Tales Told by God: Stylistic Peculiarities of Qrua’nic Narratives.

Abstract The religious seminaries (Madaris) 1 of Pakistan have been a hot topic of discussion in the national and international media. These Madaris are reminiscent of the ancient education system of Islam. They attracted people’s attention during the last two decades and especially after the 11th September 2001 incident of New York. Another aspect of interest was their role in the Islamic insurgence (Jihad) waged in various parts of the world particularly in Afghanistan and Kashmir. These institutions impart orthodox education based on centuries old syllabus called Dars-i Nizami. The administrators are disinclined to any slight change in the contents of the syllabus thus bringing them to an open conflict with the modem education system and western culture. The Madaris have been divided on the basis of religious sects i. e. Shia, Sunni and Ahl-i-Hadith. Of them Sunnis are further splintered into many sub-sects such as Deobandis, Brelvis, etc. But their adherence to the primitive education, Jihad and abhorrence for the western civilization is almost the same. Despite repeated reference to these Madaris, there are many misconceptions or disinformation about them In the present paper, an attempt has been made to remove these misconceptions and present a true picture. Besides, historical perspective, vital statistics, curricula and problems and prospects have discussed in the paper in hand

Selection of Web Services by Using Diversified Service Rank

Traditional techniques for web service discovery and selection mostly rely on string matching and/or semantic logic-based matching. They are generally developed on service description and functional attributes which are exposed in service advertisement. The selection is made from the result output which is typically presented in order of their ranks primarily based on degree of match of functional or operational parameters. The Quality of Service (QoS) attributes such as service performance, execution duration, reliability, reputation, popularity, security, access rights, availability, success rate, price etc and user preferences are often ignored in the query. Moreover, it is very difficult for the requester or any software agent to select the best service out of many potential candidates from the search result. This paper proposes a framework that takes into account QoS attributes along with user preferences and devise an algorithm namely Diversified Service Rank (DSR) that re-ranks top k web services in the search result, this helps service requesters in prompt selection and composition of web services.