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Pathway Assistant: A Web Portal for Metabolic Modelling

This paper describes a web portal, Pathway Assistant, which provides computational tools for metabolic modelling tasks. The paper has designed the portal to meet two needs commonly encountered in metabolic modelling: the rapid distribution of newly developed methods to end-users and support for multiple related modelling workflows that utilise different...

Tags: University Of Helsinki, Web Portal, Portals, Web Technology, AJAX, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0

White papers 2008-01-01

Using Nagios to Monitor Faults in a Self-Healing Environment

The concepts of detecting and monitoring faults in a self-healing environment are examined. The Nagios faultdetection system is evaluated and its self-healing capabilities researched. This paper outlines possibilities of interconnecting Nagios with other applications in order to further facilitate and automate recovery after service failures. This paper examines how the...

Tags: Monitor, Monitoring, University Of Helsinki, Nagios Faultdetection System

White papers 2007-05-14

OPAS: An Ontology-Based Library Help Desk Service

This paper argues that ontological knowledge technologies can be utilized in authoring question-answer services. To ease the content indexer's work, the paper proposes a system that provides semi-automatic semantic indexing for annotating question-answer pairs, case-based reasoning techniques for finding similar questions and integration of external information sources via ontologies. A...

Tags: Help Desk, Ontology, University Of Helsinki, Strategy, Management

White papers 2007-04-02

Web Services Service Level Management: Overview of Service Level Agreement Languages, Support Infrastructures and Tools

Engineering extended Service-Oriented Architecture SOA - based web services for open environments that support collaboration sets numerous requirements to web services languages and support infrastructure capabilities provided by vendors. Issues such as composition and management of services become important, yet neither web services nor the vendor platform support infrastructure contain...

Tags: Web, SLA, Web Service, Tool, University Of Helsinki, Channel Management, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-09-19

ONTOVIEWS - A Tool for Creating Semantic Web Portals

This paper presents a semantic web portal tool ONTOVIEWS for publishing RDF content on the web. ONTOVIEWS provides the portal designer with a content-based search engine server, Ontogator, and a link recommendation system server, Ontodella. The user interface is created by combining these servers with the Apache Cocoon framework. From...

Tags: Server, Tool, University Of Helsinki, ONTOVIEWS, Semantic Web, Portals, Web Technology, Internet

White papers 2004-09-06

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Macadamia: Master's Programme in Machine Learning and Data Mining

The research focus has since shifted from neural networks to machine learning, algorithmic data analysis and data mining. Macadamia is a two-year master's programme for machine learning and data mining given in the Department of Information and Computer Science at Helsinki University of Technology. This paper describes its curriculum and...

Tags: Helsinki University, Macadamia, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

White papers 2008-04-30

That Linux thing - where's the vision?

That Linux thing - where's the vision?You actually used dfs? !!I agree about name spaces, AIX, and the joys of SAM and ignite (jumpstart always struck me as so far beyond nutty I actually asked one of the developer/maintainers if he'd previously worked at Microsoft - no, DEC)On the other...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, HP-UX, BSD, Linux, Unix, Sun Solaris, vision

Discussion threads 2007-04-26

Haptic simulation of virtual textiles

Periodically, researchers want to improve our lives of online shoppers. It is easy to choose colors and sizes of clothes on many websites, but it's impossible to touch the material. So, European scientists are using a virtual reality technology, haptic simulation, to reproduce the sense of touch when interacting with...

Tags: HAPTEX partner, virtual textile, HAPTEX

Blog posts 2006-11-03

Nanotubes can resist to 400,000 atmospheres

Can you believe that carbon nanotubes can resist to pressures as high as 40 gigapascals -- or about a tenth of the one at the center of the Earth? When this limit is reached, they collapse. But before breaking, they propagate this pressure to whatever has been put inside them,...

Tags: nanotube

Blog posts 2006-05-28

Is justice blind--to technology patents?

Is justice blind--to technology patents?Yes, the patent system is great for oportunists that know nothing.I have been thinking. We need to do thE same thing for patents that we did for copyright. We need a General Public Patent Licence. You can use it and build on it to create new...

Tags: Even Worse, patent

Discussion threads 2004-10-08

SCO targets federal supercomputer users

SCO targets federal supercomputer usersSCO id begging someone to put them out of their missery.nt.Place ALL disputed "Licensing" revenue in ESCROW!I would NOT want my tax dollars being wasted until the legal claims are PROVEN in a court of law.If SCO is right the escrow is theirs, otherwise if...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., supercomputer, SCO Group Inc.

Discussion threads 2004-03-19

Negotiators clear hurdles to Net summit

Negotiators clear hurdles to Net summitTypical UN...What we need here is another committee, all in favor say aye.Huh? Ok, all in favor of forming a committee to study what sort of committe we need say aye.Huh? Ok, who wants to debate forming a committee to study forming the...

Tags: SECURITY, F-root server, Computer Associates International Inc.

Discussion threads 2003-12-08

Liberty Alliance debuts new standard

Liberty Alliance debuts new standardAs many will surely point out.It's not a "standard", it's just another concept of how it should be.Is this what Ballmer said "has zero chance of mattering" in October 2001 ??Is this the same Liberty Alliance which Ballmer said "has zero chance of mattering" in October...

Tags: SECURITY, Microsoft .NET, Liberty Alliance, Steve Ballmer

Discussion threads 2003-11-12