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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Proprietary software"”.
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Semiotic machines : software in discourse
… and methodological approaches to the study of software as a medium of communication. This study analyses voting software, educational software, search engines, and combat and narrative in digital games. In each case it investigates how proprietary software affords discourse, and suggests a way …
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Agent based modelling and simulation of operating strategies of generators and loads in wholesale electricity markets
… are categorized into simplified models and proprietary software. Although complete mathematical and implementation details of bilateral transactions are publicly available for simplified models, they only represent bilateral transactions facilitated by brokers or bulletin-boards. By …
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BioSTEAM: The open-source bioprocess simulation and techno-economic analysis modules in Python
… Current TEA methods generally rely on proprietary software to evaluate two to three design configurations with single point sensitivity analysis. Such classical methods neglect the effect of process uncertainties and fail to evaluate the complete landscape of design decisions. The …
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Advancing Software Development Efficiency in an Open Source Software Context
Open source software has been gaining popularity, especially among commercial organizations. The broad industry acceptance is in large part due to the demonstrated ability of open source solutions to compete with proprietary alternatives. Using open source software components enables companies to …
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Open Systems in Practice and Theory
… computer operating system, that is disrupting proprietary software models (2) BiOS, an initiative that aims to import participatory models into the life sciences; (3) the American Radio Relay League, a volunteer organization that connects radio hams in order to relay messages from coast to …
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Managing projects utilizing self-managed teams and managerial toolkits
… Management is an essential function in most software companies today. With increasing complexity and inter connectivity between software projects, it is not surprising that managing such large scale development projects can be expensive and extremely time consuming for the sponsoring …
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Exploring human-vehicle communication to balance transportation safety and efficiency: A naturalistic field study of pedestrian-vehicle interactions
… and kinematic data. Videos were coded using a proprietary software program, Hawkeye, based on an a priori data directory. Recommendations for future autonomous vehicle research and programming are provided.
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Improving the consumer demand forecast to generate more accurate suggested orders at the store-item level
… to all field sales reps. The handheld runs proprietary software developed by this consumer goods company that creates suggested orders based on a number of factors including: * Baseline forecast (specific to store-item combination) * Seasonality effects (i.e., higher demand for products …
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Monitoring and Preventing Data Exfiltration in Android-hosted Unmanned Aircraft System Applications
… As most Android-hosted UAS applications are proprietary software, their source code cannot be studied or modified. This thesis discusses an external monitoring system which is devised in order to assess the threat of data exfiltration. The system is further used to analyze the network …
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A game engine based digital twin framework enabling next-gen manufacturing
… twin framework without ties to professional proprietary software. This should create a modular base for anyone to build a digital twin onto quickly, designed and developed on the Cyber-Physical System (CPS). Can digital twin technology be applied to monitoring and automation in a smart …
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A Scalable Open-source Web-analytic Framework to Improve Satellite-based Operational Water Management in Developing Countries
… web portals based on satellite data and non-proprietary software. With dynamic correction features that can also be built from open-source tools, the well-known limitations of satellite-based operationalization can be overcome for water management agencies of developing countries.
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High performance sparse Fast Fourier Transform using OpenACC
… that have used either low-level or proprietary software on CPUs and GPUs. ☐ Several optimizations are proposed and implemented in ACCsFFT. The performance is also compared against the highly optimized parallel FTW library. We also target GPUs from different families, old to the most …
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Functional Encryption as Mediated Obfuscation
… obfuscation would provide the ability for a software vendor to safely outsource the less savory aspects (like accounting of usage statistics, and remaining online to facilitate access) of “renting out” access to proprietary software. We give security definitions for this new obfuscation …
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Functional Encryption as Mediated Obfuscation
… obfuscation would provide the ability for a software vendor to safely outsource the less savory aspects (like accounting of usage statistics, and remaining online to facilitate access) of “renting out” access to proprietary software. We give security definitions for this new obfuscation …
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Understanding Software Development in an Open Source Context:Network Analysis of Source Code Repositories
Open Source Software (OSS) created a paradigm shift within the software engineering field prompting further research to understand how mature, industry grade, software can be produced in an online milieu with distributed and lightly managed developers contributing source code in their free time. …
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Faults and fractures in the Niobrara Formation of Wattenberg field, Colorado
… fracture volume was generated utilizing CGG’s proprietary software: InsightEarthTM. The algorithm generates this volume statistically based on fault geometry. Each seismic-scale fault indicates a high potential for fracture swarms in the nearby vicinity. Fracture prediction can assist future …
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Design and Performance of a Communications System for a Low-Cost High Altitude Balloon Platform for Troposphere and Stratosphere Research
… and implemented using Arduino IDE and MATLAB for software development and testing, circuit design with National Instrument's Multisim and Ultiboard, transceivers configuration with proprietary software, extensive components and system testing, 3D printing, temperature calibrations using a …
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Organisational phylogenesis : Developing and evaluating a memetic methodology.
… in the phenetic reconstruction algorithms, proprietary software had to be produced. This was extensively tested upon meme strips generated through simulated evolution. Western Christian denominational families provided a source of empirical evidence and demonstrated that the methods could be …
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Approach to flood mitigation - a post sandy study in New Jersey Meadowlands area
… towards those causes; and (3) Hazus-MH, a non-proprietary software by FEMA, is used along with simulated Sandy inundation data to assess the damage caused by Sandy on these areas. Data from various sources like DSAT, FEMA, Census data, etc. is used to assess this regional scale damage. This …
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Energy management for the smart home
… solutions host the home energy management software on a home gateway or on a dedicated device in the home. Furthermore, these systems make use of proprietary software and devices to monitor and control the home environment. However, proprietary systems are costly to implement and maintain …
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