Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Sky indexation, pixelization, and the VO / W. O'Mullane and K. Gorski -- The NASA/IPAC infrared science archive (IRSA) : the demo / A. Alexov, G. B. Berriman, N.-M. Chiu, J. C. Good, T. H. Jarrett, M. Kong, A. C. Laity, S. M. Monkewitz, N. D. Tahir-Kheli, S. W. Norton and A. Zhang -- ESA VO : archives and VO services / C. Arviset, I. Barbarisi, I. Ortiz, P. Osuna and J. Salgado -- Extending the capabilities of CIAO with S-Lang-based tools / F. Primini and M. Noble / The CXC Science Data Systems Group -- Starlink software developments / P. W. Draper, A. Allan, D. S. Berry, M. J. Currie, D. Giaretta, S. Rankin, N. Gray and M. B. Taylor -- TOPCAT & STIL : Starlink table/VOTable processing software / M. B. Taylor -- Montage : an astronomical image mosaic service for the NVO / A. C. Laity, N. Anagnoston, G. B. Berriman, J. C. Good, J. C. Jacob, D. S. Katz and T. Prince -- New software for ensemble creation in the Spitzer space telescope operations database / R. Laher and J. Rector -- RedShift 5 - virtual planetarium for amateurs and professionals / N. Maris, S. M. Kudryavtsev, O. Kalitsev, O. Margorin, K. Tomaszewski, M. Fleissner and C. Vester -- Visual data mining of astronomic data with virtual reality spaces : understanding the underlying structure of large data sets / J. J. Valdes -- Hires : super-resolution for the Spitzer space telescope / C. Backus, T. Velusamy, T. Thompson and J. Arballo -- Detection of rare objects in massive astronomical datasets using innovative knowledge discovery technology / A. Soto, A. Cansado and F. Zavala -- SAADA : astronomical databases made easier / L. Michel, H. N. Nguyen and C. Motch -- Mosaicking with MOPEX / D. Makovoz and I. Khan -- W projection : a new algorithm for wide field imaging with radio synthesis arrays / T. J. Cornwell, K. Golap and S. Bhatnagar -- matplotlib - a portable python plotting package / P. Barrett, J. Hunter, J. T. Miller, J.-C. Hsu and P. Greenfield -- Mosaicing with interferometers : an efficient algorithm for imaging and image plane corrections / S. Bhatnagar, K. Golap and T. J. Cornwell -- BUCS : automating sample selection, volume density determinations, and projection onto different image sets and redshift regimes / R. J. Bouwens, G. D. Illingworth and D. K. Magee -- Extending and enhancing the capabilities of the sherpa modeling and fitting tool with S-Lang / D. J. Burke, A. Siemiginowska, S. Doe and D. Nguyen -- The development of SAOImage DS9 : lessons learned from a small but successful software project / W. A. Joye and E. Mandel -- Extending and customising DS9 / D. Clarke, S. L. Allen and W. A. Joye -- Porting the Starlink software collection to GNU autotools / N. Gray, T. Jenness, A. Allan, D. S. Berry, M. J. Currie, P. W. Draper, M. B. Taylor and B. Cavanagh -- Requirements for a future astronomical data analysis environment / P. Grosbol, K. Banse, D. Tody, W. Cotton, T. J. Cornwell, D. Ponz, J. Ignatius, P. Linde, T. van der Hulst, V. Burwitz, D. Giaretta, F. Pasian, B. Garilli, W. Pence and D. Shaw -- Multidrizzle : automated image combination and cosmic-ray identification software / R. Jedrzejewski, W. Hack, C. Hanley, I. Busko and A. M. Koekemoer -- Harmonic development of an arbitrary function of the moon/sun/planets coordinates to Poisson series / S. M. Kudryavtsev -- aXedrizzle - spectral 2D resampling using Drizzle / M. W. Kummel, J. R. Walsh, S. S. Larsen and R. N. Hook -- A survey of software for the manipulation and visualization of 3-D sub-mm spectral line datasets / J. Leech and T. J. Jenness -- WAX : a high performance spatial auto-correlation application / S. Monkewitz and S. Wheelock -- Image segmentation and denoising based on Shrira-Pesenson equation / M. Pesenson, M. Moshir, D. Makovoz, D. Frayer and D. Henderson -- An analysis package for bolometer ground testing / B. Schulz, L. Zhang, K. Ganga, H. Nguyen and W. Holmes -- Improved reduction algorithm for ISOPHOT-S chopped observations / B. Schulz -- Monte Carlo image analysis in radio interferometry MC-FIT : a Bayesian approach to object detection / U. Rau and T. J. Cornwell -- Making the most of missing values : object clustering with partial data in astronomy / K. L. Wagstaff and V. G. Laidler -- JDBC driver for AIPS++ tables / J. Ye, W. K. Young and B. Waters -- Science with virtual observatory tools / P. Padovani -- Interoperability in action : the Aladin experience / F. Ochsenbein, P. Fernique, F. Bonnarel, M. Allen, T. Boch, F. Genova and A. Schaaff -- VOSpec : a tool for handling virtual observatory compliant spectra / P. Osuna, I. Barbarisi, J. Salgado and C. Arviset -- Integrating legacy code into virtual observatories - a test case / J. M. Colberg, R. Scranton, A. J. Connolly and A. W. Moore -- The multimission archive at the Space Telescope Science Institute in the context of VO activities / I. Kamp, R. Thompson, A. Conti, D. Fraquelli, T. Kimball, K. Levay, B. Shiao, M. Smith, R. Somerville and R. L. White -- ROME (request object management environment) / M. Kong, J. C. Good and G. B. Berriman -- VO software : overview of the past twelve months of prototypes & tools / M. C. Leoni, T. A. McGlynn and R. D. Williams -- XML data in the virtual observatory / R. G. Mann, R. M. Baxter, R. Carroll, Q. Wen, O. P. Buneman, B. Choi, W. Fan, R. W. O. Hutchison and S. D. Viglas -- Creating data that never die : building a spectrograph data pipeline in the virtual observatory era / D. J. Mink, W. F. Wyatt, J. B. Roll, S. P. Tokarz, M. A. Conroy, N. Caldwell, M. J. Kurtz and M. J. Geller -- MaxBCG : the importance of database systems for the virtual observatory and the grid / M. A. Nieto-Santisteban, A. S. Szalay, A. R. Thakar, W. O'Mullane, J. Gray and J. Annis -- VWhere : a visual, extensible 'where' command / M. S. Noble -- New NED XML/VOtable services and client interface applications / O. Pevunova, J. Good, J. Mazzarella, G. B. Berriman and B. Madore -- K-12 education with the national virtual observatory / M. J. Raddick, W. O'Mullane, A. S. Szalay and C. Christian -- Development of a virtual observatory prototype in ALMA-Japan / T. Sawada, K. Tatematsu, R. Kandori, K. Nakanishi, K.-I. Morita and K. Sunada -- A metadata layer to enable VO-compliant access to the ESO/ST-ECF archive / D. Sforna and A. Micol -- Structured query language for virtual observatory / Y. Shirasaki, M. Ohishi, Y. Mizumoto, M. Tanaka, S. Honda, M. Oe, N. Yasuda and Y. Masunaga -- Japanese virtual observatory (JVO) prototype 2 / M. Tanaka, Y. Shirasaki, S. Honda, Y. Mizumoto, M. Ohishi, N. Yasuda, Y. Masunaga, Y. Ishihara, K. Abe, J. Tsutsumi, H. Nakamoto, Y. Kobayashi, T. Yoshida and Y. Morita -- Deploying the AstroGrid : science use ready / N. A. Walton, P. A. Harrison, A. M. S. Richards and M. C. Hill -- Reliable, automatic transfer and processing of large scale astronomy datasets / T. Kosar, G. Kola, M. Livny, R. J. Brunner and M. Remijan -- A parallel code analysis of light curve sequences of magnetically active close binaries through the astrocomp-grid portal / U. Becciani, A. F. Lanza, A. Costa and M. Rodono -- Integration of an MPP system and astrophysical applications in the INFN-GRID / A. Costa, A. S. Calanducci and U. Becciani -- The AstroGrid common execution architecture (CEA) / P. Harrison, N. Winstanley and J. D. Taylor -- A Java thick client user interface for grid processing / T. Hesselroth -- EdSkyQuery-G : a data federation grid architecture for astronomy / B. Hills, A. Campbell, A. Gray, R. M. Baxter, A. S. Trew, B. G. Mann, M. C. Hill and T. P. Sugden -- Grist : grid-based data mining for astronomy / J. C. Jacob, D. S. Katz, C. D. Miller, H. Walia, R. D. Williams, S. G. Djorgovski, M. J. Graham, A. A. Mahabal, G. J. Babu, D. E. Vanden Berk and R. Nichol -- The VST data reduction : an application for the GRID infrastructure / M. Pavlov, J. M. Alcala, A. Grado, E. Cascone, G. Capasso, V. Manna, F. Pasian and L. Benacchio -- Access control in AstroGrid software / G. Rixon, K. Benson and D. Morris --

Prototypes of a computational grid for the Planck satellite / G. Taffoni, G. Castelli, R. Smareglia, C. Vuerli, A. Zacchei, F. Pasian, D. Maino, G. Degasperis, S. G. Ansari, J. Tauber, T. Ensslin and R. Barbera -- WebCom-G : implementing an astronomical data analysis pipeline on a grid-type infrastructure / S. O. Tuairisg, M. Browne, J. Cuniffe, A. Shearer, J. Morrison and K. Power -- Astronomical database related applications in the Grid.it project / A. Volpato, G. Taffoni, S. Pastore, C. Vuerli, A. Baruffolo, R. Smareglia, G. Castelli, F. Pasian, L. Benacchio, E. Ambrosi and A. Ghiselli -- Grid-related activity in progress at INAF / C. Vuerli, F. Pasian, A. Baruffolo, L. Benacchio, J. M. Alcala, E. Cascone, U. Becciani, A. Fontana, G. Longo and R. Tagliaferri -- OpenSkyQuery and OpenSkyNode - the VO framework to federate astronomy archives / W. O'Mullane, T. Budavari, N. Li, T. Malik, M. A. Nieto-Santisteban, A. S. Szalay, A. R. Thakar, M. Ohishi and R. Williamson -- An O(N log M) algorithm for catalogue crossmatching / D. Devereux, D. J. Abel, R. A. Power and P. R. Lamb -- Data mining in distributed databases for interacting galaxies / K. Borne -- A source extraction Web service with cross matching capability / K. S. Krughoff, A. J. Connolly, J. M. Colberg, W. O'Mullane and R. D. Williams -- Distributed data mining for astrophysical datasets / S. M. McConnell and D. B. Skillicorn -- Assembly and classification of spectral energy distributions - a new VO Web service / H.-M. Adorf, F. Kerber, G. Lemson, A. Micol, R. Mignani, T. Rauch and W. Voges -- FROG : time series analysis for the Web service era / A. Allan -- Linking and tagging initiatives at the astrophysical journal / G. J. Schwarz -- The Chandra bibliography database : bibliographic statistics / S. Blecksmith, J. Bright, A. H. Rots, S. Winkelman, P. Green and M. Yukita -- MIGALE : milestones and roadmap / I. Chilingarian, P. Prugniel, H. Flores, J. Guibert, R. Haigron, I. Jegouzo, F. Royer, F. Tajahmady, G. Theureau and J. Vetois -- TOML - telescope observation markup language / S. de Witt, T. Jenness, F. Economou and M. Folger -- VOStat : a distributed statistical toolkit for the virtual observatory / M. J. Graham, S. G. Djorgovski, A. A. Mahabal, R. D. Williams, G. J. Babu, E. D. Feigelson, D. E. Vanden Berk, R. Nichol and L. Wasserman -- WBUCS : a Web simulator for deep galaxy fields / D. K. Magee, R. J. Bouwens and G. D. Illingworth -- Configurable format conversion tool from XML to FITS with binary extensions / K. Matsuzaki, H. Baba, K. Shuto, A. Miura, H. Nakamoto, R. Kanamori and Y. Kobayashi -- Spreading DIRT with Web services / M. W. Pound, M. G. Wolfire, N. S. Amarnath and R. L. Plante -- A new SIMBAD software and system : SIMBAD 4 / M. Wenger, A. Oberto, J.-P. Lejal, S. Jaehu, B. Baranne, O. Dellicour and J. Deprez -- RADAR : a fast, scalable, and distributable archive inventory service / A. Zhang, T. H. Jarrett, A. Alexov, G. B. Berriman, J. C. Good, M. Kong, N. D. Tahir-Kheli and S. Monkewitz -- XMM-Newton : passing five years of successful science operations / C. Gabriel, M. Guainazzi and L. Metcalfe -- GaiaGrid : its implications and implementation / S. G. Ansari, U. Lammers and M. ter Linden -- Spitzer space telescope data processing and algorithmic complexity / M. Moshir -- Analyzing the Cas a megasecond in less than a megasecond / J. E. Davis, J. C. Houck, G. E. Allen and M. D. Stage -- Linearization of Spitzer IRS data via minimization of [chi][superscript 2] with correlated errors / J. W. Fowler -- Post-pipeline processing of deep Spitzer data for the GOODS legacy project / D. Grumm, S. Casertano, M. Dickinson and S. Holfeltz -- Towards the optimal association of Hubble ACS images / J. Haase, R. N. Hook, A. Micol, D. Durand and A. M. Koekemoer -- Concurrent science and wavecal COS data / P. E. Hodge -- Processing of 24 micron image data at the Spitzer Science Center / F. J. Masci, R. Laher, F. Fang, J. W. Fowler, W. Lee, S. Stolovy, D. Padgett and M. Moshir -- The CIAO Website unveiled / E. C. Galle, D. J. Burke, C. Stawarz and A. Fruscione -- The impact of the ACIS readout streak and pileup on Chandra source detection / M. L. McCollough and A. H. Rots -- Filtering of signal dependent noise applied to MIPS data / M. Pesenson, M. Moshir, D. Makovoz, D. Frayer and D. Henderson -- Java-based astronomical software - the HERSCHEL/PACS common software system as example / E. Wieprecht, R. Huygen, B. Vandenbussche, W. de Meester, S. Guest, A. de Jonge, P. Zaal, S. Osterhage and M. Wetzstein -- The SIP convention for representing distortion in FITS image headers / D. L. Shupe, M. Moshir, J. Li, D. Makovoz, R. Narron and R. N. Hook -- FITS world coordinates for DEIMOS slitmasks / S. L. Allen -- Architecture of the WFCAM/eSTAR transient object detection agent / B. Cavanagh, A. Allan, T. Jenness, F. Economou, P. Hirst, A. Adamson and T. Naylor -- The visible-light magnetograph at the Big Bear Solar Observatory : hardware and software / S. Shumko, V. Abramenko, C. Denker, P. Goode, A. Tritschler and J. Varsik -- IRAF package for GNIRS data reduction - a product of the Gemini/NOAO collaboration / A. Cooke and B. Rodgers -- An overview of the Mount Stromlo Observatory telescope control system / M. A. Jarnyk and G. R. Hovey -- NBodyLab simulation experiments with GRAPE-6a and MD-GRAPE2 acceleration / V. Johnson and A. Ates -- Optimizing observing sequence design for periodic and non-periodic phenomena : a bayesian approach / M. D. Johnston and R. Knight -- The remote control system for the ASTE telescope / T. Kamazaki, H. Ezawa, K. Tatematsu, N. Yamaguchi, N. Kuno, K. I. Morita, K. Yanagisawa, O. Horigome and J. Maekawa -- On the use of IDL for instrument control / S. Mazuk and C. Venturini -- Database of instrumental characteristics in a real observatory / A. Micol and D. Sforna -- Building a general purpose Beowulf cluster for astrophysics research / M. W. L. Phelps -- A new data flow system for the nordic optical telescope / S. Prins and P. M. Sorensen -- The CARMA correlator / K. P. Rauch, R. Hobbs and D. W. Hawkins -- PESO - the python based control system of the Ondrejov 2m telescope / P. Skoda, J. Fuchs and J. Honsa -- Telescope automation and remote observing system (TAROS) / G. Wilson, A. Czezowski, G. R. Hovey, M. A. Jarnyk, J. Nielsen, B. Roberts, K. Sebo, D. Smith, A. Vaccarella and P. Young -- Optical camera with high temporal resolution to search for transients in a wide field / I. Zolotukhin, A. Biryukov, G. Beskin, S. Karpov, S. Bondar, E. Ivanov, E. Katkova, K. Hurley and A. Pozanenko -- Using Perl in basic science and calibration pipelines for Spitzer infrared array camera data / H. Brandenburg, P. Lowrance, R. Laher, J. Surace and M. Moshir -- A photometric comparison of ECLIPSE jitter and the ORAC-DR equivalent recipe for ISAAC / M. J. Currie -- Design of the SCUBA-2 quick look display and data reduction pipeline / A. G. Gibb, D. Scott, T. Jenness, F. Economou, B. D. Kelly and W. S. Holland -- Spitzer space telescope MIPS germanium pipeline / D. Henderson, D. Frayer, T. D. Hesselroth and M. Pesenson -- Caltrans keeps the Spitzer pipelines moving / W. Lee, R. Laher, J. W. Fowler, F. J. Masci and M. Moshir -- VISTA data flow system : pipeline processing for WFCAM and VISTA / J. R. Lewis, M. J. Irwin, S. T. Hodgkin, P. S. Bunclark, D. W. Evans and R. G. McMahon -- Time domain explorations with digital sky surveys / A. A. Mahabal, S. G. Djorgovski, M. J. Graham, P. Kollipara, B. Granett, E. Krause, R. D. Williams, M. Bogosavljevic, C. Baltay, D. Rabinowitz, A. Bauer, P. Andrews, N. Ellman, S. Duffau, J. Jerke, A. Rengstorf, R. J. Brunner, J. Musser, S. Mufson and M. Gebhard -- Planck/LFI pipeline - the demonstration model / F. Pasian, A. Zacchei, C. Vuerli, D. Maino and C. Baccigalupi -- FLIPPER : a FLexIble PiPeline framEwoRk / F. Pierfederici -- Wavelength calibration in physical model based pipelines / M. Fiorentino, P. Bristow, F. Kerber and M. Rosa --

The design of the W. M. Keck Observatory archive / G. B. Berriman, D. R. Ciardi, A. C. Laity, N. D. Tahir-Kheli, A. Conrad, J. Mader, H. Tran and T. Bida -- Software architecture of the Spitzer space telescope uplink/archive / J. Chavez, T. Goldina, A. Hoac, W. Roby and X. Wu -- Data processing discovery agents in the Gemini science archive / A. Damian, N. Hill, P. Dowler, D. Bohlender, S. Goliath, S. Gaudet, G. Melnychuk and C. Aspin -- The Gemini science archive : current status and future prospects / D. Bohlender, A. Damian, S. Gaudet, S. Goliath, N. Hill, G. Melnychuk and C. Aspin -- Gemini science archive automatic data transfer / G. Melnychuk, A. Damian, S. Goliath, L. Shao, N. Hill, S. Gaudet, D. Bohlender and C. Aspin -- The D4A digitiser / J.-P. De Cuyper and L. Winter -- Overview of the Gemini science archive / A. Damian, S. Goliath, S. Gaudet, D. Bohlender, N. Hill, G. Melnychuk and C. Aspin -- The Gemini science archive data dictionary / S. Goliath, A. Damian, S. Gaudet, N. Hill, D. Bohlender, G. Melnychuk and C. Aspin -- FITS image cutout Web services / V. Haridas, W. O'Mullane, T. Budavari, M. A. Nieto-Santisteban, A. S. Szalay, S. Carliles and A. R. Thakar -- The WFCAM science archive and other WFAU work / M. A. Read, N. C. Hamby, E. T. W. Sutorius, R. G. Mann, I. A. Bond and P. M. Williams -- ESO archive services / N. Rossat, N. Delmotte, N. Fourniol, B. Pirenne and A. Dobrzycki -- The NOAO data cache initiative - building a distributed online datastore / R. Seaman, I. Barg, N. Zarate, C. Smith and N. Saavedra -- New features for VO-enabled data intensive science with the SDSS data release 3 / A. R. Thakar, A. S. Szalay, W. O'Mullane, T. Budavari, M. A. Nieto-Santisteban, G. Fekete, N. Li, S. Carliles, J. Gray and R. Lupton -- A conceptual domain model for the NOAO science archive / P. Warner, R. Hiriart, F. Valdes, T. Lauer and S. Points -- A case study of applying object-relational persistence in astronomy data archiving / S. S. Yao, R. Hiriart, I. Barg, P. Warner and D. Gasson.

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