west nile virus (wnv) is an important zoo-notic agent having a wide host range. due to its emergence with increased virulence in a wide geographical range, its monitoring becomes im-perative. development of more rapid and sensitive molecular techniques for instance reverse trans-criptase-polymerase chain reaction (rt-pcr), reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (rt-lamp) a...

An overwhelming amount of data arriving from disparate sources can be a bottleneck in realization of any service. This data, if properly processed and annotated, can be a useful source of information. This work builds an Area Profile Ontology (APO) and imports other related ontology to annotate rich data arriving from multiple sensor streams like cameras. The annotation process provides an impe...

In this paper, the design of a real-time control framework consisting of wide-area decentralized power system stabilizers (WD-PSSs) for enhancing transient stability and oscillatory stability of power systems is investigated. The design is based on reinforcement learning methods incorporating widearea measurements. The main goal of WD-PSSs is to stabilize a power system after a disturbance lead...

The incident management process consists of four sequential steps incident detection, response, clearance and recovery. Eeach of these components comprises of a number of operations and coordinated decision making between the agencies involved. The provision of computer based support tools for the personnel involved will help develop appropriate incident management strategies and increase the e...

Motivated by the security and functional limitations of satellite positioning systems, we explore a design of a Wide-Area Secure Positioning System. The main goals of this system are strong spoofing resilience, location verification, and privacy. We propose a realization of a Wide-Area Secure Positioning System and show that this solution is viable and can fulfill our defined security goals. Sp...

Wide area measurement system (WAMS) is one of the essential components in the future power system. To make WAMS construction plans, practical models of the power network observability, reliability, and underlying communication infrastructures need to be considered. To address this challenging problem, in this paper we propose a unified framework for WAMS planning to cover most realistic concern...

In this study, two types of marker-based tracking systems for Augmented Reality were developed: a tracking system using line markers and a tracking system using circular markers. Both markers were designed for use inside buildings such as nuclear power plants, which are very complicated and in which it is difficult to paste many large markers. To enlarge the area in which tracking is available ...

Traditional networked file systems like NFS do not extend to wide-area due to network latency and dynamics introduced in the WAN environment. In this paper we proposed the design of a wide-area networked system called WireFS. WireFS is based on NFS and extends to the WAN environment by introducing a file redirector infrastructure residing between the central file server and clients. The file re...