Many readers will, when reading the title of this column, react with an immediate feeling of “Oh no – not another language!”. Many people feel that too many languages are already out there, and that new languages add to the problem, not to the solution. We are getting closer to reaching a Babel-like scenario, where everyone speaks a different language. (It is, by the way, interesting to note th...

In all the studies on inventory systems prior to Berman et al [8], it was assumed that the serving of inventory is instantaneous. However this is not the case in many practical situations. For example in a TV showroom, a customer usually spends some time with the salesperson before buying the TV or in a computer shop, after selecting the model, one might have to wait until all the required soft...

A number of perennial doubts plague genre theory. Are genres really 'out there' in the world, or are they merely the constructions of analysts? Is there a finite taxonomy of genres or are they in principle infinite? Are genres timeless Platonic essences or ephemeral, time-bound entities? Are genres culturebound or transcultural?... Should genre analysis be descriptive or proscriptive? (Stam 200...

This document captures experiences in implementing systems based on the ENUM protocol and experiences of ENUM data that have been created by others. As such, it clarifies the ENUM and Dynamic Delegation Discovery System standards. Its aim is to help others by reporting both what is "out there" and potential pitfalls in interpreting the set of documents that specify the ENUM protocol. It does no...

Nowadays, routing protocols have become a crucial part of the modern communication networks. A routing protocol's responsibility lies in determining the way routers communicate with each other in order to forward any kind of packets, from a source to a destination, using the optimal path that would provide the most efficiency. There are many routing protocols out there today, some old and some ...

This paper is the first in a series presenting findings from a yearlong mixed-methods study of the University of There (UOT), a player-run distributed learning community within the online graphical 3D world There.com. UOT is both a large-scale collaborative project and a learning environment within a virtual world originally designed as a social play space. The study employed in-world participa...