Preface to the proceedings of Halophiles 2013

Preface to the proceedings of Halophiles 2013

Halophiles are organisms, and their viruses, adapted to thriving and reproducing in high salt concentrations, representatives of which can be found in all domains of life. To flourish in these environments, an individual must overcome many obstacles including high osmotic pressure, low water availability, high and low pH conditions, high temperatures, and high cell densities that enforce stiff ...

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...

Preface to the Proceedings of WOA 2007

Il workshop “WOA dagli Oggetti agli Agenti” rappresenta da ormai otto anni una consueta occasione di scambio di idee per tutti i ricercatori che operano nell’ambito dei sistemi ad agenti. La tecnologia ad agenti sta assumendo un ruolo centrale non solo nel settore dell’intelligenza artificiale, ma anche in settori più tradizionali dell’informatica quali l’ingegneria del software e i linguaggi d...

Preface to the Proceedings of CLIMA’02

Over recent years, the notion of agency has claimed a major role in defining the trends of modern research. Influencing a broad spectrum of disciplines such as Sociology, Psychology, among others, the agent paradigm virtually invaded every sub-field of Computer Science, not least because of the Internet and Robotics. Multi-agent Systems (MAS) are communities of problem-solving entities that can...

Proceedings of the 5 th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Interactive Systems ( FMIS 2013 ) Preface