As the Internet continues to grow both in size and in terms of the volume of traffic it carries, more and more networks in the different parts of the world are relying on an increasing number of distinct ways to exchange traffic with one another. As a result, simple questions such as “What is the application mix in today’s Internet?” may produce non-informative simple answers unless they are re...

We study the question of how to shuffle n cards when faced with an opponent who knows the initial position of all the cards and can track every card when permuted, except when one takes K < n cards at a time and shuffles them in a private buffer “behind your back,” which we call buffer shuffling. The problem arises naturally in the context of parallel mixnet servers as well as other security ap...

Recently, a Ph.D-study started regarding pharmacy, organization and management (APOM) in the Netherlands. The APOM-project deals with the structuring and steering of pharmacy organization. This article describes the theoretical background of a pilot study and the empirical results in a small sample (n=24). No generalization to the population of pharmacies in the Netherlands is possible. Three m...