Following very successful previous editions since 2002, the 14th ISPDC conference will be hosted in Limassol, a beautiful coastal Mediterranean city on the South coast of Cyprus. The conference will be devoted to a highly selective program with papers describing original and unpublished research advancing the state of the art in the field of Parallel and Distributed Computing paradigms and appl...

The ability to monitor the health of an instrumented structure, detect damage as it occurs, and issue an early warning during or soon after the earthquake (or some other natural or man made disaster), and before physical inspection is possible, has significant potential benefits in reducing loss of life and injuries, in emergency response, and in recovery following the disaster. The timeliness ...

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This paper reports the development of a full-scale instrumented model of the human ear that permits quantitative evaluation of the utility of a microsurgical assistant robot in the surgical procedure of stapedotomy.

Chapter III Towards Civil-Military Coordination During Security, Stabilization, Transition and Reconstruction Efforts ................................................................................................................... 28 Ranjeev Mittu, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA Suleyman Guleyupoglu, ITT Corporation, USA William Barlow, Office of Secretary of Defense Networks and Inform...

This paper examines protoryping as a rcscarch tool for studying multilcvcl secure databases (MLS/DBMS). The paper proposes that an MLS/DSMS design can be quickly prototypcd in Prolog. The prototype is then used as a research tool to expcritnent with the policies and models of the MLVDBMS. To illustrate the principle, we built a Prolog prototype based on the dell and LaPadula model. This prototy...

In a future scenario where many devices can be controlled using the voice, easy and intuitive access will be crucial for avoiding cognitive overload when users are faced with many different systems and interaction models. We propose a model for interaction with spoken language interfaces applied to heterogeneous tasks for service robots, based on the idea of using a family of lifelike character...

This study discusses the wind loads and their effects on Wind Engineering Research Field Laboratory (WERFL) building at Texas Tech University based on full-scale synchronous pressure measurements. The wind load effects on different frames are calculated and the results are compared to those determined based on the wind loads specified in ASCE7-05. Finally, the challenges faced in the modeling o...

The Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Laboratory (DIRS) at the Rochester Institute of Technology, along with the Savannah River National Laboratory is investigating passive methods to quantify vehicle loading. The research described in this paper investigates multiple vehicle indicators including brake temperature, tire temperature, engine temperature, acceleration and deceleration rates, engi...