The Procedure Execution Manager (PEM) combines a complete scripting environment for coding accelerator operation procedures with a manager application for executing and monitoring the procedures. PEM is based on Tcl/Tk, a supporting widget library, and the dp-tcl extension for distributed processing. The scripting environment provides support for distributed, parallel execution of procedures al...

Analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) is a rapidly growing field of research that provides insights into the most common type of differences between individual genomes. The resulting information has a strong impact in the fields of pharmacogenomics, drug development, forensic medicine, and diagnostics of specific disease markers. The technique of matrix-assisted laser desorption/io...

This paper describes a new prototype of a semantic Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) called Spec Services. Instead of publishing their API through a protocol like SOAP, as Web Services do, services can register to a service manager a powerful syntactic description or even semantic description of their functional capabilities. The client entity will then send a syntactic or semantic descriptio...

XML-based network management has been proposed as an alternative or to complement SNMPbased network management. But the XML-based network management does not yet provide a method to manage networks equipped with legacy SNMP agents in the integrated management system. This integrated manage ment system must include an XML/SNMP gateway, which translates and relays messages between the XML-based m...

We desired a platform for researching advanced window layout paradigms including the use of constraints. Typical window management systems are written entirely in C or C++, complicating extensibility and programmability. Because no existing window manager was well-suited to our goal, we developed the Scwm window manager. In Scwm, only the core window-management primitives are written in C while...

In this paper we model, using the Queuing Theory, the situation in which the manager of some facilities wishes to maximize the profit generated by the same. The manager tries to attract customers and the effectiveness of his publicity politic is measured in the fraction of customers who renounce. In this paper, unlike the classic models, we consider that the service time of the only server of t...

This Big Data Track submission demonstrates how the BTC 2014 dataset, Microdata annotations from thousands of websites, as well as millions of HTML tables are used to extend local tables with additional columns. Table extension is a useful operation within a wide range of application scenarios: Imagine you are an analyst having a local table describing companies and you want to extend this tabl...

criticism of public extension services has resulted in various countries seeking alternative approaches for provision of these services. in all these approaches, extension personnel are the key factors to the success of the implementation. today, agricultural extension services in turkey bear the responsibility of the ministry of food, agriculture and livestock. a number of non-public extension...