Music has been playing an important role in the society. With the wide spread of digital and mobile devices, the consumption of music has been increasing significantly. Therefore, the demand for automatic processing and analyzing music with computational technologies has also been pushed to a new ground. It has opened up opportunities for a variety of applications which were not possible before...

We describe the rationale and the design of Arias, a service of distributed memory with a single global address space. It provides a generic consistency support, capabilities grouped in domains for protection, and a log-based checkpointing service.

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The agricultural landscape of NW Spain is mainly inherited from ancient agricultural practices. Its origin can be traced back, at least, to the VI century AD (BOUHIER 1979; CRIADO BOADO 1989; GUITIÁN RIVERA 2001; BALLESTEROS-ARIAS et al. 2006a), although some of its features might have originated in the Iron Age (PARCERO-OUBIÑA 2006) or even the Late Bronze Age (MARTÍNEZ CORTIZAS et al. 2009). ...