The game of lottery is both popular and simple. Focusing on the essentials, and leaving aside additional features of secondary importance, which vary across different lottery implementations, the rules of the game are as follows: each player submits to the lottery organizers a ticket consisting of M integers selected by the player, without repetitions, selection order being unimportant from the...

Broadband packet networks must dynamically recognize some network flows, like those that deal with disaster response, military operations, or emergencies as having greater importance than others. An architecture of geographically distributed ticket servers has been proposed to issue importance tickets to identify the priority that a flow should be given in the current dynamic network context. A...

highly available e-services, electronic tickets, online validation protocols E-ticket is an Internet service which, similarly to real-world tickets, gives their owners permission to enter a place of entertainment, use a means of transportation, or have access to some other Internet services. E-tickets can be stored in desktop computers or personal digital assistants for future use. Before being...

Introduction The OV-Chip is a project that digitalizes the payment system for public transport in The Netherlands. It makes use of RFID technology, which offers a contact-less transaction between a gateway and a traveling ticket. This system will eventually replace all the original paper tickets. Since the residents of The Netherlands have no choice in using this system, the university sees it ...

A secure RFID ticket system for public transport is proposed in this paper. It supports security properties including secure authentication, unforgeability, correct billing and privacy and can prevent various attacks. It consists of two protocols, both following three principles necessary for secure RFID ticket system. The first protocol is very efficient and suitable for applications with crit...

This document describes a mechanism that enables the Transport Layer Security (TLS) server to resume sessions and avoid keeping per-client session state. The TLS server encapsulates the session state into a ticket and forwards it to the client. The client can subsequently resume a session using the obtained ticket. Salowey, et al. Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 4507 Stateless TLS Session Resumpti...

Zusammenfassung Auf der Basis einer aktuellen empirischen Untersuchung wird das 9-Euro-Ticket, in den Monaten Juni, Juli und August 2022 Deutschland genutzt werden konnte, bewertet. Trotz erheblicher Vorbehalte gegenüber dem Ticket vor dessen Einführung trotz teilweisen Überforderung des ÖPNV-Systems ist Urteil Nutzenden im Rückblick überwiegend positiv. Diese Bewertung bietet zudem wichtige Im...

At many public places, at train stations, airports and highway interchanges we will find culture-stations. Short trailers about points of interest will be shown on video-screens. Dialogue-systems will find out about individual likes and dislikes. A personalized culture-ticket will be printed for a nominal fee. Public transportation and private vehicles will be equipped with a decoder, which is ...

Past research shows that consumers tend to equate higher prices with higher value. However, it remains unclear whether consumers of athletic events follow the predictions of equity theory when attributing value to particular teams. We conducted 3 studies to investigate the existence and consequences of a disparity between men’s and women’s college basketball ticket prices. In Study 1, a survey ...