Article history: Received 18 September 2014 Available online 4 November 2014 MSC: 49A50 49J45 58E12

The focus of user behavior in the Internet has changed over the recent years towards being driven by exchanging and accessing information. Many advances in networking technologies have utilized this change by focusing on the content of an exchange rather than the endpoints exchanging the content. Network coding and informationcentric networking are two examples of these technology trends, each ...

In this paper we present TROvE (Tool for Rapid OWL Reasoner Evaluation), a tool aimed to offer to a non-expert user the possibility to evaluate OWL reasoners on several reasoning tasks by means of a simple “push-button” solution.

We are now rethinking the idea of electronic democracy. Today nobody is looking at e-democracy from the perspective of a living room, push button, instant referenda democracy, hi the electronic age it is more and more evident that we are facing a complex evolution of the functioning of political systems that democracy is becoming not direct, but continuous; that we can look at an extreme democr...

In this paper we present FRaQuE (Framework for Rapid Query Processing Evaluation). The main purpose of FRaQuE is to offer to a non-expert user a “push-button” solution aimed to help her to evaluate query processors for Ontology Based Data Access, focusing only on input and output data, without take into account both theoretical and technical issues.

Equipping software with contracts, especially in the case of library components, opens up a whole range of applications. I will describe two of them, part of current work in the chair of software engineering at ETH. The first is automatic, “push-button” testing of contract-equipped components. The second is mathematical proof that such components satisfy their contracts. In both cases the effor...

Partial cross ownership (PCO) in a dyad supply chain refers to a situation where each firm holds a portion of its partner’s shares. We study this topic in push and pull supply chains, and prove that neither the supply chain’s nor any member’s profit changes with the percentage of the leader’s shares the follower holds. However, while the profits of the chain and the leader increase with the per...

Plyometric research in the upper extremity is limited, with the effects of open-chain plyometric exercises being studied most. Kinematic and ground reaction force data concerning closed-chain upper extremity plyometrics has yet to be examined. Twenty-one recreationally active male subjects performed four variations of plyometric push-ups in a counterbalanced order. These included box drop push-...