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Network Performance & Availability Reporting: Someone Has to Start It

The measurement of network service levels has long been a neglected practice by the performance industry. This is most likely due to a lack of network skills training and standard measurement and reporting definitions, as well as the fast pace of emerging technologies. There are, however, some TCP/IP utilities that present a practical opportunity to measure network service level goals proactive...

What is it to Wrong Someone? A Puzzle about Justice

ion, to the ‘movement’ of a detached frog’s leg. A teaching of this type might be developed in a number of ways. It is of course consistent with its central thought that the dictates of this virtue might, in respect of a given pair of agents, be massively aVected by some of the so-called social practices under which the pair happen together to fall. Similarly, Hume’s doctrine is consistent with...

How Hard Can It Be: Do Citizens Think It Is Difficult to Register to Vote?

Political equality is seen as an intrinsic normative principle for the adequate functioning of a democratic republic. However, it is well documented that in the United States there are many qualified citizens who do not vote, many who do not participate in the political process due to procedural barriers that make it difficult or impossible for them to register and vote. Despite this, there is ...

How hard is it to determine if a graph has a 2-role assignment?

Role assignments, introduced by Everett and Borgatti [2], who called them role colorings, formalize the idea, arising in the theory of social networks, that individuals of the same social role will relate in the same way to the individuals playing counterpart roles. If G is a graph, a k-role assignment is a function r mapping the vertex set onto the set of integers {1, 2, . . . , k} so that if ...