Area Studies and Special Collections: Shared Challenges, Shared Strength

An outlook on the diversity of polypores shared between Iran and the Mediterranean area

Polypore fungi are an important group of wood-inhabiting basidiomycetes that have significant roles in biomass recycling in forests and woodland ecosystems. Figures on the polypore diversity in Iran have been partly made available through few checklists, but there have been no comparative studies on the pattern of geographic distribution of the species. The prevalence of the Mediterranean biocl...

Shared Virtual Memory: Progress and Challenges

An extensible information model for shared scientific data collections

An information model is defined to support sharing of composite-media scientific data. The model consists of data objects and links. Data objects are associated with descriptors which contain all the metadata related to the object. A novel aspect of the information model is that both the data and metadata associated with a data object can be in structured or semistructured form. The links in th...

SCI-Based Local-Area Shared-Memory Multiprocessor

This paper describes a new interconnect standard, the Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI, ANSI/IEEE Std 1596-1992), and new developments in parallel computer architecture that become possible by this technology. For instance, using SCI, shared-memory multiprocessors can be built from standard desktop machines at low costs. The technical features and applications of SCI, novel architectural opport...

Challenges in Shared-Environment Human-Robot Collaboration

We present and discuss four important yet underserved research questions critical to the future of sharedenvironment human-robot collaboration. We begin with a brief survey of research surrounding individual components required for a complete collaborative robot control system, discussing the current state of the art in Learning from Demonstration, active learning, adaptive planning systems, an...