Traditional Implementation Research Articles

Characterizing autonomous Maxwell demons

We distinguish traditional implementations of autonomous Maxwell demons from related linear devices that were recently proposed, not relying on the notions of measurements and feedback control. In both cases a current seems to flow against its spontaneous direction (imposed, e.g., by a thermal or electric gradient) without external energy intake. However, in the latter case, this current inversion may only be apparent. Even if the currents exchanged between a system and its reservoirs are inverted (by creating additional independent currents between system and demon), this is not enough to conclude that the original current through the system has been inverted. We show that this distinction can be revealed locally by measuring the fluctuations of the system-reservoir currents.

Economic performance tracking for nonsquare MPCs based on a two‐layer approach

AbstractRange tracking for nonsquare systems is frequently adopted in process industries and its implementation is developed by model predictive control technologies. However, these approaches differ from those most considered in academia, with set‐point tracking and the same number of controlled and manipulated variables. In this scope, real‐time optimization (RTO) emerges as a diffused technology to improve the economic performance considering process, safety, and environmental constraints. In this work, a way to integrate economic aspects in industrial model predictive controllers (MPCs) by treating the nonlinear economic function as an output of the process model is proposed. The tracking error of the cost function is monitored, and its real value is estimated by a state estimator. The approach was applied to a nonsquare range system, exemplifying a continuous stirred‐tank reactor (CSTR) with Van de Vusse kinetics, and showed that it is capable of tracking the minimum cost operation robustly. The paper also compares the proposed strategy to the traditional RTO implementation, which provides optimized targets, and presents slight improvement in the steady‐state operation regarding the optimal cost seeking.

Tradisi Manak Salah di Desa Adat Padangbulia Kecamatan Sukasada Kabupaten Buleleng

Manak salah is one of the traditions carried out by the indigenous peoples of Padangbulia who assume that the birth of twins (male and female) is a mistake that obliges parents and babies of twins to do Temporary exile for three months. It is considered contrary to humanity so that the government issued a regional Regulation No. 10 year 1951
 about the elimination of indigenous manak salah or buncing. Then the problem that is studied is how the manak salah traditions are wrong in the village of Padangbulia Indigenous and what are the factors causing the implementation of the manak salah tradition in Padangbulia traditional village. The method used is empirical legal research with a legal and sociological approach to the case approach by noting that real legal events occur in the village of Padangbulia as well as the source of legal materials used are primary legal materials and with the techniques of collecting legal materials through interviews and logging that are analyzed qualitatively in the form of descriptive analysis. Based on the results of the research and analysis can be drawn a conclusion that manak salah in accordance with the belief of the people of Padangbulia with the Lontar Dewa Tatwa and Brahma Sapa used as the basis for the implementation of this tradition since First time. Although it has been abolished the manak salah tradition is still being held to date because of Padangbulia's indigenous peoples belief in the disaster that will occur when this tradition is not implemented.

Analysis of Physical Layer Security Communication in Smart Grid

In the smart grid environment, the secure transmission of power data is a major challenge for smart devices. Due to the broadcasting characteristics of wireless media, wireless communications in the power grid are vulnerable to eavesdropping attacks. Traditional encryption implementation requires high costs in wireless environments. In order to improve the security of data transmission in the power grid, physical layer security (PLS) has attracted widespread attention. However, there are too many idealized and unrealistic assumptions about the security research results in this field. This paper analyzes a physical layer security communication scheme considering the actual erection distance. When up-layer system break by opponent, the natural randomness of the physical channel will play a role in ensuring system security. We conducted simulations and analyzed the impact of the legal user’s erection distance on the physical layer security performance of data transmission in the power grid, and adopted a targeted secure transmission scheme.

Implementation of Indigenous Peoples Traditions based on Tourism Development in Kampung Naga

<em>Tasikmalaya Regency is one of the areas in West Java Province which has a type of cultural tourism as its attraction. The type of potential cultural tourism in this regency is located in the Traditional Dragon Village Area, precisely in Neglasari Village, Salawu District. Kampung Naga is an area where the people still hold the beliefs or customs of their ancestors. The large number of tourists visiting Kampung Naga will have a positive or negative impact on this tradition. The purpose of this study is to identify the impact of tourism development on the life of the indigenous people of Kampung Naga, especially in implementing its traditions. The presence of tourists can affect the traditional life and culture of the local community, therefore it is necessary to have research on changes in the implementation of traditions (customs and customs) after the presence of tourists in the Kampung Naga area. The analytical method used is descriptive qualitative data analysis using the interactive model of Miles and Huberman. Based on this analysis, there are several changes in the implementation of the tradition as an impact felt by the local community after the development of tourism. The results of this identification are expected to be considered in tourism planning and development related to tourism policies and the ecosystem therein. Because by implementing a good and appropriate policy, the potential of the existing tourism area can run optimally by minimizing the negative impact on humans.</em>

A flow-based intrusion detection framework for internet of things networks

The application of the Internet of Things concept in domains such as industrial control, building automation, human health, and environmental monitoring, introduces new privacy and security challenges. Consequently, traditional implementation of monitoring and security mechanisms cannot always be presently feasible and adequate due to the number of IoT devices, their heterogeneity and the typical limitations of their technical specifications. In this paper, we propose an IP flow-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS) framework to monitor and protect IoT networks from external and internal threats in real-time. The proposed framework collects IP flows from an IoT network and analyses them in order to monitor and detect attacks, intrusions, and other types of anomalies at different IoT architecture layers based on some flow features instead of using packet headers fields and their payload. The proposed framework was designed to consider both the IoT network architecture and other IoT contextual characteristics such as scalability, heterogeneity, interoperability, and the minimization of the use of IoT networks resources. The proposed IDS framework is network-based and relies on a hybrid architecture, as it involves both centralized analysis and distributed data collection components. In terms of detection method, the framework uses a specification-based approach drawn on normal traffic specifications. The experimental results show that this framework can achieve ≈ 100% success and 0% of false positives in detection of intrusions and anomalies. In terms of performance and scalability in the operation of the IDS components, we study and compare it with three different conventional IDS (Snort, Suricata, and Zeek) and the results demonstrate that the proposed solution can consume fewer computational resources (CPU, RAM, and persistent memory) when compared to those conventional IDS.

A novel time-domain polarization filter based on a correlation matrix analysis

Polarization filters (PFs) are widely used for denoising seismic data. These filters are applied in the fields of seismology, microseismic monitoring, vertical seismic profiling, and subsurface imaging. They are primarily useful to suppress ground roll in seismic reflection data and enhance P- and S-wave arrivals. Traditional implementations of PFs involved the analysis of the covariance matrix or the singular value decomposition (SVD) of a 3C seismogram matrix. The linear polarization level, known as rectilinearity, is expressed as a function of the covariance matrix eigenvalues or by the data matrix singular values. Wavefield records that are linearly polarized are amplified, whereas others are attenuated. Besides the described implementations, we have developed a new time-domain PF based on the analysis of the seismic data correlation matrix. The principal idea is to extend the notion of the correlation coefficient in 3D space. This new filter avoids the need for diagonalization of the covariance matrix or SVD of data matrix, which are often time-consuming. The new implementation facilitates the choice of the rectilinearity threshold: We determine that linear polarization in three dimensions can be represented as three classic 2D correlations. A good linear polarization is detected when a high linear correlation between the three seismogram components is mutually observed. The tuning parameters of the new filter are the length of the time window, the filter order, and the rectilinearity threshold. Tests using synthetic seismograms indicate that optimal results are reached with a filter order that spans between 2 and 4, a rectilinearity threshold between 0.3 and 0.7, and a window length that is equivalent to one to three times the period of the signal wavelet. Compared with covariance-based filters, the new filter can enhance the signal-to-noise ratio by 6–20 dB and reduces computational costs by 25%.

Comparison of Two Methods for Implementing Comfort Care Order Sets in the Inpatient Setting: a Cluster Randomized Trial.

There is an ongoing need for interventions to improve quality of end-of-life care for patients in inpatient settings. To compare two methods for implementing a Comfort Care Education Intervention for Palliative Care Consultation Teams (PCCT) in Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMCs). Cluster randomized implementation trial conducted March 2015-April 2019. PCCTs were assigned to a traditional implementation approach using a teleconference or to an in-person, train-the-champion workshop to prepare PCCTs to be clinical champions at their home sites. One hundred thirty-two providers from PCCTs at 47 VAMCs. Both training modalities involved review of educational materials, instruction on using an electronic Comfort Care Order Set, and coaching to deliver the intervention to other providers. Several processes of care were identified a priori as quality endpoints for end-of-life care (last 7 days) and abstracted from medical records of veterans who died within 9 months before or after implementation (n = 6,491). The primary endpoint was the presence of an active order for opioid medication at time of death. Secondary endpoints were orders/administration of antipsychotics, benzodiazepines, and scopolamine, do-not-resuscitate orders, advance directives, locations of death, palliative care consultations, nasogastric tubes, intravenous lines, physical restraints, pastoral care visits, and family presence at/near time of death. Generalized estimating equations were conducted adjusting for potential covariates. Eighty-eight providers from 23 VAMCs received teleconference training; 44 providers from 23 VAMCs received in-person workshop training. Analyses found no significant differences between intervention groups in any process-of-care endpoints (primary endpoint AOR (CI) = 1.18 (0.74, 1.89). Furthermore, pre-post changes were not significant for any endpoints (primary endpoint AOR (CI) = 1.16 (0.92, 1.46). Analyses may have been limited by high baseline values on key endpoints with little room for improvement. Findings suggest the clinical effectiveness of palliative care educational intervention was not dependent on which of the two implementation methods was used. ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02383173.

Konservasi Ekoleksikon Pada Tradisi Mekare-Kare

The procession of implementing the mekare-kare tradition consists of nyikat, ngastiti, sabetan pandan, mecane, meboreh, and megibung. In carrying out each of these processions, the community uses several traditional tools and wears distinctive traditional clothes. The naming of each entity in this tradition represents the lexicon of flora and fauna and the formation of relationships between language, humans and the environment. This activity is carried out to conserve the ecolexicon on Mekare-kare tradition. The method used to collect data is to refer to the note-taking technique. The results showed that ecolexic treasures such as traditional swing, white thread, boreh curry, baas, balai patemu kelod, don pandan madui, gantih nyoman, gedong patemu, woven pegringsingan, kamen, nyikat, ngastiti, mecane, maboreh, magibung, saput, tamiang, tuak, tiing, and udeng. This ecolexicon is in the form of root words, affix words, and compound words which are categorized as nouns and verbs. In terms of meaning, this ecolexicon contains both lexical and cultural meanings. Then, the ideological dimension refers to the use of Balinese and several terms with certain concepts in the mekare-kare tradition by every member of the Tenganan Traditional Village community. The sociological dimension refers to the community interacting and communicating using the Balinese dialect of Tenganan in a series of implementation of the mekare-kare tradition. Meanwhile, the biological dimension can be seen from every community in the Traditional Village of Tenganan who utilizes the potential of flora (plants) and some abiotic elements to make the facilities used in the mekare-kare tradition.

DRAM Bandwidth Optimal Perspective Transform Engine

Perspective transform (or Homography) is commonly used algorithms in ADAS and Automated Driving System. Perspective transform is used in multiple use-cases e.g. viewpoint change, fisheye lens distortion correction, chromatic aberration correction, stereo image pair rectification, This algorithm needs high external DRAM memory bandwidth due to inherent scaling, resulting in nonaligned two dimensional memory burst accesses, resulting in large degradation in system performance and latencies. In this paper, we propose a novel perspective transform engine to reduce external memory DRAM bandwidth to alleviate this problem. The proposed solution consists of multiple regions slicing of input video frame with block size tuned for each region. The paper also gives an algorithm for finding optimal region boundaries with corresponding block size tuned for each region. The proposed solution enables average BW reduction of 67% compared to traditional implementation and achieves clock up-to 720 MHz with output pixel throughput of 1 cycle/pixel in 16nm FinFET process node.

Sapi-Sapian, Contextualizing Mathematical Concepts Through Cultural Tradition

Sapi-sapian is one of the traditions in Kenjo Village which is carried out every Muharram month as an expression of gratitude to God for abundance of agricultural crops. Sapi-sapian tradition contains four processions, namely the selametan pecel gerang, tumpeng serakat, ider bumi oncor-oncoran,and the celebration, which contain ethnomathematics. In order to get the most out of ethnomathematics in the Sapi-sapian tradition, a qualitative-descriptive study was conducted as a method. Due to the conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic which caused the Sapi-sapian tradition to be carried out optimally in 2020, data was collected using in-depth interviews, and cultural documentation. The research informants were the Chief of the Kenjo Village Custom, the Deputy Head of the Adat, and one resident who had been involved in the implementation of the Sapi-sapian tradition. The data obtained were analyzed qualitatively based on several analysis processes in ethnographic research. The results showed that there are mathematical concepts found in the Sapi-sapian tradition of Kenjo Village, including : two and three dimensional geometry, fractions, transformations, and traditional measurements with non-standard units. 
 Keyword : Sapi-sapian, Cultural tradition, Ethnomathematics

NILAI EDUKATIF DALAM PEMBACAAN BURDAH (STUDI ATAS PROSESI PERNIKAHAN ETNIS ARAB DI GORONTALO)

This article elaborated on the educational value of Burdah reading in Gorontalo and described the implementation of Burdah reading tradition in Gorontalo, where various activities were usually carried out, for example at assemblies or at the stages before wedding ceremony. In general, the indigenous people of Gorontalo, in the traditional stages before their wedding, only performed the Saronde dance after holding recitation. This was different from Arabian ethnic in Gorontalo. They preferred to read Burdah and Barzanji. The results showed that the reading of Burdah was one of the traditions carried out with a traditional pattern and was upheld by the people of Gorontalo, especially the Arab ethnic group. This was because that the Arabian ethnic people of Gorontalo made Burdah as a tradition that should not be abandoned in every ceremony, especially in wedding ceremonies, circumcision, and the Prophet's birthday. Likewise with other activities, for example when a family was suffering from a disease in the hope that they could get a cure. The educational values in reading Burdah included: first, the cultural value of Burdah tradition was implemented in the form of religious teaching through customary traditions; second, religious values in the tradition of Burdah reading contained religious teachings to strengthen faith and piety; third, the social value of the tradition of Burdah reading was in a form of religious teaching to familiarize each other with maintaining friendship, respecting and remaining united in Islamic brotherhood.

Near-Precise Parameter Approximation for Multiple Multiplications on A Single DSP Block

A multiply-accumulate (MAC) operation is the main computation unit for DSP applications. DSP blocks are one of the efficient solutions to implement MACs in FPGA's. However, since the DSP blocks have wide multiplier and adder blocks, MAC operations using low bit-length parameters lead to an underutilization problem. Hence, an efficient approximation technique is introduced. The technique includes manipulation and approximation of the low bit-length fixed-point parameters based upon a Single DSP - Multiple Multiplication (SDMM) execution. The SDMM changes the traditional MAC implementation in the DSP block by separating multiplication and accumulation operations. While the accumulator hardware available in the DSP block is used for multiple parameter multiplication, parallel LUTs are employed for the accumulation part of the MAC operation. The accuracy of the developed optimization technique was evaluated for different CNN weight bit precisions using the Alexnet and VGG-16 networks and the Tiny ImageNet dataset. The optimization can be implemented without loss of accuracy in almost all cases, while it causes slight accuracy losses in a few cases. Through these optimizations, the SDMM is performed at the cost of a small hardware overhead. For example, a single DSP block executes 3 8-bit fixed-point parameter multiplications. As a result of our optimizations, the parameters are represented in a different format on off-chip memory, providing up to 33% compression without any hardware cost. The compression rate can be further increased by up to 97% when used in conjunction with other compression methods for the VGG-16. Reaching this compression rate requires extra hardware cost. A prototype systolic array architecture was implemented employing our optimizations on a Xilinx Zynq FPGA. It reduced the number of DSP blocks by 66.6%, 75%, and 83.3% for 8, 6, and 4-bit input variables, respectively.

Sustaining Tradition and Fulfilling Agreements on Traditional Medicine Since the Alma Ata Conference

Introduction: The implementation of traditional medicine strategies and their integration into the mainstream health systems by African governments has been a difficult process since its recommendation at the Alma Ata Conference of 1978. Objective: This paper seeks to review how traditional medicine has survivedand what various African countries have done to implement traditional healthcare strategies and their integration into the national health systems as recommended by the Alma Alta conference of 1978. Methodology: We purposively selected developed, middle income and African countries for the purpose of this review.We reviewed traditional medicine policies and programs in elevenpurposively selected countries from different political and economic blocks. We conducted a review of published works on traditional medicine implementation with more focus on the African continent. We have used the historical and thematic perspectives to obtain, organize and report data from published documents. Results: There is the public use of traditional medicine in every African country at very high proportions. African governments celebrate African Traditional Medicine Days. But very few African countries have fully implemented Alma Ata recommended traditional medicine strategies and integrated traditional medicine into their national health systems to the latter. Strong adherence to tradition has kept traditional medicine in African alive. However, the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has revealed strong adherence of Africans and their governments to African Traditional Medicine. But the developed world sticks to standard conventional medical practices. This reverence is an acknowledgment of the truism that rather than integrating African medicine into conventional medicine, proponents of African medicine would want to operate parallel to conventional medicine or integrate it into the African medical system. Conclusion: African medicine exists in Africa as a culturally bound practice, therefore, providing solutions to health problems in situations where conventional medicine may not. It exists on its own without a real and strong legal framework to guide its practice because of its conflicting parallel validation methods to conventional medicine.

A Multiply-and-Accumulate Array for Machine Learning Applications Based on a 3D Nanofabric Flow

To keep pushing Moores law cadence and improve integrated circuits area, delay, and power, novel fabrication schemes such as parallel and monolithic 3D integration have been recently proposed. While parallel 3D does not enable very fine-grained vertical connections, monolithic 3D currently only offers a limited number of transistor tiers due to the high cost of the additional masks and processing steps. In our previous work, we introduced a novel 3D integration scheme called 3D Nanofabric. Inspired by the 3D NAND flash process, the flow consists of N identical vertical tiers where multiple vertical layers can be patterned at once, reducing the manufacturing cost significantly. In this paper, we propose to use our 3D Nanofabric flow to design low-footprint Multiply-And-Accumulate units (MAC). As a MAC unit can be designed using a regular array organization, we show how it can be spread across multiple vertical layers using the 3D Nanofabric flow, while respecting the different layout constraints. Through circuit-level evaluations, we show that for a 64-input bit multiplier, the area and area-delay-product are decreased by 21.0x and 16.7x, respectively, compared to a traditional 2D implementation using a 28nm FDSOI technology, with only a 43% energy overhead. Additionally, we show how to build a systolic 3D MAC array aimed at convolutional neural networks. Through architectural evaluations, we demonstrate that when running VGG-16, our 3D MAC array can improve the TOPs/mm2 by 2.8x compared to a TPU-like 2D systolic array.

Energy-Efficient Edge-Fog-Cloud Architecture for IoT-Based Smart Agriculture Environment

The current agriculture systems compete to take advantage of industry advanced technologies, including the internet of things (IoT), cloud/fog/edge computing, artificial intelligence, and agricultural robots to monitor, track, analyze and process various functions and services in real-time. Additionally, these technologies can make the agricultural processes smarter and more cost-efficient by using automated systems and eliminating any human interventions, hence enhancing agricultural production to meet future expectations. Although the current agriculture systems that adopt the traditional cloud-based architecture have provided powerful computing infrastructure to distributed IoT sensors. However, the cost of energy consumption associated with transferring heterogeneous data over the multiple network tiers to process, analyze and store the sensor's information in the cloud has created a huge load on information and communication infrastructure. Besides, the energy consumed by cloud data centers has an environmental impact associated with using non-clean fuels, which usually release carbon emissions (CO <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> ) to produce electricity. Thus, to tackle these issues, we propose a new integrated edge-fog-cloud architectural paradigm that promises to enhance the energy-efficient of smart agriculture systems and corresponding carbon emissions. This architecture allows data collection from several sensors to process and analyze the agriculture data that require real-time operation (e.g., weather temperature, soil moisture, soil acidity, irrigation, etc.) in several layers (edge, fog, and cloud). Thus, the real-time processing could be held by the edge and fog layers to reduce the load on the cloud layer, which will help to enhance the overall energy consumption and process the agriculture applications/services efficiently. Mathematical modeling is conducted using mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) for a smart agriculture environment, where the proposed architecture is implemented, and results are analyzed and compared to the traditional implementation. According to the results of thousands of agriculture sensors, the proposed architecture outperforms the traditional cloud-based architecture in terms of reducing the overall energy consumption by 36% and the carbon emissions by 43%. In addition to these achievements, the results show that our proposed architecture can reduce network traffic by up to 86%, which can reduce network congestion. Finally, we develop a heuristic algorithm to validate and mimic the presented approach, and it shows comparable results to the MILP model.

Privacy-Preserving In-Home Fall Detection Using Visual Shielding Sensing and Private Information-Embedding

Falls are the main cause of accidental injuries, and even death among elderly people, especially those who live alone in their homes. The absence of a reliable fall detection system has long been a serious problem for home health monitoring. A video surveillance system can be used to monitor elderly people at home to detect falls, but the traditional implementation of such intelligent detection falls short of personal privacy-related considerations; additionally, many people do not want to be watched in their homes. To solve this problem, we propose a fall detection system with visual shielding that can ensure the safety of elderly people in their homes while preserving their personal privacy. Multilayer compressed sensing is first used to achieve visually shielded video frames. By combining low-rank sparse decomposition theory with the improved local binary pattern on the three orthogonal planes, the object features are extracted from the shielded video frames. Finally, to compensate for the information lost in the compressed video to a certain extent, a private information-embedded classification model is proposed to identify fall-related behavior. The experimental results on two public fall datasets show that the proposed method delivers impressive accuracy and a low error rate while effectively distinguishing between fall- and nonfall-related behaviors in videos.

The Cultural Symbol of Akkorongtigi in the Wedding Tradition of Makassar Society

This research was intended to examine the caltural symbol of Akkorongtigi in Makassar wedding tradition. Moreover, the approach used was a semiotic approach. The data of this research were the documentation of bridal Akkorongtigi activities and verbal utterances which were transcribed into the text. Besides, data collection used were documentation, in-depth interviews, and observations (field recording, recording, and photo shooting). The data analysis stages were carried out through three stages, namely (1) reduction, (2) presentation, and (3) conclusion drawing. Furthermore, the results showed that there were four cultural symbols in Akkorongtigi, namely the symbol of hope, the symbol of religion, the symbol of glory, and the symbol of togetherness. In addition, the representation of the implementation of the Akkorongtigi tradition was supported by two things, they were verbal and nonverbal aspects.Keywords:Symbols, culture, Akkorongtigi, tradition, Makassar

ЗАСТОСУВАННЯ ІНСТРУМЕНТІВ МАРКЕТИНГОВИХ КОМУНІКАЦІЙ В УМОВАХ КРИЗИ

The world is experiencing an unprecedented crisis. As the situation with COVID-19 continues to unfold, and governments are taking swift action and decisive action to combat this global pandemic, businesses need to constantly rethink their choices and priorities. It is rare to see the whole world come together to overcome a common problem. It’s global, it’s open, and it can affect every business and every person. During the crisis, people turn to institutions for advice, reassurance and information. Increasingly, they are also looking at trading companies. In today’s environment of high uncertainty, rapid environmental variability and tight budget constraints, all market participants are forced to look for non-standard solutions for effective promotion strategies. The priority measures of anti-crisis marketing activities are marketing communications. They play an important role in shaping consumer choices. This choice applies not only to the product or service, but also to the management of messages and goals. Given the role of information in modern retail, it is advisable to analyze the features and essence of modern tools of marketing communications, the impact of the global crisis on the field of marketing communications. The urgency of the study is caused by the high degree of uncertainty in the market situation due to the global pandemic around the world. The Ukrainian market, contrary to foreign countries, is not adapted to such conditions. The article identifies the feasibility of using marketing communication tools to ensure consumer awareness of retail businesses. The regional structure of retail trade turnover, the change of real income volume of the population, as well as the change in consumer prices in Ukraine are analyzed. The expediency of maximizing attention to the choice of tools for marketing communications policy is explained. The difficulties of traditional tools implementation in marketing communications during crisis are investigated. The necessity of redistribution of the marketing budget with receiving the maximum result is defined. In the future, the results of this study can be used in the theory of marketing communication policy of enterprises in order to develop measures to improve its effectiveness in times of crisis.

Apokaliptik Sastra dalam Tradisi Kebo-Keboan Desa Alas Malang, Banyuwangi

A tradition that offers a magical element in its implementation always attracts the human senses. This magical element is one of the sacred factors in a tradition. One tradition that is thick with elements of sacredness is the tradition of boredom in the village of Alas Malang, Banyuwangi. Therefore, this research is written as an effort to maintain the existence of the kebo-keboan tradition so that it is in line with the development of the tourism world in Banyuwangi and to explain apocalyptic values ​​in a tradition called kebo-keboan. This apocalyptic value is a form of harmony between humans and nature in the implementation of the boredom tradition. This research is a qualitative descriptive study using ethnographic method approach. The data in this research is the speech or behavior of the people of Alas Malang Village related to apocalyptic elements. In collecting data, researchers used observation and interview techniques. Meanwhile, in analyzing the data, the researcher took several steps, namely data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. The results of the research show the stages in the implementation of the kebo-keboan tradition which are divided into three, namely the opening, the core in the form of the earth ider, and the closing. Literary apocalyptic in the cultural tradition is described in the figure of Mbah Buyut Karti who is considered a hero, the agricultural environment and pageblug as an apocalyptic environment, and whisik as a vision or prophecy.