The FTA, free trade agreement, between U.S. and South Korea was successfully signed by both nations in 04/02/2007. During the negotiations of the detailed parts of the agreement, both of the nations were careful in not falling into the Prisoner’s dilemma. Both U.S. and South Korea could insist on achieving the maximum profit from the […]

The FTA, free trade agreement, between U.S. and South Korea was successfully signed by both nations in 04/02/2007. During the negotiations of the detailed parts of the agreement, both of the nations were careful in not falling into the Prisoner’s dilemma. Both U.S. and South Korea could insist on achieving the maximum profit from the […]

The FTA, free trade agreement, between U.S. and South Korea was successfully signed by both nations in 04/02/2007. During the negotiations of the detailed parts of the agreement, both of the nations were careful in not falling into the Prisoner’s dilemma. Both U.S. and South Korea could insist on achieving the maximum profit from the […]

Engineers and planners involved in design need to establish performance reliability in the case of transportation networks. I am examining a paper by Professor Michael Bell of the University of Newcastle in the Transport Operations Group. Bell splits the idea of network reliability into two dimensions; the connectivity of the network, and performance reliability.
Reliability is […]

http://social.cs.uiuc.edu/people/gilbert/papers/chi08-rural-gilbert.pdf
In this research paper of UIUC, it is noticed that rural communities use modern social websites (ie facebook, myspace) in different ways than urban communities.
The social network of rural communities differ from the social network of urban communities . In general, rural communities are known to have more strong ties while urban communities are […]

Until recently I’ve always understood voting to be very simple for the citizens; you pick a candidate whose views best represent your own, maybe you try and talk some of your friends and family into agreeing with you, then you head out to the polls on election day and put in your vote. Apparently […]

Researchers at New York University recently studied the correlation between articles, blogs, and MySpace friend counts to the success and volume of album sales. Professor Vasant Dhar has come to the conclusion that if 40 or more normal people had written blog posts prior to the album release, the rate of sale of the album ended up […]

Network World is a weekly IT publication that provides news and information to network executives.This Network World article (http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/25502) describes plans for modular satellite technology, which is intended to replace present day all-in-one, monolithic spacecrafts. The project sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) hopes to solve issues of scalability and reliability by splitting […]

Article link: http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/nba-game-theory/
From this article about NBA Game Theory, I find out that in basketball game, there is a high correlation between assists ratio and field goal percentage. If players try to find the other open players, open players will be likely to score with high percentage shooting. However, if players try to shoot even […]

In class we have learned about Braess’s Paradox and how the removal of a six-lane highway in Seoul, Korea actually improved the flow of the transportation.  The plan of removing the motorway was a part of the historic restoration project of Cheonggyecheon. Last winter break, I actually had the opportunity to visit the newly renovated […]