Projects

• Practical Dynamic Software Updating
• Managing Uncertainty and Ontologies in Databases
• Recombinant antibodies and tumor targeting
• Combining unobtainable shortest path graphs for OSPF
• Prisoner of War or Unlawful Combatant: An Evolution of International Humanitarian Law
• Strategic Decision-making, Group Behavior, and Public Relations Strategies

Practical Dynamic Software Updating This dissertation makes the case that programs can be updated while they run, with modest programmer effort, while providing certain update safety guarantees, and without imposing a significant performance overhead. Few systems are designed with on-the-fly updating in mind.

Managing Uncertainty and Ontologies in Databases Nowadays a vast amount of data is generated in Extensible Markup Language (XML). However, it is necessary for applications in some domains to store and manipulate uncertain information, e.g. when the sensor inputs are noisy, or we want to store data that is uncertain. Another big change we can see in applications and web data [...]

Recombinant antibodies and tumor targeting Different antibody derived constructs are rapidly advancing as putative tools for treatment of malignant diseases. Antibody engineering has added significant new technologies to modify size, affinities, solubility, stability and biodistribution properties for immunoconjugates.

Combining unobtainable shortest path graphs for OSPF The well-known Dijkstra's algorithm uses weights to determine the shortest path. The focus here is instead on the opposite problem, does there exist weights for a certain set of shortest paths? OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) is one of several possible protocols that determines how routers will send data in a network like the internet.

Prisoner of War or Unlawful Combatant: An Evolution of International Humanitarian Law The construction of International Humanitarian Law and the norms regarding protection of prisoners of war have evolved as a reaction to the horrors of war. After September 11 and the following war on terrorism the notion of POWs has been widely debated. The USA holds prisoners at the navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba without granting them status as POWs

Strategic Decision-making, Group Behavior, and Public Relations Strategies As a boundary spanning function in organizations, public relations can enhance strategic decision-making by introducing relevant information that addresses decision-making consequences on stakeholders to the process. The premise for the study was that effective communication that attends to certain communication aspects of decision-making