Academic Articles & Research Papers

Computing metasurfaces for all-optical image processing: a brief review

Computing metasurfaces are two-dimensional artificial nanostructures capable of performing mathematical operations on the input electromagnetic field, including its amplitude, phase, polarization, and frequency distributions. Rapid progress...

Quantum Computing

The advent of quantum computing marks a transformative era in technology, presenting both unprecedented opportunities and significant threats to the field of cybersecurity. This chapter explores the intricate relationship between quantum co...

Quantum Computing in Telecommunication—A Survey

Quantum computing, an emerging paradigm based on the principles of quantum mechanics, has the potential to revolutionise various industries, including Telecommunications. This paper explores the transformative impact of quantum computing on...

Quantum computing with neutral atoms

The power of quantum computation derives from algorithmic methods that exploit the availability of quantum superposition and entanglement to perform computations that are intractable with classical devices. The race is on to develop hardwar...

Efficient thermal dissipation in wafer-scale heterogeneous integration of single-crystalline β-Ga2O3 thin film on SiC

The semiconductor, β-Ga2O3 is attractive for applications in high power electronic devices with low conduction loss due to its ultra-wide bandgap (∼4.9 eV) and large Baliga's figure of merit. However, the thermal conductivity of β-Ga2O3 is ...

Quantum Security in Cyber Risk Analysis Through Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process

Quantum security is an evolving field that leverages principles of quantum physics to strengthen computing systems. Core concepts such as superposition and entanglement are foundation to this domain. However, current systems face significan...

Quantum Computing

There are signs that we are approaching a technical revolution that might take humankind’s computational capabilities to a new level. Quantum Computing leverages the principles of quantum mechanics, enabling the computational power to solve...

Quantum computing in power systems

Electric power systems provide the backbone of modern industrial societies. Enabling scalable grid analytics is the keystone to successfully operating large transmission and distribution systems. However, today's power systems are suffering...

Quantum Computing in Medicine

Quantum computing (QC) represents a paradigm shift in computational power, offering unique capabilities for addressing complex problems that are infeasible for classical computers. This review paper provides a detailed account of the curren...

Effective Concurrency Testing for Distributed Systems

Despite their wide deployment, distributed systems remain notoriously hard to reason about. Unexpected interleavings of concurrent operations and failures may lead to undefined behaviors and cause serious consequences. We present Morpheus, ...

Self-Managing Distributed Systems

A policy framework for management of distributed systems

Policy-based management is one of the latest developments in network and distributed systems management. Academic and commercial settings, as well as standardisation bodies are concentrating on policy-based management as a very promising so...

Distributed Systems

This chapter addresses the issues involved in distributed databases, where a database is stored on more than one computer. It provides an introduction to parallel and distributed computing as a foundation for the better understanding of clo...

Distributed Systems

The origins of big data technologies come from database systems and distributed systems as well as data mining and machine learning algorithms that can process these vast amounts of data to extract the necessary knowledge. This chapter addr...

Developing a Self-Reflection Tool to Assess Schools’ Openness

In 2015, the EU Educational Policy document “Science Education for Responsible Citizenship” introduced the concept of Open Schooling as a promising approach to transform schools into innovation hubs within their local communities. In an ope...

Network and distributed systems management

Contents Introduction 1. Management - What and Why Enabling Technologies 2. Network Technologies 3. Distributed Systems Models and Standards for Management 4. OSI Management Model and Standards 5. OSI Structure of Management Information 6. ...

Monitoring distributed systems

It is suggested that a functional model of monitoring in terms of the generation, processing, dissemination, and presentation of information can help determine the facilities needed to design and construct distributed systems. Implementatio...

Caching Hints in Distributed Systems

Caching reduces the average cost of retrieving data by amortizing the lookup cost over several references to the data. Problems with maintaining strong cache consistency in a distributed system can be avoided by treating cached information ...

GEM: a generalized event monitoring language for distributed systems

Event-based monitoring is critical for managing and debugging networks and distributed systems. This paper presents GEM - an interpreted generalized event monitoring language. It allows high-level, abstract events to be specified in terms o...

Fault-tolerant clock synchronization in distributed systems

Existing fault-tolerant clock synchronization algorithms are compared and contrasted. These include the following: software synchronization algorithms, such as convergence-averaging, convergence-nonaveraging, and consistency algorithms, as ...