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Current electricity tariffs for retail rarely provide incentives for intelligent demand response of flexible customers. Such customers could otherwise contribute to balancing supply and demand in future smart grids. This paper proposes an innovative risk-sharing tariff to incentivize intelligent customer behavior. A two-step parameterized payment scheme is proposed, consisting of a prepayment b...

1 The purpose of this paper is to explore, in practical terms, prospects for empirical analysis in the non-life insurance market in Ireland, with particular reference to Motor, Employer's Liability and Public Liability insurance. The paper is being made available to potential candidates for a consultancy contract in relation to the study on insurance being carried out jointly by the Authority a...

Analyzing motion patterns in traffic videos can be exploited directly to generate high-level descriptions of the video contents. Such descriptions may further be employed in different traffic applications such as traffic phase detection and abnormal event detection. One of the most recent and successful unsupervised methods for complex traffic scene analysis is based on topic models. In this pa...

The system to spot INIs, DNIs and their antecedents is an adaptation of VENSES, a system for semantic evaluation that has been used for RTE challenges in the last 6 years. In the following we will briefly describe the system and then the additions we made to cope with the new task. In particular, we will discuss how we mapped the VENSES analysis to the representation of frame information in ord...

background :traffic and transport is a substantial part of a range of economic, social and environmental factors distinguished to have impact on human health. this paper is a report on a preliminary section of a health impact assessment (hia) on urban traffic and transport initiatives, being conducted in sanandaj, iran. in this preliminary study, the psychometric properties of urban traffic rel...

In this paper we look closely at the popular metric of anonymity, the anonymity set, and point out a number of problems associated with it. We then propose an alternative information theoretic measure of anonymity which takes into account the probabilities of users sending and receiving the messages and show how to calculate it for a message in a standard mix-based anonymity system. We also use...

A novel method of concealing information is proposed. Encrypted data is mixed with noise to add the security. The cost of an attack increases linearly with the size of the added noise. Since generating noise is cheap, the size of noise can be as large as possible. However, there are issues in automatically detecting and separating noise in the intended recipient end. This stegocrypto method als...

We first provide an overview of the better known network approaches for assuring anonymity and privacy over networks. We then analyze possible attacks to these network based on traffic analysis techniques and discuss their implementation and design issues for network privacy. In the conclusion we discuss the results, indicating research opportunities in this domain.