Carlos Alvarez College of Business Faculty Research
Recent Submissions
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Classical and Bayesian Inference of a Progressive-Stress Model for the Nadarajah–Haghighi Distribution with Type II Progressive Censoring and Different Loss Functions
(2022-05-08)Accelerated life testing (ALT) is a time-saving technology used in a variety of fields to obtain failure time data for test units in a fraction of the time required to test them under normal operating conditions. This study ... -
Mean Equality Tests for High-Dimensional and Higher-Order Data with k-Self Similar Compound Symmetry Covariance Structure
(2022-02-01)An extension of the D2 test statistic to test the equality of mean for high-dimensional and k-th order array-variate data using k-self similar compound symmetry (k-SSCS) covariance structure is derived. The k-th order ... -
More on the Supremum Statistic to Test Multivariate Skew-Normality
(2021-11-29)This review is about verifying and generalizing the supremum test statistic developed by Balakrishnan et al. Exhaustive simulation studies are conducted for various dimensions to determine the effect, in terms of empirical ... -
Participatory sensing-based semantic and spatial analysis of urban emergency events using mobile social media
(EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking volume;44, 2016-02-09)With the advances of information communication technologies, it is critical to improve the efficiency and accuracy of emergency management systems through modern data processing techniques. Geographic information system ... -
Ensemble-based multi-filter feature selection method for DDoS detection in cloud computing
(EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking;130, 2016-05-10)Widespread adoption of cloud computing has increased the attractiveness of such services to cybercriminals. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks targeting the cloud’s bandwidth, services and resources to render the ... -
Secure and privacy-preserving 3D vehicle positioning schemes for vehicular ad hoc network
(EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking;271, 2018-11-29)Industrial wireless networks (IWNs) have applications in areas such as critical infrastructure sectors and manufacturing industries such as car manufacturing. In car manufacturing, IWNs can facilitate manufacturers to ... -
Deep Learning-Based Intrusion Detection for Distributed Denial of Service Attack in Agriculture 4.0
(5/25/2021)Smart Agriculture or Agricultural Internet of things, consists of integrating advanced technologies (e.g., NFV, SDN, 5G/6G, Blockchain, IoT, Fog, Edge, and AI) into existing farm operations to improve the quality and ... -
Novel Numerical Spiking Neural P Systems with a Variable Consumption Strategy
(3/20/2021)A novel variant of NSN P systems, called numerical spiking neural P systems with a variable consumption strategy (NSNVC P systems), is proposed. Like the spiking rules consuming spikes in spiking neural P systems, NSNVC P ... -
Load-Sharing Model under Lindley Distribution and Its Parameter Estimation Using the Expectation-Maximization Algorithm
(11/22/2020)A load-sharing system is defined as a parallel system whose load will be redistributed to its surviving components as each of the components fails in the system. Our focus is on making statistical inference of the parameters ... -
Testing the Strength of Hospital Accreditation as a Signal of the Quality of Care in Romania: Do Patients’ and Health Professionals’ Perceptions Align?
(9/19/2020)Hospital accreditation, as a quality signal, is gaining its popularity among low- and middle-income countries, such as Romania, despite its costly nature. Nevertheless, its effectiveness as a quality signal in driving ... -
Impact and Key Challenges of Insider Threats on Organizations and Critical Businesses
(9/7/2020)The insider threat has consistently been identified as a key threat to organizations and governments. Understanding the nature of insider threats and the related threat landscape can help in forming mitigation strategies, ... -
A Study on the X ¯ and S Control Charts with Unequal Sample Sizes
(5/2/2020)The control charts based on <inline-formula> <math display="inline"> <semantics> <mover accent="true"> <mi>X</mi> <mo stretchy="false">¯</mo> </mover> </semantics> </math> </inline-formula> and <i>S</i> are widely ... -
Optimal Coordination Strategy for International Production Planning and Pollution Abating under Cap-and-Trade Regulations
(9/19/2019)Because both pollution emissions and production policies often are international in scope, it is necessary to find optimal coordination strategies for international production planning and pollution abating. Differential ... -
Emerging Technologies for Future Sensor Networks—Selected Papers from ICGHIT 2019
(9/6/2019)The International Conference on Green and Human Information Technology (ICGHIT) is an international conference focusing on green and information technologies oriented toward humanity [...] -
Social Media and Customer-Based Brand Equity: An Empirical Investigation in Retail Industry
(9/19/2018)As customer-brand engagement progressively shifts to digital domains, understanding social media effects in branding has become a vital issue. Social media effectiveness is especially important for the US retail sector due ... -
A Novel Certificateless Signature Scheme for Smart Objects in the Internet-of-Things
(5/1/2017)Rapid advances in wireless communications and pervasive computing technologies have resulted in increasing interest and popularity of Internet-of-Things (IoT) architecture, ubiquitously providing intelligence and convenience ... -
A Study of the Triggers of Conflict and Emotional Reactions
(4/20/2017)We study three triggers of conflict and explore their resultant emotional reactions in a laboratory experiment. Economists suggest that the primary trigger of conflict is monetary incentives. Social psychologists suggest ... -
The Role of the Decision-Making Regime on Cooperation in a Workgroup Social Dilemma: An Examination of Cyberloafing
(11/5/2015)A burgeoning problem facing organizations is the loss of workgroup productivity due to cyberloafing. The current paper examines how changes in the decision-making rights about what workgroup members can do on the job affect ... -
Predicting the Next Big Impact: Modelling the Rate of Massive Meteorite Strikes
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 7, 2020-12)Meteorites are solid pieces of debris from an astronomical object such as a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the atmosphere to reach the surface of a planet. ... -
Stochastic SIR-based Examination of the Policy Effects on the COVID-19 Spread in the U.S. States
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 7, 2020-12)Since the global outbreak of the novel COVID-19, many research groups have studied the epidemiology of the virus for short-term forecasts and to formulate the effective disease containment and mitigation strategies. The ...
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