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Deepfakes: Ai Technology Of The Future, Hosanna Root

Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase

Deepfakes technology’s danger stems from its ability to create realistic but fake synthesized media that people often identify as something that is real. With this powerful technology in the wrong hands, deepfakes can cause devastating havoc through information warfare, election campaign disruptions, and more, creating distrust in society. Disinformation is already rampant today, even without wide deployments of deepfakes, which is concerning given the fact that deepfakes’ nefarious full potentials are yet to be reached.

Big Data Processing Attribute Based Access Control Security, Anne Tall

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

The purpose of this research is to analyze the security of next-generation big data processing (BDP) and examine the feasibility of applying advanced security features to meet the needs of modern multi-tenant, multi-level data analysis. The research methodology was to survey of the status of security mechanisms in BDP systems and identify areas that require further improvement. Access control (AC) security services were identified as priority area, specifically Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC). The exemplar BDP system analyzed is the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. We created data generation software, analysis programs, and posted the detailed the experiment configuration on GitHub. Overall, …

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 …

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 …

An Effective Prediction Method For Network State Information In Sd-Wan, Erdal Akin, Ferdi̇ Saraç, Ömer Aslan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN), a logically centralized controller is responsible for computing and installing paths in order to transfer packets among geographically distributed locations and remote users. Accordingly, this would necessitate obtaining the global view and dynamic network state information (NSI) of the network. Therefore, the centralized controller periodically collects link-state information from each port of each switch at fixed time periods. While collecting NSI in short periods causes protocol overhead on the controller, collecting in longer periods leads to obtaining inaccurate NSI. In both cases, packet losses are inevitable, which is not preferred for quality of …

A Literature Review On Combining Heuristics And Exact Algorithms In Combinatorial Optimization, Hesamoddin Tahami, Hengameh Fakhravar

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications

There are several approaches for solving hard optimization problems. Mathematical programming techniques such as (integer) linear programming-based methods and metaheuristic approaches are two extremely effective streams for combinatorial problems. Different research streams, more or less in isolation from one another, created these two. Only several years ago, many scholars noticed the advantages and enormous potential of building hybrids of combining mathematical programming methodologies and metaheuristics. In reality, many problems can be solved much better by exploiting synergies between these approaches than by “pure” classical algorithms. The key question is how to integrate mathematical programming methods and metaheuristics to achieve such …

Validating Software States Using Reverse Execution, Nathaniel Christian Boland

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

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

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

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 …

A Progressive Learning Strategy For Large-Scale Glacier Mapping, Zhiyuan Xie, Umesh K. Haritashya, Vijayan K. Asari

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

In recent years, the worldwide temperature increase has resulted in rapid deglaciation and a higher risk of glacier-related natural hazards such as flooding and debris flow. Due to the severity of these hazards, continuous observation and detailed analysis of glacier fluctuations are crucial. Many such analyses require an accurately delineated glacier boundary. However, the complexity and heterogeneity of glaciers, particularly debris-covered glaciers (DCGs), poses a challenge for glacier mapping when using conventional remote sensing or machine-learning techniques. Some examples exist about small-scale automated glacier mapping, but large or regional-scale mapping is challenging. Previously, a deep-learning-based approach named GlacierNet2 had been …

Penetration Testing In A Small Business Network, Lee Kandle

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

Penetration testing on a business network consisting of three routers, one switch, and one computer. Access Control Lists (ACLs) on the routers act as the firewall(s) for the network. 10 of the twelve ACLs do not deny any form of traffic to reflect the lax security standards common in small networks. Router 1 acts as the primary router of the Attacker/Pen Tester. Router 2 represents the edge router for the business and Router 3 is the inner router closest to end-user devices. Switch 1 is connected to Router 3 with one computer connected to the switch acting as an end-user. …

Career Engine, Sai Akhil Gujja

All Capstone Projects

People's education is so widely available in this age of tough competition that openings for them in jobs are getting harder to find. Companies need people in their fields with a solid educational foundation and maximum years of job experience. Finding people who are talented, intelligent, and competent enough to be given a position at that time is challenging. Companies are working harder than ever to find people who can meet their needs.[1] Thousands of applicants are competing for one job opening. When considering these difficulties, one may come up with a strategy or approach that can help manage and …

R Stack Career, Hari Krishna Patti

All Capstone Projects

The Career Engine's main purpose is to create a platform for job searchers to find suitable and gratifying work based on their qualifications. It also connects job searchers with the recruiting process. This career engine recognizes when a job seeker applies for a job and when a company publishes a job and chooses a candidate. A career engine's principal objective is to aid job searchers in getting a quick career. In today's society, there are several employment portal platforms. In this case, we must create a web-based application utilizing the Career Engine. In this period of decline, everyone, experienced or …

Career Engine (Jobesy), Vijaya Lakshmi Patti

All Capstone Projects

In today's world, finding a job is like a rat race in every professional field. The scenario is such that finding jobs that fit the skill sets and interests takes much work for job seekers. On the other side, recruiters face similar challenges in finding the finest candidate to match their requirements.

Talent jet is a website with unique ingredients to solve all these challenges. Talent jet provides an easy and convenient search application for job seekers to find their desired job and recruiters to find suitable candidates. Talent jet will provide a platform where job seekers and recruiters can …

Career Engine, Anoop Vivek Sagar Mallavarapu

All Capstone Projects

People's education is so widely available in this age of tough competition that openings for them in jobs are getting harder to find. Companies need people in their fields with a solid educational foundation and maximum years of job experience. Finding people who are talented, intelligent, and competent enough to be given a position at that time is challenging. Companies are working harder than ever to find people who can meet their needs.[1] Thousands of applicants are competing for one job opening. When considering these difficulties, one may come up with a strategy or approach that can help manage and …

Evolution And Diffusion Of Icts In The Indian Railways: A Historical Analysis, Ramesh Subramanian

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

The Indian Railway system is one of the largest socio-technical systems in the world. It has existed for over 160 years, starting from the British Colonial times. It continues to play a critical role in present-day India. It’s continued functioning is dependent not only on the personnel who are employed in the railways, but also the technologies that go into the system. A critical technology in the functioning of the railway system is information and communications technologies (ICTs). ICTs are deployed in almost every facet of the railway system. But these ICTs did not manifest themselves recently. They have been …

Online Discussion Forum And Pre-Migration Information Seeking: An Affordance Perspective, Daniel Gulanowski, Luciara Nardon, Michael J. Hine

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

Potential immigrants increasingly rely on online technologies to access needed information as they have limited access to offline sources of information at the pre-arrival stage. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of online discussion forums in facilitating potential immigrants’ access to relevant information about the host country labor market. This paper draws on extant literature on computer-mediated communication and a qualitative content analysis of 363 forum discussions to explore the phenomenon of increased use of online forums by prospective immigrants to Canada to access relevant labor market information. We draw on existing concepts of technology affordances …

Jitim Table Of Contents - Vol. 31 Issue 2 - 2022

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

JITIM ToC

Assessing Performance Impact Of Digital Transformation For Instructors In The Covid-19 Era, Shailja Tripathi Dr., Shubhangi Urkude Dr.

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

Digital transformation has evolved as the main issue for higher education institutions (HEIs) across the globe due to the Covid-19 outbreak. The purpose of this study is to investigate the performance impacts of digital transformation for instructors of HEIs during the pandemic. The technology-to-performance chain (TPC) model pursues to predict the influence of an information system on the performance of an individual user. Hence, TPC model is used to evaluate the performance of instructors due to digital transformation in the institutions during the Covid-19 pandemic. The data is collected from instructors of higher educational institutions. Recently, partial least squares path …

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.

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

Development Of An Explainability Scale To Evaluate Explainable Artificial Intelligence (Xai) Methods, Stephen Mccarthy

Dissertations

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is an area of research that develops methods and techniques to make the results of artificial intelligence understood by humans. In recent years, there has been an increased demand for XAI methods to be developed due to model architectures getting more complicated and government regulations requiring transparency in machine learning models. With this increased demand has come an increased need for instruments to evaluate XAI methods. However, there are few, if none, valid and reliable instruments that take into account human opinion and cover all aspects of explainability. Therefore, this study developed an objective, human-centred questionnaire …

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 …

Evaluation Of Automated Eye Blink Artefact Removal Using Stacked Dense Autoencoder, Matthew Rigney

Dissertations

The presence of artefacts in Electroencephalograph (EEG) signals can have a considerable impact on the information they portray. In this comparative study, the automated removal of eye blink artefacts using the constrained latent representation of a stacked dense autoencoders (SDAE) and comparing its ability to that of the manual independent component analysis (ICA) approach was evaluated. A comparative evaluation of 5 stacked dense autoencoder architectures lead to a chosen architecture for which the ability to automatically detect and remove eye blink artefacts were both statistically and humanistically evaluated. The ability of the stacked dense autoencoder was statistically evaluated with the …

Scrolling Vs Paging: Reading Performance And Preference Of Reading Modes In Long-Form Online News, Richard Herlihy

Dissertations

This study explores the impact of scrolling and dynamic pagination in long-form online documents on reader performance and reader experience. Previous research has produced mixed results, indicating no difference between modes, or a positive effect favouring scrolling. Recent advances in web standards have enabled simpler, dynamic, performant methods of pagination to tailor content responsively to any screen, meriting renewed study in this area. This paper uses one such method to load subsequent online news pages instantly without buffering. In an online browser experiment with 38 participants, an increase in reading speed in the scrolling mode was found at a level …

Study On Performance Of Pruned Cnn-Based Classification Models, Mengling Deng

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a neural network developed for processing image data. CNNs have been studied extensively and have been used in numerous computer vision tasks such as image classification and segmentation, object detection and recognition, etc. [1] Although, the CNNs-based approaches showed humanlevel performances in these tasks [2], they require heavy computation in both training and inference stages, and the models consist of millions of parameters. This hinders the development and deployment of CNN-based models for real world applications. Neural Network Pruning and Compression techniques have been proposed [3, 4] to reduce the computation complexity of trained CNNs …

Home Energy Management System Considering Effective Demand Response Strategies And Uncertainties, Marcos Tostado-Véliz, Paul Arévalo, Salah Kamel, Hossam Zawbaa, Francisco Jurado

Articles

Nowadays, load serving entities require more active participation from consumers. In this context, demand response programs and home energy management systems play a crucial role in achieving multiple goals such as peak clipping. However, the adoption of demand response initiatives typically has a negative impact on the monetary expenditures of the users. This way, a demand response program should be as effective as possible to make the different goals more easily achievable without compromising the financial requirements of the users. This paper develops a home energy management system that incorporates three novel effective demand response strategies. The effectiveness of the …

Removing Physical Presence Requirements For A Remote And Automated World - Api Controlled Patch Panel For Conformance Testing, Hunter George Wells

Honors Theses and Capstones

Quality assurance test engineers at the UNH-InterOperability Lab must run tests that require driving and monitoring a selection of DC signals. While the number of signals is numerous, there are limited ports on the test equipment, and only a few signals need patching for any given test. The selection of signals may vary between the 209 different tests and must be re-routed frequently. Currently, testers must leave their desk to manually modify the test setup in another room. This posed a considerable issue at the onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic when physical access was not possible. In order to enable …