Recent work in Distributed Feature Composition architecture has shown that a modular, compositional architecture of feature logic can lead to successful management of feature interaction. It can also promote rapid deployment of new services and third party innovation in a communication network. ECLIPSE is an implementation of DFC that focuses on Voice over IP (VoIP) and multimedia over IP. In E...

The evolution on ambient intelligence technologies, such as sensor networks, propelled a universe of very diverse types of both data and hardware equipment creating one of the most heterogeneous network environments. This diversity brings to light the main issue we aim to address in this paper: the need for a common ground that enables communications between the different heterogeneous equipmen...

This paper examines whether links between inside and outside directors have an impact on CEO compensation. Using a comprehensive sample of 22,074 directors for 3,114 firms, we develop a measure of the " back door " distance between each pair of directors on a company's board. Specifically, using the entire network of directors and firms, we compute the minimum number of other company boards tha...

The ISES Project – Information, Society, Energy, System – was started in 1996 and finished three years later, in 1998. The initial tasks for the project was to study in which way the fast expanding information technology would make energy distribution more efficient and at the same time create synergism with the growing information society by offering the electrical grid as a communication chan...

We discuss the bounds for capacity of a binary-input binary-output discrete memoryless communication channel. We introduce a new lower bound that gives a very good and elementary approximation to the capacity.

In this paper, a new structure for teleoperated systems with time-varying delay in communication channel will be proposed, which provides transparency for the system. The key features of this structure are its simple design as well as the ability to analyse the stability of the closed-loop system using the property of the stable scalar functions and the small gain theorem. In the proposed struc...

This research aims to explore how social communications of online communities affect users' perception and responses toward social media advertising. We developed a conceptual model based on the SBT, encapsulating 9 constructs and 10 hypothesis extracted from the extant social media advertising literature. Our research outcome proves that social communications can effectively boost users' behav...

INTRODUCTION People with disabilities are generally more vulnerable during disasters and public emergencies than the general population. Physical, sensory and cognitive impairments may result in greater difficulty in receiving and understanding emergency alert information, and greater difficulty in taking appropriate action. The use of social media in the United States has grown considerably in...