The hope has arisen that the internet will ultimately evolve into a Global Information Infrastructure (GII). The GII will create a global information marketplace and in the process narrow the poverty gap and eliminate many of the geographic obstacles to prosperity and equality. However commerce— primarily US commerce—is driving the development of the internet. As a result investors will want a ...

This study aims to identify and describe the reception of Korean cultural imperialism through traditional games in Squid Game movie series. uses a constructivist paradigm with qualitative descriptive approach Focus Group Discussion (FGD) as data collection method. The subjects studied were 6 informants from followers Twitter account @kdrama_menfess who selected purposively; scope was limited ch...

AEZ is an authenticated encryption algorithm, submitted to the CAESAR competition. It has been selected for the third round of the competition. While some classical analysis on the algorithm have been published, the cost of these attacks is beyond the security claimed by the designers. In this paper, we show that all the versions of AEZ are completely broken against a quantum adversary. For thi...

Restructuring in the power industry is followed by splitting different parts and creating a competition between purchasing and selling sections. As a consequence, through an active participation in the energy market, the service provider companies and large consumers create a context for overcoming the problems resulted from lack of demand side participation in the market. The most prominent ch...

Within the competition in today’s business environment, the design of supply chains becomes more complex than before. This paper deals with the retailer’s location problem when customers choose their vendors, and inventory costs have been considered for retailers. In a competitive location problem, price and location of facilities affect demands of customers; consequently, simultaneous optimiza...

A redundancy allocation problem (RAP) is a well-known NP-hard problem that involves the selection of elements and redundancy levels to maximize the system reliability under various system-level constraints. In many practical design situations, reliability apportionment is complicated because of the presence of several conflicting objectives that cannot be combined into a single-objective functi...

This text introduces the themed issue “Imperialism, Internationalism and Education in Africa: Connected Histories”. It provides an overview of history education twentieth-century Africa, highlighting its major problems, themes, actors. Arguing for a transnational connected approach to this field research, it also explains how four papers included allow address multiple entanglements between edu...

Recently, many meta-heuristic algorithms are proposed for optimization of various problems. Some of them originally are presented for continuous optimization problems and some others are just applicable for discrete ones. In the literature, sizing optimization of truss structures is one of the discrete optimization problems which is solved by many meta-heuristic algorithms. In this paper, in or...

Auburn University has a competition Autonomous Lawnmower team and competes every year at ION’s competition [1] in Dayton, OH. This paper describes the how the team has approached coverage path planning for the lawnmower given the competition constraints. The competition setting dictates a closed polygon filed, which can be concave, and it will contain several static and dynamic obstacles. The p...