Open Mobile Alliance Device Management (OMA DM) specification is well established and is being widely used to manage mobile devices. However, the current OMA DM protocol (v1.2 and v1.3) is not suitable for constrained M2M devices operating in constrained networks. Therefore, new standards for M2M technology are being developed in order to sustain the exponential growth of M2M wireless communica...

Efficient coding has been proposed as a first principle explaining neuronal response properties in the central nervous system. The shape of optimal codes, however, strongly depends on the natural limitations of the particular physical system. Here we investigate how optimal neuronal encoding strategies are influenced by the finite number of neurons N (place constraint), the limited decoding tim...

Floodplain forests directly influence water quality by serving as sinks, sources, or transformers of nutrients. Increases in the demand for timber raise the question of how silvicultural disturbance may affect this funct ion. The object ive of this research was to compare biogeochemical relationships between undisturbed vs. disturbed conditions in a floodplain forest. A randomized complete b lo...

Most problems in computational geometry are algebraic. A general approach to address nonrobustness in such problems is Exact Geometric Computation (EGC). There are now general libraries that support EGC for the general programmer (e.g., Core Library, LEDA Real). But many applications require non-algebraic functions as well. In this paper, we wish to provide non-algebraic functions in the contex...

Quadrupole scans were used to characterize the LEDA RFQ beam. Experimental data were fit to computer simulation models for the rms beam size. The codes were found to be inadequate in accurately reproducing details of the wire scanner data. When this discrepancy is resolved, we plan to fit using all the data in wire scanner profiles, not just the rms values, using a 3-D nonlinear code.

This paper investigates a model of labor-market search, where rms operate under uncertainty. The paper starts from a descriptive approach with U.S. hours worked data. EEciency units display signiicant nonlinearities and speciication tests allow to select a exi-ble non-linear model. We assess the ability of the structural model to mimic these empirical features. Since the reduced form induces un...

This paper presents efficient implementations of several algorithms for solving the minimum-cost network flow problem. Various practical heuristics and other important implementation aspects are also discussed. A novel result of this work is the application of Goldberg’s recent partial augment-relabel method in the cost-scaling algorithm. The presented implementations are available as part of t...

I discuss two types of evidential problems with the most widely touted experiments in evolutionary psychology, those performed by Leda Cosmides and interpreted by Cosmides and John Tooby. First, and despite Cosmides and Tooby’s claims to the contrary, these experiments don’t fulfil the standards of evidence of evolutionary biology. Second Cosmides and Tooby claim to have performed a crucial exp...

Multi-paradigm software development is a possible answer to attempts of finding the best paradigm. It was present in software development at the level of intuition and practiced as the “implementation detail” without a real support in design. Recently it is making a twofold breakthrough: several recent programming paradigms are encouraging it, while explicit multi-paradigm approaches aim at its...

With XML rapidly gaining popularity as the standard for data exchange on the World Wide Web, a variety of XML management systems (XMLMS) are becoming available. The choice of an XMLMS is made difficult by the significant difference in the expressive power of the queries and the performance shown by these XMLMS. Most XMLMS are legacy systems (mostly relational) extended to load, query, and publi...