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Implementing decentralized storage using blockchain to address data ownership and privacy concerns

The currently seen tremendous increase in events of surveillance, security breaches and unauthorized access intervening people’s privacy, information, personal data requires the need to doubt and put the present model into question which seems dubious, in which third parties control as well as collect tremendous amounts of a person’s personal data. Bitcoin and other popular cryptocurrencies like ethereum have proved in the financial sector that reliable, trustworthy computing is feasible by use of a decentralized network of peers accompanied by a public ledger. We present a decentralized personal data storage based on blockchain and also including proof-of-work that ensures users themselves own and control their data without compromise of security and privacy. We introduce a roll-back mechanism to the blockchain and by implementing an algorithm that converts a blockchain into an automatic access control manager that does not require any trust in a third-party source. The transactions in our implementation are not financial like in the case of cryptocurrencies, rather they are used for instructions, like storing and sharing data. Finally, we discuss the probable future extensions to the blockchain technology that could harness them into an exceptional solution for eliminating the trust related issues prevailing in our society and internet.

Published by: Ojus Kapoor, Suyash Arora, Shivam Gupta, Siddharth Gorey, Silica Kole

Author: Ojus Kapoor

Paper ID: V4I2-1950

Paper Status: published

Published: April 17, 2018

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Strength and durability of geopolymer concrete made with low calcium fly ash and metakaolin

The use of Portland cement in concrete construction is under critical review due to the high amount of carbon dioxide gas released into the atmosphere during the production of cement. From few years, attempts to increase the utilization of fly ash to partially replace the use of Portland cement in concrete are gathering momentum. Geopolymer concrete is a ‘new’ material that does not need the presence of Portland cement as a binder. Instead, the source of materials such as fly ash, metakaolin that are rich in Silicon (Si) and Aluminium (Al) are activated by alkaline liquids to produce the binder. Hence concrete with no Portland cement. This study reports the details of the development of the process of making low calcium based fly ash and Metakaolin-based geopolymer concrete in the present experimental study, attempts are made to study on the various strength properties like compressive strength, split tensile strength, an also durability properties like Acid attack term durability properties of Geopolymer concrete. Experiments were conducted on Geopolymer Concrete with different percentages of metakaolin and molarity of alkaline activator. Studies were made of residual compressive strength, weight loss and Ultrasonic pulse velocity of Geopolymer Concrete mixes. It was observed that as the addition of Metakaolin to control the concrete mix of fly ash increases, the workability of concrete.

Published by: Vinay Kumar Mishra, Juhi Nigam, Ram Bharosh

Author: Vinay Kumar Mishra

Paper ID: V4I2-1956

Paper Status: published

Published: April 17, 2018

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A study of concrete as patialy replacment of cement with silica fume made with glass fiber

Extensive experimental investigation on glass fiber reinforced concrete was carried out by researchers. Glass fiber mesh is more effective in resisting bending and punching shear. Steel Fibres are most popular metallic fibers used for the production of Steel Fibre Reinforced Concrete particularly from the point of view of strength and ductility. It is observed that studies showed Glass Fibre Reinforced Concrete mixes provide the improvement of high performance and high strength concretes. The present thesis would contribute to the efforts being made in the field of concrete technology towards the development of concretes possessing very much enhanced and special durable properties. Based on the study, valuable advice will be given to concrete structures. It is observed from the experimental results and its analysis, that the compressive strength of concrete, splitting tensile strength of concrete increases with the addition of low Percentage of glass fibers. The 0.2%, 0.45% and 0.7% addition of glass fibers into the concrete shows the better result in mechanical properties and durability. Addition of 0.2% glass fibers by weight of cement shows the maximum increase in Compressive strength and Flexural strength varying 18% to 20%, and 15% to 20% respectively with respect to PC mix without fibers at 28 days of curing. The durability of concrete from the aspect of resistance to acid attack on concrete increases by adding AR-glass fibers in concrete.The glass fibers bridge the cracks causing interconnecting voids to be minimum. UPV value found to be higher for concrete containing 0.45%GF by weight of cement. The value was 4.85 and 5.1 (km/sec.) at 56 and 90 days of curing respectively. The concrete mix containing 0.7%GF by weight of binder showed higher resistance to weight loss in H2SO4 solution i.e.0.69% compared with control mix of concrete without glass fibers.

Published by: Gaurav Dixit, Ram Bharosh, Juhi Nigam

Author: Gaurav Dixit

Paper ID: V4I2-1957

Paper Status: published

Published: April 17, 2018

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Internet and social media: Exploring new business models for corporate success

Today, Companies are discovering internet a great marketing prospect and social media a valuable brand promotional proposal. While the companies use these digital platforms as a global window to search for talent, marketers are scanning the medium to drive products and are using it for objective market research. Compared with traditional media, these innovative media allows customers to give their feedback and at times be a part of the product design process, too. Internet, especially social media, has proved to be vastly constructive for businesses for reducing costs, improving customer services and creating an online profile of the business.

Published by: Rakesh Ranjan

Author: Rakesh Ranjan

Paper ID: V4I2-1742

Paper Status: published

Published: April 17, 2018

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Effect of strength properties of concrete waste materials (wood powder)

The use of high strength1 concrete is expected to increase as we move into next century in all areas of the world. In recent years there has been a rapid growth of interest in high strength concrete. Concrete is a material used in building construction, consisting of a fine aggregate and a coarse aggregate that is bounded by cement and water with various types of admixtures2 which are available in the market or from the waste materials3. A design mix is specified by the designer principally in terms of strength cement content and water-cement. Since economical parameters and compressive strength are fundamental properties of concrete in two different stages of production, the correlation between costing parameters and compressive strength4 has been used instead of using water-cement ratio versus compressive strength relationship. If we maintain the water-cement ratio and by adding various types of admixtures in concrete we can improve the compressive strength of concrete and also get more strength which will be very economical. In the proposed method, The designer is able to estimate parameters like compressive strength and economical costing at the design stage for a given target strength, in addition to ingredients5 of concrete

Published by: Kashish Arora

Author: Kashish Arora

Paper ID: V4I2-1817

Paper Status: published

Published: April 17, 2018

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Object recognition using CNN

Object recognition is a popular task in computer vision. The method usually requires the presence of a data-set annotated with location information of the objects, which is in the form of bounding boxes around the objects. In this project, we have implemented a method to carry out object recognition in a weakly supervised manner i.e., using partially annotated data-set. The data-set provides the information about what objects are present in the image but not where they are present. We have used a Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) based architecture to perform this task. We also validated by experimenting with different architectures that mere information of presence/ absence of objects in an image (weak labels) does provide their location information for free.

Published by: Jagruti Jadhav, Mehzabeen Attar, Shradha Patil, Saleem Beg

Author: Jagruti Jadhav

Paper ID: V4I2-1827

Paper Status: published

Published: April 17, 2018

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