Distributed cryptographic protocols such as Bitcoin and Ethereum use a data structure known as the block chain to synchronize a global log of events between nodes in their network. Blocks, which are batches of updates to the log, reference the parent they are extending, and thus form the structure of a chain. Previous research has shown that the mechanics of the block chain and block propagatio...

in this paper, we show how to obtain suitable differential charactristics for block ciphers with neural networks. we represent the operations of a block cipher, regarding their differential characteristics, through a directed weighted graph. in this way, the problem of finding the best differential characteristic for a block cipher reduces to the problem of finding the minimum-weight multi-path...

The current manufacturing environment for process industry has changed from a traditional single-site, single market to a more integrated global production mode where multiple sites are serving a global market. In this paper, the integrated planning and scheduling problem for the multisite, multiproduct batch plants is considered. The major challenge for addressing this problem is that the corr...

In the field of structural health monitoring or machine condition monitoring, most vibration based methods reported in the literature require to measure responses at several locations on the structure. In machine condition monitoring, the number of available vibration sensors is often small and it is not unusual that only one single sensor is used to monitor a machine. This paper presents indus...

The VIKOR method was introduced as a Multi-Attribute Decision Making (MADM) method to solve discrete decision-making problems with incommensurable and conflicting criteria. This method focuses on ranking and selecting from a set of alternatives based on the particular measure of “closeness” to the “ideal” solution. The multi-criteria measure for compromise ranking is developed from the l−p metr...

In this work we solve the set of hydrodynamical equations for accretion disks in the spherical coordinates (r,θ,ϕ) to obtain the explicit structure along θ direction. We study a two-dimensional advective accretion disc in the presence of thermal conduction. We find self-similar solutions for an axisymmetric, rotating, steady, viscous-resistive disk. We show that the global structure of an advec...

We propose a new distributed algorithm for decoupling the Multiagent Simple Temporal Network (MaSTN) problem. The agents cooperatively decouple the MaSTN while simultaneously optimizing a sum of concave objectives local to each agent. Several schedule flexibility measures are applicable in this framework. We pose the MaSTN decoupling problem as a distributed convex optimization problem subject ...

Scenario analysis within a multi-stage stochastic programming formulation offers an attractive framework for modelling uncertainties in long-range planning models. However, whether the expected outcome is implicitly / explicitly evaluated, such formulations lead to computationally intensive optimization problems. Focussing here on the scenario planning / multi-period approach for mixed integer ...