Network Quality of Service (QoS) criteria of interest include conventional metrics such as throughput, delay, loss, and jitter, as well as new QoS criteria based on power utilization, reliability and security. In this paper we suggest a theoretical framework for the characterization and comparison of adaptive routing algorithms which use QoS as the criterion to select between different paths th...

Authentication, the process of identifying an individual, currently plays a critical role in security systems. Graphical password schemes are believed to be more secure and resilient to dictionary attacks than traditional textual passwords. We designed a graphical password system with the novelty of incorporating the sense of touch via haptic technologies. Using haptics, the system utilizes the...

We study the effectiveness of the ECB’s negative interest rate policy on the yield curve with a new shadow-rate term structure model. Our model captures the discrete nature of the policy rate and a non-constant spread between it and the short end of the government bond yield curve. We price bonds with forward-looking agents, and find all modeling components are crucial to match the yield data a...

This paper carries out a performance analysis based on the first and second laws of thermodynamics for heat recovery vapor generator (HRVG) of ammonia-water mixture when the heat source is low-temperature energy in the form of sensible heat. In the analysis, effects of the ammonia mass concentration and mass flow ratio of the binary mixture are investigated on the system performance including t...

Embodied approaches to language understanding hold that comprehension of linguistic material entails a situated simulation of the situation described. Some recent studies have shown that implicit, explicit, and relational properties of objects implied in a sentence are part of this simulation. However, the issue concerning the extent to which language sensorimotor specificity expressed by lingu...