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GECCO
2007
Springer
210views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
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Markov chain models of bare-bones particle swarm optimizers
We apply a novel theoretical approach to better understand the behaviour of different types of bare-bones PSOs. It avoids many common but unrealistic assumptions often used in an...
Riccardo Poli, William B. Langdon
IVA
2007
Springer
15 years 11 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
15 years 11 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
15 years 11 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
106views Control Systems» more  SSS 2007»
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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