Hydrodynamic processes over marsh topography are significantly affected by surface defects such as cuts and rills on channel berms platforms. These meter-scale features often missing in the model representation due to spatial resolution available from data sources, well incomplete grid itself. To minimize artificial hydraulic isolation numerical models, we propose implementing an effective poro...

Direct injection compression ignition engines have proved to be the best option in heavy duty applications like transportation and power generation, but rapid depleting sources of conventional fossil fuels, their rising prices and ever increasing environmental issues are the major concerns. Alternate fuels, particularly biofuels are receiving increasing attention during the last few years. Biod...

The paper is partly based on research done for the EU-funded (IST2004-2.4.9) project ALIS (Automated Legal Intelligent System) on Intellectual Property Law. We describe the development process of the ALIS Intellectual Property ontology from both a legal and a technical perspective. We discuss the scope and the features of this IP ontology, the lessons learned, and the problems solved. This is d...

An Alternate Reality Game (ARG) is an interactive narrative that uses the real world as a platform. An ARG layers a fictional world over the real world such that, as a player moves through the real world, a narrative structure plays out. Typically a puppetmaster monitors players from remote, making adjustments to the narrative arc as necessary (analogous to a branching storyline). Many ARGs uti...

Two related versions of an unstable live algorithm for the Disklavier player piano are presented. The underlying generative feedback system consists of four virtual musicians, listening to each other in a circular configuration. There is no temporal form, and all parameters of the system are controlled by the performer through an intricate but direct mapping, in an attempt to combine the experi...