M itosis is a fantastically complex process, but the simple beauty of chromosome segregation can captivate even the untrained eye. When Angelika Amon saw a video of a dividing cell as a schoolgirl in Austria, it set her on a path to a professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, where she continues to investigate chromosome segregation and the consequences of mit...

Current rule induction systems (e.g. CN2) typically rely on a \separate and conquer" strategy, learning each rule only from still-uncovered examples. This results in a dwindling number of examples being available for learning successive rules, adversely a ecting the system's accuracy. An alternative is to learn all rules simultaneously, using the entire training set for each. This approach is i...

Component-based Software Engineering (CBSE) is a maturing paradigm for conquering the complexity currently faced in software development. In the development of component-models, most attention has been paid to achieving interoperability at a technical level. However, many application domains require that systems meet extra-functional requirements, such as timeliness, safety, low-resource use, r...