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e-Star: Telescopes and Databases as a Single Information Grid
We present a sketch of a system which consists of a Grid of databases and telescopes within which intelligent agents assess the information available...
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Inter-Operability of ESA Science Archives
ESA Science Archives for ISO and XMM-Newton have been developed by the Science Operations and Data Systems Division in Villafranca, Spain. By using...
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The Prototype TNG Long-Term Archive and its Interactions with the Italian GRID Project
A pilot project is currently being carried out, aiming at demonstrating the feasibility of technical solutions for the construction of the Long-Term...
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Data Mining Facility
A major goal of the Virtual Observatory is to build tools for exploring and extracting new information from heterogeneous (and possibly very large)...
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The UDAPAC Project - Uccle Direct Astronomical Plate Archive Centre: A New International Facility for Inherited Observations
We discuss a project to create a centralized astronomical direct-plate archive and digitizing facility, with a view to making photographic data fully...
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Aladin in the VO Context
Aladin, the CDS interactive sky atlas is one of the important interoperability tools of the astronomy Web. Several recent improvements prepare it for...
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The Russian Virtual Observatory Portal. Convenience and Attractiveness
Nowadays Web-site designers pay more attention on attractiveness in the presentation and convenient work with offered information for site users....
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The Real Astronomy Experience: Making the IVO Effective for International Planetaria and Science Centers
The Real Astronomy Experience, or RAE, is a new exhibit just beginning development in the late fall of 2002, hopefully to be funded by the US...
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iAstro: Computational and Information Infrastructure in the Astronomical DataGrid
The iAstro network is a European action supported by the COST program, to foster coordination in the domain of computational and information...
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The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey: A VO Test Case?
The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey is an effort to orchestrate limiting observations of a northern (HDF-N) and a southern (CDF-S) field,...
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2. Analysis of Switched and Impulsive Systems
The analysis will focus on the case where the switchings are governed by a finite state machine. This is because the common Lyapunov function method...
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3. Stability of Linear Switched and Impulsive Systems
In the previous chapter, we have set up the basic framework for the stability analysis of switched and impulsive systems. The framework provides the...
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10. Future Research Directions and Potential Applications
Many interesting applications of switched and impulsive systems have been presented in the previous chapters. We shall conclude this book by...
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7. Scheduling of Switched Server Systems
In this chapter, we shall present an interesting and practical application of the stability results obtained in Chapter 2. Specifically, the...
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5. Impulsive Synchronization of Chaotic Systems
In this chapter, less conservative conditions on the stability of impulsive systems are first derived. These results are then used to study the...
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8. Relative Differentiated Quality of Service of the Internet
In this chapter, the feedback cyclic control policy is first extended to the case that the arrival rates are not known in advance. The policy is then...
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6. Chaos Based Secure Communication Systems
In this chapter, the results obtained in the previous chapter will be used to design a chaos based secure communication system. Specifically, these...