Alternative routing of calls has long been acknowledged as a means of increasing call throughput and robustness in the telephone network. Given these performance gains, it is natural to consider dynamic routing of Virtual Circuits (VCs) in Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks. Unlike telephone networks, VCs have heterogeneous bandwidth characteristics and Quality of Service requirements th...

Telephone network planning engineers routinely study feeder routes within the telephone network in order to create and refine network capacity expansion (relief) plans. In doing so they make use of a powerful software tool called LEIS-PLAN. We are developing an extension to PLAN called PLANDoc that will automatically generate natural language narratives documenting the engineers’ use of PLAN. ...

BACKGROUND To get more precise responses when gathering information about sensitive topics such as drug use, it is important to use the most optimal method. OBJECTIVES This study was carried out to address the impact of three interview methods (street-based, household, and telephone interviews) on response pattern to sensitive and non-sensitive questions in terms of participation, disclosure ...