This paper describes a decision support system that has been designed and developed to evaluate and rank the financial profile of the main Apicultural Cooperatives and/or Union Cooperatives (A.U.C.) and Apicultural Enterprises (A.P.E.) of the Greek beekeeping industry. This system, called APIDESSYS , applies a multicriteria analysis and utilises the basic financial ratios that express the Liqui...

This paper describes a new design of the multipurpose cryptographic primitive ARMADILLO3 and analyses its security. The ARMADILLO3 family is oriented on small hardware such as smart cards and RFID chips. The original design ARMADILLO and its variants were analyzed by Sepehrdad et al. at CARDIS’11, the recommended variant ARMADILLO2 was analyzed by Plasencia et al. at FSE’12 and by Abdelraheem e...

This is a description of a multipurpose simulation platform that includes numerous simulation engines and is intended for application in a variety of engineering domains. The platform supports modelbased software development and uses structural synthesis of programs for translation of declarative specification of simulation problems into executable code. The platform is being developed as open ...

A backtracking algorithm with element order selection is presented, and its efficiency discussed in relation both to standard examples and to examples concerning relation-preserving maps which the algorithm was derived to solve.

Microfluidic systems allow (bio)chemical processes to be miniaturized with the benefit of shorter time-to-result, parallelism, reduced sample consumption, laminar flow, and increased control and efficiency. However, such miniaturization inherently limits the size of the solid objects that can be processed and entails new challenges such as the interfacing of macroscopic samples with microscopic...