The first Climateurope Festival: climate information at your service

A Service Access Layer, at Your Service

Historically, Internet services provided clients with access to the resources of a particular host. However, today’s services are no longer defined by a single host or confined to a fixed location. Yet, the network architecture continues to impose an unfortunate coupling between hosts and services by binding connections to topology-dependent addresses, rather than topology-independent service n...

Upgrade Your Robot Competition , Make a Festival !

In 1992, Jean-Daniel Nicoud started the first edition of an internal robotics contest at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2008, Francesco Mondada opened it up to the broader public and launched the robotics festival, which comprised workshops, exhibitions, and events in addition to the competition (Figure 1). Today, the robotics festival is one of the largest events...

May Your Information Service Live in Interesting

Information systems are undergoing a transformation they are becoming faster, richer, more intelligent, personalised and mobile. Furthermore, some of the greatest advances may yet be to come with the creation of networked environments supporting complex direct interaction between heterogeneous information systems: enabling services to act autonomously, discover one another, provide services to ...

At Your Service: Service-Oriented Computing from an EU Perspective

At Your Service: Embedded MT As A Service

A growing trend in Machine Translation (MT) is to view MT as an embedded part of an overall process instead of an end result itself. For the last four years, we have fielded (primarily) Commercial-Off-TheShelf (COTS) MT systems in an operational process. MT has been used to facilitate cross-language information retrieval (IR), topic detection and other, wide-scoped scenarios. These uses caused ...