High-performance, high-capacity packet switches and routers in the metro and backbone network are a basic infrastructure requirement to support the Future Internet. Trends in traffic evolution point to higher traffic volumes and increasingly unpredictable traffic variations caused by the mobility of large multimedia flows. These tendencies translate into challenges to switching and routing in t...

We certainly live in interesting times; advertisements in the media and even in emergency departments enjoin those who have suffered injury to claim legal compensation from those who have wronged them, often on a ‘no win no fee’ basis. Although UK paediatrics has, thus far, been largely immune to this cultural shift, it has been argued that children should be able to sue parents for illnesses t...

In the paper, I 'rst try to give some impression of Norwegian contributions to combinatorics in the 20th century. This is followed by some remarks on my own combinatorial experiences. c © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. [It] would bring to this country something absolutely new, namely the historic and humanistic side of mathematics. The success of the Institute of the History of...