The world’s pollution rates have been increasing exponentially due to the many reckless lifestyle practices of human beings as well as their choices of contaminating power sources. Eventually, this lead to a worldwide awareness on the risks of those power sources, and in turn, a movement towards the exploration and deployment of several green technologies…

Chosen-ciphertext attacks (CCA) are typical threat on public-key encryption schemes. We show direct chosen-ciphertext security modification in the case of attribute-based encryption (ABE), where an ABE scheme secure against chosen-plaintext attacks (CPA) is converted into an ABE scheme secure against CCA by individual techniques. Our modification works in the setting that the Diffie-Hellman tuple to…

Constant Envelope Discrete Cosine Transform based Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (CE-DCT-OFDM) system with M-ary Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM) mapper is considered. In the system phase modulation is used to achieve constant envelope signals that have 0 dB Peak-to-Average-Power Ratio (PAPR). Transmission of such signals permit high power amplifiers in the system to operate with maximum…

Model driven development is an important role in software engineering. It consists of multiple transformation functions. This development is a paradigm for writing and implementing computer program quickly, effectively, at minimum cost and reducing development efforts because it transforms design model to object-oriented code. Our approach is rule-based model driven development in which textual Umple…

CdTe-based photovoltaic (PV) cells provide the lowest EBPT (energy payback time) and emit less amount of GHG (green house gases) among different types of PV cells. Thus, it is very essential to enhance the efficiency of CdTe-based solar cells. A high efficiency CdTe/CdS p-i-n heterostructure solar cell is designed and the performance of the cell…

This paper is the extended reflection of work originally presented in conference of Electrical, Computer and Communication Engineering (ECCE)-CUET 2017, entitled “Automated Anti Collision System for Automobiles”. Automated collision avoidance system is a trending technology of science in automobile engineering. The aim of this paper is to design a system which will prevent collision from…

Reliable operation of a power transformer with a certain load depends on the technical condition of individual construction parts and the ability to prevent defects that can cause a failure. During the lifecycle of a transformer, valuable data is constantly accumulated, which forms the basis for technical or risk assessment of the equipment. Therefore it…

This paper critically evaluates the operational perspective of Virtual Power Plants (VPP) in Germany by analyzing key factors to replace conventional power plants in the future power system. Therefore, its necessity for the secure operation as well as the technical and economic benefits for the German power system are pointed out. The single sections describe…

This article describes the modeling procedure of a direct resistive heat model of the molybdenum sheet and its simulation with electrodes made from various materials. The main characteristic of the proposed model is its dynamic behavior, because model considers the movement of the molybdenum sheet. The simulation results are mutually compared and the optimal material…

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is dedicated to establishing the best teaching and learning environment for students and staff across all higher education institutions. To heed this call, the engineering division adopted the Learning-by-Doing (LBD) pedagogical philosophy for 21st Century education at the heart of its strategic directions. This study intends to explore how LBD…

The background of the article lies in South Eastern Finland, in Lappeenranta, where an active University campus has attracted a group of ICT startups as well as SME’s in the field to collaboration. The novel education approach also has another remarkable role as a developer and source of innovation. An experimental development ecosystem (EDE), where…

The uncertain nonlinear systems can be modeled with fuzzy differential equations (FDEs) and the solutions of these equations are applied to analyze many engineering problems. However, it is very difficult to obtain solutions of FDEs. In this paper, the solutions of FDEs are approximated by utilizing the fuzzy Sumudu transform (FST) method. Here, the uncertainties…

Ensuring the compliance of developed software with general and application-specific security requirements is a challenging task due to the lack of automatic and formal means to lead this verification. In this paper, we present our approach that aims at integrating the formal specification and verification of security guidelines in early stages of the development lifecycle…

This paper is an extension of work originally presented in WITS-2017 CONF. We extend our previous works by improving the Risk calculation formula, and risk assessment of an alert cluster instead of every single alert. Also, we presented the initial results of the implementation of our model based on risk assessment and alerts prioritization. The…

In this paper, the performance and reliability of oxide-based Resistive RAM (ReRAM) memory is investigated in a 28nm FDSOI technology versus interconnects resistivity combined with device variability. Indeed, common problems with ReRAM are related to high variability in operating conditions and low yield. At a cell level ReRAMs suffer from variability. At an array level,…

Hereby in this paper, we are going to refer image classification. The main issue in image classification is features extraction and image vector representation. We expose the Bag of Features method used to find image representation. Class prediction accuracy of varying classifiers algorithms is measured on Caltech 101 images. For feature extraction functions we evaluate…

In this paper, we discuss the solvability of the nonlinear parabolic systems associated to the nonlinear parabolic equation: \(\frac{\partial b_{i}(x,u_{i})}{\partial t} -div(a(x,t,u_{i},\nabla u_{i}))- \phi_{i}(x,t,u_{i})) +f_{i}(x,u_{1},u_{2})=0\) where the function  \(b_{i}(x,u_{i})\) verifies some regularity conditions, the term \(\Big(a(x,t,u_{i},\nabla u_{i})\Big)\) is a generalized Leray-Lions operator and \(\phi_{i}\) is a Caratheodory function assumed to be  Continuous on \(u_i\) and satisfy only a…

This article is devoted to study the existence of solutions for the strongly nonlinear \(p(x)\)-elliptic problem: \(- \Delta_{p(x)} (u) + \alpha_0 |u|^{p(x)-2}u = d(x)\frac{|\nabla u|^{p(x)}}{|u|^{p(x)}+1} + f- div g(x) \quad \text{in } \Omega, \) \(u \in W_0^{1,p(x)}(\Omega), \) Where \(\Omega\) is an open set of \(\mathbb{R}^N\), possibly of infinite measure, we will also give some…

In this paper, we present a novel secure cryptosystem for direct encryption of color images, based on an iterative mixing spread over three rounds of the R, G and B color channels and three enhanced chaotic maps. Each round includes an affine transformation that uses three invertible matrices of order 2 _ 2; whose parameters…

The goal of this study was to use underwater robots instead of a diver’s observations to monitor and record the condition of an obstructed seabed in a shallow area. It is difficult to investigate marine resources that exist in deep water shaded by rock due to large and/or small rocks on the seabed. To solve…

Water quality assessment and prediction is a more and more important issue. Traditional ways either take lots of time or they can only do assessments. In this research, by applying machine learning algorithm to a long period time of water attributes’ data; we can generate a decision tree so that it can predict the future…

With the abundance of Internet and electronic devices bullying has moved its place from schools and backyards into cyberspace; to be now known as Cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is affecting a lot of children around the world, especially Arab countries. Thus concerns from cyberbullying are rising. A lot of research is ongoing with the purpose of diminishing…

This article is devoted to the problem of blocking the propagation of sound in a gas stream. This can be useful in the problems of pipeline acoustics and the design of automotive silencers, when it is necessary to ensure the opacity of the boundary (cross section of the pipe) for sound simultaneously with the free…

Two technology trends – a move toward software defined capabilities and toward networked devices – support both unprecedented innovations and requirements for security. A fundamental aspect of security is user authentication, which allows devices and software applications to establish their user’s identity and identity is in turn used to establish which of its capabilities the…

In remote measurements on large-sized objects main focus is on measuring deformations of bridge surfaces and determination of the dynamic amplification factor in particular. The proposed method estimates deflections of entire lower surface of a bridge due to placement of secondary radiators on this surface. Antenna array directivity pattern (ADP) is distorted during deflection of…