Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) are characterized by the lack of contemporaneous paths between any source and destination node. As a basic forwarding strategy, nodes may flood their bundles to every encountered node. This results in congestion and unnecessarily consumes precious network...

Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC), drafted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), enables direct browser-to-browser real-time communication. As its congestion control mechanism, WebRTC uses the Google Congestion Control (GCC) algorithm. But using...

Purpose – Nowadays, e‐queues are built up everywhere where customer online service is necessary such as in banks' e‐service, enterprises' e‐business, etc. In order to enhance quality of service (QoS), active queue management (AQM) algorithms are frequently employed due to their...

Our motivation is lying on the questions "How does a food scare and information of a food scare influence the buying decision of one single agent and the changes in the aggregate demand?" and "How can we evaluate effective risk communication strategies?". Since we investigate a society of...

This paper studies the use of social simulation in linking micro level investor behaviour and macro level stock market dynamics. Empirical data from a survey on individual investors\' decision-making and social interaction was used to formalize the trading and interaction rules of the agents of...