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EOR
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Technology choice and timing with positive network effects
When two competing and incompatible products coexist in a market, potential users face a choice between the two products and the alternative of deferring the decision. This paper ...
Laura J. Kornish
RTSS
1997
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
More optimism about real-time distributed commit processing
In [6], we proposed a new commit protocol, OPT, specially designed for use in distributed firm-deadline real-time database systems. OPT allows transactions to “optimistically...
Ramesh Gupta, Jayant R. Haritsa, Krithi Ramamritha...
VTC
2007
IEEE
113views Communications» more  VTC 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Channel Prediction Heuristics for Adaptive Modulation in WLAN
— Channel-adaptive techniques increase the efficiency of wireless communications, as they are efficient in coping with the quality variation of the wireless channels. However, ...
Ana Aguiar, Adam Wolisz
TMM
2011
166views more  TMM 2011»
13 years 2 months ago
Audiovisual Discrimination Between Speech and Laughter: Why and When Visual Information Might Help
Past research on automatic laughter classification / detection has focused mainly on audio-based approaches. Here we present an audiovisual approach to distinguishing laughter fr...
Stavros Petridis, Maja Pantic
BMCBI
2008
89views more  BMCBI 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Increasing the efficiency of bacterial transcription simulations: When to exclude the genome without loss of accuracy
Background: Simulating the major molecular events inside an Escherichia coli cell can lead to a very large number of reactions that compose its overall behaviour. Not only should ...
Marco A. J. Iafolla, Guang Qiang Dong, David R. Mc...