563 research outputs found

    Cryptography Based Hybrid Security Architecture for Mobile Multi Agents

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    Distributed Computing is the current area of research. Many researchers are working in area of Distributed Computing and trying to find a solution for the security and other issues. In Distributed Computing the mobile agents are the very important thing. When different mobile agents work in the same environment simultaneously it becomes a very important issue. Mobile agents have automatic, pro-active, and dynamic problem solving behaviors. However, scope of this paper is limited to analyze the existing security approaches for Mobile Multi Agent System. Security issues of mobile agent address the problem of securing and protecting agents from the attack of malicious hosts and other agents as well as securing the host from attack of malicious agents. This paper introduces a new approach of security for agent from other agents. Paper discusses Cryptography Based Hybrid Security Architecture with trust and reputation named CBHSA. It breaks the security of MA in two parts. The first level of security is work on the MA and second level of security is maintained on network. The model CBHSA, its different components and security of MA during movements around the network are discussed in this paper. This paper emphasis on the security of MA’s during migration within the network or outside the network

    CPN Modelling And Performance Analysis Of CBHSA

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    Security is a major issue associated with MAs and Hosts. MAs themselves may need to be protected from the hosts they visit and vice versa. For mobile multi agents, a new Cryptography Based Hierarchical Security Architecture (CBHSA) has already been proposed in our previous work. CBHSA provides four different kinds of algorithms to secure agents during migration which combines various existing security mechanisms such as encryption and decryption, signed agreement etc. This paper gives the description of Colored Petri Net (CPN) modelling of CBHSA and analyses the performance of CBHSA against some identified parameters. Different graphs have been developed for min, max and average values of different parameters. Simulation results show that CBHSA gives expected result and secure MAs and hosts from attacks

    Fundamentals and Characteristics of an Expert System

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    This paper introduces the fundamentals and the basic characteristics of an expert system. The hierarchical process of developing expert system is presented in this paper as well as a characteristic of an expert system is also presented in this paper. In this paper we have just summarized the work done in the field of Intelligent Agent and tried to sum up through this introductory paper in the form of a general surve

    A FLEXIBLE APPROACH FOR ORCHESTRATING ADAPTIVE SCIENTIFIC WORKFLOWS FOR SCALABLE COMPUTING

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    Modern scientific workflows are becoming complex with the incorporation of non-traditionalcomputation methods, and advances in technologies enabling on-the-fly analysis. These work- flows exhibit unpredictable runtime behaviors and have dynamic requirements. For example, such workflows must maintain overall performance and throughput while dealing with undesired events, adapting to failures, and supporting data-driven adaptive analysis. A fixed, predetermined resource assignment common to HPC machines is inefficient for overall performance, throughput, and data-driven adaptive analysis. While solutions exist to enable elastic resource management, there is no support that can manage the workflows at runtime to determine when the resource assignment and/or the runtime state of tasks (i.e. stopping, starting, changing the task parameters for adapting analysis, or changing how data is sent/received by the workflow tasks) needs to be revised, and perform the feasible changes at runtime accordingly. This dissertation provides a flexible and portable model, DYFLOW, with strategies to auto-mate the management of scalable and adaptive workflows. The model gathers runtime statistics, tracks the occurrence of important events, and finalizes a plan of action to execute in response to events that occurred, by mediating between suggested actions with respect to the running state of the workflow tasks and resource availability. Further, the model supports a wide range of con- structs and tunable parameters that allow users to express events of interest, select prospective responses, and set various preferences to set the service expectation, e.g., throughput, performance, resilience to failures, or quality of results. To showcase that the DYFLOW model supports adaptive functionality desired for emerging workflows, several examples of problematic behavior are demonstrated where DYFLOW accommodates the specific requirements and automates the runtime management process for scientists while delivering the quality of service desired

    Comparison of thoracic segmental spinal anaesthesia and lumbar spinal anaesthesia for percutaneous nephrolithotomy

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    Background: Randomised controlled study aimed to compare low thoracic segmental spinal anesthesia (TSSA) and conventional lumbar spinal anesthesia (LSA) in percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL). Methods: Sixty adult patients undergoing elective PCNL were randomly assigned to two groups: T (TSSA) and L (LSA). Group T received TSSA (isobaric ropivacaine 0.75% 2.5 ml with dexmedetomidine 6mcg) at T10-T12, while Group L received LSA (hyperbaric ropivacaine 0.75% 4 ml with dexmedetomidine 6mcg) at L2-L4. Primary objectives of our study was to evaluate the feasibility and safety of TSSA for PCNL and to compare hemodynamic changes, block onset, and duration, and adverse effects. Secondary objectives were time to rescue analgesia, patient, and surgeon satisfaction. Data was analyzed using SPSS. Results: All patients underwent surgery successfully under neuraxial anesthesia. Group T exhibited more stable hemodynamics with a significantly lower hypotension incidence compared to Group L (3.33% vs. 26.66%, p=0.03). Onset of sensory and motor block was quicker in the TSSA group (p<0.001) upper. Sensory block levels were T6 for both groups, but lower level in TSSA was levels L2 and L3, while LSA impacted all segments below T6. No neurological complications occurred, particularly in Group T, which had higher satisfaction scores from surgeons and patients. Conclusions: TSSA is a safe and effective option for PCNL, providing better hemodynamic stability with lesser incidence of and reducing intra-operative hypotension compared to conventional LSA

    Coin Based Solar Mobile Charger

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    Energy plays a very important role for powering the system to work well either in Humans or in any artificial system. Communication is fundamental need for humans and a mobile system provides the power to communicate with the world so easily. Mobile phone is like a part of our day to day life. Without it, one feels incomplete and unsecure because most of the work is done with the help of it. Smartphone is the most common gadget in cities and also in the small towns now. But a big backlog of this phone is high battery consumption due to several features. Thus, most of the time the smart phones users runs out of battery, suppose on a Railway station a person is waiting for train by enjoying music on phone or surfing internet for any important information and suddenly run out of battery. That time if the charging facility is available somewhere then it is like boon. So, this necessity is being conceptualized in this paper. A Coin Insertion based mobile charger can be useful in today’s scenario. It can be used on bus stations, railway compartments, railway stations, etc

    A Rare Case of Primary Anterior Chest Wall Abscess due to Salmonella Typhi in an Immunocompetent Male

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    A case of suspicious anterior chest wall mass due to Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi in a middle aged, non- diabetic male is being described. The infection was successfully treated with timely institution of antibiotic treatment. This case highlights the fact that a focal Salmonella infection involving the anteriorchest wall should be considered as a differential diagnosis and not treated as tuberculosis empirically. Submission of specimens for microbiological analysis should be performed for an accurate diagnosis and management

    A Biosensor for Urea from Succinimide-Modified Acrylic Microspheres Based on Reflectance Transduction

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    New acrylic microspheres were synthesised by photopolymerisation where the succinimide functional group was incorporated during the microsphere preparation. An optical biosensor for urea based on reflectance transduction with a large linear response range to urea was successfully developed using this material. The biosensor utilized succinimide-modified acrylic microspheres immobilized with a Nile blue chromoionophore (ETH 5294) for optical detection and urease enzyme was immobilized on the surface of the microspheres via the succinimide groups. No leaching of the enzyme or chromoionophore was observed. Hydrolysis of the urea by urease changes the pH and leads to a color change of the immobilized chromoionophore. When the color change was monitored by reflectance spectrophotometry, the linear response range of the biosensor to urea was from 0.01 to 1,000 mM (R2 = 0.97) with a limit of detection of 9.97 μM. The biosensor response showed good reproducibility (relative standard deviation = 1.43%, n = 5) with no interference by major cations such as Na+, K+, NH4+ and Mg2+. The use of reflectance as a transduction method led to a large linear response range that is better than that of many urea biosensors based on other optical transduction methods

    Deep phenotyping and genomic data from a nationally representative study on dementia in India

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    The Harmonized Diagnostic Assessment of Dementia for the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI-DAD) is a nationally representative in-depth study of cognitive aging and dementia. We present a publicly available dataset of harmonized cognitive measures of 4,096 adults 60 years of age and older in India, collected across 18 states and union territories. Blood samples were obtained to carry out whole blood and serum-based assays. Results are included in a venous blood specimen datafile that can be linked to the Harmonized LASI-DAD dataset. A global screening array of 960 LASI-DAD respondents is also publicly available for download, in addition to neuroimaging data on 137 LASI-DAD participants. Altogether, these datasets provide comprehensive information on older adults in India that allow researchers to further understand risk factors associated with cognitive impairment and dementia.Peer reviewe

    Intraoperative change in P-wave polarity, an accidental finding: Anaesthesiologist’s dilemma

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    Arrhythmias are commonly observed in the intraoperative period. These could arise due to varied reasons and are treated accordingly. However certain situations are encountered where arrhythmias are transient and do not cause any haemodynamic instability. We report a case of 61 year old female posted for an orthopaedic procedure where intraoperative changing p wave polarity was noticed on monitor. Since, the patient was asymptomatic and haemodynamically stable, we decided to proceed with a spinal anaesthetic after much dilemma. The intraoperative period went uneventful with continued changes in p wave polarity
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