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A Novel Algorithm For Frequency Extraction Of Abs Signals By Using Dtdnns, Mohammad Ali Shafieian, Hamed Banizaman, Shahrzad Sedaghat

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Intelligent transportations system (ITSs) have emerged to increase safety and convenience of people in vehicles. In an ITS, communication devices in the vehicle or along the streets send the information gathered from the vehicle to information management centers as well as sending processed information to the vehicle. Furthermore, it is necessary to locate the exact location of the vehicle on a digital map in order to navigate the vehicle precisely in control and navigation systems. One of the technologies for this purpose is the antilock brake system (ABS), which can avoid accidents effectively and can also be utilized to determine …

The Effect Of Snowfall And Icing On The Sustainability Of The Power Output Of A Grid-Connected Photovoltaic System In Konya, Turkey, Mehmet Ali̇ Anadol, Erman Erhan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

When the module surface is covered with various factors such as snow and icing which prevent the solar irradiance from reaching the photovoltaic cells, the power production of the system and its performance decrease. The purpose of this study is to determine the energy production losses of a grid-connected photovoltaic plant due to snowfall and icing. The effect of snowfall and icing has been examined on a photovoltaic system consisting of a hybrid inverter with two separate maximum power point tracking inputs and 36 monocrystalline modules, which are mounted on the supporting system horizontally in the south direction and at …

A Transmission Optimization Algorithm For Smart Load Controllers, Ohyoung Song

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper introduces a transmission optimization algorithm for wireless transmissions between smart load controllers and a corresponding gateway in wireless personal area networks, where smart load controllers connect several electrical appliances through their corresponding load interfaces, measure the power consumption from each electrical appliance connected to the load controller, and control on/off switching through its load interface. The aim of this paper is to reduce the traffic load of power consumption data in electrical appliances used in the building area network and the smart grid network. The proposed algorithm allows the smart load controller to efficiently reduce traffic load even …

The Global Disinformation Order: 2019 Global Inventory Of Organised Social Media Manipulation, Samantha Bradshaw, Philip N. Howard

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Executive Summary

Over the past three years, we have monitored the global organization of social media manipulation by governments and political parties. Our 2019 report analyses the trends of computational propaganda and the evolving tools, capacities, strategies, and resources.

1. Evidence of organized social media manipulation campaigns which have taken place in 70 countries, up from 48 countries in 2018 and 28 countries in 2017. In each country, there is at least one political party or government agency using social media to shape public attitudes domestically.

2.Social media has become co-opted by many authoritarian regimes. In 26 countries, computational propaganda …

Empathetic Computing For Inclusive Application Design, Kenny Choo Tsu Wei

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

The explosive growth of the ecosystem of personal and ambient computing de- vices coupled with the proliferation of high-speed connectivity has enabled ex- tremely powerful and varied mobile computing applications that are used every- where. While such applications have tremendous potential to improve the lives of impaired users, most mobile applications have impoverished designs to be inclusive– lacking support for users with specific disabilities. Mobile app designers today haveinadequate support to design existing classes of apps to support users with specific disabilities, and more so, lack the support to design apps that specifically target these users. One way to resolve …

X-Search: An Open Access Interface For Cross-Cohort Exploration Of The National Sleep Research Resource, Licong Cui, Ningzhou Zeng, Matthew Kim, Remo Mueller, Emily Ruth Hankosky, Susan Redline, Guo-Qiang Zhang

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Background: The National Sleep Research Resource (NSRR) is a large-scale, openly shared, data repository of de-identified, highly curated clinical sleep data from multiple NIH-funded epidemiological studies. Although many data repositories allow users to browse their content, few support fine-grained, cross-cohort query and exploration at study-subject level. We introduce a cross-cohort query and exploration system, called X-search, to enable researchers to query patient cohort counts across a growing number of completed, NIH-funded studies in NSRR and explore the feasibility or likelihood of reusing the data for research studies.

Methods: X-search has been designed as a general framework with two loosely-coupled components: …

Is There Space For Violence?: A Data-Driven Approach To The Exploration Of Spatial-Temporal Dimensions Of Conflict, Tin Seong Kam, Vincent Zhi

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

With recent increases in incidences of political violence globally, the world has now become more uncertain and less predictable. Of particular concern is the case of violence against civilians, who are often caught in the crossfire between armed state or non-state actors. Classical methods of studying political violence and international relations need to be updated. Adopting the use of data analytic tools and techniques of studying big data would enable academics and policy makers to make sense of a rapidly changing world.

An Implementation Of Weighted Least Squares Method In Central Bank Twitter Accounts Grew Prediction, Goran Bjelobaba, Ana Savic, Radosav Veselinovic, Hana Stefanovic

UBT International Conference

This paper presents some advantages of using social media and social networks as an efficient way of Central Banks communication with target audience. The statistics given in this paper presents some leading banks based on number of followers on Twitter in 2018, showing that Indonesia’s Central Bank has more Twitter followers than any other monetary authority, beating out the Banco de Mexico, Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Reserve Bank of India. In this paper some prediction of number of Twitter followers in Central Bank communication is also contributed, based on Weighted Least Squares method. An algorithm is implemented in …

Cultivating Third Party Development In Platform-Centric Software Ecosystems: Extended Boundary Resources Model, Brown C. Msiska

The African Journal of Information Systems

Software ecosystems provide an effective way through which software solutions can be constructed by composing software components, typically applications, developed by internal and external developers on top of a software platform. Third party development increases the potential of a software ecosystem to effectively and quickly respond to context-specific software requirements. The boundary resources model gives a theoretical account for cultivation of third party development premised on the role of platform boundary resources such as application programming interfaces (API). However, from a longitudinal case study of the DHIS2 software ecosystem, this paper observes that no matter how good the boundary resources …

Computational Thinking And Literacy, Sharin Rawhiya Jacob, Mark Warschauer

Journal of Computer Science Integration

Today’s students will enter a workforce that is powerfully shaped by computing. To be successful in a changing economy, students must learn to think algorithmically and computationally, to solve problems with varying levels of abstraction. These computational thinking skills have become so integrated into social function as to represent fundamental literacies. However, computer science has not been widely taught in K-12 schools. Efforts to create computer science standards and frameworks have yet to make their way into mandated course requirements. Despite a plethora of research on digital literacies, research on the role of computational thinking in the literature is sparse. …

Experience Constructing The Artifact Genome Project (Agp): Managing The Domain's Knowledge One Artifact At A Time, Cinthya Grajeda, Laura Sanchez, Ibrahim Baggili, Devon R. Clark, Frank Breitinger

Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications

While various tools have been created to assist the digital forensics community with acquiring, processing, and organizing evidence and indicating the existence of artifacts, very few attempts have been made to establish a centralized system for archiving artifacts. The Artifact Genome Project (AGP) has aimed to create the largest vetted and freely available digital forensics repository for Curated Forensic Artifacts (CuFAs). This paper details the experience of building, implementing, and maintaining such a system by sharing design decisions, lessons learned, and future work. We also discuss the impact of AGP in both the professional and academic realms of digital forensics. …

Precognition: Automated Digital Forensic Readiness System For Mobile Computing Devices In Enterprises, Jayaprakash Govindaraj, Robin Verma, Gaurav Gupta

Annual ADFSL Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law

Enterprises are facing an unprecedented risk of security incidents due to the influx of emerging technologies, like smartphones and wearables. Most of the current Mobile security systems are not maturing in pace with technological advances. They lack the ability to learn and adapt from the past knowledge base. In the case of a security incident, enterprises find themselves underprepared for the lack of evidence and data. The systems are not designed to be forensic ready. There is a need for automated security analysis and forensically ready solution, which can learn and continuously adapt to new challenges, improve efficiency and productivity …

Automating The Crowd-Mapping Workflow With Deep Learning, Lasith Niroshan

Theses

Maintaining updated maps in an ever-changing built environment is important for supporting modern society in many ways. The usage of online crowdsourced maps in particular has gained importance in a wide range of recent location-based applications (route planning/navigation, urban planning, real estate, tourism, etc). However, both traditional map production methods and updating today’s online maps suffer from early obsolescence due to their largely manual map production/update workflows. Significant research efforts have focused on refining techniques to identify changes in raster satellite images, aiming to improve and streamline map production processes. Concurrently, the surge in Internet usage has led to a …

Content-Based Clustering And Visualization Of Social Media Text Messages, Sydney A. Barnard

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Although Twitter has been around for more than ten years, crisis management agencies and first response personnel are not able to fully use the information this type of data provides during a crisis or natural disaster. This thesis addresses clustering and visualizing social media data by textual similarity, rather than by only time and location, as a tool for first responders. This thesis presents a tool that automatically clusters geotagged text data based on their content and displays the clusters and their locations on the map. It allows at-a-glance information to be displayed throughout the evolution of a crisis. For …

Consistency-Based Trust Management In P2p Networks, Yasi̇n Şahi̇n, Ahmet Burak Can

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Detecting malicious peers is a challenging task in peer-to-peer networks due to their decentralized structure and lack of central authority. Trust models can help identify malicious peers by maintaining information about peer relations and interactions. Keeping information about trust relations helps to reduce risks when providing or using services. This paper introduces two consistency concepts in trust management. Feedback consistency is used to evaluate how consistent feedback is with respect to past feedbacks. On the other side, peer consistency measures consistency of a peer's past feedbacks. These metrics help to reduce malicious interactions and increase successful downloads. Furthermore, the model …

Optimal Sizing Hydrokinetic-Photovoltaic System For Electricity Generation In A Protected Wildlife Area Of Ecuador, Juan Lata- Garcia, Francisco Jurado-Melguizo, Higinio Sanchez-Sainz, Christopher Reyes-Lopez, Luis Fernandez- Ramirez

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Rural electrification is one of the most significant issues faced by electricity companies. For this reason, these companies are choosing alternative sources to generate energy in isolated regions. Furthermore, hybrid generation systems are an effective option for supplying protected areas. In this context, this research aims at designing an autonomous hybrid system to meet the annual electricity demand of the inhabitants of a national park. Fluvial and solar energies are the best options to reduce environmental impact and to ensure the conservation of the endemic fauna and flora of the island at a low carbon footprint. The system comprises a …

Usability Evaluation Of A Web-Based Ontology Browser: The Case Of Tsont, Türkan Karakuş Yilmaz, Umut Durak, Hali̇t Oğuztüzün, Kürşat Çağiltay

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

As the use of ontologies expands, their visualization is becoming increasingly important. In this study, an ontology browser for visualizing the Trajectory Simulation ONTology (TSONT) was evaluated in terms of usability by considering its subdimensions, which are effectiveness, efficiency, and user satisfaction. The methodology employed in this study for evaluating an ontology browser is reported along with the results of the evaluation. The TSONT browser is a tree-type ontology browser created to allow developers to visualize TSONT. Six flight simulation programmers with at least one year of experience participated in the study. The participants were given usability tasks and their …

Performance Analysis Of Radial And Axial Flux Pmsm Based On 3d Fem Modeling, Oussama Bouaziz, Imen Jaafar, Faouzi Ben Ammar

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The objective of this paper is presenting a comparative performance analysis between axial flux and radial flux permanent magnet synchronous machines (PMSMs) dedicated to a 550-W wind turbine application. The outer diameter is fixed for both structures and the modeling is carried out in 3D by means of the finite element method (FEM) using the Multiphysics program ANSYS. The performances of the axial flux and radial flux machines for the same output power and at the same rotor speed are evaluated by comparing their efficiency regarding the material consumption of the active parts and eventually predicting their costs. The obtained …

Ionolab-Map: An Automatic Spatial Interpolation Algorithm For Total Electron Content, Muhammet Necat Devi̇ren, Feza Arikan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Investigation of the variability of total electron content (TEC) is one of the most important parameters of the observation and monitoring of space weather, which is the main cause of signal disturbance in space-based communication, positioning, and navigation systems. TEC is defined as the total number of electrons on a ray path. The Global Positioning System (GPS) provides a cost-effective solution for the estimation of TEC. Due to various physical and operational disturbances, TEC may have temporal and spatial domain gaps. Global ionospheric maps (GIMs) provide worldwide TEC with 1- to 2-h temporal resolution and $2.5^{\circ}\, \times 5^{\circ}$ spatial resolution …

Sar Image Time-Series Analysis Framework Using Morphological Operators And Global And Local Information-Based Linear Discriminant Analysis, Ufuk Sakarya, Caner Demi̇rpolat

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Fusion of spectral, spatial, and temporal information is an effective method used in many satellite remote sensing applications. On the other hand, one drawback of this fusion is an increase in complexity. In this paper, we focus on developing a fast and well-performed classification method for agricultural crops using time-series SAR data. In order to achieve this, a novel two-stage approach is proposed. In the first stage, a high-dimensional feature space is obtained using time-series dual-pol SAR data and morphological operators. Spectral, spatial, and temporal information is combined into a single high-dimensional feature space. In the second stage, a dimension …

A Model-Based Transformation Framework For Designing And Analyzing Wireless Sensor Networks, Raoudha Saida, Yessine Hadj Kacem, Mohammed Sulaiman Bensaleh, Mohamed Abid

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) comprise resource-constrained (e.g., memory, processing, and energy) sensor nodes that are deployed in different areas and are able to monitor environmental conditions. Simulation has been widely used in order to evaluate the network performance. In this context, software designers need to evaluate, refine, and validate high-level models for WSN applications at early stages of development via simulation tools, in particular for WSN applications supporting energy-harvesting devices. In the present paper, we propose a model-based transformation framework that allows the modeling and simulation of a WSN system supporting energy-harvesting capabilities. In this proposal, we start from a …

A Twitter-Based Study For Understanding Public Reaction On Zika Virus, Roopteja Muppalla

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In recent times, social media platforms like Twitter have become more popular and people have become more interactive and responsive than before. People often react to every news in real-time and within no-time, the information spreads rapidly. Even with viral diseases like Zika, people tend to share their opinions and concerns on social media. This can be leveraged by the health officials to track the disease in real-time thereby reducing the time lag due to traditional surveys. A faster and accurate detection of the disease can allow health officials to understand people's opinion of the disease and take necessary precautions …

A Novel Multistage System For The Detection And Removal Of Pectoral Muscles Inmammograms, İdi̇l Işikli Esener, Semi̇h Ergi̇n, Tolga Yüksel

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, a novel multistage scheme for pectoral muscle removal from mammography images is proposed, and the performance of this system is verified using the publicly available Mammographic Image Analysis Society digital mammogram database. This database is composed of mediolateral oblique mammography images including three different tissue types (fatty, fatty-glandular, and dense-glandular) with three health status types (normal, benign cancer, and malignant cancer). In the implementation of the proposed system, a mammography image is first preprocessed by performing noise reduction background removal followed by artifact suppression processes. Then a presegmentation procedure is applied using region growing and line fitting …

Nonlinear Analysis Of Hybrid Phase-Controlled Systems In Z-Domain With Convex Lmi Searches, Nur Syazreen Ahmad, Pei Ni Goh

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Phase-controlled systems such as phase-locked loops (PLLs) have been used in numerous applications ranging from data communications to speed motor control. The hybrid case where only the phase detector is digital while others are analog has advantages over the classical PLLs in the sense that it provides a wider locking range and is more suitable when the input and output signals come in digital waveforms. Although such systems are inherently nonlinear due to the phase detector's characteristics, the nonlinearity is often bypassed in order to ease the analysis and design methods. This, however, will give erroneous results when the phase …

การประยุกต์ใช้เทคนิคการเรียนรู้เชิงลึกในการฝังคำเพื่อสร้างแบบจำลองสำหรับทำนายผลการวินิจฉัยโรคจากบันทึกทางการแพทย์ของแผนกออร์โธปิดิกส์, ธนากร รัตนจริยา

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานวิจัยนี้จะนำเสนอวิธีการฝังคำในการเรียนรู้เชิงลึกเพื่อสร้างแบบจำลองสำหรับทำนายผลการวินิจฉัยโรค ซึ่งปัจจัยสำคัญที่ทำให้ผลการวินิจฉัยโรคของแพทย์ผิดพลาดคือประสบการณ์ของแพทย์ที่ไม่เพียงพอ โดยการวินิจฉัยโรคที่ผิดพลาดนั้น นอกจากจะนำไปสู่การรักษาที่ผิดพลาดแล้ว ยังทำให้ผู้ป่วยเสียทั้งเงินและเวลา ดังนั้นเพื่อแก้ไขปัญหาการวินิจฉัยที่ผิดพลาด งานวิจัยนี้จึงนำเสนอวิธีการประยุกต์ใช้การเรียนรู้เชิงลึกกับการฝังคำ เพื่อทำนายผลการวินิจฉัยโรคจากระบบเวชระเบียน โดยจะสร้างแบบจำลองจากการใช้ข้อมูลในบันทึกของแพทย์ ซึ่งข้อมูลจะถูกนำไปวิเคราะห์ผ่านแบบจำลอง เพื่อทำนายผลการวินิจฉัยโรคที่มีความน่าจะเป็นออกมา เรียงตามลำดับความเชื่อมั่น และสุดท้ายจะใช้อัตราผลบวกจริง อัตราผลบวกเท็จ และค่าความแม่นยำมาเป็นตัววัดประสิทธิภาพของแบบจำลองที่ได้ ซึ่งพบว่าค่าความแม่นยำของแบบจำลองในงานวิจัยนี้มีค่าเท่ากับ 99.95% และอัตราผลบวกจริงมีค่าเท่ากับ 86.64% ด้วยการทำนายผลลัพธ์อันดับแรกเพียงอันดับเดียว

Mitigation Of Environmental Hazards Of Sulfide Mineral Flotation With An Insight Into Froth Stability And Flotation Performance, Muhammad Badar Hayat

Doctoral Dissertations

"Today's major challenges facing the flotation of sulfide minerals involve constant variability in the ore composition; environmental concerns; water scarcity and inefficient plant performance. The present work addresses these challenges faced by the flotation process of complex sulfide ore of Mississippi Valley type with an insight into the froth stability and the flotation performance. The first project in this study was aimed at finding the optimum conditions for the bulk flotation of galena (PbS) and chalcopyrite (CuFeS₂) through Response Surface Methodology (RSM). In the second project, an attempt was made to replace toxic sodium cyanide (NaCN) with the biodegradable chitosan …

Wildfire Emissions In The Context Of Global Change And The Implications For Mercury Pollution, Aditya Kumar

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

Wildfires are episodic disturbances that exert a significant influence on the Earth system. They emit substantial amounts of atmospheric pollutants, which can impact atmospheric chemistry/composition and the Earth’s climate at the global and regional scales. This work presents a collection of studies aimed at better estimating wildfire emissions of atmospheric pollutants, quantifying their impacts on remote ecosystems and determining the implications of 2000s-2050s global environmental change (land use/land cover, climate) for wildfire emissions following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) A1B socioeconomic scenario.

A global fire emissions model is developed to compile global wildfire emission inventories for major atmospheric …

College Of Engineering Senior Design Competition Fall 2017, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

Fred and Harriet Cox Senior Design Competition Projects

Part of every UNLV engineering student’s academic experience, the senior design project stimulates engineering innovation and entrepreneurship. Each student in their senior year chooses, plans, designs, and prototypes a product in this required element of the curriculum. A capstone to the student’s educational career, the senior design project encourages the student to use everything learned in the engineering program to create a practical, real world solution to an engineering challenge. The senior design competition helps focus the senior students in increasing the quality and potential for commercial application for their design projects. Judges from local industry evaluate the projects on …

Who Are Your Users? Comparing Media Professionals' Preconception Of Users To Data-Driven Personas, Lene Nielsen, Soon-Gyu Jung, Jisun An, Joni Salminen, Haewoon Kwak, Bernard J. Jansen

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

One of the reasons for using personas is to align user understandings across project teams and sites. As part of a larger persona study, at Al Jazeera English (AJE), we conducted 16 qualitative interviews with media producers, the end users of persona descriptions. We asked the participants about their understanding of a typical AJE media consumer, and the variety of answers shows that the understandings are not aligned and are built on a mix of own experiences, own self, assumptions, and data given by the company. The answers are sometimes aligned with the data-driven personas and sometimes not. The end …

Smia: Improving Kosovo's Education Management System, Lazar Adjijgogov, Dejan Stamenov, Edmond Jajaga

UBT International Conference

Successful management of today’s education systems requires effective policy-making and system monitoring through data and information. To this end, countries around the world have invested significant resources into collecting, processing, and managing more and better data through education management information systems (EMIS). SMIA is a modern EMIS, which offers easier management of educational process in Kosovo. It facilitates decision-making, resource planning, strategy building, monitoring and evaluation of educational system through a rich set of analytical and statistical tools. For over six years of activity, the system has efficiently tracked and thus helped the development of the educational process for every …