“Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.”

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We present the results of a visible spectroscopic and photometric survey of Jupiter Trojans belonging to different dynamical families. The survey was carried out at the 3.5m New Technology Telescope (NTT) of the European Southern Observatory (La Silla, Chile) in April 2003, May 2004 and January 2005. We obtained data on 47 objects, 23 belonging to the L5 swarm and 24 to the L4 one. These data t...

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The publication culture in computer science favors publishing in conference proceedings or even the arXiv over publishing in journals. To bring more balance, computer science needs more high-quality journals with a short submission-to-publication time, monthly or even bi-weekly issues, and open-access. Scattered initiatives are beginning to change the scene. The 1995 guideline of Patterson et a...

A Scientific Tempest

To Send or not to Send: Implementing Deferred Transmissions in Mobile Hosts

As mobile hosts move, they encounter changing network characteristics. Characteristics such as bandwidth, reliability can change drastically when a mobile host moves from indoor to outdoor environment and vice versa. A mobile host can find itself in a lossy environment due to external conditions such as interference and fading. Existing end-toend protocols are designed with an assumption that p...

Send Fredo off to do this , send Fredo off to do

Fredo is a generic domain-independent broker that creates valueadded information taking into account the preferences specified by its clients. Fredo uses ontology services and yellow pages services to discover a set of agents that can provide information relevant to its clients’ requests. Fredo uses an intelligent heuristic strategy based on a fuzzy evaluation mechanism to plan the queries it u...