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In this practical experience report we discuss a court case in which one of the authors was expert witness. This UK civil case considered possible fraud in an online product promotion competition, with participants being denied prizes because they were considered to have cheated. The discussion in this paper aims to provide a practice-led perspective on the link between technology and legal issues...
Specifications for a software system are usually verified using test cases in the testing phase. As is code coverage, specification coverage is expected to help comprehend how many specifications to be implemented are tested. In this study, we apply a visualization process for specification coverage to a web application development project in industry. This process provides two views for visualization...
Defect prediction has been the subject of a great deal of research over the last two decades. Despite this research it is increasingly clear that defect prediction has not transferred into industrial practice. One of the reasons defect prediction remains a largely academic activity is that there are no defect prediction tools that developers can use during their day-to-day development activities....
This article provides a general conceptual description of the stages of activity and society digital transformation. The description is supported by the examples from media and retail.
This paper is focused on two major problems within the ceramics industry. The reproduction of a desired color from pigments (which is time-intensive), and the correction of colors on the production line (which is costly) are processes which still rely heavily on numerous experiments carried out by human operators. This study presents the key aspects of these two processes and suggests some mathematical...
In the paper, we consider the features of the new revolutionary transportation technology (the Hyperloop technology) proposed in the USA and associated with the use of ultra-high-speed vacuum trains moving inside tubes with a reduced internal air pressure. In doing so, we focus on Hyperloop cargo systems for transporting standard 20-foot containers. Now Russia has plans to build such a transport system...
The business environment is changing day by day, and the technologies are evolving. The problem of adapting the e-metrology application is the starting point for this article. Technology evolution is now a useful platform for us as developers of this application, CRT, so its adaptation has to be made in accordance with everything new and helps the business to perform its tasks as easily as possible,...
Nowadays the exponential evolution of repositories in business information data has led to an unorganized, huge, and unstructured data collection. Hence, it has become increasingly difficult to retrieve useful information from these large collections of data. Business Intelligence System Model is therefore proposed as a process-focused design for understanding and evaluating the effectiveness of information...
Threats to information security can have great impact on business finances and company's reputation. Traditional methodologies for evaluating the maturity of data centers investigate security parameters to determine the compliance of data centers and international security norms. This paper proposes two innovative evaluation procedures to capture other security perspectives on data center environments:...
Accurately predicting driving service orders in different regions is an essential task for service companies, in order to improve the service quality. In this paper, a specific ensemble multi-view prediction framework is proposed to address this task. It ensembles several different multi-view-based models with a weighted linear combination. Specifically, we have designed three specific multi-view-based...
It is difficult to find optimum solutions by using evolutionary algorithms (EAs) in high-dimensional search space as compared with low-dimensional search space. For solving such a high-dimensional problem, we propose a search space reduction approach in EAs. For reducing the search space, the approach repeats fixing the value of one design variable which should be reduced from the search space. We...
Globalizing changes in society are able to influence changes in the economies of individual countries. Individual economic entities from various sectors attempt to achieve high economic performance and development. They do this within the conditions that are possible at that time; if there are favorable conditions for their development, this will result in creating innovative production and its subsequent...
During the last years, the use of Domain Generation Algorithms (DGAs) has increased with the aim of improving the resiliency of communication between bots and Command and Control (C&C) infrastructure. In this paper, we report on an effective DGA-detection algorithm based on a single network monitoring. The first step of the proposed method is the detection of a bot looking for the C&C and...
This paper presents a few current difficulties in organizing and executing internships for engineering students, when the national industry is in transition. Until this day, a number of large national enterprises do not show an interest in supporting the higher technical education, also including the lack of internship offers. On the other hand, small and medium entrepreneurial sector show a great...
With the promotion of electric power reform in China, distributed energy participating in power market transaction becomes possible. However, due to the characteristics of transaction decentralization, multiple energy synergies, information symmetry and the large quantity, the transaction cost and the risk of information leak increase significantly, which inhibits the enthusiasm of distributed energy...
The dual active bridge (DAB) topology has been widely used in the industrial field, especially when bidirectional power transfer is required. However, the efficiency improvement of DAB converters is facing challenges and it is worthwhile devoting much effort to it. This paper presents a novel model based on the triple phase shift (TPS) modulation scheme to improve the efficiency of the dual active...
The design of a printed circuit board (PCB) is an example of the variety of technologies that have to be combined in a single physical output. Thus the need for collaboration between engineering teams, each of which with their own expertise (e.g. electrical, mechanical, testing and manufacturing) is of paramount importance. This imposes the need to share the electrical design and the PCB layout among...
The EU's GDPR is expected to come into force on May 25, 2018. By this regulation, it will be possible to enforce even stronger legislation than the existing Directive. In particular, GDPR is expected to have a major impact on IoT industry, which uses diverse and vast amounts of personal information. This paper first examines why the IoT industry is affected by GDPR. Then, the paper describes how the...
The advent of the internet of things and industry 4.0 bring new paradigms that tend to affect the way of organizing several human activities, among them the production processes that are ruled by production and human work on a large scale in the production lines. Therefore, it is inevitable to think of how to prepare students for this new, oncoming reality, since these students will have to deal with...
The revolution caused by the advancement of technology, globalization and internet-enabled manufacturing is rapidly changing the manufacturing industry and requires engineers with different and more diverse knowledge than provided by traditionally-based curricula. In order to fill the emerging gap in engineering education we, educators, have to start thinking about preparing students for the future...
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