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As we see that the world has become closer and faster and with the enormous growth of distributed networks like p2p, social networks, overlay networks, cloud computing etc. Theses Distributed networks are represented as graphs and the fundamental component of distributed network is the relationship defined by linkages among units or nodes in the network. Major concern for computer experts is how to store such enormous amount of data especially in form of graphs. There is a need for efficient data structure used for storage of such type of data should provide efficient format for fast retrieval of data as and when required, in this types of networks. Although adjacency matrix is an effective technique to represent a graph having few or large number of nodes and vertices but when it comes to analysis of huge amount of data from site likes like face book or twitter, adjacency matrix cannot do this. In this paper, we study the existing application of a special kind of data structure, skip graph with its various versions which can be efficiently used for storing such type of data resulting in optimal storage, space utilization retrieval and concurrency.
Automatic License Plate Recognition using OpenCV Editor IJCATR
Automatic License Plate Recognition system is a real time embedded system which automatically recognizes the license plate of vehicles. There are many applications ranging from complex security systems to common areas and from parking admission to urban traffic control. Automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) has complex characteristics due to diverse effects such as of light and speed. Most of the ALPR systems are built using proprietary tools like Matlab. This paper presents an alternative method of implementing ALPR systems using Free Software including Python and the Open Computer Vision Library.
Online Social Network (OSN) sites act as a medium to spread their own views, activities and their thoughts to some camaraderie. Contents of this network are spread over web, so it was hard to determine by a human decision. Currently, they do not provide any mechanism to ensure privacy concerns towards data associated with each user. Due to this problem, number of users lacks from their ownership control. In this paper, we proposed AC2P (Activity Control-Access Control Protocol) for information control on the web. Alternatively, Tag Refinement strategy determines illegal tagging over images and send notification about particular image spread within different communities/groups. These techniques reduce risk of information flow and avoid unwanted tagging toward images.
LOCATION BASED DETECTION OF REPLICATION ATTACKS AND COLLUDING ATTACKSEditor IJCATR
Wireless sensor networks gains its importance because of the critical applications in which it is involved like
industrial automation, healthcare applications, military and surveillance. Among security attacks in wireless sensor
networks we consider an active attack, NODE REPLICATION attack and COLLUDING attack. We use localized
algorithms, ((ie) replication detection is done at the node level and eliminated without the intervention of the base
station) to solve replication attacks and colluding attacks. Replication attacks are detected to using a unique key pair
and cryptographic hash function. We propose to use XED and EED algorithm[1] ( authenticates the node and tries to
reduce the replication) , with this using the Event detected location , non-beacon node is used to find the location of a
malicious node and by a simple threshold verification we identify malicious clusters
e-Governance Implementation In Ebonyi State Nigeria: Challenges and ProspectsEditor IJCATR
The deployment of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in different facets of the world’s economy has yielded very reasonable results. ICT has blured the barriers of hinderances in tourism, trade, healthcare, education and training. In governance and administration, ICT applications have enhanced the delivery of public services to citizens and clients not only by improving the process and management of government, but also by redefining the traditional concepts of citizenship. This paper examined the challenges facing the implementation of e-Governance in Ebonyi State – Nigeria and highlights the prospects. The research used a primary source of data by distributing, collecting and analysing a total of 500 questionnaires administered to respondents in the research area (Ebonyi State). The research found that the most difficult challenges facing the deployment of e-governance in Ebonyi State were lack of steady power supply, poor communication infrastructure and high cost of computer and internet equipments. The survey also revealed that the use of e-governance would bring improved efficiency in government operations without necessarily increasing the cost of state governance. e-Governance would strengthen democratic principles and ideologies which inturn brings good governance to the people.
Design by Satoshi Kitamura
Why use rats?
1. Rats use their sense of smell to find
explosives. Therefore, unlike metal detectors, they can detect both metal and plastic cased landmines.
2. Rats have an incredibly good sense of smell.
3. Rats are light. They will not trip off mines when they stand on them.
4. Rats are easy to breed and train.
5. Rats are small and very cheap to feed,
maintain and transport.
6. Rats are less emotionally tied to their
handler than dogs. It is therefore
easier to transfer them between
handlers.
7. Rats are everywhere. They can deal
with almost any environment.
8. Rats are happy to do repetitive tasks.
9. You can adopt a rat. It costs just € 5,-
a month. And in Africa € 5,- buys a lot
of peanuts!
http://www.apopo.org http://www.herorat.org
This short poem expresses deep and enduring love for another. It describes loving the sound of their voice, their warm smile, and the joy they bring every day. The poem concludes by saying this love began from the start and will last forever with all their heart.
As we see that the world has become closer and faster and with the enormous growth of distributed networks like p2p, social networks, overlay networks, cloud computing etc. Theses Distributed networks are represented as graphs and the fundamental component of distributed network is the relationship defined by linkages among units or nodes in the network. Major concern for computer experts is how to store such enormous amount of data especially in form of graphs. There is a need for efficient data structure used for storage of such type of data should provide efficient format for fast retrieval of data as and when required, in this types of networks. Although adjacency matrix is an effective technique to represent a graph having few or large number of nodes and vertices but when it comes to analysis of huge amount of data from site likes like face book or twitter, adjacency matrix cannot do this. In this paper, we study the existing application of a special kind of data structure, skip graph with its various versions which can be efficiently used for storing such type of data resulting in optimal storage, space utilization retrieval and concurrency.
Automatic License Plate Recognition using OpenCV Editor IJCATR
Automatic License Plate Recognition system is a real time embedded system which automatically recognizes the license plate of vehicles. There are many applications ranging from complex security systems to common areas and from parking admission to urban traffic control. Automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) has complex characteristics due to diverse effects such as of light and speed. Most of the ALPR systems are built using proprietary tools like Matlab. This paper presents an alternative method of implementing ALPR systems using Free Software including Python and the Open Computer Vision Library.
Online Social Network (OSN) sites act as a medium to spread their own views, activities and their thoughts to some camaraderie. Contents of this network are spread over web, so it was hard to determine by a human decision. Currently, they do not provide any mechanism to ensure privacy concerns towards data associated with each user. Due to this problem, number of users lacks from their ownership control. In this paper, we proposed AC2P (Activity Control-Access Control Protocol) for information control on the web. Alternatively, Tag Refinement strategy determines illegal tagging over images and send notification about particular image spread within different communities/groups. These techniques reduce risk of information flow and avoid unwanted tagging toward images.
LOCATION BASED DETECTION OF REPLICATION ATTACKS AND COLLUDING ATTACKSEditor IJCATR
Wireless sensor networks gains its importance because of the critical applications in which it is involved like
industrial automation, healthcare applications, military and surveillance. Among security attacks in wireless sensor
networks we consider an active attack, NODE REPLICATION attack and COLLUDING attack. We use localized
algorithms, ((ie) replication detection is done at the node level and eliminated without the intervention of the base
station) to solve replication attacks and colluding attacks. Replication attacks are detected to using a unique key pair
and cryptographic hash function. We propose to use XED and EED algorithm[1] ( authenticates the node and tries to
reduce the replication) , with this using the Event detected location , non-beacon node is used to find the location of a
malicious node and by a simple threshold verification we identify malicious clusters
e-Governance Implementation In Ebonyi State Nigeria: Challenges and ProspectsEditor IJCATR
The deployment of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in different facets of the world’s economy has yielded very reasonable results. ICT has blured the barriers of hinderances in tourism, trade, healthcare, education and training. In governance and administration, ICT applications have enhanced the delivery of public services to citizens and clients not only by improving the process and management of government, but also by redefining the traditional concepts of citizenship. This paper examined the challenges facing the implementation of e-Governance in Ebonyi State – Nigeria and highlights the prospects. The research used a primary source of data by distributing, collecting and analysing a total of 500 questionnaires administered to respondents in the research area (Ebonyi State). The research found that the most difficult challenges facing the deployment of e-governance in Ebonyi State were lack of steady power supply, poor communication infrastructure and high cost of computer and internet equipments. The survey also revealed that the use of e-governance would bring improved efficiency in government operations without necessarily increasing the cost of state governance. e-Governance would strengthen democratic principles and ideologies which inturn brings good governance to the people.
Design by Satoshi Kitamura
Why use rats?
1. Rats use their sense of smell to find
explosives. Therefore, unlike metal detectors, they can detect both metal and plastic cased landmines.
2. Rats have an incredibly good sense of smell.
3. Rats are light. They will not trip off mines when they stand on them.
4. Rats are easy to breed and train.
5. Rats are small and very cheap to feed,
maintain and transport.
6. Rats are less emotionally tied to their
handler than dogs. It is therefore
easier to transfer them between
handlers.
7. Rats are everywhere. They can deal
with almost any environment.
8. Rats are happy to do repetitive tasks.
9. You can adopt a rat. It costs just € 5,-
a month. And in Africa € 5,- buys a lot
of peanuts!
http://www.apopo.org http://www.herorat.org
This short poem expresses deep and enduring love for another. It describes loving the sound of their voice, their warm smile, and the joy they bring every day. The poem concludes by saying this love began from the start and will last forever with all their heart.
Este documento discute el uso de embriones híbridos de animal y humano en la investigación médica. El autor argumenta que llamar a estos embriones híbridos o preembriones es engañoso, ya que no son seres humanos completos. En realidad, son ovocitos vaciados de su núcleo e insertados con células humanas para dividirse en células madre, sin la intención de implantarlos. Además, la escasez de óvulos humanos no es el problema principal, ya que esto plantea cuestiones éticas
El autor describe el ambiente polarizado y politizado de los debates éticos en España como desconcertante. Señala varios ejemplos de posiciones extremas y malentendidos sobre temas como la investigación con células madre, el preservativo y la orientación sexual. El autor argumenta que, por fidelidad a la iglesia, a veces es necesario disentir razonablemente dentro de la iglesia para evitar tales malentendidos y hacer un mejor favor a la defensa de la vida y la ortodoxia católica.
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the winners of the 36th Annual Daytime Entertainment Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. Cristina's Court won the Emmy for Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program for the second consecutive year. Host Cristina Perez commented that the show's staff worked hard every day and she was blessed to connect with viewers. The Emmy Awards have honored excellence in daytime broadcasting for 36 years across 68 categories.
In this paper, we consider a criminal investigation on the collective guilt of part members in a working group. Assuming that the statistics we used are reliable, we present the Page Rank Model based on mutual information. First, we use the average mutual information between non-suspicious topics and the suspicious topics to score the topics by degree of suspicion. Second, we build the correlation matrix based on the degree of suspicion and acquire the corresponding Markov state transition matrix. Then, we set the original value for all members of the working group based on the degree of suspicion. At the last, we calculate the suspected degree of each member in the working group. In the small 10-people case, we build the improved Page Rank model. By calculating the statistics of this case, we acquire a table which indicates the ranking of the suspected degree. In contrast with the results given in this issue, we find these two results basically match each other, indicating the model we have built is feasible. In the current case, firstly, we obtain a ranking list on 15 topics in order of suspicion via Page Rank Model based on mutual information. Secondly, we acquire the stable point of Markov state transition matrix using the Markov chain. Then, we build the connection matrix based on the degree of suspicion and acquire the corresponding Markov state transition matrix. Last, we calculate the degree of 83 candidates. From the result, we can see that those suspicious are on the top of the ranking list while those innocent people are at the bottom of the list, representing that the model we have built is feasible. When suspicious topics and conspirators changed, a relatively good result can also be obtained by this model. In the current case, we have the evidence to believe that Dolores and Jerome, who are the senior managers, have significant suspicion. It is recommended that future attention should be paid to them. The Page Rank Model, based on mutual information, takes full account of the information flow in message distribution network. This model can not only deal with the statistics used in conspiracy, but also be applied to detect the infected cells in a biological network. Finally, we present the advantages and disadvantages of this model and the direction of improvements.
The document analyzes and summarizes an advertisement for the perfume "So? Super star". It describes the advertisement's use of lighting, images, and placement of elements to draw attention to the main subject and create the impression of a celebrity. The target audience is identified as women who want to smell nice and receive compliments. The catchy slogan "Fragrance with a Celebs attitude" aims to be memorable and appeal to potential buyers.
In this paper, we introduce the notion of intuitionistic fuzzy semipre generalized connected space, intuitionistic fuzzy semipre generalized super connected space and intuitionistic fuzzy semipre generalized extremally disconnected spaces. We investigate some of their properties.
An Improved Image Fusion Scheme Based on Markov Random Fields with Image Enha...Editor IJCATR
Image fusion is an important field in many image processing and analysis tasks in which fusion image data are acquired
from multiple sources. In this paper, we investigate the Image fusion of remote sensing images which are highly corrupted by salt and
pepper noise. In our paper we propose an image fusion technique based Markov Random Field (MRF). MRF models are powerful
tools to analyze image characteristics accurately and have been successfully applied to a large number of image processing
applications like image segmentation, image restoration and enhancement, etc.,. To de-noise the corrupted image we propose a
Decision based algorithm (DBA). DBA is a recent powerful algorithm to remove high-density Salt and Pepper noise using sheer
sorting method is proposed. Previously many techniques have been proposed to image fusion. In this paper experimental results are
shown our proposed Image fusion algorithm gives better performance than previous techniques.
The print ad has a color scheme of green, blue, red, white, black, and orange/yellow that matches the fairy tale theme of Snow White and the colors of the brand Levi's. A woman dressed as Snow White in black, white, and red wears blue Levi's jeans. The camera is at a lower angle to emphasize the already tall woman's legs.
Duplicate Code Detection using Control StatementsEditor IJCATR
Code clone detection is an important area of research as reusability is a key factor in software evolution. Duplicate code
degrades the design and structure of software and software qualities like readability, changeability, maintainability. Code clone
increases the maintenance cost as incorrect changes in copied code may lead to more errors. In this paper we address structural code
similarity detection and propose new methods to detect structural clones using structure of control statements. By structure we mean
order of control statements used in the source code. We have considered two orders of control structures: (i) Sequence of control
statements as it appears (ii) Execution flow of control statements.
A NOVEL METHOD FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THRESHOLD MULTIPLE-SECRET VISUAL CRYPT...Editor IJCATR
The main concept of the original visual secret sharing (VSS) scheme is to encrypt a secret image into n
meaningless share images. It cannot leak any information of the shared secret by any combination of the n share images
except for all of images. The shared secret image can be revealed by printing the share images on transparencies and
stacking the transparencies directly, so that the human visual system can recognize the shared secret image without using any
devices. The visual secrets sharing scheme for multiple secrets is called multiple-secret visual cryptographic schemes
(MVCSs). This paper proposed general constructions for threshold multiple-secret visual cryptographic schemes (MVCSs)
that are capable of encoding s secret images. This presented MVCS schemes utilize a predefined pattern book with pixel
expansion to encrypt secret images into share images. In our research, we propose a novel MVCS scheme that can share two
binary secret images on two rectangular share images with no pixel expansion, but also has an excellent recovery quality for
the secret images.
Discover top-tier mobile app development services, offering innovative solutions for iOS and Android. Enhance your business with custom, user-friendly mobile applications.
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
Este documento discute el uso de embriones híbridos de animal y humano en la investigación médica. El autor argumenta que llamar a estos embriones híbridos o preembriones es engañoso, ya que no son seres humanos completos. En realidad, son ovocitos vaciados de su núcleo e insertados con células humanas para dividirse en células madre, sin la intención de implantarlos. Además, la escasez de óvulos humanos no es el problema principal, ya que esto plantea cuestiones éticas
El autor describe el ambiente polarizado y politizado de los debates éticos en España como desconcertante. Señala varios ejemplos de posiciones extremas y malentendidos sobre temas como la investigación con células madre, el preservativo y la orientación sexual. El autor argumenta que, por fidelidad a la iglesia, a veces es necesario disentir razonablemente dentro de la iglesia para evitar tales malentendidos y hacer un mejor favor a la defensa de la vida y la ortodoxia católica.
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the winners of the 36th Annual Daytime Entertainment Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. Cristina's Court won the Emmy for Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program for the second consecutive year. Host Cristina Perez commented that the show's staff worked hard every day and she was blessed to connect with viewers. The Emmy Awards have honored excellence in daytime broadcasting for 36 years across 68 categories.
In this paper, we consider a criminal investigation on the collective guilt of part members in a working group. Assuming that the statistics we used are reliable, we present the Page Rank Model based on mutual information. First, we use the average mutual information between non-suspicious topics and the suspicious topics to score the topics by degree of suspicion. Second, we build the correlation matrix based on the degree of suspicion and acquire the corresponding Markov state transition matrix. Then, we set the original value for all members of the working group based on the degree of suspicion. At the last, we calculate the suspected degree of each member in the working group. In the small 10-people case, we build the improved Page Rank model. By calculating the statistics of this case, we acquire a table which indicates the ranking of the suspected degree. In contrast with the results given in this issue, we find these two results basically match each other, indicating the model we have built is feasible. In the current case, firstly, we obtain a ranking list on 15 topics in order of suspicion via Page Rank Model based on mutual information. Secondly, we acquire the stable point of Markov state transition matrix using the Markov chain. Then, we build the connection matrix based on the degree of suspicion and acquire the corresponding Markov state transition matrix. Last, we calculate the degree of 83 candidates. From the result, we can see that those suspicious are on the top of the ranking list while those innocent people are at the bottom of the list, representing that the model we have built is feasible. When suspicious topics and conspirators changed, a relatively good result can also be obtained by this model. In the current case, we have the evidence to believe that Dolores and Jerome, who are the senior managers, have significant suspicion. It is recommended that future attention should be paid to them. The Page Rank Model, based on mutual information, takes full account of the information flow in message distribution network. This model can not only deal with the statistics used in conspiracy, but also be applied to detect the infected cells in a biological network. Finally, we present the advantages and disadvantages of this model and the direction of improvements.
The document analyzes and summarizes an advertisement for the perfume "So? Super star". It describes the advertisement's use of lighting, images, and placement of elements to draw attention to the main subject and create the impression of a celebrity. The target audience is identified as women who want to smell nice and receive compliments. The catchy slogan "Fragrance with a Celebs attitude" aims to be memorable and appeal to potential buyers.
In this paper, we introduce the notion of intuitionistic fuzzy semipre generalized connected space, intuitionistic fuzzy semipre generalized super connected space and intuitionistic fuzzy semipre generalized extremally disconnected spaces. We investigate some of their properties.
An Improved Image Fusion Scheme Based on Markov Random Fields with Image Enha...Editor IJCATR
Image fusion is an important field in many image processing and analysis tasks in which fusion image data are acquired
from multiple sources. In this paper, we investigate the Image fusion of remote sensing images which are highly corrupted by salt and
pepper noise. In our paper we propose an image fusion technique based Markov Random Field (MRF). MRF models are powerful
tools to analyze image characteristics accurately and have been successfully applied to a large number of image processing
applications like image segmentation, image restoration and enhancement, etc.,. To de-noise the corrupted image we propose a
Decision based algorithm (DBA). DBA is a recent powerful algorithm to remove high-density Salt and Pepper noise using sheer
sorting method is proposed. Previously many techniques have been proposed to image fusion. In this paper experimental results are
shown our proposed Image fusion algorithm gives better performance than previous techniques.
The print ad has a color scheme of green, blue, red, white, black, and orange/yellow that matches the fairy tale theme of Snow White and the colors of the brand Levi's. A woman dressed as Snow White in black, white, and red wears blue Levi's jeans. The camera is at a lower angle to emphasize the already tall woman's legs.
Duplicate Code Detection using Control StatementsEditor IJCATR
Code clone detection is an important area of research as reusability is a key factor in software evolution. Duplicate code
degrades the design and structure of software and software qualities like readability, changeability, maintainability. Code clone
increases the maintenance cost as incorrect changes in copied code may lead to more errors. In this paper we address structural code
similarity detection and propose new methods to detect structural clones using structure of control statements. By structure we mean
order of control statements used in the source code. We have considered two orders of control structures: (i) Sequence of control
statements as it appears (ii) Execution flow of control statements.
A NOVEL METHOD FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THRESHOLD MULTIPLE-SECRET VISUAL CRYPT...Editor IJCATR
The main concept of the original visual secret sharing (VSS) scheme is to encrypt a secret image into n
meaningless share images. It cannot leak any information of the shared secret by any combination of the n share images
except for all of images. The shared secret image can be revealed by printing the share images on transparencies and
stacking the transparencies directly, so that the human visual system can recognize the shared secret image without using any
devices. The visual secrets sharing scheme for multiple secrets is called multiple-secret visual cryptographic schemes
(MVCSs). This paper proposed general constructions for threshold multiple-secret visual cryptographic schemes (MVCSs)
that are capable of encoding s secret images. This presented MVCS schemes utilize a predefined pattern book with pixel
expansion to encrypt secret images into share images. In our research, we propose a novel MVCS scheme that can share two
binary secret images on two rectangular share images with no pixel expansion, but also has an excellent recovery quality for
the secret images.
Discover top-tier mobile app development services, offering innovative solutions for iOS and Android. Enhance your business with custom, user-friendly mobile applications.
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
Northern Engraving | Modern Metal Trim, Nameplates and Appliance PanelsNorthern Engraving
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Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...DanBrown980551
This LF Energy webinar took place June 20, 2024. It featured:
-Alex Thornton, LF Energy
-Hallie Cramer, Google
-Daniel Roesler, UtilityAPI
-Henry Richardson, WattTime
In response to the urgency and scale required to effectively address climate change, open source solutions offer significant potential for driving innovation and progress. Currently, there is a growing demand for standardization and interoperability in energy data and modeling. Open source standards and specifications within the energy sector can also alleviate challenges associated with data fragmentation, transparency, and accessibility. At the same time, it is crucial to consider privacy and security concerns throughout the development of open source platforms.
This webinar will delve into the motivations behind establishing LF Energy’s Carbon Data Specification Consortium. It will provide an overview of the draft specifications and the ongoing progress made by the respective working groups.
Three primary specifications will be discussed:
-Discovery and client registration, emphasizing transparent processes and secure and private access
-Customer data, centering around customer tariffs, bills, energy usage, and full consumption disclosure
-Power systems data, focusing on grid data, inclusive of transmission and distribution networks, generation, intergrid power flows, and market settlement data
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
Session 1 - Intro to Robotic Process Automation.pdfUiPathCommunity
👉 Check out our full 'Africa Series - Automation Student Developers (EN)' page to register for the full program:
https://bit.ly/Automation_Student_Kickstart
In this session, we shall introduce you to the world of automation, the UiPath Platform, and guide you on how to install and setup UiPath Studio on your Windows PC.
📕 Detailed agenda:
What is RPA? Benefits of RPA?
RPA Applications
The UiPath End-to-End Automation Platform
UiPath Studio CE Installation and Setup
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Introduction to Automation
UiPath Business Automation Platform
Explore automation development with UiPath Studio
👉 Register here for our upcoming Session 2 on June 20: Introduction to UiPath Studio Fundamentals: https://community.uipath.com/events/details/uipath-lagos-presents-session-2-introduction-to-uipath-studio-fundamentals/
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
High performance Serverless Java on AWS- GoTo Amsterdam 2024Vadym Kazulkin
Java is for many years one of the most popular programming languages, but it used to have hard times in the Serverless community. Java is known for its high cold start times and high memory footprint, comparing to other programming languages like Node.js and Python. In this talk I'll look at the general best practices and techniques we can use to decrease memory consumption, cold start times for Java Serverless development on AWS including GraalVM (Native Image) and AWS own offering SnapStart based on Firecracker microVM snapshot and restore and CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint) runtime hooks. I'll also provide a lot of benchmarking on Lambda functions trying out various deployment package sizes, Lambda memory settings, Java compilation options and HTTP (a)synchronous clients and measure their impact on cold and warm start times.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?