A multi-key data organization is developed for handling a continuous stream of large scale, time-dependent, 3D weather data in a global environment. The structure supports inserting the data in real-time as they arrive or retrieving weather events at desired times and locations from archived weather histories. In either case data are organized for interactive visualization and visual query.

The internet has great potential as a repository of scientific data, but finding the information you need can be like trying to pick apart a frustrating knot; you can spend hours with nothing to show but the same knot and some broken fingernails. Fortunately, a few brave souls have taken on the task of organizing the tangled knot of biological information into web ‘directory’ links pages and on...

The concepts and methodology needed for designing, developing, and implementing real life applications based on multi-agent systems are today still a challenge for researchers in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science. Industrial-strength multi-agent systems require, among other things, reusability, i.e. the capability of not having to design and implement from scratch a new multi-agent s...

Multiple dispatching provides increased expressive power over single dispatching by guiding method lookup using the values of all arguments instead of only the receiver. However, existing languages with multiple dispatching do not encourage the dataabstraction-oriented programming style that is encouraged by traditional single-dispatching languages; instead existing multiple-dispatching languag...

Well-defined carbon polyhedrons with faceted morphologies and hollow internal structures made of self-organized multi-walled carbon nanotubes have been fabricated by gas phase catalytic CVD inside microchannels, of which the confined space is critical for the formation of polyhedral structures with hexagonal, heptagonal and octagonal cross-sections that show superhydrophobic properties, with th...

This communication is dedicated to multi-facets items (Cruse). “A facet is a word sense that is due to the part-whole structure of an entity and selected by a specific utterance context” (Evans). Firstly, we analyze the semantic pole of multi-facets items so as to elaborate a conceptual modelling within the framework of Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar. Secondly, we suggest that the representation...

In multi-agent systems, agents interact by sending and receiving messages and the actual sequences of message form interaction structures between agents. Protocols and agents organized internally by agent roles support these interaction structures. Description and use of protocols based on agent roles are supported by a simple and expressive application framework.

Objective. To characterize features of organized hematoma (OH) that may cause considerable diagnostic difficulties. Study Design. Case series with chart review. Setting. Tertiary medical center. Subjects and Methods. Eighty-four patients with pathologically confirmed OH over a 10-year period were retrospectively reviewed for clinical features, imaging findings, pathologic characteristics, and t...