This paper commences by explaining some firewall definitions in order to understand basic terms for firewall techniques. Three firewall techniques, from packet filtering through to proxy services and stateful packet inspection are then discussed. Following techniques, various firewall architectures, ranging from dual-home host architecture, screened host architecture and screened subnet archite...

This paper provides a very useful and promising analysis and comparison of current architectures of autonomous intelligent systems acting in real time and specific contexts, with all their constraints. The chosen issue of Cognitive Architectures and Autonomy is really a challenge for AI current projects and future research. I appreciate and endorse not only that challenge but many specific choi...

Less than a handful of papers have used data on individuals to examine people’s decisions about which school to attend. This paper develops a nested logit model of the determinants of choice of a graduate business school. Data are drawn from a new longitudinal survey of registrants for the Graduate Management Admission Test. One finding is that elasticity of school choice with respect to tuitio...

T his special issue addresses the business of producing computing machines and the choices computer architects and implementors must make to succeed in the marketplace. This focus represents the sober reflection that computer architecture is not yet a science, even though parts of the discipline can be considered science and most of it often involves scientific methodology. To a large extent, t...

Abstract Video-based learning is widely used today in both formal education and informal a variety of contexts. Videos are especially powerful for transferable skills (e.g. communicating, negotiating, collaborating), where contextualization personal experience ability to see different perspectives crucial. With the ubiquity available video content, video-based seen as one main strategies provid...

Willingness to vaccinate and test are critical in the COVID-19 pandemic. We study effects of two measures increase support vaccination testing: choice architecture monetary compensations. Some organizations, such as restaurants, supermarkets, fire departments or hospitals some countries, use these measures. Yet there is concern that compensations could erode intrinsic motivation decrease intent...

The paper begins by noting that proposals involving significant developments in the regional tradearchitecture are being developed within regional processes that in some cases are simultaneouslypursuing other dimensions of regional economic integration: monetary and financial cooperation inthe case of ASEAN + 3, and the establishment of a common market in the case of ASEAN. At leastthree of the...