This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of a service discovery system for the one.world pervasive computing operating system. Our system allows clients to find services via a central server and provides an integrated interface for sending events to remote locations. This interface is implemented via a late-binding mechanism, which allows clients to send events directly to...

Electronic voting system employs the use of ICT in organizing and managing elections. Such an automated system is expected to satisfy some security requirements. However, existing systems are still unable to provide a most trusted platform for election due to some technical flaws, an obvious implication of this being an election result marred with irregularities and so many manipulations which ...

nowadays, election is one of the important issues in all the countries that their political system is based on democracy. this study investigated the effectiveness of promotional tools on the behavior of voters in the eleventh round of iran's presidential election. in this study, media campaign tools were divided into two categories of media and non-media ones and the effect of each on the vote...

Leader election protocols are a fundamental building block for replicated distributed services. They ease the design of leader-based coordination protocols that tolerate failures. In partially synchronous systems, designing a leader election algorithm, that does not permit multiple leaders while the system is unstable, is a complex task. As a result many production systems use third-party distr...

We present an independent security evaluation of the AccuVote Optical Scan voting terminal (AV-OS). We identify a number of new vulnerabilities of this system which, if exploited maliciously, can invalidate the results of an election process utilizing the terminal. Furthermore, based on our findings an AV-OS can be compromised with off-the-shelf equipment in a matter of minutes even if the mach...

Habit is a frequently mentioned but understudied cause of political action. This article provides the first direct test of the hypothesis that casting a ballot in one election increases one’s propensity to go to the polls in the future. A field experiment involving 25,200 registered voters was conducted prior to the November general election of 1998. Subjects were randomly assigned to treatment...

The present research demonstrates that the visual perspective--own first-person versus observer's third-person--people use to picture themselves engaging in a potential future action affects their self-perceptions and subsequent behavior. On the eve of the 2004 U.S. presidential election, registered voters in Ohio were instructed to use either the first-person or the third-person perspective to...

counted in 2008 on electronic voting machines made and serviced by two companies – Diebold and ES&S. According to the excellent article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. that follows this page, “Was the 2004 Election Stolen?,” those two companies have close ties to the Republican Party. The Chairman and CEO of Diebold in 2004 was a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was “...

The first 100 days after an election are full of enthusiasm, energy and chaos, and they are crucial to establishing the shape, style and content of the new government’s tenure. The electorate is eager for plans, changes and new ideas, and for election promises to become reality. Early action that is visible and accepted will secure the credibility of longer-term plans. Here, in an open letter t...

Mobile Ad Hoc networks (MANET), distinct from traditional distributed systems, are dynamic and selforganizing networks. MANET requires a leader to coordinate and organize tasks. The challenge is to have the right election algorithm that chooses the right leader based on various factors in MANET. In this paper, we analyze four leader election algorithms used in mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Factors co...