Managing the evolution of software artifacts is a crucial issue in software engineering. As in the software engineering paradigm model-driven engineering (MDE), the main software artifacts are models, managing the evolution of models constitutes a key concern in MDE. One important technique in this realm is model differencing, which is concerned with identifying differences among different vers...

In this work, a cross-validation procedure is used to identify an appropriate Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average model and an appropriate state space model for a time series. A minimum size for the training set is specified. The procedure is based on one-step forecasts and uses different training sets, each containing one more observation than the previous one. All possible state space mo...

A recent paper introduced a new whole-link travel time model and showed that it has various desirable properties, including a first-in-first-out (FIFO) property, causality and consistency with the usual static model when flows are constant. The model is formulated as a continuous-time first-order differential equation, which does not have a general analytical solution but can be solved (approxi...

A new steganographic algorithm is presented using pixel mapping method based on eight queens and number of ones in pixel intensity value. In our method, we are sequentially selecting 81 pixel blocks to embed message bit. The method works with randomizing the bit selection in the 81 pixel block using eight queens’ solutions. This approach finds relationship between secret message and cover ima...

— In modern communicative and networked computing, sharing and storing image data efficiently have been a great challenge. People all over the world are sharing, transmitting and storing millions of images every moment. Although, there have been significant development in storage device capacity enhancement sector, production of digital images is being increased too in that proportion. Conseque...

Visual secrete sharing (VSS) is an encryption technique that utilizes human visual system in the recovering of the secret image and it does not require any complex calculation. Pixel expansion has been a major issue of VSS schemes. A number of probabilistic VSS schemes with minimum pixel expansion have been proposed for binary secret images. This paper presents a general probabilistic (k, n)-VS...