Future smart power grids require constant data availability for actuation of control decisions. The job of ensuring the timely arrival of data falls onto the network that connects these intelligent devices. This network needs to be fault tolerant. When nodes, devices or communication links fail along a default route of a message from A to B, the underlying hardware and software layers should en...

Information privacy and personal data in information systems are referred to as the ‘new oil’ of the 21st century. The mass adoption of smart mobile devices, sensor-enabled smart IoT-devices, and mobile applications provide virtually endless possibilities of gathering users’ personal information. Previous research suggests that users attribute very little monetary value to their information pri...

Energy systems are hybrid networks, linking different forms of energy sources and loads. With growing amounts of renewable generation in the energy system, the hierarchical and centralized structure of the energy system gets increasingly transformed to a decentralized and distributed structure. The concept of Smart Grid is driven by these structural changes and provides solutions for the challe...

Vanadium dioxide (VO2) is a Mott phase transition compound that can be applied as a thermochromic smart material for energy saving and comfort, and titanium dioxide (TiO2) is a well-known photocatalyst for self-cleaning coatings. In this paper, we report a VO2@TiO2 core-shell structure, in which the VO2 nanorod core exhibits a remarkable modulation ability for solar infrared light, and the TiO2...

Powder metallurgic giant magnetostrictive composite materials (GMM) which are special kind of metallic compounds have a wide range of application possibilities. These materials have a homogeneous structure, low internal stresses and low cost, which make them able to create magnetostrictive elements. Therefore, GMM can be used to develop positioning as well as vibration actuators with quick resp...

All forms of e-government are integrated in an organizational structure defined by the institutional arrangements of the specific state. Thus when using e-government applications to make the government smarter it has to be contextualized in the specific structure of government. A common institutional arrangement is to divide governments into different levels – a multi-level government system. T...

A smart grid is modernized electrical equipment that uses analog or digital information in an automated fashion to improve the efficiency, reliability, economics, and sustainability of the production and distribution of electricity. The main challenges of smart grids, however, to manage different types of front-end intelligent devices such as power assets and smart meters efficiently, and how t...

MOTIVATION Establishment of a statistical association between microbiome features and clinical outcomes is of growing interest because of the potential for yielding insights into biological mechanisms and pathogenesis. Extracting microbiome features that are relevant for a disease is challenging and existing variable selection methods are limited due to large number of risk factor variables fro...

This paper proposes a fuzzy model for predicting nonlinear behaviour of smart structures. The parameters of the fuzzy model are trained using the backpropagation neural network and least squares algorithms. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed Takagi-Sugeno (TS) fuzzy model, a structure equipped with magnetorheological (MR) dampers is constructed and investigated. Various levels of ...

We construct statistical zero-knowledge authentication protocols for smart cards based on general assumptions. The main protocol is only secure against active attacks, but we present a modification based on trapdoor commitments that can resist concurrent attacks as well. Both protocols are instantiated using lattice-based primitives, which are conjectured to be secure against quantum attacks. W...