As recently acknowledged by the Institute of Medicine, the existing pandemic mitigation models lack dynamic decision support capabilities. This paper develops a simulation optimization model for generating dynamic resource distribution strategies over a network of regions exposed to a pandemic. While the underlying simulation mimics the disease and population dynamics of the affected regions, t...

Knowledge of flow distributions from a stream of packets passing through a network link helps a network operator infer traffic demands, characterize source traffic, and detect traffic anomalies. Flow monitoring provides critical information for many network applications, and some approaches have been proposed to address flow monitoring. However, they either lack accuracy, or require intensive c...

Past research reveals a tension between children's preferences for egalitarianism and ingroup favoritism when distributing resources to others. Here we investigate how children's evaluations and expectations of others' behaviors compare. Four- to 10-year-old children viewed events where individuals from two different groups distributed resources to their own group, to the other group, or equall...

Resource selection is an important topic in distributed information retrieval research. It can be a component of a distributed information retrieval task and can also serve as an independent application of database recommendation system together with the resource representation part. There is a large body of valuable prior research on resource selection but very little has studied about the eff...

Current Content Distribution Networks (CDN) deployment requires heavy infrastructure investment since a large number of servers have to be deployed over a wide area. This paper proposes a new paradigm where future CDNs are to be deployed over a leased server and network infrastructure. While this paradigm shift introduces a new dimension of flexibility, it requires the resource provisioning and...

BACKGROUND There is increasing perception that countries cannot work in isolation to militate against the threat of pandemic influenza. In the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) of Asia, high socio-economic diversity and fertile conditions for the emergence and spread of infectious diseases underscore the importance of transnational cooperation. Investigation of healthcare resource distribution and...

In this paper, we establish a policy-based autonomic mobile network resource management architecture, then put forward the policies definition and hierarchies of the autonomic management system. We also present the various specific policy forms and the working mechanism of autonomic mobile resource distribution processes. Through the simulation experiments, we prove that the autonomic mobile re...

Wireless sensor networks based on highly resource-constrained devices require symmetric cryptography in order to make them secure. Integral to this is the exchange of unique symmetric keys between two devices. In this dissertation, we propose three novel decentralized key distribution schemes that guarantee the confidentiality of a key exchange even if an attacker has compromised some of the de...

The proliferation of government information on local area networks and the Internet creates the problem of finding information that may be distributed among many disjoint text databases (distributed information retrieval or federated search). A distributed information retrieval system is composed of three components: Resource representation, resource selection and result merging. Previous resea...