This chapter describes an architecture for slicing, virtualizing, and federating wireless sensor network (WSN) resources. The architecture, which we call KanseiGenie, allows users—be they sensing/networking researchers or application developers—to specify and acquire node and network resources as well as sensor data resources within one or more facilities for launching their programs. It also i...

Most bindings to CORBA are based on the construction of stubs, which translate a language call into a CORBA invocation. This paper shows an alternative way to build a binding, using the reflexive facilities of an interpreted language. Like other CORBA bindings, this binding allows a program to manipulate CORBA objects in the same way it manipulates local objects. Unlike conventional bindings, h...

In order to achieve acceptable pelformance in enhanced DBMS different kinds of parallelism have to be enabled by appropriate implementation capabilities. The Remote Cooperation System (RCS) offers these capabilities. lt is the basic communication system of our enhanced DBMS called PRIMA. In this paper we present different implementations for RCS and an analysis of their pelformance behavior. In...

the present paper is intended to deal with a certain kind of deconstruction and deviation from literary norms found in mathnavi ma'navi. comparison is also made between the mathnavi and other great literary works. unlike other persian literary works, mathnavi does not begin in the name of the god, praising the prophet and other great religious men. instead, it starts with the famous compla...

BACKGROUND Paediatricians wanting to use evidence based medicine (EBM) strategies, need to be able to track down and critically appraise evidence. This requires access to quality filtered resources (for example, Cochrane Library), bibliographic databases (for example, Medline), and paediatric journals. AIMS To determine whether paediatricians have access to these resources when on-call and if...

We describe the implementation of specific Scala collections operations (currently the map and foreach methods) using the Scala 2.10 compile-time reflection facilities. The primary motivation for this work is to create faster collections by inlining operations at the call site. The functionality is available at the standard Scala library level, so that our optimized operations can be used on al...

Generally, research middleware platforms have provided application programmers with facilities for just one form of communication, for example remote procedure call, or transactions or replication. Industry middleware platforms are been asked to provided a kit bag of “plug and play” capabilities, for example transactions, replication, authentication, privacy, auditing and many other features. I...

In this paper a new visualization technique to deal with large sets of items is described. We call it R-Zoom, which stands for Row-splitting Zoom. This technique is applied to the construction of algorithm animations. Discrete animations are built from a sequence of snapshots, which are the stages of the execution of the algorithm. The user has to select which ones will be in the animation, and...

BACKGROUND The American College of Surgeons delineates 108 requirements for level I trauma centers. Some of these requirements include: minimum of 1,200 trauma admissions per year; an average of 35 major trauma patients per surgeon; residency training programs; and 10 peer-reviewed journal submissions every three years. This study examines the variation in services provided among U.S. level I t...