介绍了高温蠕变工况下运行的压力容器可能出现的失效模式,结合工程设计现状,指出了我国当前压力容器标准体系在确定高温蠕变工况许用压应力时存在的技术瓶颈,在此基础之上引出ASME Code Case 3029,对其适用范围、发展历程、产生背景及...介绍了高温蠕变工况下运行的压力容器可能出现的失效模式,结合工程设计现状,指出了我国当前压力容器标准体系在确定高温蠕变工况许用压应力时存在的技术瓶颈,在此基础之上引出ASME Code Case 3029,对其适用范围、发展历程、产生背景及工程意义进行了简单的介绍,以某工程设计项目中的实际结构为例,介绍了该方法的使用过程及注意事项,并结合压力容器工程设计领域的实际需求,对我国标准体系下一步的制定或修订方向提出了展望。展开更多
Mobile communications are reaching out to every aspect of our daily life,necessitating highefficiency data transmission and support for diverse data types and communication scenarios.Polar codes have emerged as a prom...Mobile communications are reaching out to every aspect of our daily life,necessitating highefficiency data transmission and support for diverse data types and communication scenarios.Polar codes have emerged as a promising solution due to their outstanding error-correction performance and low complexity.Unequal error protection(UEP)involves nonuniform error safeguarding for distinct data segments,achieving a fine balance between error resilience and resource allocation,which ultimately enhancing system performance and efficiency.In this paper,we propose a novel class of UEP rateless polar codes.The codes are designed based on matrix extension of polar codes,and elegant mapping and duplication operations are designed to achieve UEP property while preserving the overall performance of conventional polar codes.Superior UEP performance is attained without significant modifications to conventional polar codes,making it straightforward for compatibility with existing polar codes.A theoretical analysis is conducted on the block error rate and throughput efficiency performance.To the best of our knowledge,this work provides the first theoretical performance analysis of UEP rateless polar codes.Simulation results show that the proposed codes significantly outperform existing polar coding schemes in both block error rate and throughput efficiency.展开更多
As artificial Intelligence(AI)continues to expand exponentially,particularly with the emergence of generative pre-trained transformers(GPT)based on a transformer’s architecture,which has revolutionized data processin...As artificial Intelligence(AI)continues to expand exponentially,particularly with the emergence of generative pre-trained transformers(GPT)based on a transformer’s architecture,which has revolutionized data processing and enabled significant improvements in various applications.This document seeks to investigate the security vulnerabilities detection in the source code using a range of large language models(LLM).Our primary objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of Static Application Security Testing(SAST)by applying various techniques such as prompt persona,structure outputs and zero-shot.To the selection of the LLMs(CodeLlama 7B,DeepSeek coder 7B,Gemini 1.5 Flash,Gemini 2.0 Flash,Mistral 7b Instruct,Phi 38b Mini 128K instruct,Qwen 2.5 coder,StartCoder 27B)with comparison and combination with Find Security Bugs.The evaluation method will involve using a selected dataset containing vulnerabilities,and the results to provide insights for different scenarios according to the software criticality(Business critical,non-critical,minimum effort,best effort)In detail,the main objectives of this study are to investigate if large language models outperform or exceed the capabilities of traditional static analysis tools,if the combining LLMs with Static Application Security Testing(SAST)tools lead to an improvement and the possibility that local machine learning models on a normal computer produce reliable results.Summarizing the most important conclusions of the research,it can be said that while it is true that the results have improved depending on the size of the LLM for business-critical software,the best results have been obtained by SAST analysis.This differs in“NonCritical,”“Best Effort,”and“Minimum Effort”scenarios,where the combination of LLM(Gemini)+SAST has obtained better results.展开更多
From cracking the code of viruses to mentoring the next generation of scientists,the former president of Nankai University has contributed a lot to turning microscopic discoveries into monumental shields for global he...From cracking the code of viruses to mentoring the next generation of scientists,the former president of Nankai University has contributed a lot to turning microscopic discoveries into monumental shields for global health.OVER the past 40 years,one man has distinguished himself through a deep commitment to researching protein structures of high pathogenic viruses,and published numerous significant works in top international scientific journals.展开更多
Differential pulse-position modulation(DP PM)can achieve a good compromise between power and bandwidth requirements.However,the output sequence has undetectable insertions and deletions.This paper proposes a successiv...Differential pulse-position modulation(DP PM)can achieve a good compromise between power and bandwidth requirements.However,the output sequence has undetectable insertions and deletions.This paper proposes a successive cancellation(SC)decoding scheme based on the weighted levenshtein distance(WLD)of polar codes for correcting insertions/deletions in DPPM systems.In this method,the WLD is used to calculate the transfer probabilities recursively to obtain likelihood ratios,and the low-complexity SC decoding method is built according to the error characteristics to match the DPPM system.Additionally,the proposed SC decoding scheme is extended to list decoding,which can further improve error correction performance.Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can effectively correct insertions/deletions in the DPPM system,which enhances its reliability and performance.展开更多
Message structure reconstruction is a critical task in protocol reverse engineering,aiming to recover protocol field structures without access to source code.It enables important applications in network security,inclu...Message structure reconstruction is a critical task in protocol reverse engineering,aiming to recover protocol field structures without access to source code.It enables important applications in network security,including malware analysis and protocol fuzzing.However,existing methods suffer from inaccurate field boundary delineation and lack hierarchical relationship recovery,resulting in imprecise and incomplete reconstructions.In this paper,we propose ProRE,a novel method for reconstructing protocol field structures based on program execution slice embedding.ProRE extracts code slices from protocol parsing at runtime,converts them into embedding vectors using a data flow-sensitive assembly language model,and performs hierarchical clustering to recover complete protocol field structures.Evaluation on two datasets containing 12 protocols shows that ProRE achieves an average F1 score of 0.85 and a cophenetic correlation coefficient of 0.189,improving by 19%and 0.126%respectively over state-of-the-art methods(including BinPRE,Tupni,Netlifter,and QwQ-32B-preview),demonstrating significant superiority in both accuracy and completeness of field structure recovery.Case studies further validate the effectiveness of ProRE in practical malware analysis scenarios.展开更多
Beam-tracking simulations have been extensively utilized in the study of collective beam instabilities in circular accelerators.Traditionally,many simulation codes have relied on central processing unit(CPU)-based met...Beam-tracking simulations have been extensively utilized in the study of collective beam instabilities in circular accelerators.Traditionally,many simulation codes have relied on central processing unit(CPU)-based methods,tracking on a single CPU core,or parallelizing the computation across multiple cores via the message passing interface(MPI).Although these approaches work well for single-bunch tracking,scaling them to multiple bunches significantly increases the computational load,which often necessitates the use of a dedicated multi-CPU cluster.To address this challenge,alternative methods leveraging General-Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units(GPGPU)have been proposed,enabling tracking studies on a standalone desktop personal computer(PC).However,frequent CPU-GPU interactions,including data transfers and synchronization operations during tracking,can introduce communication overheads,potentially reducing the overall effectiveness of GPU-based computations.In this study,we propose a novel approach that eliminates this overhead by performing the entire tracking simulation process exclusively on the GPU,thereby enabling the simultaneous processing of all bunches and their macro-particles.Specifically,we introduce MBTRACK2-CUDA,a Compute Unified Device Architecture(CUDA)ported version of MBTRACK2,which facilitates efficient tracking of single-and multi-bunch collective effects by leveraging the full GPU-resident computation.展开更多
The ultracold neutron(UCN)transport code,MCUCN,designed initially for simulating UCN transportation from a solid deuterium(SD_2)source and neutron electric dipole moment experiments,could not simulate UCN storage and ...The ultracold neutron(UCN)transport code,MCUCN,designed initially for simulating UCN transportation from a solid deuterium(SD_2)source and neutron electric dipole moment experiments,could not simulate UCN storage and transportation in a superfluid^(4)He(SFHe,He-Ⅱ)source accurately.This limitation arose from the absence of an^(4)He upscattering mechanism and the absorption of^(3)He.And the provided source energy distribution in MCUCN is different from that in SFHe source.This study introduced enhancements to MCUCN to address these constraints,explicitly incorporating the^(4)He upscattering effect,the absorption of^(3)He,the loss caused by impurities on converter wall,UCN source energy distribution in SFHe,and the transmission through negative optical potential.Additionally,a Python-based visualization code for intermediate states and results was developed.To validate these enhancements,we systematically compared the simulation results of the Lujan Center Mark3 UCN system by MCUCN and the improved MCUCN code(iMCUCN)with UCNtransport simulations.Additionally,we compared the results of the SUN1 system simulated by MCUCN and iMCUCN with measurement results.The study demonstrates that iMCUCN effectively simulates the storage and transportation of ultracold neutrons in He-Ⅱ.展开更多
Compact size,high brightness,and wide field of view(FOV)are key requirements for long-wave infrared imagers used in military surveillance or night navigation.However,to meet the imaging requirements of high resolution...Compact size,high brightness,and wide field of view(FOV)are key requirements for long-wave infrared imagers used in military surveillance or night navigation.However,to meet the imaging requirements of high resolution and wide FOV,infrared optical systems often adopt complex optical lens groups,which will increase the size and weight of the optical system.In this paper,a strategy based on wavefront coding(WFC)is proposed to design a compact wide-FOV infrared imager.A cubic phase mask is inserted into the pupil plane of the infrared imager to correct the aberration.The simulated results show that,the WFC infrared imager has good imaging quality in a wide FOV of±16°.In addition,the WFC infrared imager achieves compactness with its 40 mm×40 mm×40 mm size.A fast focal ratio of 1 combined with an entrance pupil diameter of 25 mm ensures brightness.This work is of significance for designing a compact wide-FOV infrared imager.展开更多
As healthcare systems increasingly embrace digitalization,effective management of electronic health records(EHRs)has emerged as a critical priority,particularly in inpatient settings where data sensitivity and realtim...As healthcare systems increasingly embrace digitalization,effective management of electronic health records(EHRs)has emerged as a critical priority,particularly in inpatient settings where data sensitivity and realtime access are paramount.Traditional EHR systems face significant challenges,including unauthorized access,data breaches,and inefficiencies in tracking follow-up appointments,which heighten the risk of misdiagnosis and medication errors.To address these issues,this research proposes a hybrid blockchain-based solution for securely managing EHRs,specifically designed as a framework for tracking inpatient follow-ups.By integrating QR codeenabled data access with a blockchain architecture,this innovative approach enhances privacy protection,data integrity,and auditing capabilities,while facilitating swift and real-time data retrieval.The architecture adheres to Role-Based Access Control(RBAC)principles and utilizes robust encryption techniques,including SHA-256 and AES-256-CBC,to secure sensitive information.A comprehensive threat model outlines trust boundaries and potential adversaries,complemented by a validated data transmission protocol.Experimental results demonstrate that the framework remains reliable in concurrent access scenarios,highlighting its efficiency and responsiveness in real-world applications.This study emphasizes the necessity for hybrid solutions in managing sensitive medical information and advocates for integrating blockchain technology and QR code innovations into contemporary healthcare systems.展开更多
Transformer-based models have significantly advanced binary code similarity detection(BCSD)by leveraging their semantic encoding capabilities for efficient function matching across diverse compilation settings.Althoug...Transformer-based models have significantly advanced binary code similarity detection(BCSD)by leveraging their semantic encoding capabilities for efficient function matching across diverse compilation settings.Although adversarial examples can strategically undermine the accuracy of BCSD models and protect critical code,existing techniques predominantly depend on inserting artificial instructions,which incur high computational costs and offer limited diversity of perturbations.To address these limitations,we propose AIMA,a novel gradient-guided assembly instruction relocation method.Our method decouples the detection model into tokenization,embedding,and encoding layers to enable efficient gradient computation.Since token IDs of instructions are discrete and nondifferentiable,we compute gradients in the continuous embedding space to evaluate the influence of each token.The most critical tokens are identified by calculating the L2 norm of their embedding gradients.We then establish a mapping between instructions and their corresponding tokens to aggregate token-level importance into instructionlevel significance.To maximize adversarial impact,a sliding window algorithm selects the most influential contiguous segments for relocation,ensuring optimal perturbation with minimal length.This approach efficiently locates critical code regions without expensive search operations.The selected segments are relocated outside their original function boundaries via a jump mechanism,which preserves runtime control flow and functionality while introducing“deletion”effects in the static instruction sequence.Extensive experiments show that AIMA reduces similarity scores by up to 35.8%in state-of-the-art BCSD models.When incorporated into training data,it also enhances model robustness,achieving a 5.9%improvement in AUROC.展开更多
Automated Program Repair(APR)techniques have shown significant potential in mitigating the cost and complexity associated with debugging by automatically generating corrective patches for software defects.Despite cons...Automated Program Repair(APR)techniques have shown significant potential in mitigating the cost and complexity associated with debugging by automatically generating corrective patches for software defects.Despite considerable progress in APR methodologies,existing approaches frequently lack contextual awareness of runtime behaviors and structural intricacies inherent in buggy source code.In this paper,we propose a novel APR approach that integrates attention mechanisms within an autoencoder-based framework,explicitly utilizing structural code affinity and execution context correlation derived from stack trace analysis.Our approach begins with an innovative preprocessing pipeline,where code segments and stack traces are transformed into tokenized representations.Subsequently,the BM25 ranking algorithm is employed to quantitatively measure structural code affinity and execution context correlation,identifying syntactically and semantically analogous buggy code snippets and relevant runtime error contexts from extensive repositories.These extracted features are then encoded via an attention-enhanced autoencoder model,specifically designed to capture significant patterns and correlations essential for effective patch generation.To assess the efficacy and generalizability of our proposed method,we conducted rigorous experimental comparisons against DeepFix,a state-of-the-art APR system,using a substantial dataset comprising 53,478 studentdeveloped C programs.Experimental outcomes indicate that our model achieves a notable bug repair success rate of approximately 62.36%,representing a statistically significant performance improvement of over 6%compared to the baseline.Furthermore,a thorough K-fold cross-validation reinforced the consistency,robustness,and reliability of our method across diverse subsets of the dataset.Our findings present the critical advantage of integrating attentionbased learning with code structural and execution context features in APR tasks,leading to improved accuracy and practical applicability.Future work aims to extend the model’s applicability across different programming languages,systematically optimize hyperparameters,and explore alternative feature representation methods to further enhance debugging efficiency and effectiveness.展开更多
An analytical model of a floating heaving box integrated with a vertical flexible porous membrane placed right next to the box applications to wave energy extraction and breakwater systems is developed under the reduc...An analytical model of a floating heaving box integrated with a vertical flexible porous membrane placed right next to the box applications to wave energy extraction and breakwater systems is developed under the reduced wave equation.The theoretical solutions for the heave radiating potential to the assigned physical model in the corresponding zones are attained by using the separation of variables approach along with the Fourier expansion.Applying the matching eigenfunction expansion technique and orthogonal conditions,the unknown coefficients that are involved in the radiated potentials are determined.The attained radiation potential allows the computation of hydrodynamic coefficients of the heaving buoy,Power Take-Off damping,and wave quantities.The accuracy of the analytical solution for the hydrodynamic coefficients is demonstrated for different oblique angles with varying numbers of terms in the series solution.The current analytical analysis findings are confirmed by existing published numerical boundary element method simulations.Several numerical results of the hydrodynamic coefficients,power capture,power take-off optimal damping,and transmission coefficients for numerous structural and physical aspects are conducted.It has been noted that the ideal power take-off damping increases as the angle of incidence rises,and the analysis suggests that the ability to capture waves is more effective in shallower waters compared to deeper ones.展开更多
We study the points with periodic codings of a class of graph-directed iterated function systems on with algebraic parameters （which we call algebraic GIFS）. It is shown that the set of points with periodic codings ...We study the points with periodic codings of a class of graph-directed iterated function systems on with algebraic parameters （which we call algebraic GIFS）. It is shown that the set of points with periodic codings is closely related to the Rauzy box. Especially for the feasible Pisot GIFS, this set is completely characterized by the Rauzy box; this result unifies and extends the previous results on the study of periodic points of classical and generalized β-transformations.展开更多
文摘介绍了高温蠕变工况下运行的压力容器可能出现的失效模式,结合工程设计现状,指出了我国当前压力容器标准体系在确定高温蠕变工况许用压应力时存在的技术瓶颈,在此基础之上引出ASME Code Case 3029,对其适用范围、发展历程、产生背景及工程意义进行了简单的介绍,以某工程设计项目中的实际结构为例,介绍了该方法的使用过程及注意事项,并结合压力容器工程设计领域的实际需求,对我国标准体系下一步的制定或修订方向提出了展望。
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62301008)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2022M720272)New Cornerstone Science Foundation through the XPLORER PRIZE。
文摘Mobile communications are reaching out to every aspect of our daily life,necessitating highefficiency data transmission and support for diverse data types and communication scenarios.Polar codes have emerged as a promising solution due to their outstanding error-correction performance and low complexity.Unequal error protection(UEP)involves nonuniform error safeguarding for distinct data segments,achieving a fine balance between error resilience and resource allocation,which ultimately enhancing system performance and efficiency.In this paper,we propose a novel class of UEP rateless polar codes.The codes are designed based on matrix extension of polar codes,and elegant mapping and duplication operations are designed to achieve UEP property while preserving the overall performance of conventional polar codes.Superior UEP performance is attained without significant modifications to conventional polar codes,making it straightforward for compatibility with existing polar codes.A theoretical analysis is conducted on the block error rate and throughput efficiency performance.To the best of our knowledge,this work provides the first theoretical performance analysis of UEP rateless polar codes.Simulation results show that the proposed codes significantly outperform existing polar coding schemes in both block error rate and throughput efficiency.
文摘As artificial Intelligence(AI)continues to expand exponentially,particularly with the emergence of generative pre-trained transformers(GPT)based on a transformer’s architecture,which has revolutionized data processing and enabled significant improvements in various applications.This document seeks to investigate the security vulnerabilities detection in the source code using a range of large language models(LLM).Our primary objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of Static Application Security Testing(SAST)by applying various techniques such as prompt persona,structure outputs and zero-shot.To the selection of the LLMs(CodeLlama 7B,DeepSeek coder 7B,Gemini 1.5 Flash,Gemini 2.0 Flash,Mistral 7b Instruct,Phi 38b Mini 128K instruct,Qwen 2.5 coder,StartCoder 27B)with comparison and combination with Find Security Bugs.The evaluation method will involve using a selected dataset containing vulnerabilities,and the results to provide insights for different scenarios according to the software criticality(Business critical,non-critical,minimum effort,best effort)In detail,the main objectives of this study are to investigate if large language models outperform or exceed the capabilities of traditional static analysis tools,if the combining LLMs with Static Application Security Testing(SAST)tools lead to an improvement and the possibility that local machine learning models on a normal computer produce reliable results.Summarizing the most important conclusions of the research,it can be said that while it is true that the results have improved depending on the size of the LLM for business-critical software,the best results have been obtained by SAST analysis.This differs in“NonCritical,”“Best Effort,”and“Minimum Effort”scenarios,where the combination of LLM(Gemini)+SAST has obtained better results.
文摘From cracking the code of viruses to mentoring the next generation of scientists,the former president of Nankai University has contributed a lot to turning microscopic discoveries into monumental shields for global health.OVER the past 40 years,one man has distinguished himself through a deep commitment to researching protein structures of high pathogenic viruses,and published numerous significant works in top international scientific journals.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61801327).
文摘Differential pulse-position modulation(DP PM)can achieve a good compromise between power and bandwidth requirements.However,the output sequence has undetectable insertions and deletions.This paper proposes a successive cancellation(SC)decoding scheme based on the weighted levenshtein distance(WLD)of polar codes for correcting insertions/deletions in DPPM systems.In this method,the WLD is used to calculate the transfer probabilities recursively to obtain likelihood ratios,and the low-complexity SC decoding method is built according to the error characteristics to match the DPPM system.Additionally,the proposed SC decoding scheme is extended to list decoding,which can further improve error correction performance.Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can effectively correct insertions/deletions in the DPPM system,which enhances its reliability and performance.
文摘Message structure reconstruction is a critical task in protocol reverse engineering,aiming to recover protocol field structures without access to source code.It enables important applications in network security,including malware analysis and protocol fuzzing.However,existing methods suffer from inaccurate field boundary delineation and lack hierarchical relationship recovery,resulting in imprecise and incomplete reconstructions.In this paper,we propose ProRE,a novel method for reconstructing protocol field structures based on program execution slice embedding.ProRE extracts code slices from protocol parsing at runtime,converts them into embedding vectors using a data flow-sensitive assembly language model,and performs hierarchical clustering to recover complete protocol field structures.Evaluation on two datasets containing 12 protocols shows that ProRE achieves an average F1 score of 0.85 and a cophenetic correlation coefficient of 0.189,improving by 19%and 0.126%respectively over state-of-the-art methods(including BinPRE,Tupni,Netlifter,and QwQ-32B-preview),demonstrating significant superiority in both accuracy and completeness of field structure recovery.Case studies further validate the effectiveness of ProRE in practical malware analysis scenarios.
基金supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF)funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT(MSIT)(No.RS-2022-00143178)the Ministry of Education(MOE)(Nos.2022R1A6A3A13053896 and 2022R1F1A1074616),Republic of Korea.
文摘Beam-tracking simulations have been extensively utilized in the study of collective beam instabilities in circular accelerators.Traditionally,many simulation codes have relied on central processing unit(CPU)-based methods,tracking on a single CPU core,or parallelizing the computation across multiple cores via the message passing interface(MPI).Although these approaches work well for single-bunch tracking,scaling them to multiple bunches significantly increases the computational load,which often necessitates the use of a dedicated multi-CPU cluster.To address this challenge,alternative methods leveraging General-Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units(GPGPU)have been proposed,enabling tracking studies on a standalone desktop personal computer(PC).However,frequent CPU-GPU interactions,including data transfers and synchronization operations during tracking,can introduce communication overheads,potentially reducing the overall effectiveness of GPU-based computations.In this study,we propose a novel approach that eliminates this overhead by performing the entire tracking simulation process exclusively on the GPU,thereby enabling the simultaneous processing of all bunches and their macro-particles.Specifically,we introduce MBTRACK2-CUDA,a Compute Unified Device Architecture(CUDA)ported version of MBTRACK2,which facilitates efficient tracking of single-and multi-bunch collective effects by leveraging the full GPU-resident computation.
基金the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2024YFE0110001)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(U1932219)the Mobility Programme endorsed by the Joint Committee of the Sino-German Center(M0728)。
文摘The ultracold neutron(UCN)transport code,MCUCN,designed initially for simulating UCN transportation from a solid deuterium(SD_2)source and neutron electric dipole moment experiments,could not simulate UCN storage and transportation in a superfluid^(4)He(SFHe,He-Ⅱ)source accurately.This limitation arose from the absence of an^(4)He upscattering mechanism and the absorption of^(3)He.And the provided source energy distribution in MCUCN is different from that in SFHe source.This study introduced enhancements to MCUCN to address these constraints,explicitly incorporating the^(4)He upscattering effect,the absorption of^(3)He,the loss caused by impurities on converter wall,UCN source energy distribution in SFHe,and the transmission through negative optical potential.Additionally,a Python-based visualization code for intermediate states and results was developed.To validate these enhancements,we systematically compared the simulation results of the Lujan Center Mark3 UCN system by MCUCN and the improved MCUCN code(iMCUCN)with UCNtransport simulations.Additionally,we compared the results of the SUN1 system simulated by MCUCN and iMCUCN with measurement results.The study demonstrates that iMCUCN effectively simulates the storage and transportation of ultracold neutrons in He-Ⅱ.
文摘Compact size,high brightness,and wide field of view(FOV)are key requirements for long-wave infrared imagers used in military surveillance or night navigation.However,to meet the imaging requirements of high resolution and wide FOV,infrared optical systems often adopt complex optical lens groups,which will increase the size and weight of the optical system.In this paper,a strategy based on wavefront coding(WFC)is proposed to design a compact wide-FOV infrared imager.A cubic phase mask is inserted into the pupil plane of the infrared imager to correct the aberration.The simulated results show that,the WFC infrared imager has good imaging quality in a wide FOV of±16°.In addition,the WFC infrared imager achieves compactness with its 40 mm×40 mm×40 mm size.A fast focal ratio of 1 combined with an entrance pupil diameter of 25 mm ensures brightness.This work is of significance for designing a compact wide-FOV infrared imager.
基金funded by Multimedia University,Cyberjaya,Selangor,Malaysia(Grant Number:PostDoc(MMUI/240029)).
文摘As healthcare systems increasingly embrace digitalization,effective management of electronic health records(EHRs)has emerged as a critical priority,particularly in inpatient settings where data sensitivity and realtime access are paramount.Traditional EHR systems face significant challenges,including unauthorized access,data breaches,and inefficiencies in tracking follow-up appointments,which heighten the risk of misdiagnosis and medication errors.To address these issues,this research proposes a hybrid blockchain-based solution for securely managing EHRs,specifically designed as a framework for tracking inpatient follow-ups.By integrating QR codeenabled data access with a blockchain architecture,this innovative approach enhances privacy protection,data integrity,and auditing capabilities,while facilitating swift and real-time data retrieval.The architecture adheres to Role-Based Access Control(RBAC)principles and utilizes robust encryption techniques,including SHA-256 and AES-256-CBC,to secure sensitive information.A comprehensive threat model outlines trust boundaries and potential adversaries,complemented by a validated data transmission protocol.Experimental results demonstrate that the framework remains reliable in concurrent access scenarios,highlighting its efficiency and responsiveness in real-world applications.This study emphasizes the necessity for hybrid solutions in managing sensitive medical information and advocates for integrating blockchain technology and QR code innovations into contemporary healthcare systems.
基金supported by Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Security,Ministry of Education,China。
文摘Transformer-based models have significantly advanced binary code similarity detection(BCSD)by leveraging their semantic encoding capabilities for efficient function matching across diverse compilation settings.Although adversarial examples can strategically undermine the accuracy of BCSD models and protect critical code,existing techniques predominantly depend on inserting artificial instructions,which incur high computational costs and offer limited diversity of perturbations.To address these limitations,we propose AIMA,a novel gradient-guided assembly instruction relocation method.Our method decouples the detection model into tokenization,embedding,and encoding layers to enable efficient gradient computation.Since token IDs of instructions are discrete and nondifferentiable,we compute gradients in the continuous embedding space to evaluate the influence of each token.The most critical tokens are identified by calculating the L2 norm of their embedding gradients.We then establish a mapping between instructions and their corresponding tokens to aggregate token-level importance into instructionlevel significance.To maximize adversarial impact,a sliding window algorithm selects the most influential contiguous segments for relocation,ensuring optimal perturbation with minimal length.This approach efficiently locates critical code regions without expensive search operations.The selected segments are relocated outside their original function boundaries via a jump mechanism,which preserves runtime control flow and functionality while introducing“deletion”effects in the static instruction sequence.Extensive experiments show that AIMA reduces similarity scores by up to 35.8%in state-of-the-art BCSD models.When incorporated into training data,it also enhances model robustness,achieving a 5.9%improvement in AUROC.
文摘Automated Program Repair(APR)techniques have shown significant potential in mitigating the cost and complexity associated with debugging by automatically generating corrective patches for software defects.Despite considerable progress in APR methodologies,existing approaches frequently lack contextual awareness of runtime behaviors and structural intricacies inherent in buggy source code.In this paper,we propose a novel APR approach that integrates attention mechanisms within an autoencoder-based framework,explicitly utilizing structural code affinity and execution context correlation derived from stack trace analysis.Our approach begins with an innovative preprocessing pipeline,where code segments and stack traces are transformed into tokenized representations.Subsequently,the BM25 ranking algorithm is employed to quantitatively measure structural code affinity and execution context correlation,identifying syntactically and semantically analogous buggy code snippets and relevant runtime error contexts from extensive repositories.These extracted features are then encoded via an attention-enhanced autoencoder model,specifically designed to capture significant patterns and correlations essential for effective patch generation.To assess the efficacy and generalizability of our proposed method,we conducted rigorous experimental comparisons against DeepFix,a state-of-the-art APR system,using a substantial dataset comprising 53,478 studentdeveloped C programs.Experimental outcomes indicate that our model achieves a notable bug repair success rate of approximately 62.36%,representing a statistically significant performance improvement of over 6%compared to the baseline.Furthermore,a thorough K-fold cross-validation reinforced the consistency,robustness,and reliability of our method across diverse subsets of the dataset.Our findings present the critical advantage of integrating attentionbased learning with code structural and execution context features in APR tasks,leading to improved accuracy and practical applicability.Future work aims to extend the model’s applicability across different programming languages,systematically optimize hyperparameters,and explore alternative feature representation methods to further enhance debugging efficiency and effectiveness.
基金Open access funding provided by FCT|FCCN(b-on)the Strategic Research Plan of the Centre for Marine Technology and Ocean Engineering(CENTEC),which is financed by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology(Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia-FCT)under contract UIDB/UIDP/00134/2020.
文摘An analytical model of a floating heaving box integrated with a vertical flexible porous membrane placed right next to the box applications to wave energy extraction and breakwater systems is developed under the reduced wave equation.The theoretical solutions for the heave radiating potential to the assigned physical model in the corresponding zones are attained by using the separation of variables approach along with the Fourier expansion.Applying the matching eigenfunction expansion technique and orthogonal conditions,the unknown coefficients that are involved in the radiated potentials are determined.The attained radiation potential allows the computation of hydrodynamic coefficients of the heaving buoy,Power Take-Off damping,and wave quantities.The accuracy of the analytical solution for the hydrodynamic coefficients is demonstrated for different oblique angles with varying numbers of terms in the series solution.The current analytical analysis findings are confirmed by existing published numerical boundary element method simulations.Several numerical results of the hydrodynamic coefficients,power capture,power take-off optimal damping,and transmission coefficients for numerous structural and physical aspects are conducted.It has been noted that the ideal power take-off damping increases as the angle of incidence rises,and the analysis suggests that the ability to capture waves is more effective in shallower waters compared to deeper ones.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11171128,11271223 and 11101169)
文摘We study the points with periodic codings of a class of graph-directed iterated function systems on with algebraic parameters （which we call algebraic GIFS）. It is shown that the set of points with periodic codings is closely related to the Rauzy box. Especially for the feasible Pisot GIFS, this set is completely characterized by the Rauzy box; this result unifies and extends the previous results on the study of periodic points of classical and generalized β-transformations.
文摘现有的基于卷积神经网络(convolutional neural network,CNN)的环路滤波器倾向于将多个网络应用于不同的量化参数(quantization parameter,QP),消耗训练模型中的大量资源,并增加内存负担。针对这一问题,提出一种基于CNN的QP自适应环路滤波器。首先,设计一个轻量级分类网络,按照滤波难易程度将编码树单元(coding tree unit,CTU)划分为难、中、易3类;然后,构建3个融合了特征信息增强融合模块的基于CNN的滤波网络,以满足不同QP下的3类CTU滤波需求。将所提出的环路滤波器集成到多功能视频编码(versatile video coding,VVC)标准H.266/VVC的测试软件VTM 6.0中,替换原有的去块效应滤波器(deblocking filter,DBF)、样本自适应偏移(sample adaptive offset,SAO)滤波器和自适应环路滤波器。实验结果表明,该方法平均降低了3.14%的比特率差值(Bjøntegaard delta bit rate,BD-BR),与其他基于CNN的环路滤波器相比,显著提高了压缩效率,并减少了压缩伪影。
