Commercially available network intrusion detection systems (NIDS) came onto the market over six years ago. These systems have gained acceptance as a viable means of monitoring the security of consumer networks, yet no commercial standards exist to help consumers understand the capacity characteristics of these devices. Existing NIDS tests are flawed. These tests resemble the same tests used wit...

One of the most frustrating things about studying attention is that research is so often is accompanied by vague discussions of capacity limits, bottlenecks, resource limits, allocations of attentional resources, and the like. How can these notions be made more concrete? The sub-area of computer science known as Computational Complexity is concerned with the theoretical issues dealing with the ...

The main bottlenecks limiting the practical applications of current magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) technology are its low storage density and high writing energy consumption. Although a number of proposals have been reported for voltage-controlled memory device in recent years, none of them simultaneously satisfy the ...

Difficult visual search is often attributed to time-limited serial attention operations, although neural computations in the early visual system are parallel. Using probabilistic search models (Dosher, Han, & Lu, 2004) and a full time-course analysis of the dynamics of covert visual search, we distinguish unlimited capacity parallel versus serial search mechanisms. Performance is measured for d...

Intersections are the bottlenecks of the urban road system because an intersection’s capacity is only a fraction of the vehicle flows that the roads connecting to the intersection can carry. The saturation flow rate, and hence the capacity, can be doubled if vehicles can cross intersections in platoons rather than one by one as they do today. Platoon formation is enabled by connected vehicle te...

Popular websites are expected to handle huge amounts of requests simultaneously within a reasonable timeframe. On top of that, boosted by the recent developments in server-side scripting technology, many web servers also must perform a signifi cant amount of serverside processing. This puts a tremendous burden on the availability of processing capacity. Consequently, for many popular websites, ...

A subcontinuum C of a dendroid X is a bottleneck if it intersects every arc connecting two nonempty open subsets of X. We prove that every dendroid has a point p contained in arbitrarily small bottlenecks. Moreover, every plane dendroid contains a single point bottleneck. This implies, for instance, that each map from an indecomposable continuum into a plane dendroid must have an uncountable po...

Despite the impressive complexity and processing power of the human brain, it is severely capacity limited. Behavioral research has highlighted three major bottlenecks of information processing that can cripple our ability to consciously perceive, hold in mind, and act upon the visual world, illustrated by the attentional blink (AB), visual short-term memory (VSTM), and psychological refractory...

The dismantling of disused industrial facilities such as nuclear power plants or refineries is an enormous challenge for the planning and control of the logistic processes. Existing control models do not meet the requirements for a proper dismantling of industrial plants. Therefore, the paper presents an approach for the control of dismantling and post-processing processes (e.g. decontamination...