Reform of the Global Financial Architecture

This paper examines the implications of the global financialcrisis of 2007-10 for reform of the global financial architecture and identifies institutional and substantive reforms by organizations such as the IMF and Financial Stability Board. The publication was prepared for a conference sponsored by Bruegel and the Peterson Institute for International Economics (8 October 2010), as part of a project sponsored by the European Commission.

Validating the INTERPRETOR Software Architecture for the Interpretation of Large and Noisy Data Sets

In this chapter, the authors validate INTERPRETOR software architecture as a dataflow model of com- putation for filtering, abstracting, and interpreting large and noisy datasets with two detailed empirical studies from the authors’ former research endeavours. Also discussed are five further recent and distinct systems that can be tailored or adapted to use the software architecture. The detailed case studies pre- sented are from two disparate domains that include intensive care unit data and building sensor data. By performing pattern mining on five further systems in the way the authors have suggested herein, they argue that INTERPRETOR software architecture has been validated

Inspicio

“Inspicio” [een-spee-cho] is a Latin word meaning “inspect, examine, review.” Inspicio provides commentary on all arts disciplines with a focus on Miami and South Florida. Inspicio is simultaneously an archive of the history of art in South Florida and a megaphone to the world about the booming current art scene. Inspicio content is prepared by a blend of FIU students, faculty, and outside professionals (like writers for The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal), and is published through multiple channels (website, e-Magazine, social media, e-Blasts) with print publication still being planned. Commentary in the form of video interviews, reviews, constructive criticism, written interviews, video diaries, and profiles is published on the Inspicio website on a continuous basis as soon as the material is ready for publication. The best material is published in an e-Magazine (like The New Yorker format), which is available periodically and can be viewed on tablets and smartphones

The MeshRouter Architecture

The Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) Experimentation Directorate (J9)'s recent Joint Urban Operations (JUO) experiments have demonstrated the viability of Forces Modeling and Simulation in a distributed environment. The JSAF application suite, combined with the RTI-s communications system, provides the ability to run distributed simulations with sites located across the United States, from Norfolk, Virginia to Maui, Hawaii. Interest-aware routers are essential for communications in the large, distributed environments, and the current RTI-s framework provides such routers connected in a straightforward tree topology. This approach is successful for small to medium sized simulations, but faces a number of significant limitations for very large simulations over high-latency, wide area networks. In particular, traffic is forced through a single site, drastically increasing distances messages must travel to sites not near the top of the tree. Aggregate bandwidth is limited to the bandwidth of the site hosting the top router, and failures in the upper levels of the router tree can result in widespread communications losses throughout the system. To resolve these issues, this work extends the RTI-s software router infrastructure to accommodate more sophisticated, general router topologies, including both the existing tree framework and a new generalization of the fully connected mesh topologies used in the SF Express ModSAF simulations of 100K fully interacting vehicles. The new software router objects incorporate the scalable features of the SF Express design, while optionally using low-level RTI-s objects to perform actual site-to-site communications. The (substantial) limitations of the original mesh router formalism have been eliminated, allowing fully dynamic operations. The mesh topology capabilities allow aggregate bandwidth and site-to-site latencies to match actual network performance. The heavy resource load at the root node can now be distributed across routers at the participating sites

Studying the Internet and Architecture

Cyberinformaticians agree that atomic symmetries are an interesting new topic in the field of trainable steganography, and electrical engineers concur. In fact, few statisticians would disagree with the visualization of web browsers, which embodies the essential principles of hardware and architecture. We construct an analysis of forward-error correction, which we call Vers[22]

City Architecture as the Production of Urban Culture: Semiotics Review for Cultural Studies

This article aims to describe correlation between city\u27s architecture as urban culture and cultural studies, specifically in semiotics. This article starts from Chris Barker\u27s statement about city and urban as text in his phenomenal book, Cultural Studies, Theory and Practice. City as a complex subject has been transformed as the representation of urban culture. In the post-modernism view, urban culture as cultural space and cultural studies\u27 sites have significantly pointed to became communications discourse and also part of the identity of Semiology. This article uses semiotics of Saussure for the research methods. Surabaya and Jakarta has been chosen for the objects of this article. The result of this article is describing the significant view of architecture science helps the semiotics in cultural studies. In other way, city\u27s architecture becomes the strong identity of urban culture in Jakarta and Surabaya. Architecture approaches the cultural studies to view urban culture, especially in symbol and identity in the post-modernism era

The Mirror MMDBMS architecture

Handling large collections of digitized multimedia data, usually referred to as multimedia digital libraries, is a major challenge for information technology. The Mirror DBMS is a research database system that is developed to better understand the kind of data management that is required in the context of multimedia digital libraries (see also URL http://www.cs.utwente.nl/~arjen/mmdb.html). Its main features are an integrated approach to both content management and (traditional) structured data management, and the implementation of an extensible object-oriented logical data model on a binary relational physical data model. The focus of this work is aimed at design for scalability