Grid-enabling FIRST: Speeding up simulation applications using WinGrid

The vision of grid computing is to make computational power, storage capacity, data and applications available to users as readily as electricity and other utilities. Grid infrastructures and applications have traditionally been geared towards dedicated, centralized, high performance clusters running on UNIX flavour operating systems (commonly referred to as cluster-based grid computing). This can be contrasted with desktop-based grid computing which refers to the aggregation of non-dedicated, de-centralized, commodity PCs connected through a network and running (mostly) the Microsoft Windowstrade operating system. Large scale adoption of such Windowstrade-based grid infrastructure may be facilitated via grid-enabling existing Windows applications. This paper presents the WinGridtrade approach to grid enabling existing Windowstrade based commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) simulation packages (CSPs). Through the use of a case study developed in conjunction with Ford Motor Company, the paper demonstrates how experimentation with the CSP Witnesstrade and FIRST can achieve a linear speedup when WinGridtrade is used to harness idle PC computing resources. This, combined with the lessons learned from the case study, has encouraged us to develop the Web service extensions to WinGridtrade. It is hoped that this would facilitate wider acceptance of WinGridtrade among enterprises having stringent security policies in place

Fifth Research Conference on Norwegian as a Second Language: Abstracts and Program

Norsk: Den femte forskningskonferansen om norsk som andrespråk ble arrangert ved Høgskolen i Hedmark 18.–19. oktober 2012. Dette er sammendrag av innleggene ved konferansen og konferansens program.English: The fifth research conference on Norwegian as a second language was arranged by Hedmark University College October 18th–19th 2012. The abstracts and the program are published here

Conference handbook: 12th International Conference: Association for Language Awareness (ALA) Hamar, Norway, July 1–4, 2014

Norsk: Den tolvte internasjonale forskningskonferansen om språkbevissthet ble arrangert ved Høgskolen i Hedmark 1.-4. juli 2014. Dette er sammendrag av innleggene ved konferansen og konferansens program.English: The 12th international research conference of the Association for Language Awareness (ALA) was arranged by Hedmark University College July 1st–4th, 2014. The abstracts and the program are published here

Coalition Battle Management Language (C-BML) Phase I Standard: Trial Use Findings and Next Steps

Documents include Paper & Presentation.Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO) SIW Conference PaperThe Coalition Battle Management Language (C-BML) is a common language for expressing and exchanging plans, orders, requests, and reports across command and control systems, modeling and simulation systems, and robotic systems. The Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO) has approved a Product Development Group (PDG) to generate a specification and guidelines document for the C-BML standard through a three-phase effort. Phase 1 specifies the underlying data model for the standard and provides preliminary building blocks for generation of C-BML expressions together with numerous examples of application of the standard. Phase 2 will specify a formal grammar governing generation of valid C-BML expressions. Phase 3 will specify a formal semantic model for C-BML. This paper identifies several of the organizations participating in a trial use of draft Phase 1 products, describes their intentions for trial use of the draft products, and provides some initial findings from trial use of the products. Findings from the trial use will inform finalization of the draft Phase 1 specifications in preparation for the start of a comment round on the product.Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited

Den femte forskningskonferansen om norsk som andrespråk: Sammendrag av konferanseinnlegg og program

Norsk: Den femte forskningskonferansen om norsk som andrespråk ble arrangert ved Høgskolen i Hedmark 18.–19. oktober 2012. Dette er sammendrag av innleggene ved konferansen og konferansens program

Conference handbook: 12th International Conference: Association for Language Awareness (ALA) Hamar, Norway, July 1–4, 2014

Norsk: Den tolvte internasjonale forskningskonferansen om språkbevissthet ble arrangert ved Høgskolen i Hedmark 1.-4. juli 2014. Dette er sammendrag av innleggene ved konferansen og konferansens program