The study of scheduling algorithms for parallel tasks in a grid computing context either neglects local reservation systems which manage parallel resources, either suppose that they use a First Come First Served strategy, or the experimental model does not handle parallel tasks. In this report, we describe an API built in the grid simulation tool Simgrid. It offers core functionalities to simul...

iv Résumé (Solution de guidage navigation pilotage pour véhicules autonomes hétérogènes en vue d'une mission collaborative) L'application classique des techniques d'estimation et de contrôle, ba– sées sur des capteurs de haute performance, à des systèmes utilisant des capteurs de performances médiocres mais adaptés aux besoins nouveaux des troupes légères et à leurs contraintes est un enjeu pou...

The advent of extreme scale machines will require the use of parallel resources at an unprecedented scale, probably leading to a high rate of hardware faults. High Performance Computing (HPC) applications that aim at exploiting all these resources will thus need to be resilient, i.e., be able to compute a correct solution in presence of faults. In this work, we investigate possible remedies in ...

Les tumeurs bénignes du muscle lisse sont fréquentes dans le tractus gastro-intestinal et génito-urinaire, et rares au niveau rétro péritonéal.Leur prévalence parmi les tumeurs rétropéritonéales primitives a été estimée entre de 0,5 à 1,2%. Une situation qui conduit à des erreurs de diagnostic. On rapporte dans cet article deux cas de léiomyome rétropéritonéal (LRP) retrouvés chez des femmes âg...

Estimates of total body water (TBW) play an important role in studies of body composition and energetics in mammals. We evaluated bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) as a means of rapidly and inexpensively estimating TBW in 38 grey seals (Halichoerus grypus). Twenty-two males and 16 females, representing the range of body sizes in the population, were studied at Sable Island, Nova Scotia. Se...

In this paper, we provide an interpretation of polynomial spline interpolation as a continuous filtering process. We prove that the frequency responses of the cardinal spline filters converge to the ideal lowpass filter in all L f n o r m s with 1 ~<p < + ~ as the order of the spline tends to infinity. We provide estimates for the resolution errors and the interpolation errors of the various fi...

The authors describe Bayesian estimation for the parameters of the bivariate gamma distribution due to Kibble (1941). The density of this distribution can be written as a mixture, which allows for a sim ple data augmentation scheme. The authors propose a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm to facilitate estimation. They show that the resulting chain is geometrically ergodic, and thus a regenerat...

While detecting simple language errors (e.g. misspellings, number agreement, etc.) is nowadays standard functionality in all but the simplest text-editors, other more complicated language errors might go unnoticed. A difficult case are errors that come in the disguise of a valid word that fits syntactically into the sentence. We use the Wikipedia revision history to extract a dataset with such ...