We study cosmologies based on low-energy effective string theory with higher-order string corrections to a tree-level action and with a modulus scalar field (dilaton or compactification modulus). In the presence of such corrections it is possible to construct nonsingular cosmological solutions in the context of Pre-BigBang and Ekpyrotic universes. We review the construction of nonsingular bounc...

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Multi-source energy harvesters is a promising, robust alternative to power the future Internet of nano things (IoNT), since the network elements can maintain their operation regardless of the fact that one of its energy sources might be temporarily unavailable. Interestingly, and less explored, when the energy availability of the energy sources present large temporal variations, combining multi...

Future Internet applications are expected to be much more complex and powerful, by exploiting various dynamic capabilities For testing, this is very challenging, as it means that the range of possible behavior to test is much larger, and moreover it may at the run time change quite frequently and significantly with respect to the assumed behavior tested prior to the release of such an applicati...

In this paper I consider an interpretation of future contingents which motivates a uniication of a Lukiasiewicz-style logic, and the more classical, supervaluational semantics. This in turn motivates a new non-classical logic modelling what is \made true by history up until now". I give a simple Hilbert-style proof theory, and a soundness and completeness argument for the proof theory with resp...

The Future Internet is expected to cater for both a larger number and variety of services, which in turn will make basic tasks such as service lifecycle management increasingly important and difficult. At the same time, the ability for users to efficiently discover and compose these services will become a key factor for service providers to differentiate themselves in a competitive market. In p...

This paper presents current research in the design and integration of advance systems, service and management technologies into a new generation of Service Infrastructure for Future Internet of Services, which includes Service Clouds Computing. These developments are part of the FP7 RESERVOIR project and represent a creative mixture of service and network virtualisation, service computing, netw...

Abskuct-The Internet has been a startling and dramatic success. Originally designed to link together a small group of researchers, the Internet is now used by many millions of people. However, multimedia applications, with their novel traffic characteristics and service requirements, pose an interesting challenge to the technical foundations of the Internet. In this paper we address some of the...

The idea of assigning effective properties to an inhomogeneous medium, for example a composite material or a suspension of particles in fluid, is well known [4, 9, 14], but some methods used to calculate these effective properties have been sources of controversy over the years. In particular, the appearance of non-convergent integrals (or sums) in several calculational schemes has generated ma...