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Security Issues With Network Connected Scada Systems, Chad Holm

Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase

The use of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems has become common place and are being used in several different industries. These have evolved as the technology has progressed. The use of Internet of Things (IOT) devices makes for less human intervention to run daily operations in these industries. This can also allow hackers to gain access to these devices due to security holes that are overlooked. There have several different ways that have been exploited on SCADA networks and the goal is to recognize and secure them so hackers cannot gain access to them.

Corporate Cybersecurity In The Context Of M&A Transactions, Cameron Beck

Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase

The rapid rise of digital devices has unlocked a new dimension of innovation and prosperity in the 21st century. Computers are now an integrated and ubiquitous part of our global culture. You would be hard-pressed to walk into any given room without several computer chips humming inaudibly inside the machines that facilitate our modern world. Even lightbulbs and doorbells are connected to the Internet, capturing information from the world around them and sending that information to the Cloud. The Internet expands access to communication, international marketplaces, entertainment, professional resources, and nearly every book in the world.

Examining Cooperative System Responses Against Grid Integrity Attacks, Alexander D. Parady

Honors Undergraduate Theses

Smart grid technologies are integral to society’s transition to sustainable energy sources, but they do not come without a cost. As the energy sector shifts away from a century’s reliance on fossil fuels and centralized generation, technology that actively monitors and controls every aspect of the power infrastructure has been widely adopted, resulting in a plethora of new vulnerabilities that have already wreaked havoc on critical infrastructure. Integrity attacks that feedback false data through industrial control systems, which result in possible catastrophic overcorrections and ensuing failures, have plagued grid infrastructure over the past several years. This threat is now at …

The State Of The Art Of Information Integration In Space Applications, Zhuming Bi, K. L. Yung, Andrew W.H. Ip., Yuk Ming Tang, Chris W.J. Zhang, Li Da Xu

Information Technology & Decision Sciences Faculty Publications

This paper aims to present a comprehensive survey on information integration (II) in space informatics. With an ever-increasing scale and dynamics of complex space systems, II has become essential in dealing with the complexity, changes, dynamics, and uncertainties of space systems. The applications of space II (SII) require addressing some distinctive functional requirements (FRs) of heterogeneity, networking, communication, security, latency, and resilience; while limited works are available to examine recent advances of SII thoroughly. This survey helps to gain the understanding of the state of the art of SII in sense that (1) technical drivers for SII are discussed and …

Improving Collaborative Recommendation Based On Item Weight Link Prediction, Sahraoui Kharroubi, Youcef Dahmani, Omar Nouali

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

There is a continuous information overload on the Web. The problem treated is how to have relevant items (documents, products, services, etc.) at time and without difficulty. Filtering system also called recommender systems are widely used to recommend items to users by similarity process such as Amazon, MovieLens, Cdnow, etc. In the literature, to predict a link in a bipartite network, most methods are based either on a binary history (like, dislike) or on the common neighbourhood of the active user. In this paper, we modelled the recommender system by a weighted bipartite network. The bipartite topology offers a bidirectional …

Timestamp Estimation From Outdoor Scenes, Tawfiq Salem, Jisoo Hwang, Rafael Padilha

Annual ADFSL Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law

The increasing availability of smartphones allowed people to easily capture and share images on the internet. These images are often associated with metadata, including the image capture time (timestamp) and the location where the image was captured (geolocation). The metadata associated with images provides valuable information to better understand scenes and events presented in these images. The timestamp can be manipulated intentionally to provide false information to convey a twisted version of reality. Images with manipulated timestamps are often used as a cover-up for wrongdoing or broadcasting false claims and competing views on the internet. Estimating the time of capture …

Anatomy Of An Internet Hijack And Interception Attack: A Global And Educational Perspective, Ben A. Scott, Michael N. Johnstone, Patryk Szewczyk

Annual ADFSL Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law

The Internet’s underlying vulnerable protocol infrastructure is a rich target for cyber crime, cyber espionage and cyber warfare operations. The stability and security of the Internet infrastructure are important to the function of global matters of state, critical infrastructure, global e-commerce and election systems. There are global approaches to tackle Internet security challenges that include governance, law, educational and technical perspectives. This paper reviews a number of approaches to these challenges, the increasingly surgical attacks that target the underlying vulnerable protocol infrastructure of the Internet, and the extant cyber security education curricula; we find the majority of predominant cyber security …

Humans And The Core Partition: An Agent-Based Modeling Experiment, Andrew J. Collins, Sheida Etemadidavan

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications

Although strategic coalition formation is traditionally modeled using cooperative game theory, behavioral game theorists have repeatedly shown that outcomes predicted by game theory are different from those generated by actual human behavior. To further explore these differences, in a cooperative game theory context, we experiment to compare the outcomes resulting from human participants’ behavior to those generated by a cooperative game theory solution mechanism called the core partition. Our experiment uses an interactive simulation of a glove game, a particular type of cooperative game, to collect the participant’s decision choices and their resultant outcomes. Two different glove games are considered, …

Exploring Blockchain Adoption Supply Chains: Opportunities And Challenges, Adrian V. Gheorghe, Omer F. Keskin, Farinaz Sabz Ali Pour

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications

In modern supply chains, acquisition often occurs with the involvement of a network of organizations. The resilience, efficiency, and effectiveness of supply networks are crucial for the viability of acquisition. Disruptions in the supply chain require adequate communication infrastructure to ensure resilience. However, supply networks do not have a shared information technology infrastructure that ensures effective communication. Therefore decision-makers seek new methodologies for supply chain management resilience. Blockchain technology offers new decentralization and service delegation methods that can transform supply chains and result in a more flexible, efficient, and effective supply chain. This report presents a framework for the application …

Validating Software States Using Reverse Execution, Nathaniel Christian Boland

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A key feature of software analysis is determining whether it is possible for a program to reach a certain state. Various methods have been devised to accomplish this including directed fuzzing and dynamic execution. In this thesis we present a reverse execution engine to validate states, the Complex Emulator. The Complex Emulator seeks to validate a program state by emulating it in reverse to discover if a contradiction exists. When unknown variables are found during execution, the emulator is designed to use constraint solving to compute their values. The Complex Emulator has been tested on small assembly programs and is …

Synthetic Aperture Ladar Automatic Target Recognizer Design And Performance Prediction Via Geometric Properties Of Targets, Jacob W. Ross

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Synthetic Aperture LADAR (SAL) has several phenomenology differences from Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) making it a promising candidate for automatic target recognition (ATR) purposes. The diffuse nature of SAL results in more pixels on target. Optical wavelengths offers centimeter class resolution with an aperture baseline that is 10,000 times smaller than an SAR baseline. While diffuse scattering and optical wavelengths have several advantages, there are also a number of challenges. The diffuse nature of SAL leads to a more pronounced speckle effect than in the SAR case. Optical wavelengths are more susceptible to atmospheric noise, leading to distortions in formed …

The Effects Of Antecedents And Mediating Factors On Cybersecurity Protection Behavior, Ling Li, Li Xu, Wu He

Information Technology & Decision Sciences Faculty Publications

This paper identifies opportunities for potential theoretical and practical improvements in employees' awareness of cybersecurity and their motivational behavior to protect themselves and their organizations from cyberattacks using the protection motivation theory. In addition, it contributes to the literature by examining additional variables and mediators besides the core constructs of the Protection Motivation Model (PMT). This article uses empirical data and structural equation modeling to test the antecedents and mediators of employees' cybersecurity motivational behavior. The study offers theoretical and pragmatic guidance for cybersecurity programs. First, the model developed in this study can partially explain how people may change their …

Modeling Iot Solutions: A Lack Of Iot Device Security, And User Education, Benjamin Newlin

Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase

The Internet of Things, more commonly known as IoT devices, is an ever growing topic, both in the marketplace and in cyber security. While new devices are released into the public every year, a lack of standardized security concepts is also growing ever so clear. By having a model or standard for IoT devices and manufacturers to follow, the customer-base of these devices will have an easier time identifying trustworthy devices as well as how to secure their own devices.

Challenges Of Constructing Entrainment Map For Arbitrary Circadian Models, Yuxuan (Nelson) Wu

Honors Theses

The entrainment map, developed by Dr.Diekman and Dr.Bose, is claimed to be a 1-dimensional map that produces a better prediction for phase-locking than methods than the phase response curve for circadian models. In his paper, he constructs the entrainment map for the two-dimensional circadian model, the Novak-Tyson model, and the other two higher-dimensional circadian models. For this thesis, we concentrate on exploring if it is viable to construct the entrainment map for other circadian models that are not included in his paper: the Becker-Weimann model and the Relogio model. In addition, we discuss the challenges of constructing the entrainment map …

การทำนายค่าฝุ่น Pm2.5 ทั้งในเชิงแผนที่และเชิงเวลาด้วยเทคนิคการเรียนรู้เชิงลึก, ณัฏฐ์ ศิริสัมพันธ์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

PM2.5 เป็นอนุภาคขนาดเล็กที่มีส่วนทำให้เกิดปัญหามลพิษทางอากาศในประเทศไทย การหายใจนำฝุ่น PM2.5 เข้าไปสามารถทำให้เกิดปัญหาสุขภาพตามมาได้ เช่น โรคทางเดินหายใจและโรคหัวใจเสื่อมสภาพ รวมถึงเพิ่มความเสี่ยงต่อการเสียชีวิตก่อนวัยอันควร งานวิจัยนี้เสนอแบบจำลองที่ใช้การเรียนรู้เชิงลึกเพื่อทำนายค่าฝุ่น PM2.5 ในระดับประเทศซึ่งเป็นการทำนายทั้งในเชิงพื้นที่และเวลา โดยแบบจำลองที่นำเสนอมีชื่อว่า SimVP-CFLL-ML มีพื้นฐานมาจากแบบจำลองการทำนายวิดีโอที่เรียกว่า "SimVP" และเพื่อเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพในการทำนายค่าฝุ่น PM2.5 ในช่วงที่มีค่าฝุ่นสูง SimVP ได้มีการพัฒนาเพิ่มเติมสองประการ คือ 1.Cross-Feature Learning Layer (CFLL) ซึ่งใช้ 1x1 convolution layer เพื่อเรียนรู้ความสัมพันธ์ของคุณลักษณะและ 2.Masking Layer (ML) ซึ่งใช้สำหรับคำนวณค่าลอสเฉพาะส่วนที่สำคัญที่ต้องการทำนาย โดยในที่นี้คือส่วนที่เป็นประเทศไทย การทดลองดำเนินการโดยใช้ข้อมูลที่เก็บรวบรวมจากกรมควบคุมมลพิษของประเทศไทยและโครงการ Sensor For All (SFA) ผลการทดลองแสดงให้เห็นว่าแบบจำลองของเราเหนือกว่าแบบจำลองพื้นฐานทั้งหมด โดยเฉพาะในกรณีที่ต้องการจำแนกช่วงที่ค่าฝุ่นมีค่าสูง แบบจำลองของเราได้ผลลัพธ์ค่าคะแนน F1 สูงกว่าแบบจำลองพื้นฐานที่ดีที่สุดถึง 3.51%

ระบบสนับสนุนการจัดเก็บและวิเคราะห์ข้อมูลลำดับซ้ำเรียงต่อเนื่องแบบสั้นสำหรับนิติวิทยาศาสตร์, ณัฏฐชัย กุลธรรมนิตย์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

ลำดับซ้ำเรียงต่อเนื่องแบบสั้น (Short Tandem Repeat) หรือเอสทีอาร์ (STR) เป็นลำดับที่ซ้ำกันเป็นชุด ๆ ที่พบได้ในจีโนม (Genome) ของมนุษย์และมีประโยชน์มากในนิติวิทยาศาสตร์ เช่น การยืนยันตัวบุคคล การหาความสัมพันธ์ทางเครือญาติ เทคโนโลยีการลำดับเบสยุคใหม่ (Next-Generaton Sequencing: NGS) เช่น ForenSeq Signature Prep สามารถหาลำดับ STRs และให้ข้อมูลเชิงลึกเกี่ยวกับโครงสร้างประชากรได้ ถึงแม้ว่าเอสทีอาร์ที่ได้จากเทคโนโลยีนี้จะมีประโยชน์มากมาย แต่ไม่มีแพลตฟอร์มซอฟต์แวร์โอเพ่นซอร์สใดที่รวมการจัดการและการวิเคราะห์ข้อมูลของเอสทีอาร์ไว้ในแพลตฟอร์มเดียว ผู้ใช้งานอาจต้องใช้หลายโปรแกรมในการวิเคราะห์ข้อมูลเอสทีอาร์ จากนั้นรวบรวมผลลัพธ์ลงในฐานข้อมูลแยกหรือโฟลเดอร์ระบบไฟล์ เพื่อแก้ไขปัญหาดังกล่าว ระบบที่นำเสนอ STRategy เป็นเว็บแอพพลิเคชันที่มีระบบการจัดการและวิเคราะห์ข้อมูลเอสทีอาร์ โดย STRategy อนุญาตให้ผู้ใช้งานเก็บข้อมูลลงฐานข้อมูลหลังจากนั้นระบบจะวิเคราะห์และแสดงผลข้อมูลโดยอัตโนมัติ ระบบนี้ถูกออกแบบให้ใช้ในองค์กรหรือห้องปฏิบัติการ จึงมีระบบการกำหนดสิทธิผู้ใช้ระบบตามบทบาท (Role Based Access Control) เพื่อให้ผู้ใช้งานเข้าถึงข้อมูลตามสิทธิของแต่ละบุคคลเท่านั้น ระบบถูกออกแบบให้มีความยืดหยุ่นสูง และได้ปฏิบัติตามแนวคิดสถาปัตยกรรม 3-เลเยอร์ หลักการออกแบบโปรแกรมเชิงวัตถุ รวมถึงมีการใช้แบบรูป (Design patterns) ต่าง ๆ เพื่อรองรับการเพิ่มโมดูลการวิเคราะห์และโมดูลการแสดงผล รวมถึงการพัฒนาต่อยอดได้ง่ายในอนาคต

Universal Design In Bci: Deep Learning Approaches For Adaptive Speech Brain-Computer Interfaces, Srdjan Lesaja

Theses and Dissertations

In the last two decades, there have been many breakthrough advancements in non-invasive and invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) systems. However, the majority of BCI model designs still follow a paradigm whereby neural signals are preprocessed and task-related features extracted using static, and generally customized, data-independent designs. Such BCI designs commonly optimize narrow task performance over generalizability, adaptability, and robustness, which is not well suited to meeting individual user needs. If one day BCIs are to be capable of decoding our higher-order cognitive commands and conceptual maps, their designs will need to be adaptive architectures that will evolve and grow in …

A Simple Dual-Band Quasi-Yagi Antenna With Defected Ground Structures, Göksel Turan, Hayretti̇n Odabaşi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this article, a dual-band compact quasi-Yagi antenna with defected ground structure (DGS) is proposed. The proposed antenna has a simple feeding mechanism consists of a microstrip and transmission line. Half of the driver and director elements are printed on the opposite side of the substrate to ensure good coupling between the antenna elements and achieve a stable radiation pattern. The ground plane is modified with one rectangular slot below the microstrip line to form dual-band operation. Also rectangular slots placed on the sides of the ground plane to improve the matching. The proposed antenna works at $f_{1}=3.35$ and $f_{2}=6.15$ …

Detecting The Presence Of Electronic Devices In Smart Homes Using Harmonic Radar, Beatrice Perez, Gregory Mazzaro, Timothy J. Pierson, David Kotz

Dartmouth Scholarship

Data about users is collected constantly by phones, cameras, Internet websites, and others. The advent of so-called ‘Smart Things' now enable ever-more sensitive data to be collected inside that most private of spaces: the home. The first step in helping users regain control of their information (inside their home) is to alert them to the presence of potentially unwanted electronics. In this paper, we present a system that could help homeowners (or home dwellers) find electronic devices in their living space. Specifically, we demonstrate the use of harmonic radars (sometimes called nonlinear junction detectors), which have also been used in …

Image-Data-Driven Deep Learning For Slope Stability Analysis, Behnam Azmoon

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

Landslides cause major infrastructural issues, damage the environment, and cause socio-economic disruptions. Therefore, various slope stability analysis methods have been developed to evaluate the stability of slopes and the probability of their failure. This dissertation attempts to take advantage of the recent advancements in remote sensing and computer technology to implement a deep-learning-based landslide prediction method.

Considering the novelty of this approach, this dissertation leads with proof-of-concept studies to evaluate and establish the suitability of deep learning models for slope stability analysis. To achieve this, a simulated 2D dataset of slope images was created with different geometries and soil properties. …

Lpvit: A Transformer Based Model For Pcb Image Classification And Defect Detection, Kang An, Yanping Zhang

Computer Science Faculty Scholarship

PCB (printed circuit board) is an extremely important component of all electronic products, which has greatly facilitated human life. Meanwhile, tons of PCBs in the waste streams become a waste of resources, which puts the recycling and reuse of PCBs in urgent need. In the manufacturing and recycling of electronic products, the classification of PCBs, recognition of sub-components, and defect detection have been the key technology. Traditional manual detection and classification are subjective and rely on individuals’ experience. With the development of artificial intelligence, lots of research efforts have been dedicated to the automated detection and recognition of PCBs. In …

Security Hardening Of Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces Against Adversarial Machine Learning Attacks, Ferhat Ozgur Catak, Murat Kuzlu, Haolin Tang, Evren Catak, Yanxiao Zhao

Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

Next-generation communication networks, also known as NextG or 5G and beyond, are the future data transmission systems that aim to connect a large amount of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, systems, applications, and consumers at high-speed data transmission and low latency. Fortunately, NextG networks can achieve these goals with advanced telecommunication, computing, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in the last decades and support a wide range of new applications. Among advanced technologies, AI has a significant and unique contribution to achieving these goals for beamforming, channel estimation, and Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS) applications of 5G and beyond networks. However, the …

Segmenting Technical Drawing Figures In Us Patents, Md Reshad Ul Hoque, Xin Wei, Muntabir Hasan Choudhury, Kehinde Ajayi, Martin Gryder, Jian Wu, Diane Oyen

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Image segmentation is the core computer vision problem for identifying objects within a scene. Segmentation is a challenging task because the prediction for each pixel label requires contextual information. Most recent research deals with the segmentation of natural images rather than drawings. However, there is very little research on sketched image segmentation. In this study, we introduce heuristic (point-shooting) and deep learning-based methods (U-Net, HR-Net, MedT, DETR) to segment technical drawings in US patent documents. Our proposed methods on the US Patent dataset achieved over 90% accuracy where transformer performs well with 97% segmentation accuracy, which is promising and computationally …

Customer Gaze Estimation In Retail Using Deep Learning, Shashimal Senarath, Primesh Pathirana, Dulani Meedeniya, Sampath Jayarathna

Computer Science Faculty Publications

At present, intelligent computing applications are widely used in different domains, including retail stores. The analysis of customer behaviour has become crucial for the benefit of both customers and retailers. In this regard, the concept of remote gaze estimation using deep learning has shown promising results in analyzing customer behaviour in retail due to its scalability, robustness, low cost, and uninterrupted nature. This study presents a three-stage, three-attention-based deep convolutional neural network for remote gaze estimation in retail using image data. In the first stage, we design a mechanism to estimate the 3D gaze of the subject using image data …

Optimized Cancer Detection On Various Magnified Histopathological Colon Imagesbased On Dwt Features And Fcm Clustering, Tina Babu, Tripty Singh, Deepa Gupta, Shahin Hameed

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Due to the morphological characteristics and other biological aspects in histopathological images, the computerized diagnosis of colon cancer in histopathology images has gained popularity. The images acquired using the histopathology microscope may differ for greater visibility by magnifications. This causes a change in morphological traits leading to intra and inter-observer variability. An automatic colon cancer diagnosis system for various magnification is therefore crucial. This work proposes a magnification independent segmentation approach based on the connected component area and double density dual tree DWT (discrete wavelet transform) coefficients are derived from the segmented region. The derived features are reduced further shortened …

Distributed Wireless Sensor Node Localization Based On Penguin Searchoptimization, Md Al Shayokh, Soo Young Shin

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have become popular for sensing areas-of-interest and performing assigned tasks based on information on the location of sensor devices. Localization in WSNs is aimed at designating distinct geographical information to the inordinate nodes within a search area. Biologically inspired algorithms are being applied extensively in WSN localization to determine inordinate nodes more precisely while consuming minimal computation time. An optimization algorithm belonging to the metaheuristic class and named penguin search optimization (PeSOA) is presented in this paper. It utilizes the hunting approaches in a collaborative manner to determine the inordinate nodes within an area of interest. …

Cnn Based Sensor Fusion Method For Real-Time Autonomous Robotics Systems, Berat Yildiz, Aki̇f Durdu, Ahmet Kayabaşi, Mehmet Duramaz

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Autonomous robotic systems (ARS) serve in many areas of daily life. The sensors have critical importance for these systems. The sensor data obtained from the environment should be as accurate and reliable as possible and correctly interpreted by the autonomous robot. Since sensors have advantages and disadvantages over each other they should be used together to reduce errors. In this study, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based sensor fusion was applied to ARS to contribute the autonomous driving. In a real-time application, a camera and LIDAR sensor were tested with these networks. The novelty of this work is that the uniquely …

Fft Enabled Ecc For Wsn Nodes Without Hardware Multiplier Support, Utku Gülen, Selçuk Baktir

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

ECC is a popular cryptographic algorithm for key distribution in wireless sensor networks where power efficiency is desirable. A power efficient implementation of ECC without using hardware multiplier support was proposed earlier for wireless sensor nodes. The proposed implementation utilized the number theoretic transform to carry operands to the frequency domain, and conducted Montgomery multiplication, in addition to other finite field operations, in that domain. With this work, we perform in the frequency domain only polynomial multiplication and use the fast Fourier transform to carry operands between the time and frequency domains. Our ECC implementation over $GF((2^{13}-1)^{13})$ on the MSP430 …

Using Vertical Areas In Finite Set Model Predictive Control Of A Three-Level Inverter Aimed At Computation Reduction, Alireza Jaafari, Alireza Davari, Cristian Garcia, Jose Rodriguez

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In power electronics applications, finite set model predictive control (FS-MPC) has proven to be a viable strategy. However, due to the high processing power required, using this technology in multilevel converters is difficult. This strategy, which is based on predicting the behavior of the system for all conceivable states, has an issue with a numerous of possible switching states. A recent and useful strategy for dealing with the problem is the limiting of calculations based on triangle regions. Despite its success, this method has several limitations, including the computation required to locate the right triangle and the boundary modes. In …

An Approach For Performance Prediction Of Saturated Brushed Permanent Magnetdirect Current (Dc) Motor From Physical Dimensions, Rasul Tarvirdilu, Reza Zeinali, Hulusi̇ Bülent Ertan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

An analytical approach for performance prediction of saturated brushed permanent magnet direct current (DC) motors is proposed in this paper. In case of a heavy saturation in the stator back core of electrical machines, some flux completes its path through the surrounding air, and the conventional equivalent circuit cannot be used anymore. This issue has not been addressed in the literature. The importance of considering the effect of the flux penetrating the surrounding air is shown in this paper using finite element simulations and experimental results, and an analytical approach is proposed to consider this effect on magnet operating point …