Web 2.0 has emerged as the business ideology and development paradigm for the next generation of web applications. Mashups are one of the most popular types of Web 2.0 applications. This paper proposes the use of personalisation techniques to enhance the functionality of web mashups. The design, implementation, and evaluation of personalised mashups is illustrated with a case study of a travel ...

Epidemiology is struggling increasingly with problems with correlated exposures and small relative risks. As a consequence, some scholars have strongly emphasized molecular epidemiology, whereas others have argued for the importance of the population context and the reintegration of epidemiology into public health. Environmental epidemiology has several unique features that make these debates e...

Citation: Robinson MD and Pelizzola M (2015) Computational epigenomics: challenges and opportunities. The field of epigenetics is undoubtedly attracting immense interest with countless studies in various areas of investigation; (see Rivera and Ren, 2013) for a review on the state of the art for human epigenomics. From the computational point of view and the characteristics of the generated data...

T C teel remains one of the most important manufacturing industries in Indiana, and the dominant manufacturing industry in Northwest Indiana. The Chicago region continues to lead the U.S. in steel production, accounting for as much as 28% of the total output of steel in the country.1 Currently, steel mill employment accounts for nearly 10% of total employment in Northwest Indiana,2 compared wit...

Carbon management and sequestration offers an opportunity for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that can complement the current strategies of improving energy efficiency and increasing the use of non-fossil energy resources. Furthermore, this approach will enable us to continue to enjoy the benefits of fossil fuels while protecting our climate. When most people think of sequestering carbon, the...

This article reviews the key developments in the tissue engineering field over the past several years. The issues related to the development of the components of tissue-engineered products including cells, biomaterials, and biomolecules, and their integration into safe and effective products are presented. Moreover, the article outlines the challenges to the commercialization of tissue-engineer...

The European Commission (EC) mandates that from July 1, 2014, Mobile network operators (MNO) shall offer the possibility to other parties, referred to as Alternative roaming provider (ARP), to offer ‘roaming services’. When a subscriber of a national MNO, referred to as Domestic service provider (DSP) in this context, travels abroad, that person should be entitled to receive voice, data, SMS an...

Program synthesis is the mechanized construction of software, dubbed 'self-writing code'. Synthesis tools relieve the programmer from thinking about how the problem is to be solved; instead, the programmer only provides a description of what is to be achieved. Given a specification of what the program should do, the synthesizer generates an implementation that provably satisfies this specificat...

There is currently a huge gap between the two main technologies used to implement custom digital integrated circuit (IC) designs. At one end of the spectrum are field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). These devices have relatively low design costs and short design times, but they also have high per-unit costs and are limited in terms of design size, complexity, and performance. At the other end...

Chip Multiprocessors (CMPs) or multicore processors have paved the way for high performance microprocessor architectures. For most applications the CMP outperforms the superscalar architecture by a large margin in terms of performance per unit of power as well as throughput. A lot have to be explored in terms of its implementation to exploiting its numerous possibilities of ever increasing perf...