Jinhua Cui^1,2, Yuanyuan Zhang³, Zhiping Cai^1,*, Anfeng Liu⁴, Yangyang Li⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.1, pp. 17-35, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.055.017

Abstract While smart devices based on ARM processor bring us a lot of convenience, they also become an attractive target of cyber-attacks. The threat is exaggerated as commodity OSes usually have a large code base and suffer from various software vulnerabilities. Nowadays, adversaries prefer to steal sensitive data by leaking the content of display output by a security-sensitive application. A promising solution is to exploit the hardware visualization extensions provided by modern ARM processors to construct a secure display path between the applications and the display device. In this work, we present a scheme named SecDisplay for trusted display service, it… More >

Ruohan Meng^1,2, Steven G. Rice³, Jin Wang⁴, Xingming Sun^1,2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.1, pp. 1-16, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.055.001

Abstract The aim of information hiding is to embed the secret message in a normal cover media such as image, video, voice or text, and then the secret message is transmitted through the transmission of the cover media. The secret message should not be damaged on the process of the cover media. In order to ensure the invisibility of secret message, complex texture objects should be chosen for embedding information. In this paper, an approach which corresponds multiple steganographic algorithms to complex texture objects was presented for hiding secret message. Firstly, complex texture regions are selected based on a kind of… More >

Mahesh S. Shinde^1,*, Kishor M. Ashtankar¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.54, No.3, pp. 287-306, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.054.287

Abstract Cooling system improvement is important in injection molding to get better quality and productivity. The aim of this paper was to compare the different shapes of the conformal cooling channels (CCC) with constant surface area and CCC with constant volume in injection molding using Mold-flow Insight 2016 software. Also the CCC results were compared with conventional cooling channels. Four different shapes of the CCC such as circular, elliptical, rectangular and semi-circular were proposed. The locations of the cooling channels were also kept constant. The results in terms of cooling time, cycle time reduction and improvement in quality of the product… More >

Chuanrong Wu^{1, *}, Evgeniya Zapevalova¹, Yingwu Chen², Feng Li³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.54, No.3, pp. 269-285, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.054.269

Abstract In the big data environment, enterprises must constantly assimilate big data knowledge and private knowledge by multiple knowledge transfers to maintain their competitive advantage. The optimal time of knowledge transfer is one of the most important aspects to improve knowledge transfer efficiency. Based on the analysis of the complex characteristics of knowledge transfer in the big data environment, multiple knowledge transfers can be divided into two categories. One is the simultaneous transfer of various types of knowledge, and the other one is multiple knowledge transfers at different time points. Taking into consideration the influential factors, such as the knowledge type,… More >

P. PattunnaRajam^{1, *}, Reeba korah², G. Maria Kalavathy³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.54, No.3, pp. 251-268, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.054.251

Abstract This paper presents an automated POCOFAN-POFRAME algorithm that partitions large combinational digital VLSI circuits for pseudo exhaustive testing. In this paper, a simulation framework and partitioning technique are presented to guide VLSI circuits to work under with fewer test vectors in order to reduce testing time and to develop VLSI circuit designs. This framework utilizes two methods of partitioning Primary Output Cone Fanout Partitioning (POCOFAN) and POFRAME partitioning to determine number of test vectors in the circuit. The key role of partitioning is to identify reconvergent fanout branch pairs and the optimal value of primary input node N and fanout… More >

H. S. Abdel-Aziz¹, M. Khalifa Saad^1,2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.54, No.3, pp. 229-249, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.054.229

Abstract In the light of great importance of curves and their frames in many different branches of science, especially differential geometry as well as geometric properties and the uses in various fields, we are interested here to study a special kind of curves called Smarandache curves in Lorentz 3-space. Then, we present some characterizations for these curves and calculate their Darboux invariants. Moreover, we classify TP, TU, PU and TPU-Smarandache curves of a spacelike curve according to the causal character of the vector, curve and surface used in the study. Besides, we give some of differential geometric properties and important relations… More >

Ying Xiao^1,2, Haomiao Zhou¹, Xiaofan Gou^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.54, No.3, pp. 209-228, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.054.209

Abstract In order to predict the performance of magnetostrictive smart material and push its applications in engineering, it is necessary to build the constitutive relations for the magnetostrictive material Galfenol. For Galfenol rods under the action of the pre-stress and magnetic field along the axial direction, the one-dimensional nonlinear magneto-mechanical coupling constitutive model is proposed based on the elastic Gibbs free energy, where the Taylor expansion of the elastic Gibbs free energy is made to obtain the polynomial forms. And then the constitutive relations are derived by replacing the polynomial forms with the proper transcendental functions based on the microscopic magneto-mechanical… More >

Yi Cao^1,2, Zhili Zhou^1,2,3, Xingming Sun^1,2, Chongzhi Gao^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.54, No.2, pp. 197-207, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.054.197

Abstract The traditional information hiding methods embed the secret information by modifying the carrier, which will inevitably leave traces of modification on the carrier. In this way, it is hard to resist the detection of steganalysis algorithm. To address this problem, the concept of coverless information hiding was proposed. Coverless information hiding can effectively resist steganalysis algorithm, since it uses unmodified natural stego-carriers to represent and convey confidential information. However, the state-of-the-arts method has a low hidden capacity, which makes it less appealing. Because the pixel values of different regions of the molecular structure images of material (MSIM) are usually different,… More >

Muhammad Shoaib Arif¹, Mairaj Bibi², Adnan Jhangir³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.54, No.2, pp. 181-195, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.054.181

Abstract This communique is opted to study the approximate solution of the Algebraic Lyapunov equation on the manifold of positive-definite Hermitian matrices. We choose the geodesic distance between -AHX - XA and P as the cost function, and put forward the Extended Hamiltonian algorithm (EHA) and Natural gradient algorithm (NGA) for the solution. Finally, several numerical experiments give you an idea about the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms. We also show the comparison between these two algorithms EHA and NGA. Obtained results are provided and analyzed graphically. We also conclude that the extended Hamiltonian algorithm has better convergence speed than the… More >

Y. A. Amer¹, A. M. S. Mahdy^{1, 2, *}, E. S. M. Youssef¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.54, No.2, pp. 161-180, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.054.161

Abstract In this paper we are looking forward to finding the approximate analytical solutions for fractional integro-differential equations by using Sumudu transform method and Hermite spectral collocation method. The fractional derivatives are described in the Caputo sense. The applications related to Sumudu transform method and Hermite spectral collocation method have been developed for differential equations to the extent of access to approximate analytical solutions of fractional integro-differential equations. More >