Dante's Afterlife in Argentina

Editorial: Images of Afterlife

What would human life look like if it were not about images of this world and the otherworld? Could such a life sustain people, their societies and cultures in an appropriate way? These are questions, which preoccupy the contributors to this special issue. The goal of this volume is to gather a large scale of discussions to highlight how the questions may be taken seriously. Also, the aim is to...

The Prolific Afterlife of Whales

o u g a lv es On a routine expedition in 1987, oceanographers in the submersible Alvin were mapping the typically barren, nutrient-poor seafloor in the Santa Catalina Basin, off the shore of southern California. On the final dive of the trip, the scanning sonar detected a large object on the seafloor. Piercing through the abyssal darkness down at 1,240 meters, Alvin’s headlights revealed a 20-m...

Slavery's Afterlife in Text and Image

DANTES: An Expert System for Real-Time Network Troubleshooting

Today's computer networks are large and complex. Their dayto-day operation and maintenance can benefit from the support of an expert system, mainly as an aid in troubleshooting. Network troubleshooting has characteristics, like incomplete data, high rate of events, simultaneous presence of several problems, which raise interesting problems in the development of an expert system. DANTES is an ex...

The afterlife of ’living deliverables’: angels or zombies? Conference Item

Within the STELLAR project, we provide the possibility to use living documents for the collaborative writing work on deliverables. Compared to ‘normal‘ deliverables, ‘living’ deliverables come into existence much earlier than their delivery deadline and are expected to ‘live on’ after their official delivery to the European Commission. They are expected to foster collaboration. Within this cont...