System Failure Probability of c-φ Soil Slope Stability using Vertical Random Fields

The need for system failure probability, pf , of soil slope stability that takes into account the spatial variation of soil properties has been acknowledged by the geotechnical profession. The spatial variations of cohesion and friction angle for a c-ϕ soil slope were modeled by one dimensional vertical random field respectively. The cross...

User behaviors in private BitTorrent communities

Many private BitTorrent communities employ Sharing Ratio Enforcement<br/>(SRE) schemes to incentivize users to contribute. It has been demonstrated<br/>that users in private communities are highly dedicated and that they seed much<br/>longer than users in communities where SRE is not employed. While most pre-<br/>vious studies focus on showing...