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    Stealthy Sensor Attack Detection and Real-Time Performance Recovery for Resilient CPS

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    Cyber-physical attacks exploit intrinsic natures of physical systems and can severely damage cyber-physical systems (CPSs) without being detected by the conventional anomaly detector. In this paper, based on software-defined networking, we propose a holistic resilient CPS framework that can detect, isolate, and recover from cyber-physical attacks in real-time. To show the effectiveness of the proposed framework, we focus on the pole-dynamics attack (PDA), a newly reported stealthy sensor attack that can make the physical system unstable. We develop an efficient detection algorithm for PDA and embed it into the proposed framework. By implementing a testbed, we validate that the proposed framework guarantees resilience of CPS against the PDA. CCBY1

    Construction of polyhedral finite element meshes based upon marching cube algorithm

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    Hexahedral meshes that exhibit the superiority in terms of solution accuracy and convergence rate are preferred to other types of meshes in the finite element analysis. However, the construction of the hexahedral meshes for complex geometries is still considered troublesome due to their poor geometric adaptability. This paper presents an efficient grid-based scheme to automatically generate polyhedral meshes including the hexahedral elements, and thus to provide hexahedral-dominant meshes for three-dimensional geometry with complex shapes. On the basis of the marching cube algorithm with a background grid composed of a regular arrangement of cubes, surface topologies for the background cubes are defined to represent the three-dimensional boundaries of a given domain. Then, in order to generate a three-dimensional finite element mesh, the surface topologies of the marching cube algorithm are systematically expanded to polyhedral volume topologies. Meanwhile, a topology ambiguity problem inherent in the marching cube algorithm is effectively resolved to generate an appropriate polyhedral mesh even for an arbitrary complex geometry. Several examples including biostructure modeling demonstrate that the proposed mesh generation scheme can easily discretize complex three-dimensional domains with hexahedral-dominant meshes, which are composed of the polyhedral elements near the domain boundaries and the hexahedral elements that come from the background cubes inside the domains. Furthermore, to show the applicability and effectiveness of polyhedral meshes in the finite element analysis, some structural analyses are performed using the smoothed finite element method that can be straightforwardly adapted to polyhedral elements of arbitrary shape.

    Infrared thermographic imaging based real-time layer height estimation during directed energy deposition

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    Monitoring the layer height during the directed energy deposition (DED) process is challenging but essential for the assurance and control of the dimensions and quality of additively manufactured products. In this study, a real-time layer height estimation system was developed, particularly for the DED process based on infrared thermographic imaging. The proposed system estimates the layer height using the measured melt pool properties and printing process parameters as inputs to an artificial neural network (ANN). The unique advantages of the proposed technique include the following: (1) an ANN is developed and optimized for real-time estimation of the layer height during the DED process; (2) the relationship between the layer height and melt pool properties is numerically and experimentally investigated under various printing conditions; (3) because of the coaxial design of the infrared camera installed, the proposed system can estimate the layer height even under the complex movement of the printing nozzle, making the system attractive for additive manufacturing of complex geometries; and (4) when combined with the developed melt pool depth estimation technique developed by the authors, a single infrared imaging system can estimate the melt pool width, length, depth, and layer height simultaneously. The layer height estimation performance was examined by printing multilayer and multitrack stainless steel 316 L materials under varying printing conditions. The overall root mean squared error and absolute percentage errors of the height estimation were 25.44 mu m and 12.62%, respectively, for printing an average layer height of 200 mu m.

    A Survey on Machine-Learning Based Security Design for Cyber-Physical Systems

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    A cyber-physical system (CPS) is the integration of a physical system into the real world and control applications in a computing system, interacting through a communications network. Network technology connecting physical systems and computing systems enables the simultaneous control of many physical systems and provides intelligent applications for them. However, enhancing connectivity leads to extended attack vectors in which attackers can trespass on the network and launch cyber-physical attacks, remotely disrupting the CPS. Therefore, extensive studies into cyber-physical security are being conducted in various domains, such as physical, network, and computing systems. Moreover, large-scale and complex CPSs make it difficult to analyze and detect cyber-physical attacks, and thus, machine learning (ML) techniques have recently been adopted for cyber-physical security. In this survey, we provide an extensive review of the threats and ML-based security designs for CPSs. First, we present a CPS structure that classifies the functions of the CPS into three layers: the physical system, the network, and software applications. Then, we discuss the taxonomy of cyber-physical attacks on each layer, and in particular, we analyze attacks based on the dynamics of the physical system. We review existing studies on detecting cyber-physical attacks with various ML techniques from the perspectives of the physical system, the network, and the computing system. Furthermore, we discuss future research directions for ML-based cyber-physical security research in the context of real-time constraints, resiliency, and dataset generation to learn about the possible attacks

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed

    Variations on the Author

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    “Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship

    Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis

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    We provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more sophisticated methods
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