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The article presents methodological approaches to the improvement of the environmental monitoring system. To increase the objectivity and to improve the visual aspects of data presentation during ecological monitoring, the authors proposed to involve remote sensing methods of the Earth and geoinformation technologies. The presented set of methods is effectively used for general, operational and background monitoring. The authors have developed an algorithm for monitoring the state of ecosystem components by remote...

The aim of the presented paper is to give a review of the classification of atherosclerotic plaques between two different input values; using computer image analysis and a visual assessment by an experienced sonographer. In the case of computer analysis, the echogenicity index (Echo-Index) is used. In the case of visual assessment, echogenicity of the plaques have been evaluated from histological patterns. In the case of computer image analysis, B-images have been processed. To computer image analysis, our develop...

The paper discusses issues related to the optimization and improvement of the quality of the process of developing information systems. In particular, the purpose of this work is to study the process of analyzing the activities of an enterprise. This work conducted a study on methods for extracting information about the activities of the enterprise. The study is showed that there is a set of methods to analyze the activities of the enterprise. Methods such as a round table, brainstorming, interviewing, observation...

We offer the conceptual model of the hybrid geographic information system built by using Kubernetes, Docker containers and cloud computing. Within the study, we conducted stress tests and velocity measurements in virtual environments. Applications deployed in containers show better performance when one needs to simultaneously run the same type of isolated compute nodes. The experimental results clearly demonstrate the advantage of using Kubernetes with Docker containers to build such systems, especially in case of...

This work aims at the creation of digital selenographic satellite maps (DSSM) using fractal geometry and multi-parameter harmonic analysis. The observational data for DSSM were produced by the ?Clementine?, ?Kaguya? and ?LRO? space missions. An electronic database on altimetry measurements was built and they were brought into the single reference system by robust modeling. Based on the produced data and the method of multi-parameter harmonic analysis, we developed a digital selenographic satellite map covering the...

In modern studies, the idea is formed that the system approach is a conceptual design, the background in which one of its forms is fixed in the form of a system and its basic abstraction. The existing specific types of systems and their basic abstractions are the result of empirical fixation of ideas about the system approach, fixation of the formed concept of the system approach in the form of one of the types of system forms: "... the representation of an object in the form of a system is nothing more than a tra...

This work focused on study fractal structures on Venus is performed on the basis of observations taken by the ?Magellan? spacecraft (NASA). The equipment of this artificial satellite allowed scanning almost the entire surface of Venus using a radar with synthesized aperture of S-band (12 cm) and a microwave radiometer as well as investigating topography by the special radar ? altimeter. The uncertainties in some data produced by ?Magellan? were filled by the information that had been collected before ? in ?Venera ...

Following the international procedures, aviation professionals are required to prove very high psychological and physical standards. There are plenty of factors which might affect a performance of aviation employees. A working environment of aviation personnel is constantly changing, and this variability of their tasks escalates a lot of stress, which further affect safety and quality of flights. There are a lot of stress relieving techniques exercised by pilots, prior they take off. Some of them are selfregulator...

One of the main processes of functioning of digital measuring systems is image analysis. For photogrammetric systems, such tasks involve searching, counting the number of objects of a given type, followed by determining their geometric characteristics. The main problem that impedes the direct application of methods is the provision of a given level of measurement error. Methods, depending on their specific combinations and input parameters, can give different results. This is due both to the quality of the image i...

Analysis of social networks is one of the promising areas of research. In addition to the development of a mathematical apparatus that allows processing the extracted data, it is of interest to identify new characteristics of user interaction. In the case of researching social networks, one of the important problems is the definition of a digital portrait of a user based on the consolidation and preliminary processing of open data from his profiles. To solve this problem, the authors previously proposed a model fo...

The article considers the issues of evaluating the quality and effectiveness of an information resource with Internet access dedicated to memorable places associated with the residency of famous Russian personalities. The authors noted that one of the problems is choosing the indicators and evaluation criteria that characterize the effectiveness and efficiency of museum activities, as well as the impact of museums on society. The following main functions of museums are highlighted: collection, preservation and doc...

The use of a qualified electronic signature has become more widespread in recent years, and one of the main prerequisites for this is the development of electronic services using a qualified electronic signature for authentication. Some of the services require additional entry of a username and password and they show that a qualified electronic signature complements the security of authentication by becoming the so-called "Second factor". All services provided by a qualified electronic signature in the browser are...

The article examines the issues of virtual reconstruction of memorable places associated with residency and activities of V.F. Voyno-Yasenetsky (Saint Luke the Surgeon) in the city of Tambov (Russia). Valentin Felixovich Voyno-Yasenetsky (1877-1961) ? a religious figure, archbishop, famous Russian and Soviet doctor, doctor of medical sciences and theology, winner of the Stalin prize of the first degree. In order to visualize individual objects of memorable places in Tambov, their three-dimensional virtual reconstr...

Most of the time, in assessing a situation where a leakage of combustible gas is involved, the volume of the room where the release occurs and the volume of the released gas is taken into account, thus resulting in an average concentration of the fuel gas applied to the entire volume of the room. In some cases, when the source of combustible gas is close enough to the source of initiation, or when air currents converge at the location of the source of initiation carrying amounts of combustible gas, the explosive m...

Application of image processing recognition in the agricultural field is a difficult and intensive task. Recent years developments of technologies such as GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) and the fast development of artificial intelligence algorithms allows the reliability of using computer vision technology to be used for recognition of plants, including weeds, ensuring the efficiency of intelligent agricultural systems. Computer vision technology uses a camera and a computer to identify and measure objects in th...

Academic rankings can be referred to as a tool of external evaluation of university performance, and a crucial role that the rankings play now in government decisions to fund university research around the world is undoubtful, despite all the ambiguity and skewness of rankings methodologies. Having said that the publication productivity and citation impact are important criteria of rankings evaluation, not only university management needs to be sure that the rankings trajectory is well applied, or incorporated int...

In this paper, a computational method to predict the dimensional changes in some powder metallurgy materials is used. The samples prepared from pre-alloyed iron base powders produced by atomization (< 45, 45-63, 63-100, 100-150, >150?m) were the materials analyzed in this paper. The analyzed powders were compressed in a mold using uniaxial pressing at 400 and 600 MPa with the disc dimensions of ? 8 ? 6 mm. The sintering temperature was approximately 1.150 °C for 60 and 90 minutes. The density in green and sintered...

Vulnerability may be considered one of the most important components of the seismic risk, as it is the only one that human society may act upon in order to reduce the risk. As seismic vulnerability implies multiple dimensions, from the physical one to the social and economic ones, a multi-criteria decision-making approach proves to be appropriate for its assessment. The uncertainty inherently involved in the assessment process is addressed using fuzzy logic theory. This paper aims to assess the seismic vulnerabili...

The objective of this work is to present the implementating of an employees? performances assessment process in the Heating-Ventilation-AirConditioning (HVAC) department of a ship design company, using the multi-criteria decision method. It is useful and important to optimize this process in the ship design companies because at present the way how to carry out the performance assessment can lead to a series of important errors such as: error of dispersion and of central tendency, error of "logical" evaluation, hal...

The article presents the results of one of the stages of research, the purpose of which is to increase the speed of video data transmission from a source to a processing center. It is shown that one of the approaches to achieve the given goal is to reduce the amount of information for transmission through the partial transferring of frames of the video stream. This possibility is provided by the three-dimensional representation of blocks of frames in the form of a bit cube, which described in the article. The idea...

Last decades witnessed a significant increasing in energy consumption in data centers and server rooms. More powerful equipment and more complex IT services have been driving to more power demand. Since infrastructure and energy costs in data centers have become a central factor in IT management, a range of technologies has been developed to increase energy efficiency. New hardware and power management options support energy saving strategies. An appropriate procurement plan is essential for building an efficient ...

The article presents the results of the analysis of the dependence of the effectiveness of requests submitted to scientific competitions from the criteria for their evaluation. Statistics of requests submitted to external competitions from ITMO University was obtained from the implemented automated system for requests recording. This system performs the functions of formation of the register of requests of the organization, and also allows to check the requests for their compliance with the requirements of the sel...

The paper deals with the actual problem of assessing the quality of video content transmission in modern wireless networks. A review and analysis is made for the quality level of the currently most popular protocols and technologies for transmitting video content in wireless networks. It analyzes video content transfer technologies based on the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), namely HTTP Progressive Download (HPD) and HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS). For HTTP Progressive Download and HTTP Adaptive Streaming tech...

Network slicing is one of the key features of fifth generation (5G) system. Network slice is a virtual network including Radio Access Network (RAN) and Core Network (CN). The most typical scenario of utilization of network slicing is the setup of multiple slices within a single operator in order to cope with different User Equipments (UE) and service requirements. In alternative scenario, network slicing may be provided as a service, i.e. network slices may be setup and modified by 3rd parties. Currently network s...

According to statistical studies, a large number of IT projects end in failure. One of the rea-sons is the complexity of transferring the originally inherent meaning into the system. As you know, any project should be implemented and should be understood by the performer. According to researchers, the cause of the current situation is the inconsistency of the form (meaning) of the target system, which arises due to a misunderstanding between the actors involved in the development at different life cycle stages. Th...

In the present study, the mechanical properties of some iron-based sintered alloys prepared by powder metallurgy route were predicted using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) approach. Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are important tools used to predict the complex processes with many variables and interactions. In order to prepare the sintered compacts, the powders prepared from pre-alloyed iron base powders produced by atomization (< 45, 45-63, 63-100, 100-150, >150 ?m) were the materials analyzed in this paper. T...

The paper proposes an analytical and simulation model of a sensory distributed wireless traffic control system on the roads of urban and rural settlements. The results of an analytical review of neurophysiological studies of the visual behavior of drivers, depending on the boundaries of the outdoor advertising area in the roadside, are presented. The technologies for collecting and transmitting data from the wireless monitoring of the road traffic situation were analyzed. A method is proposed for determining the p...

The most challenging question is protection the authentication process in the cybersecurity. Since a lot of companies decide to store their data in the cloud services, it is crucial to secure the authentication process here. The authentication is the most vulnerable process because of its simple identifying weaknesses. It is used by all attackers that make their attacks destroying and more accurate. The hackers use it for the identity thefts or other cybercrimes. First, I need to research all current threats to th...

The core of solution is a design of special codes inserted into the list of coordinates of the measured points. These codes have to contain information about topological concepts in such a way so that we can automatically create topologically correct drawing in an appropriate software from the above mentioned list of coordinates obtained by geodetic measurement. At present there are a lot of software applications which try to solve this problem on the basic of continual drawing. One of them is e. g. a possibility ...

Building reliable electricity consumption forecasts is of particular importance for a number of reasons: technological, economic and environmental. The high quality of planning contributes to the formation of an effective operation mode of the Unified Energy System thereby minimizing the consumption of energetic resources and economic costs of forcing the ?generation-consumption? equilibrium. The task of the forecasting is computationally complex, and the development of a cloud solution that will assist in its sol...

The subject of cybernetics is the control processes occurring in complex dynamic systems. Such systems are constantly encountered in industrial activity, in natural science and society. The goal of cybernetics is the development and implementation of scientific methods of the managing complex processes to increase the efficiency of human labor, in order to find the most rational ways for the interaction of computer and natural intelligence. At the present stage, these processes have gained rapid growth in all sphe...

This paper suggests that in order to create efficient backup and recovery strategy for database management system, an appropriate unit of analysis and a proper, data is needed. Key factors for evaluating backup and recovery are time needed to bring the system back online and the amount of data loss. The paper examines methods for managing these factors in three of the most popular DBMS ? MySQL, MS SQL Server and MongoDB. Each of them has a set of backup types that can be combined in different strategies. Depending...

The article is devoted to the study of the effectiveness of various statistical models of the probability of bankruptcy of enterprises based on the examples of the modified Altman model and the model of Sayfulin and Kadykov. A comparison of the results of applying these models showed that in many cases they give opposite results. The reason for the differences is that the Altman model is based on statistics of bankruptcies of American enterprises in 1946-1965, and the model of Saifulin and Kadykov is based on stat...

From 1994 to the present, records of deformations of the Earth?s crust, which are measured by a laser displacement meter, called ?deformograph?, are regularly recorded. This meter records changes in the distance between the mirrors fixed on the rock inside the mountain gallery in two directions: North-South and West-East. Such observations are carried out in the Gorny Altai region, in Kazakhstan and near Lake Baikal. One of the long-acting deformographs is installed in the gallery of the Talaya seismic station in ...

There are some relevant problems at prospecting-metallogenic analysis of perspective areas: 1. definition of expected formation (mineral) type of mineralization; 2. estimation of the scale of predicted ore mineralization; 3. outlining of the closest analogue from etalon deposits. During formalization this problems can be determined as the problems of pattern recognition, when objects under study described in heterogeneous property space. The conceptual approach to technology support is following: 1. prospecting es...

The existing approach to data modeling allows to put in an information system only a structure for their factographic mapping. Meanwhile, in reality, data exists within the context which is some user's skill for obtaining them. In the previous study, a model for representing the user's skill was developed. This model represents data in a form of possible action, which, depending on the situation, allows obtaining the expected data. The developed model has such advantages as providing flexibility in accordance with...

Taking into account that nowadays the websites lacking at least one dynamic component or side is rare (ea. the contact form) the focus of the current paper is granted to the programming environments and the scripting languages used for producing and running dynamic websites. Among the most popular scripting languages the PHP outstands its competitors ASP.NET, Java, CFML or Python. Within this framework, with the aim of separating the content from the presentation of a website content selected aspects linked to the...

A modern feature of websites' creation aside from the PHP scripting language is the use of a database. It is acknowledged that PHP offers the possibility of an advantageous structure for the source code, yet its real capacity is highlighted when the programming language works together with a database. Among these databases one can enumerate MySQL, Oracle or PostgreSQL and the list can be easily extended. The PHP language has predefined functions and native connectivity with the above-mentioned databases. The curre...

The paper presents the decision support system (DSS) for mitigation and elimination the consequences of natural disasters, which consists of permanent functional and territorial subsystems. Functional subsystems are created to ensure the readiness of the forces and means subordinate to them to actions aimed at mitigation, reaction and elimination the consequences of natural disasters. These include a monitoring subsystem, a subsystem for creating a reserve of civilian forces and means of protection, a reserve of m...

The main scientific problem is the construction of methods for describing and analysing images that consider multilevel periodicity and the dependence of their fuzzy properties on the scale of observation. The vast majority of digital image processing algorithms are based on a precise algorithm for extracting useful information, which often does not allow vision systems to solve nontrivial problems. To date, a vast number of "fuzzy" algorithms (based on the use of the theory of fuzzy sets) have been developed, all...

The paper analyzes the existing data mining methods to predict heat consumption in buildings of public sector facilities. The highest accuracy in solving the regression problem was obtained using the ensembles of artificial neural network models of the MLP architecture, gradient boosting models on decision-making trees and linear regression models. The ensembles of the studied methods were used in the development of the analytical subsystem in the energy resource management system of the Belgorod Region. Approbati...

The main tasks and provisions of multiscale image processing of nanostructures are formulated, the feature of which is the use of the concepts of heredity and variability of characters. Heredity refers to the process of preserving traits on a sequence of images of a nanostructure as the scale of observation changes. Under variability refers to the process of loss of signs or the emergence of new signs on a multiscale sequence of images. It is obvious that images of nanostructures on scales at which there is a shar...

Modern scientific research centers require the fast, fault-tolerant storing systems for the collecting and processing of large amounts of scientific data originating from different sources and serving a great variety of client applications all over the world. This problem has great importance in many fields of science, such as geoinformatics, climate modeling, high-energy physics, astrophysics, and others. It is reasonable to use the concept of distributed computing to preprocess, normalize and aggregate scientifi...

In work the solution of a operational and confidential data transmission problem with the necessary quality level of decodifying in the conditions of continuous increase in volume of video content containing data on critical infrastructure objects is proposed. The mechanisms allowing to define availability of planimetric information at stage of color-difference transformation are developed. Evaluation of the work of the developed method is given. To increase the data transfer rate, it is proposed to encrypt only t...

Thermal springs are a true gift of nature, in which a person can find health and beauty. By the thermal springs are meant groundwaters with temperature more than 20 °C, which come to the surface. Also by thermal is often meant the source, in which the temperature is higher than the average values for the surroundings area. The healing properties of thermal springs are well known since ancient times - the ancient Romans built the terms around them. While taking baths, the warriors healed wounds received in the camp...

The article describes the solution of the problem of determining the pricing strategy of the enterprise, that operates at the window construction market with using an approach to a modeling multi-agent resource conversion processes. This approach is built on the basis of integration of simulation, expert, multi-agent and situational modeling methods. Agent-oriented simulation reveals and explains the mechanism of the emergence of a complex multi-agent system optimal behavior that consists of set of interacting act...

This paper deals with the effective usage of digital twin for managing and optimizing production in small and medium-sized companies. Simple and effective business operation is related to the necessary digitization of documents. A set of digitized information and production-related data are the basis for the creation of a digital twin. The use of a digital twin involves effective management, control and optimization of production within a set of several small and medium-sized companies with the same or technologic...

The paper deals with the inefficiency of data normalization in media stream processing applications. In the classical approaches, while building a relational database architecture, developers strive to maximize the normalization of the database and bring the business logic of the system to external applications. Normalization and business logic separation have reached their apogee in object-relational mapping systems. Telecommunication systems have their own specifics. Due to the requirements for the quality of se...

Digital ecosystems are considered socio-technical clusters of adaptive applications with different levels of context awareness, adaptability, and autonomy. Applications from a digital ecosystem must solve concrete problems but have to be computationally efficient, it will have to find a balance between the freedom of a system to self-adapt and the constraints that apply to obtain a correct functionality. A new model of context is necessary to facilitate the development of adaptive applications that evolve with the...

The development of computer science in recent years has enabled researchers in the field of hydraulic drive systems to address the concept of ?digital hydraulics?. Digital hydraulics refers to systems that use binary parallel-connected components or switching control elements which have discrete input values and can actively control the system. The concept of ?digital hydraulics? implies that the operation of digital hydraulic devices is based on the on/off principle, meaning that active area or nominal opening ar...