The foundation of a country's critical infrastructures (CI), which provide crucial services, is its security, healthcare, and economic systems. By lowering CI's operational costs and associated expenses and en...
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The foundation of a country's critical infrastructures (CI), which provide crucial services, is its security, healthcare, and economic systems. By lowering CI's operational costs and associated expenses and enhancing its effectiveness and safety, appropriately functional CI infrastructure plays an essential role in the prosperity of the nations. To do so, businesses that manage CIs frequently combine the Internet of Things (IoT) with Cyber-Physical systems (CPS), such as SCADA systems. SCADA systems were not initially built with web security in mind, exposing CIs open to security risks. National security issues can arise when these technologies are connected to power plants and water treatment facilities. This study aims to demonstrate how security features can be implemented in DNP3-based SCADA infrastructures. By creating a functional configuration and consensus amongst the communicating devices, the DNP3 protocol will support digital signatures. The team proposed a SCADA architecture to accomplish this, making it possible for these systems more secure manner.
We present a new sparse Gaussian process regression model whose covariance function is parameterized by the locations of a progressively growing set of pseudo-inputs generated by an online deterministic annealing opti...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781665467612
ISBN:
(纸本)9781665467629
We present a new sparse Gaussian process regression model whose covariance function is parameterized by the locations of a progressively growing set of pseudo-inputs generated by an online deterministic annealing optimization algorithm. A series of entropy-regularized optimization problems is solved sequentially, introducing a bifurcation phenomenon, according to which, pseudo-inputs are gradually generated. This results in an active learning approach, which, in contrast to most existing works, can modify already selected pseudo-inputs and is trained using a recursive gradient-free stochastic approximation algorithm. Finally, the proposed algorithm is able to incorporate prior knowledge in the form of a probability density, according to which new observations are sampled. Experimental results showcase the efficacy and potential advantages of the proposed methodology.
A variety of output regulation problems can be addressed via sliding mode control when system's relative degree is known. The difficulties in the implementation of sliding mode controllers emerge when the relative...
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A variety of output regulation problems can be addressed via sliding mode control when system's relative degree is known. The difficulties in the implementation of sliding mode controllers emerge when the relative degree is unknown. On the other hand, practical systemscontrolled by sliding mode algorithms always work under tolerance limits, which are frequently known. This behavior is called real sliding motion. In this work, the concept of practical relative degree in single-input-single-output systemscontrolled by sliding mode controllers is revisited from the view point of frequency analysis. Practical relative degree is understood as the smallest order of the sliding mode controller that satisfies the tolerance limits. Also, the notion of practical relative degree is analyzed in terms of the definitions of performance margins. The usefulness of the proposed concept is the way to design sliding mode controllers for systems that can be considered a black-box. The practical relative degree is studied and illustrated via examples and simulations.
Order tracking is a widely used tool for analysis of vibrations generated in engines, drive lines, and other components, since many vibration components are related to RPM. In recent years off-line order tracking has ...
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(纸本)0912053895
Order tracking is a widely used tool for analysis of vibrations generated in engines, drive lines, and other components, since many vibration components are related to RPM. In recent years off-line order tracking has become suitable due to enhanced computer speeds. Many methods, some patented, for on-line as well as off-line order tracking have been presented over the years. In this paper we review some basic ideas behind current methods and compare their main advantages and limitations. Some basic time-frequency concepts and time window effects are reviewed. Questions on suitable tachometers and their number of pulses per revolution are also addressed. The possibility of processing RPM dependent data without tachometers is also discussed.
In this paper, we present and validate an analytical expression for the induced current on a long terminated line, under the thin wire approximation. The coefficients of the analytical expression are determined using ...
In this paper we develop communication strategies with the concept of parallel processing to enhance performance of the Ant Colony System algorithm. In these strategies we choose one particular scheme of adapting the ...
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In this paper we develop communication strategies with the concept of parallel processing to enhance performance of the Ant Colony System algorithm. In these strategies we choose one particular scheme of adapting the amount of pheromone based on the quality of solutions found by several colonies and the state of convergence. We investigate and compare the search behavior and the performance of these strategies with other existing strategies using the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). The results demonstrate the potential of applying the multiple version over the sequential version of the Ant Colony System with some variations in the performance of the multiple version employing different strategies. The study indicates that the weighting scheme that is incorporated in the proposed strategies improves performance, particularly in strategies that share information among all colonies.
Context-aware Recommender systems aim to provide users with the most adequate recommendations for their current situation. However, an exact context obtained from a user could be too specific and may not have enough d...
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Context-aware Recommender systems aim to provide users with the most adequate recommendations for their current situation. However, an exact context obtained from a user could be too specific and may not have enough data for accurate rating prediction. This is known as the data sparsity problem. Moreover, often user preference representation depends on the domain or the specific recommendation approach used. Therefore, a big effort is required to change the method used. In this paper we present a new approach for contextual pre-filtering (i.e. using the current context to select a relevant subset of data). Our approach can be used with existing recommendation algorithms. It is based on two ontologies: Recommender System Context ontology, which represents the context, and Contextual Ontological User Profile ontology, which represents user preferences. We evaluated our approach through an offline study which showed that when used with well-known recommendation algorithms it can significantly improve the accuracy of prediction.
In this paper, an experimental evaluation is presented for a Model Predictive control (MPC) algorithm controlling powertrains dynamics in vehicles with Automated Manual Transmissions (AMTs). This model based control e...
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In this paper, an experimental evaluation is presented for a Model Predictive control (MPC) algorithm controlling powertrains dynamics in vehicles with Automated Manual Transmissions (AMTs). This model based control enables online optimization by using sub-optimal solutions directly linked to the accelerator pedal position. Transmission stability constraints are explicitly handled as well as saturations on the control inputs. This MPC control is tested on line during vehicle start-up in a mild hybrid city car demonstrator equipped with a natural gas engine. A comparison with a PI-based control is made to show the convenience of the proposed MPC control.
Sparse representation technique has been widely used in various areas of computer vision over the last decades. Unfortunately, in the current formulations, there are no explicit relationship between the learned dictio...
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(纸本)9781479906505
Sparse representation technique has been widely used in various areas of computer vision over the last decades. Unfortunately, in the current formulations, there are no explicit relationship between the learned dictionary and the original data. By tracing back and connecting sparse representation with the K-means algorithm, a novel variation scheme termed as self-explanatory convex sparse representation (SCSR) has been proposed in this paper. To be specific, the basis vectors of the dictionary are refined as convex combination of the data points. The atoms now would capture a notion of centroids similar to Kmeans, leading to enhanced interpretability. Sparse representation and K-means are thus unified under the same framework in this sense. Besides, an appealing property also emerges that the weight and code matrices both tend to be naturally sparse without additional constraints. Compared with the standard formulations, SCSR is easier to be extended into the kernel space. To solve the corresponding sparse coding subproblem and dictionary learning subproblem, block-wise coordinate descent and Lagrange multipliers are proposed accordingly. To validate the proposed algorithm, it is implemented in image classification, a successful applications of sparse representation. Experimental results on several benchmark data sets, such as UIUC-Sports, Scene 15, and Caltech-256 demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm.
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) represent promising technologies for comfort driving and entertainment applications which rely heavily on the data downloading. Due to the rapid change of network topology and interm...
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Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) represent promising technologies for comfort driving and entertainment applications which rely heavily on the data downloading. Due to the rapid change of network topology and intermittent connection, it is a big challenge to satisfy the download requirements from multi-vehicles at the same time. This paper proposes a Bus-Based Content Downloading (BBCD) which aims to maximize the volume of downloaded data from bus to vehicles while the download opportunity fairness of each vehicle is taken into consideration. By predicting the number of buses which the vehicle would encounter in its future path and estimating the connection duration that the vehicle stays in the coverage of bus, the proposed BBCD schedules the download service for vehicles slot by slot such that the volume of downloaded data can be guaranteed while achieving the download opportunity fairness. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is evaluated by extensive simulations.
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