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Students’ attendance in a university is commonly being monitored by lecturers and the Academic Affairs Division (AAD) as it may help to identify students’ problems at an early stage. This project aims to monitor the students who have the possibility to be absent from classes for more than the permissible percentage. Thus, the purpose of this research is to develop a students’ attendance monitoring system with Short Message Services (SMS) notification (SAMS). This system helps the AAD to manage the absenteeism report from lecturers and it automatically sends the information through SMS notification to the parents and the students themselves. The system has been developed using the Waterfall Model methodology that consists of five phases which are analysis, design, implementation, testing, and documentation. The results from the usability testing show that SAMS can help lecturers to monitor students’ absenteeism more easily and efficiently. Furthermore, the integration of the system with SMS is very useful as it can directly notify the parents regarding their children’s attendance problem.

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This paper presents the use of the 'Linear-PSO with Binary Search' (LPBS) algorithm for discovering motifs, especially species-specific motifs. In this study, two samples from different fragments of 'mitochondrial cytochrome C oxidase subunit I' (COI/COX1) were collected from the Genbank online database. DNA sequences for the first sample are a mix of different fragments of COI and the second sample is from the same fragment of COI. The genome of COI was used as a reference set and other DNA sequences were used as a comparison set. All the collected DNA sequences are from the same species. The results show that the LPBS algorithm is able to discover motifs of greater length when using DNA sequences from the same fragment of COI. The experiment also found that 139 can be used as a starting base for COI DNA sequences extraction to discover species-specific motifs.

This study presents the use of web SMS technology as an alternative method for primary school notification system. By integrating the system with SMS gateway, it will enable the primary school notification system to send information to parents’ mobile phone directly. The traditional methods of notifying parents about the school matters by sending letter and written memo are time consuming and the updated information may not reach the parents. This integration allows information to be disseminated from computer to mobile phone at any time without requiring face to face meeting or the use of other media such as paper-based notice or verbal notice from the students. Furthermore, parents can always be alert and aware of the latest announcement or information no matter where they are. A usability testing was conducted to 20 users to survey the feedback on SMS technology to notify parents. The results from the testing stated that 100% of users give positive feedback about the ease of use and satisfied that the system can replace old systems. Based on the results, it shows that the integration of primary school notification system with SMS technology is highly recommended.