This research presents the design of an FPGA-based implementation of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm. We live in an age where digital data, and its security, are of prime importance. Just as the complexity ...

Systems for automating the score of textual answers have been available commercially and some progress has been made in their application to scoring short, factual answers to purpose-written questions. Automatic scoring ...

In the recent time, the problem in identifying criminals has been alarming and also detrimental to the nation’s security. There is need for security enforcement agencies to develop a strategy to ensure that “round pegs ...

The increasing flow of network traffics on business and academic networks have raised the need for proper management of network traffic flow. Network Traffic analysis provides a way of determining network performance ...

Kick is an unplanned and undesirable influx of formation fluid into the borehole which if unattended may develop into a blowout. If the drilling mud hydrostatic head is insufficient to hold the formation fluid, the formation ...

Identity theft is a growing concern in this age of digital technology and applications. Traditional authentication methods such as passwords, passphrases, identity documents and the like are not sufficient to combat this ...

Mobile tourism recommender systems have become a promising and interesting research direction in recent years, as a result of the vast use of mobile devices in our day-to-day lives, and also the increasing desire by humans ...

The stock market is a place, be it virtual or real, where large groups of people gather to buy and sell stocks. The market creates an avenue for companies to seek capital for their various needs and also make profits. ...

Computer worms that are found in networked systems present a serious threat to the networked computing community. The need for more reliable and efficient systems for worm containment has continued to be on the rise. ...

Emerging smart visual surveillance systems are requiring adaptive video analytic frameworks for automatic detection and tracking of moving objects within a dynamic environment. This is required in order to study the behaviors ...