Within information hiding technology, digital watermarking is one of the most important technologies for copyright protection of digital content. Many digital watermarking schemes have been proposed in academia. However, these schemes are not used, because they are not practical; one reason for this is that the evaluation criteria are loosely defined. To make the evaluation more concrete and im...

Secret sharing schemes perform an important role in protecting se-cret by sharing it among multiple participants. In 1979, (t; n) threshold secret sharing schemes were proposed by Shamir and Blakley independently. In a (t; n) threshold secret sharing scheme a secret can be shared among n partic-ipants such that t or more participants can reconstruct the secret, but it can not be reconstructed b...

In this paper, Burr-type XII ̄X synthetic schemes are proposed as an alternative to the classical ̄X synthetic schemes when the assumption of normality fails to hold. First, the basic design of the Burr-type XII ̄X synthetic scheme is developed and its performance investigated using exact formulae. Secondly, the non-side-sensitive and side-sensitive Burr-type XII ̄X synthetic schemes are int...

Active Queue Management (AQM) schemes are a class of queueing algorithms designed to surmount some of the shortcomings of classic Drop-Tail queues in best-effort networks. Much recent work has focused on improving AQM performance through alternate approaches: in excess of 50 schemes have been proposed since 1999 alone. This study details a simulationbased evaluation and comparison of a subset o...

A hybrid censoring scheme is a mixture of type I and type II censoring schemes. When $n$ items are placed on a life test, the experiment terminates under type I or type II hybrid censoring scheme if either a pre-fixed censoring time T or the rth (1<=r<=n&nbsp;is fixed) failure is first or later observed, respectively. In this paper, we investigate the decomposition of entropy in both hybrid cen...

nonstandard finite difference schemes for the black-scholes partial differential equation preserving the positivity property are proposed. computationally simple schemes are derived by using a nonlocal approximation in the reaction term of the black-scholes equation. unlike the standard methods, the solutions of new proposed schemes are positive and free of the spurious oscillations.