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IAT
2006
IEEE
16 years 20 days ago
A Component-Based Architecture for Multi-Agent Systems
A Multi-agent system (MAS) is an open distributed system of agents. The agents in a MAS may form certain specific groups, where agents in each group jointly engage in solving a s...
Kaiyu Wan, Vasu S. Alagar
IVA
2007
Springer
16 years 23 days 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. ...
MOBICOM
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Bartendr: a practical approach to energy-aware cellular data scheduling
Cellular radios consume more power and suffer reduced data rate when the signal is weak. According to our measurements, the communication energy per bit can be as much as 6x highe...
Aaron Schulman, Vishnu Navda, Ramachandran Ramjee,...
ICALP
2005
Springer
16 years 4 days ago
Computational Bounds on Hierarchical Data Processing with Applications to Information Security
Motivated by the study of algorithmic problems in the domain of information security, in this paper, we study the complexity of a new class of computations over a collection of va...
Roberto Tamassia, Nikos Triandopoulos
GLOBAL
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Performance Evaluation for Global Computation
Abstract. Global computing applications co-ordinate distributed computations across widely-dispersed hosts. Such systems present formidable design and implementation challenges to ...
Linda Brodo, Pierpaolo Degano, Stephen Gilmore, Ja...