A main goal of a ships of opportunity program is the provision of near real time temperature profiles. The use of expandable probes allows the reduction of costs, in comparison to usual scientific cruises. A major cost effectiveness can be achieved by using an automated multiple launcher, that can be used with a minimum personnel effort. A mul-5 tiple launcher, developed in the framework of the...

This paper is about interpreting human com-munication in meetings using audio, video andother signals. Automatic meeting recognitionand understanding is extremely challenging,since communication in a meeting is sponta-neous and conversational, and involves mul-tiple speakers and multiple modalities. Thisleads to a number of significant research prob-lems in signa...

As the I O needs of parallel scienti c applications increase le systems for multiprocessors are being designed to provide applications with parallel access to multiple disks Many parallel le systems present applications with a conventional Unix like interface that allows the application to access mul tiple disks transparently This interface conceals the paral lelism within the le system which i...

A multihop packet radio network is considered with asingle traffic class and given end-to-end transmission requirements. Atransmission schedule specifies at each time instant the set of links whichare allowed to transmit. The purpose of a schedule is to,preventinterference among transmissions from neighboring links. Given amountsof information are residing initially at a sub...

The formalization of actions is essential to AI Several approaches have been pro posed over the years However most ap proaches concentrate on the causes and ef fects of actions but do not give general characterizations of actions themselves A useful formalization of actions would be based on a general possibly nondiscrete model of time that allows branching to capture agents choices A good form...

In this paper, we study reliable distributed publish/subscribe (P/S) systems that can “tolerate” mul-tiple simultaneous node crash failures. We formally define a routing consistency property, and proposescalable algorithms that establish and maintain consistency in order to guarantee reliable, in-order, andduplicate-free delivery of messages. Furthermore, we introduce a system confi...

State estimation (SE) is indispensable for the situa-tional awareness of power systems. Conventional SE fed by measurements collected from supervisory control and data ac-quisition (SCADA) system. In recent years, available sources have been greatly enriched with deployment phasor meas-urement units (PMUs), advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), intelligent electronic devices (IEDs), etc. The ...

Although there are proposals in the literature for authoring mulsemedia ( mul tiple xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">se nsorial xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">media ) applications with 2D content, no suitable solutions when it comes to 360° content. Moreover, littl...