1 The purpose of this paper is to explore, in practical terms, prospects for empirical analysis in the non-life insurance market in Ireland, with particular reference to Motor, Employer's Liability and Public Liability insurance. The paper is being made available to potential candidates for a consultancy contract in relation to the study on insurance being carried out jointly by the Authority a...

Voice over IP (VoIP) is a facility of providing voice services in accordance with IP (Internet Protocol) which provides better QoS (Quality of Service) than Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) at comparatively less cost.. Since Internet suffers from various threats, VoIP, which uses IP for servicing the Clients also results in stepping down QoS. One of the major QoS threats is Server Avail...

Analyzing motion patterns in traffic videos can be exploited directly to generate high-level descriptions of the video contents. Such descriptions may further be employed in different traffic applications such as traffic phase detection and abnormal event detection. One of the most recent and successful unsupervised methods for complex traffic scene analysis is based on topic models. In this pa...

With the current trend in integration of more complex systems on chip there is a need for better communication infrastructure on chip that will increase the available bandwidth and simplify the interface verification. We have previously proposed a circuit switched two-dimensional mesh network known as SoCBUS that increases performance and lowers the cost of verification. In this paper, the SoCB...

The system to spot INIs, DNIs and their antecedents is an adaptation of VENSES, a system for semantic evaluation that has been used for RTE challenges in the last 6 years. In the following we will briefly describe the system and then the additions we made to cope with the new task. In particular, we will discuss how we mapped the VENSES analysis to the representation of frame information in ord...

background :traffic and transport is a substantial part of a range of economic, social and environmental factors distinguished to have impact on human health. this paper is a report on a preliminary section of a health impact assessment (hia) on urban traffic and transport initiatives, being conducted in sanandaj, iran. in this preliminary study, the psychometric properties of urban traffic rel...

With the rapid evolution of telecommunication networks, real-time traffic management is becoming more and more crucial. We propose here a neural network modular architecture for performing diagnosis at different levels of the telephone network. This system is designed as an aid to the operator. We present results of different experiments with a first version of the architecture which mainly ope...

We consider two optimization problems for cellular telephone networks, that arise in a recently discussed ITU proposal for a traffic load model. These problems address the positioning of base stations (on given possible locations) with the aim to maximize the number of supplied demand nodes and minimize the number of stations that have to be built. We show that these problems are hard to approx...

In this paper we look closely at the popular metric of anonymity, the anonymity set, and point out a number of problems associated with it. We then propose an alternative information theoretic measure of anonymity which takes into account the probabilities of users sending and receiving the messages and show how to calculate it for a message in a standard mix-based anonymity system. We also use...