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KSEM
2010
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Autonomy: Life and Being
This paper uses robot experience to explore key concepts of autonomy, life and being. Unfortunately, there are no widely accepted definitions of autonomy, life or being. Using a ne...
Mary-Anne Williams
PPOPP
2010
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Analyzing lock contention in multithreaded applications
Many programs exploit shared-memory parallelism using multithreading. Threaded codes typically use locks to coordinate access to shared data. In many cases, contention for locks r...
Nathan R. Tallent, John M. Mellor-Crummey, Allan P...
WWW
2011
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Finding hierarchy in directed online social networks
Social hierarchy and stratification among humans is a well studied concept in sociology. The popularity of online social networks presents an opportunity to study social hierarch...
Mangesh Gupte, Pravin Shankar, Jing Li, S. Muthukr...
IHI
2010
149views Healthcare» more  IHI 2010»
15 years 1 months ago
Intelligent personal health record: experience and open issues
Web-based personal health records (PHRs) are under massive deployment. To improve PHR's capability and usability, we previously proposed the concept of intelligent PHR (iPHR)...
Gang Luo, Chunqiang Tang, Selena B. Thomas
CORR
2011
Springer
145views Education» more  CORR 2011»
14 years 10 months ago
Collective Animal Behavior from Bayesian Estimation and Probability Matching
Animals living in groups make movement decisions that depend, among other factors, on social interactions with other group members. Our present understanding of social rules in an...
Alfonso Pérez-Escudero, Gonzalo G. de Polav...