This paper applies a Game-based Learning Evaluation Model (GEM) to assess whether the early warning – early action serious game “Ready!” is an effective component to add to existing Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) training curricula, facilitated by NGO staff and applied at the community level. We developed a paper-based survey with 17 five-level Likert items and 15 open questions addressing the d...

1. (a) Let (X, ‖ · ‖) and (Y, ‖ · ‖) be normed spaces. Show that the following conditions on a family T ⊆ L(X, Y ) are logically equivalent: (1) {‖T ‖ : T ∈ T} is bounded in R; (2) {T : T ∈ T} is equicontinuous at some point of X ; (3) {T : T ∈ T} is equicontinuous at 0 ∈ X ; (4) {T : T ∈ T} is equicontinuous at every point of X . (This order may not be the most efficient one to prove round-rob...

The problem of managing and distributing files to maximize disk performance has been a popular topic of many discussions [1][2][3][4][5]. There are several effective static algorithms that have addressed this issue such as the static round robin (SOR) algorithm. SOR has been proven to produce better response time than other static algorithms such as Greedy, Sort Partition (SP), and Hybrid Parti...

Direct-to-Reverberant Ratio (DRR) is an important measure for characterizing the properties of a room. The recently proposed DRR Estimation using a Null-Steered Beamformer (DENBE) algorithm was originally tested on simulated data where noise was artificially added to the speech after convolution with impulse responses simulated using the image-source method. This paper evaluates the performance...

We study the computational complexity of optimal bribery and manipulation schemes for sports tournaments with uncertain information: cup; challenge or caterpillar; and round robin. Our results carry over to the equivalent voting rules: sequential pair-wise elections, cup, and Copeland, when the set of candidates is exactly the set of voters. This restriction creates new difficulties for most ex...

Problem statement: An explosive growth of multimedia applications in internet has stressed the performance of routers. Hence managing Quality of Service (QoS) enhancement of realtime multimedia applications over IP is a significant and demanding challenge. Approach: To address this issue, Bandwidth Adaptive Stratified Round Robin (BASRR) packet scheduling algorithm has been proposed in this pap...

The input queued (IQ) crossbar based switching, employing virtual output queueing (VOQ), is the dominant architecture for high-performance packet switches. The performance of a VOQ switch depends solely on the scheduling algorithm used. Maximum Weight Matching (MWM) algorithms have optimal performance however they are not practical due to their hardware complexity. Round Robin (RR) based algori...