Increasing marketplace demand for real-time reporting of business information is inevitably leading to the requirement for more frequent assurance from auditors over the accuracy and reliability of such information. The frequency and speed with which auditors must provide assurance, coupled with the global dispersion of business clients, place more demand on the use of electronic communication ...

Obtaining a real-time synchronized video/audio stream through a low bandwidth network is a challenging task. In this paper we address several problems that arise in developing such an application and provide possible solutions to them. These problems include: video related issues such as deciding on the quality of the video and, setting the video parameters to obtain that quality; audio issues ...

Multi-agent reinforcement learning offers a way to study how communication could emerge in communities of agents needing to solve specific problems. In this paper, we study the emergence of communication in the negotiation environment, a semi-cooperative model of agent interaction. We introduce two communication protocols – one grounded in the semantics of the game, and one which is a priori un...

Acoustic communication has been widely used in undersea wireless networks. In this paper, we explore the use of acoustic communication in terrestrial wireless sensor networks. This work does not aim to replace the radio communication which is widely used in wireless sensor networks. Rather, we aim to provide an alternative way of communication among the motes in case that the radio transceiver ...

Abstract We present a formal quantum mechanical analysis of the communication protocol of Prevedel et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 110505 (2011)], in which entanglement shared by sender and receiver is used to enhance, beyond that achievable via the optimal classical strategy, the probability of successful transmission of a bit through a particular noisy classical channel N . We provide a full an...