735 research outputs found
Multi-domain service orchestration over networks and clouds: a unified approach
End-to-end service delivery often includes transparently inserted Network Functions (NFs) in the path. Flexible service chaining will require dynamic instantiation of both NFs and traffic forwarding overlays. Virtualization techniques in compute and networking, like cloud and Software Defined Networking (SDN), promise such flexibility for service providers. However, patching together existing cloud and network control mechanisms necessarily puts one over the above, e.g., OpenDaylight under an OpenStack controller. We designed and implemented a joint cloud and network resource virtualization and programming API. In this demonstration, we show that our abstraction is capable for flexible service chaining control over any technology domain
Matchings on infinite graphs
Elek and Lippner (2010) showed that the convergence of a sequence of
bounded-degree graphs implies the existence of a limit for the proportion of
vertices covered by a maximum matching. We provide a characterization of the
limiting parameter via a local recursion defined directly on the limit of the
graph sequence. Interestingly, the recursion may admit multiple solutions,
implying non-trivial long-range dependencies between the covered vertices. We
overcome this lack of correlation decay by introducing a perturbative parameter
(temperature), which we let progressively go to zero. This allows us to
uniquely identify the correct solution. In the important case where the graph
limit is a unimodular Galton-Watson tree, the recursion simplifies into a
distributional equation that can be solved explicitly, leading to a new
asymptotic formula that considerably extends the well-known one by Karp and
Sipser for Erd\"os-R\'enyi random graphs.Comment: 23 page
Expansive actions on uniform spaces and surjunctive maps
We present a uniform version of a result of M. Gromov on the surjunctivity of
maps commuting with expansive group actions and discuss several applications.
We prove in particular that for any group and any field \K, the
space of -marked groups such that the group algebra \K[G] is
stably finite is compact.Comment: 21 page
Classification and unscrambling a class-inside-class situation by object target rotation : Hungarian silver coins of the Árpád Dynasty, 997 – 1301 AD
Classification is an important part of chemometrics and mostly based on optimization by
vector rotations. The present study is a continuation of the classification of medieval
Hungarian silver coins including the 16 kings of the Hungarian Árpád Dynasty (997AD –
1301AD) (Rácz et al.: Heritage Science 2013 1:2) The Rácz et al. paper identified three
historical periods of the Árpád Dynasty from chemical data. The aim of the present study is to
test whether the classification could be further refined by marker object projection aided
classification. It offers an example of the efficiency of this method in unscrambling a classinside-
class situation.
The frequency distribution of concentrations of the coins are skewed and to a certain
extent bi- modal, and the arithmetic mean value and standard deviation around the mean
frequently used in parametric methods may be poor descriptors of the information carried by
the data. We test a combination of principal components decomposition and the nonparametric,
non-iterative object target rotation method to overcome some of the theoretical
limitations of parametric methods. This test includes identification of archetypical class
―Ambassadors‖ of each of the three historical periods of the Árpád Dynasty and shows a
class-inside-class situation
Activity of 50 Long-Period Comets Beyond 5.2 AU
Remote investigations of the ancient solar system matter has been
traditionally carried out through the observations of long-period (LP) comets
that are less affected by solar irradiation than the short-period counterparts
orbiting much closer to the Sun. Here we summarize the results of our
decade-long survey of the distant activity of LP comets. We found that the most
important separation in the dataset is based on the dynamical nature of the
objects. Dynamically new comets are characterized by a higher level of activity
on average: the most active new comets in our sample can be characterized by
afrho values >3--4 higher than that of our most active returning comets. New
comets develop more symmetric comae, suggesting a generally isotropic outflow.
Contrary to this, the coma of recurrent comets can be less symmetrical,
ocassionally exhibiting negative slope parameters, suggesting sudden variations
in matter production. The morphological appearance of the observed comets is
rather diverse. A surprisingly large fraction of the comets have long, teniouos
tails, but the presence of impressive tails does not show a clear correlation
with the brightness of the comets.Comment: 21 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in A
Identification of Young Stellar Object candidates in the DR2 x AllWISE catalogue with machine learning methods
The second Data Release (DR2) contains astrometric and photometric
data for more than 1.6 billion objects with mean magnitude 20.7,
including many Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) in different evolutionary stages.
In order to explore the YSO population of the Milky Way, we combined the
DR2 database with WISE and Planck measurements and made an all-sky
probabilistic catalogue of YSOs using machine learning techniques, such as
Support Vector Machines, Random Forests, or Neural Networks. Our input
catalogue contains 103 million objects from the DR2xAllWISE cross-match table.
We classified each object into four main classes: YSOs, extragalactic objects,
main-sequence stars and evolved stars. At a 90% probability threshold we
identified 1,129,295 YSO candidates. To demonstrate the quality and potential
of our YSO catalogue, here we present two applications of it. (1) We explore
the 3D structure of the Orion A star forming complex and show that the spatial
distribution of the YSOs classified by our procedure is in agreement with
recent results from the literature. (2) We use our catalogue to classify
published Science Alerts. As measures the sources at multiple
epochs, it can efficiently discover transient events, including sudden
brightness changes of YSOs caused by dynamic processes of their circumstellar
disk. However, in many cases the physical nature of the published alert sources
are not known. A cross-check with our new catalogue shows that about 30% more
of the published alerts can most likely be attributed to YSO activity.
The catalogue can be also useful to identify YSOs among future alerts.Comment: 19 pages, 12 figures, 3 table
On Turing dynamical systems and the Atiyah problem
Main theorems of the article concern the problem of M. Atiyah on possible
values of l^2-Betti numbers. It is shown that all non-negative real numbers are
l^2-Betti numbers, and that "many" (for example all non-negative algebraic)
real numbers are l^2-Betti numbers of simply connected manifolds with respect
to a free cocompact action. Also an explicit example is constructed which leads
to a simply connected manifold with a transcendental l^2-Betti number with
respect to an action of the threefold direct product of the lamplighter group
Z/2 wr Z. The main new idea is embedding Turing machines into integral group
rings. The main tool developed generalizes known techniques of spectral
computations for certain random walk operators to arbitrary operators in
groupoid rings of discrete measured groupoids.Comment: 35 pages; essentially identical to the published versio
The effect of the A genome species (Triticum monococcum and Triticum boeoticum) on the fecundity and behaviour of Rhopalosiphum padi - bird cherry-oat aphid
Exploring the circumstellar environment of the young eruptive star V2492 Cyg
Context. V2492 Cyg is a young eruptive star that went into outburst in 2010.
The near-infrared color changes observed since the outburst peak suggest that
the source belongs to a newly defined sub-class of young eruptive stars, where
time-dependent accretion and variable line-of-sight extinction play a combined
role in the flux changes.
Aims. In order to learn about the origin of the light variations and to
explore the circumstellar and interstellar environment of V2492 Cyg, we
monitored the source at ten different wavelengths, between 0.55 \mu m and 2.2
\mu m from the ground and between 3.6 \mu m and 160 \mu m from space.
Methods. We analyze the light curves and study the color-color diagrams via
comparison with the standard reddening path. We examine the structure of the
molecular cloud hosting V2492 Cyg by computing temperature and optical depth
maps from the far-infrared data.
Results. We find that the shapes of the light curves at different wavelengths
are strictly self-similar and that the observed variability is related to a
single physical process, most likely variable extinction. We suggest that the
central source is episodically occulted by a dense dust cloud in the inner
disk, and, based on the invariability of the far-infrared fluxes, we propose
that it is a long-lived rather than a transient structure. In some respects,
V2492 Cyg can be regarded as a young, embedded analog of UX Orionis-type stars.
Conclusions. The example of V2492 Cyg demonstrates that the light variations
of young eruptive stars are not exclusively related to changing accretion. The
variability provided information on an azimuthally asymmetric structural
element in the inner disk. Such an asymmetric density distribution in the
terrestrial zone may also have consequences for the initial conditions of
planet formation.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, 2 online tables, accepted for publication in A&
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