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COMPLEX
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
A Preliminary Study on the Effects of Fear Factors in Disease Propagation
Upon an outbreak of a dangerous infectious disease, people generally tend to reduce their contacts with others in fear of getting infected. Such typical actions apparently help to ...
Yubo Wang, Jie Hu, Gaoxi Xiao, Limsoon Wong, Stefa...
EMO
2009
Springer
155views Optimization» more  EMO 2009»
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A Hybrid Integrated Multi-Objective Optimization Procedure for Estimating Nadir Point
A nadir point is constructed by the worst objective values of the solutions of the entire Pareto-optimal set. Along with the ideal point, the nadir point provides the range of obje...
Kalyanmoy Deb, Kaisa Miettinen, Deepak Sharma
ERCIMDL
2009
Springer
115views Education» more  ERCIMDL 2009»
15 years 11 months ago
Comparing Google to Ask-a-Librarian Service for Answering Factual and Topical Questions
This paper evaluates to which extent Google retrieved correct answers as responses to queries inferred from factual and topical requests in a digital Ask-a-Librarian service. 100 f...
Pertti Vakkari, Mari Taneli
NETCOOP
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
User Association to Optimize Flow Level Performance in Wireless Systems with Dynamic Interference
We study the impact of user association policies on flow-level performance in interference limited wireless networks. Most research in this area has used static interference model...
Balaji Rengarajan, Gustavo de Veciana
PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Persuading users through counseling dialogue with a conversational agent
We present an empirical study of the effect of a computer agent designed to engage a user in a persuasive counseling dialogue on attitudes towards regular exercise. We used two ma...
Daniel Schulman, Timothy W. Bickmore