Initial work in the Grid ENabled Integrated Earth system model (GENIE) project involved a series of parameter sweep experiments using a Grid infrastructure consisting of a flocked Condor pool, a web service oriented data management system and a web portal. In this paper we introduce the Imperial College E-Science Networked Infrastructure (ICENI) Grid middleware, and describe how it can be used ...

At Lancaster University we are investigating about the two following challenges (i) how to develop new, scalable and adaptable middleware systems offering richer functionality and services, and (ii) how to do it in a more efficient, systematic, and if possible automatic way that guaranties that the ultimately configured middleware will offer the required functionality. This article is centered ...

In this paper, we study the degrees of freedom (DoF) of the MIMO relay networks. We start with a general Y channel, where each user has Mi antennas and aims to exchange messages with the other two users via a relay equipped with N antennas. Then, we extend our work to a general 4-user MIMO relay network. Unlike most previous work which focused on the total DoF of the network, our aim here is to...

Introduction: There is more image data available to planetary scientists now than at any time in history. The problem now is how to best make use of it. It is impractical to analyze such large datasets manually, while development of handwritten feature extraction tools is expensive and laborious. This project explores the use of machine learning techniques to develop feature extraction algorith...

Specialized development environments represent today an important added value for domain specific system providers suffering the lack of a dedicated, ergonomic, efficient and affordable tool able to boost their core business. This paper describes Audio n-Genie, a domain specific language and its associated development environment supporting the automatic production, by mean of component-based m...