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Grid computing is the recently growing area of computing that share data, storage, computing across geographically dispersed area. This paper proposes a novel fuzzy approach using Differential Evolution (DE) for scheduling jobs on computational grids. The fuzzy based DE generates an optimal plan to complete the jobs within a minimum period of time. We evaluate the performance of the proposed fuzzy based DE algorithm with Genetic Algorithm (GA), Simulated Annealing (SA), Differential Evolution and fuzzy PSO. Experimental results have shown that the new algorithm produces more optimal solutions for the job scheduling problems compared to other algorithms., Comment: 6 pages, 9 figures

This paper presents a robust video watermarking scheme in Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) and Sequencyordered Complex Hadamard Transform (SCHT). The DFT and SCHT coefficients are complex and consist of both magnitude and phase and are well suited to adopt phase shift keying techniques to embed the watermark. In the proposed schemes, the phases of DFT and SCHT coefficients are modified to convey watermark information using binary phase shift keying in cover video. Low amplitude block selection (LABS) is used to improve transparency, amplitude boost to improve the resistance of watermark from signal processing and compression attacks and spread spectrum technique is used for encrypting watermark in order to protect it from third party. It is observed that both algorithms showing more or less same robustness but SCHT offers high transparency, simple implementation and less computational cost than DFT., Comment: 13 pages

Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems based on shape using invariant image moments, viz., Moment Invariants (MI) and Zernike Moments (ZM) are available in the literature. MI and ZM are good at representing the shape features of an image. However, non-orthogonality of MI and poor reconstruction of ZM restrict their application in CBIR. Therefore, an efficient and orthogonal moment based CBIR system is needed. Legendre Moments (LM) are orthogonal, computationally faster, and can represent image shape features compactly. CBIR system using Exact Legendre Moments (ELM) for gray scale images is proposed in this work. Superiority of the proposed CBIR system is observed over other moment based methods, viz., MI and ZM in terms of retrieval efficiency and retrieval time. Further, the classification efficiency is improved by employing Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. Improved retrieval results are obtained over existing CBIR algorithm based on Stacked Euler Vector (SERVE) combined with Modified Moment Invariants (MMI)., Comment: 11 Pages, IJMA