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They're here, they're proud, get used to it. Matthew Vaughn's "X-Men: First Class", his prequel to the lucrative "X-Men" superhero franchise, lands on DVD, Blu-ray, and for Download September 9th, 2011 from 20th Century Fox. The film, certified uber fresh by critics and fanboys alike, arrives with a whopping 2 hours of bonus content to satiate all your mutie needs.
X-Men: First Class is the thrilling, eye-opening chapter you've been waiting for…Witness the beginning of the X-Men Universe. Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their superhuman powers for the first time, working together in a desperate attempt to stop the Hellfire Club and a global nuclear war.
As a stand-alone movie, "X-Men: First Class" is a definite win, and deserves all the accolades it received upon release earlier this year. As part of the X-Men canon that Fox has been nurturing through the years, it's still a winner, though admittedly there are parts of the film that don't quite jive with Singer's two "X-Men" movies or, for that matter, the oft-mocked Brett Ratner's "X-Men: Last Stand". (And don't even get me started on "X-Men Origins: Wolverine". Ugh.)
The film traces the origins of X-Men founder Professor X (here played by James McAvoy with a bountiful of hair) and his close friendship with would-be Mutant Brotherhood founder Magneto (Michael Fassbender, all vengeance and fury). It's not just about them, of course. Kevin Bacon provides slick villainy as the head of the Hellfire Club, a group of powerful mutants determined to ignite a world war that would take out humanity, leaving mutants the new kings of the planet. It's up to Professor X and Magneto, and their new group of student/soldier recruits to save the day whether humanity likes it or not.
Set in the '60s, the film certainly makes great use of its time period, in particular the White Queen's uniform as capably worn by the ice cold January Jones. Say what you will about Jones, but the woman sure makes Emma Frost look good. The film also provides the first major studio work for indie darling Jennifer Lawrence, here playing Rebecca Romijn Jr., aka blue-skinned shapeshifter Mystique. Other notables roles belong to Lucas Till as the destructive Havok (brother of Cyclops, FYI), and Nicolas Hoult as the soft-spoken Beast, here still trying to control his basic instincts.
"X-Men: First Class" deserves to be highly regarded. It's one of the better comic book movies out there, and definitely one of the better comic book origins movie. Matthew Vaughn makes great use of the film's over two-hours runtime, and his script (with partner-in-crime Jane Goldman) brilliantly interweaves the ongoing plot with the Hellfire Club, Magneto's revenge, and the founding of the X-Men as we would eventually come to know them as. There is plenty of humor, over-the-top comic book action, and the slick look that can only come with a big Hollywood studio budget. In a nutshell, "First Class" has it all. So if you didn't get to it on the big screen for whatever reason, now's the time to catch up.
The Blu-ray comes with two discs, the first holding the movie and extras, and the second containing the digital copy of "First Class". Special features on the first disc include:
10 Marvel "X-Men" Digital Comics with exclusive "X-Men: First Class" Backstory Comic
Cerebro Mutant Tracker: An interactive character database featuring all the mutants that have showed up on in the X-Men universe so far, from the Singer movies to "X-Men Origins: Wolverine". Essentially just a bunch of footage featuring the character you selected, followed by their stats. Not exactly exhilarating stuff, I'm afraid.
Children of the Atom: An hour-long behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of the film. Lots of interviews with the cast and crew about the genesis and then the making-of of the film. Lots of inside stuff for those of you who really wants to dive into your movies. I'm curious why they didn't integrate a lot of this stuff into the "X Marks the Spot" function (below).
"X" Marks the Spot: 20 minutes worth of behind-the-scenes featurettes and mini-docs that can be played either separately or while you're watching the movie, which, I have to admit, can be pretty distracting since the featurettes cut in on the movie and suddenly you're watching a documentary on the making-of the film and not the movie itself. My advice: watch the whole movie through first before you give this a try.
Extended and Deleted Scenes: 14 minutes of stuff that never made it into the finished movie. Since the film is over two hours long, I think it's safe to say they got most of it in. You get more of Professor X and Moira McTaggert, Hank and Mystique, and more of Professor X teaching his students how to control their powers.
BD-Live Portal with additional Cerebro Mutant Tracker profiles
Composer's Isolated Score
Theatrical Trailer
Buy "X-Men: First Class" on DVD or Blu-ray September 9th, 2011 from 20th Century Fox.

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WASHINGTON — In his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, President Obama will concentrate on the economy, shifting the emphasis away from the broad social agenda of his second inaugural address to refocus attention on a set of problems that vexed his first term.
"A lot of people think the State of the Union is empty rhetoric, but it's full of specific requests," said Robert Lehrman, a former speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore and a communications professor at American University. "It's not only the state of the union, but the state of the Obama administration."
The president outlined his second-term agenda in an inaugural speech last month that infuriated Republicans for its full-throated embrace of liberalism.
"The early themes of the second term have been focused on the constituent groups that helped get the president re-elected," a Democratic strategist with close ties to the White House told Major Garrett, a former Fox reporter who is chief White House correspondent for CBS News.
In the State of the Union, the president will not ignore gun control, immigration reform and climate change. For example, Obama told immigrant advocates and labor leaders that he'll call for rewriting immigration laws in his address, and he told House Democrats that it was a "top priority and an early priority."
Several senior administration officials involved in the speech told The Washington Post that he will use his fourth State of the Union address to talk about jobs. The unemployment rate ticked up last month.
The president will propose ways to make college more affordable.
And, the officials said, he will argue for the need to spend public money — on research, on roads, on education — to prepare Americans for a world in which a warming climate, a nomadic labor force and new technology are shutting doors and opening new ones across the national economy.
"Our single biggest remaining challenge is to get our economy in a place where the middle class is feeling less squeezed, where incomes sustain families," said a senior administration official who spoke to the Washington Post on the condition of anonymity to describe the address based on drafts, marked up with highlighters, that were circulating among senior staff members late last week.
"This project is not complete, by any means," the official added.
This year's speech marks the 100th anniversary of the State of the Union.
Although George Washington was the first president to address Congress, speeches soon were scrapped in favor of the written word. Woodrow Wilson, however, reinstituted the in-person delivery to Congress in 1913, a custom that has continued ever since.
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History 3450: History of
Spring 2009
Dr. David Krugler
320 Warner Hall; 342-1783
History 3450 provides an advanced overview of the history of American foreign relations since the 1780s. With such an broad timeframe, it is not possible to examine in detail every major event in this history. Instead, the course is structured around five major themes:
The rise of
exceptionalism and its effects on
The ways in
which domestic politics and partisanship have molded
capitalism and quests for markets, resources, and trade opportunities have
The evolving
concept of "national security" and its part in
By the semester's end, students will have acquired
basic factual knowledge of the history of
History 3450 is a General Education course. Accordingly, it is designed to fulfill the learning outcomes for the Historical Perspectives component of General Education. This includes challenging "students to understand and assess our past, in order to form a clearer perception of the present and to deal more effectively with public issues." Upon satisfactory completion of the course, students will also be able to "demonstrate knowledge of the past; explore the multitude of circumstances and events that have helped to shape historical judgments, actions and visions; [and] interpret the sources of historical change in a variety of contexts" (Undergraduate Catalog 2007-2009, p. 28).
Books: The following texts are required and are available at the textbook center.
Walter A.
McDougall, Promised Land,
· Ralph Levering et al., Debating the Origins of the Cold War: American and Russian Perspectives
Howard Jones,
Quest for Security: A History of
Michael H. Hunt, Lyndon Johnson's War:
Exams: You will take a mid-term (worth 15% of your total grade) and a final (15% of the grade). The exams will be in an essay format. Study guides will be distributed before the test dates, which are listed below.
Writing: You
will write two 5 page essays
(each worth 20% of your total grade; due dates listed below). The first paper,
which will draw on your reading of part I of Walter McDougall, Promised
Discussions: During six different classes (dates listed below), we will hold an in-depth discussion of reading about significant historical problems. Your individual participation in these discussions is mandatory and is worth 20% of your total grade. Discussion guides will be distributed well in advance of each discussion, and you must complete the assigned reading by class time. Make sure to set aside sufficient study time to complete the reading (the assignment schedule indicates when you should begin reading for each discussion).
Discussion "briefs": Briefs are short summaries that highlight the main points, contentions, and evidence of a selected text or document. Using a form that I will distribute to the class, you will write a brief for all the discussions except the second one. You will need to bring to class two copies of your brief, one to hand in, the other to consult during discussion. Your briefs will be graded; altogether, the briefs are worth 10% of the total grade.
Recommended reading: It is expected that each student has completed at
least one college course in
Attendance: Roll will be taken at random throughout the semester. Students who are frequently absent when roll is taken will have their grade lowered at the semester's end. If you cannot attend class, please let me know ahead of time. Students are not allowed to leave class early. Eligible students who require academic test or lecture accommodations should speak with me. Accommodations will also be made for religious holidays.
Grade Components:
1 Midterm @ 15% 1st paper @ 20% Participation @ 20%
1 Final @ 15% 2nd paper @ 20% Discussion briefs @ 10%
Lecture & Assignment Schedule:
(Assignments and due-dates subject to announced changes).
Week 1: Begin reading
handout and article for discussion 1 on Jan. 28. The handout will be
distributed in class on Jan. 21;
for the article, click here. (You will need Adobe Acrobat to read the file.) See here for discussion brief
Wed. 1/21: Introduction to course and definition of important themes and concepts.
Week 2: Finish reading handout. (
Mon. 1/26: Diplomacy of the American Revolution.
Wed. 1/28: Disc. #1: Thomas
Jefferson's lasting effects on
Week 3: Begin reading McDougall, Promised Land, 1-98.
Mon. 2/2: The War of 1812.
2/4: The
Week 4: Finish reading McDougall, 1-98.
Mon. 2/9: Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War.
Wed. 2/11: First
paper due. Disc. #2: The American
"Bible" of foreign affairs: the Old Testament. Lect.:
Civil War diplomacy for the Confederacy and the
Week 5: Begin reading
Mon. 2/16:
Wed. 2/18: Spanish-American War and American imperialism.
Week 6: Continue reading handout.
Mon. 2/23: Midterm exam.
Wed. 2/25: Teddy Roosevelt's new world order.
Week 7: Finish reading handout.
Mon. 3/2: Wilsonian idealism and the First World War.
Wed. 3/4: Disc. #3: Special event:
"Teach-In" on
Week 8: Start reading Levering, Debating the Origins of the Cold War, 1-62, 85-151. Recommended reading: Jones, Quest for Security, chapters 15-16.
Mon. 3/9: No-risk empire?
3/11: Depression diplomacy and
3/14 to 3/22: Spring Break: Continue reading Levering, Debating the Origins of the Cold War, 1-62, 85-151.
Week 9: Finish reading Levering, 1-62, 85-151. Recommended reading: Jones, chapter 18.
Mon. 3/23: Wartime diplomacy.
Wed. 3/25: Disc. #4: Russian and American perspectives on the Cold War. Lect.: Origins and early phases of the Cold War.
Week 10: Begin Hunt, Lyndon Johnson's War. Recommended reading: Jones, chapter 20.
Mon. 3/31: Containment tested: The Korean War.
Wed. 4/1: A New Look.
Week 11: Continue reading Hunt, Lyndon Johnson's War. Recommended reading: Jones, chapter 22.
Mon. 4/6: Kennedy as Cold Warrior.
Wed. 4/8: The
Week 12: Finish reading Hunt, Lyndon Johnson's War.
Mon. 4/13: No class—April break.
4/19: Disc. #5:
Week 13: No reading.
Mon. 4/20: Second
paper due.
Wed. 4/22: Cold War renewed.
Week 14: Begin reading McDougall, Promised Land, 101-222. Recommended reading: Jones, chapter 26.
Mon. 4/27: The
Wed. 4/29: End of the Cold War.
Week 15: Finish reading McDougall, 101-222. Recommended reading: Jones, chapter 27.
Wed. 5/6: Disc. #6: The American "Bible" of foreign affairs: the New Testament. Lect. Bush Doctrine as policy and practice.
Final exam: Wednesday, May 13, 3-4:52pm.
Note: Graduating seniors must take the exam.


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If the X5 shows no signs of any colour smoke at all and fuel trims are around what I said (this is one of the reasons I said to check them) any small failure on the oil seperator hoses would provide the engine with a vacuum leak and throw your mixtures at the oxygen sensors, hence check long term fuel trims before buying.
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Anxiety about rage makes the blood boil
A new rage has hit the streets. Pump rage. Sibling to the road variety, cousin to hose rage. No prizes for guessing its origins. Steep petrol price increases lead to flow-on rises in the cost of living. When you're operating close to the bone or on credit, your threshold for instability is shot. Enter rage.
Analysts suggest that we're burdened with an inflated sense of entitlement. Bloody hell. I extended the mortgage to buy the 4WD so as to get out to the farm more often but the payments are killing me and the least I deserve in return is a sure supply of petrol at a good price.
Rage is also linked to a more general anxiety about the world. The internet brings us closer and so does terrorism. An oil crisis, however man-made, ripples outwards affecting everyone. The threat doesn't even have to be real for the anxiety to be real. I mean, can a mere flap of a Brazilian butterfly's wings really end in an typhoon? Does it matter that it can or can't? The very idea is spine-chillingly close, investing "togetherness" with a whole new dimension of discomfort.
They've recycled the alert/alarmed ads and we're back on that slippery slope where perceptions, even inflated and unjustified ones, create their own reality. As I always say to people who scoff at my fear of huntsmen (the spider, not the man-with-rifle), what does it matter that they're deemed harmless? The difference of agency (venom versus shock/fear) is a mere detail of the death certificate.
Actually, I've started collecting rages. I realise they're all spin-offs from the original vanilla variety: road rage. Wave rage happens in the surf when you see a board, especially someone else's, hurtling towards you. Queue rage reached an all-time high when banks went online, belatedly re-educating customers into the new tellerlessness. Hose rage was inevitable after the water restrictions: watching a neighbour hose the Jag raises your own drop-saving hackles. Air rage is largely a function of sardine conditions in economy. Computer rage is prevalent among the pre-digitals. Trade rage is watching your stocks drop from the promised state of being-a-sure-thing. Work rage ("going postal" in the US) is when you finally lose it at work. Wrap rage is when the packaging is designed to prevent your access. Statement rage is black-and-white evidence of the inverse relationship between fees and service. A sign I saw yesterday on a parking cashier's booth said: "Abuse to staff not tolerated", suggesting another rage in the making.
Clearly, a new rage requires a provocation that, for a short time at least, drains the patience quotient. The spillage is chemically converted to ire. The rage spikes then calms down, after which this latest rage joins all the other rages as they jostle in the bloodstream, awaiting a new provocation.
Each new rage that we add to the rage-well renders its successor an even smoother passage. Meanwhile, the other rages bide their time, awaiting an opportunity to re-ignite.
On the positive side, these rages save us time. Labelling something a rage renders the specifics redundant. (Why are you late? Pump rage incident at the servo.)
The mother of all rages is rage rage. This is where you go off your head about someone else disturbing the peace by being in the state of rage. All that shouting and fist-shaking. Good thing we don't carry hand guns.
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What is undoubtedly the most fascinating aspect of the ANZ full-year result is the demonstration of the complete 180 degree turn this bank has taken on the notion of costs. Expenses went up by around 8 per cent in the year and that whole obsession with cost to income ratio was thrown out the window.
The new game in town is investing in the franchise. It's no longer a feather in a banking chief's cap to get the cost to income ratio down.
It's now about spending money - mostly on people - to differentiate the service level from the Westpac, NAB or Commonwealth Bank next door.
It's true that all of the majors have abandoned their branch closures and staff culls but ANZ boss John McFarlane is leading the way in pumping money back into the business, which he hopes will result in gains in market share.
The investment community is so used to using the cost to income ratio as a key measure of a bank's financial health that the near-dismissive treatment of costs spooked some.
It shouldn't have. Banks, along with many other cyclical businesses, have spent too long focusing on cost. No problem with that but in many cases it went too far. Hence the new catchphrase for smart (or smart-talking) managers is that they can't cost-cut their way to greatness.
McFarlane is promising that at some stage he will drag this cost to income ratio from 45 to 40 per cent but he is being very imprecise on timing.
The 2005 result was strong, and particularly strong in the second half, with good performances from most of the Australian businesses. Indeed revenue growth was sufficient to justify the increases in costs.
Had costs been kept at traditional levels the profit from 2005 would have been double-digit rather than the reported improvement in cash earnings per share of 8.9 per cent.
The market wiped 2 per cent off the ANZ share price but this was the result of the strong share price gains leading up to the result and the fact the new IFRS reporting standards mean that reported earnings will be more unpredictable, which in turn means that dividends could go the same way.
(The whole issue with the IFRS changes is that the traditional smoothing of bank profits through debt provisioning is much more difficult.)
The effects won't be so evident among the major banks right now because we are at the point in the credit cycle where bad debts are low, provisioning is low and so are non-accruals.
To add to this, credit growth is still comfortably strong.
Offsetting this is that the interest rate margin fell by more than most expected.
But the result was slightly ahead of what the market had been expecting and most of the analysts were quite comfortable with the gains made this year. The gains in volume put the bank in a strong position against its peers, which are to report over the next couple of weeks.
The analysts were even comfortable with the bank's guidance that 2006 would be a good year, but one that it might be a little harder given a couple of one-off factors that ANZ described as "head winds".
But there is flexibility. If the revenue picks up more in 2006 then ANZ has the opportunity to spend some more. If revenue drops off then costs can be pared.
But McFarlane also knows he has a bit more in the tank. The integration benefits from New Zealand have not hit the group performance yet and we won't see the full effect until 2007.
Nor will we see the full hit from all this spending until 2007. As McFarlane said, he is managing for the medium term rather than the short term.
While most fund managers might not agree, it would have been more reassuring to hear that he was managing for the long term. But that would make him a Robinson Crusoe among the leaders of listed company.
Placing a stronger emphasis on customer service is what all the major banks have been trying to do for a while now and this is why Gail Kelly at St George has been such a star performer.
In order to achieve this objective, ANZ has put on an additional 2221 staff - most dealing with customers or in customer support. Not all are in Australia - which could ultimately be a problem, but time will tell.
The bottom line is that McFarlane is confident that this bank can grow ahead of the rest.
We can argue about how possible this is - but this man now has a long record in delivering on promises and there is no reason to suspect that he will stop now.
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Just try passing a note now, kid: Everett School District officials are planning a network of video cameras at its schools that can be monitored from its new offices now under construction. The video feeds could be made available to school staff and law enforcement.
Recognizing their financial responsibility to district taxpayers, Everett school officials decided against the pricier squadron of aerial surveillance drones.
Why, oh why? Despite an eighth-inning rally, the Mariners lost Sunday's game and the weekend series, 2-1, to the Chicago Cubs. The Cubs, who have not won a National League pennant since 1945, can blame the Curse of the Billy Goat, after the team barred a bar owner's goat from the stadium that year because of its odor.
A similar but less-familiar curse hobbles Seattle. A grizzled M's fan, still angered by the trade of shortstop Omar Vizquel in 1993, cursed the team when the Mariner Moose spilled his beer.
Don't know much about history: On this day in 1980, "O Canada" was proclaimed the national anthem of Canada.
"O Canada" beat out Canadian progressive rock legend Rush's "Cygnus X-1 (Parts I and II)," because of its 28-minute length, But judges did give it points because it was easier to sing than "The Star-Spangled Banner."


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(CNSNews.com) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon yesterday joined President Barack Obama in calling for "comprehensive" immigration reform, a term used to describe reform that includes granted legal status to illegal aliens in the
"We have also discussed immigration, an issue on which both countries have responsibilities," Obama said, standing next to Calderon during a White House joint news conference.
"As I told President Calderón, I remain deeply committed to fixing our broken immigration system with comprehensive reform that continues to secure our borders, enforces our laws--including against businesses that break the law--and requiring accountability from undocumented workers," Obama said. "And we have to conduct this debate in a way that upholds our values as a nation of both laws and immigrants. So I'm eager to work with Republicans and Democrats to get this reform done, which is vital to the
Obama has long supported a "comprehensive immigration reform" that supporters call a "pathway to citizenship" for illegal aliens and opponents call "amnesty." But such legislation--backed by the immigration lobby and some pro-business organizations--was defeated in Congress during 2005 and 2007, and was deeply unpopular with the public.
Nevertheless, Calderon said he supports Obama's desire to see such legislation pass.
"President Obama has always recognized, invariably recognized, the contributions of immigrants to the economy and society of the United States, and I recognize and value his clear and determined support for the adoption of a comprehensive migratory reform in this country, as well as his firm commitment to the human and civil rights of communities, regardless of their point of origin," Calderon said. "I've expressed to him my concern for the proliferation of local initiatives that are against the interests or the rights of immigrant communities."


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Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti (1822 – 2 October 1876) was born at Gambarana, near Pavia in 1822. A famous friend of Corti's father, Antonio Scarpa, may have kindled his boyhood interest in anatomy and medicine. As a medical student he enrolled first at the University of Pavia. Corti's favorite study there was microanatomy with Bartolomeo Panizza and Mario Rusconi. In 1845, against paternal wishes, Corti moved to Vienna to complete his medical studies and to work in the anatomical institute of Joseph Hirtl. There he received the degree in medicine in 1847 under the supervision of professor Hyrtl, with a thesis on the bloodstream system of a reptile.
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The design of the control systems for sensor networks presents important challenges. Besides the traditional problems about how to process the sensor data to obtain the target information, engineers need to consider additional aspects such as the heterogeneity and high number of sensors, and the flexibility of these networks regarding topologies and the sensors in them. Although there are partial approaches for resolving these issues, their integration relies on
The growing availability of sensors pluggable into networks at low cost is rapidly increasing their use for different applications like smart spaces or surveillance systems [
These challenges have been addressed in several works, though usually focusing only on partial solutions for some specific issues. For instance, [
The architectures proposed for these networks consider some infrastructure and/or a component model. The infrastructure provides basic services for all the components, and the component model specifies the interfaces and behaviour that components must provide to be integrated in the network. Nevertheless, these solutions also present some limitations. First, they usually require that systems conform strictly to certain features, such as specific interfaces or rules of behaviour (e.g., [
In order to address these limitations, some works [
This work addresses these issues with a solution that includes a standard architecture for sensor networks able to deal with different choices in design; a modelling language oriented to the kind of abstractions in that architecture; a development process for such systems. The language provides high-level abstractions to describe agents and sensors in the networks and how they interact. The architecture offers an extensible set of patterns to organize these abstractions. These patterns are partial reusable software design models. The patterns available at the moment regard dynamic adaptation to components, their features, and ways of processing data. The development process indicates how to refine these design models to the final code following a model-driven engineering (MDE) approach [
The architecture considers sensor networks composed by devices (which include sensors) and actors (
Actors are similar to controllers in other approaches, but the architecture introduces for them a neat separation of concerns with roles. A role is defined by its goals, which are related with its responsibilities, and the capabilities (
The previous definitions of sensor, role and actor partially match those of INGENIAS external application, role and agent respectively. Nevertheless there are relevant differences. For instance, INGENIAS external applications and sensors are both environment elements characterized in terms of the methods they offer and the events they produce, but sensors extend applications considering their internal state, and how this changes as a consequence of external events and method execution. Thus, this research has modified the INGENIAS modelling language to accommodate new concepts. This modification enables applying its model-driven process for the development of sensor networks in our approach, reducing the related costs and error rates by raising the level of abstraction of development. For instance, generating the code for a target platform like nesC [
The approach presented is intended to be valid for different sensor networks. This paper focuses on the presentation of the general design aspects of the approach, so details about specific implementations are out of its scope. Nonetheless, the way to consider certain issues, such as limits on energy, memory or bandwidth, or addressing the development for a given platform, are briefly discussed regarding the development process.
The paper illustrates the approach with a case study about simulation for a cooperative architecture for fire fighting. The system includes two types of vehicles, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and Intervention Vehicle (IV), and static sensors. An UAV incorporates sensors to monitor the terrain, and processors to analyze their data. An IV includes ground sensors and maps to plan a route from its current position to the place where its intervention is required. There are also sensors in observation towers, mainly thermal cameras. The selected route depends on the real-time information provided by UAV and sensors deployed in the area. The main issues in this design are extensibility and scalability regarding types of vehicles, sensors and data processes, and the individual elements of these types. Consider that given the hostility of the environment and the potential long time of the intervention, such systems are probable to experience losses in the deployed units and sensors, as well as their capabilities. So, new elements may need to be added to the ongoing effort in order to guarantee a successful operation. This case study is also the basis for comparison with related work.
The rest of the paper discusses the elements in this introduction with further details. The first sections make a brief introduction to the foundations of our approach: Section 2 discusses MDE; Section 3 presents the INGENIAS methodology and modelling language. The next sections discuss the components of the presented approach: Section 4 introduces the extensions to the INGENIAS language to model sensor networks; Section 5 uses them to specify the architecture; and Section 6 describes the development process. The case study in Section 7 applies these elements to develop a generic distributed system for surveillance in fire fighting. Section 8 compares the results of the proposed approach with related work. Finally, Section 9 discusses some conclusions about the overall approach and the envisioned future work.
Model Driven Engineering (MDE) [
Metamodels [
Transformations are the means to automate the life-cycle of artefacts in MDE [
With these elements, a MDE project according to the OMG Model Driven Architecture (MDA) [
This kind of development encourages reusing of solutions, facilitates migration and reduces costs. Models and transformations represent knowledge about the solutions for given domains, and they are reusable between different projects. Thus, a given project usually needs only to develop from scratch some specific models and transformations, and reuse the rest of the elements from previous projects. Moreover, this approach facilitates platform migration. As transformations generate the final code, migrating to a different target platform just requires applying different transformations. Finally, the high degree of reusability of models and transformations, and working at a higher-level of abstraction than that of code, are expected to reduce the costs of developing the control systems.
In the context of our approach, MDE offers a neat decoupling between the abstract architecture with MAS described in PIM, and the specific low-level details of sensor management in PSM and PM. This makes easier the addition/replacement of sensor types, as the MAS architecture remains and only the PSM and its related transformations need to be adapted.
MAS in INGENIAS are organizations of agents, which are intentional and social entities. Agents use applications, which represent the environment and system facilities. The models to specify these MAS describe their environment, agents and interactions, both from the static and dynamic perspectives. The modelling language also includes a simple extension mechanism for agents through inheritance relationships: a new sub-agent type inherits all the features of its super-agent type, but it can also extend or constrain them.
The support tool of the methodology is the INGENIAS Development Kit (IDK). It provides a graphical environment for the specification of MAS design models. The tool can be extended with modules. The standard distribution includes modules for documentation and code generation based on templates. A template is a text file annotated with tags. These tags indicate the places where information from models has to be injected to get a proper instantiation. The instantiated template can describe, for instance, the code for an agent in a framework, the documentation of its goals, or the configuration files for its deployment. Engineers can use code components in models to attach specific code to entities. For instance, if engineers want to generate nesC [
There are two main reasons for the choice of INGENIAS in this work considering available alternatives with agents [
The design of MAS to manage sensor networks in the presented approach uses specialization of general agent concepts. The purpose of these specializations is acting as a guide for engineers: They indicate the concepts that should appear in the specifications and how they are related. The main extensions of our approach to the INGENIAS [
A sensor network in the proposed architecture distinguishes between reactive and active components. Reactive components receive requests or notifications of events, and generate answers for them that only depend on the input and some internal state if this exists. Active components take initiatives on their own that contribute to satisfy the system goals. The basic type of reactive component is the
These resources are used by
Another concept central in the proposed solution is that of
The previous roles are played by roles and actors. When a role plays another role, it adds the features of that role to its own ones. The actors are agents with common skills for the management of goals (e.g., decomposition, checking their state or removing when satisfied), planning for their achievement (in terms of the available information, resources and capabilities) and basic communications (both with agents and resources). When an actor plays a role, it fulfils the standard behaviours specified by the role, that is, it implements its capabilities, has actual access to its resources, and manipulates the related goals and information. The actor can have additional elements beyond those of its roles. Note that an actor manipulates all these elements globally. For instance, the satisfaction of a goal linked to a certain role can be the result of the information produced with a capability related with another role.
The previous elements run in
In order to provide a simple extension mechanism for the language, this approach also generalizes the INGENIAS inheritance relationship. It is not constrained to agents but can be applied to any concept with an equivalent meaning: a sub-concept inheriting from a super-concept has all its features but it can extend or constrain them with additional models.
The metamodel for sensor networks just defines the modelling primitives that can be used when specifying these networks as MAS. However, it cannot specify how these elements should interact to provide the expected functionality. The architecture provides this information. This section focuses on its description through its main teams. The list is not exhaustive, as more teams can be specified to address new needs. The description of teams includes their purpose, and the characterization of their leader and member roles regarding their responsibilities. Note that when talking about roles performing actions, it is really the actors playing those roles that perform the actions, as roles are just functional abstractions.
Note that any container must have running at least two teams. The initial setup requires one initialization team, and integration with other elements of the network a communication team. Executing these teams requires at least one actor which plays the initializer and communicator roles.
The architecture involving these teams pursues satisfying three main objectives. First, it facilitates the design of sensor networks decoupling the different responsibilities in roles and teams. Second, it looks for networks that can semi-autonomously reconfigure themselves to address new situations, a concept present in current research in autonomic computing [
This work includes a simple model-driven development process customized to develop the control system of sensor networks following the architecture in Section 5. As explained in Section 2, a model-driven process focuses the development on design models. Engineers refine these models from abstract representations to those models closer to the intended target platform, and finally to code. The refinements are partially supported by automated transformations. The process proposed in this approach is based on the software process of the INGENIAS methodology [
The design of the network begins with Activity 1. Engineers determine the containers of the network,
Decision 2 and Activities 3–4 are intended to organize complex processing and integration of data. According to the architecture, information process teams are responsible of these activities. Engineers identify in Decision 2 and Activity 3 specific data that must be generated in the network. For each group of data, Activity 4 designs the corresponding team. First, engineers discover the sensors that provide the source data. For each sensor, they must assign at least one active controller and a passive one. The first one is required in the initialization, and the second one to provide access to sensor data. Next, engineers must identify the data transformations required to get the final information. Some of them are achieved using utilities of the network. For these utilities, engineers assign an expert. Finally, the team is composed by the passive controllers of the sensors and the experts of the utilities playing the role of providers, and a customer to integrate and consume the information. The identification of this kind of teams finishes when all the complex calculation of data has a team assigned.
Decision 5 and Activities 6–7 are intended to specify the teams that manage the dynamic adaptation of the network. Engineers begin this design with Decision 5, where they find out what the elements are that can fail or be incrementally set up or deployed during the working of the network. This identification considers resources, roles and actors. For every element identified in this decision, Activity 6 carries out an analysis regarding its potential replacements, and how they can be located and evaluated to find the best suited if several are available. Activity 7 designs the specific team related with this replacement. It includes a watcher that monitors the element. In the case of a device it is a passive controller, for a utility it is an expert, and for a role or agent it can be a customer that communicates with it. The team also needs a referee that evaluates when the failure needs to be notified for a potential replacement. The repairer team includes referees related with the same type of elements and similar features. For instance, for sensors they can be referees of nearby sensors and for roles other agents in the same container able to work with the same resources. As an alternative, initializers can be used to set up new roles or agents in these teams. Each of these teams must also identify its dispatcher, which selects the best alternative for a required replacement.
After these activities, engineers have available PIM of the resulting system according to the architecture. These PIM describe the devices, agents and roles, the information they exchange, and their interactions; they do not contain details on the final target platform, for instance about energy levels or low-level control commands for the sensors. Activities 8–13 follow the INGENIAS process to refine these models and generate the final code of the control system.
Activity 8 adds several INGENIAS PIM to the MAS specifications. Organization models define agents and groups outside the architecture, and assign to the groups workflows that describe their work. This allows refining the teams when complex processing of data needs further specification. Agent models refine actors and roles with additional goals, capabilities and information. These models also establish the pieces of information whose appearance determine when a goal is satisfied or failed. Tasks/Goals models map tasks with the goals that satisfy them, and hierarchically decompose goals and tasks into sub-elements. Interaction models describe actor interactions in terms of goals pursued, information exchanged and tasks performed. These models provide the details of the previous architectural design, though they are not always required. For instance, if engineers do not need to refine teams beyond what is said in the architecture, they do not use organization models.
Activities 9 and 10 develop the models required for the final target platform. Activity 10 develops the PM corresponding to the target platform. These PM include information about how to translate general concepts to specific elements in the platform. As explained in Section 3, INGENIAS uses templates to represents PM. For instance, in the case of the Matlab (
Activity 11 considers the development of the transformations that support the semi-automated refinement of PIM to PSM in Activity 12, and the generation of code from PSM in Activity 13. In the case of an INGENIAS development, transformations are implemented as IDK modules. These modules support model transformations and model-to-text transformations. Model transformations are useful to represents standard refinements of model concepts. For instance, each actor needs several goals to manage its planning cycles (e.g., collect information, discard non-achievable goals, look for achievable goals), but these are standard and engineers do not need to write them for each actor; a transformation can automatically generate these goals for the available actors. The best-known example of model-to-text transformation is code generation. In this case, the IDK includes a module for this purpose in its standard distribution. For a given specification and target platform, this module operates as follows: (1) it identifies the templates for the concepts present in the specifications and the target platform; (2) it traverses the templates looking for their tags; (3) when it found a tag, it replaces the tag with information from the models, which can be the content of a code template; (4) it returns the instantiated template as its output, which is the code of the concepts. In this way, changing the target platform for a given design only requires using different PM (
Note that though
Disaster intervention [
The design proposed in this case study combines both fixed and mobile sensors in an incremental way, showing the scalability and adaptability of the approach to changes in the configuration of the network. It considers a set of Intervention Vehicles (IV) with fire-fighters. The crews of these IV need to arrive to the place of their intervention from their current positions following the safest practicable routes. For this purpose, the system in the IV that computes the path has available maps of the zone and integrates the data from sensors. In the first stage of the design, the available sensors are only image cameras in UAV. The second stage integrates in the design static sensors located in observation towers. The resulting system works as follows. The sensors capture information (see
The development of the proposed system has followed the process in Section 6. A first simulated prototype has been developed under Matlab. In this prototype, the data that should be provided by the sensors are loaded from a database, but not acquired from physical sensors. Sensors are simulated by software components wrapping the interaction with that database. The actors of the network receive and process these data as for the actual system.
The first stage of the design of the system (
Decision 2 and Activities 3–4 identify the information process teams. The first activity specifies data that must be generated and the second activity designs the corresponding teams. In this case, there is one information team that consumes the data of the GPS and cameras. It includes passive controllers for these sensors as providers. The consumer is in the IV. It finds the UAV acting near its IV with the information from the GPS. From these UAV, it gets the data of their cameras. It uses the services of a provider expert with access to a utility for image and map integration to get the actual map of the terrain. Depending on the processing required on these data, the system may also need additional experts. For instance, images have to be processed to determine the textures in them and find the zones and structures of interest (see
The system may also require load balancing teams. The engineers identify these needs in Decision 5 and Activity 6. This system faces the potential loss of sensors in UAV during the intervention, as they can break down or their UAV need to return to its base. As IV cannot be left unattended, the lost sensors have to be replaced. Activity 7 carries out the design of the related load balancing teams. The corresponding failure notification teams monitor UAV cameras. Both the referee and watchers of these teams are in the IV using the camera data. Repairer teams include the previous referees and dispatchers for cameras. When the dispatcher receives a request for the replacement of a UAV camera, it asks to its referees about the current location of their related UAV. The dispatcher matches the GPS information of these UAV with the location in the request to decide the best replacement and informs about it to the original referee. Note that this workflow requires that actors playing the roles of watchers and referees also play the role of consumers in process information teams for GPS data. The sequence, excluded collection of data from sensors, can be seen in
Turning back to the initialization team and according to this design, the following information needs to be provided. First of all, engineers initialize the target areas where the vehicles have to work. In a simplified setting, people would lead vehicles to their areas. After that, initializers have to do the initialization of their containers. They set up the actors that are going to play the roles. For the GPS and camera sensors, they create the active and passive controllers, and feed up the active controllers with the information to initialize these sensors. The last information they have to provide to actors is about the information process and load balancing teams previously described. Engineers indicate to each actor receiving the information the roles it plays and the leader actors of the teams if it is not.
Some of the elements of the design identified after the first stage appear in
After establishing the teams, the rest of the development follows the standard INGENIAS process [
Engineers refine the MAS design models with Activity 8. They describe for each role and actor the decomposition of its goals and tasks. This activity also details the information of the system (
In this case, engineers do not need to perform Activity 10 to develop transformations. They manually refine the PIM to PSM, and the IDK already offers a module for the transformation of design models to code. As the refinement from PIM to PSM is manual, engineers also omit Activity 12. However, engineers need to develop the templates for Matlab that implement the concepts of the architecture in Activity 10. When models contain enough detail, engineers run the code generation module of the IDK in Activity 13. If further modifications of the control system are required, they change the PSM and automatically generate again the code.
In order to show the flexibility of the architecture, this case extends the control of the sensor network in two ways: first, to consider sensors in observation towers; second, to actively modify the location of UAV.
As said in the introduction to the case study, this kind of solution commonly combines mobile and fixed sensors. The design has only considered cameras in UAV, so let extend it with the fixed cameras. These cameras are going to provide additional information to the application for the computation of paths in the IV. As done for the UAV, the design needs to include a container for the new sensors with its initialization and communication teams. The design also needs active and passive controllers for these sensors. All these roles and the actors that implement them, reuse general solutions of design and implementation. Only the controllers need specific code to manage their sensors. The passive controllers become part as providers of the information teams previously identified. If new utilities are required for the integration of these data, engineers set up the corresponding experts and make them part of these teams. Finally, if required, these sensors can be integrated in load balancing teams.
The second issue considers that the previous solution is not completely satisfactory for the fire intervention problem. The initial deployment of UAV can assign several of them to the same area. Subsequent failures can make necessary changing the location of some of them to attend areas with less coverage. With the previous version of the system, the dispatchers cannot modify the position of the UAV, and therefore of their cameras. In order to being able to perform this kind of changes, the following modifications are introduced. The MAS includes new information process teams to govern the position of UAV. The consumer of this team has a path objective. Its providers are the controllers for the sensors of the flaps and motors of a UAV. These controllers can change the position and altitude of the UAV. In order to determine the current position of the UAV, this team also needs as providers the managers of the GPS. The second change affects the dispatcher of UAV cameras. Its capability to determine a suitable UAV for the request is modified as follows. Instead of answering with the nearest UAV to the IV, it looks for a UAV in an area with a high coverage. Then, the dispatcher notifies to the original referee (
As a final remark, it should be noted that this approach is mainly focused on the design of the network. Specific implementation issues must be addressed with code present in the PM and PSM. Nevertheless, the fact of organizing development around design models and transformations facilitates a wider reuse of solutions among different developments, even for those solutions directly related with the low-level details of the network.
This section compares the proposed approach with related work in sensor networks and MAS, considering both their general features and the requirements of the case study in Section 7. The introduction already discussed different perspectives on the design of sensor networks. This section follows this classification and distinguishes between integral solutions with architectures and partial solutions for specific aspects. Among architectures, there are examples focused on the infrastructure and others on the high-level design of the network. Transversal to these approaches, some researchers have proposed the use of MAS for the development of the related control systems.
Architectures for sensor networks focused on infrastructure provide a platform with basic services for the sensor network. This platform has a component model that those elements to integrate in the network must fulfil. In this group can be included operating systems (e.g., TinyOS [
Architectures considering the high-level design of the network have adopted usually the form of guidelines. Either they just give some abstract design principles (the case of [
This section has already mentioned works based on agents [
Finally, a last group of approaches (mentioned for instance in the surveys [
The case study in Section 7 focuses on the design of the system and has not discussed issues such as power consumption, specific data integration problems or routing. Research about these aspects can be integrated in the solution for this problem as previously mentioned in this section. Concerning the design, the case study shows two relevant limitations of existing approaches. First, the scope of some of the approaches is not well-suited for the presented problem. Approaches as [
The presented approach is intended to facilitate the high-level design of sensor networks based on MAS. It includes an agent-oriented modelling language with specific extensions and an architecture describing how these elements interact to achieve the standard functionalities of these networks.
The modelling language is built around three main concepts. Resources are the passive elements in the network. They are modelled in terms of their available methods. Their sub-types include sensors and data processing utilities. Sensors add to resources a state and work with events, both perceived from their environment and raised to inform to their controllers. These abstractions cover the most common uses of sensors in previous works. The active elements of the network are designed as roles. Roles are common abstraction in MAS defined in terms of their goals, capabilities to achieve them, and their resources and information. Managers are in our approach the roles governing resources. They can have different access rights in order to organize the use of the resources. The final element of the language is teams, which are hierarchical groups of roles aimed at performing some collaborative activities in the network. Actors running in containers implement the roles.
The architecture works with these concepts to specify teams that define standard aspects of behaviour in these networks. It identifies teams for the initialization or redeployment of containers, the management of data (including collection, processing and integration), communications and load balancing (or adaptation of the network to changes in the environment or its elements).
The proposed solution is intended to be flexible in several ways. First, it allows accommodating new or modified concepts for specific needs through changes in its metamodel. Using model-driven techniques, engineers propagate these changes to the supporting tools. Second, the specialization of concepts with inheritance relationships and the organization of systems around teams cover a variety of approaches, so it allows incorporating existing research in the area. Third, the use of a MDE approach facilitates reusing the knowledge present in the definition of teams. These teams can become the basic building blocks for sensor networks with MAS, as their models can incorporate information for the final code generation. For instance, the system in the case study can be largely reused in other settings with dynamic assignment of containers, sensors and tasks. Only models and transformations related with the control of specific sensors and particular manipulations of data need to be replaced in the system. If new teams were required, they could be modelled as extensions of concepts presents in the architecture as done with standard teams.
The main concern in the application of the proposed approach is the difficulty to model the low-level details of sensor networks, such as energy consumption of routing algorithms for messages. At the moment, the only mean to do that is attaching code snippets to entities in design models for the code generation. There are plans to extend the modelling language with additional primitives to describe some low level issues. For instance, methods can be modelled with additional state machines, and certain standard data transformations can be added as instances of the methods of utilities. Moreover, this paper has applied the standard INGENIAS development process for part of its process. Given the particular features of sensor networks, a domain-specific process that considers the kind of artefacts and activities in these developments should be considered. For instance, working with real-time constraints has certain limitations that do not appear in INGENIAS. The already mentioned processes in [
Partial metamodel of agent-based concepts for sensor networks.
Process for the development of sensor networks.
The fire fighting disaster intervention. (a) Picture taken from the UAV camera in optimal visibility conditions. (b) Semi-processed image with textures. (c) Path planning in the IV.
Replacement of an UAV camera serving an IV.
Partial design of the system after the first stage. It includes the containers and their elements, the initialization teams, and the information process team.
Main concepts of the modelling language of the INGENIAS methodology.
|An active element with explicit goals able to initiate actions involving other elements.
|A group of related goals and tasks. An agent playing a role adopts its goals and must be able to perform its tasks.
|Environment application
|An element of the environment. Agents/roles act on the environment using its actions and receive information from the environment through its events.
|Internal application
|A non-intentional component of the MAS. Agents/roles use it through its actions and receive information from it through its events.
|An objective of an agent/role. Agents/roles try to satisfy their goals executing tasks. The satisfaction or failure of a goal depends on the presence or absence of some elements (
|A capability of an agent/role. In order to execute a task, certain elements (
|A basic communication action. Agents/roles send with them information to other agents/roles.
|A basic imperative operation of an application described by its parameters and result.
|Frame fact
|An information element produced by a task, and therefore by the agents/roles.
|An information element spontaneously produced by an application.
|Any kind of social activity involving several agents/roles.
|A set of agents/roles that share some common goals and the applications they have access to. The behaviour of groups is specified with workflows involving its components. These workflows indicate their tasks, the elements these produce/consume and the agents/roles that carry them out. The workflows must fulfil the group goals through the achievement of the individual agent/role goals.
|A set of agents, roles, applications and groups, along with general rules that govern their behaviour.
|The set of external applications with which the components of a MAS interact.


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-The security staff by the elevators is rather rude and ridiculous. Me and my mother (an avid con-goer herself) were heading up to our hotel room. We only got 2 room cards when we checked in so my mother and step-mother each had one. My mother showed him the key card and we proceeded to an elevator when he physically put his arm aroind my shoulder telling me I couldn't go. Neither I, not my mother, take kindly to staff touching us in any unneccessary way. She explained I was her daughter and we were in the same room. He said I wasn't allowed up to my room. She then rushed me past and proceeded to tell him that he was ridiculous. The DT shouldn't charge for more than 2 key cards if each person much show one.
-on the Sunday, checkout is earlier than the end of the con, so we asked if there was a place we could store out luggage for several hours (as we had previously at other hotels). Th front desk directed us to a place at the end of the hotel. When we arrived there a rude staff member told us it was a $2 charge per pag/parcel ($2x4 people's luggage + cooler +cosplay items = expensive). We had not been told there would be a charge by the front desk so we were rather upset. The man was extremely rude and detogatory towards us as well. We had no otger option and paid for our luggage storage, but our luggage was not tagged PT even put into a room. It was messily clustered together with other's luggage and could easly be stolen or mid-taken. We complained to the front desk who was calm and kind and promptly sent down a manager to deal with the disgruntled worker.
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Gallerydrive extrapolates the technical capabilities of an audio guide system in order to achieve an art perception experience at a maximum level of convenience. The system is developed for galleries and museums and it drives visitors automatically through the exhibition. Meta information about the various artworks is provided via headphones and touchscreen.
Communication of background knowledge about the exhibited pieces via the Gallerydrive system offers curators, gallerists, exhibition designers and contemporary artists a comfortable way to canalize the huge flood of related information.
It empowers the presenters to control the visitor's perception precisely and to define the ideal path through the exhibition, which guarantees the most efficient art perception. Using the implemented audio player to supply adequate moody background tunes will actuate the favored emotional accommodation of the viewer. This concentrates the exhibition's atmosphere and leads to an enhanced receptiveness of the visitor's brain.
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The following video explains the technical features of the Gallerydrive system. It is filmed at a demonstration setup at the University of the Arts in Berlin:
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Gallerydrive is an open source and open hardware project. The production diary offers all technical background information to realize own Gallerydrive projects:
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[ The Grand Illusion project description ]
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