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A mobile based remote user authentication scheme without verifier table for cloud based services
The emerging Cloud computing technology, offering computing resources as a service is gaining increasing attention of both the public and private sector. For the whole hearted adoption of Cloud, the service providers need to ensure that only valid users gain access to the services and data residing within the provider's premises. Ensuring secure access to sensitive resources within the Cloud requires a strong user authentication mechanism using multiple authentication factors. The mechanisms should also consider the increasing needs of Internet access through smart phones and other mobile devices and facilitate access through a variety of devices. Traditionally, a user needs to maintain separate user accounts for each Service Provider whose service he/she desires to use and this may cause inconvenience to users. Single Sign on (SSO) addresses this issue by permitting users to create one login credential and access multiple services hosted in different domains. In this scenario, a compromise of the single credential can result in account take over at many other sites. This points out to the requirement of strengthening the authentication mechanism by using more than one factor. This paper proposes a SSO based remote user authentication scheme for a Cloud environment. The proposed protocol uses password and mobile token and does not require the server to maintain a verifier table. The protocol is verified using automated security Protocol verification tool, Scyther and the results prove that the protocol provides protection against man-in-the-middle attack, replay attack and secrecy of the user's credentials. 2015 ACM. -
A model for analyzing the sustainability performance in educational institutions
During the past two decades innumerable international initiatives have emphasized that education is an imperative for societies to become more sustainable. Sustainable development is the current context in which higher education must begin to focus its action plans. But the present system heavily relies on archaic models which reduce learning and action to reductionist thinking and mechanistic interpretation. Campus sustainability is receiving growing attention and has become a well-established study field, even though campus sustainability itself has not become a reality yet in most universities. The paper then validates a pre-existing model using multiple regression models. The results validated the proposed model. A sustainability index could be developed for the education sector in future using this conceptual framework. The educational institutions can use the sustainability index to analyze their sustainability performance and take the necessary steps for achieving the same. This paper is an initial step in this direction which could be researched further to measure the sustainability performance in the education system. Grenze Scientific Society, 2020. -
A Model to Predict the Influence of Inconsistencies in Thermal Barrier Coating (TBC) Thicknesses in Pistons of IC Engines
LHR (Low heat Rejection) engines comprise of components that are modified with ceramic Thermal Barrier Coatings (TBC) to derive improvements in performance, fuel efficiency, combustion characteristics and life. In addition to engine parameters, the ability of TBCs (250 - 300?m thick) to function favorably depends on materials technology related factors such as surface-connected porosity, coating surface roughness, uniformity and consistency in coating thickness [1]. Right since the nineties, emphasis has been placed on the complexity of piston contours from a coating processing standpoint because the piston bowl geometry although appears simple, is actually quite complex. Robotic plasma gun manipulation programs have been developed to obtain uniform coating properties and thicknesses which are highly classified information. Thicker coatings offer better thermal insulation characteristics but in thickness deficient regions, TBCs may be as thin as ?30 microns. Applied via the 'line of sight' process, in the Atmospheric Plasma Spray System the coating thickness does not get developed adequately if the components comprise of contours with shadow regions. Thus the coating quality of a LHR engine heavily depends upon the shape of the engine components. This affects the barrier effects offered by the TBC and is reflected via generation of unwanted thermal gradients in the combustion chamber and on the external piston walls that adversely influence the engine performance. Extensive diesel engine cycle simulation and finite-element analysis of the coatings have been conducted to understand their effects on (a) diesel engine performance and (b) stress state in the coating and underlying metal substructure. Research work presented here involves the need and developmental efforts made via Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to generate a model via ANSYS - Fluent simulation software that predicts the temperature gradient across TBCs of various ceramics and coating thicknesses. The geometric model was developed using the dimensions obtained using a CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machine) in Solidworks and the mesh was developed in Altair Hypermesh. The generated mesh consists of 221938 elements. Interfaces were created between the piston-bond coat-top coat surfaces. The Ansys-FLUENT CFD code solves the energy equation to find out the temperature drop in the piston for different combustion temperatures. Although most of the cavities presented are not rectangular, incompressible and steady laminar flow was assumed. The Semi-Implicit Method for Pressure-linked Equations (SIMPLE) was used to model the interaction between pressure and velocity. The energy variables were solved using the second order upwind scheme. In addition, the CFD program uses the Standard scheme to find the pressure values at the cell faces. Convergence was determined by checking the scaled residuals and ensuring that they were less than 10-6 for all variables. Two cases with combustion temperatures varying between 700 and 800 K were developed in Ansys FLUENT, wherein the thickness was deficient in the 'shadow' region. The model was validated via experimentation involving thermal shock cycle tests in prototype burner rig facility and measuring the temperature drop across the TBC as well. Non uniform coatings, leading to non-uniform drop in temperature across the thickness are most likely to affect the lubrication system of the engine and therefore the performance. Substantial efforts must be directed towards development of consistent and uniformly thick coatings for optimum performance of the LHR engine. 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. -
A modified approach for extraction and association of triplets
In this paper we present an enhanced algorithm with modified approach to extricate various Triplets i.e. subject-predicate-object from Natural language sentences. The Treebank Structure and the Typed Dependencies obtained from Stanford Parser are used to elicit multiple triplets from English Sentences. Typed Dependencies represents grammatical connections among the words of any sentence and represents how triplets are associated. The intended interpretation behind the extraction of Triplets is that the subject is acting on the object in a way described by the predicate. In graphical form it can be considered that subject and object will be acting as nodes i.e. entities and predicate as edges i.e. relationship. The resulting triplets and relations can be useful for building and analysis of a social network graph and for generating communication pattern and Information retrieval. 2015 IEEE. -
A Multi Objective Artificial Eco-System Based Optimization Technique Integrating Solar Photovoltaic System In Distribution Network
Agricultural sector contributes 6.4% of total economic generation across the world. Notably, the utilization of technology to improve the yield and economy is rapidly increasing. To provide continuous supply to the residential customers, the agricultural feeder grid-dependency has to be integrated with Solar Photo Voltaic (SPV) systems. In this paper, an Artificial Eco-System based Optimization (AEO) algorithm is proposed for simultaneously identifying the locations and quantifying the sizes of SPV systems. A practical distribution system feeder 'Racheruvu 11kV agricultural feeder' Andhra Pradesh, India is considered for simulation purpose and the performance is compared with the standard IEEE-33 radial distribution system. 2022 IEEE. -
A multi-Threshold triggering and QoS aware vertical handover management in heterogeneous wireless networks
Vertical handover management provides seamless connectivity in heterogeneous wireless networks. But still there are different challenges that need to be addressed. These challenges include the inappropriate network selection, wrong cell handover, etc. Therefore, in this article, we proposed a handover management scheme based on the data rate and QoS of available networks. The handover triggering is performed on the data rate requires by different applications. Similarly, the network selection is performed by considering the cost, data rate of available networks and energy consumption by the mobile interface. The proposed scheme is simulated in different mobility scenarios with a random number of applications running on various numbers of mobile nodes. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme requires less energy during the scanning and selection of available networks. 2015 IEEE. -
A Narrative Synthesis on the Role of Affective Computing in Fostering Workplace Well-Being Using a Deep Learning Model
Emotional information is more valued in the modern workplaces with increased focus on the need for sensing, recognizing and responding to human emotions. Integrating human emotions as information for communication and decision-making is possible through the computer-based solution called as affective computing. Affective computing is a relatively less explored AI platform though the notion is more than two decades old. The cognitive algorithms employed in affective computing operates in three key areas, viz. context sensitivity, augmented reality, and proactiveness, with outcomes in the fields of emotion management, health, and productivity. Affective computing promises better management of organizational outcomes such as fostering workplace well-being, promoting happiness, productivity, engagement levels, and communication. Further, affective computing can play vital roles in an employees life cycle with applications in functional areas of HRM like employee selection, training and development, and performance management. Even as workplaces are increasingly adopting affective computing, an analysis of its positive effects can help practitioners take informed decisions about its implementation. This paper outlines the theoretical underpinnings of affective computing, discusses the relevance of ResNet50 in image analysis, and proposes a step-by-step methodology for implementing affective computing techniques in the workplace. The potential benefits and challenges of adopting affective computing in fostering workplace well-being are also discussed. Thus, this chapter investigates the role of affective computing in fostering well-being in the workplace usinga deep learning model. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024. -
A Neural Network Based Customer Churn Prediction Algorithm for Telecom Sector
For telecommunication service providers, a key method for decreasing costs and making revenue is to focus on retaining existing subscribers rather than obtaining new customers. To support this strategy, it is significant to understand customer concerns as early as possible to avoid churn. When customers switch to another competitive service provider, it results in the instant loss of business. This work focuses on building a classification model for predicting customer churn. Four different deep learning models are designed by applying different activation functions on different layers for classifying the customers into two different categories. A comparison of the performance of the different models is done by using various performance measures such as accuracy, precision, recall, and area under the curve (AUC) to determine the best activation function for the model among tanh, ReLU, ELU, and SELU. 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. -
A new trained ECG signal Classification method using Modified Spline Activated Neural Network
An ECG (Electrocardiogram) records the electrical activity of the heart and assess heart arrhythmia. Cardiac arrhythmia is an irregular heartbeat caused by unbalanced rhythm. In the past, several works were developed to produce automatic ECG-based heartbeat classification methods. In this work, a modified spline activated neural network, a new approach for cardiac arrhythmia classification by presenting the ECG signal preprocessing, the heartbeat segmentation techniques, the feature description methods and the learning algorithms used. The MIT-BIH arrhythmia database was used and experimented for testing and training. 2018 IEEE. -
A Non-Linear Approach to Predict the Salary of NBA Athletes using Machine Learning Technique
Every sportsman traded/drafted receives monetary compensation in accordance with their contract. In this study, we propose a nonlinear approach based on performance and other aspects to determine the salary of a basketball player. We estimate the salary based on four regressive models. Whilst predicting we also Figure out the important features impacting the salary. Comparatively speaking, random forest outperformed other algorithms. Furthermore, we consider that our findings might benefit discussions between basketball teams and players. This model can also help set a benchmark for salary expectations by the players in accordance. 2022 IEEE. -
A Novel Approach for Detection and Recognition of Traffic Signs for Automatic Driver Assistance System Under Cluttered Background
Traffic sign detection and recognition is a core phase of Driver Assistance and Monitoring System. This paper focuses on the development of an intelligent driver assistance system there by achieving road safty. In this paper a novel system is proposed to detect and classify traffic signs such as warning and compulsory signs even for occluded and angular tilt images using Support Vector Machines. Exhaustive experiments are performed in order to demonstrate the efficiency of proposed method. 2019, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. -
A Novel Approach for Implementing Conventional LBIST by High Execution Microprocessors
The major VLS I circuits like sequential circuits, linear chips and op amps are very important elements to provide many logic functions. Today's competitive devices like cell phone, tabs and note pads are most prominent and those are used to get function the 5G related operations. In this work lower built-in self-test (LBIS T) mechanism is used to designing a microprocessor. The proposed methodology is giving performance measure like power efficiency 97.5%, improvement of delay is 2.5% and 32% development of area had been attained. This methodology attains more out performance and compete with present technology. The proposed equipment and execution for our approach requiring a constrained range overhead (lower than 3% power) over conventional LBIS T. 2022 IEEE -
A Novel Approach for Machine Reading Comprehension using BERT-based Large Language Models
Teaching machines to learn the information from the natural language documents remains an arduous task because it involves natural language understanding of contexts, excerpting the meaningful insights, and deliver the answer to the questions. Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) tasks can identify and understand the content from the natural language documents by asking the model to answer questions. The model can extract the answer from the given context or other external repositories. This article proposes a novel Context Minimization method for MRC Span Extraction tasks to improve the accuracy of the models. The Context Minimization method constitutes two subprocedures, Context Reduction and Sentence Aggregation. The proposed model reduced the context with the most relevant sequences for answering by estimating the sentence embedding between the question and the sequences involved in the context. The Context Reduction facilitates the model to retrieve the answer efficiently from the minimal context. The Sentence Aggregation improves the quality of answers by aggregating the most relevant shreds of evidence from the context. Both methods have been developed from the two notable observations from the empirical analysis of existing models. First, the models with minimal context with efficient masking can improve the accuracy and the second is the issue with the scatted sequences on the context that may lead to partial or incomplete answering. The Context Minimization method with Fine-Tuned BERT model compared with the ALBERT, DistilBERT, and Longformer models and the experiments with these models have shown significant improvement in results. 2024 IEEE. -
A Novel Approach for Segmenting Coronary Artery from Angiogram Videos
This paper addresses the research focuses on coronary artery disease; it is one of the major heart diseases affecting the people all around the world in the recent era. This heart disease is primarily diagnosed using a medical test called angiogram test. During the angiogram procedure the cardiologist often physically selects the frame from the angiogram video to diagnose the coronary artery disease. Due to the waning and waxing changeover in the angiogram video, its hard for the cardiologist to identify the artery structure from the frame. So, finding the keyframe which has a complete artery structure is difficult for the cardiologist. To help the cardiologist a method is proposed, to detect the keyframe which has segmented artery from the angiogram video. 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. -
A Novel Approach for Web Mining Taxonomy for High-Performance Computing
Web mining is a central part of data analysis. The fetching and discovering knowledge from the different web data in data mining mechanism is more important nowadays. Web usage mining customs data mining practice for the investigation of custom decoration from different data storages. In this article paper, introducing a new approach for web mining taxonomy for high-performance computing. The primary motivation of this research is on the data collection in different real-time web servers for implementation and analysis. This article is focussed the WebLog Expert lite 9.3 tools for our study. 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. -
A Novel Approach to Automatic Ear Detection Using Banana Wavelets and Circular Hough Transform
Ear is an attractive biometric trait that maintain their structure with increasing age. Because of the complex geometry of ear, its detection is very difficult. This paper proposes a modified algorithm for automatic detection of 2D ear images using Banana wavelets and Hough transform. Banana wavelets derived from bank of stretched and curved Gabor wavelets are used to identify curvilinear ear structure. Addition of a preprocessing stage, prior to application of banana wavelets is found to improve the detection results further. The proposed algorithm is brought in to comparison with three existing algorithms and evaluated on standard databases. In addition to manual detection accuracy, this paper also calculates the efficiency of the proposed method using automatic classification techniques. The features like LBP and Gabor extracted from segmented ear image is used by different classifiers to determine whether the segmented portion of the image is class Ear or Non ear. 2019 IEEE. -
A Novel Approach to Enhance Influencer Marketing in E-commerce: A Cross-A-Siamese Perspective
One of the most notable aspects of the Internet is the fact that the cost of (global) communication has been drastically decreased. Individuals may potentially reach massive audiences with their messages over the Internet due to its widespread use. With the rise of blog services, social networking platforms, etc., people's technological talents are no longer a limiting factor. Data preprocessing, feature selection, and model training should all be done in this sequence of significance. Applying fundamental data preparation techniques guaranteed the data's accuracy and relevancy. Feature selection includes the computation of an influencer's overall rank based on six important criteria, which are used for influencer identification and ranking. Feature retrieval is the first step in training Unified Cross-A-Siamese models. The proposed method outperforms two cutting-edge methods: Attention module and siamese. Accuracy increased by 95.70 percent once the approach was used. 2024 IEEE. -
A Novel Approach to Optimizing Third-Party Logistics Growth through IT, Big Data, and Machine Learning for Superior Supply Chain Management
The purpose of this research is to explore proper development prospects of 3PL business, particularly focusing on the utilization of Information Technology and big data technologies for improving the solidity of supply chains. The change of the industry that started from the provision of services and then became an integrated solution implies the rising role of IT as one of the means for supply chain improvement. Based on the market study and investigation of customers' behaviors, as well as the contexts of the 3PL industry of the India, this research outlines how the IT and big data analytics can contribute to the operations improvement and innovation of the 3PL. Besides, this paper aims at finding out whether the Big Data analytics can enhance the competitiveness of third party logistics providers in a volatile market. 2024 IEEE. -
A Novel Approach to Predicting the Risk of Illegal Activity and Evaluating Law Enforcement Using WideDeep SGRU Model
The main reaction to the illicit extraction of natural resources in protected areas around the world is law enforcement patrols headed by rangers. On the other hand, research on patrols' efficacy in reducing criminal behavior is lacking. Similarly, tactics to enhance the effectiveness of patrol organization and monitoring have received very little attention. Sequencing is crucial for model training, feature selection, and preprocessing. Preprocessing steps include cleaning, discretizing, duplicating, and normalizing data. Feature selection makes use of genetic algorithms, which are basically search algorithms with an evolutionary bent that factor in natural selection and genetics. Training stacked GRU models necessitates meticulous feature management. Even the most cutting-edge algorithms, GRU and BiGRU, are no match for the suggested technique. An astounding 97.24% accuracy grade was disclosed by the results, showcasing exceptional growth. 2024 IEEE. -
A Novel CNN Approach for Condition Monitoring of Hydraulic Systems
In the dynamic landscape of Industry 4.0, the ascendancy of predictive analytics methods is a pivotal paradigm shift. The persistent challenge of machine failures poses a substantial hurdle to the seamless functioning of factories, compelling the need for strategic solutions. Traditional reactive maintenance checks, though effective, fall short in the face of contemporary demands. Forward-thinking leaders recognize the significance of integrating data-driven techniques to not only minimize disruptions but also enhance overall operational productivity while mitigating redundant costs. The innovative model proposed herein harnesses the robust capabilities of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for predictive analytics. Distinctively, it selectively incorporates the most influential variables linked to each of the four target conditions, optimizing the model's predictive precision. The methodology involves a meticulous process of variable extraction based on a predetermined threshold, seamlessly integrated with the CNN framework. This nuanced and refined approach epitomizes a forward-looking strategy, empowering the model to discern intricate failure patterns with a high degree of accuracy. 2024 IEEE.