Review of Business & Technology Research

Volume 14, Number 2, December 2017, ISSN: 1941-9406 (Print), 1941-9414 (CD)


Editor-in-Chief:

Dr. Dinesh K. Sharma, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, USA


Editors:

Dr. H.S. Hota, Bilaspur University, INDIA

Dr. Kamal N. Agarwal, Howard University, USA



Editorial Board:

 

Dr. Ayodele J. Alade

University of Maryland Eastern Shore, USA

Dr. Saed T. Amer

The Petroleum Institute, UAE

Dr. R. D. Pathak

University of South Pacific, Suva, Fiji

Dr. TekinAkgeyik

Istanbul University, TURKEY

Dr. AjanthaHerath

University of Dobuque, USA

Dr. DetelinElenkov

University of Tennessee, USA

Prof. Tekin Akgeyik

Istanbul University, TURKEY

Dr. Hari Sharma

Virginia State University, USA

Dr. SuvineethaHerath

University of Dobuque, USA

Dr. Aysar Philip Sussan

University of Central Florida, USA

Dr. Rakesh Belwal

Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

Dr. Dharam S. Rana

Jackson State University, Mississippi, USA

Dr. Reena Aggarwal

Georgetown University, USA


Dr. Ashish Gadekar

Amity Institute of Higher Education, Mauritius

Dr. Dale R. Wilson

Michigan State University, USA

Dr. Sadanand Srivastava

Bowie State University, USA

Dr. Zafar Zahir

Synetic Business School, INDIA

Dr. Daniel I. Okunbor

Fayetteville State University, USA

Dr. K. N. Singh Kang

Punjab College of Technical Education, INDIA

Dr. David King

Tennessee State University, USA

Dr. Monisha Das

University of Maryland Eastern Shore, USA

Dr. Kate Brown

University of Maryland Eastern Shore, USA

Dr. Aaron R. Rababaah

American University of Kuwait, Kuwait

Dr. Sujeet Sharma

Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman

Dr. David Anyiwo

Bowie State University, USA

Dr. Mohammed Nadeem

National University, USA

 

Review of Business & Technology Research

Editorial Notes

 

We are pleased to present this issue of the Review of Business and Technology Review (RBTR), Volume 14, No. 2, December 2017. The views reflected in this publication are those of authors and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of MTMI Inc. We do not guarantee the accuracy of data included in this publication and accept no responsibility for any consequence of their use. Use of the term ‘country’ does not imply any judgment by authors, MTMI Inc. as to legal or other status of any territorial entity.

We would like to acknowledge reviewers who have helped to review the manuscripts submitted to this volume. We also thank the editorial board of RBTR, the Department of Business, Management and Accounting at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, as well as, MTMI Inc. for their support. Without their meaningful contributions and volunteerism, this issue of RBTR would not be possible.

Dr. Dinesh K. Sharma, Editor-in-Chief

Dr. H.S. Hota, Editor

Dr. Kamal N. Agarwal, Editor

 


Review of Business & Technology Research

Volume 14, Number 2, December 2017

ISSN: 1941-9406 (Print), 1941-9414 (CD)

TABLE OF CONTENT

 

  1. EXPERT PORTFOLIO SYSTEM USING INTEGRATED MCDM-GP APPROACH

(H.S. Hota, Sanjay Kumar Singhai, Vineet Kumar Awasthi) 1

 

  1. GEOMETRIC 2D SHAPES RECOGNITION WITH POLAR SIGNATURE CHARACTERIZATION AND TEMPLATE MATCHING]

(Aaron R. Rababaah, Ahmad A. Rabaa’i) 7

 

  1. A NOTE ON ABSTRACT CONVEXITY AND ITS APPLICATIONS]

(Shifali Bhargava) 13

  1. MARKETING ORIENTATION AND FIRM PERFORMANCE IN THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY: AN EXPLORATORY EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS

(Ajai Kumar Jain, Pallavi Agarwal, Anita Jain) 21


  1. A PERCEPTUAL STUDY ON EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT IN NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION OF GUJRAT

(Shine David, Arkaja Garg, P.K.Gupta) 27


  1. SUPPLY CHAIN 4.0: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION DISRUPTIONS AND STRATEGIES

(M. Senthil, Mohandas Srinivsan) 32

  1. AN EXPLORATION ON THE POSSIBILITY OF RURAL TOURISM IN INDIA

(Shiladitya Verma, Sanjay Jain) 36

  1. A5-BASED GSM CRYPTOSYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION AND ANALYSIS

(Daniel Okunbor, Chinyere Eghosa Amado, Rakesh Sharma) 46

  1. VISION-BASED SMOKE DETECTION

(Manish Shrivastava, Princy Matlani) 53

  1. PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF THREE STAGE MANPOWER MODEL

(Anamika Jain, Madhu Jain) 59


  1. COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF MARKOV MODEL WITH DISCOURAGEMENT AND ADDITIONAL SERVERS

(Madhu Jain, G.C. Sharma) 65


  1. COST OPTIMIZATION AND RELIABILITY GROWTH MODELS WITH IMPERFECT DEBUGGING AND CHANGE POINTS

(Madhu Jain) 71


  1. MOBILE DEVICE-TO-DEVICE AD-HOC COMMUNICATION SYSTEM (MDACS) FOR CROWDED EVENTS: A MANET COMMERCIAL APPLICATION

(Vishal Kaushik, Akash Tanwar, Anchal Jain) 77

  1. EMPIRICAL EVALUATION OF ACCEPTANCE OF IN E-SHOPPING IN OMAN

(Ashish, Meera Al Balushi, Ghada Al Abri) 83


  1. SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF USER ACCEPTANCE OF E-GOVERNANCE MOBILE APPLICATION IN SULTANATE OF OMAN

(Ashish, Osama Attaullah Al-Balushi) 89


  1. INTELLIGENT SENSOR NETWORK ALGORITHM BASED UPON Q-LEARNING

(Santosh Soni, Manish Shrivastava) 100


  1. DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR CLASSIFICATION OF CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE WITH PRINCIPLE COMPONENT ANALYSIS

(A. K. Shrivas, Sanat Kumar Sahu, S. K. Singhai) 105

  1. PREDICTION OF FOREX DATA USING NEURAL NETWORK TECHNIQUES WITH FEATURE EXTRACTION

(Richa Handa, A. K. Shrivas, H. S. Hota) 111

  1. AN ANALYSIS OF BIG DATA DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION TECHNIQUE

(Prem Kumar Chandrakar, A. K. Shrivas) 117


  1. EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES ADOPTIONAND USAGE IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN OMAN

(Himanshu Sharma, Sunil Prakash Pillai) 123


  1. EXTREMAL SETS WITH MIN MAX PROPERTIES

(P. Agarwal, C. K. Goel) 129

  1. DRIVING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT THROUGH EXPECTATIONS IN SERVICE SECTOR

(Nimmi Agarwal, B. Prajapati) 131


  1. BITCOIN: VIRTUAL CURRENCY FACING REAL PROBLEMS TO BECOME GLOBAL CURRENCY

(Ankur Agarwal, Anoop Pant) 135

  1. A STUDY OFGAP ANALYSIS BETWEEN INDUSTRY EXPECTATION AND STUDENT OUTPUT –WITH REFERENCE TO MANAGEMENT GRADUATES

(Swati Bansal, Monica Agarwal) 141

  1. INVESTIGATING LEARNERS’ PERSPECTIVES ON UBIQUITOUS/MOBILE LEARNING AND SATISFACTION IN A HIGHER EDUCATION (HEI) INSTITUTION IN OMAN

(Lakshmi Sunil Prakash, Sunil Prakash Pillai, Himanshu Sharma) ……………………..145


  1. AUTONOMOUS IMAGE EXTRACTION AND SEGMENTATION OF IMAGE USING UAV’S

(Radha Krishna Rambola, Akash Agrawal)…………………….……………………………150

  1. PERCEPTION OF CUSTOMERS REGARDING CRM PRACTICES IN PUBLIC BANK

(Neha Vij, Jyoti Rana) ………………………………………………………………………….155


  1. PROJECT FOCUS RETENTION BY CAD ASSIMILATION IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION

(Saed T. Amer, Jaby Mohammed)…………………………………………………………….159


  1. COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING FOR HANDS-ON SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION

(Saed T. Amer, Jaby Mohammed)…………………………………………………………….166


  1. ON LINE LEARNING: WORTH KNOWLEDGE BASE OR JUST MONEY WASTE

(Deepak Kumar, Tabish Mufti)……………………………………………………………..….174


  1. SEARCHING IMPROVED EXPONENTIAL RATIO TYPE ESTIMATORS OF POPULATION MEAN

(S. K. Yadav, Dinesh K. Sharma)…………………………………………………………..….179


  1. A STUDY OF CONSUMER BUYING BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS SELECTED CONSUMER DURABLE (WHITE) PRODUCTS (WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO DELHI NCR)

(Priti Jha) 184


  1. IS DEMONETIZATION THE SILVER BULLET TO END CORRUPTION AND BLACK MONEY?: LESSONS LEARNT FROM INDIAN EXPERIENCE

(Siva Prasad Ravi) 193


  1. SECURITY THREATS AND RISKS IN MOBILE DEVICES

(Nooh Bany Muhammad) 201


  1. GROWTH OF INDIAN IT INDUSTRY - A PRAGMATIC STUDY USING DATA ANALYTICS

(Disha Gupta, Namrata Agrawal) 206


  1. INFORMATION SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN DATA MINING: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

(Deepak Kumar, Ankita) 212


  1. CONSUMERS' PREFERENCES FOR ORGANIC FOOD

(Gunjan Gumber, Jyoti Rana) 217


  1. AN OVERVIEW OF FEATURE BASED STEGANALYSIS

(Deepa D. Shankar, Vinod Kumar Shukla) 224


  1. WIND POWER FORECASTING SCENARIO IN INDIA

(Minaxi, J. S. Saini, Rohtash Dhiman) 230


  1. DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF EMG CONTROLLED PROSTHETICS HAND

(Himanshu Sharma, Ajay Kumar, Naveen, Suman, Rohtash Dhiman) 234

ABSTRACTS


  1. PROTEIN DYNAMICS SIMULATION AS COORDINATED MULTI-AGENT REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

(Conrad Czejdo) 1


  1. EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES OF MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR PROTEIN MODEL SCORING

(Catherine Spooner, Casey Lorenzen, Sambit Bhattacharya, Bogdan Czejdo) 2


  1. CONTROL F-POLICY FOR MARKOVIAN RETRIAL QUEUE WITH WORKING VACATION

(Madhu Jain, Sudeep Singh Sanga, Rakesh Kumar Meena) 3


  1. EMERGING ISSUES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION THROUGH ONLINE SYSTEMS

(Shivani Verma, Pradeep Tomar) 4


  1. REUSABILITY ESTIMATION MODEL FOR COMPONENT-BASED SOFTWARE USING FUZZY LOGIC

(Prabhjot Singh, Pradeep Tomar, Gurjit Kaur, Sachin Kumar Goel) 5


  1. ENHANCEMENT IN SELECTION AND INTEGRATION OF MULTIPLE WEB SERVICES USING MULTI CRITERIA QOS APPROACH WITH FUZZY LOGIC

(Pradeep Tomar, Shashank Kumar Singh) 6


  1. A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF LANGUAGES, TOOLS AND METHODOLOGIES TO REPRESENT DATA OF SEMANTIC WEB

(Poonam Jatwani, Pradeep Tomar,Vandana Dhingra) 7


  1. ANALYTICAL PROSPECTIVE OF BIG DATA AND INTERNET OF THINGSFOR SMART GENERATION

(Dimple Tomar, Swati Sharma, Gurjit Kaur, Pradeep Tomar) 8



  1. SWARM INTELLIGENCE: IT’S TECHNIQUES AND ALGORITHM

(Latika Kharb, Deepak Chahal) 9

  1. DESIGN AND EVALUATAION OF COMPONENT-BASED SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSESSMENT MODEL

(Kavita Sheoran, Pradeep Tomar, Rajesh Mishra) 10


  1. LEADERSHIP AND VIRTUAL TEAM EFFECTIVENESS: A CONSIDERATION OF NEW LINKAGES AND CONFIGURATIONS

(Raushan Gross) 11


  1. WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, SHORT TERM LIQUIDITY AND

PROFITABILITY TO INVESTORS

(Radha Krishan Sharma) 12


  1. DEVELOPMENT OF ZIRCONIA BASED SOLID CATALYST FOR ACID CATALYZED REACTION

(Abhinav Agarwal, Harsh Prateek, Shilpi Agarwal, Shailey Singhal, Amit Kumar) 13


  1. AN INNOVATIVE MODEL FOR PREVENTION OF VEHICLE ACCIDENTS ON HILL ROADS AND BLIND TURNS

(Siddharth Choudhary, Yash Sinha, Vishal Kaushik) 14


  1. NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS AND INNOVATION IN NATIONAL CUISINES

(Monisha Das) 15

  1. THE EFFECT ON HUMAN RESOURCE ACCOUNTING (HRA) ON PERFORMANCE OF A FIRM

(Navulur Krishna Surarchith, Krishna Mohan Vaddadi, Fatih Cura, Fayeq Ali) 16


  1. UTAUT MODEL TO UNDERSTAND FACTORS INFLUENCING USERS' PERCEPTION TOWARDS OF MOBILE APPLICATIONS

(Laila Al-Azizi, Sujeet K. Sharma, Ali H. Al-Badi) 17


  1. ROBOTIC TRAJECTORY PLANNING APPROACHES IN NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING FOR INSPECTING DEFECTS USING ULTRASONIC AND INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY

(Houda Al Zarkani, Saed T. Amer) 18


  1. TWO SAMPLE-STATISTICAL HYPOTHESES TESTING BASED ON FUZZY CONFIDENCE INTERVALS

(Sanjay Kumar Tyagi, Krishankumar Raghunathan, Ravichandran KatturSoundarapandian) 19


  1. A SURVEY OF EMERGING ISSUES IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS [open]

(S. Radha Rammohan, Temesgen Ayana) 20


  1. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COUNTRY-OF-ORIGIN IMAGE AND BRAND EQUITY OF HAIR CARE PRODUCTS MEDIATED BY DIMENSIONS OF BRAND EQUITY

(Vishal Jain, Shalini Bariar) 21


  1. IDENTIFYING MARKET SEGMENTS AND DEVELOPING STRATEGIES FOR ORGANIC FOOD IN DEVELOPING ECONOMIES

(Jyoti Rana) 22







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