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IVA
2007
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
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. ...
KIVS
2007
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
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
16 years 1 months ago
(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
ESCIENCE
2006
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
User Programmable Virtualized Networks
This paper introduces the concept of a User Programmable Virtualized Network, which allows networks to deliver application specific services using network element components that ...
Robert J. Meijer, Rudolf J. Strijkers, Leon Gomman...