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Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Clouds Over the Twenty-First Century Virtual Observatory
Physical science has changed in the century since Lord Kelvin’s celebrated essay on Nineteenth Century Clouds over the Dynamical Theory of Heat and... -
Statistical Analysis of Observed and Simulated Surveys
The statistical analysis of large astronomical datasets requires also application of powerful fast codes and corresponding basic models. Some... -
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... -
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... -
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)... -
Star-Forming Regions at High Resolution: Interferometry for Virtual Observatories
Star forming regions must be studied in 3-D with resolutions from milli-arcseconds to degrees, to understand the birth of stars and planets and the... -
ASTROVIRTEL: Tools and Operations
ASTROVIRTEL is a project supported by the European Commission and managed by the ST-ECF on behalf of ESA and ESO. It is aimed at enhancing the... -
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... -
Massive Variability Search and Monitoring by OGLE and ASAS
OGLE and ASAS are long term observing projects operated by the Warsaw University Observatory at the Las Campanas site in Chile. OGLE is currently... -
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.... -
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... -
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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Case-based Medical Informatics
The “applied” nature distinguishes applied sciences from theoretical sciences. To emphasize this distinction, we begin with a general, meta-level... -
Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Based on the DNA Microarray Technology
Immense genomic data have been accumulated through various research activities such as the Human Genome Project. A genome is the entire collection of... -
Computerization of Clinical Guidelines: an Application of Medical Document Processing
Clinical Guidelines are being developed as a tool to promote Best Practice in Medicine. They are usually defined as “systematically developed... -
Wearable Devices in Healthcare
The miniaturization of electrical and electronic equipment is certainly not a new phenomenon, and its effects have long been evident in the... -
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...