Contemporary Perspectives on the Study of Medieval Seals in Western and Romanian Academia: A Comparative Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-336
Author(s):  
Alexandru Ștefan
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Academic Environments ◽  
To Come ◽  
Art Research

The present paper aims to examine the main directions the historical research of medieval seals has followed in the recent decades. Starting from several sigillography handbooks developed in both Western and Romanian academic environments, but also from the published inquiries of the most important contemporary scholars active in this field of study, the present article focuses on their most relevant contributions, their historiographical impact, as well as the concepts and ideas formulated and debated on these occasions. Therefore, the purpose of this approach is not only to make a brief review of the state-of-the-art research in Western sigillography, but also to point out the main directions the Romanian sigillographic research should pursue in the years to come.

scholarly journals A Sign of Things to Come: Predicting the Perception of Above-the-Fold Time in Web Browsing

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Hamed Z. Jahromi ◽  
Declan Delaney ◽  
Andrew Hines
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Influencing Factor ◽  
The State ◽  
Experimental Result ◽  
Web Page ◽  
To Come ◽  
Web Quality ◽  
The Web

Content is a key influencing factor in Web Quality of Experience (QoE) estimation. A web user’s satisfaction can be influenced by how long it takes to render and visualize the visible parts of the web page in the browser. This is referred to as the Above-the-fold (ATF) time. SpeedIndex (SI) has been widely used to estimate perceived web page loading speed of ATF content and a proxy metric for Web QoE estimation. Web application developers have been actively introducing innovative interactive features, such as animated and multimedia content, aiming to capture the users’ attention and improve the functionality and utility of the web applications. However, the literature shows that, for the websites with animated content, the estimated ATF time using the state-of-the-art metrics may not accurately match completed ATF time as perceived by users. This study introduces a new metric, Plausibly Complete Time (PCT), that estimates ATF time for a user’s perception of websites with and without animations. PCT can be integrated with SI and web QoE models. The accuracy of the proposed metric is evaluated based on two publicly available datasets. The proposed metric holds a high positive Spearman’s correlation (rs=0.89) with the Perceived ATF reported by the users for websites with and without animated content. This study demonstrates that using PCT as a KPI in QoE estimation models can improve the robustness of QoE estimation in comparison to using the state-of-the-art ATF time metric. Furthermore, experimental result showed that the estimation of SI using PCT improves the robustness of SI for websites with animated content. The PCT estimation allows web application designers to identify where poor design has significantly increased ATF time and refactor their implementation before it impacts end-user experience.

Towards Update-Efficient and Parallel-Friendly Content-Based Indexing Scheme in Cloud Computing

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (02) ◽  
pp. 191-213
Author(s):  
Nan Zhu ◽  
Yangdi Lu ◽  
Wenbo He ◽  
Hua Yu ◽  
Jike Ge
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
High Volume ◽  
Data Partitioning ◽  
The State ◽  
Computing Systems ◽  
Indexing System ◽  
Indexing Method ◽  
Concurrent User ◽  
Art Research

The sheer volume of contents generated by today’s Internet services is stored in the cloud. The effective indexing method is important to provide the content to users on demand. The indexing method associating the user-generated metadata with the content is vulnerable to the inaccuracy caused by the low quality of the metadata. While the content-based indexing does not depend on the error-prone metadata, the state-of-the-art research focuses on developing descriptive features and misses the system-oriented considerations when incorporating these features into the practical cloud computing systems. We propose an Update-Efficient and Parallel-Friendly content-based indexing system, called Partitioned Hash Forest (PHF). The PHF system incorporates the state-of-the-art content-based indexing models and multiple system-oriented optimizations. PHF contains an approximate content-based index and leverages the hierarchical memory system to support the high volume of updates. Additionally, the content-aware data partitioning and lock-free concurrency management module enable the parallel processing of the concurrent user requests. We evaluate PHF in terms of indexing accuracy and system efficiency by comparing it with the state-of-the-art content-based indexing algorithm and its variances. We achieve the significantly better accuracy with less resource consumption, around 37% faster in update processing and up to 2.5[Formula: see text] throughput speedup in a multi-core platform comparing to other parallel-friendly designs.

Host–Based Intrusion Detection Systems

2014 ◽  
pp. 184-213
Author(s):  
Vít Bukač ◽  
Vashek Matyáš
Keyword(s):  
Intrusion Detection ◽  
Detection Method ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
The State ◽  
Intrusion Detection Systems ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Detection Systems ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Art Research

In this chapter, the reader explores both the founding ideas and the state-of-the-art research on host-based intrusion detection systems. HIDSs are categorized by their intrusion detection method. Each category is thoroughly investigated, and its limitations and benefits are discussed. Seminal research findings and ideas are presented and supplied with comments. Separate sections are devoted to the protection against tampering and to the HIDS evasion techniques that are employed by attackers. Existing research trends are highlighted, and possible future directions are suggested.

Privacy and Trust Management Schemes of Wireless Sensor Networks

2010 ◽  
pp. 290-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riaz Ahmed Shaikh ◽  
Brian J. dAuriol ◽  
Heejo Lee ◽  
Sungyoung Lee
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Trust Management ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Management Schemes ◽  
Art Research

Until recently, researchers have focused on the cryptographic-based security issues more intensively than the privacy and trust issues. However, without the incorporation of trust and privacy features, cryptographic-based security mechanisms are not capable of singlehandedly providing robustness, reliability and completeness in a security solution. In this chapter, we present generic and flexible taxonomies of privacy and trust. We also give detailed critical analyses of the state-of-the-art research, in the field of privacy and trust that is currently not available in the literature. This chapter also highlights the challenging issues and problems.

Review: Dimensional Accuracy in Additive Manufacturing Processes

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pil-Ho Lee ◽  
Haseung Chung ◽  
Sang Won Lee ◽  
Jeongkon Yoo ◽  
Jeonghan Ko
Keyword(s):  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Dimensional Accuracy ◽  
The State ◽  
Manufacturing Processes ◽  
Accuracy Improvement ◽  
Process Characteristics ◽  
Art Research ◽  
Am Processes

This paper reviews the state-of-the-art research related to the dimensional accuracy in additive manufacturing (AM) processes. It is considered that the improvement of dimensional accuracy is one of the major scientific challenges to enhance the qualities of the products by AM. This paper analyzed the studies for commonly used AM techniques with respect to dimensional accuracy. These studies are classified by process characteristics, and relevant accuracy issues are examined. The accuracies of commercial AM machines are also listed. This paper also discusses suggestions for accuracy improvement. With the increase of the dimensional accuracy, not only the application of AM processes will diversify but also their value will increase.

scholarly journals Spam Review Detection:A Systematic Literature Review

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Shoaib Farooq
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Research Gaps ◽  
Art Research ◽  
Fake Reviews ◽  
Research Studies

In this era of technology, people rely on online posted reviews before buying any product. These reviews are very important for both the consumers and people. Consumers and people use this information for decision making while buying products or investing money in any product. This has inclined the spammers to generate spam or fake reviews so that they can recommend their products and beat the competitors. Spammers have developed many systems to generate the bulk of spam reviews within hours. Many techniques, strategies have been designed and recommended to resolve the issue of spam reviews. In this paper, a complete review of existing techniques and strategies for detecting spam review is discussed. Apart from reviewing the state-of-the-art research studies on spam review detection, a taxonomy on techniques of machine learning for spam review detection has been proposed. Moreover, its focus on research gaps and future recommendations for spam review identification.

scholarly journals Coordinating Contracts in SCM: A Review of Methods and Literature

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Behzad Hezarkhani ◽  
Wiesław Kubiak
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Supply Chain Coordination ◽  
The State ◽  
Systematic Overview ◽  
Art Research

Supply chain coordination through contracts has been a burgeoning area of re- search in recent years. In spite of rapid development of research, there are only a few structured analyses of assumptions, methods, and applicability of insights in this field. The aim of this paper is to provide a systematic overview of coordinating contracts in supply chain through highlighting the main concepts, assumptions, methods, and present the state-of-the- art research in this field.

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