This guideline is the result of a consensus reached during a panel discussion at the second International Consensus Meeting on Urticara, Urticaria 2004, a joint initiative of the EAACI Dermatology Section and GALEN. The authors as members of the panel had prepared their suggestions regarding the treatment of urticaria in advance, based on the existing consensus paper of the first symposium in 2...

This paper presents the BuildSysPro Modelica library developed by the department of Energy in Buildings and Territories (EnerBaT) of EDF R&D. After a description of the library’s structure and content, BESTEST validation results and a use case are presented. This library is designed to be used in several contexts including building physics research, global performance evaluation, technology dev...

The European Journal of Dermatology and the European Dermatology Forum have agreed to reproduce, with permission, the White Book© 2005 ABW Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH. This work was a joint enterprise bringing together many European dermatologists, chosen to obtain a broad representation from across Europe and according to their expertise. Although the content of the “White Book” was primarily int...

Ce rapport de recherche résume l'avancement de travaux menés conjointement par l'IRCCyN et l'Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal concernant la résolution du problème inverse pour l'imagerie sismique des fondations de pylônes électriques. Nous abordons plusieurs méthodes de type « carto-graphie ». Nous nous intéressons plus particulièrement à des méthodes basées sur une formulation bilinéaire du pro...

In this paper, the problem of finding a near-optimal routing solution for a set of real time applications with multicast traffic flows in a meshed core network is studied. Such kind of network is typically a core network of automobile, airplane, or industry control networks. We will introduce our routing planning methodology based on a genetic algorithm, and will focus on the model with Earlies...

We analyze the Earliest-Deadline-First (EDF) scheduling discipline within the framework of statistical multiplexing. We derive techniques for bounding the probability of delay violations when the session injections are independent. This enables us to determine whether a given set of sessions can all meet their delay bounds with the required violation probability. These techniques can be used by...

While the quality of service (QoS) profiles for a number of general packet radio service (GPRS) classes has been specified [1] by ETSI, how QoS management is provided by means of traffic scheduling, traffic shaping, and connection admission control, in a GPRS network is an implementation issue that is attracting significant current research interest. This paper presents an evaluation of several...

1 Hierarchical schedulers are getting increased attention in many research projects because they bring in flexibility, they can take advantage of the best features of different scheduling policies, and allow the composability of applications developed under different scheduling strategies. Most commercial real-time operating systems have an underlying fixed priority scheduler, and for this reas...

(m, k)-firm real-time or weakly hard real-time (WHRT) guarantee is becoming attractive as it closes the gap between hard and soft (or probabilistic) real-time guarantee, and enables finer granularity of real-time QoS through adjusting m and k. For multiple streams with (m, k)-firm constraint sharing a single server, an on-line priority assignment policy based on the most recent k-length history...

Inverse modelling for mercury over Europe Y. Roustan and M. Bocquet Centre d’Enseignement et de Recherche en Environnement Atmosphérique, Joint laboratory École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées/EDF R&D, avenue Blaise Pascal, 77 455 Champs sur Marne, France Received: 12 October 2005 – Accepted: 21 November 2005 – Published: 30 January 2006 Correspondence to: Y. Roustan ([email protected]) © ...