The RIES-KOA evoting system was used in the Netherlands as an additional system for the elections by expatriates for the Tweede Kamer (roughly: the Dutch House of Commons) elections in 2006. Although the system has been used in other elections in the Netherlands as well, there have been few independent evaluations of the system. In this paper, we apply the recently proposed Protection Profile f...

This paper examines the first 16 months of competition in the German market for long-distance voice telephony on the fixed network. It concentrates on price level and price structure. Competition induced by the entry of both network operators and switch-based service providers decreased the price level substantially. Furthermore, after initial attempts to design innovative price structures, mos...

Correspondence: [email protected] Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore-ETH Centre, Singapore Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract As cities grow, certain neighborhoods experience a particularly high demand for housing, resulting in escalating rents. Despite far-reaching socioeconomic consequences, it remains difficult to predict when and where urba...

Nowadays, with the increasing number of integrated data sources, there is a real trend to personalize mediation systems to improve user satisfaction. To make these systems user sensitive, we propose a personalization platform called 2P-Med. 2P-Med allows personalizing any mediation system used in any domain following a cyclic process. The process includes building and managing adequate user pro...

The demand characteristic is the most important one in analyzing customer information. In a distribution network, there is in any moment certain degree of uncertainty about busses loads, and consequently, about load level of network, busses voltage level, and power losses. Therefore, it is very important to estimate first of all the load profiles of buses, using available data (measurements eff...

In this work, we explore the relation between expressive head movement and user profile information in game play settings. Facial gesture analysis cues are statistically correlated with players’ demographic characteristics in two different settings, during game-play and at events of special interest (when the player loses during game play). Experiments were conducted on the Siren database, whic...

Guided waves have been the attractive ways for the nondestructive inspection of the large structure because of their many advantages. The characteristics of guided waves are presented; some consideration of guided waves in the large structure inspection is stated; excitation methods and their merits and shortcomings are introduced. Several typical applications of guided waves in the large struc...

In an attempt to understand the implications of Long's " generalized dimensional analysis, " this method was applied to the problem of the wind distribution in the planetary boundary layer. The assumption was made that the equations of motion, together with an appropriate set of boundary conditions, define a unique relationship among the wind, the stress, and certain other variables and paramet...