The number of threats in todays world increases steadily. Due to that fact governments in many countries try to counteract. The homeland security becomes more and more significant position in their budgets. Not only police forces are strengthen, but also many intelligent systems collecting data about the citizens are developed. Automatic license plate recognition systems are one of them. They a...

Active networks is a framework where network elements, primarily routers and switches, are programmable. Programs that are injected into the network are executed by the network elements to achieve higher exibility and to present new capabilities. This work describes a novel active network architecture which primarily addresses the management challenges of modern complex networks. Its primary co...

todays applying concrete structures is more usual than other structures which are used in buildings as in most of the world’s countries the application ratio of concrete to steel has increased from 10 to 1. sometimes these structures require strengthening vulnerable members because of deficiency in their loading system in usual and critical conditions. there are different methods for strengthen...

Modern object detection algorithms easily achieve real-time performance without introducing quality tradeoff on todays desktop computers. However, many typical applications such as video surveillance, traffic management, various safety and aid systems require the use of embedded systems. This paper presents modifications to the algorithm by Viola and Jones [2001] and its analysis that allowed t...

We describe a real-world problem from the road sector in Norway. Every four years the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) have to select which road development projects to do the next four years. This portfolio of projects has to be selected from a much larger set of worthy projects. Todays practice in evaluating individual road projects is based on the well known cost-benefit analysis...

In todays heterogenous multimedia ATM networks, there are multiple network managers, multiple traffic types and every user exploits the network resources according to availability, performance and cost. Thus, there are many decision-makers competing each other, and each one tries to achieve the best for his own good. In order a decision-maker to take the best decisions, he should have accurate ...

in this article author examines the developments of al-qaeda after september 11 terrorist attacks. the core idea of the text is that al-qaeda has been changed from a hierarchical organization to a complex, flexible and dynamic with a global reach after 9/11 and subsequently u.s attacks on afghanistan in 2001. in other words al-qaeda that we knew as an organization before 9/11 has been changed t...

todays, decision makers in the organization need toconstantly monitor changes in the environment and organization andmake necessary changes. therefore knowledge about the environmentand organization is necessary in decision making. knowledgemanagement is a key factor for competitive business environment andorganizations are investing heavily in creating centralized knowledgerepositories to impr...

The purpose of this study is to research and analyze the second-hand platforms in China Korea. Todays, trading has evolved more consumers are using it. In past, most users market were low-income households, current used MZ generation. reason, feeling necessity researching platform, I it from data To achieve study, collect two big platform each country “Xianyu” “Sec...