Oceans, seas, and marine resources are highly relevant for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Such relevance has given rise to blue economy approach, where scholars policymakers see activities carried out in cargo ports from a different perspective. The approach stresses emergence of multiple transnational networks relation these topics development green plus environmental measurement...

Resource allocation problems are concerned with the allocation of limited resources among competing agents so as to achieve the best system performances. In systems which serve many users, like in networking, there is a need to respect some fairness rules while looking for the overall efficiency. The so-called Max-Min Fairness is widely used to meet these goals. However, allocating the resource...

This paper presents the performance evaluation of an authorship verification technique that is based on a modified version of General Impostors (GI) [2]. The novelties of this implementation are: 1. a modified way of combining the min-max similarity measure and, 2. a relatively large set of diverse features that spans letter-level, word-level, function word-level, word shape-level, and word tag...

The emergence of video has presented new challenges to the problem of face recognition. Most of the existing methods are focused towards the use of either representative exemplars or image sets to summarize videos. There is little work as to how they can be combined effectively to harness their individual strengths. In this paper, we investigate a new dual-feature approach to face recognition i...

The innovative techniques of TCP Vegas have been the subject of much debate in recent years. Several studies have reported that TCP Vegas provides better performance than TCP Reno. However, the question which of the new techniques are responsible for the impressive performance gains remains unanswered so far. This paper presents a detailed performance evaluation of TCP Vegas. By decomposing TCP...