Sudarshan: Seven Science Quests

Reusable Information Quests

In support of collaboration among individuals whose work involves exploration of data networks (such as the World Wide Web, or sets of intelligence information, or more detailed databases of scientific information), some researchers are examining a problem that I will call “quest reuse”. The central idea is that a person doing such research is on a quest that has specific goals. Those goals are...

V -A theory: a view from the outside

In this talk I will review the V -A theory within the context of the prevalent experimental results at the time. It is a great pleasure for me to be able to participate in this celebration in honor of Professor George Sudarshan. Let me say right away that unlike the other speakers in this session, I haven’t had the opportunity to collaborate with George yet. On the other hand, George is still y...

Responses to the quests :

decrypting mythical pattern of sun rescue in the seven quests (haftkhan)

abstract one of the ancient indo european motifs is the story of a young hero who is destined to rescue a woman or king from the demon or enemy and has to fulfill several difficult quests during which he transforms to a mature champion. after finishing these breathtaking quests, the young hero develops into a complete champion and according to iranian tales, he emerges as the “world champion”. ...

Meaningful Change Detection in Structured Data Sudarshan

Detecting changes by comparing data snapshots is an important requirement for diierence queries, active databases, and version and connguration management. In this paper we focus on detecting meaningful changes in hierarchically structured data, such as nested-object data. This problem is much more challenging than the corresponding one for re-lational or at-le data. In order to describe change...