Transitive proxy voting (or ‘liquid democracy’) is a novel form of collective decision making, often framed as an attractive hybrid direct and representative democracy. Although the ideas behind liquid democracy have garnered widespread support, there been relatively few attempts to model it formally. This paper makes three main contributions. First, proposes new social choice-theoretic democra...

Ukraine and Russia’s military conflicthave put Ukraine's past reforms under the spotlight. Foreign domestic policy made after nation’s independence in 1991 are believed to have triggered operation. It was aimed maintainRussian strategic economic presence region. acts as a proxy for western nations such United States this conflict. In decade, has steered developments away from Russian circle of ...

The majority of the Internet population access the World Wide Web via dial-up modem connections. Studies have shown that limited modem bandwidth is the main contributing factor to the Web access la-tency perceived by the users. In this paper, we investigate one approach to reduce the user-perceived latency: pre-pushing from the proxy to the browsers. The approach takes advantage of the idle tim...

Abstract The war in Ukraine, a NATO-Russian proxy war, continues to influence the global security architecture, but immediate consequences are felt especially by those conflict area. local population decided, through actions carried out from very first moment of invasion, oppose Russian occupation and was categorized as an extension armed forces central pillar Ukrainian resistance. paper analyz...

   In this paper, a new robust approach based on Least Square Support Vector Machine (LSSVM) as a proxy model is used for an automatic fractured reservoir history matching. The proxy model is made to model the history match objective function (mismatch values) based on the history data of the field. This model is then used to minimize the objective function through Particle Swarm Optimization (...

Sensing by proxy, as described in this study, is a sensing paradigm which infers latent factors by “proxy” measurements based on constitutive models that exploit the spatial and physical features in the system. In this study, we demonstrate the efficiency of sensing by proxy for occupancy detection based on indoor CO2 concentration. We propose a link model that relates the proxy measurements wi...

As the number of systems which offer annotations on digital documents increases, robust anchoring of annotations is a key challenge. It is especially important if the annotator lacks write-access to the document being annotated. For example, if someone makes an annotation on a web page today and the web page changes tomorrow, what happens to the annotation? One approach is simply to “orphan” th...

Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine has unleashed the largest and most lethal war on European continent since 1945. Vladimir Putin Russian government bear responsibility for its terrible humanitarian consequences. However, explanations deriving from domestic political dynamics or Putin’s imperial nostalgia do not provide a comprehensive understanding crisis that led to war. Situating ensuing w...

techniques have been used by many intelligent software agents to group similar access patterns of the Web users into high level themes which express users intentions and interests. However, such techniques have been mostly focusing on one salient feature of the Web document visited by the user, namely the extracted keywords. The major aim of these techniques is to come up with an optimal thresh...