Spherical rolling robots (SRR) have been a promising avenue for the exploration of unstructured environments with variable topologies. The advantages include ability to move fast, robustness collision, and lower number actuators. However, finally be used in real missions applications, they need high maneuverability sufficient inner space house proper payload intended application, such as cave t...

Citation: Uhlirova H, Tian P, Kılıç K, Thunemann M, Sridhar VB, Bartsch H, Dale AM, Devor A and Saisan PA (2017) Neurovascular Network Explorer 2.0: A Database of 2-Photon Single-Vessel Diameter Measurements from Mouse SI Cortex in Response To Optogenetic Stimulation. Front. Neuroinform. 11:4. doi: 10.3389/fninf.2017.00004 Neurovascular Network Explorer 2.0: A Database of 2-Photon Single-Vessel...

Performing runtime parallelization on general networks of workstations (NOWs) without special hardware or system software supports is very diicult, especially for DOACROSS loops. With the high communication overhead on NOWs, there is hardly any performance gain for runtime parallelization, due to the latter's large amount of messages for dependence detection, data accesses, and computation sche...

W. Geyer M. J. Muller M. T. Moore E. Wilcox L.-T. Cheng B. Brownholtz C. Hill D. R. Millen Activity Explorer is the first product from IBM that supports the notion of activity-centric collaboration. This new collaboration paradigm organizes and integrates resources, tools, and people around the computational concept of a work activity, with the goal of increasing work quality and efficiency. In...

UNLABELLED Copy number abnormalities (CNAs) such as somatically-acquired chromosomal deletions and duplications drive the development of cancer. As individual tumor genomes can contain tens or even hundreds of large and/or focal CNAs, a major difficulty is differentiating between important, recurrent pathogenic changes and benign changes unrelated to the subject's phenotype. Here we present Cop...

This paper proposes a new type of service CAD system utilized in Service/Product Engineering (SPE), a much-needed and novel engineering discipline within the background of servicification. In this research a design-object model was defined, and a prototype named Service Explorer was implemented. The model represents critical concepts such as value, costs, functions either of products or of serv...

DNA-binding transcription factors (TFs) play a central role in transcription regulation, and computational approaches that help in elucidating complex mechanisms governing this basic biological process are of great use. In this perspective, we present the TFM-Explorer web server that is a toolbox to identify putative TF binding sites within a set of upstream regulatory sequences of genes sharin...

We introduce the concept of a bi-population scheme for real-coded GAs (bGAs) consisting of an explorer sub-GA and an exploiter sub-GA. The explorer sub-GA mainly performs global exploration of the search space, and incorporates a restart mechanism to help avoid being trapped at local optima. The exploiter sub-GA performs exploitation of fit local areas of the search space around the neighborhoo...