On online platforms, consumers face an abundance of options that are displayed in the form a position ranking. Only products placed first few positions readily accessible to consumer, and she needs exert effort access more options. For such we develop two-stage sequential search model where, stage, consumer sequentially screens observe preference weight them forms consideration set. In second o...

Accessing custom hardware peripherals from a soft-CPU realized on FPGA fabric is a common task. We use a Virtex-5 FPGA with a MicroBlaze soft-CPU running a standard Linux kernel as the core of our embedded system. In order to enable processes on the Linux system to communicate with custom peripherals on the FPGA a device driver is implemented to take advantage of the fast simplex link (FSL) bus...

Network routing platforms and Internet firewalls of the next decade will be radically different than the platforms of today. They will contain modular components that can be dynamically reconfigured over the Internet. But, unlike the active networks that are in the research labs today, these new platforms will not suffer from the performance penalty of processing packets in software. These plat...

Automated DNA sequencing instruments embody an elegant interplay among chemistry, engineering, software, and molecular biology and have built upon Sanger's founding discovery of dideoxynucleotide sequencing to perform once-unfathomable tasks. Combined with innovative physical mapping approaches that helped to establish long-range relationships between cloned stretches of genomic DNA, fluorescen...

A platform network is an integrated high-capacity general-purpose network. The platform model dominates the market for wired broadband services, reducing the amount of infrastructure required and enabling rapid deployment of new services. We argue that wireless broadband is fundamentally different from wired broadband in ways that limit the benefits of platform networks. Instead, for both techn...

We consider optimal pricing by a profit-maximizing platform running a dynamic search and matching market. Buyers and sellers enter in cohorts over time, meet and bargain under private information. The optimal centralized mechanism, which involves posting a bid-ask spread, can be decentralized through participation fees charged by the intermediary to both sides. The sum of buyers’ and sellers’ f...

Executive Summary In today's complex and everchanging communications industry, dramatic transformations in standards, technology, and the ecosystem that provides them are changing the way solutions are developed, validated, and deployed. An important strategy for telecommunication equipment vendors to remain competitive is to consolidate standards-based commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) component...

This article addresses two main topics. Firstly, we review the operation of trusted computing technology, which now appears likely to be implemented in future mobile devices (including mobile phones, PDAs, etc.). Secondly, we consider the possible applications of this technology in mobile devices, and how these applications can be supported using trusted computing technology. We focus in partic...

The advent of high throughput microarrays and the complete sequencing of the Drosophila melanogaster genome have enabled global gene expression analysis in this powerful genetic model organism. Currently, researchers are using three main Drosophila array platform types, with elements composed of cDNA amplicons, oligonucleotides (short and long) or genomic amplicons. This paper provides a broad ...