model predictive controller is widely used in industrial plants. uncertainty is one of the critical issues in real systems. in this paper, the direct adaptive simplified model predictive control (smpc) is proposed for unknown or time varying plants with uncertainties. by estimating the plant step response in each sample, the controller is designed and the controller coefficients are directly ca...

We consider the problem of password-authenticated key exchange (PAK) also known as session-key generation using passwords: constructing session-key generation protocols that are secure against active adversaries (person-in-the-middle) and only require the legitimate parties to share a low-entropy password (e.g. coming from a dictionary of size poly(n)). We study the relationship between PAK and...

Over the last few years, many factors have accelerated the need to improve business processes. New methods, technologies and major changes are rapidly bringing new capabilities to businesses. One approach for rapid change and spectacular improvement is the Business Process Reengineering. BPR is an important way to build organizations more efficient, effective and modernize. BPR is considered to...

Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) is self-configured and decentralized wireless network without any prior infrastructure. Every node in it acts as a router as well as end system and hence each node in MANET is allowed to move freely which makes routing difficult. Most of the MANET routing algorithms like AODV and DSR assume that every node will forward every packet it receives. In opportunistic r...

Public sector organizations in developing economies are increasingly turning to BPR to reform function-based bureaucratic systems with customer-oriented process based systems. The value of BPR, however, relies not only on process changes introduced by BPR, but also on the skills, systems, and technologies developed and deployed post-BPR. In this study, drawing from the complementary competence ...

The purpose of this research was to empirically determine what benefits were realized by organizations that have undertaken a Business Process Reengineering (BPR) project. The survey’s respondents indicated that they were general& satis$ed with their BPR projects. The findings suggest that BPR enabled organizations to increase productivity+ to raise the qua@ of products and services, to increas...

Biomimetic Pattern Recognition (BPR) is a classification process using a constructed biological structure. BPR is derived from the Principle of Homology-Continuity, which assumes members of the same class are biologically evolved and continuously connected. Recently, BPR has been successfully used in voice, facial, and iris recognition. In this article, we develop two BPR algorithms using proxi...

This paper presents an analysis result of relationship between business and information technology (IT) in business process reengineering (BPR). 258 Japanese firm-level data collected have been analyzed using structural equation modeling. This analysis was aimed to illuminating success factors of achieve effective BPR. Analysis was focused on management factors (including organizational factors...

This chapter presents an approach to BPR that is focused on achieving results from the first stages to implementation. The engineering approach presented utilizes an integrated set of methods applied incrementally. This allows BPR practitioners to more realistically approach a project; assess its impact, duration, and required budget; and mitigate the risks of failure. We present the approach a...