Case-based session: unusual and multitrouble cases: Saturday 6 December 2014, 08:30-10:0 * Location: Agora

Cover vol. 11, no. 6, December 2014

Persian-translation vol. 11, no. 6, December 2014

Plenary Session # 1 Saturday 9 : 00 - 10 :

Large scale phenomena in homotopy theory (Jordan Hall 124) Paul Goerss (Northwestern University) In the late 1940s it wasn’t clear which was the harder problem: the cohomology of Eilenberg-MacLane spaces or the stable homotopy groups of spheres. After the Cartan-Serre work on Eilenberg-MacLane spaces in the early ’50s, people then optimistically set about computing the homotopy groups of sphere...

Agora - Speech-Act-Based Adaptive Case Management

Today’s work is increasingly characterized by unpredictable collaborative processes called knowledge work. Some types of knowledge work are supported by case management tools which typically provide regulated access to case-related information. Knowledge workers are well aware of the pragmatic dimension of their communicative acts, but the systems they are using currently are not. This demo pap...

Update: Influenza Activity — United States, September 28–December 6, 2014

CDC collects, compiles, and analyzes data on influenza activity year-round in the United States (http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/fluactivitysurv.htm). The influenza season generally begins in the fall and continues through the winter and spring months; however, the timing and severity of circulating influenza viruses can vary by geographic location and season. Influenza activity in the United Sta...