Over the last several years, there has been an emerging interest in the development of widearea data collection and analysis centers to help identify, track, and formulate respons...
: Bremen, Federal State of Germany, is planning to set up a headquarter for GMES - Global Monitoring of Environment and Security. One goal of the Institute of Shipping Economics an...
The Grid vision is to allow heterogeneous computational resources to be shared and utilised globally. Grid users are able to submit tasks to remote resources for execution. Howeve...
: Web Services enable the creation of complex business activities through the cooperation of independently developed software programs. However, Web Services incur the risk of long...
We extend the well-known BFGS quasi-Newton method and its memory-limited variant LBFGS to the optimization of nonsmooth convex objectives. This is done in a rigorous fashion by ge...