* In Proceedings of 18th Biennial Symposium on Communications, Kingston, ON, Canada, June 1996. Abstract: Emerging applications are characterized by highly different service requirements. Most importantly, they require specialized end-to-end quality of service and multicast support from the communication system. The BERKOM-II projects comprise application support as well as an enhanced communic...

A few cities in some of the larger developing countries in Latin America and Asia have made increasing use of multi-year concessions or franchises, competitively awarded to private companies, for construction and operation of urban transport infrastructure and for provision of public transport services. In view of the strong prospective growth of developing-country cities with large transport n...

Project portfolios for the annual maintenance of infrastructure assets may contain dozens of projects which are selected out of hundreds of candidate projects. When selecting these projects, it is necessary to account for multiple evaluation criteria, project interdependencies, and uncertainties about project performance as well as financial and other relevant constraints. In this paper, we rep...