Preface IARD 2008 Proceedings

Preface to the proceedings

The University of Leicester is planning to develop a CubeSat mission for spaceweather monitoring to participate in the European nanosatellite network project QB50, whichaims to launch 50 CubeSats in 2014. This paper will describe the CubeSat mission and thescience payloads that will be developed. The CubeSat will carry an innovative miniaturisedultraviolet Wide-Field Auroral Ima...

Preliminary Proceedings. Preface

The programming languages of today are stuck in a deep rut that has developed over the past 50 years. Although we are faced with new challenges posed by enormous advances in hardware and internet technology, we continue to struggle with old-fashioned languages based on rigid, static, closed-world file-based views of programming. We argue the need for a new class of dynamic languages that suppor...

Preface to ECDM 2008

Change is a fundamental but sometimes neglected aspect of information and database systems. The management of evolution and change and the ability for database, information and knowledge-based systems to deal with change is an essential component in developing and maintaining truly useful systems. Many approaches to handling evolution and change have been proposed in various areas of data manag...

Preface to RIGiM 2008

SCAN 2008 Guest editors preface

This volume contains extended versions of the selected papers presented at the 13th GAMM-IMACS International Symposium on Scientific Computing, Computer Arithmetic and Verified Numerical Computations SCAN’2008 that took place at the University of Texas at El Paso on September 29 – October 3, 2008. The conference continues the series of international SCAN symposia held under the joint sponsorshi...