Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone National Park (USA) has attracted numerous scientific investigations for over two centuries in order to better understand its geological structure, the physics of its eruptions, and the controls of its intermittency. Using data acquired with a seismic array in 1992, we track the sources of hydrothermal tremor produced by boiling and cavitation inside the geyse...

The vision of the Semantic Web [Berners-Lee et al.2001 ] offers exciting challenges for research in Artificial Intelligence. In a nutshell, the Semantic Web envisions agents coordinating complex tasks over the Intemet. The coordination is facilitated by annotating the data and services on a web destination with rich ontologies, hence enabling semantic interoperation. In this talk I will discuss...

The residence time of water in residential building systems is a critical factor regarding quality at end use. Published literature has highlighted the importance age these and its relationship with pathogenic bacteria such as Legionella pneumophila. However, tools to measure plumbing are typically repurposed from other applications include limitations that make them inappropriate for some syst...

The development of CORBA-based applications is often criticized because of its high complexity. In this work we point out which parts in a CORBA-based application represent the recurring infrastructural”plumbing” code, and we describe an approach to supporting the automatic generation of these code fragments for a CORBAbased application in a standard-compliant, languageand tool-independent way....

We consider complex Fenchel–Nielsen coordinates on the quasi-Fuchsian space of punctured tori. These coordinates arise from a generalisation of Kra’s plumbing construction and are related to earthquakes on Teichmüller space. They also allow us to interpolate between two coordinate systems on Teichmüller space, namely the classical Fuchsian space with Fenchel–Nielsen coordinates and the Maskit e...

a good account given as to site, plans, area per patient, arrangement of the administrative units, detail of structure as foundations, walls, floors, roofing, stairs, partitions, windows, woodwork, painting, water supplies, heating, lighting, signalling, plumbing and sewerage, ventilation, refrigeration, elevators. Then follows a chapter on the divisions of a general hospital, administrative de...