ERCIM News current issue http://ercim-news.ercim.org Sun, 11 May 2008 23:33:37 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://ercim-news.ercim.org ERCIM News current issue http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/385/582/ Mathematics Everywhere The developed world is full of modern technology that we take for granted. Mobile phones, internet, credit cards and CD... ERCIM News 73 - Keynote Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:31:44 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/386/586/ Maths for Everyday Life by Jouko Väänänen and Ulrich Trottenberg Mathematics saturates everyday life more and more. It is used not only in... ERCIM News 73 - Special Theme Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:53:18 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/375/570/ Inverse Problems: Making the Unseen Visible with Mathematics by Mikko Kaasalainen and Lassi Päivärinta Mathematical analysis can make visible the insides of... ERCIM News 73 - Special Theme Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:19:23 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/374/569/ A Needle in the Brain by Albert Ali Salah A surgeon about to operate on a small region within the brain has a... ERCIM News 73 - Special Theme Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:15:45 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/373/568/ Mathematical Tools for Securing a Telemedicine Platform: Monitoring, Communication and Storage by Thierry Simonnet Hidden Markov Models, Bayesian statistics, cryptography, relational algebra, signal... ERCIM News 73 - Special Theme Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:58:08 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/372/566/ The Analysis of Dynamical Diseases by Optimal Transportation Distances by Michael Muskulus and Sjoerd Verduyn-Lunel Diseases influence the dynamics of normal physiological processes,... ERCIM News 73 - Special Theme Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:54:36 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/371/567/ Evolutionary Suicide by Mats Gyllenberg The accelerating speed at which species are becoming extinct is of major and worldwide... ERCIM News 73 - Special Theme Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:49:53 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/370/565/ Functional Analysis and Image Processing by Mario Arioli and Daniel Loghin Image processing is ubiquitous in modern life. Digital cameras on cellular phones... ERCIM News 73 - Special Theme Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:38:07 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/369/564/ JPEG 2000 - Bringing Flexibility to Digital Cinema by Pascal Pellegrin, François-Olivier Devaux and Pedro Correa After a long birth we can now... ERCIM News 73 - Special Theme Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:22:20 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/367/562/ Mathematics Makes Waves by Argiris I. Delis, Serafim Poulos, Nikolaos A. Kampanis and Costantin E. Synolakis Waves represent a driving force affecting coastal... ERCIM News 73 - Special Theme Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:52:15 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/368/563/ WAGRIT: A Web-based Application for Agricultural and Environmental Monitoring by Umberto Amato, Maria Francesca Carfora and Paolo Colandrea Recent results from the WAGRIT... ERCIM News 73 - Special Theme Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:57:54 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/366/561/ Maths in Flood Protection by Jörg-Volker Peetz, Barbara Steckel and Norman Ettrich The 2002 flooding of the Elbe River in Dresden, Germany, showed... ERCIM News 73 - Special Theme Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:50:02 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/365/560/ Clouds by Chance: Improving Atmosphere Models with Random Numbers by Daan Crommelin The performance of numerical models that simulate atmosphere and oceans is... ERCIM News 73 - Special Theme Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:42:37 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/364/559/ Maths Improves Quality of Life: An Early-Warning System for Environmental Effects on Public Health by Panagiotis T. Nastos, Nikolaos A. Kampanis, George Kochiadakis, Panagiotis... ERCIM News 73 - Special Theme Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:02:54 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/363/558/ Computational Methods for More Fuel-Efficient Ships by Barry Koren The flow of water around a ship powered by a combustion engine is a... ERCIM News 73 - Special Theme Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:56:05 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/362/557/ Challenges for Societal Logistics by Rob van der Mei Over the past few decades, information and communication technology has affected everyday life and... ERCIM News 73 - Special Theme Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:53:21 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/361/556/ Interactive Optimization with DesParO by Daniela Steffes-lai, Clemens-August Thole, Igor Nikitin and Lialia Nikitina Product optimization is an important step in the process... ERCIM News 73 - Special Theme Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:47:30 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/360/555/ Who Rated What? A Recommender System Benchmark Winner Report by András A. Benczúr and Miklós Kurucz Recommender systems suggest products, movies, books or... ERCIM News 73 - Special Theme Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:32:17 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/359/554/ Trading Sugar Beet Quotas - Secure Multiparty Computation in Practice by Ivan Damgĺrd and Tomas Toft Information is a valuable resource in modern... ERCIM News 73 - Special Theme Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:10:54 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/358/553/ Mathematics and Social Science: A Statistical Mechanics Approach to Immigration by Pierluigi Contucci and Cristian Giardina Is modern science able to study social... ERCIM News 73 - Special Theme Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:06:30 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/357/552/ The Future of Mathematics Education in Europe by Olga Caprotti and Mika Seppälä The level of education of their workforces determines the success... ERCIM News 73 - Special Theme Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:58:24 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/356/551/ Mathematics is Accessible! by Juha Oikkonen All mathematicians know that mathematics is accessible – for themselves. But how about other people? ERCIM News 73 - Special Theme Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:55:10 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/379/574/ Towards a Cooperation with the European Mathematical Societey by Keith Jeffery With the jointly edited special theme of this issue on 'Mathematics for... ERCIM News 73 - Joint ERCIM Actions Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:45:55 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/377/576/ Facilitating and Fostering ICT Cooperation between Europe and India ERCIM is participating in the 'Euro-India ICT Cooperation Initiative' (EuroIndia), a European project addressing strategic... ERCIM News 73 - Joint ERCIM Actions Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:36:05 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/378/573/ Evol@Mons 2008 - Doctoral Research Seminar on Software Evolution by Tom Mens and Lionel Seinturier In February and March 2008, two ERCIM member... ERCIM News 73 - Joint ERCIM Actions Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:41:44 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/376/572/ IM2IM Working Group Workshop on Modelling and Simulations in Health by Marc Thiriet The annual workshop of the ERCIM Working... ERCIM News 73 - Joint ERCIM Actions Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:26:04 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/355/550/ The Continuum Hypothesis: A Mystery of Mathematics? by Matteo Viale The continuum is arguably the most fundamental object in all of mathematics. It... ERCIM News 73 - Special Theme Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:52:10 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/351/546/ An Agent Based Approach to Modelling Microbial Ecosystems by James T. Murphy, Ray Walshe and Marc Devocelle A parallel agent-based model of... ERCIM News 73 - R&D and Technology Transfer Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:41:30 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/353/548/ Novel Database for Genetic and Epigenetic Mechanisms in Colon Cancer by Heather Ruskin, Ana Barat and Ludmila Sarbu In research on cancer development,... ERCIM News 73 - R&D and Technology Transfer Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:37:16 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/350/545/ MeshLab: an Open-Source 3D Mesh Processing System by Paolo Cignoni, Massimiliano Corsini and Guido Ranzuglia MeshLab is a free and open-source general-purpose mesh... ERCIM News 73 - R&D and Technology Transfer Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:50:48 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/354/549/ Assisting the Design of an Industrial Groupware System by Model Checking by Maurice ter Beek, Stefania Gnesi, Diego Latella, Mieke Massink, Maurizio Sebastianis and... ERCIM News 73 - R&D and Technology Transfer Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:26:31 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/387/588/ Web Services for Accessing Explicit State Space Verification Tools by María del Mar Gallardo, Christophe Joubert, Pedro Merino and David Sanán... ERCIM News 73 - R&D and Technology Transfer Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:56:25 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/346/539/ Plug and Play with FMICS-jETI: Beyond Scripting and Coding by Christian Kubczak, Tiziana Margaria, Ralf Nagel and Bernhard Steffen The aim of new... ERCIM News 73 - R&D and Technology Transfer Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:03:08 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/345/538/ A Banking Server’s Display on your Key Chain by Michael Baentsch, Peter Buhler, Reto Hermann, Frank Höring, Thorsten Kramp and... ERCIM News 73 - R&D and Technology Transfer Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:56:46 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/347/540/ Towards the Creation of a Robust Search Index for Digitalized Documents by László Kovács, Máté Pataki, Tamás Füzessy and Zoltán Tóth The simultaneous... ERCIM News 73 - R&D and Technology Transfer Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:15:19 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/352/547/ Enhanced, Ubiquitous and Dependable Broadband Access using MESH Networks by Vasilios Siris, Ioannis G. Askoxylakis, Marco Conti and Raffaele Bruno The reduction of... ERCIM News 73 - R&D and Technology Transfer Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:16:32 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/388/589/ Real-time Tracking of Sound Parameters in a Multimedia System by Graziano Bertini, Gianfranco Lucia, Simone Lunardi and Massimo Magrini Modern multimedia performances and... ERCIM News 73 - R&D and Technology Transfer Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:01:04 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/348/541/ Establishing the First European Research WiMAX Testbeds by Kostas Pentikousis, Marilia Curado, Pedro Miguel Neves and Marcos Katz The WEIRD (WiMAX... ERCIM News 73 - R&D and Technology Transfer Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:54:07 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/349/544/ Car-Recycling SME Network with Agent-Based Solutions by György Kovács and Géza Haidegger Given that they are crucial in achieving global sustainable development through... ERCIM News 73 - R&D and Technology Transfer Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:52:02 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/389/590/ Bridging the Gap between Distributed and Multi-Core Computing, and SOA and Grid Computing by Géraldine Cabannes ActiveEon is a spin-off company from INRIA... ERCIM News 73 - R&D and Technology Transfer Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:12:06 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/381/578/ EPOCH Final Event by Franco Niccolucci The final event of the EPOCH European Network of Excellence in Open Cultural Heritage, held in Rome,... ERCIM News 73 - Events Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:56:26 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/380/577/ Sponsored by ERCIM SOFSEM 2008 - 34th International Conference on Current Trends and in Theory and Practice of Computer Science by Viliam... ERCIM News 73 - Events Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:52:11 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/382/579/ Scientific Collaboration between CWI and INRIA CWI and INRIA already have well-established relations, notably through ERCIM. In October 2007 associations were strengthened when... ERCIM News 73 - In Brief Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:05:16 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/383/580/ Adam Dunkels receives Chester Carlson Prize Dr. Adam Dunkels, senior scientist at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, has been awarded the 2007... ERCIM News 73 - In Brief Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:12:06 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/384/581/ Günter Ziegler wins the Communicator Prize 2008 Günter Ziegler from TU Berlin received the € 50.000 award of the Donors' Association for the Promotion of Sciences... ERCIM News 73 - In Brief Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:17:02 +0100 http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/344/537/ RubberEdge: Improved Interaction with Mobile Devices via Elastic-Edged Touchpads by Géry Casiez and Daniel Vogel By adding an elastic input area... ERCIM News 73 - R&D and Technology Transfer Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:52:59 +0100