Located on the picturesque shores of Lake Geneva, freshly inaugurated Bernoulli Center for Fundamental Studies at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) hopes to become a beacon advancement fundamental research in mathematics, theoretical physics, and computer science.

By combining mobile computing and Web Services technologies, pervasive computing expects more portability and location transparency for accessing information in anytime from anywhere. Though, a direct integration of two technologies imposes performance limitations because of XML’s verbose nature and physical limitations of mobile computing. We present our new architecture design and implementat...

Abstract. In this paper we study the shape of least-energy solutions to the quasilinear problem ε∆mu−u + f (u) = 0 with homogeneous Neumann boundary condition. We use an intrinsic variation method to show that as ε → 0, the global maximum point Pε of least-energy solutions goes to a point on the boundary ∂Ω at the rate of o(ε) and this point on the boundary approaches to a point where the mean ...