The world is passing through a major revolution called the information revolution, in which information and knowledge is becoming available to people in unprecedented amounts wherever and whenever they need it. Those societies which fail to take advantage of the new technology will be left behind, just like in the industrial revolution. The information revolution is based on two major technolog...

An energy management system in a commercial/industrial building (BEMS) plays an important role as a power consumer in a smart grid. But, many building facilities cannot afford the system, and a cloud service emerges as an alternative. As known, cloud services still struggle with security problems, which prevents the BEMS from being widely deployed on the cloud. This paper addresses security con...

This paper assesses and compares the performance of generalized linear models (GLM) with respect to log transformation and ANOVA approaches on the basis of coverage results and expected length of confidence intervals (CI) for the expected responses for exponentially distributed response variable. We also focus on the power functions of tests of hypothesis for testing significance of underlying ...

Despite the dramatic growth of data accumulated by enterprises, obtaining value out of it is extremely challenging. In particular, the data access bottleneck prevents domain experts from getting the right piece of data within a constrained time frame. The Optique Platform unlocks the access to Big Data by providing end users support for directly formulating their information needs through an in...

Introduction That humans exploit animals, often in cruel ways, is not open to doubt. Reponsibility for exploitation and cruelty lies unambiguously on the human side of any human-animal divide. For this reason, relations between humans and animals might be described as profoundly asymmetrical (Schiktanz 2004: 2). Asymmetry emerges whenever animals are confined for human purposes, for instance in...

A general methodology for gray-box, or semi-physical, modeling is presented. This technique is intended to combine the best of two worlds: knowledge-based modeling , whereby mathematical equations are derived in order to describe a process, based on a physical (or chemical, biological, etc.) analysis, and black-box modeling, whereby a parameterized model is designed, whose parameters are estima...

The first part of the paper is concerned to relationship between the sets of associated primes of the generalized $d$-local cohomology modules and the ordinary  generalized local cohomology  modules.  Assume that $R$ is a commutative Noetherian local ring, $M$ and $N$  are  finitely generated  $R$-modules and $d, t$ are two integers. We prove that $Ass H^t_d(M,N)=bigcup_{Iin Phi} Ass H^t_I(M,N)...

we prove that each normal automorphism of the $n$-periodic product of cyclic groups of odd order $rge1003$ is inner, whenever $r$ divides $n$.

In an increasingly complex environment, the enterprises of the future should become Sensing Enterprises, evidencing intelligent, dynamic and self-organizing capabilities for understanding and responding to the shifts that impact the networks they belong to. Reconfiguration and reprioritization of industrial processes, information models, and even terminology is now seen as a requirement for sur...