This document gives an overview of the Next Steps in Signaling (NSIS) framework and protocol suite created by the NSIS Working Group during the period of 2001-2010. It also includes suggestions on how the industry can make use of the new protocols and how the community can exploit the extensibility of both the framework and existing protocols to address future signaling needs.

This threats document provides a detailed analysis of the security threats relevant to the Next Steps in Signaling (NSIS) protocol suite. It calls attention to, and helps with the understanding of, various security considerations in the NSIS Requirements, Framework, and Protocol proposals. This document does not describe vulnerabilities of specific parts of the NSIS protocol suite.

T fastest long-period random number generators currently available are based on linear recurrences modulo 2. So far, software that provides multiple disjoint streams and substreams has not been available for these generators because of the lack of efficient jump-ahead facilities. In principle, it suffices to multiply the state (a k-bit vector) by an appropriate k × k binary matrix to find the n...

A detailed discussion of the point in polygon problem for arbitrary polygons is given. Two concepts for solving this problem are known in literature: the even–odd rule and the winding number, the former leading to ray-crossing, the latter to angle summation algorithms. First we show by mathematical means that both concepts are very closely related, thereby developing a first version of an algor...

Let $\mathcal A$ denote a set of positive integers, and let $p(\mathcal A,n)$ the associated partition function. $\beta $ be an odd integer, $P(z)$ polynomial in \mathbb F_2[z]$ order such that $P(0)=1$. J.-L

We present a winning method of the IEEE DataPort Competition on Day-Ahead Electricity Demand Forecasting: Post-COVID Paradigm. The day-ahead load forecasting approach is based novel online forecast combination multiple point prediction models. It contains four steps: i) data cleaning and preprocessing, ii) new holiday adjustment procedure, iii) training individual models, iv) by smoothed Bernst...

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The initial steps of pattern formation in the developing Drosophila eye involve the coordination of cell cycles, changes in cell shape, and the specification of the R8 photoreceptor cell. These events begin several cell rows ahead of the morphogenetic furrow and are positively regulated by secreted signaling proteins and the proneural HLH transcription factor atonal (ato). Two HLH regulatory pr...

Physicians do not plan ahead to violate HIPAA; but, in this digital age you may be doing it because you did not plan ahead. The recent final rule of the HITECH Act outlines that even if the physician is unaware of the violation, he may be fined a civil penalty of $100 $50,000 per violation. It is time for even the most resistant physician to pay attention to how he handles protected health info...

Computational intelligence approaches to multiple-step-ahead forecasting rely either on iterated one-step-ahead predictors or direct predictors. In both cases the predictions are obtained by means of multi-input single-output modeling techniques. This paper discusses the limits of single-output approaches when the predictor is expected to return a long series of future values and presents a mul...