Road and traffic accident data analysis are one of the prime interests in the present era. It does not only relate to the public health and safety concern but also associated with using latest techniques from different domains such as data mining, statistics, machine learning. Road and traffic...

SHA-3 was an open competition initiated by NIST to design new generation of hash functions. This competition was a necessity to overcome the challenges imposed by multiple attacks on MDx family of hash functions including SHA-0 and SHA-1. For this competition, NIST announced a reference platform...

Today, the effective use of the Balance Scorecard (BSC) model can bring in a holistic approach to performance measurement and break the traditional use of financial indicators alone to measure the performance of any service-sector organization. As such, the aim of this paper is to examine the...

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is consisting of independent and distributed sensors to monitor physical or environmental conditions, such as temperature, sound, pressure, etc. The most crucial and fundamental challenge facing WSN is security. Due to minimum capacity in-term of memory cost,...

This paper examines a push-pull merge system with two suppliers, two retailers and an intermediate buffer (distribution centre). Two reliable non identical suppliers performing merge operations feed a buffer that is located immediately upstream of two non-identical reliable retailers. External...

The role of assessment systems in organizational excellence today is well-known in the business world. Performance assessment in organizations to identify strengths and weaknesses to make optimal use of resources has special significance. The changing needs of customers and stakeholders,...

Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication environment vary significantly in radio channel characteristics. Therefore, simulation-based studies on V2V propagation models that consider random and time-varying characteristics of surrounding environment are highly sought-after. This paper includes a...

Due to the large amount of investment in e-government projects, a series of e-government project performance evaluation index systems with strong maneuverability and synthesis are come up with to pilot sound development of e-government. It is one's responsibility to reconsider giant projects and...

Using Dutch data, we examine the characteristics of establishments that operate performance appraisal systems. Our estimates provide a couple of interesting results: (1) Several indicators of multitasking are positively associated with the use of performance appraisal systems. There is also a...

China's pension system is facing a large gap of more than one trillion RMB. The investment efficiency of the social security fund therefore receives widespread attention in academic circles. We collected data of stocks held by the Chinese National Council for Social Security Fund (CNCSSF) from...