The Hydrophilic-Lipophilic Balance (HLB)was formally presented by William C. Griffin sixty years ago at a meeting in Chicago for the first time and later on in an article published in the first volume of the Journal of the Society of…

This work presents the authors investigation regarding the application of parallel processing to the design of grounding systems, comprising concrete encased electrodes. The natural parallelism of the involved tasks and the large time-consuming characteristic of sequential processing for this kind…

System survivability is the ability to give service in spite
of failures of some of the components. To assure survivability is an important goal when designing a communications network backbone, to ensure that it can resist to failures in the…

Evolving neural arrays (ENA) have proved to be capable of learning complex behaviors, i.e., problems whose solution requires strategy learning. For this reason, they present many applications in various areas such as robotics and process control. Unlike conventional methods "based…

The use of generic and generative methods for the development and application of interactive educational software is a relatively unexplored area in industry and education. Advantages of generic and generative techniques are, among other things, the high degree of reusability…

A Fundamentals of Computing Theory course involves different topics that are core to the Computer Science curricula and whose level of abstraction makes them difficult both to teach and to learn. Such difficulty stems from the complexity of the abstract…

The need for privacy has become a major priority for both governments and civilians desiring protection from signal interception. Widespread use of personal communications devices has only increased demand for a level of security on previously insecure communications. This paper…

An Image Adaptive Watermarking method based on the
Discrete Wavelet Transform is presented in this paper.
The robustness and fidelity of the proposed method are
evaluated and the method is compared to state-of-the-art
watermarking techniques available in the literature. For

In this paper, we present a UML profile and a group of
UML patterns for documenting the component-andconnector
views of software architectures [8]. They facilitate the creation of the component and connector viewtype in any UML 2.0 tool with a…

Augmented marked graphs possess a special structure for modelling common resources as well as some desirable properties pertaining to liveness, boundedness, reversibility and conservativeness. This paper investigates the property-preserving composition of augmented marked graphs for the synthesis of distributed systems.…