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AGENTS
1997
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Transportable Information Agents
Transportable agents are autonomous programs. They can move through a heterogeneous network of computers under their own control, migrating from host to host. They can sense the s...
Daniela Rus, Robert S. Gray, David Kotz
VISUALIZATION
1992
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
The Microscopist's Workstation
This case study looks at the issues involved in operating a sophisticated scientific instrument as a computer peripheral accessible over a high-speed network. A custom interactive...
Philip J. Mercurio, T. Todd Elvins, Stephen J. You...
ARC
2007
Springer
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15 years 10 months ago
Reconfigurable Computing for Accelerating Protein Folding Simulations
Abstract. This paper presents a methodology for the design of a reconfigurable computing system applied to a complex problem in molecular Biology: the protein folding problem. An e...
Nilton B. Armstrong, Heitor S. Lopes, Carlos R. Er...
PERSUASIVE
2010
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Activity-Based Micro-pricing: Realizing Sustainable Behavior Changes through Economic Incentives
Abstract. In this paper, we further develop the idea of combining pervasive computing techniques with electronic payment systems to create activity-based micro-incentives. Economic...
Tetsuo Yamabe, Vili Lehdonvirta, Hitoshi Ito, Hayu...
GIR
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Building place ontologies for the semantic web: : issues and approaches
Place geo-ontologies have a key role to play in the development of the geospatial-semantic web, with regard to facilitating the search for geographical information and resources. ...
Alia I. Abdelmoty, Philip D. Smart, Christopher B....