Computer Standards & Interfaces

In the real-time systems and safety critical domains, software quality assurance adheres to protocols such as DO-178C standard. Regarding these issues, concolic testing generates test cases that can attain high coverage using an augmented approach based ...

An Image Quality Metric (IQM) is used to measure how the image on which modifications are carried out is distorted. Knowing the distortion scale of the image is of significance for the intended purposes (compression, forensic, medical, etc.). The amount ...

In this paper, we present a new cryptographic primitive called "policy-controlled signatures". In this notion, a signer can sign a message and attach it with some policies. Only a verifier who satisfies the policies attached can verify the authenticity ...

Home Automation Networks provide a promising opportunity in designing smart home systems and applications. In this context, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) networks are emerging as an efficient means to provide automated communication among distributed ...

Currently dashboards are the preferred tool across organizations to monitor business performance. Dashboards are often composed of different data visualization techniques, amongst which are Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) which play a crucial role in ...

Over recent years, the development of electronic devices such as mobile devices and smart TVs has been remarkable; meanwhile, the emergence of 3D TV has given rise to a rapid increase of the demand for 3D expressions. The objective of this study is the ...

The 2013 Snowden revelations ignited a vehement debate on the legitimacy and breadth of intelligence operations that monitor the Internet and telecommunications worldwide. The ongoing invasion of the private sphere of individuals around the world by ...

This paper describes a distributed control system (DCS) for ship engines using a dual fieldbus. Communication among DCS entities is provided by considering the redundancy between Modbus and the controller area network (CAN) bus. The dual fieldbus ...

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is the most recent standard in mobile communications, introduced by 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). Most of the works in literature about LTE security analyze authentication procedures, while handover procedures are ...

There is an increase use of security driven approaches to support software development activities, such as requirements, design and implementation. The objective of this paper is to identify the existing software security approaches used in the software ...

Learning Analytics is an emerging field focused on analyzing learners' interactions with educational content. One of the key open issues in learning analytics is the standardization of the data collected. This is a particularly challenging issue in ...

Web Services are influencing most IT-based industries as the basic building block of business infrastructures. A Web Service has an interface described in a machine-processable format (specifically WSDL). Service providers expose their services by ...

This paper shows the need for innovation in the development of standards and standardisation instruments. While standardisation activity overall is growing in terms of the number of standards being developed, exploration of new domains, organisations ...

In this paper, we propose a remote measurement system consisting of a single point laser distance sensor and an IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit). The movement of the system is estimated using a strapdown inertial navigation algorithm. This movement ...

With the fast growth of the Latin America electronic commerce (e-Commerce), it is indispensable to design effective websites. Evaluating usability issues allows improving the design. One popular method for detecting usability problems is the heuristic ...

SACM (Structured Assurance Case Metamodel) is a standard for assurance case specification and exchange. It consists of an argumentation metamodel and an evidence metamodel for justifying that a system satisfies certain requirements. For assurance of ...

A smart grid is an electrical power grid infrastructure for improving efficiency and reliability of power systems. CIM and IEC 61850 are major standards in the smart grid domain for modeling substations and their management. Due to heavy data exchanges ...

Jung and Yoo proposed a new image interpolation method, neighbor mean interpolation, on which they first constructed image interpolation based data hiding (IIDH) scheme. However, the authors only adopted a simple method by adding the decimal value of ...

The purpose of this research is to contribute to a better understanding of information systems (IS) project management practice, by investigating the ISO 21500:2012/PMBoK 5 processes implemented by project managers in this kind of projects. Responses to ...

In Cognitive Networks, coexistence is one of the main issues to be addressed. The release of TV White Spaces (TVWS) for use in various regions of the world presents an opportunity for better spectrum utilization and asks for new techniques of spectrum ...

OPC Unified Architecture (UA) is a platform-independent standard for message-based communication between clients and servers on various types of network to facilitate information exchange. OPC UA has been adopted in various domains such as power grids, ...

Cloud computing offers simplified system maintenance and scalable resource management with Virtual Machines (VMs). Users access resources of data centers by allocating VMs to hosts. Therefore, to improve the quality of cloud computing environment, not ...

Many cyber-physical systems in the avionics domain are mission- or safety-critical systems. In this context, standard distribution middleware has recently emerged as a potential solution to interconnect heterogeneous partitioned systems, as it would ...