Psychiatrists working in prisons are frequently presented with inmate requests for special privileges and living arrangements. Although recommendations to reduce stress are often indicated for seriously mentally ill prisoners, the injudicious use of special privileges can interfere with treatment and with the functioning and security of the prison environment. Guidelines are suggested for evalu...

The correlation among multiple lines of business plays a critical role in aggregating claims and thus determining loss reserves for an insurance portfolio. We show that the Sarmanov family of bivariate distributions is a convenient choice to capture the dependencies introduced by various sources, including the common calendar year, accident year and development period effects. The density of th...

Widespread adoption of a Web services-based paradigm for software applications will imply that applications will typically have potentially many dependencies upon Web services that they invoke or consume. These invoked services might typically be available from a remote site and be under the administration of third parties. This scenario implies a significant vulnerability of a Web services-bas...

In the present paper we consider the claims reserving problem in a multivariate context, that is, we study the multivariate Chain-ladder (CL) method for a portfolio of N correlated run-off triangles based on multivariate age-to-age factors. This method allows for a simultaneous study of individual run-off subportfolios and facilitates the derivation of an estimator for the mean square error of ...

Today, customers expect to run triple-play services through BGP/MPLS IP-VPNs. Some service providers will deploy services that request Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees from a local Customer Edge (CE) to a remote CE across the network. As a result, the application (e.g., voice, video, bandwidth-guaranteed data pipe, etc.) requirements for an end-to-end QoS and reserving an adequate bandwidth ...

Today, customers expect to run triple-play services through BGP/MPLS IP-VPNs. Some service providers will deploy services that request Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees from a local Customer Edge (CE) to a remote CE across the network. As a result, the application (e.g., voice, video, bandwidth-guaranteed data pipe, etc.) requirements for an end-to-end QoS and reserving an adequate bandwidth ...

The prediction of outstanding loss liabilities for a non-life run-o -portfolio as well as the quanti cation of the prediction error is one of the most important actuarial tasks in non-life insurance. In this paper we consider this prediction problem in a multivariate context. More precisely, we derive the predictive distribution of the claims reserves simultaneously for several correlated run-o...

This paper describes the investigation of permeable road as a mitigation measure for urban flooding. The study involves reconstruction historical case inundation, namely 11 December 2019 flood event along Tong Wei Tah Street in Greater Kuching City, Sarawak, Malaysia. Storm Water Management Model version 5.0 was used platform to describe flooding at selected site and functionality alleviate A w...