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MOBICOM
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Stochastic event capture using mobile sensors subject to a quality metric
Mobile sensors cover more area over a period of time than the same number of stationary sensors. However, the quality of coverage achieved by mobile sensors depends on the velocit...
Nabhendra Bisnik, Alhussein A. Abouzeid, Volkan Is...
CCGRID
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
An Ontology for Scientific Information in a Grid Environment: the Earth System Grid
In the emerging world of Grid Computing, shared computational, data, other distributed resources are becoming available to enable scientific advancement through collaborative rese...
Line Pouchard, Luca Cinquini, Bob Drach, Don Middl...
IPPS
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Using Performance Counters for Runtime Temperature Sensing in High-Performance Processors
As energy consumption in high-performance systems has increased, thermal management has become a big challenge. Providing a cost-effective and detailed temperature sensing mechani...
Kyeong-Jae Lee, Kevin Skadron
ICDCS
2002
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Design of Adaptive and Reliable Mobile Agent Communication Protocols
This paper presents a mailbox-based scheme for designing flexible and adaptive message delivery protocols in mobile agent (MA) systems. The scheme associates each mobile agent wit...
Jiannong Cao, Xinyu Feng, Jian Lü, Sajal K. D...
IVA
2007
Springer
14 years 3 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. ...