We study classical deadline-based preemptive scheduling of jobs in a computing environment equipped with both dynamic speed scaling and sleep state capabilities: Each job is specified by a release time, a deadline and a processing volume, and has to be scheduled on a single, speed-scalable processor that is supplied with a sleep state. In the sleep state, the processor consumes no energy, but a...

We discuss settings where several “agents” combine efforts to solve problems. This is a well-known setting in distributed artificial intelligence. Our work addresses theoretical questions in this model which are motivated by the work of Deng and Papadimitriou [11]. We consider optimization problems, in particular load balancing and virtual circuit routing, in which the input is divided among th...

In 1969 Winchester et all described two PuertoRican sisters aged four and 12 years, the offspring of first cousins, as having "a new acid mucopolysaccharidosis with skeletal deformities simulating rheumatoid arthritis". Brown and Kuwabara2 described the same sibs from the ophthalmological point of view at the ages of five and 13 years. Hollister et a13 4 reported two sisters and a male cousin f...

n engl j med 358;23 www.nejm.org june 5, 2008 2509 tivation of the contact system. N Engl J Med 2008;358:2457­ 67. Petitou M, Casu B, Lindahl U. 1976­1983, A critical period in the history of heparin: the discovery of the antithrombin bind­ ing site. Biochimie 2003;85:83­9. Hojima Y, Cochrane CG, Wiggins RC, Austen KF, Stevens RL. In vitro activation of the contact (Hageman factor) system of pl...

This paper presents a method for obtaining accurate dense elevation and appearance models of terrain using a single camera on-board an aerial platform, which has many applications including geographical information systems, robot path planning, immersion and visualization, and surveying for scientific purposes such as watershed analysis. When given geo-registered images, the method can compute ...

AIM The aim of the study was to compare the yield of mean platelet volume (MPV), total prostate specific antigen (tPSA), free prostate specific antigen (fPSA), f/t PSA ratio and complex prostate specific antigen (cPSA) in patients with prostatitis. MATERIAL AND METHOD The study was designed in the Kayseri Education and Research Hospital. Ninety-six patients with prostatitis were enrolled retr...

Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially expert systems technology, has very promising possibilities for more fully automating the analysis of medical research data. The Program on the Surgical Control of the Hyperlipidemias (POSCH), a national multi-centered clinical trial has been experimenting with using AI in its data analyses for several years. Three projects are described in this paper. T...

Accurate Real-Time Reconstruction of Distant Scenes Using Computer Vision: The Recursive Multi-Frame Planar Parallax Algorithm by Todd Russell Templeton Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering-Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California, Berkeley Professor S. Shankar Sastry, Chair In this dissertation, we detail the Recursive Multi-Frame Planar Parallax (RMFPP) algorithm, ...

IQS Department University of Baltimore 1420 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201 *Tel #: (410) 837-5275 FAX #: (410) 837-5722 *[email protected] Rajesh M irani Many organizations are consolidating their data, models and information resources to create an organization-wide system, called organizational decision Support system (ODSS). This paper discusses issues related to ODSSs and the...

Discretization of numerical data is one of the most influential data preprocessing tasks in knowledge discovery and data mining. The purpose of attribute discretization is to find concise data representations as categories which are adequate for the learning task retaining as much information in the original continuous attribute as possible. In this article, we present an updated overview of di...