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Ant Colonies for Adaptive Routing in Packet-Switched Communications Networks
October 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper authors present AntNet, a novel adaptive approach to routing tables learning in packet-switched communications networks. AntNet is inspired by the stigmergy model of communication...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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Procurement Efficiency For Infrastructure Development And Financial Needs Reassessed
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Infrastructure is the engine for economic growth. The international donor community has spent about 70 - 100 billion U.S. dollars on infrastructure development in developing countries every year....
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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White Papers
Business Cycles In The Euro Area
November 26, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper shows that the EMU has not affected historical characteristics of member countries' business cycles and their cross-correlations. Member countries which had similar levels of GDP...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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Innovation And Exporting: Evidence From Spanish Manufacturing Firms
April 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the relationship between innovation and the export behavior of firms using data from a representative panel of Spanish firms over 1991-2002. It presents a simple...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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White Papers
Market Freedom And The Global Recession
May 18, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The recent recession has affected all countries around the world in an almost synchronous way. Interestingly, not only has it hit countries with bad macroeconomic fundamentals, but also those with...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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White Papers
International Financial Contagion: The Role Of Banks
January 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper provides an overview of recent theories of international financial contagion, with a focus on models in which the balance sheet constraints of global banks (and other financial...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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Depth-based Runs Tests For Multivariate Central Symmetry
February 14, 2011, 12:00am PST
The author (1990) introduced a nonparametric procedure based on runs for the problem of testing univariate symmetry about the origin (equivalently, about an arbitrary specified center). His...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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Yet Another Paper on Minimizing Interference on Ad-Hoc Networks
February 21, 2011, 12:00am PST
Wireless ad-hoc networks consist of a number of electronic devices spread across a geographical area. Each device has wireless communication capability, some level of intelligence for signal...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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White Papers
Power-Aware Real-Time Scheduling Upon Identical Multiprocessor Platforms
March 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors address the power-aware scheduling of sporadic constrained-deadline hard real-time tasks using dynamic voltage scaling upon multiprocessor platforms. They propose two...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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White Papers
A Principle for Cryptographic Protocols Beyond Security, Less Parameters
February 4, 2010, 12:00am PST
Almost cryptographic protocols are presented with security arguments. None of them, however, did explain why a protocol should like this, not like that. The reason is that there are short of any...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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XML Multidimensional Modelling and Querying
December 6, 2009, 12:00am PST
As XML becomes ubiquitous and XML storage and processing becomes more efficient, the range of use cases for these technologies widens daily. One promising area is the integration of XML and data...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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Funding, Competition And The Efficiency Of NGOs: An Empirical Analysis Of Noncharitable Expenditure Of US NGOs Engaged In Foreign Aid
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors assess the determinants of the wide variation in the efficiency of foreign aid activities across US-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In particular, they analyze whether...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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Managing Growth Risk: Lessons From The Current Crisis
April 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The current financial crisis has caused multi-billion dollar losses and broken a long period of strong and steady growth in the investment management industry. Despite the importance of strategic...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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Getting To The Real Story: What Vietnamese Business People Wish Foreigners Understood About Doing Business In Emerging And Transition Countries Like Vietnam - BEFORE They Start
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Knowledge sharing typically examines organizational transfer of knowledge, often from headquarters to subsidiaries, from developed country sites to emerging country sites, or from host to local...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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Developping And Testing A Typology Of Growth Strategies Of Entrepreneurial IT Service Firms
May 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Starting from main concerns and gaps identified in literature on growth strategies, the research, based on Miller's seminal work on strategic configurations, elaborates and tests a typology of...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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Remittances And Domestic Investment In Developing Countries: An Analysis Of The Role Of Financial Sector Development
February 22, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper addresses the relationship between remittances and home country investment in developing countries. It highlights, through both a theoretical model and an empirical analysis, the role...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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Underutilisation Of Labour In (Continental Western) Europe: A Detailed GDP Accounting Perspective
November 23, 2009, 12:00am PST
The paper decomposes GDP both in terms of level per capita and growth rate, so as to identify the extent of labour utilisation in Europe and its effect on income differences and economic growth in...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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Do Small Family Businesses Have A Peculiar Attitude Toward Growth? Evidence From French SMEs
August 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper uses a very large sample of French SMEs to study growth of family owned firms. Firms range from total-family to minority control. The estimated relationship accounts for firm...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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Whitepapers
WINNER Model for Subway Tunnel at 5.8 GHz
October 29, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Modern subways operation relies on wireless systems based on IEEE802.11x modems deployed inside tunnels. Constraints on robustness and needs for high data rates led to the use of MIMO techniques....
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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A Note On Studies Of Monetary Policy And Implementation In Vietnam
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors had gone through some key results of monetary policy research applied for the Vietnamese economy, over the past 20 years after Doi Moi, together with a few caveats when...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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Probabilistic Coexistence and Throughput of Cognitive Dual-Polarized Networks
April 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Diversity techniques for cognitive radio networks are important since they enable the primary and secondary terminals to efficiently share the spectral resources in the same location...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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Link-Level Performance of Indoor Body Area Networks With Centralized Topologies
August 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Sensors networks and, more specifically, Body Area Networks (BANs) are key building blocks of the future generation networks and the Internet of Things as well. In the last years, research has...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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White Papers
Semi-Supervised Template Attack
February 22, 2012, 12:00am PST
Side channel attacks take advantage of the information leak-age in a cryptographic device. A template attack is a family of side channel attacks which is reputed to be extremely effective. This...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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Internet Traffic Engineering by Optimizing OSPF Weights
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is the most commonly used intra-domain internet routing protocol. Traffic flow is routed along shortest paths, splitting flow at nodes where several outgoing links...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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Whitepapers
WINNER Model for Subway Tunnel at 5.8 GHz
October 29, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Modern subways operation relies on wireless systems based on IEEE802.11x modems deployed inside tunnels. Constraints on robustness and needs for high data rates led to the use of MIMO techniques....
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
-
White Papers
Internet Traffic Engineering by Optimizing OSPF Weights
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is the most commonly used intra-domain internet routing protocol. Traffic flow is routed along shortest paths, splitting flow at nodes where several outgoing links...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
-
White Papers
Semi-Supervised Template Attack
February 22, 2012, 12:00am PST
Side channel attacks take advantage of the information leak-age in a cryptographic device. A template attack is a family of side channel attacks which is reputed to be extremely effective. This...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
-
White Papers
Link-Level Performance of Indoor Body Area Networks With Centralized Topologies
August 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Sensors networks and, more specifically, Body Area Networks (BANs) are key building blocks of the future generation networks and the Internet of Things as well. In the last years, research has...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
-
White Papers
Probabilistic Coexistence and Throughput of Cognitive Dual-Polarized Networks
April 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Diversity techniques for cognitive radio networks are important since they enable the primary and secondary terminals to efficiently share the spectral resources in the same location...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
-
White Papers
A Note On Studies Of Monetary Policy And Implementation In Vietnam
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors had gone through some key results of monetary policy research applied for the Vietnamese economy, over the past 20 years after Doi Moi, together with a few caveats when...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
-
White Papers
Do Small Family Businesses Have A Peculiar Attitude Toward Growth? Evidence From French SMEs
August 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper uses a very large sample of French SMEs to study growth of family owned firms. Firms range from total-family to minority control. The estimated relationship accounts for firm...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
-
White Papers
Underutilisation Of Labour In (Continental Western) Europe: A Detailed GDP Accounting Perspective
November 23, 2009, 12:00am PST
The paper decomposes GDP both in terms of level per capita and growth rate, so as to identify the extent of labour utilisation in Europe and its effect on income differences and economic growth in...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
-
White Papers
Remittances And Domestic Investment In Developing Countries: An Analysis Of The Role Of Financial Sector Development
February 22, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper addresses the relationship between remittances and home country investment in developing countries. It highlights, through both a theoretical model and an empirical analysis, the role...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
-
White Papers
Developping And Testing A Typology Of Growth Strategies Of Entrepreneurial IT Service Firms
May 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Starting from main concerns and gaps identified in literature on growth strategies, the research, based on Miller's seminal work on strategic configurations, elaborates and tests a typology of...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
-
White Papers
Getting To The Real Story: What Vietnamese Business People Wish Foreigners Understood About Doing Business In Emerging And Transition Countries Like Vietnam - BEFORE They Start
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Knowledge sharing typically examines organizational transfer of knowledge, often from headquarters to subsidiaries, from developed country sites to emerging country sites, or from host to local...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
-
White Papers
Managing Growth Risk: Lessons From The Current Crisis
April 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The current financial crisis has caused multi-billion dollar losses and broken a long period of strong and steady growth in the investment management industry. Despite the importance of strategic...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
-
White Papers
Funding, Competition And The Efficiency Of NGOs: An Empirical Analysis Of Noncharitable Expenditure Of US NGOs Engaged In Foreign Aid
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors assess the determinants of the wide variation in the efficiency of foreign aid activities across US-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In particular, they analyze whether...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
-
White Papers
XML Multidimensional Modelling and Querying
December 6, 2009, 12:00am PST
As XML becomes ubiquitous and XML storage and processing becomes more efficient, the range of use cases for these technologies widens daily. One promising area is the integration of XML and data...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
-
White Papers
A Principle for Cryptographic Protocols Beyond Security, Less Parameters
February 4, 2010, 12:00am PST
Almost cryptographic protocols are presented with security arguments. None of them, however, did explain why a protocol should like this, not like that. The reason is that there are short of any...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
-
White Papers
Power-Aware Real-Time Scheduling Upon Identical Multiprocessor Platforms
March 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors address the power-aware scheduling of sporadic constrained-deadline hard real-time tasks using dynamic voltage scaling upon multiprocessor platforms. They propose two...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
-
White Papers
Yet Another Paper on Minimizing Interference on Ad-Hoc Networks
February 21, 2011, 12:00am PST
Wireless ad-hoc networks consist of a number of electronic devices spread across a geographical area. Each device has wireless communication capability, some level of intelligence for signal...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
-
White Papers
Depth-based Runs Tests For Multivariate Central Symmetry
February 14, 2011, 12:00am PST
The author (1990) introduced a nonparametric procedure based on runs for the problem of testing univariate symmetry about the origin (equivalently, about an arbitrary specified center). His...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
-
White Papers
International Financial Contagion: The Role Of Banks
January 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper provides an overview of recent theories of international financial contagion, with a focus on models in which the balance sheet constraints of global banks (and other financial...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
-
White Papers
Market Freedom And The Global Recession
May 18, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The recent recession has affected all countries around the world in an almost synchronous way. Interestingly, not only has it hit countries with bad macroeconomic fundamentals, but also those with...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
-
White Papers
Innovation And Exporting: Evidence From Spanish Manufacturing Firms
April 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the relationship between innovation and the export behavior of firms using data from a representative panel of Spanish firms over 1991-2002. It presents a simple...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
-
White Papers
Business Cycles In The Euro Area
November 26, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper shows that the EMU has not affected historical characteristics of member countries' business cycles and their cross-correlations. Member countries which had similar levels of GDP...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
-
White Papers
Procurement Efficiency For Infrastructure Development And Financial Needs Reassessed
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Infrastructure is the engine for economic growth. The international donor community has spent about 70 - 100 billion U.S. dollars on infrastructure development in developing countries every year....
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
-
White Papers
Ant Colonies for Adaptive Routing in Packet-Switched Communications Networks
October 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper authors present AntNet, a novel adaptive approach to routing tables learning in packet-switched communications networks. AntNet is inspired by the stigmergy model of communication...
Provided by Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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