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GECCO
2007
Springer
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Markov chain models of bare-bones particle swarm optimizers
We apply a novel theoretical approach to better understand the behaviour of different types of bare-bones PSOs. It avoids many common but unrealistic assumptions often used in an...
Riccardo Poli, William B. Langdon
IVA
2007
Springer
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Health Document Explanation by Virtual Agents
We describe the design and evaluation of a virtual agent that explains health documents to patients. The prevalence and impact of low health literacy is presented as a motivation f...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Michael K. ...
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KIVS
2007
Springer
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Routing and Broadcasting in Ad-Hoc Networks
In this paper, we introduce two protocols - a routing and a broadcasting protocol - for ad-hoc networks which are based on a new paradigm enabled by the broadcast property of the w...
Marc Heissenbüttel
PVM
2007
Springer
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(Sync|Async)+ MPI Search Engines
We propose a parallel MPI search engine that is capable of automatically switching between asynchronous message passing and bulk-synchronous message passing modes of operation. Whe...
Mauricio Marín, Veronica Gil Costa
SSS
2007
Springer
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On the Performance of Dijkstra's Third Self-stabilizing Algorithm for Mutual Exclusion
In [Dij74] Dijkstra introduced the notion of self-stabilizing algorithms, and presented three such algorithms for the problem of mutual exclusion on a ring of processors. The thir...
Viacheslav Chernoy, Mordechai Shalom, Shmuel Zaks