This paper addresses Available Bit Rate (ABR) service fairness in wide area ATM networks. In traac management, fairness is generally understood as equally sharing the available bandwidth of a link among all its contending users. The most widely used speciic fairness measure is Max-Min fairness 14]. Fairness is a very important performance measurement for ABR ow control, but no mathematical fair...

Throughput, fairness, and energy consumption are often conflicting objectives in multi-hop wireless networks. In this paper, we propose the notion of lexicographical maxmin energy efficiency throughput fairness that achieves throughput fairness per unit energy. Compared with maxmin throughput fairness and maxmin time fairness, the proposed scheme allocates more bandwidth to nodes with relay req...

In financial decision making, perceived fairness can have substantial influence on individuals’ choices. In this paper, we investigate process and outcome dimensions that moderate perceived fairness for a variety of financial products. Our hypotheses draw from the existing fairness literatures in marketing, economics, and organizational behavior, and relate the fairness concepts from those exis...

This article presents the results of a qualitative study examining a series of artistic and cultural activities that emerged over the last years in Brazil in the context of psychiatric reform. Using both semi-structured interviews with users and mental health professionals as the authors of these activities, as well as participant observation in cultural and artistic events within the period 20...

Painters and cartographers have developed artistic landscape rendering techniques for centuries. Such renderings can visualize complex three-dimensional landscapes in a pleasing and understandable way. In this work we examine a particular type of artistic depiction, panorama maps, in terms of function and style, and we develop methods to automatically generate panorama map reminiscent rendering...

A quantitative measure for the fairness of network resource distribution was proposed in Jain, Chiu and Hawe [1]. This fairness function is widely adopted in network design and management. This paper proposes a new distribution fairness score function. Compared the proposed fairness function to the one by Jain, Chiu and Hawe, the proposed fairness function keeps all the nice properties that Jai...

this paper presents pluralism as a historical process. the term pluralism frequently appears not only in the field of political philosophy but also in social sciences. in one sense, the growing literature is stimulating and enriching, nevertheless the abundance of material attempting to explain the various interpretations of pluralist theory can be convoluted and overwhelming. despite the const...

In this short article I explore two related themes, between which there is, I hope to show, a curious tension. The first is the fact of there being demonstrably better and worse artworks. The second is the undeniable importance of personal taste as regards preferences among works of art. What should be the relationship between what one as an individual prefers in the realm of art and what is ob...

We present a technique for painterly renderings that follows a decomposition of the canvas into a set of regions and layers (coarse to fine). The regions reflect the spatial arrangement of the composition and the order in which the painting is to be created (typically back to front), and are produced in a way that new strokes only minimally paint over existing ones. Layers reflect the applicati...

BWAIN is a creative web browser which uniquely combines graphics and sound using the HTML structure of any selected web page. The structure behind the web page which normally remains unseen, is revealed in a process of visualization. The HTML Code acts as a genome for building an image which looks and sounds quite distinct. Several web pages may be linked with each other and thus reflects the c...