Future Historians: Their Quest for Information

Inverse Problems = Quest for Information

We examine the general non-linear inverse problem with a finite number of parameters. In order to permit the incorporation of any a priori information about parameters and any distribution of data (not only of gaussian type) we propose to formulate the problem not using single quantities (such as bounds, means, etc.) but using probability density functions for data and parameters. We also want ...

The Quest for Light Sea Quarks: Algorithms for the Future

The past six years have witnessed a number of large simulations of full QCD with two degenerate sea quarks and Wilson like actions. All of them were based on the hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm (HMC) which has been systematically improved over the years. These simulations, however, albeit being milestones for lattice QCD in the pre-Teracomputing age [1], suffer from severe restrictions that preven...

Annotated Bibliography on the Information-Seeking Behavior of Scholars & Historians

Seeking information, seeking connections, seeking meaning: genealogists and family historians

Genealogy and family history are examples of everyday life information seeking and provide a unique example of intensive and extensive use of libraries and archives over time. In spite of the ongoing nature of this activity, genealogists and family historians have rarely been the subject of study in the information seeking literature and therefore the nature of their information problems have n...

Status and Future of Quest 2.5 Using Quest for Protocol Evaluation 2.4 Overview of the Quest-tool

The current version of QUEST covers SDL'88 and part of SDL'92. Some new features of SDL'92 like priority input, value returning procedures, spontaneous transitions and different continuous signals with identical priority are supported by QUEST. In the future QUEST will provide improved front-and back ends. Furthermore we are doing research in the field of timed validation and verification that ...