Thomas S Clary – författare

This compilation opens with a study wherein state of the art publications on Big Data Analytics are analyzed in order to create an updated classification scheme with several orthogonal dimensions of classification. These dimensions include stages of application, challenges, solution origins, specialization of technologies, purpose, ownership, data processing, data types applied and intended user types.The authors propose that we need an effective data extraction method to gather required data and present it in a meaningful form for further analysis. Next generation interactive data analysis with real time responses requires scalable complex data processing methods to generate meaningful insights. Thus, powerful visualization methods should be designed to allow users to generate reports based on various parameters in a comprehensible way.The authors also outline highly modular framework for the generation and realization of multimodal natural communication incorporating embodied conversational agents, male or female. The personification of the machine responses is achieved through automatic generation and visualization of co-verbal behavior, based on the behavior generation engine, and the physical realization via behavior realization engines based on Unity Game engine's core.When a designer is confronted with multi-stakeholders scenarios of use in which the needs of one user group may clash with, compete or be orthogonal to others', the responsibility of sorting, prioritising and including user needs in the user interface solely remains within designer's domain. As such, this collection proposes that in an integrated technology ecosystem, user interface designers must have the ability to to uncover user needs that may make an impact on people's digital experience.The following paper analyzes the basic forms of the legal protection of graphical user interfaces in the European Union, describing the basic principles of protecting registered community designs. The authors deal with the copyright protection of graphical user interfaces, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of such regimes of protection and their possible overlap.The penultimate chapter outlines the need, terminology, features, types, architecture, uses, and security tools available for data warehouse. The importance of security tools for data warehouse is greater than ever before, so the strategies, and economics of security measures are discussed and the types and effectiveness of security measures are evaluated.Lastly, the authors consider the problem of auto speed scaling scheme optimization for elastic cloud computing platforms. It is observed that there is a tradeoff between performance and cost, i.e., the highest performance and the lowest cost cannot be achieved simultaneously. To analyze this, a queueing model to study a vertically scalable cloud platform, i.e., a multiserver system with variable speed, where both the performance and cost can be characterized effectively.

Horizons in Computer Science Research. Volume 18 first discusses intermittently connected networks, a form of the delay tolerant network, where there never exists a complete end-to-end path between two nodes wishing to communicate. The authors provide an overview of the current algorithms (both analytic and iterative) for the generation of tomographic images, including comparisons of the basic characteristics of image quality. An intelligent scheduling framework is proposed to alleviate the problems encountered in modern job scheduling. The challenges of high performance computing scheduling and state-of-art scheduling methods to overcome these challenges are investigated. The state of art developments in quantum cryptography are presented, as well as the fundamental laws of quantum physics that quantum key distribution is based on. Subsequently, three main protocols of key distribution are introduced which enable users to share a secret between them. Three iterative methods for dose reconstruction in protoacoustics are discussed, including: gradient-descent algorithm, SART and MLEM, which are widely used in other medical imaging modalities such as PET, SPECT and CT. Additionally, the authors evaluate the behaviour of the concurrent execution of tasks in different implementations by Java virtual machines. The performance measurements were analysed by rigorous statistical techniques: analysis of Variance and HSD comparison test of Tukey averages. A mathematical model for finding the distribution of threads in local pools that minimises the makespan in integration processes is also presented. Makespan is a metric that calculates the average time a message takes to be executed by an integration process. In closing, varied knowledge sources for aspect clustering are explored a new method, OpCluster-PT, is proposed. To support this research, annotated corpora and some related resources that are publicly available to the interested reader have been included.

Horizons in Computer Science Research. Volume 19 first describes the principles, materials and processes in 2.5D printing and post-press enhancement based on the authors’ research. This compilation goes on to discuss Hadoop, a pioneering open source framework that has revolutionized the big data world due to its ability to process vast amounts of unstructured and semi-structured data by distributing a massive amount of data across clusters. A new tool that uses general and query-based summarization to analyze students’ log files at the Academic Center for Tutoring at Columbus State University, a small state university in Georgia, USA, is introduced. The concept of a Vehicle Accident Prediction System is presented using accident datasets based on actual vehicle accident data extracted from open-source datasets. The current problem of rapid data increase throughout the year is discussed, along with the available options for gaining useful insight from World Wide Web created data. A review of different methods for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition using Random Forest is presented, and a strategy based on the combination of Wavelet multiresolution analysis and Random Forest is proposed. The authors review six recent applications of autoencoders in cryo-EM and cryo-ET data analysis, discussing the autoencoders’ strength and weaknesses to provide potential directions for future research. In closing, an algorithm is presented which uses ensembles of metamodels and classifiers to predict which candidate designs for computer simulations are expected to cause failures and to divert the search accordingly.

This compilation opens with a review of the applications of several anomaly-based methods under the computational intelligence umbrella for the detection of DDoS attacks. Following this, a study is carried out to reveal the effects of a device developed to enable visually-impaired people to read any document in the Braille alphabet. The performance of the Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm on CEC2010 benchmark problems is also studied, with the goal of increasing the performance of the algorithm changes presented in large-scale optimization problems. Later, the opportunities and limitations of present waste management techniques are highlighted, and some future research proposals are discussed. The authors provide an overview of the field of motion capture focusing on methods, systems, and applications. More information about the motion processing and motion reconstruction technologies applied in the most prevalent optical and inertial systems is presented. In closing, a partially-manual method for using images to measure body poses is presented and discussed.

This volume includes six chapters presenting some of the latest updates in computer science research. Chapter One considers possible future directions as to the role of law in relation to cloud computing and related services and how this could offer additional protection for service users. Chapter Two presents an overview of mechanisms for malware detection and response. Chapter Three presents some of the most common cybersecurity problems connected to the COVID-19 pandemic. Chapter Four describes a consistent and suitable plan for IT disaster recovery. Chapter Five provides a comprehensive survey of resource and power management schemes for in-band device-to-device communications. Lastly, Chapter Six presents technologies and approaches developed for digitization of old Romanian documents.

This volume includes eight chapters that describe recent advances in computer science research. Chapter One reviews the taxonomy of phishing attacks and focuses on the soft computing-based anti-phishing techniques proposed for identifying phishing websites. Chapter Two gives the basic theory and applications of quantum hypercomputation. Chapter Three presents a method using soft sets for a qualitative assessment of human-machine performance under fuzzy conditions and describes how topological spaces can be extended to fuzzy structures. Chapter Four considers forensic computing, collection of relevant data, and metrology and measurements in the cybernetic system. Chapter Five explores the features of phase change memory and proposes a series of strategies to improve its lifetime. Chapter Six proposes a new method for developing Quality of Service routing applications in Software Defined Networks. Chapter Seven discusses the recent trends of machine learning applications in cosmology and gravitational wave astronomy. Finally, Chapter Eight introduces a write-aware data allocation approach to address the data assignment problem and a bucket-based wear-leveling algorithm for phase-change memory data management.

This volume contains ten chapters which present recent and future research concepts in computer science research. Chapter One presents new theorems for analysing digital logic gates. The second chapter reviews current work to postulate the future of intrusion detection systems in cloud computing. Chapter Three analyzes the storage structure and management of distributed ledger tecnohlogies in blockchain systems. Chapter Four reviews an experiment testing the bouncing phenomenon of sand particles on a membrane and how their random walk forms Chladni patterns. The fifth chapter discusses a robust model for the foraging of microorganisms by random walk patterns. Chapter Six presents research into the use of printed circuit board from a recycling based point of view. The seventh chapter is an introduction to sparse distributed representations in text data curation in the context of natural language processing (NLP). The eighth chapter reviews a wide ranging survey of research into intrusion detection systems in the Internet of Things (IoT) model of the world. Chapter Nine provides a far reaching review of modern issues in digital forensic processes in the environment of cloud computing. The tenth and final chapter uses a schema of hegemonic praxis to analyze issues of cyber warfare in the modern world.

This volume contains eight chapters that present recent and future concepts in computer science research. In chapter one the authors investigate multi-objective evolutionary algorithms based on adaptive strategies. Chapter two analyses the differences shown by university students from two different environments, specifically students from small towns located in rural settings, and students from Madrid, the capital of Spain. The significance of XOR-based network coding scheme in lowering traffic and energy consumption is explored in chapter three. The authors in chapter four design a new quadratic tracking control algorithm based on the integral equation approach in linear continuous-time systems. In chapter five the authors propose a lightweight approach for the quick identification of words in American Sign Language (ASL) to improve the communication between deaf and hearing individuals using handheld devices. The purpose of chapter six is to introduce a new method in ontologies’ structural evaluation, namely the graph-independent approach. In chapter seven the authors propose a new approach to text pre-processing needed for the task of creating a reverse dictionary that is a realization of terminology methods in machine learning. Chapter eight develops the idea that speech itself is functional—formerly Turing Complete—through the linguistics of Ogden and Richards, and the Ordinary Language Philosophy of Austin, Searle and Grice.