The cyber attack surface in a maritime environment is constantly growing. More current information and computer technologies are being used on cargo passenger ships to save operational costs increase navigational safety. Along with the growing reliance automation, risk of disruption vessel's critical systems by drawing wrong inputs from sensors change behaviour actuators has significantly incre...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the current and potential values and identify main threatening factors of Balanites aegyptiaca in Sudan. Three areas were selected for data collection (Umm Abdalla, Boat and Id Elfrissan). Group discussion was carried out to tap local community knowledge about the species uses, potentials and threatening factors. Then structured interview was used to verify...

MOTIVATION Imaging mass spectrometry has emerged in the past decade as a label-free, spatially resolved and multi-purpose bioanalytical technique for direct analysis of biological samples. However, solving two everyday data analysis problems still requires expert judgment: (i) the detection of unknown molecules and (ii) the testing for presence of known molecules. RESULTS We developed a measu...

The essential difference between small businesses and large corporations is found in their corporate structure. Similarly, the inter-organizational systems (IOSs) formed between small businesses to support strategic alliances and community-like networks have different requirements and functions Ffrom those formed between large corporations. This paper discusses the differences between the IOSs ...

Developing smart house systems has been a great challenge for researchers and engineers in this area because of the high cost of implementation and evaluation process of these systems, while being very time consuming. Testing a designed smart house before actually building it is considered as an obstacle towards an efficient smart house project. This is because of the variety of sensors, home a...

In wireless sensor network, the primary design is to save the energy consumption as much as possible while achieving the given task. Most of recent researches works have only focused on the individual layer issues and ignore the importance of inter working between different layers in a sensor network. In this paper, we use a cross-layer approach to propose an energy-efficient and extending the ...

Although with the Semantic Web initiative much research on web page semantic annotation has already been done by AI researchers, linguistic text annotation, including the semantic one, was originally developed in Corpus Linguistics and its results have been somehow neglected by AI. The purpose of the research presented in this proposal is to prove that integration of results in both fields is n...

Production planning policies have a direct impact on demand propagation and the overall performance of manufacturing supply chains. The relationship between production planning and supply chain behavior is important because the planning decisions play a major role in determining how demand propagates through the supply tiers. In this paper, we study supply chain demand behavior via computationa...