Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANETs) relies on cooperation of all participating nodes. All mobile nodes may easily vulnerable to selfish/malicious nodes which can lower down data communication and degrade the network performance due to refusal of relaying packet in order to save their own resources such as power, time, etc. These non-cooperative behaviors become challenging in cooperative caching sys...

In our study, the transformation of two most widely used UV filters, benzophenone-3 (BP3) and benzophenone-4 (BP4), in chlorinated water with disinfection reagents sodium hypochlorite (NaClO) and trichloroisocyanuric acid (TCCA) was studied. Based on the HPLC/MS and UV-Vis analysis the formation of two different chlorinated products (5-chloro-2-hydroxy-4-methoxybenzophenone and 3,5-dichloro-2-h...

It is my great pleasure to serve as guest editor for this special issue of TCCA Newsletter, which is hosting eight papers from the MEDEA (MEmory DEcoupled Architectures) Workshop, jointly held with PACT-2000 conference. The rationale behind this workshop was to revive the original idea of Memory Access Decoupling, presented in the famous paper of Jim Smith, “Decoupled Access/Execute Architectur...

Foreword This year's International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT 2001) includes for the first time a Work-in-Progress session. We received many excellent short abstracts – some of which were wild ideas. From these we chose seven abstracts for presentation, and we have included them in this booklet. We selected them for their novelty and the brevity with w...