From Monday 24.05.2010 Friday 28.05.2010, the Dagstuhl Seminar 10211 Flexible Network Design was held in Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Center for Informatics. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put tog...

Networks of the cytoskeletal biopolymer actin cross-linked by the compliant protein filamin form soft gels that stiffen dramatically under shear stress. We demonstrate that the elasticity of these networks shows a strong dependence on the mean length of the actin polymers, unlike networks with small, rigid cross-links. This behavior is in agreement with a model of rigid filaments connected by m...

There is a growing interest in applications of HVDC grids in many parts of the world. Comparing with individual HVDC links, HVDC grids can provide flexible energy transfers among multiple converter stations, improved system reliability, and reduced investment cost, etc. In particular, an offshore HVDC grid will allow the aggregation and delivery of power from offshore wind farms in different re...

GlycomeDB integrates the structural and taxonomic data of all major public carbohydrate databases, as well as carbohydrates contained in the Protein Data Bank, which renders the database currently the most comprehensive and unified resource for carbohydrate structures worldwide. GlycomeDB retains the links to the original databases and is updated at weekly intervals with the newest structures a...

We present in this paper a formal approach for the dynamic generation of cooperative NL responses in WEBCOOP, a system that provides intelligent responses in French to natural language queries on the Web. The system integrates reasoning procedures and NLG techniques paired with hypertext links. Content determination is organized in two steps: providing explanations that report user misconceptio...

Architectural designers use a wide variety of reasoning and decision-making aids such as rules, prototypes and specific examples. In this paper we discuss how we have structured cases in a case-based design aid called ARCHIE to allow designers to navigate through the database in a flexible manner yet maintain links between general statements and specific examples. In particular, we focus on the...

A novel method for Bayesian tracking and generalized sensor fusion is proposed. The new approach is based on a localized histogram-like representation, the channel representation. The channel representation allows fusing continuous percepts and symbolic input, which enables the proposed scheme to implement perception-action loops with an additional control input. By connecting several such loop...

This paper deals with core aspects of discriminative word alignment systems, namely basic word association models as well as search strategies. We compare various low-computational-cost word association models: χ score, log-likelihood ratio and IBM model 1. We also compare three beam-search strategies. We show that it is more flexible and accurate to let links to the same word compete together,...

MOTIVATION The online resources in the life sciences are characterized by a great fragmentation and one of the pressing issues of bioinformatics is making the integration of these resources a smoother and more flexible process than it is currently. Here we present i-cite, a browser extension, which implements a client-side model of integration which improves the navigation within the rapidly in...

For the ANSYS CFD codes CFX and Fluent coupling links to several 1D codes exist allowing for a wide range of multi-physics applications. As an example, a flexible coupling infrastructure in terms of supported multiphysics coupling conditions between ANSYS CFX and LMS AMESim is outlined. Examples of the wide range of coupling solutions of ANSYS CFD (CFX and Fluent) and coupled 1D-3D applications...