in some statistical process control applications, quality of a process or product can be characterized by a relationship between a response and one or more independent variables, which is typically referred to a profile. in this paper, polynomial profiles are considered to monitor processes in which there is a first order autoregressive relation between the error terms in each profile. a remedi...

To further advance the deployment of multicast, many consider it necessary to provide a quantitative measure of the potential benefit of employing multicast rather than unicast. We approach this problem in three ways. First, we propose a rudimentary metric that can provide a reasonable measure of the benefit achieved by an active group using multicast instead of unicast. Second, we discuss many...

Internet worm infection continues to be one of top security threats and has been widely used by botnets to recruit new bots. In this work, we attempt to quantify the infection ability of individual hosts and reveal the key characteristics of the underlying topology formed by worm infection, i.e., the number of children and the generation of the worm infection family tree. Specifically, we apply...

We propose a communication-driven mechanism for predicting triadic closure in complex networks. It is mathematically formulated on the basis of communicability distance functions that account for the “goodness” of communication between nodes in the network. We study 25 real-world networks and show that the proposed method predicts correctly 20% of triadic closures in these networks, in contrast...