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A Break in the Clouds: Towards a Cloud Definition

EvoCOMNET Contributions.- New Research in Nature Inspired Algorithms for Mobility Management in GSM Networks.- Adaptive Local Search for a New Military Frequency Hopping Planning Problem.- SS vs PBIL to Solve a Real-World Frequency Assignment Problem in GSM Networks.- Reconstruction of Networks from Their Betweenness Centrality.- A Self-learning Optimization Technique for Topology Design of Computer Networks.- A Comparative Study of Fuzzy Inference Systems, Neural Networks and Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference Systems for Portscan Detection.- EvoFIN Contributions.- Evolutionary Single-Position Automated Trading.- Genetic Programming in Statistical Arbitrage.- Evolutionary System for Generating Investment Strategies.- Horizontal Generalization Properties of Fuzzy Rule-Based Trading Models.- Particle Swarm Optimization for Tackling Continuous Review Inventory Models.- Option Model Calibration Using a Bacterial Foraging Optimization Algorithm.- A SOM and GP Tool for Reducing the Dimensionality of a Financial Distress Prediction Problem.- Quantum-Inspired Evolutionary Algorithms for Financial Data Analysis.- EvoHOT Contributions.- Analysis of Reconfigurable Logic Blocks for Evolvable Digital Architectures.- Analogue Circuit Control through Gene Expression.- Discovering Several Robot Behaviors through Speciation.- Architecture Performance Prediction Using Evolutionary Artificial Neural Networks.- Evolving a Vision-Driven Robot Controller for Real-World Indoor Navigation.- Evolving an Automatic Defect Classification Tool.- Deterministic Test Pattern Generator Design.- An Evolutionary Methodology for Test Generation for Peripheral Cores Via Dynamic FSM Extraction.- Exploiting MOEA to Automatically Geneate Test Programs for Path-Delay Faults in Microprocessors.- EvoIASP Contributions.- Evolutionary Object Detection by Means of Naive Bayes Models Estimation.- An Evolutionary Framework for Colorimetric Characterization of Scanners.- Artificial Creatures for Object Tracking and Segmentation.- Automatic Recognition of Hand Gestures with Differential Evolution.- Optimizing Computed Tomographic Angiography Image Segmentation Using Fitness Based Partitioning.- A GA-Based Feature Selection Algorithm for Remote Sensing Images.- An Evolutionary Approach for Ontology Driven Image Interpretation.- Hybrid Genetic Algorithm Based on Gene Fragment Competition for Polyphonic Music Transcription.- Classification of Seafloor Habitats Using Genetic Programming.- Selecting Local Region Descriptors with a Genetic Algorithm for Real-World Place Recognition.- Object Detection Using Neural Networks and Genetic Programming.- Direct 3D Metric Reconstruction from Multiple Views Using Differential Evolution.- Discrete Tomography Reconstruction through a New Memetic Algorithm.- A Fuzzy Hybrid Method for Image Decomposition Problem.- Triangulation Using Differential Evolution.- Fast Multi-template Matching Using a Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for PCB Inspection.- EvoMUSART Contributions.- A Generative Representation for the Evolution of Jazz Solos.- Automatic Invention of Fitness Functions with Application to Scene Generation.- Manipulating Artificial Ecosystems.- Evolved Diffusion Limited Aggregation Compositions.- Scaffolding for Interactively Evolving Novel Drum Tracks for Existing Songs.- AtomSwarm: A Framework for Swarm Improvisation.- Using DNA to Generate 3D Organic Art Forms.- Towards Music Fitness Evaluation with the Hierarchical SOM.- Evolutionary Pointillist Modules: Evolving Assemblages of 3D Objects.- An Artificial-Chemistry Approach to Generating Polyphonic Musical Phrases.- Implicit Fitness Functions for Evolving a Drawing Robot.- Free Flight in Parameter Space: A Dynamic Mapping Strategy for Expressive Free Impro.- Modelling Video Games' Landscapes by Means of Genetic Terrain Programming - A New Approach for Improving Users' Experience.- Virtual Constructive Swarm Compositions and Inspirations.- New-Generation Methods in an Interpolating EC Synthesizer Interface.- Composing Music with Neural Networks and Probabilistic Finite-State Machines.- TransFormer #13: Exploration and Adaptation of Evolution Expressed in a Dynamic Sculpture.- EvoNUM Contributions.- Multiobjective Tuning of Robust PID Controllers Using Evolutionary Algorithms.- Truncation Selection and Gaussian EDA: Bounds for Sustainable Progress in High-Dimensional Spaces.- Scalable Continuous Multiobjective Optimization with a Neural Network-Based Estimation of Distribution Algorithm.- Cumulative Step Length Adaptation for Evolution Strategies Using Negative Recombination Weights.- Computing Surrogate Constraints for Multidimensional Knapsack Problems Using Evolution Strategies.- A Critical Assessment of Some Variants of Particle Swarm Optimization.- An Evolutionary Game-Theoretical Approach to Particle Swarm Optimisation.- A Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Function Optimization.- EvoSTOC Contributions.- Memory Based on Abstraction for Dynamic Fitness Functions.- A Memory Enhanced Evolutionary Algorithm for Dynamic Scheduling Problems.- Compound Particle Swarm Optimization in Dynamic Environments.- An Evolutionary Algorithm for Adaptive Online Services in Dynamic Environment.- EvoTHEORY Contributions.- A Study of Some Implications of the No Free Lunch Theorem.- Negative Slope Coefficient and the Difficulty of Random 3-SAT Instances.- EvoTRANSLOG Contributions.- A Memetic Algorithm for the Team Orienteering Problem.- Decentralized Evolutionary Optimization Approach to the p-Median Problem.- Genetic Computation of Road Network Design and Pricing Stackelberg Games with Multi-class Users.- Constrained Local Search Method for Bus Fleet Scheduling Problem with Multi-depot with Line Change.- Evolutionary System with Precedence Constraints for Ore Harbor Schedule Optimization.

Applications of evolutionary computing: EvoWorkshops 2008: EvoCOMNET, EvoFIN, EvoHOT, EvoIASP, EvoMUSART, EvoNUM, EvoSTOC, and EvoTransLog, Naples, Italy, March 26-28, 2008. Proceedings.

Microsoft has promoted ASP.NET’s new web services more than almost any other part of the.NET Framework. But despite their efforts, confusion is still widespread about what a web service is and, more importantly, what it’s meant to accomplish. This chapter introduces web services and explains their role in Microsoft’s vision of the programmable web. Along the way, you’ll learn about the open standards plumbing that allows web services to work and removes some of the confusion surrounding technical terms like WSDL (Web Service Description Language), SOAP, and UDDI (universal description, discovery, and integration).

Web Services Architecture

The VLDB journal : the international journal on very large data bases.

In this special issue is to indicate foresight, innovation, and strategy for the future direction of e-learning, more than web-oriented teaching and multipoint videoconferencing, for collaborative, distributed, experiential learning and creation of new knowledge, with youngsters around the world, which hence promote mutual understanding for global peace. Emphasis will be on knowledgeable and inspiring papers (but not limited) on the use of GRID networking technology with distributed computer simulation for experiential (hands-on) learning through broadband Internet, across national, continental and oceanic boundaries. Subjects are in any fields of e-learning and e-healthcare/telemedicine, in research, case studies, project descriptions, implementation, reports from the field or book review. Preparing this special issue with Dr. Salmon, took 6 months, from the beginning to the arrival period to the on your screen. This period was shorter than the first special issue publishing in 2004. Of course this success belongs to this issue's guest editor who I will explain a bit details him belove and what did he do during in his period. During this process, Dr. Salmon served very healthy communication between the authors. In addition, she spared his valuable time, beside his other academic activities and responsibilities in the name of her university, her lectures, and researches, duties for distance education field and for TOJDE as well. Each article in this issue has therefore been read carefully by Gilly; me and Dr. Gokdag. This process has maximized the quality and rigour of the published articles. In addition to the articles, " notes for editor " books review and news, sections are still keeping in this issue too. "Anadolu University's Articles" and "TOJDE's links are getting more" columns are still keeping in this issue too. I would like to express my sincere thanks especially to Dr. Salmon in the name of my University and also for TOJDE she was the leader of the guest editorial team in this special issue. She will give detail info about structure of the articles in her " From Guest Editors " article. I strongly believe that experience gained on this third special issue would encourage us and other interested colleagues in the field in the near future. Below you will find short biodata about guest editors. He interested in heavily with the applications of distance education in Turkey, profile of the distance education students and graduates, additionally relationships of the distance education graduates and market. And last but not …

Encyclopedia of Distance Learning

The need for interoperability is prominent in the industrial enterprise environment. Different applications and systems that cover the overall range of the industrial infrastructure from the field to the enterprise level need to interoperate. This quest is driven by the enterprise need for greater flexibility and for the wider possible integration of the enterprise systems. This paper presents a distributed system architecture that utilizes dominant state-of-the-art standard technologies, such as workflows, ontologies, and web services, in order to address the above quest in an efficient way.

Vertical integration of enterprise industrial systems utilizing web services

Over the past century technology has played a decisive role in defining, driving, and reinventing procedures, devices, and pharmaceuticals in healthcare. Cloud computing has been introduced only recently but is already one of the major topics of discussion in research and clinical settings. The provision of extensive, easily accessible, and reconfigurable resources such as virtual systems, platforms, and applications with low service cost has caught the attention of many researchers and clinicians. Healthcare researchers are moving their efforts to the cloud, because they need adequate resources to process, store, exchange, and use large quantities of medical data. This Vision 20/20 paper addresses major questions related to the applicability of advanced cloud computing in medical imaging. The paper also considers security and ethical issues that accompany cloud computing.

Cloud computing in medical imaging.

The need for interoperability is prominent in the industrial enterprise environment. Different applications and systems that cover the overall range of the industrial infrastructure from the field to the enterprise level need to interoperate. This quest is driven by the enterprise need for greater flexibility and for the wider possible integration of the enterprise systems. The current paper presents an architecture that utilizes three predominant state-of-the-art technologies, namely workflows, ontologies and Web services in order to address the above quest in an efficient way.

Vertical integration of enterprise industrial systems utilizing Web services

The need for managing distributed systems is prominent in e-government. Different applications and platforms that cover the overall range of the e-government implementation area need to interoperate in order to provide integrated governmental services to the citizens. This paper proposes an ontologically principled service-oriented architecture for the administration and integration of distributed nodes in an e-government network. The goal of the proposed design is to improve effectiveness and coherence by taking advantage of the enabling technologies of service-oriented computing, web services and ontologies. A two-level semantic mediator model is proposed to both provide an integrated description of entities and map actual information to them. This architecture was used on a prototype system developed for managing distributed educational directorates in the prefecture of Achaia, Greece. The pilot use of the system led to efficient decision making since it managed to mine information that was previously 'buried' in the local governmental infrastructure nodes.

An ontologically principled service-oriented architecture for managing distributed e-government nodes

Manufacturing systems are getting more and more distributed, mainly because of the growing interconnection through networks of machines, manufacturing lines, cells, plants or enterprises. Agent technology has proven to be a solution to manage distributed systems, reinforcing the importance of information and communication, and focusing attention on the interoperability between the different parts. In this paper, the interoperability of a distributed manufacturing system is addressed, in an application employing software agents faced to heterogeneous resources. The approach consists to unify all the data exchanged by the agents in a common framework, and follows first the design of all the information in a meta model, then the construction of an ontology, and finally the specification of a common description language.

Christos Alexakos

Papers

Vertical integration of enterprise industrial systems utilizing web services

Cloud computing in medical imaging.

Vertical integration of enterprise industrial systems utilizing Web services

An ontologically principled service-oriented architecture for managing distributed e-government nodes

An ontology-based interoperability framework for distributed manufacturing control