It is commonly accepted in the literature that, when facing with a strategic terrorist, the government can be better off by manipulating the terrorist’s target selection with exposing her defense levels and thus movingfirst. However, the impact of terrorist’s private informationmay significantly affect suchgovernment’s first-mover advantage, which has not been extensively studied in the literat...

In Chen, Cook, Kao, and Zhu (2013), it is demonstrated, as a network DEA pitfall, that while the multiplier and envelopment DEA models are dual models and equivalent under the standard DEA, such is not necessarily true for the two types of network DEAmodels in deriving divisional efficiency scores and frontier projections. As a reaction to this work, we demonstrate that the duality in the stand...

We survey security research from the point of view of the dependability taxonomy developed by IFIP Working Group 10.4 and discuss changes since a similar survey was performed four years ago.

The Traveling Umpire Problem (TUP) is an optimization problem in which umpires have to be assigned to games in a double round robin tournament. The objective is to obtain a solution with minimum total travel distance over all umpires, while respecting hard constraints on assignments and sequences. Up till now, no general nor dedicated algorithm was able to solve all instances with 12 and 14 tea...

FIRA robot soccer is strongly affected by the central vision system because of the head mounted camera. A single camera implies a central image processing system, which conflicts with the demands on autonomous acting of the individual robots. Even so this approach will continue to be used in the near future due to the limitations of the robot hardware. This paper presents a flexible and robust ...

Once again we reached to March 14, the World Kidney Day. The 8 World Kidney Day (WKD) on March 14, 2013, will be celebrated (1-3). This day is a yearly event prearranged both by the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and the International Federation of Kidney Foundations (1,2). In this year, the WKD committee aimed to aware the worldwide increase in acute kidney injury (AKI) in both deve...

This section includes the second batch of six papers that will be presented as Works in Progress papers at the ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2003) (http://middleware2003.inf.puc-rio.br). These papers, selected by the review committee from a large selection of excellent submissions, are short summaries intended to describe ongoing work and interim results. Pleas...