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European Laboratory on Big Data Analytics and Social Mining

The “SoBigData” Lab is a recently created research initiative in Pisa, Italy, with the mission to perform advanced research and analyses on the emerging challenges posed by big data, namely the digital...

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National ICT Awards 2013 for Python and SIG

Programming language Python and company Software Improvement Group (SIG) were awarded a Dutch National ICT Award on 13 June.

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Cryptographer Ronald Cramer appointed Fellow of IACR

Ronald Cramer from CWI in Amsterdam and Leiden University was appointed Fellow of IACR.

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Michael Wilson Obituary

It is with great sadness that we remember Professor Michael Wilson, Scientific Computing Department, STFC, who died suddenly and unexpectedly at the end of April.

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Set-theoretic Fault-tolerant Control in Multisensor Systems

Florin Stoican and Sorin Olaru Fault-tolerant control theory is a well-studied topic but the use of the sets in detection, isolation and/or reconfiguration is rather tangential. The authors of this...

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Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems: A Survey of Applications

Stefania Gnesi and Tiziana Margaria Today, formal methods are widely recognized as an essential step in the design process of industrial safety-critical systems. In its more general definition, the...

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Digital Stereoscopy – Scene to Screen 3D Production Workflow

Benoît Michel Digital Stereoscopy provides a large number of technical details on Digital Stereoscopy, making it a reference work for professionals in the field, with explanations of the most commonly...

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MediaEval 2012 Evaluation Campaign

by Gareth J. F. Jones and Martha Larson MediaEval is an international multimedia benchmarking initiative offering innovative new tasks to the multimedia community. MediaEval 2012 featured tasks...

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TransForm School on Research Directions in Distributed Computing

by Panagiota Fatourou The TransForm School on Research Directions in Distributed Computing (SRDC 2013) was held in Heraklion, Crete Island, Greece, on June 10-14, 2013 at the premises of the Foundation...

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Preserving Linked Data

by Carlo Meghini, Anna Molino, Francesca Borri and Giulio Galesi The PRELIDA project aims at building bridges across the Digital Preservation and Linked Data communities, raising awareness of already...

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SoFWIReD – Southampton Fraunhofer Web and Internet Research & Development

by Sepideh Chakaveh The SoFWIReD project brings together two ERCIM institutes, University of Southampton and Fraunhofer Gesellschaft to determine the future of Web and Internet Science.

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A Patented Position Determination Solution

by Per Kreuger More dynamic and less resource-intensive: Researchers at SICS have developed a new solution to determine mobile phone positioning.

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Electromagnetic Fields for Neuron Communications

by Rié Komuro and Ilangko Balasingham Are electromagnetic fields harmful to the brain? We are continuously exposed to electromagnetic (EM) fields generated by electronic devices such as cell phones....

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InGeoCloudS: A Cloud-Based Platform for Sharing Geodata Across Europe

by Claudio Lucchese, Raffaele Perego, Salvatore Trani, Makis Atzemoglou, Benoit Baurens and Dimitris Kotzinos InGeoCloudS is a project funded by the European Commission under the CIP-Pilot actions...

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LuxDrops – User-Friendly Management of Confidential Data in the Cloud

by Pascal Bauler, Daniel Heinesch, Antoine Schlechter and Fernand Feltz Cloud adoption is slowed down by a lack of confidence in the proposed cloud platforms. We first summarize the research activities...

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DRMSim: A Routing-Model Simulator for Large-Scale Networks

by Aurélien Lancin and Dimitri Papadimitriou The expansion of Internet topology, which comprises thousands of Autonomous Systems (AS), has resulted in a number of important research challenges. The...

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Wire-Speed Regular-Expression Scanning at 20 Gbit/s and Beyond

by Jan van Lunteren and Christoph Hagleitner Network intrusion detection systems and emerging analytics applications for business intelligence rely on fast pattern-matching functions to scan data in...

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An Innovative Active Suspension System for Autonomous Vehicles: A Safe and...

by Katerina Hyniova Between 2001 and 2012, the Josef Bozek Research Center of Combustion Engines and Automobiles at the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic, has been developing...

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Imperia: The 21st Century Eco-Friendly Sports Car

by François Henry The Imperia is back on track in the 21st century, thanks to its intelligent hybrid propulsion management developed by Green Propulsion, a spin-off company from Université de Liège,...

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W3C Launched Work on Web and Automotive

by Philipp Hoschka Supported by the “Webinos” project, W3C has created a new Automotive and Web Platform Business Group to accelerate the adoption of Web technologies in the automotive industry. The...

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