Security poses a major challenge in ad hoc networks today due to the lack of fixed or organizational infrastructure. This paper proposes a modification to the existing “fully distributed certificate authority” scheme for ad hoc networks. In the proposed modification, redundancy is introduced by allocating more than one share to each node in order to increase the probability of creating the cert...

In recent years, with the continuous development of E-commerce, the third-party online payment pattern is gaining increasingly popularity among users. Characterized by its convenience, high-credibility and safety, it has become the mainstream pattern of online payment. With its rapid development, the third-party online payment has drawn more and more attention among people from all circles. And...

This chapter discusses integrated asset-liability management, a new management perspective that is evolving at the more innovative financial intermediaries in response to problems caused by the older functional management perspective. The older perspective calls for an organization to be structured into functional units (e.g., marketing, asset management, etc.), the decisions of which are coord...

Congratulations. By now your company has completed (or is about to complete) one of the most difficult and consuming projects in the history of its existence—the dreaded Year 2000 remediation process. If you are like most people saddled with the responsibility of managing corporate risks or ensuring business continuity, you probably can't ignore the nagging feeling that you may have forgotten s...

IntroductIon This article intends to cover operational-knowledge management (KM) as implemented in the military. In particular, it is based on experience and published examples from the U.S. Army and the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces). It concentrates on the characteristics of operational knowledge as the core type of interest for the military due to the nature of the mission. The proxy of human ...

This paper provides a survey of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)-related performance studies. Over the last 10 years, a variety of such studies have been published. Performance benchmarking of SNMP, like all benchmarking studies, is a non-trivial task that requires substantial effort to be performed well and achieve its purpose. In many cases, existing studies have employed different t...

Strategy maps are designed to help execute strategy and bring predictive qualities to key performance indicators by linking them according to perceived cause-and-effect relationships. However, strategy maps are often extrapolations of past performance and seldom sufficiently linked to possible future states. The authors of this paper argue that scenario analysis could play an important role in ...

In the globalization era each and every organization which wants to compete the world’s changing scenario has to adopt changes with time. In case of globalization, privatization and liberalization old traditional strategies of manufacturing and management have already changed. There are no cross border bearers and giants which can operate their operations from more than one country availing...

background: the number of people aged 60 and older is increasing faster than other age groups worldwide. iran will experience a sharp aging population increase in the next decades, and this will pose new challenges to the healthcare system. since providing high quality aged-care services would be the major concern of the policymakers, this question arises that what types of aged care services s...

wind erosion is a major environmental issue affecting land resources and socio-economic settings in iran. this paper outlines a study undertaken to provide a new tool to manage wind erosion from physical and economic perspectives. the southern part of the varamin plain in south of tehran is used as a case study. the focus of this study is on exploring the economic and physical impacts of 16 veg...