We propose a procedure to generate dynamical networks with bursty, possibly repetitive and correlated temporal behaviors. Regarding any weighted directed graph as being composed of the accumulation of paths between its nodes, our construction uses random walks of variable length to produce time-extended structures with adjustable features. The procedure is first described in a general framework...

Tell Khamîs, an archaeological site of the Syrian region Upper Jazeera, is 3 km east Euphrates and 31 from Yarâblûs (ancient Karkemiš); excavations determined seven different levels (Early Bronze, Middle Aramaic, Assyrian, Persian, Hellenistic, Islamic). This study aims to identify plant remains recovered during excavation place them within chronology Khamîs in context archaeobotanical evidence...

In this paper a class of linear maps on the 2-torus and some planar piecewise isometries are discussed. For these discontinuous maps, by introducing codings underlying the map operations, symbolic descriptions of the dynamics and admissibility conditions for itineraries are given, and explicit expressions in terms of the codings for periodic points are presented.

In this paper, we introduce a technique for adaptive presentation of itineraries in navigation systems based on semantic models. We enrich waypoints with semantic information and display only those waypoints to the driver that he is really interested in, hiding information that will most probably be distracting. Author

Security is a fundamental precondition for the acceptance of mobile agent systems. In this paper we discuss protocols to improve agent security by distributing critical data and operations on mutually supporting agents which migrate in disjunct host domains. In order to attack agents, hosts must form coalitions. Proper selection of itineraries can minimize the risk of such coalitions being formed.

The recent incident of a priest in the Syriac Orthodox church encouraging two parents not to baptize their new born child with an ancient Assyrian name can either be interpreted as an isolated phenomenon, or, which I will stress here, a form of religious conservatism positioning itself against modernism. In order to do demonstrate my thesis, I will first start with describing the role of religi...