Abstract: The dramatic increases in demands from multimedia applications have put an enormous strain on the current cellular system infrastructure.

Abstract: Testing and debugging scientific applications is a difficult task, in particular for large-scale parallel programs and floating-point programs.

Abstract: In the orienteering problem, we are given a metric space (the distances are supposed to represent travel times between the locations), a start vertex ("home") and a deadline B, and want to visit as many points as possible using a tour of

Abstract: Determinantal point processes form an important class of point processes with negative correlations ("repulsion"). We give an overview starting from definitions.