Cyber-defense research has been severely limited by the lack of an experimental infrastructure for testing new theories and new technologies in realistic scenarios. Current testbeds are mostly smallscale and limited to small numbers of machines. The cyber DEfense Technology Experimental Research (DETER) testbed, provides a medium-scale test environment with more than 300 nodes. However, there i...

Dropsy appears to be a disease of frequent occurrence in Dublin, and the greater number of those affected with such complaints resort to Steevens' Hospital; in the chronic wards of which, an excellent opportunity is offered for investigating a disease, to the pathology of which little has been added until within these very few years. It is unfortunate, indeed, that medical writers, in general, ...

In insurance, credibility theory (CT) is used to develop a weighted average of the claims experience of an individual contract and the experience for the whole portfolio, where the weight factor is the credibility attached to the individual experience. Recently, Liu and Liu (2002) and Liu (2007), in the study of the behavior of fuzzy phenomena, formulated an alternate version of credibility the...

In this paper, we investigate by means of statistical and information-theoretic measures, to what extent sensory-motor coordinated activity can generate and structure information in the sensory channels of a simulated agent interacting with its surrounding environment. We show how the usage of correlation, entropy, and mutual information can be employed (a) to segment an observed behavior into ...

Islamic banking is a growing phenomenon which came into existence to satisfy the nan-cial needs of devout Muslims who observe the prohibition of interest-based transactions. Many economists have studied the macroeconomic properties of this institution in the framework of an isolated and ideal Islamic economy. In this age of integrated global nancial markets, the instantaneous transformation of ...

––This paper deals with the Queueing theory and the analysis of the efficiency of the queueing system of a bank in different locations. Starting with the historical back ground and important concepts of the queueing theory, we measured the effectiveness of banks in rural and town areas by using probability curves of arrivals and waiting times.

It is investigated that nearly 86% containers were transferred by roads connection transport at Shenzhen port with the high-speed developing steps of Chinese economy. For a long time, Shenzhen container-trailer enterprises have provided essential and efficient logistics service for every dock. However, problems as operated by many bodies, small scale, decentralized business and poor competitive...