College of Science

With the explosive advancement in imaging technologies and specially with proliferation of the world wide web, image retrieval has attracted the increasing interests of researches in the field of digital libraries, image processing and database system. Research in human perception of image content suggests that content-based image retrieval (CBIR) can follow a sequence of steps. The typical steps of CBIR system are: image query formation, image feature extraction, similarity measurement, indexing and retrieval, and user interaction.

        As the number of users connects to the internet increases rapidly, Electronic mail (E-mail) is quickly becoming one of the fastest and most economical forms of communication available, since E-mail is extremely cheep and easy to send. As our lives have become ever increasingly tied up to the online world, the volume of E-mails coming into our inboxes has also been increasing, so the problem of email filtering is a critical one.

Personalized support for learners became even more important when e-learning take place in distributed database system.This research provides access to learning resources in a distributed e-learning database and it intends to adapt the system to the learner’s needs (personal needs) so that each learner gets the idea that the system was created just for him and knows what he likes.