In this contribution, I review the current observational evidence for the existence of filaments of Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM). In particular, I first focus on the controversial issue of the identification of the z ∼ 0 highly ionized far-ultraviolet (i.e. OVI) and X-ray (i.e. OVII, OVIII and NeIX) absorbers with either a very tenuous and diffuse WHIM filament, or with much denser cond...

H. Schone a), M. B. H. Breese b), S. R. Lee '), R. D. Briggs '), S. A. Casalnuovo '), B. L. Doyle '), T. J. Dmmmond"), I. J. Fritz'), M. J. Hafich"), G. A. Vawter" a) Phillips Laboratory, 3550 Aberdeen Ave., Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, Nh4 81 117 b) Nuclear Physics Laboratory, Keble Rd., Oxford University, Oxford 0x1, UK c) Sandia National Laboratory, P. 0. Box 5800. Albuquerque, NM 87 185-1056 ...

In this work we investigate the effects of rephrasing the user’s input on two mobile spoken dialogue systems. We argue that for specific kinds of applications it’s important to confirm the understanding of the system before obtaining the output. In this way the user can avoid misconceptions and problems occurring in the dialogue flow and he can enhance his confidence in the system. Nevertheless...

I would like to thank Ministry of Trade and Transportation of Finland and Radiolinja, a mobile phone operator, for funding. In addition, I have received help from Nokia Research Center at Tampere, and The Museum of Modern Art Kiasma, Helsinki. Esko Kurvinen and Katja Battarbee have shared the data and many thoughts with me. For the expression “explosion of banality,” I am grateful for Raul Pert...

This article discusses Nokia’s experiences of using open source in commercial product development. It presents the development model used in the creation of mobile consumer devices and highlights the opportunities and challenges experienced. This article concludes that the main benefits come from the utilization of already available open source components, and from their quality and flexibility...

This paper introduces the homeset algorithm, a novel approach to estimate occupancy schedules of private households from sensor data. The algorithm relies on unlabeled Wi-Fi scans and anonymized GPS traces collected by the mobile phones of household occupants and is able to autonomously determine the reliability of the computed schedules. We validate our approach using a data set from the Nokia...

Peter Danielis, Stephan Kubisch, Harald Widiger, Jens Schulz, Dirk Timmermann University of Rostock Institute of Applied Microelectronics and Computer Engineering 18051 Rostock, Germany Tel./Fax: +49 381 498-7272 / -1187251 Email: {peter.danielis;dirk.timmermann}@uni-rostock.de Web: http://www.imd.uni-rostock.de/networking Thomas Bahls, Daniel Duchow Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG Broadba...

Development of new technologies brings people new possibilities such as smart spaces. Smart spaces can provide better user experience by allowing a user to connect new devices flexibly and to access all the information in the multi device system from any of the devices. The paper describes work-in-progress performed under a joint project of SPIIRAS and Nokia. The project is aimed at the analysi...

Olivier Baudon y, Guillaume Fertin y and Ivan Havel z y LaBRI U.M.R. CNRS 5800, Universit e Bordeaux I 351 Cours de la Lib eration, F33405 Talence Cedex z Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University Malostransk e n am. 25, 118 00 Praha, Czech Republic fbaudon,[email protected], [email protected] Abstract We study an n-dimensional directed symmetric hypercube Hn, in which e...

Replication and distributed communication are usually tightly coupled. This code tangling forbids their independent reuse and adaptation. In this position paper the problems resulting from coupling replication with distributed communication are discussed. In addition, a solution based on separation of concerns is proposed. The abstractions for each concern are presented as well as their composi...