Ici-bas!

High school student Moses King isn\u27t a goody two-shoes, but the bully Samuel doesn\u27t understand (or care) about this fact. In this story written by Nicholas Koloian, Moses finds his retribution through his bold friend, Henry, who must overcome his own problems in a tale exploring race, sexuality, and high school bullying

An analysis of security issues in building automation systems

The purpose of Building Automation Systems (BAS) is to centralise the management of a wide range of building services, through the use of integrated protocol and communication media. Through the use of IP-based communication and encapsulated protocols, BAS are increasingly being connected to corporate networks and also being remotely accessed for management purposes, both for convenience and emergency purposes. These protocols, however, were not designed with security as a primary requirement, thus the majority of systems operate with sub-standard or non-existent security implementations, relying on security through obscurity. Research has been undertaken into addressing the shortfalls of security implementations in BAS, however defining the threats against BAS, and detection of these threats is an area that is particularly lacking. This paper presents an overview of the current security measures in BAS, outlining key issues, and methods that can be improved to protect cyber physical systems against the increasing threat of cyber terrorism and hacktivism. Future research aims to further evaluate and improve the detection systems used in BAS through first defining the threats and then applying and evaluating machine learning algorithms for traffic classification and IDS profiling capable of operating on resource constrained BAS

Enron versus EUSES: A Comparison of Two Spreadsheet Corpora

Spreadsheets are widely used within companies and often form the basis for business decisions. Numerous cases are known where incorrect information in spreadsheets has lead to incorrect decisions. Such cases underline the relevance of research on the professional use of spreadsheets. Recently a new dataset became available for research, containing over 15.000 business spreadsheets that were extracted from the Enron E-mail Archive. With this dataset, we 1) aim to obtain a thorough understanding of the characteristics of spreadsheets used within companies, and 2) compare the characteristics of the Enron spreadsheets with the EUSES corpus which is the existing state of the art set of spreadsheets that is frequently used in spreadsheet studies. Our analysis shows that 1) the majority of spreadsheets are not large in terms of worksheets and formulas, do not have a high degree of coupling, and their formulas are relatively simple; 2) the spreadsheets from the EUSES corpus are, with respect to the measured characteristics, quite similar to the Enron spreadsheets.Comment: In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Software Engineering Methods in Spreadsheet

Convergence to the boundary for random walks on discrete quantum groups and monoidal categories

We study the problem of convergence to the boundary in the setting of random walks on discrete quantum groups. Convergence to the boundary is established for random walks on $\hat{\textrm{SU}_q(2)}$. Furthermore, we will define the Martin boundary for random walks on C$^*$-tensor categories and give a formulation for convergence to the boundary for such random walks. These categorical definitions are shown to be compatible with the definitions in the quantum group case. This implies that convergence to the boundary for random walks on quantum groups is stable under monoidal equivalence.Comment: 67 pages; Shortened sections 2 and 5; Corrected Lemma 5.15; Corrected several typo

Quantitative estimates and extrapolation for multilinear weight classes

In this paper we prove a quantitative multilinear limited range extrapolation theorem which allows us to extrapolate from weighted estimates that include the cases where some of the exponents are infinite. This extends the recent extrapolation result of Li, Martell, and Ombrosi. We also obtain vector-valued estimates including $\ell^\infty$ spaces and, in particular, we are able to reprove all the vector-valued bounds for the bilinear Hilbert transform obtained through the helicoidal method of Benea and Muscalu. Moreover, our result is quantitative and, in particular, allows us to extend quantitative estimates obtained from sparse domination in the Banach space setting to the quasi-Banach space setting. Our proof does not rely on any off-diagonal extrapolation results and we develop a multilinear version of the Rubio de Francia algorithm adapted to the multisublinear Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator. As a corollary, we obtain multilinear extrapolation results for some upper and lower endpoints estimates in weak-type and BMO spaces.Comment: 44 pages. Minor improvements. To appear in Mathematische Annale