This paper presents the virtual reality systems, interaction devices and software used at the Foundation of the Hellenic World (FHW). The applications that FHW has produced, associated with the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, are then detailed. The separate virtual reality shows are presented in terms of interactivity and educational value. Technical aspects of the productions are explained, w...

An excel-based model was developed to evaluate economic and environmental benefits of the solar-powered compaction garbage bins in public areas in Australia. Input data were collected from Brisbane and Wollongong City councils, and Sydney Olympic Park. The results demonstrate that solar-powered compaction garbage bins would provide environmental benefits in all scenarios. However, results of th...

MANOS (Multilingual Application Network for Olympic Services) project. aims to provide intelligent multilingual information services in 2008 Olympic Games. By narrowing down the general language technology, this paper gives an overview of our new work on Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation (PBT) under the framework of the MANOS. Starting with the construction of large scale Chinese-Eng...

Criminal and deviant behavior is known to occur in all places, settings, and times. The Olympics, both_ Summer and ~inter, are not immune to deviant behavior. This paper focuses on the _spec1f1c types of d~v1ant and criminal acts arising out of the Olympic settings and the anomic factor~ tha_t possibly le~d t~ deviance in this particular arena. The way that athletes are confor~1sts_, innovators...

To support precision forecasting at the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, a parallelized version of the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) was installed on a 30-node distributed memory supercomputer (IBM RS/6000 SP) at the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, GA (Zaphiris, Edwards and Snook [1997]; Snook, Christidis and Edwards [1997]; and Edwards, Snook and Christidis [...

We present a framework for studying the relation between the distributions of income and house prices that is based on an assignment model where households are heterogeneous by incomes and houses by quality. Each household owns one house and wishes to live in one house; thus everyone is potentially both a buyer and a seller. In equilibrium, the distribution of prices depends on both distributio...

U niversity endowments are important and interesting institutions both in the investing community and society at large. First, they play a role in maintaining the academic excellence of many universities which rely heavily on income from their endowments. In recent years, well-heeled institutions such as Harvard and Princeton have used their deep pockets to increase admissions and reduce effect...

Borislav Dechev Bojanov was born in Shemshevo, a little village just outside the beautiful central Bulgarian city of Veliko Tarnovo, of which he was so fond. Borislav took his first degree at Sofia University. He then went to Wroclaw, Poland, where he did a Master’s Thesis under the supervision of Professor Stefan Paszkowski. He returned to the Department of Mathematics of Sofia University in 1...