Analytical and Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Applications [[electronic resource] ] : 15th International Conference, ASMTA 2008 Nicosia, Cyprus, June 4-6, 2008 Proceedings / / edited by Khalid Al-Begain, Armin Heindl, Miklos Telek

• Record Nr.: UNISA996465614803316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2008
• ISBN: 3-540-68982-6
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2008.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XI, 323 p.)
• Collana: Programming and Software Engineering ; ; 5055
• Disciplina: 519.2/3
• Soggetti: Software engineering; Computer communication systems; Mathematical statistics; Computer logic; Computer system failures; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Software Engineering; Computer Communication Networks; Probability and Statistics in Computer Science; Logics and Meanings of Programs; System Performance and Evaluation
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "... the 15th International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications (ASMTA 2008)"--Pref.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Traffic Modeling -- Markovian Characterisation of H.264/SVC Scalable Video -- Using the Whittle Estimator for the Selection of an Autocorrelation Function Family -- Using Load Transformations to Predict the Impact of Packet Fragmentation and Losses on Markovian Arrival Processes -- Queueing Systems -- Modeling Web Server Traffic with Session-Based Arrival Streams -- Mixed Finite-/Infinite-Capacity Priority Queue with Interclass Correlation -- Performance Evaluation of a Gradual Differentiation Scheme for Telecommunication Networks -- Analytical Methods and Applications -- An Analytical Study of the ; Resource Diffusion in Non-homogeneous P2P Networks -- A Hessenberg Markov Chain for Fast Fibre Delay Line Length Optimization -- Stochastic Fatigue Models for Efficient Planning Inspections in Service of Aircraft Structures -- Distributions in Stochastic Modeling -- Effective Minimization of Acyclic Phase-Type Representations -- A Response Time Distribution Model for Zoned RAID -- Exact Sojourn Time Distribution in an Online IPTV Recording System -- Queueing Networks -- An Empirical Case-Study of a Central-Server-Model on System Performance -- A Tandem Queueing Model for Delay Analysis in Disconnected Ad Hoc Networks -- Exact Asymptotic Analysis of Closed BCMP Networks with a Common Bottleneck -- Multiclass G-Networks of Processor Sharing Queues with Resets -- Simulation and Model Checking -- Simulation of a Peer to Peer Market for Grid Computing -- Perfect Simulation of Stochastic Automata Networks -- Model Checking of Infinite State Space Markov Chains by Stochastic Bounds -- Wireless Networks -- Bottleneck Analysis for Two-Hop IEEE 802.11e Ad Hoc Networks -- Contention-Based Polling Efficiency in Broadband Wireless Networks -- Performance Evaluation of the High Speed Downlink Packet Access in Communications Networks Based on High Altitude Platforms.

Conservative Government Penal Policy 2015-2021 : Austerity, Outsourcing and Punishment Redux? / / by Christopher David Skinns

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910733720203321
• Autore: Skinns Christopher David
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022
• ISBN: 9783031007972; 3031007972
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2022.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (477 pages)
• Disciplina: 345.42; 364.01
• Soggetti: Corrections; Punishment; Political planning; Law and the social sciences; Crime - Sociological aspects; Critical criminology; Social policy; Prison and Punishment; Public Policy; Socio-Legal Studies; Crime and Society; Critical Criminology; Social Policy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. Critique -- 3. Courts and sentencing -- 4. Prisons -- 5. Probation -- 6. Bias and discrimination in the penal system -- 7. The pandemic and the penal system -- 8. Why has the penal crisis been exacerbated by recent government policy? -- 9. What is to be done? -- 10. Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book interrogates Conservative government penal policy for adult and young adult offenders in England and Wales between 2015 and ; 2021. Government penal policy is shown to have been often ineffective and costly, and to have revived efforts to push the system towards a disastrous combination of austerity, outsourcing and punishment that has exacerbated the penal crisis. This investigation has meant touching on topical debates dealing with the impact of resource scarcity on offenders' experiences of the penal system, the impact of an increasing emphasis on punishment on offenders' sense of justice and fairness, the balance struck between infection control and offender welfare during the government handling of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and why successive Conservative governments have intransigently pursued a penal policy that has proved crisis-exacerbating. The overall conclusion reached is that penal policy is too important to be left to governments alone and needs to be recalibrated by a one-off inquiry, complemented by an on-going advisory body capable of requiring governments to 'explain or change'. The book is distinctive in that it provides a critical review of penal policy change, whist combining this with insights derived from the sociological analysis of penal trends. Christopher David Skinns is an independent commentator. He has a long-standing interest in penal policy, first stimulated by his work with young offenders immediately after graduating. After completing postgraduate degrees at Sheffield University, UK, and Cambridge University, UK, he went on to further develop this interest by teaching criminology in higher education. He completed a PhD at Hull University, UK. After retiring from university teaching, he began work with the Independent Monitoring Board for Prisons. .