On the Quantification of Habitability: Current Approaches -- The Dynamical Systems Approach to Modeling: the Universe as a Case Study.-Enlarging simple ecological models: subspecies, hidden symmetries and their implications -- Multi-agent question-answering system -- Seeding programming -- Schwarzschild Metric Disturbed by the Accelerated Expansion of the Universe -- Potential changes on anammo…
Eogenetic Karst in Florida -- Geological Materials: An Overview -- Geologic Framework of Florida -- Hydrogeology of Florida -- Hydrogeochemistry of Florida -- Controls on Karst Landforms in Florida -- Caves and Sinkholes in Florida -- Epigene and Hypogene Kars -- Index. dfmAfms:LvmS:Lbv,zsd/f.b.This book discusses the geology, hydrogeology, and water quality/geochemistry of karst systems in geo…
Part 1: Water as a Global Risk -- Ch.1 Current and Future Water Availability -- Ch.2 Current and Future Water Scarcity and Stress -- Ch.3 Climate Change: Current Drivers, Observations and Impacts on the Globe’s Natural and Human Systems -- Ch.4 Climate Change and Freshwater Resources: Current Observations, Impacts, Vulnerabilities and Future Risks -- Ch.5 Primary Water Quality Challenges, Con…
Introduction -- Bioavailability of Metals in Sediment -- Solubilization of Metals in Invertebrate Guts -- Surfactants -- Commercial Surfactants for Remediation- Introduction -- Commercial Surfactants for Remediation- Methodology -- Metal Analysis -- Metal Concentration -- Kinetics of Metal Release by Surfactants -- Surfactant Availability of Metals -- Implication of Surfactants in Remediation -…
Mixing Models for Water Quality Management in Rivers: Continuous and Instantaneous Pollutant Releases -- Three-Dimensional Model of Flow and Mixing Processes in Open Channels -- Horizontal Mixing in Shallow Flows -- On the Theoretical Prediction of Longitudinal Dispersion Coefficients in a Compound Channel -- Application of a Transient Storage Model to Meandering Channel Studies of Solute Trans…
TTA Supported Service Availability -- The Value of Conformance Testing and a Look at the SAF Test Project -- Building Highly Available Application Using SA Forum Cluster: A Case Study of GGSN Application -- Using Logical Data Protection and Recovery to Improve Data Availability -- Contract-Based Web Service Composition Framework with Correctness Guarantees -- Practical Approach to Specification…
ISAS 2004 -- Architecture of Highly Available Databases -- Data Persistence in Telecom Switches -- Distributed Redundancy or Cluster Solution? An Experimental Evaluation of Two Approaches for Dependable Mobile Internet Services -- OpenHPI: An Open Source Reference Implementation of the SA Forum Hardware Platform Interface -- Quality of Service Control by Middleware -- Benefit Evaluation of High…
Semantic Web Services -- Automatic Location of Services -- Feta: A Light-Weight Architecture for User Oriented Semantic Service Discovery -- Optimally Distributing Interactions Between Composed Semantic Web Services -- A POP-Based Replanning Agent for Automatic Web Service Composition -- Process-Level Composition of Executable Web Services: ”On-the-fly” Versus ”Once-for-all” Composition…
The Self-Star Vision -- The Self-Star Vision -- Self-organization -- Evolving Fractal Gene Regulatory Networks for Graceful Degradation of Software -- Evolutionary Computing and Autonomic Computing: Shared Problems, Shared Solutions? -- Self-? Topology Control in Wireless Multihop Ad Hoc Communication Networks -- Emergent Consensus in Decentralised Systems Using Collaborative Reinforcement Lear…
Snap-Stabilizing Optimal Binary Search Tree -- Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Unison -- A Snap-Stabilizing DFS with a Lower Space Requirement -- Self-stabilization of Byzantine Protocols -- Self-stabilization with r-Operators Revisited -- Self-stabilization Preserving Compiler -- Self-stabilizing Mobile Node Location Management and Message Routing -- Memory Management for Self-stabilizing Operati…