The area of personal and wireless communications is a burgeoning field. Technology advances and new frequency allocations for personal communication services (PCS) are creating numerous business and technical opportunities. It is becoming clear that an essential requirement for exploiting opportunities is the ability to track the dramatic changes in wireless technology. One of the major challen...

This paper describes a geographic ratemaking procedure that does not require territories or territory boundaries. The procedure develops a unique rate for every point on the map. The result can be visualized as a smooth surface over a map, with the height of the surface at any point representing the rate for that point. Abrupt changes in rates such as those which occur at territory boundaries a...

Since the inception of role-playing games in the 1960s, interactive, collaborative storytelling and making has filled a niche for those who are not always satisfied with merely reading a novel; being able to creatively influence the story as it unfolds holds a greater appeal [5]. With the proliferation of modern personal computers in the 1980s, a new role-playing market evolved, where pre-writt...

This paper presents an analytical performance prediction model and methodology that can be used to predict the execution time, speedup and similar performance metrics of a string matching algorithm running on a cluster of personal computers. The developed performance model has been checked on a 6-cluster of computers and it has been shown that this model is able to predict the parallel run-time...