Communications Challenges In A Smaller World

Selecting Shortcuts for a Smaller World

The small world phenomenon is a desirable property of social networks, since it guarantees short paths between the nodes of the social graph and thus efficient information spread on the network. It is thus in the benefit of both network users and network owners to enforce and maintain this property. In this work, we study the problem of finding a subset of k edges from a set of candidate edges ...

Making a Small World Smaller: Path Optimization in Networks

Reduction of end-to-end network delay is an optimization task with applications in multiple domains. Low delays enable improved information flow in social networks, quick spread of ideas in collaboration networks, low travel times for vehicles on road networks and increased rate of packets in the case of communication networks. Delay reduction can be achieved by both improving the propagation c...

third world intellectuals in v. s. naipaul’s fiction: the mimic men, a bend in the river, magic seeds

this thesis attempts to study the representations of the third-world intellectuals in three fictional works by the british-educated trinidadian nobel-winner v. s. naipaul: the mimic men, a bend in the river, and magic seeds. the first one recounts the story of ralph singh’s sense of alienation, his experiences as a colonial politician, and his struggle to give order to his disorderly world thro...

Broadband Mobile Communications towards a Converged World

Challenges in a Service-Oriented World

In a service-oriented world, enterprises use (Web) services to encapsulate parts of their process logic. The Web Service Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is an established standard to describe Web services. Usually designed in isolation, a service must nevertheless properly interact with other services at run time. A number of techniques have been suggested to check the compatibility ...