This document is intended to stimulate debate and discussion in preparation of the Escience Scoping Study Expert Seminar for archaeology and the historic environment. It is a tentative, partial and therefore controversial delineation of the challenges and opportunities which the E-science agenda presents archaeologists and the historic environment sector. It proposes areas of specific activity ...

This paper presents a completly automated face recognition system integrating both two dimensional (texture) and three dimensional (shape) features. We introduce a novel fusion strategy that allows to automatically select, for each face, the most relevant features from each modality. The performance is evaluated on the largest public data corpus for face recognition currently available, the Fac...

The hierarchical scoring system of tennis creates points with unequal importance and allows for the possibility of purposefully losing unimportant points. We empirically estimate set-level point importances from eight years of Grand Slam match statistics and use these values to study whether players should take this approach. The data indicates that playing well consistently on all points is a ...

Grand Cru, a candidate cipher algorithm of NESSIE project, is based on the strategy of multiple layered security and derived from AES-128. This algorithm was not selected for second phase evaluation of NESSIE project due to implementation and processing cost. In this paper we present relatively a fast implementation of the cipher using Texas Instrument’s DSP C64x+.

In August of 2007 and December of 2007, North American academic researchers, industry representatives and regulators were invited to meetings in Washington and Minneapolis, respectively, with the goal of forming a Software Certification Consortium (SCC). At the first meeting, objectives were established for the consortium and a certification grand challenge was issued. At the second meeting, al...

In this research paper, we seek to strategize the Russian-Ukrainian War 2022 based on a game theory and hypergame perspective. Setting most optimal strategies described prescribed for each conflicting party is main objective of Mutual-Grand Strategy Modeling. At core, theorizing actual war situation through four waves predicting multiple possibilities explaining grand strategy made by side refl...