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ISSA
2004
13 years 9 months ago
The Protection Of Public Health Data - A Case Study
South Africa's health system consists of a large public sector and a smaller but fast-growing private sector. Health care varies from the most basic primary health care, offe...
S. Nkundlaa
OPODIS
2004
13 years 8 months ago
Embedded Systems - Challenges and Work Directions
Embedded Systems are components integrating software and hardware jointly and specifically designed to provide given functionalities. These components may be used in many different...
Joseph Sifakis
IJCAI
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Towards Cooperative Negotiation for Decentralized Resource Allocation in Autonomic Computing Systems
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
WM
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Radical Empiricism: Empirical Modelling and the nature of knowing
This paper explores connections between Radical Empiricism (RE), a philosophic attitude developed by William James at the beginning of the 20th century, and Empirical Modelling (E...
Meurig Beynon
WSC
2000
13 years 8 months ago
Use of discrete event simulation to validate an agent based scheduling engine
This paper discusses the use of simulation in a new context. Most often QUEST is viewed as a stand-alone simulation tool to analyze and understand shop floor behavior. It has rare...
Shubhabrata Biswas, Sara Merchawi