Detecting and characterizing emerging topics of discussion and consumer trends through analysis of Internet data is of great interest to businesses. This paper considers the problem of monitoring the Web to spot emerging memes – distinctive phrases which act as “tracers” for topics – as a means of early detection of new topics and trends. We present a novel methodology for predicting which meme...

Webble technology is the most recent form of Meme Media following Richard Dawkins’ seminal ideas about memetics and relying on Yuzuru Tanaka’s interpretation of the Meme concept in the form of IntelligentPad. The reach of Webble technologies is demonstrated by means of a particular Web-based interactive laboratory. It arises the question how this novel technology is perceived and what impact it...

The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is a well-known model organism used to investigate fundamental questions in biology. Motility assays of this small roundworm are designed to study the relationships between genes and behavior. Commonly, motility analysis is used to classify nematode movements and characterize them quantitatively. Over the past years, C. elegans' motility has been studied acro...

Online social media have greatly affected the way in which we communicate with each other. However, little is known about what are the fundamental mechanisms driving dynamical information flow in online social systems. Here, we introduce a generative model for online sharing behavior and analytically show, using techniques from mathematical population genetics, that competition between memes fo...

With the advance of networking technologies, it is now getting feasible to build a parallel computation system on workstations (or even PC's) connected by high-speed network at the much less cost than on a specially-built multi-processor machine. Such system is called Network of Workstations (NoW) or Workstation Cluster. However, communication over high-speed network is still slower than over s...

In terms of sign systems and the way they are used, the experience of the interactive resembles nothing else so much as it resembles the experience of narrative. Narrative is best understood as a relationship between a Teller and a Listener, a relationship that is formal, moral and structural. The interactive reframes acts of narrative from re-counts and re-presentations towards simulation and ...