Offshore jacket-type towers are steel structures designed and constructed in marine environments for various purposes such as oil exploration and exploitation units, oceanographic research, and undersea testing. In this paper a newly developed meta-heuristic algorithm, namely Cyclical Parthenogenesis Algorithm (CPA), is utilized for sizing optimization of a jacket-type offshore structure. The a...

Data integration is a key challenge faced in pharmacology where there are numerous heterogenous databases spanning multiple domains (e.g. chemistry and biology). To address this challenge, the Open PHACTS consortium has developed the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform that leverages Linked Data to provide integrated access to pharmacology databases. Between its launch in April 2013 and March 2014, ...

In this paper, we present the Integra Framework as a platform for the rapid and sustainable development of audio processing software. The framework provides a simple, robust API for managing graphs of connected modules, querying state and state saving as well as a dynamic OSC interface for real-time control. Additionally, the framework comes with extensive documentation and library of core modu...

The IRAF system (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility) has been under development since 1981 and in use since 1984. Currently, in 1992, IRAF is a mature system with hundreds of applications which is in wide use within the astronomical community. After a brief look at the current state of IRAF, this paper focuses on how the IRAF system is expected to develop during the coming decade. Certain ke...

This research opens up for consideration the topic of a generalized simulation Applications Programming Interface. Discussion evolves around representation of one phenomenon essential to such an Interface, which is the widely used Line-of-Sight methodology. The research describes an initial set of line of sight (LOS) attributes necessary for a generalized Applications Programming Interface. Det...

Domain-based service names are similar to host-based service names, but using a domain name (not necessarily an Internet domain name) in addition to a hostname. The primary purpose of domain-based names is to provide a measure of protection to applications that utilize insecure service discovery protocols. This is achieved by providing a way to name clustered services after the "domain" which t...

Auditing large, rapidly evolving terminological systems is still a challenge. In the case of RxNorm, a standardized nomenclature for clinical drugs, we argue that quality assurance processes can benefit from the recently released application programming interface (API) provided by RxNav. We demonstrate the usefulness of the API by performing a systematic comparison of alternative paths in the R...

Modern high performance computer systems continue to increase in size and complexity. Tools to measure application performance in these increasingly complex environments must also increase the richness of their measurements to provide insights into the increasingly intricate ways in which software and hardware interact. PAPI (the Performance API) has provided consistent platform and operating s...

Jazz Drum Machine (http://jazzdrummachine.com) is a web application written in Javascript that uses the Echo Nest Remix API to intelligently remix music. An input song is segmented into discrete musical events, which are then grouped according to pitch. Users are presented with an interface that allows them to select the number of segments from each group that will be heard in the final mix. Th...

A state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) system was developed as part of the AMIDA project whose core domain was the transcription of small to medium sized meetings. The system has performed well in recent NIST evaluations (RT’07 and RT’09). This research-grade ASR system has now been made available as a free web service (webASR) targeting non-commercial researchers. Access to the ...