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Cloud networking describes a new model for IT services depending on Internet protocols. It contains provisioning of dynamically scalable usually and often virtualized resources. The cloud computing (Networking) Environments have many applicable cryptosystems, like symmetric (Stream Ciphers, Block ciphers - AES), and asymmetric cryptosystems (RSA, Knapsack, ECC) and others like Homomorphic, Identity...
Power market models can generate load and generation scenarios, for a given market regulation. The generated scenarios can be interpreted as a sample of the future utilisation of the power network, and be used as a basis for a contingency and reliability analysis. However, to use all the generated scenarios as input in a contingency and reliability analysis can lead to quite extensive computational...
In the fingerprint recognition system the image quality has a high impact on the performance of the system. The presence of noise may affect the recognition rate considerably. In this paper we propose a novel preprocessing technique called O-F estimation in curved Gabor Filters for the fingerprint image quality enhancement. The orientation field is computed by two components, namely singular orientation...
Aim of the present paper is to propose a framework for the choice of the opportunistic maintenance models for applications in real contexts. The paper explores firstly the scientific literature on opportunistic maintenance in order to obtain a multi-criteria classification of the main existing models. This allowed us to devise a methodological map for the selection and the choice of the opportunistic...
In this paper we present a simple coding scheme for communication between nanomachines that utilizes bacteria as information carriers. In particular, we utilize two main properties of bacteria to facilitate communication, which includes their ability to swim within the medium, as well as the mechanism to transfer information between each other through a process known as conjugation. While the conjugation...
With the development of the economy and people's life, the ice and snow tourism has been developing rapidly, and the development of ice and snow tourism industry has attracted more and more attention. Thus, the evaluation of ice and snow tourism resource value becomes an important issue in ice and snow tourism research. This paper, from economic, ecological and cultural aspects, designs an ice and...
Equipment manufacturing enterprises' behavior affects the development of the whole industry directly. In this paper, we took equipment manufacturing enterprises in Heilongjiang Province for example to evaluate their behavioral evolution modes from the perspective of enterprises' behavior. We built evaluation models of the operation modes of manufacturing enterprises' behavior based on catastrophe...
An important task in multiple-criteria decision making is how to learn the weights and parameters of an aggregation function from empirical data. We consider this in the context of quantifying ecological diversity, where such data is to be obtained as a set of pairwise comparisons specifying that one community should be considered more diverse than another. A problem that arises is how to collect...
Considering the dynamic and complex nature of real systems, it is not easy to build an accurate artificial simulation. Agent Based Modeling Simulations used to build such simulated models are often oversimplified and not realistic enough to predict reliable results. In addition to this, the validation of such Agent Based Model (ABM) involves great difficulties thus putting a question mark on their...
This paper investigated the antecedents and influence factors of Macao residents' acceptance intention of Sport Easy Program. Using data obtained from 459 interviewers, regression analysis revealed that acquaintance, convenience, facilities, and athletics habit have positive impacts on the acceptance intention, while gender, age, and education have different moderating effects on these relationships...
The shower bars are still in an introductory stage of a product cycle in the current Taiwan market. It is still far behind the shower head in terms of the household penetration. For the increase of the local acceptance of the shower bars and development of the market, the key lies in the developers' understanding of the users' feelings about, needs for and expectations of the shower bars and the launch...
This study aims to look beyond the quantitative summary to provide a more comprehensive view of online user-generated content. We obtain a unique and extensive dataset of online user reviews for hotels across various review sites and over a long time periods. We use the sentiment analysis technique to decompose user reviews into five dimensions to measure hotel service quality. Those dimensions are...
This paper presents findings on potential frequency-response-related impacts of increased variable renewable wind generation on North America's western interconnection by 2012. The assessment was conducted using commercially available, production-grade dynamic simulation tools and industry-developed system models, which include the amount of wind generation capacity that planners in the interconnection...
In this paper, an analytical model is developed for evaluating the risk of deferred repair under an inspection policy. The models of failures and risk evaluation are developed using probability, stochastic process and the delay time concept. The cases of perfect inspection and imperfect inspection are considered respectively. The performance of the proposed model is illustrated by an example, and...
This paper assesses economic significance of Basslink in terms of market benefits, namely operating, capital and unserved energy cost savings. It presents long term market benefit modelling framework consistent with the Australian Regulatory Investment Test for Transmission to assess the market benefits attributable to Basslink. Economic analysis concludes that Basslink continues to be economic value...
User's privacy protection is a very important issue which can seriously affect the usability of a biometric system, and prevent its successful establishment. In order to perform people verification while providing security and privacy to the employed characteristics, several biometric template protection schemes have been recently proposed. Unfortunately, when deploying a biometric cryptosystem, a...
A critical task in Affective Computing is the reliable assessment of emotional states. The two most prominent approaches to classify emotions are categorical concepts of discrete emotions (e.g. OCC) and dimensional models typically using the pleasure — arousal — dominance space (PAD). In current research and applications, however, there is little overlap between these two concepts. A mapping of discrete...
We present a reliability certification scheme in which services are modeled as discrete-time Markov chains. A machine-readable certificate is issued to the service after validating its reliability properties, and validity of the certificate is verified using constant run-time monitoring. In addition, we present a solution that allows users to search and select services with a given set of reliability...
The ramping up of services in recent decades, coupled with technological development, has supported the emergence of virtual markets and stable with continued growth potential in Latin America and with high potential for developing the strategy of the organizations that can exploit this new opportunity. This study is an initial measurement of perceived service quality of internet shoppers, a scale...
This paper is part of a comprehensive study going on implementation of Digital Business Ecosystem (DBE) for Malaysian Small and Medium Enterprises. The objective of the study is to signify the role of Perceived Usefulness and analyze the relationship between Perceived Usefulness (PU) and Responsiveness of Small and Medium Enterprises' (SME) employees. Antecedently, the hypothesis established states...
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