https://hdl.handle.net/10182/45 2018-01-25T15:19:43Z https://hdl.handle.net/10182/8702 Web routers: an explorative performance review Cattermole, Richard In society, today almost everybody has used the internet and by extension the World Wide Web. Over the past 30 years a lot of work has gone into infrastructure creation for the World Wide Web. A common piece of infrastructure for the World Wide Web is web servers. Requests generated by users are then sent to the webserver which decodes it for the routing mechanism. When used appropriately it is nearly transparent to a profiler, when it isn’t it can slow down a website significantly. The routing mechanism can have many different designs, and this research compares + benchmark comment implementations regarding performance. Tree based approaches are found to offer the best performance with least overhead compared to regular expression engine based approaches. 2017-06-27T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10182/8166 Leading different dimensions of organization performance through human resource management practices Mansouri, N.; Goher, Khaled The primary purpose of this research work is to find out how human resource management practices including training, staffing, performance appraisal, participation, and reward system can affect the performance of Malaysian Information and Communication Technology (ICT) companies. Company’s performance is identified in this work in terms of innovation, learning and growth, and internal process. The results of analysis of 223 gathered data showed that human resource management practices have significant and positive impact on innovation, learning and growth, and internal process. In addition, this study showed that performance components can affect each other significantly and positively. In this research work, the data is collected through questionnaire and analyzed by Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software. Moreover, the respondents of this research work are the employees of small and medium size ICT companies located in Cyberjaya, Malaysia. 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10182/8154 Towards ethical framework for personal care robots: review and reflection Mansouri, N.; Goher, Khaled In recent decades, robots have been used noticeably at various industries. Autonomous robots have been embedded in human lives especially in elderly and disabled lives. Elderly population is growing worldwide significantly; therefore there is an increased need of personal care robots to enhance mobility and to promote independence. A great number of aging and disabled hold appeals for using robots in daily routine tasks as well as for various healthcare matters. It is essential to follow a proper framework in ethics of robot design to fulfill individual needs, whilst considering potential harmful effects of robots. This paper primarily focuses on the existing issues in robot ethics including general ethics theories and ethics frameworks for robots. Consequentialism ethics will be recommended to be applied in robot ethics frameworks. 2016-10-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10182/8153 Walking aids for older adults: review of end-user needs Mansouri, N.; Goher, Khaled Aged population of senior citizens is growing noticeably at different regions in the world. Consequently, there are great numbers of demands for healthcare services. One of the services is assistive walking devices which have important role in mobility, stability, walking, and independency of older adults. Although various type of walking devices are available for older adults, yet fall incidents with severe injuries take place. Therefore, it is critical to analyze fall incidents, find out fall factors, and assess walking devices to minimize fall. This paper mainly focuses on risk factors of fall, considerable role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in walking devices, and also analyzes fall incidents with the purpose of understanding how fall incidents take place. This paper assists to have a clear understanding about fall incidents and its associated injuries. 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z