Recent practical reports reveal that users leave social media. This behavior is named social media discontinuation (SMD) and is attributed to stress, fatigue, and further negative effects caused while using social med...
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Deep Learning has been a critical part of designing inverse design methods that are computationally efficient and accurate. An example of this is the design of photonic metasurfaces by using their photoluminescent spe...
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IoT paradigm has laid the foundation to interconnect billions of objects for gathering, storing, and analyzing data. In an IoT complex ecosystem, maintaining the security and privacy of objects as well as data becomes...
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The volume of the data is increasing exponentially due to the enourmous growth of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), digitization with advancement of wireless technologies. Cloud computing was evolved as a technolo...
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This paper proposes a dual divide-and-optimize algorithm (DualOpt) for solving the large-scale traveling salesman problem (TSP). DualOpt combines two complementary strategies to improve both solution quality and compu...
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In Sri Lanka, sea cucumbers are a highly sought-after marine product that is traded abroad. It has gained significant attention in recent years due to its high demand in the seafood market and its medicinal properties...
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Requirements Engineering (RE) is an essential part of software Engineering (SE). As RE activities rely heavily on people, the success of RE is influenced by the human aspects of the team involved. In this research, we...
Requirements Engineering (RE) is an essential part of software Engineering (SE). As RE activities rely heavily on people, the success of RE is influenced by the human aspects of the team involved. In this research, we develop a prototype application, called Motive Metrics, to improve RE activities by allowing managers to track developers’ personality and motivation and monitor their impact on developer performance and satisfaction. The tool takes the form of an extension to Jira and was developed through rapid prototyping. The effectiveness and usability of the tool were evaluated by student teams split into managers and team members. When evaluating Motive Metrics, 45.5% of participants rated 4 out of 5 for the application’s effectiveness in capturing personalities, but only 9.1% of participants rated 4 out of 5 for capturing motivations. Motive Metrics is likely ineffective in monitoring satisfaction and performance, as 45% of participants rated 1 out of 5 in comfort in sharing their responses. Our evaluation results also show that Motive Metrics might not be beneficial in tracking the influence of motivation on the outcome but slightly more beneficial in tracking the influence of personality on RE task performance.
In recent years, many cyber incidents have occurred in the maritime sector, targeting the informationtechnology (IT) and operational technology (OT) infrastructure. Although several literature review papers have been...
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A practical fixed-time adaptive fuzzy control strategy is investigated for uncertain nonlinear systems with time-varying asymmetric constraints and input quantization. To overcome the difficulties of designing control...
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A practical fixed-time adaptive fuzzy control strategy is investigated for uncertain nonlinear systems with time-varying asymmetric constraints and input quantization. To overcome the difficulties of designing controllers under the state constraints, a unified barrier function approach is employed to construct a coordinate transformation that maps the original constrained system to an equivalent unconstrained one, thus relaxing the time-varying asymmetric constraints upon system states and avoiding the feasibility check condition typically required in the traditional barrier Lyapunov function based control approach. Meanwhile, the “explosion of complexity” problem in the traditional backstepping approach arising from repeatedly derivatives of virtual controllers is solved by using the command filter method. It is verified via the fixed-time Lyapunov stability criterion that the system output can track a desired signal within a small error range in a predetermined time, and that all system states remain in the constraint range. Finally, two simulation examples are offered to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed strategy.
Ceylon tea industry faces a major challenge in the form of pathogen-induced crop loss, with Blister Blight (BB) caused by Exobasidium vexans posing the greatest threat, leading to harvest losses of over 30%. This fung...
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