STUDIES in SIMULATION and MODELLING

Proceedings of the

8th WSEAS International Conference on ACOUSTICS and MUSIC: THEORY and APPLICATIONS (AMTA '07)

8th WSEAS International Conference on

MATHEMATICS and COMPUTERS in BIOLOGY and CHEMISTRY (MCBC '07)

8th WSEAS International Conference on

MATHEMATICS and COMPUTERS in BUSINESS and ECONOMICS (MCBE '07)

8th WSEAS International Conference on

AUTOMATION and INFORMATION (ICAI '07)

Vancouver, Canada, June 19-21, 2007

ISSN: 1790-5117 ISBN: 978-960-8457-82-9

Copyright © WSEAS 2007, http://www.wseas.org

STUDIES in SIMULATION and MODELLING Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS International Conference on ACOUSTICS and MUSIC: THEORY and APPLICATIONS (AMTA '07) 8th WSEAS International Conference on MATHEMATICS and COMPUTERS in BIOLOGY and CHEMISTRY (MCBC '07) 8th WSEAS International Conference on MATHEMATICS and COMPUTERS in BUSINESS and ECONOMICS (MCBE '07) 8th WSEAS International Conference on AUTOMATION and INFORMATION (ICAI '07) Vancouver, Canada, June 19-21, 2007 Published by World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society Press http://www.wseas.org Copyright © 2007, by WSEAS Press

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ISSN: 1790-5117 ISBN: 978-960-8457-82-9

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AMTA ‘07 COMMITTEE EDITORS: Akshai Aggarwal (Canada) Ronald Yager (USA) I. W. Sandberg (USA) HONORARY EDITORS: Lofti Zadeh (USA) A. A. Goldenberg (Canada) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Morten Willatzen, DENMARK Myzafere Limani, YUGOSLAVIA Peter Hulen, USA Lamberto Tronchin, ITALY Nicolae Herisanu, ROMANIA Mikhail Deryabin, DENMARK Timothy Warner, UNITED KINGDOM Richard Hall, AUSTRALIA Michael Bank, ISRAEL Armando Barreto, USA Sofia Ben Jebara, TUNISIA Yalcin Cekic, TURKEY Elie-Paul Cohen, UNITED KINGOD Giovanni Costantini, ITALY Marc Crunelle, BELGIUM

Nicolae Goga, THE NETHERLANDS David Leeds, UNIYED KINGDOM A.E. Mahdi, IRELAND Jani Nurminen, FINLAND Mahmut Ozturk, TURKEY Dionysis Politis, GREECE Juan Romero, SPAIN Lamberto Tronchin, ITALY Jari Turunen, FINLAND Alexander Vazhenin, JAPAN Antonio Vidal, SPAIN Mahmut Yalcin, TURKEY Panos Pardalos, USA Satnam Dlay, UNITED KINGDOM

MCBC ‘07 COMMITTEE EDITORS: Akshai Aggarwal (Canada) Ronald Yager (USA) I. W. Sandberg (USA) HONORARY EDITORS: Lofti Zadeh (USA) A. A. Goldenberg (Canada) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Ales Holobar, SLOVENIA Arun Pratap Singh, INDIA David Greenhalgh, UNITED KINGDOM Jiri Czernek, CZECH REPUBLIC Fang Rong Hsu, TAIWAN Darko Goricanec, SLOVENIA Su-Hsing Lee, TAIWAN Minh Vo, USA Gerhard Artmann, GERMANY Ralf Metzler, DENMARK Eugen Gheorghiu, ROMANIA Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, FRANCE Jean-Yves Le Guennec, FRANCE Nir Ben-Tal, ISRAEL Jack Tuszynski, CANADA Paolo Freguglia, ITALY Roberto Hornero, SPAIN A. Kubo, JAPAN Mustafa Djamgoz, UNITED KINGDOM Subhendu Ghosh, INDIA Derek Linkens, UNITED KINGDOM F. Grizzi, ITALY Zarreen Farooqi, USA S. Ghosal, USA Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, POLAND Giovanna Morgavi, ITALY H. Mann, USA M. Maddouri, TUNISIA R. Lopez-Cruz, USA Piotr Wasiewicz, POLAND Tuan Pham, AUSTRALIA T. Suzuki, JAPAN S. Dey, USA H. Messai, TUNISIA Ricardo Barbosa, BELGIUM Oscar Angulo Torga, SPAIN Cornelia Victoria Anghel, ROMANIA James Araujo, BRAZIL Robyn Araujo, AUSTRALIA Petro Babak, USA Mohammad Badri, USA Rita Balocchi, ITALY Michele Barbi, ITALY Ross Barnard, AUSTRALIA Armando Barreto, USA

John Guardiola, ITALY Lechoslaw Hacia, POLAND Hatsuo Hayashi, JAPAN Karl Javorszky, AUSTRIA Leonard Kaczmarek, USA Mohammad Kamal, USA Sun Kim, KOREA Greg Knowles, AUSTRALIA Martin H. Kroll, USA Yang Kuang, USA Tor A. Kwembe, USA Stanislava Labatova, SLOVAKIA Haydee Lanzillotti, BRAZIL Byungkook Lee, USA Edwin Lewis, USA Jose L. Martin, SPAIN Vasilij Marzeniuk, USA Amiza Mat Amin, MALAYSIA Ronald Mickens, USA Christoph Mitchell, UNITED KINGDOM Iwona Mroz, POLAND Miriam Nuno, USA Raffaella Ocone, UNITED KINGDOM Bjorn Olsson, SWEDEN Neli Ortega, BRAZIL Celina P. Lepo, PORTUGAL Enrique Peacock-Lopez, USA Ernesto Pereda, SPAIN Julia Ponomarenko, RUSSIA Javier Ramirez-Fernandez, BRAZIL S.M.S. Reyhani, UNITED KINGDOM N. Rezaei-Ghaleh, IRAN Diana Rubio, ARGENTINA Alex Samoletov, UNITED KINGDOM Rinaldo Schinazi, USA Xiangrong Sheng, CHINA Stanislaw Sieniutycz, POLAND Manmohan Singh, AUSTRALIA Jaroslaw Smieja, POLAND Angelique Stephanou, USA Bahram Tafaghodinia, IRAN Jean Tchuenche, CANADA Gerda de Theraulaz, FRANCE Francisco Torrens, SPAIN Bill Tozier, USA

Farida Benmakrouha, FRANCE Guy Berry, FRANCE Sergei Bespamyatnikh, USA Constantinos Koutsojannis, GREECE Michael Brimacombe, USA Nicholas F. Britton, UNITED KINGDOM Carlos Caldeira, PORTUGAL Pierre-Yves Calland, FRANCE David Cameron, UNITED KINGDOM Chi Chen, USA Chyuan-Sing Cheng, TAIWAN Santi Chillemi, ITALY Ross Clement, UNITED KINGDOM Ramiro Concepcion, SPAIN Chris Cosner, USA John Dallon, USA Carlos D'Attellis, ARGENTINA Muhammad Zaid Dauhoo, MAURITIUS Troy Day, CANADA Filomena de Santis, ITALY Panos Diamantopoulos, GREECE Alexandre Dobly, BELGIUM Shinji Doi, JAPAN David A. Drew, USA Oliver Ebenhuh, GERMANY Mourad Elloumi, TUNISIA Jose Manuel Faro-Rivas, SPAIN Robert Finkel, USA Vladimir Flores, ARGENTINA Catherine Garcia-Riembert, MEXICO Miguel Angel Gomez-Nieto, SPAIN Hugues Greenberg, USA Donald Grizzi, ITALY

Reidun Twarock, UNITED KINGDOM Olgierd Unold, POLAND Fabio Vries, CANADA Tarynn M. Witten, USA Alfred Fritz Karl Zehe, MEXICO Jamshidkhan Chamani, IRAN Dimitrios Kokkinakis, SWEDEN Meena Sakharkar, SINGAPORE Davood Ajloo, IRAN Mehran Habibi-Rezaei, IRAN Kivanc Ergen, TURKEY Mohsen Gharanfoli, IRAN Bahram Tafaghodinia, IRAN Sherif Siddick Mahmoud, EGYPT Mahesh Chavan, INDIA Adam Adamopoulos, GREECE Mona Mostafa Gamal, EGYPT Jamshid Davoodi, IRAN Siamak Rezaei, CANADA Subhendu Ghosh, INDIA Photios Anninos, GREECE Sevgi Bayari, TURKEY Iman Helmy, EGYPT Stavros Baloyannis, GREECE Alfred Zehe, MEXICO Greg Knowles, AUSTRALIA Bijan Farzami, IRAN Ali Akbar Moosavi Movahedi, IRAN Tae-Soo Chon, KOREA Feride Severcan, TURKEY Nadide Kazanci, TURKEY Sun-Yuan Hsieh, TAIWAN

MCBE ‘07 COMMITTEE EDITORS: Akshai Aggarwal (Canada) Ronald Yager (USA) I. W. Sandberg (USA) HONORARY EDITORS: Lofti Zadeh (USA) A. A. Goldenberg (Canada) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Eugen Bobasu, ROMANIA Jiann-Jone Chen, TAIWAN Marina Cicin-Sain, CROATIA Balbir Dhillon, CANADA Florin Dragan, ROMANIA Ksenija Dumicic, CROATIA George Filis, UNITED KINGDOM Marios Hatziprokopiou, GREECE Hann-Jang Ho, TAIWAN Elza Jurun, CROATIA Tina Krope, UNITED KINGDOM Deniss Kumlander, ESTONIA Jesus Martinez-Cruz, SPAIN Gianmario Motta, ITALY Ulrich Nogel, GERMANY

Marina Novak, SLOVENIA George Papageorgiou, CYPRUS Mirjana Pejic Bach, CROATIA Emil Petre, ROMANIA Dan Popescu, ROMANIA Victoria Rivas, SPAIN Angelo Maria Sabatini, ITALY Dan Selisteanu, ROMANIA Suzanne Smith, USA Haydn Thompson, UNITED KINGDOM Dongxing Wang, CHINA Chin WenCheong, MALAYSIA Liming Zhang, MACAU S.A.R. Mina Zolfy, IRAN

ICAI ‘07 COMMITTEE EDITORS: Akshai Aggarwal (Canada) Ronald Yager (USA) I. W. Sandberg (USA) HONORARY EDITORS: Lofti Zadeh (USA) A. A. Goldenberg (Canada) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Eugen Bobasu, ROMANIA Jiann-Jone Chen, TAIWAN Marina Cicin-Sain, CROATIA Balbir Dhillon, CANADA Florin Dragan, ROMANIA Ksenija Dumicic, CROATIA George Filis, UNITED KINGDOM Marios Hatziprokopiou, GREECE Hann-Jang Ho, TAIWAN Elza Jurun, CROATIA Tina Krope, UNITED KINGDOM Deniss Kumlander, ESTONIA Jesus Martinez-Cruz, SPAIN Gianmario Motta, ITALY Ulrich Nogel, GERMANY

Marina Novak, SLOVENIA George Papageorgiou, CYPRUS Mirjana Pejic Bach, CROATIA Emil Petre, ROMANIA Dan Popescu, ROMANIA Victoria Rivas, SPAIN Angelo Maria Sabatini, ITALY Dan Selisteanu, ROMANIA Suzanne Smith, USA Haydn Thompson, UNITED KINGDOM Dongxing Wang, CHINA Chin WenCheong, MALAYSIA Liming Zhang, MACAU S.A.R. Mina Zolfy, IRAN

8th WSEAS International Conference on ACOUSTICS and MUSIC: THEORY and APPLICATIONS (AMTA '07)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Discernment of the Sound of a Violin 1 Richard Willgoss, Robert Walker Influence of Auralization Methodology of Musical Pieces in the Subjective Evaluation 7 Lamberto Tronchin, Ryota Shimokura, Valerio Tarabusi, Ilaria Durvilli Pitch Estimation for Musical Sound Including Percussion Sound using Comb Filters and Autocorrelation Function

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Yoshiaki Tadokoro, Tsutomu Saito, Yusuke Suga, Masanori Natsui Spatialization and Timbre for Effective Auditory Graphing 18 Hong Jun Song, Kirsty Beilharz Nonlinear Acoustical Properties in Aqueous Biomaterials 27 O.P. Chimankar, V.A. Tabhane, G.K. Baghel A Review of Transduction Techniques used in Acoustics Echo Cancellation 31 Shabbir Majeed Chaudhry, Farhat Abbas, Yasar Amin, Alina Majeed Chaudhry, Habibullah Jamal Implementing a New Architecture of Wavelet Packet Transform on FPGA 37 Mohsen Amiri Farahani, Mohammad Eshghi Sampling Rate Impact on the Performance of a Head-Related Impulse Response Decomposition Method 42 Kenneth John Faller II, Armando Barreto An Algorithm for Realtime High Resolution Octave Analysis Based on Multirate Signal Processing Theory 48 Cheng Jin, Zhangwei Chen, Fengchun Gao

8th WSEAS International Conference on MATHEMATICS and COMPUTERS

in BIOLOGY and CHEMISTRY (MCBC ‘07) TABLE OF CONTENTS

Complex Schemes of Filtering in Experimental Data Estimation 57 Alexander V. Zorin Fractal Image Processing and Analysis by Programming in MATLAB 61 Zhang Jie, Zhang Ruirui, Hu Buyuan, Bai Sufang A FEM Model of Human Head to Show the Risk of Brain Tumors when using Cell Phone over a Long Period of Time

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Andrianirina Rakotomalala Development of a Robot-Based Platform Applied to Simultaneous Root Growth Profiling of Seedlings Growing in a Petri Dish

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Nima Yazdanbakhsh, Joachim Fisahn Accurate Computation of Chaotic Dynamical Systems 74 Walter Kramer Wavelet Decomposition for Detection and Classification of Critical ECG Arrhythmias 80 G. Selvakumar, K. Bhoopathy Bagan, B. Chidambararajan Interpretation of Measurements of Photochemical Reactions in Focused Laser Beams 85 Adolfas K. Gaigalas, Fern Y. Hunt, Kenneth D. Cole, Lili Wang Estimation of Effective Volume of HPLC Alkyl Bonded Phases by means of Macromolecular Probes 91 Dusan Berek, Stanislava Labatova Analysis of Covariations of Sequence Physicochemical Properties 97 Moshe A. Gadish, David K.Y. Chiu Modelling Plankton Dynamics in Brackish Waters 103 Anumeha Dube, Girija Jayaraman Study of The Deformation in the Vanderpol Equation and it’s Applications to the Growth of Yeast Population

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Amritasu Sinha On-Line Monitoring and Chemometric Modeling of S.Cerevisiae Fermentation Processes with 2D Spectrofluorometry

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Jong Il Rhee, Tae-Hyoung Kang, Ok-Jae Sohn, Sun Yong Kim

8th WSEAS International Conference on MATHEMATICS and COMPUTERS

in BUSINESS and ECONOMICS (MCBE ‘07) TABLE OF CONTENTS

A Decision Support System for Resource Allocation 125 Chang-Kyo Suh Using Information Technology for Human Resource Management Decisions 130 Mojca Bernik, Joze Florjancic, Dusan Ornigoj, Igor Bernik Decision-Maker's Impact on a Firm's Market Orientation 134 Arie Maharshak, David Pundak Inherent Risks in ICT Outsourcing Projects 141 Noor Habibah Arshad, Yap May-Lin, Azlinah Mohamed, Sallehuddin Affandi High Linkage Model “Advanced TDS, TPS & TMS” for Strategic New JIT 147 Kakuro Amasaka An Optimized Hierarchical Model for Agent-Mediated E-Commerce 156 Cristea Boboila, Marcela S. Boboila Accounting Decisions’ Modeling with Intelligent Technologies 162 Mihalache Sabina-Cristiana A Mathematical Analysis of Real Options Interactions 171 Agliardi Rossella Bank Closure Policies and Capital Requirements: A Mathematical Model 177 Elettra Agliardi Textile Quality Control using Design Of Experiments 183 Ahmad A. Moreb, Mehmet Savsar Business Risks and Security Assessment for Mobile Devices 189 Patricia Mayer Milligan, Donna Hutcheson Theoretical Distributions in Risk Measuring on Stock Market 194 Josip Arneric, Elza Jurun, Snjezana Pivac Minimizing Total Standard Deviation of Counting Rates for n Radioactive Materials in a Nuclear Detector 200 Ahmad A. Moreb Return on Investment for Business Intelligence 205 Zeljko Panian Analysis of the Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on the Development of Latvia as a New Member of the EU

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J. Ulmanis, A. Kolyshkin Applying Web-Enabled Problem-Based Learning and Self-Regulated Learning to Involve Low Achieving Students in Learning Application Software

219

Tsang-Hsiung Lee, Pei-Di Shen, Chia-Wen Tsai

Integrating Kano's Model into Quality Function Deployment to Facilitate Decision Analysis for Service Quality

226

Chih-Hung Hsu, Tsan-Ming Chang, Shih-Yuan Wang, Pei-Yi Lin Statistical Modelling of Marketing Processes 233 Zvonko Sajfert, Carisa Besic, Dejan Dordevic, Vjekoslav Sajfert Euler's Difference Equation 239 Vjekoslav Sajfert, Zvonko Sajfert, Dejan Dordevic, Carisa Besic, Bratislav Tosic, Jovan P. Setrajcic

8th WSEAS International Conference on AUTOMATION and INFORMATION (ICAI ‘07)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

A Study of Efficient Avoidance in the Event of DNS (Domain Name System) Failure 247 Yang-Won Lim, Hyon-A Hwang, Hankyu Lim Enhancing Mood Metrics using Encapsulation 254 Sunint Saini, Mehak Aggarwal Extraction of Vehicle Number Plates using Mathematical Morphological Techniques 260 Humayun Karim Sulehria, Ye Zhang On the Stimulating Effects of Multimedia Factors on Learning 264 Sylvia Encheva, Sharil Tumin Sampling-Reconstruction Procedure of Markov Chains with Continuous Time and with an Arbitrary Number of States

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V. Kazakov, Y. Goritskiy Priority Tasks Allocation through the Maximum Entropy Principle 273 Miguel A. Toledo C., J. Jesus Medel J. Componentwise Stability of 1D and 2D Linear Discrete-Time Singular Systems 279 H. Mejhed, N.H. Mejhed, A. Hmamed Automatic Verification of Cryptographic Protocols in First-Order Logic 285 Jihong Han, Zhiyong Zhou, Yadi Wang Blind Watermarking Technique Based on Integer Discrete Cosine Transform and AC Prediction 291 Eugene Lai, Ching-Tang Hsieh, Kuo-Ming Hung Modeling Ontology-Based Task Knowledge in TTIPP 297 Kwoting Fang The Role of Viscous Friction Damping in Adaptive Output Feedback Tracking Control of Manipulators 303 Javier Moreno A Solution to the Discrete Optimal Tracking Problem for Linear Systems 309 Corneliu Botan, Florin Ostafi Comparative Assessment of Fiber Optic Strain and Curvature Sensors in Automated Condition Monitoring 314 Alexandar Djordjevich, Rui Zhang Near-Replicas of Web Pages Detection Efficient Algorithm based on Single MD5 Fingerprint 320 Wang Da-Zhen, Chen Yu-Hui A Proxy-based Architecture for Multimedia Transmission 323 Wang Da-Zhen, Wan Fang

Authors Index

Abbas, F. 31 Florjancic, J. 130 Panian, Z. 205 Affandi, S. 141 Gadish, M. A. 97 Pivac, S. 194 Aggarwal, M. 252 Gaigalas, A. K. 85 Pundak, D. 134 Agliardi, E. 177 Gao, F. 48 Rajan, B. C. 80 Agliardi, R. 171 Goritskiy, Y. 268 Rhee, J. 116 Amasaka, K. 147 Han, J. 283 Ruirui, Z. 61 Amin, Y. 31 Hmamed, A. 277 Saini, S. 252 Andrianirina, R. 66 Hsieh, C.-T. 289 Saito, T. 13 Arneric, J. 194 Hsu, C.-H. 226 Sajfert, V. 233, 239 Arshad, N. H. 141 Hung, K.-M. 289 Sajfert, Z. 233, 239 Bagan, K. B. 80 Hunt, F. Y. 85 Savsar, M. 183 Baghel, G. 27 Hutcheson, D. 189 Setrajcic, J. P. 239 Barreto, A. 42 Hwang, H.-A. 245 Shen, P.-D. 219 Beilharz, K. 18 Jamal, H. 31 Shimokura, R. 7 Berek, D. 91 Jayaraman, G. 103 Sinha, A. 112 Bernik, I. 130 Jesus Medel, J. J. 271 Sohn, O.-J. 116 Bernik, M. 130 Jie, Z. 61 Song, H. J. 18 Besic, C. 233, 239 Jin, C. 48 Sufang, B. 61 Boboila, C. 156 Jurun, E. 194 Suga, Y. 13 Boboila, S. 156 Kang, T.-H. 116 Suh, C.-K. 125 Botan, C. 307 Kazakov, V. 268 Sulehria, H. K. 258 Buyuan, H. 61 Kim, S. Y. 116 Tabhane, V. 27 Chang, T.-M. 226 Kolyshkin, A. 211 Tadokoro, Y. 13 Chaudhry, A. M. 31 Kramer, W. 74 Tarabusi, V. 7 Chaudhry, S. M. 31 Kumar, G. S. 80 Toledo, M. A. C. 271 Chen, Y.-H. 318 Labatova, S. 91 Tosic, B. 239 Chen, Z. 48 Lai, E. 289 Tronchin, L. 7 Chimankar, O. 27 Lee, T.-H. 219 Tsai, C.-W. 219 Chiu, D. K. Y. 97 Lim, H. 245 Tumin, S. 262 Cole, K. D. 85 Lim, Y.-W. 245 Ulmanis, J. 211 Crnigoj, D. 130 Lin, P.-Y. 226 Walker, R. 1 Djordjevich, A. 312 Lin, Y. M. 141 Wang, D.-Z. 318, 321 Djordjevich, D. 233, 239 Maharshak, A. 134 Wang, L. 85 Dube, A. 103 Mejhed, H. 277 Wang, S.-Y. 226 Durvilli, I. 7 Mejhed, N. H. 277 Wang, Y. 283 Encheva, S. 262 Mihalache, S.-C. 162 Willgoss, R. 1 Eshghi, M. 37 Milligan, P. 189 Yazdanbakhsh, N. 69 Faller, K. J. 42 Mohamed, A. 141 Zhang, R. 312 Fang, K. 295 Moreb, A. A. 183, 200 Zhang, Y. 258 Fang, W. 321 Moreno, J. 301 Zhou, Z. 283 Farahani, M. A. 37 Natsui, M. 13 Zorin, A. 57 Fisahn, J. 69 Ostafi, F. 307