IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES 2015 IPN – IWNEST KOTA KINABALU KOTA KINABALU, MALAYSIA JANUARY 9-10, 2015 IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES Welcome to IPN-IWNEST 2015 Kota Kinabalu Conferences Dear Professor, Dr and distinguished delegates, Welcome to the IPN - IWNEST 2015 Conferences in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. On behalf of International Postgraduate Network (IPN.org) and IWNEST, I would like to thank all the Conference Chair, Program Chairs and the Technical Committees. Their high competence and professional advice enable us to prepare the high-quality program. For the participants, we hope all of you have a wonderful time at the conference and also in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. We believe that by this excellent conference, you can get more opportunity for further communication with researchers and practitioners. 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IPN.org intends to achieve the mentioned objectives and get an international visibility by the organization of international conferences and by interacting with public and private organisms from all parts of the world. www.internationalpostgraduatenetwork.org www.ipnconference.org www.ipnmalaysia.org IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES Announcement All accepted papers will be published in the Australian Journal of Basic and applied Sciences (ISI /Thomson Reuters Journal) (ISSN 1991-8176) (abstract and indexing by ISI/Thomson Reuters, Ulrich periodicals, Ebscohost, Cabi International and DOAJ) or Journal of Applied Science and Agriculture (ISI/THOMSON REUTERS) (online issue ISSN 1991-8178) (abstract and indexing by ISI/Thomson Reuters, ,Ulrich periodicals, Ebscohost, Cabi International and DOAJ) or Advances in Environmental Biology (ISI/THOMSON REUTERS/Scopus) (online issue ISSN 1995-0756) (abstract and indexing by ISI/Thomson Reuters, , Ulrich periodicals, Ebscohost, Cabi International and DOAJ) or Journal of Applied Science Research (online issue ISSN 1819-544X) Google Scholar, Ulrich Periodicals, EBSCO HOST, CSA, CAB Abstract, U.K., DOAJ, ISC One best prsenter will be selected from each session and will be awarded the certificate during the Dinner Banquet. Beside that 2 best paper (the selected paper is chosen by the IWNEST editorial board) will received RM 300.00 IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES Keynote Speakers Keynote Speaker 1: Assoc. Prof. Dr Talib Bon Universiti Tun Hussien Onn , Malaysia Biography: Dr. Abdul Talib Bon is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Technology Management and Business at the Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. He has a PhD in Computer Science, which he obtained from the Universite de La Rochelle, France in the year 2008. His doctoral thesis was on topic Process Quality Improvement on Beltline Moulding Manufacturing. He studied Business Administration in the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia for which he was awarded the MBA in the year 1998. He’s bachelor degree and diploma in Mechanical Engineering which his obtained from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He received his postgraduate certificate in Mechatronics and Robotics from Carlisle, United Kingdom in 1997. He was the Deputy Dean (Research and Development) at the Faculty of Technology Management and Business in the Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia from 2008 until December 2011. He had published more 100 International Proceedings and International Journals and 7 books. Title : Green Supply Chain Model For Japanese Automotive Industry In Malaysia Abstract: In recent years, the environmental issues have become a hot topic of the societies, governments and business organizations. This environmental issue mostly occurs in the supply chain of the automotive industry and these can brings impact on the operations performance of the company. Green supply chain management is an approach to overcome or reduce the environmental impact in the industry. The Green Supply Chain Operations Reference Model (Green SCOR Model) is a solution to solve the environmental issues in supply chain and improve their operation performances. The level 1 of Green SCOR Model is the main processes to reduce the environmental that include plan, source, make, deliver and return. This study attempts to identify the relationship between Green SCOR Model and the operations performance. The operations performance measured are cost, deliver, quality, flexibility, lead time and work in progress. This research was carried out at automotive plant in Shah Alam, Selangor. The method that used to conduct this research is quantitative method IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES with distributing questionnaires to 30 employees of automotive company. The SPSS tools were used to analyze the data that have been collected to examine the relationship between the Green SCOR Model and operation performance. The results showed that there has a positive significant relationship between the Green SCOR Model and operation performance. In conclusion, Green SCOR Model is an analytical tool to reduce the environmental impact that occurs in supply chain and at the same time improve the operations performance of the company. Keynote Speaker 2: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jedol Dayou Universiti Malaysia Sabah Biography Dr. Jedol Dayou is an Associate Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Sabah. He received his BSc in Applied Physics from National University of Malaysia in 1992, MSc in Nuclear Science from the same university in 1996, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR), University of Southampton in 2000. Upon graduation with BSc, he briefly joined Nuclear Agency of Malaysia for 3 years as a research officer before he joined Universiti Malaysia Sabah as a Teaching Assistant in 1995. He was then appointed as a lecturer in 2000 upon completion of his PhD. He served as a Postdoctoral Research Professor in 2003 and Visiting Professor in 2007at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, and visiting researcher at the Center for EAPap Actuators, Inha University in July 2014. Dr. Jedol Dayou has vast experience in research where he is now involved in multidisplinary research ranging from acoustics, vibration, renewable energy, biophysics, materials science etc. He has received more than Ringgit Malaysia 1 million of research funding from various agencies, and has published over 100 papers in journal and conference proceedings. He is currently serves as an Editor for Borneo Science journal and the Chief Editor for Transactions on Science and Technology. IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES Title: Harnessing Renewable Energy From Ocean UsingOcean Salinity and Temperature Energy Conversion System, OSTEC. The oceans cover 70% of the Earth’s surface, and become the world’s largest solar energy collector and energy storage system. 60 million square kilometres of tropical seas absorbing solar radiation equal in heat content to about 250 billion barrels of oil. Given the fluctuating fuel prices and its impact to global warming, energy from the ocean has become the possible solution to the world energy crisis and also for protecting the environment. However, the harnessing technology of the oceans energy and turning it into useful electricity are still at its infancy stage. At the Universiti Malaysia Sabah, we are developing a method to harness this energy using a system known as Ocean Salinity and Temperature Energy Conversion System or OSTEC. The system injects fresh water with lower salinity and higher temperature from an elevated tank, to the bottom of a column that immersed in sea water. This provides buoyant force to the incoming water that theoretically amplifies the velocity as its travels to the sea water surface. Theoretically, a maximum gain of 180% in kinetic energy can be achieved by the brackish water mixture as its reach the sea water surface. A proof of concept system has been constructed for this OSTEC and intensive investigation on the actual governing factors is currently carried out. Initial measurement shows the energy ratio of 0.8 between the velocity output at the sea water surface and the input at the fresh water outlet. System optimization is being carried out to increase the power output from the system to make it a viable renewable energy source. IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES List of the Conference Committee IPN – IWNEST 2015 Kota Kinabalu Conferences, Honorary Advisor Prof. Dr. Abdel Rahman Mohammad Said Al-Tawaha (Ph.D McGill University) Founder President of Islamic World Network for Environmental Science and Technology Editor in Chief, Journal of Applied Science and Agriculture Editor in Chief, Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences Al Talal Bin Hussein University, Jordan IPN – IWNEST 2015 Kota Kinabalu Conferences, Chairman Datin MZ Zainab IPN – IWNEST 2015 Kota Kinabalu Conferences , Academic Committee Conference Chair Prof. Dr. Abdel Rahman Mohammad Said Al-Tawaha (Ph.D McGill University) Technical Committee Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yunus Shukor, Universiti Putra Malaysia Atul Grover, Defence Institute Of Bio-Energy Research (Diber), Arjunpur, Haldwani Dr. Hany Serag Hassan Elmesiry, Agricultural Engineering Research Centre, Egypt Dr Amitava Rakshit, Banaras Hindu University, India Kamarul Hawari Bin Ghazali, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia. Prof. Rabiu Mohammed Sani, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Nigeria Prof. Dr. Ali Husain Jasim Khakani, University Of Babylon Iraq Dr. Hamidi Abdul Aziz, Professor in Environmental Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia Dr Archana Singh Sikarwar, International Medical University Malaysia Prof. Dr. Noor Azhar Mohamed Shazili, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu Sheik Mohammed Sulthan, Dhofar University Dr. Ong Meng Chuan, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu Dr. Ma. Belinda S. Mandigma, University of Santo Tomas IPN – IWNEST 2015 Kota Kinabalu Conferences, Organising Committee YKY Nurul Shaiful Rafie IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES Instruction for Oral Presentation Devices Provided by the Conference Organizer: Laptop (with MS-Office & Adobe Reader) Projector & Screen Laser Sticks Materials Provided by the Presenters: PowerPoint or PDF files Duration of each Presentation (Tentatively): Regular oral presentation: about12 minutes (including Q&A) Keynote speech: about 40 minute (including Q&A) Notice: Please keep your belongings (laptop and camera etc) with you! During registration: Original Receipt Representative / Pass Card with lanyard Printed Program Lunch Coupon Dinner Coupon Participation Certificate (collected from Session Chair after the session) Conference Souvenir Conference Bag IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES IPN – IWNEST 2015 Kota Kinabalu Conferences Conference Program January 9, 2015 Venue: Lobby Venue: TBA 1400 - 1700 Registration 0830 - 0840 Opening Remarks Plenary Speech 1 0840 - 0910 0950 - 1020 Assoc Prof Dr Talib Bon UTHM Plenary Assoc Prof Dr Jedol Speech 2 Dayou UMS Group Photo and Coffee Break 1030 - 1300 Session 1 1300 -1400 Lunch 1400 - 1600 Session 2 1400 - 1600 Session 3 1600 - 1630 Coffee Break 1630 - 1800 Session 4 2000 - 2200 Best presenter /Best Paper Awards Ceremony And Dinner 0910 - 0940 January 10, 2015 Venue: TBA Venue: Restaurant Venue: TBA Venue: TBA Venue: TBA Venue: TBA Venue: Restaurant Dato’Azuan Ahmad IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES Session 1 Time: 1030 - 1300 Venue: TBA Session Chair: Assoc Prof Dr Jedol Dayou and Dr Siti Azfanizam Ahmad No 1 Paper ID 004-icgt Presenter Process Optimization for Biodiesel Production from Crude Jatropha Curcas Oil with Immobilized Lipase using Response Surface Methodology Rahmath Abdulla , Pogaku Ravindra 2 006-icgt Universiti Malaysia Sabah Photochemical Degradation of Chelating, Sequestrant and Decontaminating Agents in Aqueous Solutions by Fe-Doped Titanium Dioxide Ahmed H. A. Dabwan, Tomoki Sugiyama, , Hideyuki Katsumata, Tohru Suzuki, Satoshi Kaneco 3 007-icgt Tati University College Operational issues on gas turbine combustors for a combined cycle power plant Hyun Gu Roh, Sungwook Park, Mun Soo Chon, Dasesik Kim 4 008-icgt Gangneung-Wonju National University Analysis of Ramp Signal Noise in a CMOS Image Sensor with a Column-wise CDS/Singleslope ADC Circuit Array Jung Yeol Yeom, Jimin Cheon 5 009-icgt Kumoh National Institute of Technology Design Technique using Extra Fast-cornered Transistors to Reduce Random Telegraph Signal Noise in a CMOS Image Sensor Jimin Cheon 6 032-icgt Kumoh National Institute of Technology Fats, oils, and grease (FOG) into fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) Nor Shafizah I. , Azni I. , Salmiaton A. , Taufiq Yap Y.H. , Irmawati R. 2 7 023-icgt Universiti Putra Malaysia Kinetics Models for adsorption of Methyl Orange by Chitosan based composite Umma Habiba, Amalina M. Afifi,, Bee Chin Ang University of Malaya IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES 8 017-icgt Delignification of Coconut Husk by Microwave Assisted Chemical Pretreatment for improved energy efficiency Shuaib M. Laghari, Mohamed Hasnain Isa, Abdul Jabbar Laghari 9 030-icgt Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS COD, BOD and Heavy Metal Removal From Ground Water Treatment By Using WASRA System: A Case Study On Universiti Malaysia Pahang Mosque Abdul Syukor Abd Razak , Norbaizurah Rahman , Nur Azzimah Zamri , Suryati Sulaiman , Noor Asyikin Aisyah Burhanudin , Hasmanie binti Abdul Halim , Edriyana Abd Aziz 10 019-icgt Universiti Malaysia Pahang Heat Activated Persulfate for Decolorization of Real Textile Waste Water. Fagbenro Oluwakemi Kehinde,and Hamidi Abdul Aziz 11 021-icgt Universiti Sains Malaysia Sustainable Green Practices In SME: A TRIZ Approach Peter Yacob , Adi Wira Bin Mohd Zin, Mohamad Fared bin Mohamad Makmor, Nur Syaheeda Binti Aziz, Suresh Nodesan 12 022-icgt Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman Effect of Cations on the Thermophysical properties of Protic Ionic Liquids Tawsif Ahmed Siddique, Nor Asrina Sairib , Suhana Binti Mohd Saida University of Malaya IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES Session 2 Time: 1400 - 1600 Venue: TBA Session Chair: Dr Ahmed H.A Debwan and Dr Rahmath Abdulla No 1 Paper ID 016-icgt Presenter Characterization, Microstructure Properties and Impurities Removal of Treated Rice Husk Ash (TRHA) as Supplementary Cementing Material (SCM) in Concrete using Hydrochloric Acid Pretreatment Process Siti Asmahani Saad, Muhd Fadhil Nuruddin, Nasir Shafiq 1 and Maisarah Ali 2 011-icgt Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS A Study on the Flexural Strength of Recycles Coarse Aggregate Ductile Fibre-Reinforced Concrete Beams Woosuk Kim, Young-Chan Kim, Yoon-Keun Kwak 3 012-icgt Kumoh National Institute of Technology Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation for 100km OFDMA-PONs with Service Level Agreements Wansu Lim 4 014-icgt Kumoh National Institute of Technology A simple evaluation method for particle positional dispersity of LCD anti-glare films using connectivity graph InHwan Sul 5 024-icgt Kumoh National Institute of Technology Sustainable Green Practices in E&E Manufacturing SMEs: A Conceptual Study Peter Yacob, Jayaraman Munusamy 6 026-icgt Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman In situ measurement of temperatures in Kuala Lumpur area Illyani Ibrahim , Azizan Abu Samah, Rosmadi Fauzi, Samsuddin Jaafar 7 029-icgt International Islamic University Malaysia An Efficient Multiparty Quantum Secret Sharing Scheme Based on Reduction of Communication Time Kondwani Makanda, Jun-Cheol Jeon Kumoh National Institute of Technology IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES 8 028-icgt Reduction of Embodied CO2 Emissions from Conventional Single Storey House in Malaysia by Recycled Materials using Building Information Modeling (BIM) Nasir Shafiq, Muhd. Fadhil Nuruddin1,Syed Shujaa Safdar Gardezi, Syed Ahmad Farhan1, Haiyl A Mohammad Al Rawy1 Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 9 033-icgt Transesterification Kinetics of Jatropha Methyl Ester and Trimethylolpropane for Biolubricant Synthesis Using Paphia undulata Shell Waste 1 Said Nurdin, Fatimah A. Misebah, Siti F. Haron, Rosli M. Yunus 10 015-icgt Universiti Malaysia Pahang Design of an Area and Power Efficient Digital Filter for Decimation in Digital-Audio Applications Jimin Cheon 11 031-icgt Kumoh National Institute of Technology Removal of Physical Properties in Water Supply by WASRA for Sustainable Irrigation System Abdul Syukor Abd Razak , Nur Azzimah Zamri , Norbaizurah Rahman , Suryati Sulaiman Nurhidayah Mahazam , Hasmanie Abdul Halim , Edriyana Abd Aziz 12 018-icgt Universiti Malaysia Pahang Reducing Home Energy Usage based on TRIZ Concept Siti Azfanizam Ahmad, Mei Choo Ang, Kok Weng Ng, Amelia Natasya Abdul Wahab Universiti Putra Malaysia IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES Session 3 Time: 1400 - 1600 Venue: TBA Session Chair: Assoc Prof Dr Talib Bon No 1 Paper ID 006-icimie Presenter Critical Success Factors Of Knowledge Sharing: A Case Study In A University Library Wan Ab Kadir Wan Dollah, Adibah Ahmad, Muhamad Khairulnizam Zaini, Intan Nurbaizura Zainuddin, Razilan Abdul Kadir, Mohd Sazili Shahibi, Saiful Farik Mat Yatin Universiti Teknologi MARA 2 016-icimie Effect of Humidity on IDE Based WO3/Nafion Polymer Sensing Structure Resistivity Amirul Abd Rashid, Nor Hayati Saad, Daniel Bien Chia Sheng, Lee Wai Yee 3 003-icece Universiti Teknologi MARA Quality Improvements in Preschool: From Research to Practice Zahyah Hanafi, Siti Noor Ismail 4 005-icimie Universiti Utara Malaysia Review: Tea Tree (Melaleuca Alternifolia) as a New Material for Biocomposites Rodney, J. , Sahari, J., Mohd Kamal Mohd Shah 5 021-icimie Universiti Malaysia Sabah A Conceptual Paper on Customer Satisfaction Toward Commercial Records Center Services. Mohammad Azhan Abdul Aziz , Saiful Farik Mat Yatin , 6 007-icimie Universiti Teknologi MARA The Optimization Problem of Product-Mix and Linear Programing Applications; A singleCase Study in Tea Industry Hemendra Lal Gunasekaran, Suhaiza Zainali , Ali Haj Aghapour 7 011-icimie Multimedia University Estimation of Residence Time Distribution and Solid Wastes Transportation of an Orbal Biological System using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) N.A. Saad, H. A. Aziz, M.Z. Abdullah, M. Zubair. 8 012-icimie Universiti Sains Malaysia Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Malaysian Corporations Reputation Rami Abdulhakeem Hasan Ba Raidah , Prof. Dr. Shamsuddin Sulaiman , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tang Sai Hong Universiti Putra Malaysia IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES 9 015-icimie Evaluation on School Resource Centre Management Courses towards Library and Media Teachers’ Competency: A Conceptual Paper Hasnah Shuhaimi, Norasiah Harun , Saidatul Akmar Ismail , Saiful Farik Mat Yatin , Zahril Shahida Ahmad 10 001-icket Universiti Teknologi MARA The use of YouTube for knowledge sharing in learning Amillia Amid , Zawiyah M.Yusof 11 002-icimie University Kebangsaan Malaysia Analysis of tablet device usage for mobile Internet with segmentation approach Sungbum Kim 12 034-icgt Kumoh National Institute of Technology Distribution and Threats to the Conservation of Clariidae in Yankari Game reserve and its influence on green technology aquaculture in Nigeria Ahmad Jibril Nayaya Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES Session 4 Time: 1630 - 1800 Venue: TBA Session Chair: Assoc Prof Dr Zahyah Hanafi and Ir Amirul Abd Rashid No 1 Paper ID 017-icimie Presenter Using technology, organization, environment framework to investigate the determinants of the adoption of electronic publishing amongst Malaysian publishers Zahril Shahida Ahmad, Norasiah Harun , Hasnah Shuhaimi 2 018-icimie Universiti Teknologi MARA Electronic Document Management System: Malaysian experience Saiful Farik Mat Yatin , Ahmad Azman Mohamad Ramli , Hasnah Shuhaimi , Husain Hashim , Wan Ab Kadir Wan Dollah , Muhamad Khairulnizam Zaini , Mohd Razilan Abdul Kadir 3 020-icimie Universiti Teknologi MARA Applying GA-Based Simulation on Scheduling Abdul Talib Bon, Siti Hasziani Ahmad ,Sie Long Kek 4 019-icimie Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia Audit on Knowledge Spectrum Saiful Farik Mat Yatin , Nur Ainatul Mardiah Mat Nawi , Nur’ Ain Ismail , Siti Aisyah Abdul Rahman , Siti Aisyah Mohamed Yusof , Siti Noorhaslinda Mohamed Ameri 5 001- iccss Universiti Teknologi MARA Simulation electromagnetic waves through time-dependent Schrӧdinger equation using WENO schemes. Yacine Benhadid 6 001-icebcmlg PAAET, mathematics department, Basic Education College, Kuwait A Strategic Approach for implementing Enterprise 2.0: South Korea Case Sungbum Kim 7 025-icimie Kumoh National Institute of Technology Mediating Role of Organization’s Continuous Commitment between Strategy Formulation and Organizational Performance in Libya’s Industrial Sector Ahmed Alghazali Mohammed Alghannai , Abdul Talib Bin Bon University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES Conference Venue Novotel Kota Kinabalu 1Borneo Hotel ( now known as 1Borneo Hotel) TB-00-01 1Borneo Hypermall, Jalan UMS Sabah Kota Kinabalu 88450, Malaysia +60 88-529 888 http://www.novotel1borneo.com/ Conference Secretariat Contact: International Postgraduate Network (IPN.org) 37B Jalan Pelabur 23/B, Seksyen 23 40300 Shah Alam Selangor Darul Ehsan Malaysia Phone No. : +6018-2189487 (call/sms/whatsapp) Tel/Fax no: +603-55455516 Programme website: www.ipnconference.org www.internationalpostgraduatenetwork.org www.ipnmalaysia.org Contact Person: Mr Shaiful IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES Note IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES Note IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES List of Abstract No 1 Paper ID 004-icgt Presenter Process Optimization for Biodiesel Production from Crude Jatropha Curcas Oil with Immobilized Lipase using Response Surface Methodology Rahmath Abdulla *1, Pogaku Ravindra 2 1 Senior Lecturer, Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Natural Resources, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. 2 Professor, Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia 2 006-icgt Abstract- The process of biodiesel production (ethyl esters) from crude Jatropha curcas oil catalyzed by immobilized lipase in a hybrid matrix was optimized by response surface methodology (RSM). A central composite design (CCRD) was employed to study the effects of five important reaction variables namely molar ratio of ethanol to oil, temperature, immobilized enzyme loading, mixing intensity and reaction time. The catalyst employed in this study was immobilized Burkholderia cepacia lipase entrapped in a hybrid matrix of natural polymers of alginate and k-carrageenan. From the contour plots the range for optimum biodiesel yield obtained was at a molar ratio of 1:9 - 1:13 (oil to ethanol ), temperature range of 35-45oC, an immobilized enzyme loading of 3.2-6.2g, mixing intensity range of 4.5-6 g RCF and reaction time of 20-24hours.. The fuel properties of produced Jatropha biodiesel compiled the requirements of American standards for biodiesel. Photochemical Degradation of Chelating, Sequestrant and Decontaminating Agents in Aqueous Solutions by Fe-Doped Titanium Dioxide Ahmed H. A. Dabwan1*, Tomoki Sugiyama2, , Hideyuki Katsumata3,5, Tohru Suzuki4,5, Satoshi Kaneco3,4,5 1 Research Management Center, Tati University College, Kemaman, Terengganu, Malaysia Gifu University, Gifu, Japan 3 Department of Chemistry for Materials, Graduate School of Engineering, Mie University, Mie, Japan 4 Mie Global Environment Center for Education & Research, Mie University, Mie, Japan 5 Research Center of Process for Environmental Load Reduction, Mie University, Mie, Japan 2 Abstract- Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA; C10H16N2O8, CAS #60-00-4) is a synthetic compound used in food as a chelating (binding) agent or sequestrant (used to remove) in order to control the reaction of certain metals with other components of the food item. EDTA is widely in processed foods to assist in “trapping” trace metals that may have gotten into food during processing. This helps keep rancidity from developing early by preventing oxidation. Other benefits of EDTA are slower color deterioration food texture, reaming consistent longer, and the slowing or stopping of precipitate or crystal development. It has been also used as decontaminating agent in radioactive liquid wastes from radiochemical and nuclear power plant that became nowadays one of urgent problems for the environmental safety. The addition of EDTA into the radioactive liquid waste can give the complexation of some of the precipitant cations, which results in the interference in their removal by the conventional treatment process such as chemical precipitation and ion exchange. IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES 3 007-icgt Since EDTA is stable, has low biodegradability, is rarely degradable by chlorine, is hardly retained by activated carbon fibers and is resistant to ozone treatment, it is a crucial step to perform a pretreatment step for the removal of EDTA for a better treatment of the liquid waste. In this work, the conditions for photocatalytic degradation of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) in aqueous solution with Fe-doped titanium dioxide (TiO2) were optimized. The degradation efficiencies with Fe-doped TiO2 were better, compared with those obtained with bare TiO2 and Pt-doped TiO2. The effect of various experimental factors, such as photocatalytic dosage, temperature, solution pH and light intensity on the photocatalytic degradation of EDTA by Fe-doped TiO2 was investigated. Results show that, the photocatalytic degradation treatment for the wastewater containing EDTA is simple, easy handling and low cost. Operational issues on gas turbine combustors for a combined cycle power plant Hyun Gu Roh 1, Sungwook Park 2, Mun Soo Chon 3, Dasesik Kim *4 1 Department of mechanical & automotive engineering, Induk University, Seoul, Korea 2 School of mechanical engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea 3 Department of energy system engineering, Korea National University of Transportation, Chungbuk, Korea *Corresponding author: Daesik Kim, School of mechanical and automotive engineering, Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangwon, K o re a . Tel: +82-33760-8728, Fax: +82-33-760-8721, E-mail: dkim@gwnu.ac.kr 4 008-icgt Abstract- Combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant is one of the cleanest and most efficient ways for fossil fuel power generation. A CCGT system uses the technologies of gas turbines and steam turbines to produce electricity more effectively than can be achieved using either of these technologies separately. Lean premixed flame is agreed to be the stateof-the-art technology for power plant gas turbines due to its great efficiency and especially low NOx emission. Despite of the high system efficiency and low harmful exhaust gases, there have been technical issues called “combustion instability” in the lean premixed gas turbine combustors, which are the feedback relationships between heat release oscillations and pressure wave perturbations. In this paper, the operational issues of the lean premixed combustor including the combustion instabilities and its basic mechanisms were explained. Analysis of Ramp Signal Noise in a CMOS Image Sensor with a Column-wise CDS/Singleslope ADC Circuit Array 1 Jung Yeol Yeom and 2Jimin Cheon Department of Medical IT Convergence Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi, Korea School of Electronic Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi, Korea *Corresponding author: Jimin Cheon, School of Electronic Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi, Korea. Tel: +82-544787436, Fax: +82544787449, E-mail: jimin.cheon@kumoh.ac.kr Abstract- It is well known fact that the noise in the ramp signal in the CIS (CMOS Image Sensor) with the column-wise CDS (Correlated Double Sampling)/ADC (Analog-to-Digital Converter) circuit emerges into horizontal line (row-wise) noise on the output image. This noise is one of the most critical performance limits in the CIS with the column-wise CDS/ADC circuit. According to analysis of the single-slope ADC with the CDS circuit, the amount of noise on the output image highly depends on the frequency component of the ramp signal noise. Furthermore, the noise frequency that has the maximum effect on the output image is dependent on the incident light intensity. Analysis and experimental result IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES 5 009-icgt shows that noise within 10 kHz to 100 kHz range is the most critical component and it overlaps the fundamental frequency of the ramp signal. Therefore, it cannot be removed by filtering. Then, various sources of the ramp signal noise which causes horizontal line noise on the output image have been analyzed. Regarding the CIS operation, there are three major sources. The first is intrinsic noise occurring in a ramp generator. The second is power line noise caused by the switching and the voltage drop in the CDS circuit block and the last one is substrate noise from digital circuits. The amount of noise contribution from each noise source has been measured through experiment. Measured code variation of CDS output by intrinsic noise is 0.20 code, code variation by power line noise is 0.25 code, and code variation by substrate noise is 1.81 code. These measurement results show that the substrate noise is the major source of the ramp signal noise among them. Therefore, to reduce the ramp signal noise which causes H-line noise, not only a well-designed ramp generator with low noise should be considered from the early phase of design, but the substrate noise in the ramp generator should be suppressed by various circuit design techniques. Design Technique using Extra Fast-cornered Transistors to Reduce Random Telegraph Signal Noise in a CMOS Image Sensor Jimin Cheon School of Electronic Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi, Korea *Corresponding author: Jimin Cheon, School of Electronic Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi, Korea. Tel: +82-544787436, Fax: +82544787449, E-mail: jimin.cheon@kumoh.ac.kr 6 010-icgt Abstract- This paper proposes a simple but effective design technique to reduce the random telegraph signal (RTS) noise in a CMOS image sensor (CIS). Through the analysis of the characteristics of the RTS noise, we conclude that the RTS noise can be effectively reduced by using extra fast-cornered transistors in the input stage of a comparators which are used in the CIS with a column-wise correlated-double sampling (CDS)/single-slope analog-todigital converter (ADC) circuit array. Since there is no way to verify the validity of the proposed design technique in SPICE simulation due to lack of the RTS noise model in the transistor model parameter, we have prepared the fabricated CIS chip which contains an array of column-wise ADCs with analog/digital CDS function to confirm the proposed design technique and are testing the fabricated CIS chip to verify the validity of the proposed design technique. The Stability of Liquid Crystal Pretilt Angle Depending on Air Exposing Sequence and Surface Cleaning in Ion Beam Irradiated Amorphous Carbon Film Jongbok Kim* Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi, Korea Abstract- Ion beam (IB) irradiation method has attracted a lot of interest as an alternative of mechanical rubbing method to align liquid crystal (LC) molecules due to its noncontact processing property. Specifically, although rubbing method induces dust particle and electrostatic charge during rubbing process with alignment layer, IB irradiation does not contact with alignment layer. Thus we don’t take dust particle or electrostatic charge issues into account, expecting liquid crystal display (LCD) with high display quality. However, IB irradiation method suffers from degradation problem. So, pretilt angle decreases with air exposure. I here study the stability of pretilt angle depending on air exposing sequence and surface cleaning method in IB irradiated amorphous carbon film with and without hydrogen. For this purpose, I adopt two different air exposing sequences. Specifically, amorphous carbon alignment layers are exposed to air before or after IB irradiation. Then, liquid crystal IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES 7 011-icgt cells are assembled, followed by measuring their pretilt angles. When exposing alignment layer to the air before IB irradiation, pretilt angle was similar regardless of air exposure. However, exposing alignment layer after IB irradiation resulted in severe decrease of pretilt angle. This is matched that dangling bonds generated during IB irradiation on alignment layer are main source for degradation in IB irradiation method. Also, when I cleaned IB irradiated amorphous carbon surface via sonication, it induced the degradation of pretilt angle. However, rinsing method does not much affected the pretilt angle of LC molecules. A Study on the Flexural Strength of Recycles Coarse Aggregate Ductile Fibre-Reinforced Concrete Beams Woosuk Kim 1, Young-Chan Kim 1, Yoon-Keun Kwak *1 1 School of Architecture, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi, Korea 8 012-icgt Abstract- Nowadays, Recycled Coarse Aggregates (RCAs) obtained from construction waste can be used as concrete aggregates. However, a lot of researches have showed that increasing the RCA replacement ratios of the reinforced concrete (RC) structures resulted in a reduction in failure load capacity, in strength degradation, and in severe cracking. For this reason, flexural tests were conducted on RCA RC beams mixed with ductile fibres. The main object of this experimental study is to investigate flexural strength of Ductile Fibre-Reinforced Concrete (DFRC) beams manufactured using recycled coarse aggregate (RCA). The main variables are tension steel ratios (ρ = 0.45, 0.8, 1.27 and 1.83), and ductile fibre volume fraction (Vf = 0, 0.5, 0.75 and 1%). A total of sixteen specimen beams were tested, each a simply supported beam subjected to a two-point load. Specimen failure modes occurred in different forms, in particular in beam crack size and in crack spacing. Failure strength was dependent upon the ductile fibre volume fraction of the beams. Ductility of beams containing ductile fibre was significantly higher than in beams using only recycled coarse aggregates. Mixed ductile fibre specimens showed that the physical properties of ductile fibre resulted in higher fracture load (determined by crack control effect and strength enhancement) than that of the ordinary RC beams. Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation for 100km OFDMA-PONs with Service Level Agreements Wansu Lim *1 1 School of Electronic Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology , Gumi, South Korea 9 013-icgt Abstract- A MAC protocol is presented, exhibiting service level agreement (SLA) in OFDMA-PONs. The packet delay at 90% ONU offered load is less than 3 ms for both 625 and 156 Mbps, representing the highest ONU load for a 64 and 256-split respectively. The throughput efficiency is 94% of the total network capacity of 40Gbps, for 100km long-reach links. Capability of Alum Sludge on Phosphate Concentration Reduction Nazirul Mubin Zahari , Chua Kok Hua and Lariyah Mohd Sidek The Centre for Sustainable Technology and Environment (CSTEN), Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Jalan IKRAM-UNITEN 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia. Abstract- Phosphate is the major nutrients of concern in river water. The main causes of water pollution are surface runoff, inappropriately wastewater treatment operation, agriculture and animal waste. Presence of phosphate in water bodies leads to algae growth and other aquatic plants in a pond or river. This study focuses on the low-cost adsorption material to reduce phosphate concentration in water and promoting the green technology for the preservation of environment. Alum sludge is the materials that can changes solid waste material to low cost effectiveness removal in wastewater treatment facilities. This researches attempts to determine effectiveness of alum sludge as media to reduce the phosphate IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES 10 014-icgt concentration. The continuous flow test and modeling using Langmuir isotherm is used in this study. The result indicates that the alum sludge can remove higher and lower phosphate concentration. Alum sludge bed height also gives impact to phosphate reduction. Alum sludge from Malaysian waterworks has great potential as to reduce the phosphate from wastewater. A simple evaluation method for particle positional dispersity of LCD anti-glare films using connectivity graph InHwan Sul 1* 1 Department of Materials Design and Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Republic of Korea 11 015-icgt Abstract- Positonal dispersity of nano-size particles are of practical interest in many chemical engineering process. To maintain a good quality of product, it is essential to distribute the particles randomly and regularly to the medium. Despite the importance of particle dispersity, there have been a few researches on the evaluation of dispersity. The authors previously reported a new and automatic method of measuring particle dispersity with image analysis technique and dynamic dipersity index methodology[12]. In this work, another more fast and efficient way of dispersity evaluation method is proposed. Connectivity of the particles is acquired by mesh generation, and then the vertex weights and distances of each mesh edges are plotted in the graph. Finally index calculated from the graph is used as a measure of dispersity. Although the new method lacks a little exactness compared with the authors’ previous dynamic dispersity method, it shows a very fast calculation and yet maintains a linear tendency with the visual assessment. Test results for LCD anti-glare film is also shown in the results. Design of an Area and Power Efficient Digital Filter for Decimation in Digital-Audio Applications Jimin Cheon School of Electronic Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi, Korea *Corresponding author: Jimin Cheon, School of Electronic Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi, Korea. Tel: +82-544787436, Fax: +82544787449, E-mail: jimin.cheon@kumoh.ac.kr Abstract- The performance of digital signal processing and communication systems is generally limited by the precision of the digital input signal which is achieved at the interface between analog and digital information. Σ-Δ ADC is a cost effective alternative for high resolution (greater than 12 bits) converters which can be ultimately integrated on digital signal processor ICs. However, the output of the Σ-Δ modulator is at a very high sampling rate. This is a fundamental characteristic of Σ-Δ modulators because they use the high frequency portion of the spectrum to place the bulk of the quantization noise. After the high frequency quantization noise is filtered out, it is possible to reduce the sampling rate. It is desirable to bring the sampling rate down to the Nyquist rate which minimizes the amount of information for subsequent transmission, storage, or digital signal processing. Therefore high performance (order) decimation filter is required to minimize in-band noise of Σ-Δ ADC. While the conversion rate and resolution of oversampled ADCs are typically determined by their analog components, their power consumption and die area are governed largely by digital decimation filter. Power and die area are increasingly important consideration as oversampled converters continue to find applications in portable battery operated equipment. This paper presents an area and power efficient high performance digital decimation filter. Low area and power consumption have been achieved in a digital filter for decimation by means of a reduction in computational complexity. The use of multi-stage architectures comprising sinc, half- IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES 12 016-icgt band filters, and droop correction filter reduces the number of arithmetic computations to the extent that they can be performed with simple logic elements instead of a dedicated multiplier. Designed small die area and low power consumption filter will allow its use in portable battery-operated equipment. Characterization, Microstructure Properties and Impurities Removal of Treated Rice Husk Ash (TRHA) as Supplementary Cementing Material (SCM) in Concrete using Hydrochloric Acid Pretreatment Process Siti Asmahani Saad 1, 2, Muhd Fadhil Nuruddin 1, Nasir Shafiq *1 and Maisarah Ali 2 1 Civil Engineering Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Bandar Seri ISkandar, 31750, Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia. 2 Manufacturing and Material Engineering Department, Kulliyyah of Engineering, International Islamic University Malaysia, P.O. Box 10, 50728, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 13 017-icgt Abstract- Recently, the need towards production of environmental friendly and excellent performance cementitious material has been outlined properly. Based on extensive researches done since 1970s, it is proven that rice husk ash (RHA) is silica-rich material and hence categorized as pozzolans in concrete. Nevertheless, the usage of this material in real construction industries is still under expectation. This is simply due to instability of the chemical components, especially amorphous silica content in the material after burning process. The aim of this paper is to present the characteristics and unwanted metal leaching evaluation of treated rice husk ash (TRHA) to be utilized as supplementary cementing material (SCM) in concrete. In this regard, raw rice husk was treated by adopting hydrochloric acid (HCl) pretreatment method prior to burning process. Several tests have been conducted to analyze the chemical compositions, specific surface are (SSA), microstructure properties and concentration of alkali metal removal of TRHA and compared to non-treated rice husk ash (NTRHA). In this paper, the effect of soaking time in acid solution from 1 to 4 hours is also presented and discussed accordingly. Delignification of Coconut Husk by Microwave Assisted Chemical Pretreatment for improved energy efficiency Shuaib M. Laghari* 1, Mohamed Hasnain Isa1, Abdul Jabbar Laghari2 1 Civil Engineering Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, 31750 Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia. 2 Institute of Advanced Research Studies in Chemical Sciences, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan 14 018-icgt Abstract- Background: Coconut husk has the potential to be used as a source of alternative energy such as biofuel. Its high lignin content, however, poses difficulty to this use. Objective: To investigate the use of microwave assisted acidic and alkaline pretreatment methods to improve the characteristics of coconut husk for energy production. Results: It was found that microwave assisted sodium hydroxide pretreatment was most effective. Conclusion: 3.5 % microwave assisted sodium hydroxide gave the best results in removing the lignin content and increasing the cellulose content. Reducing Home Energy Usage based on TRIZ Concept Siti Azfanizam Ahmad 1, Mei Choo Ang 2, Kok Weng Ng 3, Amelia Natasya Abdul Wahab4 1 Dep. of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Malaysia. 2 Institute of Visual Informatics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia. IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES 3 Industrial Design and Engineering Centre, SIRIM Berhad, Bukit Jalil, Malaysia. 4 Center for Artificial Intelligence Technology, Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia. 15 019-icgt Abstract- The increasing cost of energy especially with the recent electricity tariff hike in Malaysia has made home owners to be mindful of ways to reduce energy consumption. There are many ways to cut energy consumption at home, fundamentally they can be grouped into two types of approach namely technological and behavioural approach. Both approaches are not easy to implement as the technological one requires replacement of old devices and the behavioural one requires change of lifestyle. In view of this, this research work attempts to apply the theory of inventive problem-solving, TRIZ to solve the problem of increasing consumption of electricity at home. The aim of this research is to derive potential conceptual solutions to help home owners to reduce their energy consumption. The reduction in energy used will also contribute to cost-saving for household and the reduction of carbon footprint. Heat Activated Persulfate for Decolorization of Real Textile Waste Water. Fagbenro Oluwakemi Kehinde1a, 2, and Hamidi Abdul Aziz1a, 1b* 1a School of Civil Engineering, Engineering Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), 14300, Nibong Tebal, Penang, Malaysia. 1b Solid Waste Management Cluster, Engineering Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 14300 Penang, Malaysia 2 Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, P.M.B. 4000, Nigeria. 16 020-icgt Abstract- The desire for a green environment has necessitated the clean-up of unsightful, often toxic, recalcitrant and non-biodegradable colored textile waste water discharges that are able to endanger all species that are exposed. The very strong coloration of this waste water have been reported to be primarily due to unfixed dyestuffs that are left in the resulting waste water generated during the process of dyeing and printing of textile materials. Due to the complex and non-biodegradable nature of this waste water, the strong but relatively new oxidant (persulfate), was used for its treatment in this study. However, the relatively slow ability of persulfate to oxidize contaminants in water and waste waters at ambient temperatures has also necessitated a thermal activation of the persulfate in this study. Thermal activation of persulfate achieved a 99% color removal at 60oC activation temperature, as against the corresponding 82.2% color removal at the ambient temperature of 25oC. The system was thus very effective. A Review on Tree Height Estimation for Quantifying Biomass and Carbon Stock Of Hevea Brasilliensis Rosnaini Che Hasan*1, Halmi Kamaruddin 2, Zulkiflee Abd Latif3 1 Universiti Teknologi MARA, Department of Surveying Science and Geomatic, Faculty of Achitecture, Planning and Surveying, 40000 Shah Alam Selangor) 2 Universiti Teknologi MARA, Department of Surveying Science and Geomatic, Faculty of Achitecture, Planning and Surveying, 40000 Shah Alam Selangor) 3 Universiti Teknologi MARA, Department of Surveying Science and Geomatic, Faculty of Achitecture, Planning and Surveying, 40000 Shah Alam Selangor) Abstract- Background: Anthropogenic of human activities including agriculture, mining, transportation, construction, deforestation and industrial has resulted many changes to our IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES 17 021-icgt environment including human being. Gases of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide from human activities like burning fossil, lead to global environment problem, global climate change. Forests are important carbon pools that can preserve our environment because it contains a lot of carbon sink. Our country is situated in tropical area, thus natural forest contribute for carbon in a long time. However, plantation is fast growing rather than tropical forest. So that, by estimate the rubber tree biomass, the carbon cycle can be determined. Objective: The objective of this paper is to highlight an overview about biomass and carbon stock estimation through tree height estimation of rubber tree plantation. Results: Height map from IFSAR interpretation useful in measurement biomass and carbon stock from tree height estimation. Conclusion: Tree height is capable in quantifying the biomass and carbon stock of Hevea Brasilliensis in sub-urban area at Kampung Sungai Tekali, Hulu Langat. Sustainable Green Practices In SME: A TRIZ Approach Peter Yacob *1, Adi Wira Bin Mohd Zin 2, Mohamad Fared bin Mohamad Makmor 3 , Nur Syaheeda Binti Aziz 4 5 Suresh Nodesan 1, Department of Entrepreneurship, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Perak, Malaysia *Corresponding author: Peter Yacob, Department of Entrepreneurship, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Perak, Malaysia . Tel: +605-4688888, Fax: +605-4667407, Email: petery@utar.edu.my Abstract- In the last two decades the business world faced with new challenges to address a number of issues that go far beyond the purely economic dimension. In this sense, green concern has been gaining space in organizational theory and practice. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between SME owners/managers environmental awareness and ecological value, as well as their actions relating to sustainable green practices. The study applies TRIZ methodology to ascertain improving and worsening parameters for SME owners/managers environmental awareness and ecological values. The findings of the study are of two-folded: First, the study is able to identify the improving and worsening parameters of sustainable green practices and second, the study has identified three strategies for improving sustainable green practices in SMEs. 18 022-icgt Effect of Cations on the Thermophysical properties of Protic Ionic Liquids Tawsif Ahmed Siddiquea, Nor Asrina Sairib , Suhana Binti Mohd Saida a Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia b Department of Chemistry, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia Abstract- In this work, two protic ionic liquids (PILs), having trifluoroacetate (TFA) as a common anion and bis(2-ethylhexyl) ammonium (BEHA) and tris(2-ethylhexyl) ammonium (TEHA) as cations, have been synthesized. TEHA TFA is liquid at room temperature, but BEHA Trifluoroacetate is gel. Thermal properties like decomposition temperature (T d) has been investigated by Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and also melting point (T m), glass transition point (Tg), heat of fusion (Hf) and heat capacity (Cp) have been investigated by Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) analysis correspondingly. Physical properties such as density (ρ), viscosity (η) and refractive index (nD) have been also measured at various temperatures at atmospheric pressure to check the temperature dependency as well. Decomposition temperature and also melting temperature decrease with the increase of alkyl chain length in cations. In this study, we have found that density decreases with the increase of alkyl chain length in cations, but refractive index and viscosity increases. But, the temperature dependency of these two PILs are same for all the physical properties which is the decrease of the properties with the increase of temperature. The effect of alkyl chain length as well as intermolecular interactions and interactions between anions and cations in IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES 19 023-icgt the PILs have been discussed for studied properties. Kinetics Models for adsorption of Methyl Orange by Chitosan based composite Umma Habibaa, Amalina M. Afifia,*, Bee Chin Anga a Centre of Advanced Materials, Department of Mechanical engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia 20 024-icgt Abstract- Polymer matrix composite, Chitosan/PVA/Na-Titanate/TiO2 was made with simple solution casting method for adsorption of Methyl Orange. FTIR, XRD and FESEM were done to characterize the composite. Surface morphology analyzed by FESEM exhibit the coral structure of TiO2/Na-Titanate. Coexistence of semiconductor material TiO2 and NaTitanate in Chitosan/PVA polymer matrix was proved by XRD analysis. A comparative study of kinetic model was made to evaluate the adsorption behavior of the composite. Lagergren pseudo-first order and intra-particle mass transfer diffusion model explain the adsorption behavior. Sustainable Green Practices in E&E Manufacturing SMEs: A Conceptual Study Peter Yacob*1, Jayaraman Munusamy2 1 Department of Entrepreneurship, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, 2 School of Business and Law, ASEAN Metropolitan University College 21 025-icgt Abstract- Sustainability and green management have become one of the most critical management issues faced by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in a wide range of industries. Despite an extensive range of studies over the last decade, question on whether green initiatives complement firm’s sustainable green practices remain inconclusive. Anchoring to the arguments on the tenets of sustainable green practices, the aim of this study is to propose a conceptual study investigating the pattern and dimension of green initiatives and owners/managers awareness within Electrical and Electronics (E&E) manufacturing SMEs, and how does owners’/managers’ intention to go green mediates and green technology adoption moderates in building sustainable green practices. In this paper, a conceptual framework is developed based on the internal and external factors affecting the adoption of sustainability principles in SMEs. Furthermore, this conceptual study is able to materialize relevant ideas to the owners/managers in integrating their overall business strategy with green sustainability in their core values and actions. Consequently, this diversity of opportunities is where there is hope for turning the current world trajectory towards healthy and resilient human and natural communities. Experimental Evaluation of Gas-to-Liquid Fuel and Diesel in Terms of Fuel Properties, Engi ne Performance and Exhaust Emission H.Sajjad 1*, H.H. Masjuki1, M. Varman1, M.A. Kalam1, M.I. Arbab1, S.Imtenan 1, BM Masum1 1 Centre for Energy Sciences, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur-50603 Abstract- Gas to liquid (GTL) diesel is considered as a promising alternative “clean” diesel fuel, considering the adeptness to use directly as a diesel fuel or in blends with petroleum-derived diesel in CI engines and also for i ts inherent ability to reduce engine exhaust emission. In this study, an unmodified single cylinder 4 –stroke diesel engine was used to investigate diesel, GTL fuel and their blend, in terms of engine performance and exhaust emission characteristics. GTL demonstrated improved engine performance increasing maximum power 6.9% , brake thermal efficiency 4.5% and lowering bsfc 11.85% than diesel. Exhaust emissions also showed average diminutions in CO (21.7%), IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES 22 026-icgt HC (32.85%), NOx (5.15%) and smoke (60.22%). These improvements ensure the potential for the application of GTL diesel blends In situ measurement of temperatures in Kuala Lumpur area Illyani Ibrahim *, Azizan Abu Samah, Rosmadi Fauzi, Samsuddin Jaafar International Islamic University Malaysi Illyani Ibrahim *1, Azizan Abu Samah 2, Rosmadi Fauzi 3, Samsuddin Jaafar 4 1, 4 International Islamic University Malaysia, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Kuliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design, 68100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 2,3 University of Malaya, Department of Geography, Faculty Arts and Social Sciences, 50603, Kuala Lumpur 23 028-icgt Abstract- The current situation of environmental condition becomes an importance niche that is crucial to be understand by many researchers. This research attempts carried out an investigation on the temperature daytime measurement across different land cover areas. These land cover types were selected for interrogating the temperature varies in different measurement that was conducted. The method used in this study by utilizing vehicle equipped with a surface and air temperature sensor and a global positioning system (GPS) receiver, and measuring temperature to the same location in a different day period. The finding of this study is the playing field shows a hot pocket of temperature compared to the other areas, including residential, roads and commercial. Another finding is a consistency of the heat island areas was found; Sungei Wang Plaza and Dataran Merdeka of POI (Point of Interest) as the main attraction area of people and tourists. This study leads to the propose for the land use map in the urban planning department not to include playing fields and golf course under green areas, as it does not cool down the temperatures. Reduction of Embodied CO2 Emissions from Conventional Single Storey House in Malaysia by Recycled Materials using Building Information Modeling (BIM) Nasir Shafiq1, Muhd. Fadhil Nuruddin1,Syed Shujaa Safdar Gardezi*1, Syed Ahmad Farhan1, Haiyl A Mohammad Al Rawy1 1 Department of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Bandar Seri Iskandar, 31750 Tronoh Perak, Malaysia 24 029-icgt Abstract- The materials are the basic elements in any type of construction activity. The construction sector consumes a handsome amount of construction materials while completing any construction project and ultimately not only depleting the natural resources but also increasing the content contribution of CO2 from construction sector. In order to save the environment for our future generations, it is necessary that such alternate materials, which are environment friendly and also cost effective, shall be adopted in the construction sector. Recycled materials are one of the choices that can be adopted in this regard. Therefore, in order to access the magnitude, it is necessary to study the effect of embodied CO2 emissions from the materials, which are used in conventional housing construction Malaysia. This study focuses on the comparative analysis of embodied CO2 emission from the conventional construction materials and proposed recycled materials used in construction of a typical low cost house commonly adopted in Malaysia. The virtual model of selected single storey low cost was developed using Building Information Modeling (BIM) concept. The results highlighted that with incorporation of proposed recycled materials, a reduction of almost 24 % of embodied CO2 emission can be achieved. The overall contribution of single storey house was observed to be reduced from 30 kg- CO2 /sq. ft to 22.65 kg- CO2 / sq. ft An Efficient Multiparty Quantum Secret Sharing Scheme Based on Reduction of Communication Time Kondwani Makanda1, Jun-Cheol Jeon1 IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES 1 Department of Computer Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, 61 Daehak-ro (Yangho-dong), Gumi, Gyeongbuk 730-701, Korea. 25 030-icgt Abstract- Background: Transport phenomena are fundamental in physics. They allow for information and energy to be exchanged between individual constituents of communication systems, networks or even biological entities. For the communication systems, a secret should be transported to target entities in safe and efficient. Most quantum secret sharing schemes require that the participating parties individually disclose the results. This is an important step when one participant want to find out whether or not there is an eavesdropper on the channel. As the number of participants increase, the communication time among parties also increases in direct proportion. To reduce the communication steps, we propose a quantum secret sharing scheme where the number of communication steps between the parties in significantly reduced resulting in reduction in the time needed to complete the whole protocol. COD, BOD and Heavy Metal Removal From Ground Water Treatment By Using WASRA System: A Case Study On Universiti Malaysia Pahang Mosque Abdul Syukor Abd Razak *1, Norbaizurah Rahman 2, Nur Azzimah Zamri 3, Suryati Sulaiman 4, Noor Asyikin Aisyah Burhanudin 5 , Hasmanie binti Abdul Halim 6, Edriyana Abd Aziz 7 1,2,3 Faculty of Civil Engineering and Earth Resources, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, 26300 Lebuhraya Tun Razak, Gambang, Kuantan, Pahang 26 031-icgt Abstract- Background: Development of a user friendly technology water supply system in the rural Area (WASRA) functioning to treat the groundwater with low cost and economical based on pre-treatment process and membrane technology. This study analyzed the quality of water sources and determine the effectiveness of WASRA System as water supply at UMP Mosque. The effect of WASRA System was evaluated through Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD), Manganese and Ferum testing. Based on the testing of untreated water illustrates that BOD value exceeds the value in CLASS II, which is not suitable for ablution purpose. Meanwhile, the treated water shown that all the parameters achieved the CLASS I standard except for COD which still remain in CLASS II. Therefore, it is concluded that the treated water from WASRA System can be channelled for ablution purposed in the UMP mosque. Removal of Physical Properties in Water Supply by WASRA for Sustainable Irrigation System Abdul Syukor Abd Razak *1, Nur Azzimah Zamri 2, Norbaizurah Rahman 3, Suryati Sulaiman 4 Nurhidayah Mahazam 5, Hasmanie Abdul Halim 6, Edriyana Abd Aziz 7 1,2,3 Faculty of Civil Engineering and Earth Resources, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, 26300 Lebuhraya Tun Razak, Gambang, Kuantan, Pahang 27 032-icgt Abstract- Background: In irrigation, water is essential to assist in the growing of agricultural crops, maintenance of landscapes, and revegetation of disturbed soils in dry areas and during periods of inadequate rainfall. Most importantly, water quality can be a limiting factor in plant growth. Thus, this study was performed to analyze and compare between raw and treated water by WASRA system in terms of water quality effectiveness. This research also determines the potential groundwater resources for irrigation purposes at University Malaysia Pahang (UMP) nursery based on Interim National Water Quality Standard for Malaysia (INWQS). WASRA system manages to effectively remove 100% suspended solid followed by turbidity 93.59% and colour 89.54%. From the result, it can be concluded that treated groundwater using WASRA system can be used for irrigation purpose at UMP nursery as it can improve the water quality parameter. Fats, oils, and grease (FOG) into fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES Nor Shafizah I. 1, Azni I. 1, Salmiaton A. 1, Taufiq Yap Y.H. 2, Irmawati R. 2 1 Universiti Putra Malaysia, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, 43300, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia 2 Universiti Putra Malaysia, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, 43300, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia 28 033-icgt Abstract- Fat, oil and grease (FOG) which were very highly variable with moisture and oil content, compose of greases, mainly made of free fatty acids and soaps and other hydrocarbon-like molecules is a common waste product responsible for many sewer overflows and illnesses. This work demonstrates the potential to transform FOG into valuable product, biodiesel. The reaction was esterified with novel heterogeneous acid catalyst SUPERCAT1 to reduce free fatty acid content with 50.22 % of conversion of FFA and followed by trans-esterified by novel heterogeneous base catalyst named as SUPERCAT2. Both reaction were under microwave irradiation and biodiesel yield produced was up to 97 %. Transesterification Kinetics of Jatropha Methyl Ester and Trimethylolpropane for Biolubricant Synthesis Using Paphia undulata Shell Waste 1 Said Nurdin, 2Fatimah A. Misebah, 3Siti F. Haron, 4Rosli M. Yunus 1, 2, 3, 4 Faculty of Chemical and Natural Resources Engineering, University of Malaysia Pahang (UMP), Lebuh Raya Tun Razak, 26300 Gambang,Kuantan,Pahang,Malaysia Abstract- Non-edible oil has become an interesting issue for biodegradable lubricant feedstocks. Modification of biolubricant synthesis from Jatropha curcas plants-based oil using Paphia undulata shell as solid waste catalyst could minimize the environmental impacts and separation process difficulty compared to fossiel oil and homogenous catalysts. A transesterification of Jatropha methyl ester (JME) with Trimethylolpropane (TMP) using Paphia undulata shell waste as heterogenous catalyst to biolubricant was run in a batch stirrer reactor. The effect of temperature reaction on the biolubricant was determined at range 90 to 1300C. The optimum temperature reaction was found at 110 0C with 78.67% composition of triester (TE). The exess amount of JME was set up at 4:1 ratio to TMP for forward reaction control. The kinetics of the transesterification reaction were justified. The second order kinetics model best fits the obtained data with an overall reaction rate constants of 0.0427 (%wt/wt min °C) -1. The predicted activation energy is nearly 2.2 kJ/mol. The estimated pour point value is -50C, and the viscosity index (VI) is 81. The physicochemical characteristics of resulted Jatropha biolubricant, kinematic viscosity (400C and 100 0C) are close to other oilseed crops based lubricant, mainly rape seeds oil. No 1 Paper ID 002-icece Presenter Children’s Early Numeracy Skill and Number Sense: A Study of Prevalence Rate of Dyscalculia Wong Ken Keong, Vincent Pang, Chin Kin Eng and Tan Choon Keong Universiti Malaysia Sabah Abstract- Dyscalculia is a specific mathematics learning disability that affects the ability to acquire basic numeracy skill and as a deficit in number sense. A preliminary study of dyscalculia in Sabah show that 5.5% of the primary school students in Sabah suffer from dyscalculia (Chin et al., 2014). This result supported by the findings of Desoete, Roeyers and De Clercq (2004) and Adler (2008) that estimated that the prevalence of dyscalculia in the general population is 3-8% and 5-8% respectively. This research intends to identify the prevalence of dyscalculia among primary school students in Sabah, Malaysia. The IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES 2 003-icece instrument of this study was developed by Chin et al. (2014) namely Malaysian Dyscalculia Screener. This paper reports a study of the prevalence rate of dyscalculia, which involved 448 primary school students in Sabah, Malaysia. The results show that 3.8% of the primary school students in Sabah suffer from dyscalculia Quality Improvements in Preschool: From Research to Practice Zahyah Hanafi *ˡ, Siti Noor Ismail ² ˡ Universiti Utara Malaysia, College of Arts & Sciences, School of Education and Modern Languages, 06010, Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia ² Universiti Utara Malaysia, College of Arts & Sciences, School of Education and Modern Languages, 06010, Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia 3 004-icece Abstract- Background: This paper is part of a larger study with a focus on management within a preschool. The principal was interviewed and three teachers at the preschool responded to a questionnaire, using a case study methodology. There have been few studies in Malaysia that examined the management aspects of principal’s work especially in preschool. The study adopted the Social Systems Model to support the notion that preschools cannot strive on its own without sharing and exchanging information between the principal and the teachers. The Australia Quality Improvement and Accreditation System (QIAS) was used in gauging the level of quality practices at the school. Objective: The aim of this study was to gauge the level of seven quality practices in a preschool. In addition it attempts to uncover the principal’s role as manager and in the effort to improve the services at the school, teachers’ feedback were needed to determine to what extent the principal’s effort were internalised in the daily operation of the preschool. Results: The findings revealed that the teachers rated the overall quality areas in the kindergarten as being average. Three quality areas were rated high whereas four others were average. According to the interview with the principal, she had emphasised the importance of the seven quality areas to the teachers. However, the principal’s efforts in ensuring quality practices were not reflected in the level of the quality areas reported by the teachers. There seemed to be an inconsistency in the findings from the teachers and principal. Conclusion: The Social Systems Model explained that in order for information to be disseminated and perceived correctly there need to be a clear understanding on sharing and exchanging of the information between the principal and the teachers. Factors such as participatory management style, employee involvement in decision-making and teachers’ autonomy need to be taken into consideration when trying to implement changes in the school. Young children Friendly Atmosphere to Promote Young children Emergent Literacy to Start to Like Reading: A Case Study of Early Childhood Learning at ‘Kampoeng Batja’ Karina Sari *1, Kristi Nuraini2, Miftahul Hamim3 Master of English Education, University of Muhammadiyah Malang, Jl. Raya Tlogomas 246 Malang 65144 Indonesia Abstract- Creating conducive and children-friendly atmosphere in learning is an essential element to promote language learning for young children. Having adults beside them will even assist more comfortable setting to build engagement and start interaction. Through interactions, adults can foster young children emergent literacy and help them to get ready to read. Reading is to sound out symbols and comprehend its meaning, being able to sound out the symbol does not always mean able to comprehend what have been sounded. Therefore several efforts are required to help young children ready to read. This article is aimed at how environment can assist children emergent literacy to help them to start to like reading. No 1 Paper ID 001-icimie Presenter Priority Scheduling Approach for Heterogeneous Systems in Intelligent Building IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES Environment Ahmad Shahi *1, Md Nasir Sulaiman 2, Norwati Mustapha 3 , Thinagaran Perumal 4 1,2,3,4 Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia 2 002-icimie Abstract- Conflict is an unpredictable behavior which happens in intelligent building environment. Most of the works developed in intelligent building environments are towards higher layer hierarchy implementation (i.e. user and application layers) of system which dealt and interleaved with users and inhabitants preferences. However, to achieve the better interoperability among heterogeneous systems in lower layer hierarchy (i.e. sensors and devices), when an event(s) is received from building server, it may active more than one systems to be triggered in the same time which cause a conflict. Therefore, there is a necessity to propose a framework to solve the conflict occurrence among heterogeneous systems to have stable and efficient intelligent building. Analysis of tablet device usage for mobile Internet with segmentation approach Sungbum Kim Faculty, Ph.D. (Innovation and Technology Management), Department of IT convergence, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi, Gyeongbuk, Korea 3 003-icimie Abstract- When a new product is introduced in the market, some consumers adopt it quickly, while others wait before using it. Product managers should classify end users and explore the characteristics of consumers according to each consumer’s segment. The objective of this paper is to investigate the use of a tablet device for accessing information on the mobile Internet. The study first analyses variables such as consumer perceptions and attitudes toward tablet devices through expert interviews and factor analysis. Then, it classifies consumers into categories according to their perceptions and attitudes toward tablet devices using latent class regression methodology. The final section of the paper tests the statistical significance of a set of variables related to tablet characteristics such as the relative advantage related to contents and tablet display, compatibility with consumers’ prior experiences and needs, image, and company’s reputation. The results validate that end users are classified into three segments and factors elicited have significant effects on the use of tablet devices. The five factors are significant in indicating differences across segments, whereas four indicators excluding compatibility are significant in terms of the amount of variables’ sensitivity. Segment 1 could be labeled “Product oriented segment”; segment 2, “Company’s reputation with contents advantage oriented segment”; and segment 3, the “Innovative image with tablet display advantage oriented segment. These results have implications for product managers wanting to classify end users and determine the optimal variables in developing innovative products. An Empirical Analysis Study of Human Resource Management on Job Satisfaction in different Pharmaceutical departments of different Pharmaceutical Industries in Pakistan Faisal Ali1, Mansoor Shuakat2, Cui Lirong3 Beijing Institute of Technology Abstract- Background: Human Resource management or simply known as HR is a department in which enhance the power of employee performance in regard with their services, and to make the organization strategic objectives. The main concern of HR department is to organize people, focus on policies and their system. Objective: The purpose of this empirical study is to find out the relationship between Human resource management practices and their Job satisfaction. Results: The Hypothesis is testing on a sample of overall 320 employees of 5 different Pharmaceutical departments of different companies in Pakistan. The important practices which were as Relationship of Job satisfaction with HR Practices, Impact on Job Satisfaction with HR Practices, Participation of Staff of Different Departments, HR Practices effects the Job satisfaction, Recruitment and Selection influences the Job satisfaction, Training and Development affects the Job satisfaction, Performance and Appraisals affects the Job satisfaction , Compensation affects the Job satisfaction , IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES 4 004-icimie Industrial Relationships affects the Job satisfaction. Conclusion: After finishing all data analysis, the conclusion is that lots of Job related activities raise the confidence of Job satisfaction of employees with their salary and other benefits. Implications of HR practices discussed, Limitations, and future research study also offered. write the main conclusion for your paper Awareness, Acceptance and Application of Green Building Index (GBI) System by Malaysian Contractors Zarith Sufia Azlan1, Nur Syamimi Zulkefli2, Nurhaizan Zainudin3, Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) Malaysia 5 005-icimie Abstract- The Green Building Index (GBI) is Malaysia’s industry recognized green rating system for buildings which has been launched to promote sustainability in the built environment. The application of GBI has contributed varied perception and attitude among key players in the Malaysia construction industry mainly by the contractors. Two fields of studies, survey and interview have been conducted in this study to investigate the level of awareness, acceptance and application by the Malaysian contractors in adopting GBI system. Presently, the results indicate that majority of the respondents have lack of experienced in green building projects particularly in handling GBI’s rated project. This is due to lower level of understanding on the green building rating systems especially the GBI itself and concerned over high cost to their project. It is recommended that the GBI should be compulsory in rated all buildings in Malaysia and actions are needed to increase knowledge towards this system to all levels of contractors. REVIEW: TEA TREE (MELALEUCA ALTERNIFOLIA) AS A NEW MATERIAL FOR BIOCOMPOSITES Rodney, J. 1,2 , Sahari J. *1 , Mohd Kamal Mohd Shah 3 1 Faculty of Science and Natural Resources, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. 2 Knowledge and Technology Management Division, Sabah Economic Development & Investment Authority (SEDIA), 88873, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. 3 Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Sabah 88400, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia 6 006-icimie Abstract- Melaleuca alternifolia or commonly known as tea tree is a tall shrub or small tree in the plant genus Melaleuca. It is popular for its oil, which is tea tree oil where it has been employed largely in various industries of its antimicrobial properties. Research works are still ongoing mainly focusing on the tea tree oil properties, ultimately almost none of them investigating on the residue which is the leaves. Environmental issues become the world major concern, which create awareness among industrial player to turn back to natural fibre in producing products. In recent time, productions of composites from agro waste have received considerable attention. This paper aims to rationalize the potential of tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) leaves as a new source of natural fibres or material in order to become the potential filler or reinforcer in the development of a new biocomposite. CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS OF KNOWLEDGE SHARING: A CASE STUDY IN A UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Wan Ab Kadir Wan Dollah *1, Adibah Ahmad 2, Muhamad Khairulnizam Zaini 3, Intan Nurbaizura Zainuddin 4, Razilan Abdul Kadir 5 Mohd Sazili Shahibi 6 1 Universiti Teknologi MARA, Faculty of Information Management Universiti Teknologi MARA, Faculty of Information Management 3 Universiti Teknologi MARA, Faculty of Information Management 4 Universiti Teknologi MARA, Faculty of Information Management 5 Universiti Teknologi MARA, Faculty of Information Management 2 IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES 6 7 007-icimie Universiti Teknologi MARA, Faculty of Information Management Abstract - Background: Knowledge sharing is a process of transferring knowledge to other surrounding people both online and offline in order to increase the level of individual’s knowledge. Knowledge sharing can occur via written correspondence or face-to-face communication through networking with other experts, documenting, organizing and capturing knowledge for others. The five factors that were highlighted in the study are trust, communication between staff, information system, and rewards system and organization structure. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between trust, communication, information system, reward system and organization structure and knowledge sharing among staff in the library context. Those populations are the staff in Perpustakaan Hamzah Sendut (PHS) in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) main campus. A total of 100 questionnaires distributed and only 80 questionnaires were answered and returned. The researcher used SPSS to analyze data. The findings showed that trust, communication between staff, information system and organization structure are positively related to knowledge sharing in library. The Optimization Problem of Product-Mix and Linear Programing Applications; A single-Case Study in Tea Industry Hemendra Lal Gunasekaran Graduate School of Business, University of Malaya, Malaysia Suhaiza Zainali Graduate School of Business, University of Malaya, Malaysia Ali Haj Aghapour(co-responding) Graduate School of Management, Multimedia University, Malaysia 8 010-icimie Abstract - This paper propose a practical optimization problem of product-mix based on labor capacity, machine capacity, raw materials and demand constrains in a Sri Lankan tea producing company. The objective is to profit maximization, satisfying all constraints. In this paper, the problem is formulated as a linear programming model. As a case study, a software package (LINGO 9.0) is applied to solve the optimization problem. As with any LP model, the reduced costs for decision variables and dual prices and allowable fluctuation for constraints are used to conduct detailed sensitivity analysis. Eventually, this paper comes up with a set of policy making suggestions which might be helpful for the production planning and detailed scheduling The optimal parameter design for a welding unit of manufacturing industry by Taguchi method and computer simulation Seyed Mojib Zahraee*1 1 Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia Abstract- Manufacturing systems include the complicated combination of resources such as material, labors, and machines. So, when the manufacturing systems are faced with a problem related to resources availability it is difficult to identify the root of problem accurately and effectively. Managers and engineers in companies are trying to achieve a robust production line based on the maximum productivity. The main goal of this paper is to design a robust production line, taking productivity into account in the selected manufacturing industry. This paper has presented an application of the Taguchi method and computer simulation to find the optimum factor setting for three controllable factors which are number of welding machines , number of hydraulic machines and number of cutting machines by analyzing the effect of noise factors. Based on the final results, the optimal parameter design of welding unit of selected manufacturing industry will be obtained when the level for factor A is located at level 2, also the level for factor B and C in located at level 1. Therefore, the maximum desirability of productivity is achieved when the number of welding machines, number of hydraulic machines and number of cutting machines to be equal to 17, 2, and 1 respectively. IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES 9 011-icimie Estimation of Residence Time Distribution and Solid Wastes Transportation of an Orbal Biological System using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) N.A. Saadi, H. A. Azizii, M.Z. Abdullahiii, M. Zubairiv i School of Civil Engineering, Engineering Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Nibong Tebal, 14300, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia. ii School of Civil Engineering, Engineering Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Nibong Tebal, 14300, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia. iii School of Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Nibong Tebal, 14300, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia. ivDepartment of Aerospace Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. 10 012-icimie Abstract - There is a current emphasis on minimising energy consumption in the global wastewater industry which requires the development of more efficient ways of operating treatment processes. Treatment processes must achieve high effluent quality to satisfy discharge requirements while also taking into account factors such as minimising cost, space, as well as the energy which is used. This research focuses on modelling the relationship between biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) reduction and the power consumption of a common energy-intensive biological treatment process, the oxidation ditch. Specifically, the research considers the Orbal Biological System (OBS) oxidation ditch process that is commonly used in Malaysia, with the Bayan Baru Sewage Treatment Plant used as a case study. The first step of the research plan was to develop a preliminary process model based on established fundamental principles of biochemical reactions in wastewater, to represent the relationship between BOD, oxygen utilization rate (OUR), and power consumption. This model makes simplifying assumptions such as constant hydraulic residence time (HRT) and oxygen (O2) concentration throughout each of the three channels of the OBS. A more complex model of the OBS using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling was then developed to take this investigation further. CFD analysis was chosen because it can take into account the distribution of HRT throughout the channels. The modelling was calibrated and validated against experimental data gathered onsite. The major outcome of the research will be an improved understanding of the energy consumption (directly related to oxygen transfer rate) required for BOD reduction in the oxidation ditch process and the development of a tool which will aid in enhancing the operation of this oxidation ditch process to achieve acceptable effluent water quality with minimised power consumption. Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Malaysian Corporations Reputation Rami Abdulhakeem Hasan Ba Raidah *1, Prof. Dr. Shamsuddin Sulaiman 2, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tang Sai Hong 3 *1 Universiti Putra Malaysia, Department Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Selangor, 2 Universiti Putra Malaysia, Department Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Selangor, 3 Universiti Putra Malaysia, Department Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Selangor, of Mechanical and Manufacturing Malaysia. of Mechanical and Manufacturing Malaysia. of Mechanical and Manufacturing Malaysia. Abstract- Background: Multinational corporations (MNC) increasing; are observed becoming more dominant and powerful than ever before. Corporations such as Exxon Mobil, Wal-Mart, and Pepsi have entities all over the world; offering jobs and providing products on a global scale. Without doubt, their processes impact on society to a larger extent and their strategic decisions are therefore more likely to affect many countries instantaneously. Accordingly, corporations like these are often referred to as Global Citizens. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been getting much concern recently from many administrations. Well-defined as “the IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES 11 013-icimie constant promise of business to behave ethically and subsidize to the economic improvement meanwhile developing the quality of life of the employees, their relations, the local communal and society at large” (Holme and Watts, 2000). It has been known as a source of maintainable improvement (Brammer and Pavellin 2006) and has converted an emerging imperative as described by Baladi (2011). To sum it up, CSR can no longer be something complementary or momentary. Objective: 1. To identify the social responsibilities (Philanthropic, Legal, Ethical and Economic) of Malaysian business organization. 2. To find the relationship amongst social responsibilities (Philanthropic, Legal, Ethical and Economic) and corporate reputation of Malaysian business organizations. However this study aims to examine whether this research will give us similar outcome in Malaysia as compared to the research achieved by Carroll (1979) in USA, who found legal concerns to be the most essential responsibility of corporations, tracked by ethical, philanthropic and economic responsibilities, and according to Visser (2005) who studied the situation in Africa, found that economic responsibility was the most favored responsibility, and tracked by philanthropic, legal and ethical responsibilities. Results: From the outcomes obtained, philanthropic responsibility feature has the most important influence on corporate reputation because it has the highest correlation rate, tracked by economic responsibility, ethical responsibility and, lastly, legal responsibility. Based on the outcomes obtained, the classification of components from Malaysian viewpoint seemed to be marginally diverse with the original Carroll's conceptualization of CSR. As the findings recommend that the CSR components have a significant and important relationship with corporate reputation. Even though it has been made compulsory for the public listed corporations in Malaysia to release at least a statement on their CSR activities starting from the financial year end 2007, not much has been done to address the CSR activities release on other kinds of business assets. Conclusion: Throughout the research it is noted that most of the respondents were familiar with the term corporate social responsibility and some had no idea. Outcomes of the study more specified that business organizations can obtain financial and non-financial benefits from successfully applying CSR efforts for the significant stakeholders. Conversely, it was experiential that executives of the corporate organizations can obtain benefits such as improve corporate reputation by applying CSR. The study distinguished that there is a positive relationship between CSR activities such as philanthropic responsibility, legal responsibilities, ethical responsibility and economical responsibility with Malaysian corporate reputation. Lastly the study proved that Malaysia has it is own model states that philanthropic concerns to be the most essential responsibility of corporations, tracked by economic, ethical and legal responsibilities. An empirical survey of supplier participation in sustainable green supply chain: a case study of Malaysian automotive manufacturers Seyed Mojib Zahraee *1 1 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia Abstract - One of the controversial issues in the new world is climate change and environmental challenges in supply chain systems. Managers are trying to achieve green supply chain (GSC) by developing sustainable practices in supplier’s participation. There is now a well-recognized need for achieving overall sustainability in industrial activities. The main goal of this paper is doing an empirical survey to achieve a better understanding of the drivers for the participation of suppliers in green supply chain initiatives. We selected four independent variables that are customer requirement, supplier readiness, relational norms and customer investment in a supplier system. Malaysian automotive industry was selected as a case of study. Final result showed that customer requirements will have a direct effect on supplier participation (H1). Moreover, it shown that there is a positive and important relationship between supplier readiness and supplier participation. In addition, our findings confirmed the hypothesis that there is not a significant relationship between relational norms IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES 12 014-icimie and supplier participation. Finally, we found that there is not significant support in our data sample for Supplier development investment. Evaluation of Firm’s Potential in Adoption of Green IT Ghazal Bargshady *1, SeyedMojibZahraee2 1 UniversitiTeknology Malaysia, Department of Information System, Faculty of Advanced Informatics School, 54100, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2 UniversitiTeknology Malaysia, Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, 81310, Johor Bahru, Malaysia 13 015-icimie Abstract - Background: Green Information Technologyis significant in improving environmental sustainability for business with IT operations to reduce cost of these operations. There are many reports which show advantages and effectiveness of green IT in businesses that use IT. IT managers are forced in cost reducingof IT processes and using efficiency of energy IT businesses. Objective: This paper propositions a model based on previous studies. The model identified Green IT adaption potential in firms from five dimensions and factors which impact it. It hypothesizes the technological, organisational, social, economical and environmental factors and variables can predict the potential of Green IT adoption.Also the reason of using Green IT and barriers of using it in firms identified based on the respondents’ answer from the designed questionnaire.Results:The result show environmental and organizational aspects have more potential in adoption of green IT in these firms. Conclusion: This finding can usein future for researchers and company that towards green IT in IT related businesses. Evaluation on School Resource Centre Management Courses towards Library and Media Teachers’ Competency: A Conceptual Paper Hasnah Shuhaimi*1, Norasiah Harun 2, Saidatul Akmar Ismail 3 , Saiful Farik Mat Yatin 4, Zahril Shahida Ahmad 5 1 Faculty of Information Management, Malaysia Faculty of Information Management, Malaysia 3 Faculty of Information Management, Malaysia 4 Faculty of Information Management, Malaysia 5 Faculty of Information Management, Malaysia Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam, Malaysia 2 14 016-icimie Background: In Malaysia, Library and Media Teachers (LMTs) are teachers, academically qualified and professionally trained in the discipline of education. They are subject teachers and familiar with the school curriculum (Norhashimah, 2007; Hussain, 2007; Lee, et al.,2003). Once, their services are confirmed with at least three years of teaching experience, they are eligible to be appointed as LMTs (Ketua Pengarah Pelajaran Malaysia, 2005). However, many of them have little or limited library and information science (LIS) qualifications (Raja Abdullah & Saidina Omar,2003). The general practice is for them to attend two training courses which are a Basic School Resource Centre Management (SRCM) Course (35-hour), followed by Advanced School Resource Centre Management (SRCM) Course (45-hour) prior to or after their appointment as LMTs (Tan,S.M. & Diljit. S, 2008; Norhidawati et al., 2014; Kamal & Normah, 2012; Abrizah,1999) Objective: To identify the relevant constructs of the LMTs’ competency; to identify the relevant constructs of SRCM courses for the LMTs; to investigate the influence between the SRCM courses and the knowledge of LMTs’ competency; to investigate the influence between the SRCM courses and the skills of LMTs’ competency; to investigate the influence between the SRCM courses and the abilities of LMTs’ competency Effect of Humidity on IDE Based WO3/Nafion Polymer Sensing Structure Resistivity Amirul Abd Rashid *1,2, Nor Hayati Saad 2, Daniel Bien Chia Sheng 1, Lee Wai Yee 1 1 NEMS and Photonics Lab,MIMOS Berhad, Technology Park Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 57000, Malaysia. 2 Micro-Nano Electromechanical System Laboratory (MiNEMS), Faculty of Mechanical IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam Selangor Malaysia. 15 017-icimie ABSTRACT Background: Nanostrucutred metal oxide material has widely been used as sensing element for gas sensor application. Their high surface to volume ratio allows better adsorption of target analyte at relatively lower concentration. However, they are also known to be very sensitive to the surrounding atmosphere, especially temperature and humidity. Objective: In this study, the effect of humidity on IDE based gas sensor inside a typical gas test chamber was investigated. The sensing element of the sensor consists of nanostructured WO3 mixed with nafion polymer to create conductive networks across IDE. Results: It was found that when the nitrogen gas feed into the chamber, the resistance of the sensor increased significantly from ohm to kohm level while the RH level reduced from ~ 70% to less than 10% . This situation can be controlled by connecting a simple air bubble method where the resistance and RH was able to be maintained at certain value. Conclusion: Without any treatment, the usage of nitrogen gas as analyte carrier will have a big impact to the humidity inside the test chamber. This situation at the same time dictates the resistance value of the gas sensor prior exposing to any analyte. Therefore, it is worth to emphasize the importance to consider the actual level of humidity during characterization study to avoid misinterpretation of the metal oxide gas sensor performance result. Using technology, organization, environment framework to investigate the determinants of the adoption of electronic publishing amongst Malaysian publishers Zahril Shahida Ahmad*1, Norasiah Harun 2, Hasnah Shuhaimi 3 , 1 Ph. D Researcher, Faculty of Information Management, Malaysia Assoc. Professor, Faculty of Information Management, Malaysia 3 Ph. D Researcher, Faculty of Information Management, Malaysia Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam, Malaysia 2 16 018-icimie Abstract - Background: In the modern era of ICT revolution, the application of electronics to every aspect of human life has become remarkable. Electronic publishing has emerged as a major development in the media landscape and the adoption of this new media has become an important area of research. The continuance of electronic publishing depends on the adoption of this media by publishers and users. However, a research demonstrates that the rate of adoption of electronic publishing amongst Malaysian publishers is low. Therefore, this study will identify the contributing factors that have influenced that scenario. This paper is built on Tornatzsky’ technological, organizational and environmental framework to investigate the determinants of the adoption decision. Objective The research questions will not only explore the technological, organizational and environmental contexts but will also solicit the problems faced by Malaysian publishers in embracing electronic publishing. Result: This study is currently at preliminary stage. Therefore findings of the study would not yet be discussed. Conclusion: It is hoped that the study would be able to provide new findings and contribute to the development of frameworks in electronic publishing industry by emphasizing the determinants of its adoption. Electronic Document Management System: Malaysian experience Saiful Farik Mat Yatin *1, Ahmad Azman Mohamad Ramli 2, Hasnah Shuhaimi 3, Husain Hashim 4, Wan Ab Kadir Wan Dollah 5, Muhamad Khairulnizam Zaini 6, Mohd Razilan Abdul Kadir 7 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 Universiti Teknologi MARA, Faculty of Information Management, 40150 Shah Alam, Malaysia Abstract - Background: One of the seven flagships in Vision 2020 focuses on the area of record keeping and document management is Generic Office Environment-Electronic Government Document Management System (GOE-EGDMS). This study is designed to investigate the usage and effectiveness of the implementation of GOE-EGDMS adopting the IS Effectiveness Model from DeLone and McLean. Questionnaires were collected through web-survey and were analysed using Exploratory Factor Analysis, Confirmatory Factor IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES 17 019-icimie Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Objective: to determine the level of service quality of MAMPU focusing at the Electronic Government Division; to determine the user satisfaction level of the GOE-EGDMS; to determine whether service quality and information quality in GOE-EGDMS has an effect on system usage; to determine if information quality, system usage and user satisfaction in GOE-EGDMS has an effect on individual impact; to determine the relationship between individual impact and organization impact in GOE-EGDMS. Results: Based on the analysis, six hypotheses were significant and supported. The major contribution of the study is the developed research instruments which can be further tested in other research settings. Conclusion: This study provided valuable information for the government in implementing GOE-EGDMS in the future. It is hoped that the system can help Malaysian government achieve its vision that is to effectively and efficiently deliver good services from the government to the people of Malaysia, and enabling the government to become more responsive to the needs of its citizens. Audit on Knowledge Spectrum Saiful Farik Mat Yatin *1, Nur Ainatul Mardiah Mat Nawi 2, Nur’ Ain Ismail 3 , Siti Aisyah Abdul Rahman 4, Siti Aisyah Mohamed Yusof 5 , Siti Noorhaslinda Mohamed Ameri 6 Universiti Teknologi MARA 18 020-icimie Abstract- Background: The most common topic on auditing within Information Management field generally will focusing on the information audit and knowledge audit. It is rarely seen a paper that highlighting from the starting of data audit, information audit and lastly the knowledge audit. Data, information and knowledge is the element that made up the knowledge spectrum. It is unfortunate since each of them associated and related to each other in their own way. Therefore, this paper will be discussing on auditing knowledge spectrum that will start from the bottom side of knowledge spectrum that is data then information and lastly knowledge. Besides that, this study also will be briefly elaborating on every methodology and model each of knowledge spectrum auditing that have been proposed by the previous prominent scholars. Applying GA-Based Simulation on Scheduling Abdul Talib Bon1, Siti Hasziani Ahmad2 Sie Long Kek3 Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia Abstract- This paper discusses the simulation of a project scheduling based on the genetic algorithm (GA). Our aim is to revise the project scheduling so that each activity in the project can be estimated as well as reducing the cost expensed. In this simulation, the operators of GA, which are selection, crossover and mutation, are employed. We propose the uniform distribution in selecting the parents. For the generated parents, one-point crossover is implemented to produce the offspring. Follow from this, the mutation is taken place, where one point of the offspring is chosen randomly. Then the value of the point is refined according to the formula of the uniform distribution. After completing the GA operators, the chromosomes of the gene of the offspring represents the earliest finish time and the last chromosome show the total time to finish the project. Consequently, the duration of each activity is calculated and the fitness value, which is the total cost expensed, is computed. In conclusion, the GA-based simulation provides an alternative schedule, which is shortened the original completion time of the project and save the corresponding cost expensed. 19 021-icimie A Conceptual Paper on Customer Satisfaction Toward Commercial Records Center Services. Mohammad Azhan Abdul Aziz 1, Saiful Farik Mat Yatin 2, 1 Faculty of Information Management,Universiti Teknologi MARA, Kelantan, Malaysia 2 Faculty of Information Management,Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia Abstract- Customer satisfaction, from the service quality perspective, has emerged as a channel for assessing customers’ perceptions or expectations of services in order to IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES normalize existing services. Commercial Records Center Company in Malaysia, understanding the necessity of complying with customer perception of high quality records management service, has begun to search for alternative ways to satisfy their clientele on the basis of service quality. This study therefore aims to meet this need by developing a model to assess the extent to which service quality indicators and other explanatory attributes may be used to forecast customer satisfaction, from a service quality perspective based on SERVQUAL Model. The final model may be used to design a simple measurement or monitoring process of Commercial Records Center performance, and it may also be a useful instrument for diagnosing service quality locally. This study further provides a keystone for other studies and may also stimulate the momentum of current research on service quality and customer satisfaction. Mediating Role of Organization’s Continuous Commitment between Strategy Formulation and Organizational Performance in Libya’s Industrial Sector 20 Ahmed Alghazali Mohammed Alghannai *1, Abdul Talib Bin Bon 2 Name of authors must be included (First Name and Final Name) 1 Faculty of Technology Management, University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia 2 Faculty of Technology Management, University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia Abstract- Background: The practice of strategic management is important to evaluate why firms’ levels of performance vary. It was revealed that firms, those practice strategic management performs better. Hence, it is important to know something about strategic management as this differentiates the performances among firms. However, due to lack of proper strategic management practices, the industries can only achieve 50% of their full production capacity in Libya. This further suggests opportunities to improve the industrial sector in Libya. Objective: This research aims to establish and verify the hypothesized relationship between strategy formulation and organizational success and the mediating role of organization’s continuous commitment in Libya’s industrial sectors. Results: A selfadministered questionnaire was used to collect data from the 223 respondents through disproportionate stratified random sampling of employees working at the different industries in Libya. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test the hypotheses. The results indicate that organization’s continuous commitment fully mediates the relationship between strategy formulation and organizational success in the Libyan industry context. Conclusion: Proper uses of strategic management through formulating proper strategies are needed to sustain in the long run which can be achieved through identifying their mission, vision and future objectives in Libya. The findings of this study add knowledge and understanding on the subject of strategic management and its application in the Libyan context. No 1 Paper ID 001-icebcmlg Presenter A Strategic Approach for implementing Enterprise 2.0: South Korea Case Sungbum Kim Faculty, Ph.D. (Innovation and Technology Management), Department of IT convergence, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi, Gyeongbuk, Korea In order to create innovation through Enterprise 2.0, it is important to find a field that has potential for synergy effect and understand the preexisting system within the organization. The key words for the similar concepts and principles that connect the existing system with Enterprise 2.0 are knowledge, communication, and end user and these words exist in the form of Knowledge management system, enterprise communication system, and product management system. Knowledge management system will contribute to the organization success through adoption of advanced CoP and Q&A platform. Enterprise communication system will contribute likewise by adoption social networking system, which is like twitter for enterprise, while product management system can contribute in incorporating the voice of customer to new product development process through collecting and analyzing opinion to find the needs of the end users. Lastly it is imperative for each system, service and application to assimilate and work in tandem to implement Enterprise 2.0 and, whilst respecting the rules and processes of the existing system, create a culture that supports active participation and diversity. And it is recommended to give power to the end user in view of the user centered innovation approach thereby realizing product innovation directly IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES from the voice of customer. No 1 Paper ID 001-iccne Presenter Performance Analysis of Resource Scheduling Algorithms in LTE Downlink Transmission System Aini Syuhada Md Zain , Normaliza Omar, Mohd Fareq Abd. Malek Universiti Malaysia Perlis 2 002-iccne Abstract - Resource allocation mechanisms are important in assigning all available resources in the network. Scheduling is one of the resource allocation mechanism which will determine the performance of the network. This paper provides the performance analysis on five different scheduling algorithms in the LTE downlink transmission system with two different scenarios. All scheduling algorithms are evaluated based on throughput and fairness index via simulation executed on a MATLAB-based system level simulator. The Max TP scheme provided the highest value of throughput among all, but poor in term of fairness index for both scenarios evaluated. The RF scheme presented the highest value on fairness index and behaved moderately in term of throughput. Optimization of Vehicular Ad Hoc Network using Ichi Taguchi Method Aznor Hanah Abdul Halim , Mohd Nazri Mohd Warip , R. Badlishah Ahmad , Shamsul Jamel Elias Universiti Malaysia 3 003-iccne Abstract- Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is quite different from other ad hoc networks in term of functionality because of the variable node density, high node mobility, and unpredictable and harsh communication environment. There are two major application VANETs, namely safety applications and non-safety applications. Network optimization is one way to maintain the existing protocols and other network parameter rather than costly efforts for design and implementing new improved protocols. Motivated with the reasons to save effort of time and cost this paper presents an optimization of vehicular network for throughput, end-to-end delay and packet delivery ratio using Taguchi method. Highway scenario is chosen as the evaluation condition for this paper. For three performances evaluated, the highest rank value shows the different factors. For safety application which is delay-sensitive, routing protocols is the highest rank control factors. Non-safety application which is throughput sensitive, packet size is the main control factors. Desulfurization of crude oil using bacteria Namratha.N.Pai, K Vasantharaja, Mr.Haribabu Ka National Institute of Technology,Calicut Kozhikode,India Abstract- Our Team is developing an innovative cost effective biological technique to desulfurize crude oil. ’Sulphur’ is found to be present in crude oil samples from .05% - 13.95% and its elimination by industrial methods is expensive currently. Materials required :- Alicyclobacillus acidoterrestrius , potato dextrose agar, oxygen , Pyragallol and inert gas(nitrogen). Method adapted and proposed:Growth of bacteria studied, energy needs. Compatibility with crude-oil. Reaction rate of bacteria studied and optimized. Reaction development by computer simulation. Simulated work tested by building the reactor. No Paper ID Presenter IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES 1 001- iccss Simulation electromagnetic waves through time-dependent Schrӧdinger equation using WENO schemes. Yacine Benhadid PAAET, mathematics department, Basic Education College, Kuwait Abstract- Background: We present a numerical simulation for Schrӧdinger equation. It is based on the weighted essentially non-oscillatory(WENO). To obtain finite-dimensional subspaces we first discuss semi-discretization with respect to the scale parameter by means of sparse grids which relies on mixed regularity and decay properties of the wave functions. We then apply the new schemes to evaluate the density and the total energy of the distribution function. The results are compared to classic numerical methods and give a general view on the reducing of the relative errors. with consistency. No 1 Paper ID 001- icica Presenter An effective elite cuckoo search algorithm for unconstrained optimization Ong Pauline , Zarita Zainuddin Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia 2 002- icica Abstract- In this paper, the deficiencies of the standard cuckoo search algorithm (CSA) of lack of information exchange among the good solutions and lack of adaptive search strategy were concerned. Modification of the CSA was presented, where the resulting algorithm, specifically, the elite cuckoo search algorithm (ECSA), was tested on optimizing several benchmarking functions. Numerical simulations have highlighted the potential beneficial of the proposed ECSA, in terms of convergence characteristic. Classification of Characters Using Multilayer Perceptron and Simplified Fuzzy ARTMAP Neural Networks Mohd Wafi Nasrudin , Shahrul Nizam Yaakob, Shaiful Aziz Rashid Ali, Rozmie Razif Othman, Aimi Salihah Abdul Nasir, Amir Nazren Abd Rahim University Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Malaysia 3 003- icica Abstract- Background: There are various types of methods that can be used to recognize and classify the targeted object in the field of pattern recognition. Thus, this paper presents the classification of characters by combining the features based on Moment Invariant (MI) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN). The moment invariant is used to extract the feature image based on translation, scaling and rotation (RTS) independently in order to test the invariant properties. In this study, the type of moment invariant that has been used is Geometric Moment Invariant (GMI). This moment invariant will produce seven feature vectors which will later be used as the input features for the classification process. In addition, the current study has also utilized the potential of ANN in order to classify the image based on its category. Here, there are two types of ANN that are used to recognize the character image which are Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and Simplified Fuzzy ARTMAP (SFAM) neural networks. To train the MLP network, the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm is used in order to check the applicability. Based on the classification that has been computed, the results show that both networks have produced good classification performance with overall accuracy above 90%. However, the MLP trained by Levenberg-Marquardt (MLP_LM) shows the highest classification performance with 94.46% as compared to the SFAM network. Architecture of Task-based Human-level Planning for Autonomous Behaviors of Computer Generated Forces Daehoe Choi and Sung Hoon Jung IPN – IWNEST 2015 KOTA KINABALU CONFERENCES ,Hansung University, Seoul, Korea AbstractPlanning in intelligent agents or unmanned systems is the most important element for implementing their autonomous behaviors. Previous planning methods, however, are not enough to implement complex autonomous behaviors in that they just search quite abstracted state spaces without considering real situations and environmental changes. In this paper, we propose an architecture of task-based human-level planning method for implementing autonomous behaviors of computer generated forces with fuzzy situation estimation and goal oriented action planning (GOAP). Unlike previous methods that simply plan the series of actions for goals, our method can do more intelligent planning by fuzzy estimation of current situation and environmental conditions. Moreover, if an unforeseen event occur, then our method can detect this situation change and can replan their behaviors in order to adapt to the unforeseen situation by considering the changed situation or changed environmental conditions with intelligent GOAP. Tasks performed by computer generated forces are constructed to be independent of the kinds of forces for simplicity, but detailed controls of the tasks must be fit according to the kinds of forces for practical application. This detailed controls are done by fuzzy rules describing in the tasks. For the basic test of our planning, we applied our human-level planning to computer generated forces in wargame. From the tests of some scenarios, we could find that our method was very useful and effective for implementing autonomous intelligent behaviors. No 1 Paper ID 001-icket Presenter The use of YouTube for knowledge sharing in learning Amillia Amid , Zawiyah M.Yusof University Kebangsaan Malaysia Abstract- Background: In line with the development of technology, learning systems evolved from traditional classroom to e-learning systems. However, the main challenge in the e-learning system is the lack of internet access. In addition, lecturer takes a long time to give feedback to students, and the students take a long time to access lack of interesting contents. Furthermore, e-learning also does not provide enough space for students to share their knowledge easily. Therefore, lecturers use other initiatives such as social media, especially YouTube, to share learning contents. YouTube is an application that provides a flexible platform and versatility for the user and it can be used in classroom. However, studies on the use of YouTube for the purpose of learning is still limited, particularly in Malaysia. Past studies only focused on the intent and actual use of the technology in different ways of learning. Objective: This study examines the factors that encourage the use of YouTube in the classroom for students to share their knowledge in learning. A conceptual model was built based on the result of YouTube adaptation by seven models based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and also the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). Results: A survey involving 152 UKM students from the Faculty of Science and Technology, Faculty of Economics and Management and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities was conducted using questionnaires for data collection. The data were analyzed using the Statistics Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) 21.0 software. Conclusion: This study develops a model of using YouTube for knowledge sharing in learning that can contribute to further academic research in higher education institutions.