, then programmers again as the testing tools became programmable. Recent trends have been to increase the number of people who might do programming in the course of their work. Almost all major software applications include scripting or macro languages of some sort, usable to configure and customize the behaviour

is typical of the big data approach, which sifts through large amounts of multivariate data to blindly detect important terms by simple correlation. That method is now the basis of Google Correlate (https://www.google.com/trends/correlate). It can be interesting to experiment with this tool and enjoy

for tools to protect themselves against cyber attacks. System administrators are scrambling to find in-line and off-line solutions for detecting network vulnerabilities, and to understand the behavior of network resource consumers. This paper will provide an introduction to the intricacies of reconciling

and economic systems. For these systems, a truly gargantuan amount of pre-existing precise financial market data 9-11 complemented by new big data ressources 12-15 is available for analyses. The complex mechanisms of financial market moves can lead to sudden trend switches Diversification in stock markets

of knowledge and a book in Her lotus hands. Dedicated to the Lotus Feet of the revered Sadguru. This thesis presents a new active mask (AM) framework and an algorithm for segmenta-tion of digital images, particularly those of punctate patterns from fluorescence microscopy. Fluorescence microscopy has greatly

Abstract—Architecting software systems according to the serviceoriented paradigm, and designing runtime self-adaptable systems are two relevant research areas in today’s software engineering. In this paper we address issues that lie at the intersection of these two important fields. First, we

I declare that this thesis is my own account of my research and contains as its main content work which has not previously been submitted for a degree at any tertiary education institution.

This thesis presents CraneTracker, a multi-modal sensing and communication system for monitoring migratory species at the continental level. By exploiting the robust and extensive cellular infrastructure across the continent, traditional mobile wireless sensor networks can be extended to enable

of communication '' (VanLear & Watt, 1996, p. 3). This research seeks to help correct this situation by introducing and testing a set of dynamic models that provide an integrative conceptual framework of motivational processing and channel choice behavior in the context of television viewing

First, I would like to thank to Dimka Karastoyanova and Mariano Cilia for all the fruitful discussions, their guidance and support through the course of this project. Thanks also to Prof. Alejandro Buchmann who sponsored my stay at Technische Universität Darmstadt during the spring of 2004. The special thanks go to my advisor, Mariano Cilia, who has made all this possible. Finally, I’d like to thank to my family for all these years of support.