Advances in manufacturing techniques may now realize virtually any imaginable microstructures, paving the way for architected materials with properties beyond those found nature. This has lead to a quest closing gaps property-space by carefully designed metamaterials. Development of mechanical metamaterials gone from open truss lattice structures closed plate stiffness close theoretical bounds....

High availability is becoming an essential part of network services because even a little downtime may lead to a great loss of money. According to previous research, network failure is one of the major causes of system unavailability. In this paper, we propose a framework called HANet for building highly available network services. The main goal of HANet is to allow a server to continue providi...

β-expansions and ultimately periodic