The COMPSCIENCE@PUTRA FSKTM Research Bulletin provide an avenue for researchers and postgraduate students in the faculty to share and communicate their findings in their research interest. The research bulletin highlights all awards won, list all research grants received, and updates researches undertaken by our researchers.

1. Message from the Dean 2. Editorial Desk 3. Awards Highlights i) Facilitating Knowledge Sharing With Agent-based System ii) New Method for Arabic Optical Character Recognition iii) Software Project Effort Estimation for Function Point Size Measure based Regression Analysis iv) Steganography through Cover Generation of 2D Images v) Content-based Music Retrieval with N-grams and a Music-friendly Interface 4. Awards 5. Research Grants 6. Research Updates i) Semantic Integrity Constraints Maintenance for Parallel Database Systems ii) Safe Contracting using Scope with Attributes iii) The Development of Knowledge Management System for Public Higher Learning in Collaborative Environment iv) Discovering Physical Visceral Qualities for Natural Interaction v) An Automated Framework for Measuring a Complex Object vi) Development of a Tool to Analyse Trabecular Bone Structure vii) Issues in Implementing a Scientific Data Grid based on Peer-to-Peer Architecture viii) Energy and QoS in Wireless Sensor Networks

7. Research Happenings i) Invention, Research and Innovation Exhibition, UPM 2006 ii) Workshop and Seminar by Dr. Sally Jo Cunningham iii) Network Engineering Workshop (NOC) and Network Security, Akhibara, Tokyo , Japan iv) Visit to the Japanese Earth Simulator Supercomputer Centre in Japan v) The 3rd International Conference on High Performance Scientific Computing, Hanoi, Vietnam vi) International Exhibition of Invention, New Techniques and Product (PALEXPO) 2006,Geneva, Switzerland

8. Postgraduates Theses Abstracts 9. Research Events 10. Bits and Bytes