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In contrast with the accelerating trend of boundary-spanning (horizontal) technological innovation, the current Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) scheme applies a hierarchical (vertical) structure to innovation output in terms of patents. For this reason, we argue that the CPC can be complemented with dynamic technological innovation system (TIS) discovery through machine learning that accounts for horizontal relationships across seemingly disparate technologies. Using a design science approach, we propose a framework to discover boundary-spanning TISs by leveraging the textual information from millions of patents. We validate our framework in terms of the ability of discovered relationships to predict future innovation quantity and quality in different technology classes. Our novel TIS-based innovation metrics that leverage patenting activity in related technology classes are significantly associated with future innovation intensity in focal technologies. We conduct experiments with machine learning models to further tease out the predictive utility of our TIS discovery framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research on multi‐biometric authentication systems using multiple biometric modalities to defend against adversarial attacks is actively being pursued. These systems authenticate users by combining two or more biometric modalities using score or feature‐level fusion. However, research on adversarial attacks and defences against each biometric modality within these authentication systems has not been actively conducted. In this study, we constructed a multi‐biometric authentication system using fingerprint, palmprint, and iris information from CASIA‐BIT by employing score and feature‐level fusion. We verified the system's vulnerability by deploying adversarial attacks on single and multiple biometric modalities based on the FGSM, with epsilon values ranging from 0 to 0.5. The experimental results show that when the epsilon value is 0.5, the accuracy of the multi‐biometric authentication system against adversarial attacks on the palmprint and iris information decreases from 0.995 to 0.018 and 0.003, respectively, and the f1‐score decreases from 0.995 to 0.007 and 0.000, respectively, demonstrating susceptibility to adversarial attacks. In the case of fingerprint data, however, the accuracy and f1‐score decreased from 0.995 to 0.731 and from 0.995 to 0.741, respectively, indicating resilience against adversarial attacks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We have fabricated three-dimensional (3D) photonic quantum ring lasers with an equilateral triangle microcavity. Their spectra were well explained by combining the off-normal resonance and hexagonally bounced in-plane whispering-gallery-mode condition. The angular distribution of the emission modes and their discrete wavelengths were shown to be in excellent agreement with a 3D Rayleigh Fabry-Perot model. We confirmed that the allowed modes in the equilateral triangle microcavity decrease by decreasing the length of equilateral triangle side, L, and the spectral mode spacing linearly increases with the mode index m and is inversely proportional to [L.sup.2]. OCIS codes: 140.5960, 300.6260.

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2005.06.042 Byline: Chanwoo Yoo (a), Junho Yoon (a), Byungjeong Lee (b), Chongwon Lee (a), Jinyoung Lee (a), Seunghun Hyun (a), Chisu Wu (a) Keywords: ISO 9001:2000; CMMI; Mapping; Unified model Abstract: ISO 9001 is a standard for quality management systems and CMMI is a model for process improvement. If an ISO-certified organization wishes to improve its processes continuously, implementing CMMI would be a good choice, as it provides more detailed practices for process improvement than the ISO standards. However, there are two issues that need to be resolved when an ISO-certified organization implements CMMI. First, it is not easy to identify any reusable parts of the ISO standards, and it would be advantageous to be able to reuse selected portions of the ISO standards during CMMI adoption in order to use existing resources to their best advantage. Second, it is difficult for an ISO-certified organization to implement CMMI in a straightforward, easy manner because of the differences in the language, structure, and details of the two sets of documents. In this paper, we present our unified model for ISO 9001:2000 and CMMI that resolves these two issues. Our model would be an extremely useful tool for ISO-certified organizations that plan to implement CMMI. Author Affiliation: (a) SE Lab, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, South Korea (b) School of Computer Science, University of Seoul, Seoul 130-743, South Korea Article History: Received 6 December 2004; Accepted 20 June 2005