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2007
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
A resource optimized physical movement monitoring scheme for environmental and on-body sensor networks
— Perhaps the most significant challenge in design of on-body sensors is the wearability concern. This concern requires that the size of the nodes (sensors, processing units and ...
Antti Vehkaoja, Mari Zakrzewski, Jukka Lekkala, Sa...
NSDI
2007
15 years 7 months ago
WiDS Checker: Combating Bugs in Distributed Systems
Despite many efforts, the predominant practice of debugging a distributed system is still printf-based log mining, which is both tedious and error-prone. In this paper, we present...
Xuezheng Liu, Wei Lin, Aimin Pan, Zheng Zhang
WSC
2007
15 years 7 months ago
Using intelligent agents to understand management practices and retail productivity
Intelligent agents offer a new and exciting way of understanding the world of work. In this paper we apply agentbased modeling and simulation to investigate a set of problems in a...
Peer-Olaf Siebers, Uwe Aickelin, Helen Celia, Chri...
WSC
2007
15 years 7 months ago
A hybrid epidemic model: combining the advantages of agent-based and equation-based approaches
Agent-based models (ABMs) are powerful in describing structured epidemiological processes involving human behavior and local interaction. The joint behavior of the agents can be v...
Georgiy V. Bobashev, D. Michael Goedecke, Feng Yu,...
WSC
2007
15 years 7 months ago
Classification analysis for simulation of machine breakdowns
Machine failure is often an important factor in throughput of manufacturing systems. To simplify the inputs to the simulation model for complex machining and assembly lines, we ha...
Lanting Lu, Christine S. M. Currie, Russell C. H. ...