An Achilles heel: denial of service attacks on Australian critical information infrastructures

Critical, or national, information infrastructure protection, referred to as either CIIP or NIIP, has been highlighted as a critical factor in overall national security by the United States, the United Kingdom, India and the European Community. As nations move inexorably towards so-called ‘digital economies’, critical infrastructure depends on information systems to process, transfer, store and exchange information through the Internet. Electronic attacks such as denial of service attacks on critical information infrastructures challenge the law and raise concerns. A myriad of issues potentially plague the protection of critical information infrastructures owing to the lack of legal regulation aimed at ensuring the protection of critical information infrastructures. This paper will highlight the legal concerns that relate to the denial of service attacks on critical information infrastructures and provide an introductory overview of the law as it relates to CIIP in Australia.     

基于网络的主题协作学习模式的探索

以微型计算机原理及应用课程网络教学改革为例,详细介绍一种基于网络资源利用的主题协作学习的模式,并提出网络环境下学生学习态度、网络教学环境、教师指导和自我评价表质量等建议。     

基于词性的文本挖掘算法在IDS日志中的应用

提出一种以词性为参考值的文本挖掘算法,能有效挖掘与种子词有关的关联规则。基于Bootstrapping算法思想,既减少了预处理阶段对于词根还原的依赖,能处理日志中出现的中文词汇。增加了对于日志文本上下的理解,提高了关联规则的有效性,并应用与IDS日志挖掘之中,有效改善挖掘效率,为规则库提供关联规则。     

Models to predict the deformation modulus and the coefficient of subgrade reaction for earth filling structures

Determination of deformation modulus and coefficient of subgrade reaction of soils have major importance, whether the projects are in design, and construction or compaction assessment stage of earth filling structures. Plate load test is one of the frequently used method to directly determine the parameters but the method is both costly and time consuming. For this reason, this paper is concerned with the applications of artificial neural networks (ANN) and simple-multiple regression analysis to predict deformation modulus and coefficient of subgrade reaction of compacted soils from compaction parameters (such as maximum dry density (MDD) and optimum moisture content (OMC), field dry density (FDD), and field moisture content (FMC)). Regression analysis and artificial neural network estimation indicated that there are acceptable correlations between deformation modulus and coefficient of subgrade reaction and these parameters. Artificial neural networks model exhibits higher performance than traditional statistical model for predicting deformation modulus and coefficient of subgrade reaction.     

Discrete particle swarm optimization based on estimation of distribution for terminal assignment problems

Terminal assignment problem (TEAP) is to determine minimum cost links to form a network by connecting a given set of terminals to a given collection of concentrators. This paper presents a novel discrete particle swarm optimization (PSO) based on estimation of distribution (EDA), named DPSO-EDA, for TEAP. EDAs sample new solutions from a probability model which characterizes the distribution of promising solutions in the search space at each generation. The DPSO-EDA incorporates the global statistical information collected from personal best solutions of all particles into the PSO, and therefore each particle has comprehensive learning and search ability. In the DPSO-EDA, a modified constraint handling method based on Hopfield neural network (HNN) is also introduced to fit nicely into the framework of the PSO and thus utilize the merit of the PSO. The DPSO-EDA adopts the asynchronous updating scheme. Further, the DPSO-EDA is applied to a problem directly related to TEAP, the task assignment problem (TAAP), in order to show that the DPSO-EDA can be generalized to other related combinatorial optimization problems. Simulation results on several problem instances show that the DPSO-EDA is better than previous methods.     

Pumping with electroosmosis of the second kind in mesoporous skeletons

This paper presents the use of mesoporous silica skeletons as substrates for electroosmotic (EO) micropumps. Mesoporous silica skeletons have bimodal pore size distributions consisting of macropores and cation-permselective mesopores. These materials have the potential for high flow rate per power because the cation-permselective mesopores can generate an induced charge layer (ICL) and electroosmosis of the second kind (EO-2) under high applied electric fields. The diffuse charge layers induced by the electric field result in an EO-2 flow rate that increases quadratically with increasing electric field. In contrast, the flow rate of the more common electroosmosis of the first kind (EO-1) is linearly proportional to electric field. Here, we investigate the impact of finite pressure loads on the EO-2 flow rate with experiments and an engineering model to evaluate the potential of mesoporous skeletons for micropumping applications. Our results include analyses of maximum flow rate, maximum pressure, and flow rate with intermediate pressure loads. The results indicate the existence of a critical pressure load at which reverse pressure-driven flow significantly diminishes the EO-2 flow. We also investigate the scaling of flow rate per power with respect to substrate thickness and area, demonstrating significant increases in flow rate per power with thinner substrates and favorable scaling for miniaturization of EO-2 pumps.     

台达VE系列变频器在桥式起重机中的应用

本文介绍了桥式起重机的工作原理和应用环境,详细阐述了台达VFD—VE系列变频器应用于行车电动机的变频驱动原理与功能模式。为VFD—VE变频器在行车行业中的应用提供了参考。     

Prevention of falls during stairway descent in older adults

A prospective design was applied to examine how older adults would adapt stairway intervention stimuli to gait patterns during stairway descent to prevent falls. Ambient lighting and an auditory signal were used as stairway intervention stimuli. The gait pattern changes with and without stimuli were compared. No significant change of angular displacement was found between normal condition and intervention conditions under daylight and nightlight. The lighting intervention tended to increase the knee's angular velocity for both daylight and nightlight conditions, but not the ankle's angular velocity. However, adding the auditory signal to the lighting intervention under nightlight condition increased the ankle's angular velocity. Under the daylight condition, every intervention was significantly helpful to make people step on the floor more confidently compared to the condition without interventions. However, the intervention of lighting had an opposite effect on the confidence of stepping under the nightlight condition. The intervention of lighting may contribute to increase of confidence during stair descent while compromising the declined stride length in older adults and the potential “rush” factor for falls on stairs.     

1553B通信协议的可依赖性讨论

1553B是飞机电传系统的通信协议,由于硬件上抗干扰仅考虑了系统内部自生的干扰,实际环境要严重得多;因为只按奇偶位作校验,所以错字漏检的概率比较大;由于回传状态字内容不全面,在漏检错字时会发生假冒错;由于指令字出错不易纠正,最好情况下靠2次重传,丢帧可能性大.漏检错帧和丢帧多会使多重冗余的表决机制失效,也会使网络管理类指令失效,成为潜伏的故障.通过定量分析,确定了一些情况下的失效率,例如假定取CAN,Profesafe同样的误码率ber=0.01时,除去最大值/最小值再取均值时的4冗余系统因错字漏检引起的每小时失效可达2×10-1次.