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A mixed model-based Johnson's relative weights for eco-efficiency assessment: The case for global food consumption
( Elsevier Inc. , 2021 , Article)Eco-efficiency composite indicators are widely accepted as the ratio of environmental impact to created economic value. These indicators are realistic measures for assessing sustainability performance considering the economy ... -
A Mobile System for Historical Manuscripts Capturing, Recognition and Classification
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)This paper proposes a mobile system to capture, recognize and classify historical manuscripts automatically. The user can take a snapshot of a manuscript through his/her mobile camera and send to a dedicated server. An ... -
A modal logic for information system security
( Australian Computer Society, Inc. , 2011 , Article)As a security mechanism, authorization or access control ensures that all accesses to the system resources occur exclusively according to the access polices and rules specified by the systemsecurity agent. Authorization ... -
A model and optimization-based heuristic for the operational aircraft maintenance routing problem
( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article)This paper investigates the Operational Aircraft Maintenance Routing Problem (OAMRP). Given a set of flights for a specific homogeneous fleet type, this short-term planning problem requires building feasible aircraft routes ... -
A model driven framework for secure outsourcing of computation to the cloud
( IEEE Computer Society , 2014 , Conference Paper)This paper presents a model driven approach to define then coordinate the execution of protocols for secure outsourcing of computation of large datasets in cloud computing environments. First we present our Outsourcing ... -
A model for capacitated green vehicle routing problem with the time-varying vehicle speed and soft time windows
( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)This paper investigates the capacitated green vehicle routing problem (GVRP) with time-varying vehicle speed and soft time windows. The GVRP is developed as a multi-objective mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) ... -
A model for enhancing robustness of aircraft and passenger connections
( Elsevier , 2013 , Article)Airlines schedules are often subject to various uncontrollable factors that cause disruptions and delays. These delays not only constitute, for many passengers, the painful part of air travel, but also represent for airlines ... -
A model for estimating the carbon footprint of maritime transportation of Liquefied Natural Gas under uncertainty
( Elsevier B.V. , 2021 , Article)The demand for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in the global markets has changed significantly. As a result, industries have been forced to consider investing significantly in supply chains to achieve an efficient distribution ... -
A model for planning locations of temporary distribution facilities for emergency response
( Elsevier , 2015 , Article)We propose a network flow model for dynamic selection of temporary distribution facilities and allocation of resources for emergency response planning. The model analyzes the transfer of excess resources between temporary ... -
A model for predicting failure of oil pipelines
( Taylor & Francis , 2014 , Article)Oil and gas pipelines transport millions of dollars of goods everyday worldwide. Even though they are the safest way to transport petroleum products, pipelines do still fail generating hazardous consequences and irreparable ... -
A model for predicting room occupancy based on motion sensor data
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)When designing a large scale IoT ecosystem, it is important to provide economical solutions at all levels, from sensors and actuators to the software used for analytics and orchestration. It is of equal importance to provide ... -
A model to evaluate acquisition price and quantity of used products for remanufacturing
( Elsevier , 2012 , Article)In this paper, an analytical model is proposed to evaluate optimal acquisition price and quantity policy based on the quality of returned used products that are subsequently used for remanufacturing. The model is developed ... -
A model-based approach for managing criticality requirements in e-health IoT systems
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)Internet-based solutions, enhanced by Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud computing, are constantly driving revolutionary approaches in multiple domains, including healthcare. Indicatively, telemedicine, real-time diagnosis ... -
A model-based approach to self-protection in computing system
( Association for Computing Machinery, Inc , 2013 , Conference Paper)This paper introduces a model-based autonomic security management (ASM) approach to estimate, detect and identify security attacks along with planning a sequence of actions to effectively protect the networked computing ... -
A model-based crash prediction technique for Chinese roadway segments
( Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) , 2014 , Conference Paper)This paper presents development and application of a statistical crash prediction model for various types of crashes in Chinese roadway segments. The model is constructed based upon a Negative Binomial Generalized Linear ... -
A model-based validated autonomic approach to self-protect computing systems
( IEEE , 2014 , Article)This paper introduces an autonomic model-based cyber security management approach for the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems. The approach aims at realizing a self-protecting system, which has the ability to autonomously ... -
A model-driven PBL application to support the authoring, delivery, and execution of PBL processes
( Springer , 2016 , Article)As problem-based learning (PBL) is becoming more and more popular, there is also a growing interest in developing and using technologies in the implementation of PBL. However, teachers may have difficulties to design and ... -
A Modified Boost Converter with Triswitching State and VLSI module for DC Nanogrid Application
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)In this paper, new members of the Modified Boost Converter (MBC) family are introduced named as Modified tri switching state boost converter (MTSSB) with voltage boosting module. Additionally, one more extra switching mode ... -
A modified capacitor voltage control algorithm for suppressing the effect of measurement noise on grid-connected Z-source inverters controllers
( http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2013.6699136 , 2013 , Conference Paper)Inverters are considered the orbit of research objectives for safe and reliable grid interface. Amongst the conventional inverters known as suitable candidates for gird connection in the last two decades, Z-source inverter ... -
A modified joint uplink-downlink opportunistic scheduling for Quality of Service guarantees
( IEEE , 2013 , Conference Paper)Quality of Service (QoS) is a very important metric in wireless communication systems, where both Uplink (UL) and Downlink (DL) connections request strict QoS demands in terms of rate, delay, etc. for their proper operation. ...