This paper presents a summary of basic information regarding hit counters programmed in the JavaScript language and operating on ASP servers. It describes the major functions and capabilities of such hit counters, and explains how these functions can be programmed. It shows source codes, programmed in JavaScript, for a simple hit counter that can be directly utilised on ASP servers. It reveals ...

We present various trade offs for voting schemes which, compared to known solutions, allow voters to do less work at the expense of more work done by the tallying servers running the election. One such scheme produces ballots of essentially minimal size while keeping the work load on the tally servers on a practical level. Another type of trade off leads to a voting scheme that remains secure, ...

The scalable and bandwidth-efficient delivery of IPTV services to an increasingly diverse set of screens requires the deployment of telco content distribution networks (CDNs). These CDNs are composed of cache servers located in the telco’s data centers close to the end user. The additional cache servers need to be designed for energy efficiency to limit the increase of data-center energy consum...

Characterizing application servers performance becomes hard work when the system is unavailable or when a great amount of time and resources are required to generate the results. In this paper we propose the modelingand simulationof complex systems, suchas application servers, in order to alleviate this limitation.Using simulations, and specifically coarsegrain simulations as we propose here, a...

Fractal patterns offer one way to represent the rough complexity of the natural world. Whilst they dominate many of our visual experiences in nature, little large-scale perceptual research has been done to explore how we respond aesthetically to these patterns. Previous research (Taylor et al., 2011) suggests that the fractal patterns with mid-range fractal dimensions (FDs) have universal aesth...