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Distributed Cross-Community Collaboration For The Cloud-Based Energy Management Service, Yu-Wen Chen, J. Morris Chang

Publications and Research

Customers’ participation is a critical factor for inte-grating the distributed energy resources via demand response and demand-side management programs, especially when customers become prosumers. Incentives need to be delivered by the energy management service to attract prosumers to operate their distributed energy resources and electricity loads grid-friendly actively. The cloud-based energy management service enables virtual trading for customers within the same community to minimize cost and smooth the fluctuation. With the potential fast-growing number of service providers and customers, the needs exist for efficiently collaborating across multiple service providers and customers. This paper proposes the distributed cross-community collaboration (XCC) for …

Utilizing Resonant Scattering Signal Characteristics Via Deep Learning For Improvedclassification Of Complex Targets, Tuğçe Toprak, Mustafa Alper Selver, Mustafa Seçmen, Emi̇ne Yeşi̇m Zoral

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Object classification using late-time resonant scattering electromagnetic signals is a significant problem found in different areas of application. Due to their unique properties, spherical objects play an essential role in this field both as a challenging target and a resource of analytical late-time resonant scattering electromagnetic signals. Although many studies focus on their detailed analysis, the challenges associated with target classification by resonant late-time resonant scattering electromagnetic signals from multilayer spheres have not been investigated in detail. Moreover, existing studies made the simplifying assumption that the objects having (one or more) layers constitute equal permeability values at the core and …

An Improved Version Of Multi-View K-Nearest Neighbors (Mvknn) For Multipleview Learning, Eli̇fe Öztürk Kiyak, Derya Bi̇rant, Kökten Ulaş Bi̇rant

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Multi-view learning (MVL) is a special type of machine learning that utilizes more than one views, where views include various descriptions of a given sample. Traditionally, classification algorithms such as k-nearest neighbors (KNN) are designed for learning from single-view data. However, many real-world applications involve datasets with multiple views and each view may contain different and partly independent information, which makes the traditional single-view classification approaches ineffective. Therefore, this article proposes an improved MVL algorithm, called multi-view k-nearest neighbors (MVKNN), based on the existing KNN algorithm. The experimental results conducted in this research show that a significant improvement is achieved …

A Monte-Carlo Analysis Of Monetary Impact Of Mega Data Breaches, Mustafa Canan, Omer Ilker Poyraz, Anthony Akil

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications

The monetary impact of mega data breaches has been a significant concern for enterprises. The study of data breach risk assessment is a necessity for organizations to have effective cybersecurity risk management. Due to the lack of available data, it is not easy to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the interactions among factors that affect the cost of mega data breaches. The Monte Carlo analysis results were used to explicate the interactions among independent variables and emerging patterns in the variation of the total data breach cost. The findings of this study are as follows: The total data breach cost …

Enhancing Cyberweapon Effectiveness Methodology With Se Modeling Techniques: Both For Offense And Defense, C. Ariel Pinto, Matthew Zurasky, Fatine Elakramine, Safae El Amrani, Raed M. Jaradat, Chad Kerr, Vidanelage L. Dayarathna

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications

A recent cyberweapons effectiveness methodology clearly provides a parallel but distinct process from that of kinetic weapons – both for defense and offense purposes. This methodology promotes consistency and improves cyberweapon system evaluation accuracy – for both offensive and defensive postures. However, integrating this cyberweapons effectiveness methodology into the design phase and operations phase of weapons systems development is still a challenge. The paper explores several systems engineering modeling techniques (e.g., SysML) and how they can be leveraged towards an enhanced effectiveness methodology. It highlights how failure mode analyses (e.g., FMEA) can facilitate cyber damage determination and target assessment, how …

A Blockchain-Enabled Model To Enhance Disaster Aids Network Resilience, Farinaz Sabz Ali Pour, Paul Niculescu-Mizil Gheorghe

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications

The disaster area is a true dynamic environment. Lack of accurate information from the affected area create several challenges in distributing the supplies. The success of a disaster response network is based on collaboration, coordination, sovereignty, and equality in relief distribution. Therefore, a trust-based dynamic communication system is required to facilitate the interactions, enhance the knowledge for the relief operation, prioritize, and coordinate the goods distribution. One of the promising innovative technologies is blockchain technology which enables transparent, secure, and real-time information exchange and automation through smart contracts in a distributed technological ecosystem. This study aims to analyze the application …

Analysis Of Classifier Weaknesses Based On Patterns And Corrective Methods, Nicholas Skapura

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Classification is an important branch of machine learning that impacts many areas of modern life. Many classification algorithms (classifiers for short) have been developed. They have highly different levels of sophistication and classification accuracy. Classification problems often have highly different levels of hardness and complexity. Practitioners of classification modeling need better understanding of those algorithms in order to select the optimal algorithm for given classification problems. Researchers of classification need new insight on how given classifiers are weak and how they can be improved by correcting their classification errors. This dissertation introduces new tools and concepts to analyze classifier weakness …

Orientation And Social Influences Matter: Revisiting Neutralization Tendencies In Information Systems Security Violation, Frank Curtis King

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

It is estimated that over half of all information systems security breaches are due directly or indirectly to the poor security practices of an organization’s employees. Previous research has shown neutralization techniques as having influence on the intent to violate information security policy. In this study, we proposed an expansion of the neutralization model by including the effects of business and ethical orientation of individuals on their tendencies to neutralize and compromise with information security policy. Additionally, constructs from social influences and pressures have been integrated into this model to measure the impact on the intent to violate information security …

Spectral And Latent Representation Distortion For Tts Evaluation, Thananchai Kongthaworn

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

One of the main problems in the development of text-to-speech (TTS) systems is its reliance on subjective measures, typically the Mean Opinion Score (MOS). MOS requires a large number of people to reliably rate each utterance, making the development process slow and expensive. Recent research on speech quality assessment tends to focus on training models to estimate MOS, which requires a large number of training data, something that might not be available in low-resource languages. We propose an objective assessment metric based on the DTW distance using the spectrogram and the high-level features from an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model …

Improved Secure And Low Computation Authentication Protocol For Wireless Body Area Network With Ecc And 2d Hash Chain, Soohyeon Choi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Since technologies have been developing rapidly, Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) has emerged as a promising technique for healthcare systems. People can monitor patients’ body condition and collect data remotely and continuously by using WBAN with small and compact wearable sensors. These sensors can be located in, on, and around the patient’s body and measure the patient’s health condition. Afterwards sensor nodes send the data via short-range wireless communication techniques to an intermediate node. The WBANs deal with critical health data, therefore, secure communication within the WBAN is important. There are important criteria in designing a security protocol for a …

Generic Design Methodology For Smart Manufacturing Systems From A Practical Perspective, Part I—Digital Triad Concept And Its Application As A System Reference Model, Zhuming Bi, Wen-Jun Zhang, Chong Wu, Chaomin Luo, Lida Xu

Information Technology & Decision Sciences Faculty Publications

Rapidly developed information technologies (IT) have continuously empowered manufacturing systems and accelerated the evolution of manufacturing system paradigms, and smart manufacturing (SM) has become one of the most promising paradigms. The study of SM has attracted a great deal of attention for researchers in academia and practitioners in industry. However, an obvious fact is that people with different backgrounds have different expectations for SM, and this has led to high diversity, ambiguity, and inconsistency in terms of definitions, reference models, performance matrices, and system design methodologies. It has been found that the state of the art SM research is limited …

การสร้างความต้องการเชิงฟังก์ชันและที่ไม่ใช่เชิงฟังก์ชันของซอฟต์แวร์จากการจำแนกบทวิจารณ์ของผู้ใช้งานโมไบล์แอปพลิเคชัน, ธนัชชา พันธ์ธรรม

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

บทวิจารณ์ของผู้ใช้งานเป็นแหล่งข้อมูลที่สำคัญสำหรับนักพัฒนาโมไบล์แอปพลิเคชัน เพื่อใช้ในการปรับปรุงและวิวัฒนาการแอปพลิเคชันหลังจากที่ได้ปล่อยให้ใช้งานไปแล้ว เนื่องจากข้อมูลบทวิจารณ์ของผู้ใช้งานมีจำนวนมากจึงเป็นเรื่องยุ่งยากสำหรับทีมนักพัฒนาโมไบล์แอปพลิเคชันที่จะระบุว่าบทวิจารณ์ของผู้ใช้งานใดประกอบไปด้วยข้อมูลที่เป็นประโยชน์ต่อการปรับปรุงและวิวัฒนาการโมไบล์แอปพลิเคชันเพิ่มเติม วิทยานิพนธ์นี้นำเสนอความพยายามที่จะอำนวยความสะดวกให้แก่ทีมนักพัฒนาในขั้นต้นด้วยการสร้างความต้องการเชิงฟังก์ชันและที่ไม่ใช่เชิงฟังก์ชันโดยอัตโนมัติจากข้อมูลบทวิจารณ์ของผู้ใช้งานโมไบล์แอปพลิเคชันบนแอปสโตร์และเพลย์สโตร์ แนวทางที่นำเสนอประกอบด้วยสามขั้นตอน เริ่มจากการใช้อัลกอริทึมการจำแนกข้อความเพื่อจำแนกบทวิจารณ์ของผู้ใช้งานออกเป็นบทวิจารณ์ของผู้ใช้งานเชิงฟังก์ชันหรือที่ไม่ใช่เชิงฟังก์ชัน ขั้นตอนที่สองบทวิจารณ์ของผู้ใช้งานที่ไม่ซ้ำกันจะถูกระบุโดยใช้เทคนิคการจัดกลุ่มและการวิเคราะห์ความคล้ายคลึงกันของข้อความ ในขั้นตอนสุดท้ายข้อมูลที่มีความสำคัญจะถูกสกัดจากบทวิจารณ์ของผู้ใช้งานเพื่อใช้สร้างความต้องการเชิงฟังก์ชันและที่ไม่ใช่เชิงฟังก์ชันโดยใช้แบบรูปข้อมูลบทวิจารณ์ของผู้ใช้งานและแม่แบบความต้องการ ในส่วนของการประเมินผล ความต้องการที่ถูกสร้างขึ้นจากแนวทางที่นำเสนอได้รับคะแนนต่ำถึงสูงแตกต่างกันไปในแง่ของความสามารถในการอ่านได้ง่าย ความไม่กำกวม ความสมบูรณ์ และความสมเหตุสมผล ซึ่งแนวทางที่วิทยานิพนธ์นำเสนอนี้สามารถช่วยทีมนักพัฒนาระบุถึงความต้องการการเปลี่ยนแปลงทั้งในเชิงฟังก์ชันและที่ไม่ใช่เชิงฟังก์ชันจากเสียงสะท้อนโดยตรงของผู้ใช้งานซึ่งควรได้รับการพิจารณาเพื่อใช้ในการปรับปรุงและวิวัฒนาการโมไบล์แอปพลิเคชันต่อไป

Transforming Timing Diagram Into Timed Automata For Preemptive Scheduling, อมรัตน์ พิมโคตร

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานที่เกิดขึ้นพร้อมกันในระบบเรียลไทม์อาจต้องการทรัพยากรที่ใช้ร่วมกันอย่างจำกัด เช่นการใช้งานร่วมกันของ CPU เพียงตัวเดียวที่มีงานเป็นจำนวนมาก เมื่อใช้การจัดกระบวนการเชิงพรีเอ็มทีฟ ซึ่งงานที่กำลังทำงานอยู่ที่มีค่าลำดับความสำคัญต่ำกว่ามักจะถูกจัดลำดับให้อยู่ในสถานะพักการทำงานหรือสถานะโดเมน โดยงานใหม่ที่มีค่าลำดับความสำคัญสูงกว่าจะเข้ามาแทนที่ สุดท้ายจึงกลายเป็นว่างานใหม่เข้ามาทำงานแทนลำดับงานที่โดนแทรกหรือถูกพรีเอ็มทีฟไว้ก่อนหน้านี้ที่มีค่าลำดับความสำคัญต่ำกว่า งานที่มีค่าลำดับความสำคัญต่ำกว่าดังกล่าวจะเริ่มต้นทำงานอีกครั้งเพื่อดำเนินการต่อในสถานะที่ทำงานทันทีหลังจากงานที่มีค่าลำดับความสำคัญสูงกว่าได้ทำงานเสร็จสิ้น แผนภาพเวลาเป็นแผนภาพที่มีลักษณะงานเป็นอิสระต่อกัน และงานจะถูกเริ่มต้นพร้อมกัน ผลกระทบของการจัดกระบวนการเชิงพรีเอ็มทีฟเอาไว้จะมีความสัมพันธ์กันและทำให้การดำเนินของเส้นเวลาหรือไทม์ไลน์ของงานที่เกิดขึ้นพร้อมกันเหล่านี้ถูกเปลี่ยนแปลงไป กฎการจับคู่สำหรับการแปลงแผนภาพเวลาที่เป็นอิสระต่อกันเป็นไทมด์ออโตมาตาที่ได้รับการออกแบบในวิทยานิพนธ์นี้ และยังมีเครื่องมือซอฟต์แวร์ที่ได้รับการพัฒนาเพื่อแปลงไฟล์ต้นทางนำเข้าสกุลไฟล์ XML ของแผนภาพเวลาเป็นไฟล์ไทมด์ออโตมาตา สามารถจำลองแผนภาพไทมด์ออโตมาตาด้วยเครื่องมือ UPPAAL ซึ่งผลลัพธ์ของไทมด์ออโตมาตาจะแสดงกรอบเวลาโดยรวมของงานที่เกิดขึ้นพร้อมกันอันเป็นผลกระทบของการจัดกำหนดการเชิงฟรีเอ็มทีฟ การจำลองไทมด์ออโตมาตาจะจัดเตรียมตัวแปรนาฬิกาและสถานะโดเมนพิเศษเพิ่มเติม จากนั้นจึงนำไทมด์ออโตมาตาที่แปลงมาทวนสอบคุณสมบัติ TCTL ว่าการทำงานนั้นถูกต้อง เครื่องมือซอฟต์แวร์ของเราจะดำเนินการแปลงไดอะแกรมสำหรับการจัดกระบวนการเชิงพรีเอ็มทีฟ และใช้กรณีศึกษาสามกรณีเพื่อแสดงกระบวนการแปลงและการจำลองขั้นตอนกระบวนการทำงาน

Information Architecture For A Chemical Modeling Knowledge Graph, Adam R. Luxon

Theses and Dissertations

Machine learning models for chemical property predictions are high dimension design challenges spanning multiple disciplines. Free and open-source software libraries have streamlined the model implementation process, but the design complexity remains. In order better navigate and understand the machine learning design space, model information needs to be organized and contextualized. In this work, instances of chemical property models and their associated parameters were stored in a Neo4j property graph database. Machine learning model instances were created with permutations of dataset, learning algorithm, molecular featurization, data scaling, data splitting, hyperparameters, and hyperparameter optimization techniques. The resulting graph contains over 83,000 nodes …

Pain Intensity Assessment In Sickle Cell Disease Patients Using Vital Signs During Hospital Visits, Swati Padhee, Amanuel Alambo, Tanvi Banerjee, Arvind Subramaniam, Daniel M. Abrams, Gary K. Nave, Nirmish Shah

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

Pain in sickle cell disease (SCD) is often associated with increased morbidity, mortality, and high healthcare costs. The standard method for predicting the absence, presence, and intensity of pain has long been self-report. However, medical providers struggle to manage patients based on subjective pain reports correctly and pain medications often lead to further difficulties in patient communication as they may cause sedation and sleepiness. Recent studies have shown that objective physiological measures can predict subjective self-reported pain scores for inpatient visits using machine learning (ML) techniques. In this study, we evaluate the generalizability of ML techniques to data collected from …

Human Activity Recognition Based On Wearable Flex Sensor And Pulse Sensor, Xiaozhu Jin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In order to fulfill the needs of everyday monitoring for healthcare and emergency advice, many HAR systems have been designed [1]. Based on the healthcare purpose, these systems can be implanted into an astronaut’s spacesuit to provide necessary life movement monitoring and healthcare suggestions. Most of these systems use acceleration data-based data record as human activity representation [2,3]. But this data attribute approach has a limitation that makes it impossible to be used as an activity monitoring system for astronavigation. Because an accelerometer senses acceleration by distinguishing acceleration data based on the earth’s gravity offset [4], the accelerometer cannot read …

Cascaded Deep Learning Network For Postearthquake Bridge Serviceability Assessment, Youjeong Jang

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Damages assessment of bridges is important to derive immediate response after severe events to decide serviceability. Especially, past earthquakes have proven the vulnerability of bridges with insufficient detailing. Due to lack of a national and unified post-earthquake inspection procedure for bridges, conventional damage assessments are performed by sending professional personnel to the onsite, detecting visually and measuring the damage state. To get accurate and fast damage result of bridge condition is important to save not only lives but also costs.
There have been studies using image processing techniques to assess damage of bridge column without sending individual to onsite. Convolutional …

Speed-Sensorless Predictive Torque Controlled Induction Motor Drive Withfeed-Forward Control Of Load Torque For Electric Vehicle Applications, Emrah Zerdali̇, Ridvan Demi̇r

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Nowadays, the global trend is towards reducing CO2 emissions and one solution is to replace internal combustion vehicles with electric vehicles. To this end, electric drive system, the most crucial part of an electric vehicle, has gained importance and has become a major research field. The induction motor (IM) is one of the best candidates for electric vehicle applications due to its advantages such as having simple and robust design, its low cost maintenance requirements and the ability to operate in harsh environments. However, it has a highly nonlinear model with timevarying electrical and mechanical parameters making them difficult to …

Optimal Coordination Of Directional Overcurrent Relay Based On Combination Ofimproved Particle Swarm Optimization And Linear Programming Consideringmultiple Characteristics Curve, Suzana Pil Ramli, Hazlie Mokhlis, Wei Ru Wong, Munir Azam Muhammad, Nurulafiqah Nadzirah Mansor, Muhamad Hatta Hussain

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Optimal coordination of directional over-current relays (DOCRs) is a crucial task in ensuring the security and reliability of power system network. In this paper, a hybridization of an improved particle swarm optimization and linear programming (IPSO-LP) is proposed to solve DOCRs coordination problem. The considered decision variables in the optimization are plug setting current, time multiplier setting, type of relay, and type of curve. By considering these parameters in the optimization, the best relay operating time can be determined. Furthermore, the proposed technique also considered the continuous values of pick-up current setting (PSC) and time setting multiplier (TMS). Test on …

Fpga Implementation Of Lsd-Omp For Real-Time Ecg Signal Reconstruction, Önder Polat, Sema Kayhan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Compressed sensing is widely used to compress electrocardiogram (ECG) signals, but the major challenges of the compressed sensing algorithms are their highly complex signal reconstruction processes. In this paper, a reconfigurable high-speed and low-power field-programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation of the least support denoising-orthogonal matching pursuit (LSD-OMP) algorithm for the real-time reconstruction of the ECG signals is presented. The contribution of this study is two-fold: Firstly, LSD-OMP can pick more than one element at each iteration and reconstruct the sparse signal using less number of iterations as compared to the standard OMP algorithms. Latency of the proposed design is therefore …

A Novel Hybrid Decision-Based Filter And Universal Edge-Based Logical Smoothingadd-On To Remove Impulsive Noise, Rajanbir Singh Ghumaan, Prateek Jeet Singh Sohi, Nikhil Sharma, Bharat Garg

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper presents a novel hybrid filter along with a universal extension to remove salt and pepper noise even at a very high noise density. The proposed filter initially specifies a threshold and then denoises the image using a combination of linear, nonlinear, and probabilistic techniques. Furthermore, to improve the quality, a universal add-on is presented which uses edge detection and smoothening techniques to brush out fine details from the restored image. To evaluate the efficacy, the proposed and existing filtering techniques are implemented in MATLAB and simulated with benchmark images. The simulation results show that the proposed filter is …

An Enhanced Bandwidth Disturbance Observer Based Control- S-Filter Approach, Mehmet Önder Efe, Coşku Kasnakoğlu

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

A continuous time enhanced bandwidth disturbance observer based control (DOBC) scheme is proposed in this paper. The classical Q -filter is implemented in feedback form and a signum function is inserted into the loop. The loop with this modification becomes capable of detecting small magnitude matched disturbances and we present an in depth discussion of the stability and performance issues comparatively. The proposed approach is called S-filter approach and the results outperform the classical approach under certain conditions. The contribution of the current paper is to advance the subject area to nonlinear filters for DOBC loops with guaranteed stability and …

A Linear Programming Approach To Multiple Instance Learning, Emel Şeyma Küçükaşci, Mustafa Gökçe Baydoğan, Zeki̇ Caner Taşkin

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Multiple instance learning (MIL) aims to classify objects with complex structures and covers a wide range of real-world data mining applications. In MIL, objects are represented by a bag of instances instead of a single instance, and class labels are provided only for the bags. Some of the earlier MIL methods focus on solving MIL problem under the standard MIL assumption, which requires at least one positive instance in positive bags and all remaining instances are negative. This study proposes a linear programming framework to learn instance level contributions to bag label without emposing the standart assumption. Each instance of …

Towards An Ontology-Based Approach To The "New Normality" After Covid-19:The Spanish Case During Pandemic First Wave, Evelio Gonzalez

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The impact of the pandemic caused by COVID-19 has been immense in all fields of human activity. In most of the affected countries, the authorities have decreed a series of legal measures to try to stop the growth of the disease and the number of people affected by it. These legal measures involved, in most cases, restrictions on the free movement of people and on work and trade activities, new hygiene procedures, and social distancing. In the particular case of Spain, the rapid evolution of the pandemic led to the declaration of a so-called state of alarm and a period …

A 1-Kw Wireless Power Transfer System For Electric Vehicle Charging Withhexagonal Flat Spiral Coil, Emrullah Aydin, Mehmet Ti̇mur Aydemi̇r

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Wireless power transfer (WPT) technology is getting more attention in these days as a clean, safe, and easy alternative to charging batteries in several power levels. Different coil types and system structures have been proposed in the literature. Hexagonal coils, which have a common usage for low power applications, have not been well studied for high and mid power applications such as in electric vehicle (EV) battery charging. In order to fill this knowledge gap, the self and mutual inductance equations of a hexagonal coil are obtained, and these equations have been used to design a 1 kW WPT system …

A New Classification Method For Encrypted Internet Traffic Using Machine Learning, Mesut Uğurlu, İbrahi̇m Alper Doğru, Recep Si̇nan Arslan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The rate of internet usage in the world is over 62% and this rate is increasing day by day. With this increase, it becomes important to ensure the confidentiality of the information in the traffic flowing over the internet. Encryption algorithms and protocols are used for this purpose. This situation, which is beneficial for normal users, is also used by attackers to hide. Cyber attackers or hackers gain the ability to bypass security precautions such as IDS/IPS and antivirus systems with using encrypted traffic. Since payload analysis cannot be performed without deciphering the encrypted traffic, existing commercial security solutions fall …

Design Development And Performance Analysis Of Distributed Least Square Twinsupport Vector Machine For Binary Classification, Bakshi Rohit Prasad, Sonali Agarwal

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Machine learning (ML) on Big Data has gone beyond the capacity of traditional machines and technologies. ML for large scale datasets is the current focus of researchers. Most of the ML algorithms primarily suffer from memory constraints, complex computation, and scalability issues.The least square twin support vector machine (LSTSVM) technique is an extended version of support vector machine (SVM). It is much faster as compared to SVM and is widely used for classification tasks. However, when applied to large scale datasets having millions or billions of samples and/or large number of classes, it causes computational and storage bottlenecks. This paper …

Robust And Efficient Ebg-Backed Wearable Antenna For Ism Applications, Ayesha Saeed, Asma Ejaz, Humayun Shahid, Yasar Amin, Hannu Tenhunen

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

A structurally compact, semiflexible wearable antenna composed of a distinctively miniaturized electromagnetic band gap (EBG) structure is presented in this work. Designed for body-centric applications in the 5.8 GHz band, the design draws heavily from a novel planar geometry realized on Rogers RT/duroid 5880 laminate with a compact physical footprint spanning lateral dimensions of $0.6$$\lambda$$_0$$\times$$0.06$$\lambda$$_0$. Incorporating a 2$\times$2 EBG structure at the rear of the proposed design ensures sufficient isolation between the body and the antenna, doing away with the performance degradation associated with high permittivity of the tissue layer. The peculiar antenna geometry allows for reduced backward radiation and …

Attention Augmented Residual Network For Tomato Disease Detection Andclassification, Getinet Yilma Abawatew, Seid Belay, Kumie Gedamu, Maregu Assefa, Melese Ayalew, Ariyo Oluwasanmi, Zhiguang Qin

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Deep learning techniques help agronomists efficiently identify, analyze, and monitor tomato health. CNN (convolutional neural network) locality constraint and existing small train sample adversely influenced disease recognition performance. To alleviate these challenges, we proposed a discriminative feature learning attention augmented residual (AAR) network. The AAR network contains a stacked pre-activated residual block that learns deep coarse level features with locality context, whereas the attention block captures salient feature sets while maintaining the global relationship in data points, attention features augment the learning of the residual block. We used conditional variational generative adversarial network (CVGAN) image reconstruction network and augmentation techniques …

Pause For A Cybersecurity Cause: Assessing The Influence Of A Waiting Period On User Habituation In Mitigation Of Phishing Attacks, Amy Antonucci

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

Social engineering costs organizations billions of dollars a year. Social engineering exploits the weakest link of information security systems, the people who are using them. Phishing is a form of social engineering in which the perpetrator depends on the victim’s instinctual thinking towards an email designed to create a fear or excitement response. It is well-documented in literature that users continue to click on phishing emails costing them and their employers significant monetary resources and data loss. Training does not appear to mitigate the effects of phishing much; other solutions are necessary to mitigate phishing.

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