Australia is a rich first world nation. In 2007–08 it had a $1 trillion economy as measured by nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP) with per capita income of over $A50 000. In recent years mining sector revenue has constituted a growing share of the national economy, reaching about 11 per cent of GDP in 2007–08 with a value of $A119 billion (Reserve Bank of Australia 2009). The Minerals Council...

Fiber-optic technology can be considered our savior for meeting our ever increasing needs because of it’s potentially limitless capabilities like huge bandwidth, low signal attenuation, minimal power requirement and low cost. DWDM is a technology that enables multiple wavelengths to be multiplexed onto one single fiber thereby creating many virtual fibers each capable of carrying a different si...

Today we see how to use the multiplicative weight update method to solve other problems. In many settings there is a natural way to make local improvements that “make sense.”The multiplicative weight updates analysis from last time (via a simple potential function) allows us to understand and analyse the net effect of such sensible improvements. (Formally, what we are doing in many settings is ...

Today we see how to use the multiplicative weight update method to solve other problems. In many settings there is a natural way to make local improvements that ”make sense.” The multiplicative weight updates analysis from last time (via a simple potential function) allows us to understand and analyse the net effect of such sensible improvements. (Formally, what we are doing in many settings is...