ERCIM News, Volume 2008, 2008
Number 72, January 2008

Boris Motik: KAON2 - Scalable Reasoning over Ontologies with Large Data Sets.
Lars Bröcker: The WIKINGER Project - Knowledge-Capturing Tools for Domain Experts.
Peter Haase, Enrico Motta, Rudi Studer: Infrastructure for Semantic Applications - NeOn Toolkit Goes Open Source.
Ben Adida: Bridging the Clickable and Semantic Webs with RDFa.
Pablo César, Dick C. A. Bulterman, Jack Jansen: A Framework for Video Interaction with Web Browsers.
Raphaël Troncy: Creating, Organising and Publishing Media on the Web.
David Lewis, Kevin Feeney: Empowering Online Communities to Manage Change - How to Build Viable Organisations Online.
Pirjo Näkki: Owela: Open Web Laboratory for Innovation and Design.


Alexandre Bergel, Stéphane Ducasse, Lukas Renggli: Seaside - Advanced Composition and Control Flow for Dynamic Web Applications.
Constantina Doulgeraki, Alexandros Mourouzis, Constantine Stephanidis: EAGER: A Novel Development Toolkit for Universally Accessible Web-Based User Interfaces.
Adrian Stanciulescu, Jean Vanderdonckt, Benoit M. Macq: Paving the Way of Designers - Towards the Development of Multimodal Web User Interfaces.
Lora Aroyo: Distributed Personalization: Bridging Digital Islands in Museum and Interactive TV.
Dimitrios Skoutas, Alkis Simitsis, Timos K. Sellis: Discovery and Selection of Services on the Semantic Web.
Walter Binder, Ion Constantinescu, Boi Faltings, Radu Jurca: Automating the Creation of Compound Web Applications.

Pablo Giambiagi, Olaf Owe, Anders P. Ravn, Gerardo Schneider: Contract-Oriented Software Development for Internet Services.
Leonardo Candela, Donatella Castelli, Pasquale Pagano: gCube: A Service-Oriented Application Framework on the Grid.
Raymond Bisdorff, Patrick Meyer: The Decision-Deck Project - Developing a Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis Software Platform.
Pär Hansson, Olov Ståhl: Mobile-Based Wireless Sensor-Actuator Distributed Platform in Pervasive Gaming.
Vittorio Miori, Dario Russo, Massimo Aliberti: An Informatics Research Contribution to the Domotic Take-Off.
Lea Landucci, Stefano Baraldi, Nicola Torpei: Natural Interaction - A Remedy for the Technology Paradox.
Number 73, April 2008


Albert Ali Salah: A Needle in the Brain.
Thierry Simonnet: Mathematical Tools for Securing a Telemedicine Platform: Monitoring, Communication and Storage.
Michael Muskulus, Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel: The Analysis of Dynamical Diseases by Optimal Transportation Distances.
Mats Gyllenberg: Evolutionary Suicide.
Pascal Pellegrin, François-Olivier Devaux, Pedro Correa: JPEG 2000 - Bringing Flexibility to Digital Cinema.
Umberto Amato, Maria Francesca Carfora, Paolo Colandrea: WAGRIT: A Web-based Application for Agricultural and Environmental Monitoring.
Argiris I. Delis, Serafim Poulos, Nikolaos A. Kampanis, Costantin E. Synolakis: Mathematics Makes Waves.
Daan Crommelin: Clouds by Chance: Improving Atmosphere Models with Random Numbers.
Panagiotis T. Nastos, Nikolaos A. Kampanis, George Kochiadakis, Panagiotis Vardas, Kostas I. Strataridakis: Maths Improves Quality of Life: An Early-Warning System for Environmental Effects on Public Health.
Barry Koren: Computational Methods for More Fuel-Efficient Ships.
Rob van der Mei: Challenges for Societal Logistics.
Daniela Steffes-lai, Clemens-August Thole, Igor N. Nikitin, Lialia Nikitina: Interactive Optimization with DesParO.

Pierluigi Contucci, Cristian Giardina: Mathematics and Social Science: A Statistical Mechanics Approach to Immigration.
Juha Oikkonen: Mathematics is Accessible!
Matteo Viale: The Continuum Hypothesis: A Mystery of Mathematics?
Géraldine Cabannes: Bridging the Gap between Distributed and Multi-Core Computing, and SOA and Grid Computing.
Graziano Bertini, Gianfranco Lucia, Simone Lunardi, Massimo Magrini: Real-time Tracking of Sound Parameters in a Multimedia System.
María-del-Mar Gallardo, Christophe Joubert, Pedro Merino, David Sanán: Web Services for Accessing Explicit State Space Verification Tools.
Maurice H. ter Beek, Stefania Gnesi, Diego Latella, Mieke Massink, Maurizio Sebastianis, Gianluca Trentanni: Assisting the Design of an Industrial Groupware System by Model Checking.
Heather J. Ruskin, Ana Barat, Ludmila Sarbu: Novel Database for Genetic and Epigenetic Mechanisms in Colon Cancer.
Vasilios A. Siris, Ioannis G. Askoxylakis, Marco Conti, Raffaele Bruno: Enhanced, Ubiquitous and Dependable Broadband Access using MESH Networks.
James T. Murphy, Ray Walshe, Marc Devocelle: An Agent Based Approach to Modelling Microbial Ecosystems.
Paolo Cignoni, Massimiliano Corsini, Guido Ranzuglia: MeshLab: an Open-Source 3D Mesh Processing System.
Kostas Pentikousis, Marilia Curado, Pedro Neves, Marcos D. Katz: Establishing the First European Research WiMAX Testbeds.
László Kovács, Máté Pataki, Tamás Füzessy, Zoltán Tóth: Towards the Creation of a Robust Search Index for Digitalized Documents.
Christian Kubczak, Tiziana Margaria, Ralf Nagel, Bernhard Steffen: Plug and Play with FMICS-jETI: Beyond Scripting and Coding.
Michael Baentsch, Peter Buhler, Reto Hermann, Frank Höring, Thorsten Kramp, Thomas Weigold: A Banking Server's Display on your Key Chain.
Géry Casiez, Daniel Vogel: RubberEdge: Improved Interaction with Mobile Devices via Elastic-Edged Touchpads.
Number 74, July 2008

Martin Landrø: Quantitative Seismic Monitoring Methods.
Klaus Johannsen, Andreas Kopp, Olli Tourunen, Josva Kleist: Studying CO2 Sequestration with the Power of Supercomputing.
Ray Mc Grath: Supercomputing: Weathering a Changing Environment.
Richard O. Sinnott, Campbell Millar, Asen Asenov: Supercomputing at Work in the nanoCMOS Electronics Domain.
Domenico Laforenza, Franco Maria Nardini, Fabrizio Silvestri, Gabriele Tolomei: SPRANKER: A Discovery Tool to Rank Service Providers Using Quality of Experience.
Juan Antonio Ortega, Jorge Cantón, Ana Silva, David Bosque, Francisco Velasco: Managing of Cluster Resources and Services through the Web.
Zoltán Nagy, László Kék, Zoltán Kincses, András Kiss, Péter Szolgay: Exploitation of Cell Multi-Processor Array in Solution of Spatio-Temporal Dynamics.
Olaf Schenk, Helmar Burkhart, Hema Reddy: Towards Personalized Medicine: High-Performance Computing in the Life Sciences.
Jesus Luna, Manolis Marazakis, Marios D. Dikaiakos: Using Desktop Grids to Securely Store e-Health Data.

James T. Murphy, Ray Walshe, Marc Devocelle: High-Performance Computing for Modelling Bacterial Communities.
Richard Blake: Harnessing the Power of Supercomputing.
Petros Koumoutsakos: Fluids and Supercomputers: The Billion Particle Era.
Sándor Kocsárdi, Zoltán Nagy, Árpád Csík, Péter Szolgay: Supersonic Flow Simulation on Emulated Digital Cellular Neural Networks.
Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos: Set-Top Supercomputing: Scalable Software for Scientific Simulations on GameConsoles.
Kashif Din: Enhancing Traffic Safety by Integrating Real-Time Infrastructure and Vehicle Data in a Cooperative System.
Francesco Furfari, Mohammad-Reza Tazari: Realizing Ambient Assisted Living Spaces with the PERSONA Platform.
Harry Rudin: Medical Record Keeping Made Visually Accessible.
Jacek Miekisz: Games on Networks.

Alexander Romanovsky: DEPLOY: Industrial Deployment of Advanced System Engineering Methods for High Productivity..
Number 75, October 2008

Gerard J. Holzmann: Software Safety and Rocket Science.
Darren D. Cofer, Michael W. Whalen, Steven P. Miller: Model-Checking of Safety-Critical Software for Avionics.
Sven Söhnlein, Francesca Saglietti: Software Reliability Assessment by Statistical Analysis of Operational Experience.

Brian Nielsen: Quasimodo.
Christophe Ponsard, Philippe Massonet, Gautier Dallons: From Rigorous Requirements Engineering to Formal System Design.
Chris W. Johnson: Modelling the Role of Software in the Propagation of Failures across Infrastructures.
Wolfgang Herzner, Martin Schlager, György Csertán, Bernhard Huber, Thierry Le Sergent, Erwin Schoitsch, Rupert Schlick: Model-Based Development of Distributed Embedded Real-Time Systems.
Francesco Flammini, Nicola Mazzocca, Valeria Vittorini: New Paradigms and Tools for High-Assurance Systems Modelling.
Bernard Berthomieu, Hubert Garavel, Frédéric Lang, François Vernadat: Verifying Dynamic Properties of Industrial Critical Systems Using TOPCASED/FIACRE.
Jeanine Souquières: A Component-Based Approach for the Verification of Safety-Critical Software.
Martin Leucker: Checking and Enforcing Safety: Runtime Verification and Runtime Reflection.

Raimund Kirner, Susanne Kandl: Test Coverage Analysis and Preservation for Requirements-Based Testing.
Wolfgang Herzner, Rupert Schlick, Manfred Gruber: A Step towards Generating Efficient Test Cases - the Project MOGENTES.
Nicolas Guelfi, Benoît Ries: SESAME: A Model-Driven Test Selection Process for Safety-Critical Embedded Systems.

Fabio Martinelli, Fabio Massacci, Paolo Mori, Christian Schaefer, Thomas Walter: Enhancing Java ME Security Support with Resource Usage Monitoring.
Andreas Gerstinger, Heinz Kantz, Christoph Scherrer: TAS Control Platform: A Platform for Safety-Critical Railway Applications.
Alessandro Fantechi, Stefania Gnesi, Giovanni Lombardi: Experimenting with Diversity in the Formal Development of Railway Signalling Systems.
Antonio Bucchiarone, Stefania Gnesi, Gianluca Trentanni, Alessandro Fantechi: Evaluation of Natural Language Requirements in the MODCONTROL Project.

Catherine E. Chronaki: Epidemic Intelligence: Satellite-Enabled Applications for Health Early Warning Systems.
Yvonne Havertz: Novel Drug Discovery with SIMDAT Grid Technology.



