Authenticated encryption with Associated Data (AEAD) plays a significant role in cryptography because of its ability to provide integrity, confidentiality and authenticity at the same time. Due to the emergence of security at the edge of computing fabric, such as, sensors and smartphone devices, there is a growing need of lightweight AEAD ciphers. Currently, a worldwide contest, titled CAESAR, ...

A prototype Decision Support System for Coalition Operations (DSCCO) is being developed by SPAWAR Systems Center – San Diego to support the Operations Planning Team (OPT) of the Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Command. The goal of DSCCO is to apply and integrate organizational design concepts and decision support technologies in planning and executing multi-national coalition operatio...

MOTIVATION Identification of the genetic variation underlying complex traits is challenging. The wealth of information publicly available about the biology of complex traits and the function of individual genes permits the development of informatics-assisted methods for the selection of candidate genes for these traits. RESULTS We have developed a computational system named CAESAR that ranks ...

We have proposed a Bayesian approach for functional parcellation of whole-brain FMRI measurements which we call Clustered Activity Estimation with Spatial Adjacency Restrictions (CAESAR). We use distance-dependent Chinese restaurant processes (dd-CRPs) to define a flexible prior which partitions the voxel measurements into clusters whose number and shapes are unknown a priori. With dd-CRPs we c...

Complex event processing is a popular technology for continuously monitoring high-volume event streams from health care to traffic management to detect complex compositions of events. These event compositions signify critical “application contexts” from hygiene violations to traffic accidents. Certain event queries are only appropriate in particular contexts. Yet state-of-the-art streaming engi...

A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: Received: 14 March, 2017 Accepted: 20 April, 2017 Online: 13 June, 2017 Classical cryptography is a way of disguising the news done by the people when there was no computer. The goal is to protect information by way of encoding. This paper describes a modification of classical algorithms to make cryptanalis difficult to steal undisclosed me...

Global properties of energy-momentum flow in final-states, such as event shapes and jet-resolution thresholds, offer a good compromise between simplicity and sensitivity to the dynamics of QCD. Thanks to the former, it has been possible to make a wide range of theoretical predictions for them, including both fixed-order and resummed perturbative calculations as well as non-perturbative model ca...

BACKGROUND Bioconcentration factor (BCF) describes the behaviour of a chemical in terms of its likelihood of concentrating in organisms in the environment. It is a fundamental property in recent regulations, such as the European Community Regulation on chemicals and their safe use or the Globally Harmonized System for classification, labelling and packaging. These new regulations consider the p...

The objective of the triple scoring task in WSDM Cup 2017 is to compute relevance scores for knowledge-base triples of typelike relations. For example, consider Julius Caesar who has had various professions, including Politician and Author. For two given triples (Julius Caesar, profession, Politician) and (Julius Caesar, profession, Author), the former triple is likely to have a higher relevanc...

This paper aims to show that certain syntactic differences between arguments and adjuncts can be thought of as a transparent reflection of differences between their contributions to neo-Davidsonian logical forms. Specifically, the crucial underlying distinction will be that between modifying an event variable directly, and modifying an event variable indirectly via a thematic relation. I note a...