Understanding the evacuation mechanism has been important subject nowadays in order to model the simulation on the pedestrian behavior in crowd evacuation for the case study of fire emergency scenario in the building. Almost two decades the interest of Social Force Model (SFM) in pedestrian traffic increased significantly as a microscopic model to have a realistic simulation model. The social interactions between the pedestrian is emergent phenomena and very hard to capture, rare and evasive maneuvers in order to avoid collisions between the agents or so called as pedestrians. SFM has been chosen to simulate and modeling the case study based on the crowd dynamic, pedestrian dynamic and evacuation dynamic.
The increasing number of people with hearing-impaired in Malaysia attracts to produce a variety of technologies, which can assist the deaf people in carrying out their tasks in everyday life as normal people. New technology can help to decrease the difficulty that hearing-impaired people faces in daily life to use the information services like normal people. Thus, this paper focuses on: i) developing a new multimedia courseware for preschool students with hearing problem, and ii) comparing the deaf student's learning performance before and after using the courseware. Four modules were developed for e-MSL courseware consist of alphabets, numbers, words and quizzes with colorful text, animation, sounds, video and pictures using Malaysian Sign Language (MSL). Sekolah Rendah Pendidikan Khas (SRPK) Indera Mahkota II, Kuantan has been chosen as the case study for data collection and for investigating the student learning performance on the courseware. The survey results show that 100% of the respondents have agreed that using e-MSL courseware managed to reduce the student learning time more than 80%. The result has indicated that students have shown better learning performance using e-MSL compared to traditional learning.
Sustainability is a concern that has been raised in many domains especially in institutions of higher learning such as universities. Hence, universities are implementing Green practices to promote sustainability. Similarly Green practice implementation in universities for attaining sustainability has been the priority for most universities across the world, mainly in ensuring the effectiveness and efficiency of Information Technology (IT) related service. Over the years, a few approaches have been developed to facilitate Green practice in institutions of higher learning, however these approaches are not autonomous and do not provide adequate information on Green implementation initiatives. Moreover, institutions of higher learning utilize manual checklist assessment questionnaire to evaluate their current Green practice. Therefore, this study proposes a system model that integrates hybrid multi-agent and Case Based Reasoning (CBR). The CBR technique facilitates Green implementation by providing information on how institution of higher learning can adopt Green practices initiative, whereas software agents autonomously assess the current Green practice initiative implemented in institutions of higher learning. Findings from this paper show how the hybrid multi-agent and CBR aid universities implement Green practice for sustainability attainment in institutions of higher learning.
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