New developments in the mobile telecom industry, such as growing transmission bandwidth and sector-crossing business alliances, change the way in which mobile telco’s are innovating. Traditional innovation models, such as the single-company linear model (‘pipeline model’), do no longer describe how innovation occurs today. An interesting alternative is the boundary-crossing Cyclic Innovation Mo...

WALTHAM, MA, USA – February 4, 2014 X-Chem, Inc., a privately held biotechnology company focused on applying its powerful product engine to the generation of novel small molecule therapeutics, today announced that the company has created the first biotech-owned screening library of small molecules to ever surpass 100 billion compounds. Its size now far exceeds that of even the largest conventio...

Drawn from the lessons learned in an application for the subway company in Paris, we pointed out that operators used practices instead of the procedures developed by the company, practices appearing like contextualization of the procedures taking into account specificity of the task at hand and the current situation. This leads us to propose, first, a working definition of context at a theoreti...

Regarding the increased energy consumption of the processes at the operational units in the National Iranian Oil Company, the present study analyzed energy consumption at one of the gas refineries. In this refinery, which is the main supplier of Fajr Jam refinery for the national gas network, as well as an injection into the oil fields of the Iranian South oil company, the pressure of gas after...

This article presents a comparison of main characteristics of the Next Generation Networks (NGN) and Future Generation Internet (FGI). The aim is to discuss and compare two approaches to Future Networks (FN) and services: the evolution of NGN, and the revolutionary approach of a new FGI. We present both frameworks from the services point of view as they are delivered to the end-user, as well as...

Even though many methods have been suggested to meet the challenge of all-hexahedral meshing, octree-based methods remain the most efficient from an engineering point of view. As of today, its robustness, speed and robustness are still unmatched. This paper presents advances made in the Hexotic project, especially in terms of sharp angles meshing, non-manifold geometries and adaptation.

The neutral point of view (NPOV) cornerstone of Wikipedia (WP) is challenged for next generation knowledge bases. A case is presented for content neutrality as a new, every point of view (EPOV) guiding principle. The architectural implications of content neutrality are discussed and translated into novel concepts of Wiki architectures. Guidelines for implementing this architecture are presented...

Users’ needs are the driver of the next generation of telecom services. Founding the services on users’ needs requires that various services cooperate together to meet specific needs. As a consequence, services should no more be developed as “silo” but with composable service enablers. This enabler paradigm raises the issues of the identification of the enablers and of the consistency of a serv...

We describe our preliminary work on analyzing a corpus of clinical genetics patient letters. In this genre, a single letter is intended to serve multiple functions and is designed for audiences with different backgrounds, information needs, and affective responses to the information. The goal of the analysis is to identify stylistically-related features for natural language generation. Our hypo...

In this paper, object-oriented designs are approached from an information theoretic point of view and entropy is proposed as a design quality metric. One of the primary aims of object-orientation is the flexibility and the ease in extending a system’s functionality, with limited alterations to existing modules. This feature is evaluated defining an appropriate probability space according to the...