1 Edapt in a Nutshell Edapt1 is a transformation tool tailored for the migration of models in response to metamodel adaptation. Edapt is an official Eclipse tool derived from the research prototype COPE. Modeling the Coupled Evolution. As depicted by Figure 1, Edapt specifies the metamodel adaptation as a sequence of operations in an explicit history model. The operations can be enriched with i...

The web is evolving towards richer contents and diverse media that are accessed with different devices through multiple kinds of network. This heterogeneous, mobile and changing environment requires that multimedia information delivered by servers be adapted to the actual conditions of use. For that purpose, a number of methods, languages, formats and protocols are developed, especially by W3C....

When looking at the current pace and progress of international climate negotiations, option 3 (‘die’) seems humankind’s most likely fate. But hopefully that only is a false perception. False is also the tradeoff implied by the heading above. There is no doubt that we have to invest in both adaptation and mitigation. Nevertheless, the question is legitimate as it deals with the emphasis of our e...

The aim of this paper is to clarify thinking on the subject of nutritional adaptation. A series of concepts and questions are proposed with, as examples, some of the responses that occur to low intakes of energy and protein. The main conclusions are first, that in dealing with human beings value judgements cannot be avoided, but to avoid sterile discussion they must be separated from objective ...

In this paper we investigate the exploitation of loosely transcribed audio data, in the form of captions for weather forecast recordings, in order to adapt acoustic models for automatically transcribing these kinds of forecasts. We focus on dealing with inaccurate time stamps in the captions and the fact that they often deviate from the exact spoken word sequence in the forecasts. Furthermore, ...