Some Modest Proposals

Some Modest Proposals on the Vice-Presidency

Some Modest Proposals for Simulation Software: Design and Analysis of Experiments

Simulation software has made great advances in recent years along the dimensions of modeling capabilities, animated graphics, and ease of use. There have also been real improvements in terms of both generality to model a wide variety of systems, and in specialization for quick and accurate modeling in specific application domains. And, of course, the dramatic improvement in computing/cost ratio...

Security and Privacy: Modest Proposals for Low- Cost RFID Systems

Low cost Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems are increasingly being deployed in industry and commerce. These contactless devices have raised public concern regarding violation of privacy and information security. There is a growing need in the RFID community to discover and develop techniques and methods to overcome several problems posed by the above-mentioned concerns. This paper pr...

Some proposals for combining ensemble classifiers

Acknowledgements It is a great pleasure to thank those people whose company I enjoyed in my lovely PhD journey. It is difficult to overstate my gratitude to my friend and Ph.D. supervisor, Prof. Giuliano Armano. During these three years, he gave me an opportunity to learn not only how to be a thinker but most importantly be a life lover. Working with him was an honor which remains with me for e...

Mental incapacity: some proposals for legislative reform.

While the decision of the House of Lords in Re F in [1990] clarified somewhat the law concerning the treatment of the mentally incapacitated adult, many uncertainties remained. This paper explores proposals discussed in a recent government green paper for reform of the law in an area involving many difficult ethical dilemmas.