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Self-Adaptive Role-Based Access Control for Business Processes
© 2017 IEEE. We present an approach for dynamically reconfiguring the role-based access control (RBAC) of information systems running business processes, to protect them against insider threats. The new approach uses business process execution traces and stochastic model checking to establish confidence intervals for key measurable attributes of user behaviour, and thus to identify and adaptively demote users who misuse their access permissions maliciously or accidentally. We implemented and evaluated the approach and its policy specification formalism for a real IT support business process, showing their ability to express and apply a broad range of self-adaptive RBAC policies
Information-entropic analysis of Korteweg--de Vries solitons in the quark-gluon plasma
Solitary waves propagation of baryonic density perturbations, ruled by the
Korteweg--de Vries equation in a mean-field quark-gluon plasma model, are
investigated from the point of view of the theory of information. A recently
proposed continuous logarithmic measure of information, called configurational
entropy, is used to derive the soliton width, defining the pulse, for which the
informational content of the soliton spatial profile is more compressed, in the
Shannon's sense.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figur
A photometric and spectroscopic survey of solar twin stars within 50 parsecs of the Sun: I. Atmospheric parameters and color similarity to the Sun
Solar twins and analogs are fundamental in the characterization of the Sun's
place in the context of stellar measurements, as they are in understanding how
typical the solar properties are in its neighborhood. They are also important
for representing sunlight observable in the night sky for diverse photometric
and spectroscopic tasks, besides being natural candidates for harboring
planetary systems similar to ours and possibly even life-bearing environments.
We report a photometric and spectroscopic survey of solar twin stars within 50
pc of the Sun. Hipparcos absolute magnitudes and (B-V)_Tycho colors were used
to define a 2 sigma box around the solar values, where 133 stars were
considered. Additional stars resembling the solar UBV colors in a broad sense,
plus stars present in the lists of Hardorp, were also selected. All objects
were ranked by a color-similarity index with respect to the Sun, defined by
uvby and BV photometry. Moderately high-resolution, high-S/N spectra were used
for a subsample of equatorial-southern stars to derive Teff, log g, and [Fe/H]
with average internal errors better than 50 K, 0.20 dex, and 0.08 dex,
respectively. Ages and masses were estimated from theoretical HR diagrams. The
color-similarity index proved very successful. We identify and rank new
excellent solar analogs, which are fit to represent the Sun in the night sky.
Some of them are faint enough to be of interest for moderately large
telescopes. We also identify two stars with near-UV spectra indistinguishable
from the Sun's. We present five new "probable" solar twin stars, besides five
new "possible" twins. Masses and ages for the best solar twin candidates lie
very close to the solar values, but chromospheric activity levels range
somewhat. We propose that the solar twins be emphasized in the ongoing searches
for extra-solar planets and SETI searches.Comment: 25 pages, 15 figures, 14 table
A novel and precise time domain description of MOSFET low frequency noise due to random telegraph signals
Nowadays, random telegraph signals play an important role in integrated
circuit performance variability, leading for instance to failures in memory
circuits. This problem is related to the successive captures and emissions of
electrons at the many traps stochastically distributed at the silicon-oxide
(Si-SiO2) interface of MOS transistors. In this paper we propose a novel
analytical and numerical approach to statistically describe the fluctuations of
current due to random telegraph signal in time domain. Our results include two
distinct situations: when the density of interface trap density is uniform in
energy, and when it is an u-shape curve as prescribed in literature, here
described as simple quadratic function. We establish formulas for relative
error as function of the parameters related to capture and emission
probabilities. For a complete analysis experimental u-shape curves are used and
compared with the theoretical aproach
Opening the Pandora's box of quantum spinor fields
Lounesto's classification of spinors is a comprehensive and exhaustive
algorithm that, based on the bilinears covariants, discloses the possibility of
a large variety of spinors, comprising regular and singular spinors and their
unexpected applications in physics and including the cases of Dirac, Weyl, and
Majorana as very particular spinor fields. In this paper we pose the problem of
an analogous classification in the framework of second quantization. We first
discuss in general the nature of the problem. Then we start the analysis of two
basic bilinear covariants, the scalar and pseudoscalar, in the second quantized
setup, with expressions applicable to the quantum field theory extended to all
types of spinors. One can see that an ampler set of possibilities opens up with
respect to the classical case. A quantum reconstruction algorithm is also
proposed. The Feynman propagator is extended for spinors in all classes.Comment: 18 page
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