A firewall matches network packets to applicable policy rules based on packet dimensions (i.e., packet fields such as source and destination IP addresses). The efficiency with which firewalls match packets to rules plays a major role in determining a firewall’s overall efficiency and resistance to flooding-based denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. However, publicly available firewalls perform rule...

We consider the problems of allocating several heterogeneous objects owned by governments to a group of agents and how much agents should pay. Each agent receives at most one object and has nonquasi-linear preferences. Nonquasi-linear preferences describe environments in which large-scale payments influence agents’ abilities to utilize objects or derive benefits from them. The “minimum price Wa...

this paper presents the application of three main artificial neural networks (anns) in damage detection of steel bridges. this method has the ability to indicate damage in structural elements due to a localized change of stiffness called damage zone. the changes in structural response is used to identify the states of structural damage. to circumvent the difficulty arising from the non-linear n...

Although simulation-based fatigue analysis is a standard tool adopted in every sector including automotive industry, the design of engine components and motorsport applications mostly relies on simplified approaches supported by time-consuming testing programs. This manuscript proposes new methodology based individual speed damage estimation time history combined with Palmgren-Miner linear rule...

In order to investigate the non-linear fatigue cumulative damage of joints in ocean structural parts, one type low carbon steel Q345D was employed prepare designed T-type specimens, and a series experiments were carried out on specimens under two-step repeating variable amplitude loading condition. The chosen high cyclic loads larger than constant limit (CAFL) below CAFL. Firstly, S-N curve spe...

In this work, we study an information filtering model where the relevance labels associated to a sequence of feature vectors are realizations of an unknown probabilistic linear function. Building on the analysis of a restricted version of our model, we derive a general filtering rule based on the margin of a ridge regression estimator. While our rule may observe the label of a vector only by cl...

Unlike adult damage, neonatal damage to the inferior prefrontal convexity (IC) in monkeys spares learning and performance on the delayed nonmatching-to-sample (DNMS) task ( Málková et al. 2000). We investigated whether this sparing was due to compensation by undamaged orbital frontal cortex (O), an area also critical for DNMS, by comparing combined IC and O damage (Neo-ICO) with damage to O alo...