As the Internet has grown in size and popularity, the Internet medium has changed from an educational and technical content to a social and entertainment content. The Lycos search service estimates that the number of WWW pages has grown from 5 million to 6.89 million pages during the months of April to June of 1995, and will reach 10 million pages by 1996. A large number of these pages are devo...

In the first part of this paper we have derived achievable transmission rates for the (single-band) interference relay channel (IRC) when the relay implements either the amplify-and-forward, decode-and-forward or estimate-andforward protocol. Here, we consider wireless networks that can be modeled by a multi-band IRC. We tackle the existence issue of Nash equilibria (NE) in these networks where...

With the fast development of communication networks, cooperative communication has been more widely used in many different fields, such as satellite networks, broadcast networks, internet and so on. Therefore relay channels have been playing a pivotal role since their definitions were proposed by Van-der Meulen. However, the general achievable rate region of a relay channel is still unknown whi...

The Infrared Spatial Interferometer at University of California, Berkeley has been outÐtted with a Ðlter-bank system to allow interferometric observations of mid-infrared spectral lines with very high spectral resolution (j/*jD 105). This paper describes the design, implementation, and performance of the matched 32 channel Ðlter-bank modules, and new spectral-line observations of Mars and IRC ]...

Ubuntu’s Internet Relay Chat technical support channel has bots that output specific messages in response to command words from other channel users. These messages can be used to answer frequently-asked questions instead of requiring an expert to (repeatedly) type a lengthy reply. We describe an approach to automatically distinguish bot-answerable questions, which would mitigate this problem. T...

This paper describes GroupBanter, a tool for supporting serendipitous group conversations using instant messaging. We investigated the potential of ephemeral group conversations by providing awareness of friends’ IM conversations, serving as an implicit invitation to join a group conversation. We present our vision and describe our prototype system. Results from two field studies carried out in...

International tourism demand, or tourist arrivals, to Australia has recently experienced dramatic fluctuations due to changes in the economic, financial and political environment. However, variations in tourism demand, specifically the conditional variance, or volatility, have not previously been investigated. An analysis of such volatility is essential for investigating the effects of shocks i...

A. A. Ketkar-Atre, S. J. Soenen, P. Roelandt, T. Notelaers, G. Vande Velde, C. Verfaillie, M. De Cuyper, and U. Himmelreich Biomedical NMR Unit/MoSAIC, KULeuven Campus Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium, Interdepartmental Stem Cell Institute, KULeuven Campus Gasthuisberg, Lab of BioNanoColloids, KULeuven Campus Kortrijk, IRC...