Abstract Throughout the nineteenth century, most historians preferred not to ask philosophical questions. In their writings, however, they indirectly engaged with problems about character of world-historical process, thus confronting what might be called penultimate This article analyzes both notions and practices historical work in Leopold Ranke's writings consider how his spontaneous philosop...

Interactive drama has been discussed for a number of years as a new AI-based interactive experience (Laurel 1986, Bates 1992). While there has been substantial technical progress in building believable agents (Bates, Loyall and Reilly 1992, Blumberg 1996, Hayes-Roth, van Gent and Huber 1996), and some technical progress in interactive plot (Weyhrauch 1997), no work has yet been completed which ...

The “last mile” bandwidth bottleneck problem can be best solved by using Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON). EPON is a promising technology to implement the Fiber To The Home solution. Dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) is one of the critical issues in the design of the EPON system that has been studied by many researches. This paper introduces the fundamental concepts on EPONs, its protoc...

Hawaii’s Honest Opportuni­ ty Probation With Enforce­ ment (HOPE) program was developed in 2004 as a way to create a more transparent and accountable probation system. An initial examination of the new probation model was promising enough to prompt multiple eval­ uations of the HOPE program, including three studies funded by the National Institute of Jus­ tice (NIJ). The latest study — the HOPE...

The key idea proposed in this paper is to determine the optimal congestion window for a TCP sender in a particular network scenario (that corresponds to the fair share of that connection) and keep this congestion window a constant to a point where the fair share in the network has changed considerably from the instance of the calculation of the size of the last window. At this point, the TCP co...

Historically, the justification for municipal provisioning of "last mile" infrastructure has focused on the natural monopoly aspect of wireline infrastructure (e.g., FTTH or small size of market). Growing interest in WISPs, municipal hot spots, and access to public buildings/space for siting base stations suggest new and expanded opportunities or roles for community ownership of last-mile servi...