Course selection is a key for success in student’s academic path. In today’s education environment, various courses offered by different academic institutions required the students to explore the course outline manually. Most of them are lacking in knowledge, having dilemma and making blind selections to choose the right course. Therefore, it is essential to have a course recommendation to provide guidance to a student to choose the course related with their interest and skill. This paper proposed to develop a course recommendation system using fuzzy logic approach. The development methodology of this system involves several phases include requirements planning, user design and construction for prototyping, testing and cutover. This study used the fuzzy rules technique in order to calculate each associated student’s skill and interest level based on Mamdani fuzzy inference system method. Then, the rules will generate final outcome which recommend the suitable course path and provide the details to a user based on their course test. The result shows the functionality of this system has been achieved and works well. This study is significantly helping the students to choose their course based on the interest and skill.

Ontology is a semantic technology that provides the possible approach to bridge the issue on semantic gap in image retrieval between low-level visual features and high-level human semantic. The semantic gap occurs when there is a discrepancy between the information that is extracted from visual data and the text description. In other words, there is a difference between the computational representation in machine and human natural language. In this paper, an ontology has been utilized to reduce the semantic gap by developing a multi-modality ontology image retrieval with the enhancement of a retrieval mechanism by using the object properties filter. To achieve this, a multi-modality ontology semantic image framework was proposed, comprising of four main components which were resource identification, information extraction, knowledge-based construction and retrieval mechanism. A new approach, namely object properties filter is proposed by customizing the semantic image retrieval algorithm and the graphical user interface to facilitate the user to engage with the machine i.e. computers, in order to enhance the retrieval performance. The experiment results showed that the proposed approach delivered better results compared to the approach that did not use the object properties filter based on probability precision measurement.

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