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PRESENCE
2008
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Modeling of Tool-Tissue Interactions for Computer-Based Surgical Simulation: A Literature Review
Surgical simulators present a safe and potentially effective method for surgical training, and can also be used in robot-assisted surgery for pre- and intra-operative planning. Ac...
Sarthak Misra, K. T. Ramesh, Allison M. Okamura
SIAMSC
2008
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Bottom-Up Construction and 2: 1 Balance Refinement of Linear Octrees in Parallel
Abstract. In this article, we propose new parallel algorithms for the construction and 2:1 balance refinement of large linear octrees on distributed memory machines. Such octrees a...
Hari Sundar, Rahul S. Sampath, George Biros
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
131views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
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Truthful germs are contagious: a local to global characterization of truthfulness
We study the question of how to easily recognize whether a social unction f from an abstract type space to a set of outcomes is truthful, i.e. implementable by a truthful mechanis...
Aaron Archer, Robert Kleinberg
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
220views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
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Better redistribution with inefficient allocation in multi-unit auctions with unit demand
For the problem of allocating one or more items among a group of competing agents, the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism is strategy-proof and efficient. However, the VCG mech...
Mingyu Guo, Vincent Conitzer
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
161views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2008»
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Noncooperative power control and transmission scheduling in wireless collision channels
We consider a wireless collision channel, shared by a finite number of mobile users who transmit to a common base station using a random access protocol. Mobiles are selfoptimizin...
Ishai Menache, Nahum Shimkin