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A Framework To Support Automatic Certification For Self-Adaptive Systems, Ioannis Nearchou Aug 2020

A Framework To Support Automatic Certification For Self-Adaptive Systems, Ioannis Nearchou

Masters Theses

Presently, cyber-physical systems are increasingly being integrated into societies, from the economic sector to the nuclear energy sector. Cyber-physical systems are systems that combine physical, digital, human, and other components, which operate through physical means and software. When system errors occur, the consequences of malfunction could negatively impact human life. Academic studies have relied on the MAPE-K feedback loop model to develop various system components to satisfy the self-adaptive features, such that violation of the safety requirements can be minimized. Assurance of system requirement satisfaction is argued through an industrial standard form, called an assurance case, which is usually applied …


Intelligent Algorithm For Trapezoidal Interval Valued Neutrosophic Network Analysis, Florentin Smarandache, Said Broumi, Deivanayagampillai Nagarajan, Malayalan Lathamaheswari, Mohamed Talea, Assia Bakali Aug 2020

Intelligent Algorithm For Trapezoidal Interval Valued Neutrosophic Network Analysis, Florentin Smarandache, Said Broumi, Deivanayagampillai Nagarajan, Malayalan Lathamaheswari, Mohamed Talea, Assia Bakali

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

The shortest path problem has been one of the most fundamental practical problems in network analysis. One of the good algorithms is Bellman-Ford, which has been applied in network, for the last some years. Due to complexity in the decision-making process, the decision makers face complications to express their view and judgment with an exact number for single valued membership degrees under neutrosophic environment. Though the interval number is a special situation of the neutrosophic, it did not solve the shortest path problems in an absolute manner. Hence, in this work, the authors have introduced the score function and accuracy …


Analysis Of Protection System Setting In 11kv Distribution System, Alamshah Ammar Aug 2020

Analysis Of Protection System Setting In 11kv Distribution System, Alamshah Ammar

Student Works (2020-2029)

One of the fundamental protections used in electrical network power system is Overcurrent and Earth Fault (OCEF) protection. They have to be both sensitive and quick in minimizing the electrodynamic and thermal stress imposed on the equipment during the fault time interval. It is utmost important for the relays to be capable of removing only the faulty section while keep up the flexibly to solid areas in the system. In order to achieve this objective, correct relay coordination setting is important to prevent the system from suffering catastrophic effects. These days, the consumer is enforcing raising performance demands by reducing …


Hybrid Microwave Power Amplifiers For Broadband Communication, Sangaran Pragash Aug 2020

Hybrid Microwave Power Amplifiers For Broadband Communication, Sangaran Pragash

Student Works (2020-2029)

The software-defined radio is the future of radio technology. The development of a broadband power amplifier is the most challenging radio component to design in achieving software-defined radio goals due to the PA gain-bandwidth limitation. The distributed power amplifier (DPA) overcomes the limitation by combining output power from several transistors in an additive fashion. Matrix Amplifier (MA) consists of two or more DPA stacked together in a multiplicative manner. In this project, a high power and high gain DPA for a two-way radio system is demonstrated. The DPA exhibits 10W output power and 32dB gain across the frequency range of …


Fault Location In Distribution System Based On Voltage Sag Analysis, Ahmad Muhamad Firdaus Aug 2020

Fault Location In Distribution System Based On Voltage Sag Analysis, Ahmad Muhamad Firdaus

Student Works (2020-2029)

Fault in the distribution system is something that cannot be avoided. It is a recurring event that occurs due to various factors such as natural occurrence, mechanism failure, or human error. All this contributes to the phenomenon that will affect the stability of the system and result in the loss of power to the consumers. However, such a fault is something that happens unexpectedly, and it is difficult to be eliminated. Therefore, various research work has been done over the years to overcome the problem. All research is done to find the most effective method of finding the fault location …


Organic Materials As Saturable Absorber For Pulse Generation At Telecommunication Window, Mohammed Hussein Sameer Salam M.H. Aug 2020

Organic Materials As Saturable Absorber For Pulse Generation At Telecommunication Window, Mohammed Hussein Sameer Salam M.H.

Student Works (2020-2029)

This thesis demonstrates several types of fiber lasers based on newly developed organic materials as saturable absorbers (SAs). We used these SAs in all-fiber based erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) ring cavity to produce Q-switched and mode-locked pulses at telecommunication window, at ~ 1560 nm. Three different organic materials were used in this thesis: Bis[2-(4,6-difluorophenyl)pyridinato-C2 ,N](picolinato)iridium(III) (FIrpic), bis(8-hydroxyquinoline)zinc (Znq2) and Tris(8-hydroxyquinoline)aluminum (Alq3). Finding new materials is still one of the defining characteristics of nonlinear optics field, as the rapid development of SAs has provided several new opportunities for nonlinear optics. Throughout this work, organic material showed a very interesting performance in …


Design Of A Sweeping Impedance Probe For The Sport Mission, Caleb W. Young Aug 2020

Design Of A Sweeping Impedance Probe For The Sport Mission, Caleb W. Young

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

In our modern world satellite systems are an evermore common part of day to day life. Reliable communication from the ground to these satellites is becoming more and more necessary. Plasma scintillations in the ionosphere can make these communications difficult or even impossible. By gaining a better understanding of these scintillations, times of bad satellite connection can be predicted in the same way terrestrial weather gets predicted and reported today. The objective of the SPORT mission is to gain a better understanding of these plasma scintillations. In order to measure plasma density, and gain a better understanding of plasma scintillations, …


A Novel Path Loss Forecast Model To Support Digital Twins For High Frequency Communications Networks, James Marvin Taylor Jr. Jul 2020

A Novel Path Loss Forecast Model To Support Digital Twins For High Frequency Communications Networks, James Marvin Taylor Jr.

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The need for long-distance High Frequency (HF) communications in the 3-30 MHz frequency range seemed to diminish at the end of the 20th century with the advent of space-based communications and the spread of fiber optic-connected digital networks. Renewed interest in HF has emerged as an enabler for operations in austere locations and for its ability to serve as a redundant link when space-based and terrestrial communication channels fail. Communications system designers can create a “digital twin” system to explore the operational advantages and constraints of the new capability. Existing wireless channel models can adequately simulate communication channel conditions with …


Methods For Ensuring The Stability Of Design Reliability In Rural Telecommunications Network During Its Operation, Akbar Daniyarovich Normurodov Mr. Jul 2020

Methods For Ensuring The Stability Of Design Reliability In Rural Telecommunications Network During Its Operation, Akbar Daniyarovich Normurodov Mr.

Chemical Technology, Control and Management

The article discusses methods to ensure the stability of the design reliability of a rural telecommunications network during its operation. In rural areas, for a number of reasons, the power supply from the power supply network is interrupted at random times. In this regard, backup power sources are provided for the power supply of OLT equipment. To provide a telecommunication network with stable power supply, it is proposed to use solar sources of electricity.


Usability And Accessibility Model For E-Government Websites In Ethiopia, Yoseph Zeleke Jul 2020

Usability And Accessibility Model For E-Government Websites In Ethiopia, Yoseph Zeleke

African Conference on Information Systems and Technology

The development of websites and portals are main components of the e-Government strategy implementations for the last nine years in Ethiopia. However, services optimizations with usability and accessibility are key issues of Ethiopia e-Government services development.

Therefore, the ultimate goal of this study is creation of usable, accessible and sustainable Ethiopian eGovernment websites with four stage of research analysis, through proposed model. The investigations results are used to provide a clear picture of what needs to be improves from management and user point of views and also from other stakeholders of e-Government services. This study applies mixed methods of data …


It Governance For Balancing Evolveability And Standardization In Health Information System Implementation In Ethiopian Context, Birkinesh Lagebo, Birkinesh Lagebo, Mark Gaynor Prof., Temtim Assefa Dr Jul 2020

It Governance For Balancing Evolveability And Standardization In Health Information System Implementation In Ethiopian Context, Birkinesh Lagebo, Birkinesh Lagebo, Mark Gaynor Prof., Temtim Assefa Dr

African Conference on Information Systems and Technology

Failing to balance standardization and evolveability in IS design and implementation process results sustainability failure which is common in developing country. IS research provides various IS design solution including layered modular architecture to address both evolveability and standardization simultaneously. However, this design solution requires appropriate IT governance mechanisms which lacks both theoretical and empirical explanation in IS research. The core of this research is understanding IT governance mechanism design that can balance standardization and evolveability in the course of IS design and implementation. The research uses the case of District Health Information System-2 (DHIS-2), layered modular architecture, design and implementation …


Query Rewriting With Thesaurus-Based For Handling Semantic Heterogeneity In Database Integration, I Made Riyan Adi Nugroho, I Wayan Budi Sentana Jul 2020

Query Rewriting With Thesaurus-Based For Handling Semantic Heterogeneity In Database Integration, I Made Riyan Adi Nugroho, I Wayan Budi Sentana

Knowledge Engineering and Data Science

Nowadays, studies on handling semantic heterogeneity still become a challenge for researcher. Several methods have been used to solve these problems, one of which is query rewriting, implemented by rewriting a query into the latest one by using the selected schema. Semantic query rewriting needs a framework in order to identify the connection through the data schema sources. This line is used as a basis for scheme selection. Also, ontology is a model which often be used in these specific cases. The lack of ontology becomes a significant problem that usually seen. Therefore, this paper will describe an alternative framework …


Flood Prediction Using Artificial Neural Networks: Empirical Evidence From Mauritius As A Case Study, A. Z. Dhunny, Reena H. Seebocus, Z. Allam, Mohammad Yasser Chuttur Jul 2020

Flood Prediction Using Artificial Neural Networks: Empirical Evidence From Mauritius As A Case Study, A. Z. Dhunny, Reena H. Seebocus, Z. Allam, Mohammad Yasser Chuttur

Knowledge Engineering and Data Science

Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) has been well studied for flood prediction. However, there is not enough empirical evidence to generalize ANN applicability to small countries with microclimates prevailing in a small geographical space. In this paper, we focus on the climatic conditions of Mauritius for which we seek to investigate the accuracy of using ANN to predict flooding using locally collected data from 11 meteorological stations spread across the country. The ANN model for flood prediction presented in this work is trained using 20,000 climate data records, collected over a period of two years for Mauritius. Our input climate features …


Human Intestinal Condition Identification Based-On Blended Spatial And Morphological Feature Using Artificial Neural Network Classifier, Ummi Athiyah, Arif Wirawan Muhammad, Ahmad Azhari Jul 2020

Human Intestinal Condition Identification Based-On Blended Spatial And Morphological Feature Using Artificial Neural Network Classifier, Ummi Athiyah, Arif Wirawan Muhammad, Ahmad Azhari

Knowledge Engineering and Data Science

Colon cancer is a type of disease that attacks the intestinal walls cell of humans. Colorectal endoscopic screening technique is a common step carried out by the health expert/gynecologist to determine the condition of the human intestine. Manual interpretation requires quite a long time to reach a result. Along with the development of increasingly advanced digital computing techniques, then some of the weaknesses of the manually endoscopic image interpretation analysis model can be corrected by automating the detection process of the presence or absence of cancerous cells in the gut. Identification of human intestinal conditions using an artificial neural network …


Earthquake Magnitude And Grid-Based Location Prediction Using Backpropagation Neural Network, Bagus Priambodo, Wayan Firdaus Mahmudy, Muh Arif Rahman Jul 2020

Earthquake Magnitude And Grid-Based Location Prediction Using Backpropagation Neural Network, Bagus Priambodo, Wayan Firdaus Mahmudy, Muh Arif Rahman

Knowledge Engineering and Data Science

Earthquakes, a type of inevitable natural disaster, is responsible for the highest average death toll per year compared to other types of a natural disaster. Even though it is inevitable, but it can be anticipated to minimize damage and casualties, such as predicting the earthquake‘s magnitude using a neural network. In this study, a backpropagation algorithm is used to train the multilayer neural network to weekly predict the average magnitude of earthquakes in grid-based locations in Indonesia. Based on the findings in this research, the neural network is able to predict the magnitude of earthquakes in grid-based locations across Indonesia …


Parallelization Of Partitioning Around Medoids (Pam) In K-Medoids Clustering On Gpu, Adhi Prahara, Dewi Pramudi Ismi, Ahmad Azhari Jul 2020

Parallelization Of Partitioning Around Medoids (Pam) In K-Medoids Clustering On Gpu, Adhi Prahara, Dewi Pramudi Ismi, Ahmad Azhari

Knowledge Engineering and Data Science

K-medoids clustering is categorized as partitional clustering. K-medoids offers better result when dealing with outliers and arbitrary distance metric also in the situation when the mean or median does not exist within data. However, k-medoids suffers a high computational complexity. Partitioning Around Medoids (PAM) has been developed to improve k-medoids clustering, consists of build and swap steps and uses the entire dataset to find the best potential medoids. Thus, PAM produces better medoids than other algorithms. This research proposes the parallelization of PAM in k-medoids clustering on GPU to reduce computational time at the swap step of PAM. The parallelization …


Opinion Analysis For Emotional Classification On Emoji Tweets Using The Naïve Bayes Algorithm, Siti Sendari, Ilham Ari Elbaith Zaeni, Dian Candra Lestari, Hanny Prasetya Hariyadi Jul 2020

Opinion Analysis For Emotional Classification On Emoji Tweets Using The Naïve Bayes Algorithm, Siti Sendari, Ilham Ari Elbaith Zaeni, Dian Candra Lestari, Hanny Prasetya Hariyadi

Knowledge Engineering and Data Science

Opinion Analysis is a research study needed to social media, since the content could become a trending topic and has a significant impact on social life. One of the social media that have a big contribution to cyberspace and information development is Twitter. In the Twitter application, users can insert images that represent emotions, facial expressions, or icons. Emoji is a graphic symbol in the form of an image to express a thing, with the Emoji, a text can be read and understood according to its meaning because the image represents it. Of the several things that have been mentioned …


A Multicriteria Aware Optimal Routing Approach For Enhancing Quality Of Service In Device To Device Communication, Tilwari Valmik Jul 2020

A Multicriteria Aware Optimal Routing Approach For Enhancing Quality Of Service In Device To Device Communication, Tilwari Valmik

Student Works (2020-2029)

As the world is moving towards the digitalization era, increasing demands of higher data rates, energy effiffifficiency, and seamless connectivity are skyrocketing. Device-to-Device (D2D) communication is one of the key technologies for future Fifth Generation (5G) network. D2D communication technology enhances network coverage, boosts spectral efficiency, has low latency, and enables the devices to communicate with each other, with partial or none involvement of network infrastructure. Therefore, factors of such nature make D2D communication a promising medium guarantying reliability to several telecommunications scenarios. D2D caters to all the needs of it’s users, from the high demand of peer-to-peer users for …


Multimode-Interference Based Optical Fiber Sensor For Civil Structures Monitoring, Sue Ping Chew Jul 2020

Multimode-Interference Based Optical Fiber Sensor For Civil Structures Monitoring, Sue Ping Chew

Student Works (2020-2029)

The thesis describes the experimental investigations on the multimode interferencebased fiber sensors using single mode multimode single mode (SMS) and multimode single mode multimode (MSM) structures as a sensing device for structural health monitoring (SHM) applications. Both sensor structures were fabricated, characterized and tested for detecting strain and vibration in civil infrastructures. The proposed SMS structure comprises of a short segment of multimode fiber (MMF), which were fusionspliced by two single mode fibers (SMFs) at both terminals. On the other hand, MSM was fabricated by splicing SMF with MMF at both ends. A new packaging technique for the SMS structure …


Optimal Network Reconfiguration And Distributed Generation Sizing With Consideration Of Protection System, Abdul Rahim Mohamad Norshahrani Jul 2020

Optimal Network Reconfiguration And Distributed Generation Sizing With Consideration Of Protection System, Abdul Rahim Mohamad Norshahrani

Student Works (2020-2029)

Research on network reconfiguration (NR) considering distributed generation (DG) commonly focus on the issues of power loss, voltage deviation, DG sizing and its placement. These works are important and required in the planning stage of the distribution networks. In most of the past works, the protection system is neglected in this stage although it is essential to prevent the network from damages during operation. Without proper consideration of protection system settings and coordination during NR, the protection system may operate inaccurately. This happens due to changes in current flow and fault level when the network changes its configuration. As a …


Development Of A Reference Design For A Cyber-Physical System, Nicholas Paul Blair Jul 2020

Development Of A Reference Design For A Cyber-Physical System, Nicholas Paul Blair

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis is to develop a reference design to assist in the selection of security practices in power electronics design. A prototype will be developed from this reference design for evaluation. This evaluation will include a brief cost/benefit analysis to gauge the efficacy of implementing each layer of security throughout the power electronics design process. This thesis will also describe the obstacles and effectiveness of integrating a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) into a cyber-hardened grid-connected device. The TPM device is a secured crypto processor that assists in generating, storing, and restricting the use of cryptographic keys. The …


A Proactive-Restoration Technique For Sdns, Ali Malik, Ruairí De Fréin Jun 2020

A Proactive-Restoration Technique For Sdns, Ali Malik, Ruairí De Fréin

Conference papers

Failure incidents result in temporarily preventing the network from delivering services properly. Such a deterioration in services called service unavailability. The traditional fault management techniques, i.e. protection and restoration, are inevitably concerned with service unavailability due to the convergence time that is required to achieve the recovery when a failure occurs. However, with the global view feature of software-defined networking a failure prediction is becoming attainable, which in turn reduces the service interruptions that originated by failures. In this paper, we propose a proactive restoration technique that reconfigure the vulnerable routes which are likely to be affected if the …


Telemedicine: An Iot Based Remote Healthcare System., Mohammad Abdellatif, Walaa Mohamed Jun 2020

Telemedicine: An Iot Based Remote Healthcare System., Mohammad Abdellatif, Walaa Mohamed

Electrical Engineering

This paper proposes a remote healthcare system which is referred to as Telemedicine. Telemedicine is a platform that establishes a connection be-tween the patient and the doctor. This platform belongs to the internet of medical things (IoMT) by enabling multiple medical sensors to connect to a server either using multiple communication technologies such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or GSM technologies. The system collects data from several sensors and sends them using one of the aforementioned technologies using an Arduino Board, while the inter-face is made with matlab and C#. Additionally, a comparative study between the three communications technologies used to connect …


Remedying Sound Source Separation Via Azimuth Discrimination And Re-Synthesis, Ruairí De Fréin Jun 2020

Remedying Sound Source Separation Via Azimuth Discrimination And Re-Synthesis, Ruairí De Fréin

Conference papers

Commercially recorded music since the 1950s has been mixed down from many input sound sources to a two-channel reproduction of these sources. The effect of this approach is to assign sources to locations in a stereo field using a pan-position for each source. The Adress algorithm is a popular way of extracting individual music sound sources from a stereo mixture. A drawback of the Adress algorithm is that when time-frequency components in the stereo mixture are shared between two or more sources, calculating the inter-aural intensity scaling parameter for each source for that time-frequency component is challenging. We show how …


Controller Area Network (Can) Bus Simulator And Data-Logger For In-Vehicle Infotainment Testing, Sandra Roksic Jun 2020

Controller Area Network (Can) Bus Simulator And Data-Logger For In-Vehicle Infotainment Testing, Sandra Roksic

Electrical Engineering

In the infotainment testing environment, various tools simulate a select range of Controller Area Network (CAN) bus signals onto the infotainment workbench. The integration of signal input devices and trace-gathering tools often results in a cluttered workspace and an inefficient testing environment. This project eliminates the need for multiple signal simulators and allows for a single system source for various input CAN-bus messages. This system enables the tester to store output CAN-bus data from the test vehicle for future reference and analysis through the same integrated system. It optimizes the time it takes the tester to complete testing catalogs and …


Polyone Smartphone, Joshua Zalmanowitz, Chi Nguyen, Gerome Cacho, Chris Lim Jun 2020

Polyone Smartphone, Joshua Zalmanowitz, Chi Nguyen, Gerome Cacho, Chris Lim

Electrical Engineering

The Poly One Smartphone is a student designed smartphone built to explore the implementation of 5G, provide a hardware solution to ensure personal information security and privacy, and provide longer battery life. The key features of this smartphone include but are not limited to a main cpu, some form of network connectivity in the form of Wi-fi or Cellular Data, calling functionality, a rechargeable battery that works with common power connection protocols, and compatibility with popular applications.


Upgrading Of A Data Communication And Computer Networks Course In Engineering Technology Program, Murat Kuzlu, Otilia Popescu Jun 2020

Upgrading Of A Data Communication And Computer Networks Course In Engineering Technology Program, Murat Kuzlu, Otilia Popescu

Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

Data network communications is traditionally a course offered by computer engineering technology curricula, with the primary objective to introduce to the fundamental concepts in data communication and computer networks, as well as some level of hands-on component related to this area. Typical topics in such courses are the layered model of data communication, specifically the OSI seven-layered model, Internet routing, communication standards, protocols and technologies, and learning methods used to design the network and send data over the network in a secure manner. In the last decades, the data communication and applications have grown and become ubiquitous in both industry …


Wildland Fire Location Management System (Wflms), Robert G. Goldie, Jack A. Gallegos Jun 2020

Wildland Fire Location Management System (Wflms), Robert G. Goldie, Jack A. Gallegos

Electrical Engineering

Wildland firefighters work in complex, dangerous environments where effective communication is key to developing situational awareness. Currently, the only communication firefighters have is with Very High Frequency (VHF) 160 MHz band analog radios. While digital radio protocols could potentially allow location data and commands to be sent to field crews, the technology is primarily for voice communication. This project presents a new system that frees up voice channels and uses LoRa transceivers for robust communication. The system allows for emergency and location reports to be sent to a dispatcher via an airborne repeater. The entire system is software-defined, so it …


Lawn Buddy, Jayson Johnston, Andrew Brown, Jacob Maljian Jun 2020

Lawn Buddy, Jayson Johnston, Andrew Brown, Jacob Maljian

Electrical Engineering

Grass lawns are a common hallmark of the American home. In 2019, a survey from the National Association of Landscape Professionals found that 81% of all Americans owned a lawn [1]. Mowing is a time consuming and costly chore that is part of maintaining a grass lawn. The manual labor in mowing a lawn can exceed 40 hours per year [2]. People commonly incur weekly costs on mowing services to save time. Traditional gas powered mowers are physically demanding and use engines that need routine maintenance. They operate loudly enough that users should be wearing hearing protection and the noise …


Power System Study For Oil And Gas Platform Connected To Onshore Grid, Taharim Rosshidi Hezrimi Jun 2020

Power System Study For Oil And Gas Platform Connected To Onshore Grid, Taharim Rosshidi Hezrimi

Student Works (2020-2029)

Normally for oil and gas offshore platform, the electrical power supply is generated from the generator either using gas turbine generator, gas engine generator and diesel engine generator. The main power supply is backup by diesel engine generator in case emergency or during black start of the platform. As the design of oil and gas platform become complex, the size of generator keeps increasing. A new concept is being explored to mitigate this problem. Oil and gas company is looking to provide power generation from onshore and supplying the electrical power to a substation platform offshore and then distributed it …