With the growth of Utility Grids and various Grid market infrastructures, the need for efficient and cost effective scheduling algorithms is also increasing rapidly, particularly in the area of meta-scheduling. In these environments, users not only may have conflicting requirements with other users, but also they have to manage the trade-off between time and cost such that their applications ca...

CDNs have reshaped the Internet architecture at large. They operate (globally) distributed networks of servers to reduce latencies as well as to increase availability for content and to handle large traffic bursts. Traditionally, content providers were mostly limited to a single CDN operator. However, in recent years, more and more content providers employ multiple CDNs to serve the same conten...

When randomized trials have addressed multiple interventions for the same health problem, network meta-analyses (NMAs) permit researchers to statistically pool data from individual studies including evidence from both direct and indirect comparisons. Grasping the significance of the results of NMAs may be very challenging. Authors may present the findings from such analyses in several numerical...

INTRODUCTION When participants drop out of randomised clinical trials, as frequently happens, the intention-to-treat (ITT) principle does not apply, potentially leading to attrition bias. Data lost from patient dropout/lack of follow-up are statistically addressed by imputing, a procedure prone to bias. Deviations from the original definition of ITT are referred to as modified intention-to-trea...

In visual data exploration with scatter plots, no single plot is sufficient to analyze complicated high-dimensional data sets. Given numerous visualizations created with different features or methods, meta-visualization is needed to analyze the visualizations together. We solve how to arrange numerous visualizations onto a meta-visualization display, so that their similarities and differences c...

We describe a 3-layer architecture for an automated Real-Time Strategy game player. In these kinds of games, opponent players create and manage large armies of units to defeat one another requiring strategic thinking. Players give commands asynchronously, requiring rapid thinking and reaction. Our 3-layer architecture builds on current automated players for these kinds of games, which focuses o...

This paper describes the approach to application specification and design via reuse at the basis of the Development Information System of the ITHACA2 environment. Requirements and detailed design of a specific application are incrementally composed by aggregating available reusable components stored in the Software Information Base repository. The paper reviews the Development Information Syste...

ed data, and assessed the risk of bias. Using the FDA trials and the published trials, we performed pair-wise meta-analyses and Bayesian network meta-analyses on intraocular pressure at 3 months, our pre-specified primary outcome. We compared the results from these analyses.

The main aim of this report is to provide a measure of objective evaluation of ATT-Meta, a system we have implemented for conducting some of the reasoning needed in the understanding of metaphorical utterances. The report thereby also provides some evaluation of the overall theoretical approach informing ATT-Meta (Barnden & Lee, 2001). The evaluation of ATT-Meta consists of showing, at least in...

Audiences are attracted to dramas and horror movies even though negative and ambivalent emotions are likely to be experienced. Research into the seemingly paradoxical enjoyment of this kind of media entertainment has typically focused on genderand genrespecific needs and viewing motivations. Extending this line of research, the authors focus the role of the need for affect as a more general, ge...