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By implementing authentication, it can ensure that system's resources are not obtained fraudulently by illegitimate users. Currently, most commonly used for door access controls is single-factor authentication (SFA). Problem arises when SFA is not able ...

Information technology has been not only changing the industrial production/management processes and social coordination/cooperation mechanisms, but also giving drastic impacts to even our human activities. Of course, such phenomena are observed ...

High-availability seamless redundancy (HSR) is a redundancy protocol for Ethernet networks that provides zero recoery time in case of a network failure. The feature of HSR makes it suited for time-critical and mission-critical applications, such as ...

We present a novel approach to the coding and representation of shapes using intersections. Our algorithm combines contour and region based approaches. After exploring hitherto unvisited regions of the shape, we find salient features on the boundary in ...

Cloud computing has emerged as a fast-growing technology in the past few years. It provides a great flexibility for storing, sharing and delivering data over the Internet without investing on new technology or resources. In spite of the development and ...

This paper proposes a hybrid scheme which combines modified shielding function with a one-way transformation technique known as matrix transformation. The modified shielding function is an improved version of the generic shielding function which ...

In multi-server environments, remote user authentication is an extremely important issue because it provides authorization while users access their data and services. Moreover, the remote user authentication scheme for multi-server environment has ...

iOS is well-known operating system which is strong in security. However, many attacking methods of iOS have recently been published which are called "Masque Attack", "Null Dereference" and "Italy Hacking Team's RCS". Therefore, security and safety is ...

In the regular covers, a region in the plane is split into the equal regular polygons (tiles), and all the tiles are covered equally with some geometric figures. In this paper, a tile is an equilateral triangle. We proposed and analyzed the regular ...

Vehicle manufacturers have been conducting continuous research on energy conservation and efficient energy management of vehicles in accordance with the increased power consumption due to increasing fuel consumption and increasing number of high ...

In this work, we study the problem of measuring the achievable bandwidth -- maximum throughput that a flow between two hosts can achieve in the presence of cross-traffic. We use analysis and experiments to show that the achievable bandwidth is not the ...

Major paradigm shift in healthcare industry was done when ONC announced meaningful use (MU) on the electronic health record (EHR) systems, namely from clinician-centered to patient-centered. The shift is based on some major concepts such as ...

When purchasing an online product, customers tend to be influenced strongly by its reputation, the aggregation of customers' ratings on the product. The reputation, however, is not always trustable since it can be easily manipulated by attackers. In ...

Environmental monitoring is a crucial application of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). This kind of application generally requires a certain geographical granularity of sensing. In addition, some applications simultaneously gathers sensor readings with ...

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) has been being the method to estimate and disaggregate information about the power consumption of individual electric appliances in a building or home by aggregate measurements of voltage and current. The power ...

We study how to optimize the boiler efficiency of a steam boiler which is the most important component in a fertilizer plant. In particular, we have proposed several methods for forecasting when the trend of the boiler efficiency is going down so that ...

Text compression is a technique to reduce the size of text file and increase the transfer rate as well as save storage space. Many approaches have been proposed to tackle this problem in several languages such as: English, Chinese, Turkey, Japanese, ...

Wearable devices show rapid market growth in the last five years. General application areas include fitness trackers, watches, glasses, smart clothing, and healthcare. Recently, it becomes a hot topic for people to adopt wearable devices as a tool to ...

In this paper, we propose a new model for continuous user engagement in social media. Since social media appeared, it has been transformed into a media platform. Accordingly, there is also a change on the way that social media gathers people likewise ...

In this paper, we systematically investigate the methods of measuring semantic relatedness between concepts and categorize them into 6 types of methods: path based, information content, gloss based, vector based, corpus based and string based. Besides, ...

This paper introduces the Linked Data Driven Semantic Model for Interpreting English Queries (SMIQ) which is proposed to interpret the semantics of English queries used in our linked data based question answering system. SMIQ models the meanings of ...

One considerable challenge in future heterogeneous wireless networks (HetNet) is vertical handover. Current vertical handover approaches almost focus on resolving two questions: (1) when a Mobile Station (MS) needs to carry out a vertical handover (VHO) ...

Remote user authentication schemes are commonly used for communication between authorized users and remote servers over an insecure network. Due to its simplicity and convenience this method is widely used in many environments, such as sensor networks ...

This paper presents a hardware architecture developed for use with real-time Chain Code. This system applies open-chain code and closed-chain code to solve some problems related to noise and an inexact edge image. The design of the proposed method uses ...

This paper presents the hardware architecture and template matching using distance transform. In the proposed method, the extracted Canny edge image is used as a template for matching processing. The distance images are transformed from the Canny edge ...

Recently, many studies have focused on eliminating duplicated I/O stack of virtualization because I/O requests of a guest machine have to pass through the I/O stack of both the guest and host machine. In this paper, we analyze the effect of duplicated I/...

Network routing information can be dynamically modified with ease using software-defined networking (SDN). However, it is not possible to simultaneously change the routing information in all the switches in a network. Thus, there must exist a short ...

In general, current mobile devices employ a buffer cache mechanism which has been designed to mitigate the performance gap between CPU and storage. However, it cannot fit in mobile devices because it does not consider the characteristics of the mobile ...

This paper proposes a smartphone application for monitoring and measuring the energy usage in real time with wireless communication. The goal of paper is aimed to develop a utility application run on the Android platform as mobile interaction system to ...

Social media has become the current trend in information technology industry that acts as the collective of online communication channels for community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration, used all around the world. Microblogging ...