Discussion of a paper in RE program committees is often complicated by lack of agreement about evaluation criteria to be applied to the paper. For some years now, successive program chairs have attempted to increase clarity by including a paper classification in their CFP, and making the evaluation criteria per paper class explicit. This short note presents a paper classification based on this ...

To analyze the effects of specific regions of the aleatory and epistemic uncertain variables on the failure probability, a regional sensitivity analysis (RSA) technique called contribution to failure probability (CFP) plot is developed in this paper. This RSA technique can detect the important aleatory and epistemic uncertain variables, and also measure the contribution of specific regions of t...

Department of Physics and Materials Scien Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hon Department of Biology and Chemistry, Cit Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kon Centre for Functional Photonics (CFP), Cit Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kon Shenzhen Research Institute, City Universit † Electronic supplementary informa 10.1039/c4ra06172a ‡ These authors contributed equally to th Cite this: ...

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) offer a framework to shed a new light on whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance enhances corporate financial performance (CFP). Using ASSET4 data as a measurement of CSR performance in a sample of worldwide deals for the period 2004-2017, I find evidence that the environmental performance of target firms enhances acquirers’ shareholder wealth. ...

The big question mark: More than four decades after the discovery of pulsars, the composition of matter at their cores is still a mystery. This white paper summarizes how recent high-precision measurements of millisecond pulsar masses have introduced new experimental constraints on the properties of super-dense matter, and how continued timing of intriguing new objects, coupled with radio teles...

WBANs provide communication services in the vicinity of the human body. Since WBANs utilize both MICS frequency band for implant medical applications and ISM frequency band for medical and consumer electronics (CE) applications, MAC protocols in WBAN should be designed considering flexibility between medical and CE applications. In this letter, we identify the requirements of WBAN MAC protocols...

Based on IEEE 802.15.4, the contention-free period (CFP) adopts a guarantee time slot (GTS) mechanism to ensure each device can access the radio channel. However, it is hard to get the authority to access the radio channel due to more competitor access the radio channel simultaneously. To cope with this issue, we proposed a guarantee time slot mechanism to enhance the performance and utilizatio...