Quasi Simultaneous-Multiple Births and Deaths (QBD-M) Processes are used to model many of the traffic, service and related problems in modern communication systems. Their importance is on the increase due to the great strides that are taking place in telecommunication systems and networks. This paper presents the overview of the Spectral Expansion (SE) for the steady state solution of QBD-M pro...

The 31 ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on Electron-Cloud Effects “ECLOUD’04” was held April 19-23, 2004 at Napa, CA, USA. A broad range of current topics in this field were illuminated by 53 talks in 7 sessions plus 6 session summaries at the final summary session. These covered a variety of experimental methods and results, along with progress on understanding of the topic obtained from s...

In this paper, the feasibility of current internet framework for future usage is investigated. Internet has been a huge success. However, the scale of its use has given rise to issues and challenges which were not taken into account when it was created. There is a strong perception in the research community that current internet framework is not adequate to meet the current needs and challenges...

Bruno S. Frey suggests nine Proposals to refine future democratic processes. This paper unifies subsets of Frey’s Proposals. In doing so, certain Proposals are further supported while others are challenged. In addition, I suggest that our increased global reliance as well as advances in technology should force further changes to our democratic institutions.

‘Future Designers’ is an interactive and participative crash course that aims to introduce to children the concepts and practice of ‘creativity’, ‘design’, and ‘design thinking’. The course targets multiple learning styles and intelligences, combining various learning approaches and tools. The full course lasts 4-5 hours and can be delivered in a single or two sessions. Up to now, five pilot st...

The quality and the quantity of contextual information found in the descriptive metadata associated with digital representations of cultural objects are frequently inadequate for assuring that users will understand the nature of both the original object that has been digitally preserved, and the digital representation itself. This paper proposes and defines a framework for ensuring that relevan...