Stefan MOCANU, Andrei DULUTA, Daniel MEREZEANU, Radu PIETRARU University Politehnica of Bucharest, 313 Splaiul Independentei, 060042, Romania. stefan.mocanu@upb.ro ABSTRACT: For some people a science, for other people just an art, steganography is in fact an ancient method of embedding a message into an apparently uninteresting carrier. Aiming to protect information, …

Raul CAMPOS-RODRIGUEZ, Mildreth ALCARAZ-MEJIA ITESO University, Periferico Sur # 8585, Tlaquepaque, 45604, Mexico. campos@iteso.mx, mildreth@iteso.mx ABSTRACT: This paper addresses the design of observers for Discrete-Event Systems modelled by Output Petri nets. The observer is conceived as a copy of the system and a corrective term based on the execution trajectories. …

P. FEBINA BEEVI, T. K. SUNIL KUMAR, JEEVAMMA JACOB National Institute of Technology-Calicut, P O NITC, Calicut-673601, Kerala, India. febinaeee@gmail.com, tksunil@nitc.ac.in, jeeva@nitc.ac.in ABSTRACT: A control scheme is proposed in the present paper that introduces Two Degree of Freedom (2-DOF) controller to eliminate the effect of disturbances while tracking the desired …

Horia-Nicolai L. TEODORESCU1,2  1 Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch, Bd. Carol I nr. 8, Iasi, Romania hteodor@etti.tuiasi.ro 2 “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi Romania, Str. D. Mangeron 64, Iasi, Romania Abstract: The study critically revisits the models of ‘vulnerability’ of various types of networks and shows several limits of the …

Diana POPESCU1, Cătălin ILIE2, Dan LĂPTOIU3, Anton HADAR1, Raluca BARBUR2 Abstract: The modern requirements of personalized medicine, the need of interdisciplinary approaches in developing medical devices and also the necessity to enhance communication between doctors and engineers impose the development of new e-health applications which can support different medical specialities …

A. Meena KOWSHALYA , M. L. VALARMATHI Department of CSE, Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, India meenakowshalya.gct@gmail.com Abstract: Internet of Things (IoT) is one paradigm many visions technology. One of the many visions of Internet of Things is to make Things sociable. This is achieved by integrating IoT and Social …

Lilia SIDHOM1, Mohamed SMAOUI2, Xavier BRUN2 Abstract: In general, feedback controllers require measurements of velocity and acceleration for feedback. To avoid the complexity of overall system with minimizing the sensor number implements on a test bench, a new estimation algorithm of the successive derivatives of measured signal is proposed. The …

Marilena IANCULESCU, Adriana ALEXANDRU I C I Bucharest (National Institute for R & D in Informatics) 8-10 Averescu Blvd. 011455 Bucharest 1, Romania manina@ici.ro, adriana@ici.ro  Abstract: Global ageing has already started to have a strong impact on society and economy. However, most national governments as well as urban and rural …

Amir ABBASI1, Javad POSHTAN2*, Ali MOAREFIANPOUR1 1 Department of Electrical Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran 2 Iran University of Science and Technology, Narmak, Tehran, 16846-13114, Iran jposhtan@iust.ac.ir * Corresponding author Abstract: This paper presents a novel decentralized scheme for actuator fault detection and isolation of …

Haoping WANG1, Shanzhi LI1, Yang TIAN1,*, Abdel AITOUCHE2 Abstract: This paper presents an intelligent proportion-differential neural network (iPDNN) controller for unknown nonlinear systems. This controller is based on the intelligent proportion integration differentiation (iPID) controller. In an iPID controller system, a unknown nonlinear SISO system is regarded as an ultra-local …