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Last Level Cache Partitioning Via Multiverse Thread Classification, Burak Sezi̇n Ovant, İsa Ahmet Güney, Muhammed Emi̇n Savaş, Gürhan Küçük

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Last level caches (LLCs) are part of the last line of defense against the famous memory wall problem. Today, almost all processors utilize a LLC for the same reason. This study extends our previous work, which proposed a cache-partitioning mechanism using thread classification. Here, we propose three enhancements to the existing system: 1) an adaptive traffic threshold mechanism for more portable classification hardware, 2) a new method for classifying way-hungry threads, and finally, 3) a thorough comparison of two design alternatives. Compared to the original way- partitioning mechanism, we show that the proposed mechanism's performance improved by around 6%, on …

Weighted Intensity Hue Saturation Transform For Image Enhancement Andpansharpening, Nur Hüseyi̇n Kaplan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, a weighted intensity hue saturation transform (WIHS) is proposed for image enhancement and pansharpening. The proposed transform obtains the intensity component of the classical intensity hue saturation (IHS) transform, by weighting the bands (red, green, and blue) of the image, whereas the hue and saturation components remain unchanged. The weight for each band is determined according to the brightness interval of the corresponding band and its standard deviation. The purpose of obtaining the intensity component by weighting is to keep more information from the bands of the input image. The classical intensity component used in image processing …

Novel Representations For A Coherent Threshold Reliability System: A Tale Of Eightsignal Ow Graphs, Ali Muhammad Rushdi, Alaa Mohammad Alturki

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

A threshold system is a reliability system whose success/failure is a threshold switching function in the successes/failures of its components. A coherent system (CS) is one that is causal, monotone, and with relevant components. The coherent threshold system (CTS), typically called the weighted k-out-of-n system, is consequently described by strictly positive weights and threshold. This paper presents recursive relations as well as boundary conditions for eight entities pertaining to a CTS. These are (a) expressions of monoform literals as well as disjoint or probability- ready expressions for either system success or failure, and (b) all-additive formulas as well as inclusion-exclusion …

A Proposal For A Technological Solution To Improve User Experience In A Shopping Center Based On Indoor Geolocation Services, Luinel Andrade, Johan Quintero, Eric Gamess, Antonio Russoniello

Research, Publications & Creative Work

For shopping centers, mobile devices and their associated technologies represent great business opportunities and a way to improve the user experience within their facilities. These types of constructions are usually quite large, multi-story, and with a significant number of shops, services, where the visitors may find themselves having difficulties to have a complete and up-to-date list of the stores, determine which stores and services are those that meet the characteristics or specifications they seek, know the location of the shops or how to reach them. This research studies and contemplates different technologies, tools, and approaches for the development of a …

A Proposal For A High Availability Architecture For Voip Telephone Systems Based On Open Source Software, Alejandro Martin, Eric Gamess, Dedaniel Urribarri, Jesús Gómez

Research, Publications & Creative Work

The inherent needs of organizations to improve and amplify their technological platform entail large expenses with the goal to enhance their performance. Hence, they have to contemplate mechanisms of optimization and the improvement of their operational infrastructure. In this direction arises the need to guarantee the correct operation and non-degradation of the services provided by the platform during the periods with a significant load of work. This type of scenario is perfectly applicable to the field of VoIP technologies, where users generate elevated loads of work on critical points of the infrastructure, during the process of interaction with their peers. …

Doctor Of Philosophy In Information Systems, Nova Southeastern University

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Doctor Of Philosophy In Computer Science, Nova Southeastern University

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Master Of Science In Information Technology, Nova Southeastern University

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Master Of Science In Information Assurance And Cybersecurity, Nova Southeastern University

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Master Of Science In Information Assurance And Cybersecurity, Nova Southeastern University

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Master Of Science In Cybersecurity Management, Nova Southeastern University

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Master Of Science In Information Systems, Nova Southeastern University

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การจำแนกโครงสร้างจุลภาคไทเทเนียมด้วยโครงข่ายประสาทคอนโวลูชันเต็มรูป, สิโรดม มงคลธนาภรณ์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

ในช่วงทศวรรษที่ผ่านมา ได้มีการใช้การเรียนรู้เชิงลึกอย่างแพร่หลายเพื่อจำแนกภาพที่ให้ความแม่นยำสูง การแบ่งส่วนความหมายเป็นประเภทหนึ่งของการเรียนรู้เชิงลึกที่มุ่งเน้นการจำแนกคลาสในแต่ละพิกเซลของภาพ ทางด้านโลหะศาสตร์ ไทเทเนียมและอัลลอยมีคุณสมบัติที่โดดเด่นสำหรับการใช้งานทางชีวการแพทย์ โดยเฉพาะในการผ่าตัดฝังวัสดุทดแทน การตรวจสอบวัสดุโดยทั่วไปมักกระทำโดยผู้เชี่ยวชาญในการจำแนกโครงสร้างจุลภาคไทเทเนียม งานวิจัยนี้เสนอการประยุกต์ใช้เทคนิคการเรียนรู้เชิงลึกเพื่อเป็นแนวทางการจำแนกระดับพิกเซลโครงสร้างจุลภาคไทเทเนียมที่อาจช่วยลดทรัพยากรและความไม่แน่นอนระหว่างการควบคุมคุณภาพ วิธีการที่ใช้คือเทคนิคการแบ่งส่วนความหมายที่เรียกว่า โครงข่ายประสาทคอนโวลูชันเต็มรูปที่ถูกพัฒนาด้วยสถาปัตยกรรมยู-เน็ต งานวิจัยนี้ได้สำรวจการบูรณาการเทคนิคการปรับจูนเข้ากับสถาปัตยกรรมยู-เน็ตเพื่อปรับปรุงสมรรถนะแบบจำลอง โมเดลที่สร้างขึ้นถูกปรับจูนด้วยค่าน้ำหนักที่เรียนรู้มาแล้วก่อนหน้าจากตัวจำแนกวีจีจี-16 นอกจากนี้ ชุดข้อมูลภาพโครงสร้างจุลภาคไทเทเนียมได้ถูกเพิ่มจำนวนตัวอย่างด้วยวิธีความผิดปกติยืดหยุ่น สำหรับการประเมินสมรรถนะแบบจำลองจะใช้ตัววัด 4 ตัว ประกอบด้วย ความแม่นยำพิกเซล ความแม่นยำเฉลี่ย ไอโอยูเฉลี่ย และ ไอโอยูถ่วงน้ำหนักความถี่ ผลลัพธ์การประเมินพบว่าค่าความแม่นยำเพิ่มขึ้นเล็กน้อย ในขณะที่เวลาเรียนรู้เร็วกว่ามากเทียบกับการเรียนรู้ปกติที่ไม่มีการปรับจูนค่าน้ำหนักเริ่มต้น

Boundwarden: Thread-Enforced Spatial Memory Safety Through Compile-Time Transformations, Smith Dhumbumroong

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This dissertation presents BoundWarden, a novel runtime spatial memory safety enforcement technique that comprehensively detects and prevents buffer overflow and other out-of-bound errors in buffers on stack, heap, and BSS and data segments of memory. BoundWarden leverages the ubiquity of multi-core processors by offloading most of the works to a dedicated bound checking thread, which performs bound checking and manages metadata, thus reducing the runtime overhead. Since BoundWarden stores base and bound of buffers in a dedicated bound table, the memory layout of programs remains unchanged, thus preserving compatibility with existing libraries and binaries. Experiments showed that the prototype of …

Low Power Wide Area Networks (Lpwan): Technology Review And Experimental Study On Mobility Effect, Dhaval Patel

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In the past decade, we have witnessed explosive growth in the number of low-power embedded and Internet-connected devices, reinforcing the new paradigm, Internet of Things (IoT). IoT devices like smartphones, home security systems, smart electric meters, garage parking indicators, etc., have penetrated deeply into our daily lives. These IoT devices are increasingly attached and operated in mobile objects like unmanned vehicles, trains, airplanes, etc. The low power wide area network (LPWAN), due to its long-range, low-power and low-cost communication capability, is actively considered by academia and industry as the future wireless communication standard for IoT. However, despite the increasing popularity …

A Security Review Of Local Government Using Nist Csf: A Case Study, Ahmed Ibrahim, Craig Valli, Ian Mcateer, Junaid Chaudhry

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Evaluating cyber security risk is a challenging task regardless of an organisation’s nature of business or size, however, an essential activity. This paper uses the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cyber security framework (CSF) to assess the cyber security posture of a local government organisation in Western Australia. Our approach enabled the quantification of risks for specific NIST CSF core functions and respective categories and allowed making recommendations to address the gaps discovered to attain the desired level of compliance. This has led the organisation to strategically target areas related to their people, processes, and technologies, thus mitigating …

Ms. An (Meeting Students’ Academic Needs): A Socially Adaptive Robot Tutor For Student Engagement In Math Education, Karina Liles

Theses and Dissertations

This research presents a new, socially adaptive robot tutor, Ms. An (Meeting Students’ Academic Needs). The goal of this research was to use a decision tree model to develop a socially adaptive robot tutor that predicted and responded to student emotion and performance to actively engage students in mathematics education. The novelty of this multi-disciplinary project is the combination of the fields of HRI, AI, and education. In this study we 1) implemented a decision tree model to classify student emotion and performance for use in adaptive robot tutoring-an approach not applied to educational robotics; 2) presented an intuitive interface …

Tracking, Detection And Registration In Microscopy Material Images, Hongkai Yu

Theses and Dissertations

Fast and accurate characterization of fiber micro-structures plays a central role for material scientists to analyze physical properties of continuous fiber reinforced composite materials. In materials science, this is usually achieved by continuously crosssectioning a 3D material sample for a sequence of 2D microscopic images, followed by a fiber detection/tracking algorithm through the obtained image sequence.

To speed up this process and be able to handle larger-size material samples, we propose sparse sampling with larger inter-slice distance in cross sectioning and develop a new algorithm that can robustly track large-scale fibers from such a sparsely sampled image sequence. In particular, …

Ontology-Guided Pre-Release Inference Disruption, Mark Stephen Daniels

Theses and Dissertations

We investigate privacy violations occurring when non-confidential patient data is combined with medical domain ontologies to disclose a patient’s protected health information (PHI). We propose a framework that detects privacy violations and eliminates undesired inferences. Our inference channel removal process is based on controlling the release of the data items that lead to undesired inferences. These data items are either blocked from release or generalized to eliminate the disclosure of the PHI. We show that our method is sound and complete. Soundness means the only inference paths generated logically follow from released data and corresponding domain knowledge. Completeness means we …

Authenticating Users With 3d Passwords Captured By Motion Sensors, Jing Tian

Theses and Dissertations

Authentication plays a key role in securing various resources including corporate facilities or electronic assets. As the most used authentication scheme, knowledgebased authentication is easy to use but its security is bounded by how much a user can remember. Biometrics-based authentication requires no memorization but ‘resetting’ a biometric password may not always be possible. Thus, we propose study several behavioral biometrics (i.e., mid-air gestures) for authentication which does not have the same privacy or availability concerns as of physiological biometrics.

In this dissertation, we first propose a user-friendly authentication system Kin- Write that allows users to choose arbitrary, short and …