This paper tries to sum up the discussions held during the sessions of GREC’09, as well as at the final panel session. As it is always good to know where you are coming from, the paper briefly takes a look back at the discussions held two years earlier, before looking ahead at the future challenges for our research community. A number of points raised two years ago remain very much valid, but w...

European Bioanalysis Forum Focus Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal, 9-10 June 2016 At the recent European Bioanalysis Forum's Focus Workshop 'Bringing Assay Validation and Analysis of Biomarkers into Practice', the discussion on best practice for biomarker assay validation continued. Both the presentations and the adjacent panel discussions yielded valuable food for thought for the broader bioanalytic...

The 10th Annual Bladder Cancer Think Tank was hosted by the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network and brought together a multidisciplinary group of clinicians, researchers, representatives and Industry to advance bladder cancer research efforts. Think Tank expert panels, group discussions, and networking opportunities helped generate ideas and strengthen collaborations between researchers and physici...

This article reports a panel discussion titled Inducer Design Criteria presented at the 9th International Symposium on Transport Phenomena and Dynamics of Rotating Machinery (ISROMAC-9). The presentations of the panelists and the subsequent discussions are summarized. It is shown that cavitation instabilities are major problems in modern turbopumps and that design criteria to eliminate them are...

The first panel explores the diverse set of legal issues and risks that arise as governments increasingly adopt open source systems. Governments are attracted to open source software systems by the potential cost savings, open standards and protocols, and the flexibility, adaptability and reliability of the systems. However, there are serious legal issues and liabilities that can arise when gov...

James Robins,1,3 Andrea Rotnitzky,2,3 and Stijn Vansteelandt4 1Department of Epidemiology Harvard School of Public Health, 655 Huntington Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02115, U.S.A. 2Department of Economics Universidad Torcuato di Tella Saenz Valiente 101

This paper reports on the panel session of the 17th Workshop in OCL and Textual Modelling, As in previous years, the panel session featured several lightning talks for presenting recent developments and open questions in the area of OCL and textual modelling. During this session, the OCL community discussed, stimulated through short presentations by OCL experts, proposals for improving OCL to i...

A Dagstuhl Seminar on the topic of Generic Programming was held April 27{ May 1, 1998, with forty seven participants from ten countries. During the meeting there were thirty seven lectures, a panel session, and several problem sessions. The outcomes of the meeting include A collection of abstracts of the lectures, made publicly available via this booklet and a web site at Plans for a proceeding...

Appropriate language modeling is one of the major issues for automatic transcription of spontaneous speech. We propose an adaptation method for statistical language models based on both topic and speaker characteristics. This approach is applied for automatic transcription of meetings and panel discussions, in which multiple participants speak on a given topic in their own speaking style. A bas...