The complexity of the patterns associated with Atrial Fibrillation (AF) and the high level of noise affecting these patterns have significantly limited the current signal processing and shallow machine learning approa...
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Boolean functions have a prominent role in many real-world applications, which makes them a very active research domain. Throughout the years, various heuristic techniques proved to be an attractive choice for the con...
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Boolean functions have a prominent role in many real-world applications, which makes them a very active research domain. Throughout the years, various heuristic techniques proved to be an attractive choice for the construction of Boolean functions with different properties. One of the most important properties is nonlinearity, and in particular maximally nonlinear Boolean functions are also called bent functions. In this paper, instead of considering Boolean functions, we experiment with quaternary functions. The corresponding problem is much more difficult and presents an interesting benchmark as well as realworld applications. The results we obtain show that evolutionary metaheuristics, especially genetic programming, succeed in finding quaternary functions with the desired properties. The obtained results in the quaternary domain can also be translated into the binary domain, in which case this approach compares favorably with the state-of-the-art in Boolean optimization. Our techniques are able to find quaternary bent functions for up to 8 inputs, which corresponds to obtaining Boolean bent functions of 16 inputs.
For given system dynamics, control structure, and fault/attack detection procedure, we provide mathematical tools–in terms of Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs)–for characterizing and minimizing the set of states tha...
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Steganography based on musical notation is a branch of music-based information hiding, which has good steganographic transparency. However, the existing steganographic methods would inevitably reduce the quality of mu...
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Diabetic Retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in the world. At least 90% of new cases can be reduced with proper treatment and monitoring of the eyes. However, scanning the entire population of patients is a ...
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Persistence is an intrinsic nature for many errors yet has not been caught enough attractions for years. In this paper, the feature of persistence is applied to fault attacks, and the persistent fault attack is propos...
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In any developing country, delivering of proper services to the people of the country, on a national level by the incumbent Government, is crucial to the social and economic development and stability and security of t...
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(纸本)9781911218432
In any developing country, delivering of proper services to the people of the country, on a national level by the incumbent Government, is crucial to the social and economic development and stability and security of the country. A sound ICT system is essential to achieve this. This PhD project investigated the Political Corporate Governance of ICT (PCGICT) in South Africa (SA) and identified how the lack of such political governance and accountability for ICT is core to the problems with service delivery, fraud and corruption in SA. The identified weaknesses of the present system of PCGICT and the relation with bad service delivery was informed by several strategic reports and audits, amongst others by the Auditor-General of SA (AGSA). Using international best practices for ICT, some strategic planning documents created by the Government itself and the identified weaknesses as drivers, a new model and structure for PCGICT in SA was created. It was shown how the new structure, which consolidated many dysfunctional and disjoint existing ICT governance mechanisms into a sound structure with clear accountabilities, addressed most, if not all of the problems identified by the AGSA. The proposed model is also much more in line with the outcomes of Government plans over many years, which were never implemented. The proposed model clearly highlights the importance for Political Corporate Governance of ICT in a developing country to really leverage the benefits of ICT for the country as a *** core component of the proposed model, which was escalated right up to the highest level of Government, is the accountability from the highest level of the political structures for Information and cybersecurity (ICSec). In the proposed model, accountability for ICSec was consolidated and escalated right to the top of the Government structure. This ensures that national security of the country will surely be improved and will therefore realise strategic benefits for SA.
Internet of things (IoT) aims to connect billions of devices to the Internet. These devices generate an enormous amount of traffic. A Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) aggregates the data generated from the body senso...
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Internet of things (IoT) aims to connect billions of devices to the Internet. These devices generate an enormous amount of traffic. A Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) aggregates the data generated from the body sensors deployed on the human body or inside it. Due to resource constraints of the deployed sensors, aggregated data is forwarded to a server at an edge node or a cloud for further processing and decision making. With the wide acceptance of IoT deployments, WBANs can also be integrated with IoT to provide a clear contextual environment for smart healthcare applications' users. Software Defined Networks (SDN) is a new networking paradigm providing centralized control and programmability of the networks. These features of SDN open new vistas for WBAN and IoT applications. In this paper, a personal digital assistant (PDA) is configured as an SDN switch, and we emulate the SDN functionality with Mininet to verify that this approach can be used in WBANs with minimum deployment complexity and network overhead, while efficiently manage the connected devices and the connections between them.
With the increasing number of mobile applications and the popularity of cloud computing, the combination of these two techniques that named mobile cloud computing (MCC) attracts great attention in recent years. A prom...
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Matrix Factorization is a popular and successful method. It is already a common model method for collaborative filtering in recommendation systems. As most of the scoring matrix is sparse and the dimensions are increa...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781728104423;9781728104416
Matrix Factorization is a popular and successful method. It is already a common model method for collaborative filtering in recommendation systems. As most of the scoring matrix is sparse and the dimensions are increasing rapidly, the prediction accuracy and calculation time of the current matrix decomposition are limited. In this paper, a matrix decomposition model based on user characteristics is proposed, which can effectively improve the accuracy of predictive scoring and reduce the number of iterations. By testing the actual data and comparing it with the existing recommendation algorithm, the experimental results show that the method proposed in this paper can predict user's score well.
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