Many scientific and engineering applications generate data that are well-suited to be studied using time series charts. Two types of time series that define input, output, and state dynamics of DEVS models are piecewise constant and event charts. In this paper, time series capable of displaying both linear and superdense time segments and trajectories are conceptualized and formulated. These le...

One of the mostly used enhanced oil recovery methods is the injection of water or gas under pressure to maintain or reverse the declining pressure in a reservoir. Several parameters should be optimized in a fluid injection process. The usual optimizing methods evaluate several scenarios to find the best solution. Since it is required to run the reservoir simulator hundreds of times, the process...

Entwicklungsmethoden und -werkzeuge für eingebettete Systeme und Enterprise Applikationen nähern sich zusehends an. Insbesondere die modellgetriebene Entwicklung hilft beim Umgang mit zunehmend komplexeren, eingebetteten Softwaresystemen. Zur Automatisierung der Entwicklung ist die Werkzeugunterstützung entscheidend. Die OpenSource-Entwicklungsplattform Eclipse stellt mit dem Eclipse Modeling P...

The Personal Software Process (PSP) is a framework for individual software engineers to improve the quality, predictability and productivity of their work. It consists of a family of seven personal processes that progressively introduce data collection and analysis techniques. This paper presents a PSP tool that is integrated into the Eclipse environment. Currently it includes an Eclipse plug-i...

ECLIPSE is a next-generation virtual telecommunication network that provides multimedia services that integrate voice, video, text, and images. ECLIPSE facilitates the modular decomposition of new telecommunication services. In this paper we sketch the challenges we face in making ECLIPSE highly available when running on top of a heterogenous and widely distributed system. We describe how we ap...

The National Eclipse Weather Experiment (NEWEx) was a citizen science project designed to assess the effects of the 20 March 2015 partial solar eclipse on the weather over the United Kingdom (UK). NEWEx had two principal objectives: to provide a spatial network of meteorological observations across the UK to aid the investigation of eclipse-induced weather changes, and to develop a nationwide p...

The ancient Greek astronomical calculating machine, known as the Antikythera Mechanism, predicted eclipses, based on the 223-lunar month Saros cycle. Eclipses are indicated on a four-turn spiral Saros Dial by glyphs, which describe type and time of eclipse and include alphabetical index letters, referring to solar eclipse inscriptions. These include Index Letter Groups, describing shared eclips...

The British Isles benefits from dense meteorological observation networks, enabling insights into the still-unresolved effects of solar eclipse events on the near-surface wind field. The near-surface effects of the solar eclipse of 20 March 2015 are derived through comparison of output from the Met Office's operational weather forecast model (which is ignorant of the eclipse) with data from two...

Plutarch and Heraclitus believed a certain passage in the 20th book of the Odyssey ("Theoclymenus's prophecy") to be a poetic description of a total solar eclipse. In the late 1920s, Schoch and Neugebauer computed that the solar eclipse of 16 April 1178 B.C.E. was total over the Ionian Islands and was the only suitable eclipse in more than a century to agree with classical estimates of the deca...

We have been conducting deep searches at ∼20 cm of >30 globular clusters (GCs) using the 305-m Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico and the 100-m Green Bank telescope (GBT) in West Virginia. With roughly 80% of our search data analyzed, we have confirmed 13 new millisecond pulsars (MSPs), 12 of which are in binary systems, and at least three of which eclipse. We currently have timing solutions for ...