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IPSN
2003
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Distributed Environmental Monitoring Using Random Sensor Networks
Abstract. We present a distributed algorithm for environmental monitoring of a scalar field (such as temperature, intensity of light, atmospheric pressure, etc.) using a random se...
Slobodan N. Simic, Shankar Sastry
EDM
2009
110views Data Mining» more  EDM 2009»
13 years 7 months ago
Using Learning Decomposition and Bootstrapping with Randomization to Compare the Impact of Different Educational Interventions o
A basic question of instructional interventions is how effective it is in promoting student learning. This paper presents a study to determine the relative efficacy of different in...
Mingyu Feng, Joseph Beck, Neil T. Heffernan
ACAL
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Emergent Societal Effects of Crimino-Social Forces in an Animat Agent Model
Societal behaviour can be studied at a causal level by perturbing a stable multi-agent model with new microscopic behaviours and observing the statistical response over an ensembl...
Chris Scogings, Kenneth A. Hawick
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
A framework for determining necessary query set sizes to evaluate web search effectiveness
We describe a framework of bootstrapped hypothesis testing for estimating the confidence in one web search engine outperforming another over any randomly sampled query set of a gi...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, Ophir Frieder, ...
DSN
2005
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Coverage and the Use of Cyclic Redundancy Codes in Ultra-Dependable Systems
A Cyclic Redundancy Code (CRC), when used properly, can be an effective and relatively inexpensive method to detect data corruption across communication channels. However, some sy...
Michael Paulitsch, Jennifer Morris, Brendan Hall, ...