Nowadays, authentication mechanism is widely applied to digital images to verify whether the received image is not a fake. In this paper, we propose a selfauthentication mechanism without any extra data to authenticate whether the area is modified by comparing the generated authentication code and hidden authentication code together. Also, the recovery ability is employed to the proposed scheme...

The authors have recently proposed a ‘decision-based’ framework to design and maintain repairable systems. In their approach, a multiobjective optimization problem is solved to identify the best design using multiple short and long-term statistical performance metrics. The design solution considers the initial design, the system maintenance throughout the planning horizon, and the protocol to o...

Recently, locally repairable codes (LRCs) with local erasure correction constraints that are unequal and disjoint have been proposed. In this work, we study the same topic and provide some improved and additional results.

Many systems can be modelled as a mission made up of a sequence of discrete phases. Each phase has a different requirement for successful completion and mission failure will result if any phase is unsuccessful. Fault tree analysis and Markov techniques have been used previously to model this type of system for non-repairable and repairable systems respectively. Cause-consequence analysis is an ...

This paper proposes a new fuzzy assessing procedure with application in management decision making. The proposed fuzzy approach build the membership functions for system characteristics of a standby repairable system. This method is used to extract a family of conventional crisp intervals from the fuzzy repairable system for the desired system characteristics. This can be determined with a set ...

We consider the locally repairable codes (LRC), aiming at sequential recovering multiple erasures. We define the (n, k, r, t)SLRC (Sequential Locally Repairable Codes) as an [n, k] linear code where any t(≤ t) erasures can be sequentially recovered, each one by r (2 ≤ r < k) other code symbols. Sequential recovering means that the erased symbols are recovered one by one, and an already recovere...

The multistage theory of carcinogenesis specifies that cells progress to cancer through a series of discrete, irreversible genetic alterations, but data on radiation-induced cancer incidence in rat skin suggests that an intermediate repairable alteration may occur. Data are presented on cancer induction in rat skin exposed to the following radiations: 1. an electron beam (LET = 0.34 kev/mu), 2....

Phased mission analysis is carried out to predict the reliability of systems which undergo a series of phases, each with differing requirements for success, with the mission objective being achieved only on the successful completion of all phases. Many systems from a range of industries experience such missions. The methods used for phased mission analysis are dependent upon the repairability o...