffic control. Traffic lights have been widely employed in many countries, however, determining the best intersection to grant access to using the number of vehicles present as a yardstick needs to be improved on. Therefore, this article presents the design of a vehi...

Grammar-checking is a concept of interest in many natural language environments. It typically involves the evaluation of the grammaticality of transmitted messages, be it written or verbal. Automated grammaticality evaluation is the examination of natural language text for grammatical accuracy using computer software. The current study examined dif...

The concept of automated grammar evaluation of natural language texts is one that has attracted significant interests in the natural language processing community. It is the examination of natural language text for grammatical accuracy using computer software. The current work is a comparative study of different deep and shallow parsing techniques...

Numerous efforts are being made yearly by researchers to improve the production flow, planning and scheduling of food manufacturing systems through the use of modelling to meet both current and future market demands. In this paper, a Hierarchical Timed Coloured Petri Nets (HTCPN) model was developed for bakery production system using Ladoke Akintol...

Inbound call centres are centralized offices which are operated by modern organizations to administer incoming product supports or information inquiries from consumers. In this paper, a model for an inbound call centre, which is characterized by agent utilization and call abandon rates, was developed using Hierarchical Timed Coloured Petri Nets (HT...

The key lubricants for the necessary functioning of any organization are money, machines, time, and humans. Human resource is the most important ingredient among them. Most projects fail because of ineptitude of those who administer the project, notably in government projects. Alternatively, advertisement for expert positions suffers as a result of...

During Nigerian 2015 general elections, in an attempt to exercise their civic rights in voting for the candidates of their choices, many electorates exercised the limitations of their patience by tiredly waiting on queue for their turn at the poll centers. In order to study the aforementioned scenario, this paper carried out a simulation based anal...

Measuring the complexity of software has been an insoluble problem in software engineering. Complexity measures can be used to predict critical information about testability of software system from automatic analysis of the source code. In this paper, Improved Cognitive Complexity Metric (ICCM) is applied on C programming language. Since C is a pro...

One of the foremost sectors that have shaped the socioeconomic development of most countries is agriculture. Over the years, the benefits accruing from the widespread adoption and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in agriculture includes increasing people’s knowledge and practice of agricultural processes and hence improving...

Concerted efforts are being made yearly by researchers to improve food manufacturing systems through modelling in order to meet current and future market demands. However, most existing empirical studies are limited to development of non-modular models for multi-process food manufacturing systems. Hence, in this paper, a Hierarchical Timed Coloured...

This paper presents the development of a microcontroller based motor speed control system using Intel 8051. The motor speed control system under consideration entails a closed loop real time control system, where a very high resolution optical encoder is coupled to the motor shaft to provide the feedback speed signal via the microcontroller (Intel...

Significant investments are being made yearly to improve service quality and delivery in banking systems to minimise customers' dissatisfactions with long waiting time due to overcrowding. However, most existing empirical studies to address this problem employed the method where the system was modelled and then developed a program that will simulat...

Uniformed search (also called blind search) is a technique that has no information about its domain and the only thing that it can do is to distinguish a non-goal state from a goal state. The efficiency of bidirectional, breadth first, depth first, iterative deepening and uniform cost search in terms of time taken, memory usage and number of nodes...

The impact of road public transport in urban transportation cannot be ignored, however, the quality of services provided is not high enough. This has made it unattractive to prospective passengers and less competitive to private transport. One of the ways of resolving these challenges with a view to increasing the quality of service is by the provi...

Significant investments are being made yearly to improve service quality and delivery in banking systems to minimise customers' dissatisfactions with long waiting time due to overcrowding. However, most existing empirical studies to address this problem employed the method where the system was modelled and then developed a program that will simulat...

There exist several natural language processing systems that focus on checking the grammaticality (grammatical correctness or incorrectness) of natural language texts. Studies however showed that most existing systems do not assign specific scores to the grammaticality of the analysed text. Such scores would for instance prove very useful to second...

Cognitive informatics helps in comprehending the software characteristics and its complexity measures can be used to predict critical information about testability of software system. In this paper, a cognitive complexity metric for C++ programming language is formulated. Since C++ is an object – oriented language, the cognitive complexity metric i...

Face recognition has been an active research area in the pattern recognition and computer vision domains due to its many potential applications in surveillance, credit cards, passport and security. However, the problem of correct method of partitioning the face data into train and test set has always been a challenge to the development of a robust...

It is generally considered that a key component of electronic government in the future will be electronic voting, as a means of facilitating the participation of citizens in elections and public debates. The Nigerian 2015 general elections witnessed the use of electronic voters' register, permanent voters' card (PVC) and smart card readers for auth...

Grammaticality is a concept within the fields of Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics that deals with the measure of grammatical correctness or incorrectness of a natural language expression. Among the methods employed for grammaticality evaluation, handcrafted grammar is the most precise. The major drawback of handcrafted gram...

Grammaticality is a concept within the fields of Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics that deals with the measure of grammatical correctness or incorrectness of a natural language expression. Among the methods employed for grammaticality evaluation, handcrafted grammar is the most precise. The major drawback of handcrafted gram...

Voting systems are complex systems that involve activities that take place before, during and after election. The world over, automation of voting systems has attracted the attention of academia and industry because voting system is fundamental to the success of any democratic process. In this paper, Hierarchical Timed Coloured Petri Nets (HTCPN) f...

Voting systems are complex systems that involve activities that take place before, during and after election. The world over, automation of voting systems has attracted the attention of academia and industry because voting system is fundamental to the success of any democratic process. In this paper, Hierarchical Timed Coloured Petri Nets (HTCPN) f...

In this paper, an impact assessment algorithm for evaluating the adoption of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in basic education through Cross-impact method was implemented and analyzed. The implementation of the algorithm was carried out using C# programming language while its qualitative evaluation was explored through analysis of v...

In many countries, the adoption of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in basic education has been continuously linked to higher efficiency, productivity, and educational outcomes, including quality of cognitive, creative and innovative thinking. This paper focuses on the development of an impact assessment algorithm for evaluating the a...

Hospital deals with human lives, which are often at risk and where everything depends on quick response to diverse medical conditions. Thus, the need for efficient and effective management of patient care flow processes in a hospital is being one of the main leading goals in health sector.In this paper,a Timed Coloured Petri Nets (TCPN) formalism i...

Feature dimensionality reduction is the process of minimizing the number of features in high dimensional feature space. It encompasses two vital approaches: feature extraction and feature selection. In face recognition domain, widely adopted face dimensionality reduction techniques include Principal component analysis, Discrete wavelet transform, L...

Nigeria 3 . ABSTRACT: The need for a more efficient transit system has led transport authorities in urban centres to implement Automatic Vehicle Location Systems (AVLS). This enables transport authorities to observe, collect and analyze location information about a commuter vehicle in real time and transmit this information to the transport managem...

Biometric applications are faced with enormous performance challenges due to submission of low quality facial images. Previous research studies used only one property of the face or one feature within the recognition process to assess facial image quality, others employed expensive and cumbersome partial or no-reference subjective quality assessmen...

Earlier mobile communication technologies were dominated by vertically integrated service provision which are highly bounded mainly to voice and short message services that are organized in a monopolistic competition between few mobile virtual network operators, service providers and enhanced service providers. In the recent years, however, radical...

In this paper, we design and develop a real test bed platform based on wireless sensor network (WSN) integrated with camera sensors for security surveillance, identification and classification of known and unknown objects in the community. Two categories of camera sensor nodes were integrated: fixed camera nodes and mobile camera nodes, were deploy...

The need to reduce the curse of dimensionality has spurred active research in the field of pattern recognition and machine learning. High dimensional data culminates in redundant as well as discriminant features. A vast amount of related literature offered the use of pattern classification methods such as Neural Network, Adaboost, Principal Compone...

The control of traffic at road junction, which was done purely by human effort, proves to be inefficient owing to the increasing rate of both motorists as well as the complexity of road networks. This inadequacy brought about the use of discrete solid-state electronics up to the usage of a computer controlled microprocessor, but the intelligence of...

This paper presents the development of a microcontroller based motor speed control system using Intel 8051. The motor speed control system under consideration entails a closed loop real time control system, where a very high resolution optical encoder is coupled to the motor shaft to provide the feedback speed signal via the microcontroller (Intel...

Earlier mobile communication technologies were dominated by vertically integrated service provision which are highly bounded mainly to voice and short message services that are organized in a monopolistic competition between few mobile virtual network operators, service providers and enhanced service providers. In the recent years, however, radical...

Elections and voting are fundamental to any consensus-based society. They are one of the most critical functions of democracy. There are a number of voting systems adopted all over the world with each of them having its peculiar problems. The manual voting system still appears prominent among the developed and developing nations, but with considera...

This paper focuses on the use of Timed Coloured Petri Nets (TCPN) to model a multi-phase traffic light controlled cross-type intersection using cross-type junction of fixed signal timing plan located in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria, as a case study. The validation of developed TCPN model is explored by carrying out a statistical analys...

Electronic voting has been attracting considerable attention during the last years. The interest in e-voting is based on one hand upon interest and attention devoted to e-government, e-democracy, e-governance, etc. On the other hand, interest in e-voting is founded in problems with domestic election systems, e.g. violence, intimidation, ballot stuf...

Household power management system provides a means of controlling home appliances remotely using mobile phone. In this paper, we mainly focus on design and implementation of a GSM based household power management system to remotely control at most ten home appliances via a mobile phone connected to an automated device's microcontroller using wirele...

In this paper, we analyze Timed Coloured Petri Net (TCPN) models of two isolated multi-phase traffic light controlled Cross-type and T-type intersections with associated fixed signal timing plans using place invariant analysis method. One of the strengths of Timed Coloured Petri Nets is the availability of the aforementioned method for analyzing a...

Majority of the conventional voting techniques have been employed over the years in elections. Each of these techniques had attendant short comings. The existing conventional voting systems have been subjected to gross abuse and irregularities. Electronic voting which is emerging as an alternative to these conventional voting systems, though highly...

In many countries, traffic signal control is one of the most cost effective means of improving urban mobility. Nevertheless, the signal control can be grouped into two principal classes, namely traffic-response and fixed-time. Precisely, a traffic response signal controller changes timing plan in real time according to traffic conditions while a fi...

The rapid advancement in information and communications technologies has given rise to new applications that were impossible just few years ago. One of these applications is e-voting. The term "e-voting" is defined as any voting method where the voter's intention is expressed or collected by electronic means. This paper details the requirements, de...

Majority of the conventional voting techniques have been employed over the years in elections. Each of these techniques had attendant short comings. The existing conventional voting systems have been subjected to gross abuse and irregularities. Electronic voting which is emerging as an alternative to these conventional voting systems, though highly...

The emergence of traffic and subsequently traffic congestion in urban road networks are increasing worldwide with the growing number of vehicles. In the worst case, traffic congestion results in excess delays, reduced safety and increased environmental pollution. As a result, to proffer effective solutions to the aforementioned congestion problems,...

This work involves evaluation of three heuristics which are often used to solve the VRP namely; nearest insertion, nearest neighbour, and tour improvement heuristics using computer execution time, implementation complexity and asymptotic time complexity. The research findings of this work have established that the nearest neighbour heuristic is the...

Petri nets were devised for use in the modelling of a specific class of problems. Typical situations that can be modelled by Petri nets are synchronization, sequentiality, concurrency and conflict. This paper focuses on a low-level language program representation by means of Petri nets. In particular, Petri net formalisms were explored with emphasi...

The present work deals with the application of Petri nets in modelling and analysis of a concurrent system – a producer-consumer system with a bounded buffer. In particular, a Petri net model was developed for the aforementioned system while the analysis of the developed model was carried out using reachability tree method in a bid to determine the...

Network flow problems are problems that can be solved using different mathematical techniques. The already established techniques include Stepping Stone Method, Simplex Method, Nothwest-Corner-Rule, Least-Cost Method and many more. Determining the minimum cost high-tension line between a large generating station and a regional power distribution ne...