The current network architecture is based predominantly on stand-alone routers. It is becoming overtaxed with the introduction of integrated services. In this paper, we propose a Server and Agent based Active network Management (SAAM) architecture that scales well with integrated services. SAAM relieves individual routers from most routing and network management tasks. Instead, it employs a sma...

There is a linkage between the condition of ecosystems and services they provide. In accounting framework set by United Nations System integrated Environmental Economic Accounting – Ecosystem Accounts (SEEA EA), two different sets accounts assess monitor ecosystem services, respectively. The former are reported as indicators in an asset account format, while latter supply use tables. Without co...

This paper puts under a magnifying glass the path to failure of Sunbeam Corp. and emphasizes the reasons for its singularity and exceptionality. This corporate case emerges as an outlier from the analysis of the US fraud cases mentioned by WebBRD: the consideration of the time between fraud disclosure and the final bankruptcy reveals that the value of this temporal variable is estimated equal t...

Ground-based microwave radiometry offers a new opportunity to automate upper air observations by providing information on temperature and humidity profiles as well as the integrated water vapour and liquid water amounts with high time resolution. To improve their relatively poor vertical resolution and provide a more complete picture of the vertical profile, radiometer observations can be combi...