Using autonomous intelligent agents that converse based on mutually accepted ontologies distributed entities can share and disseminate knowledge across system and organization boundaries. By using ontologies that are expressed in rst order predicate-logic participating agents can query and declare knowledge in a very high-level fashion that goes beyond mere data sharing. This high-level concept...

1 Jeffrey Froyd, Texas A&M University, Department of Electrical Engineering, Zachry Engineering Center, MS3128, College Station, TX 77843-3128, [email protected] Abstract  Each proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) seeking support for improving engineering education must include a plan for disseminating the innovations and results that a funded project will generate. Authors may se...

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Given a social network, we are interested to determine k seeds that maximize the dissemination of information. Based on the principle of homophily, communities play an important role since information can be disseminated to communities via the seeds. We introduce a new mechanism for detecting communities satisfying the pertinent criteria for communities and information dissemination. We demonst...

Herpes zoster or shingles is an acute vesico-bullous cutaneous infection characterized by dermatomal distribution, predominantly in adults. Extensive cutaneous dissemination has been reported in immunocompromised patients. However, its existence is documented in immunocompetent individuals as well. We report two children with disseminated herpes zoster, one of whom was immunocompromised seconda...

A distinguishing characteristic of wireless sensor networks is the opportunity to exploit characteristics of the application at lower layers. This approach is encouraged by device resource constraints, and acceptable because devices are inexpensive and numerous enough that they can be dedicated to specific applications. Many data dissemination protocols have been proposed for multi-hop communic...

1Chair of Dermatology, Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Immunodermatology, Faculty of Medicine in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland 2Department of Clinical Pathomorphology, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland 3Department of Hematology, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland 4Department...

This paper examines the construction of distributed information systems that incorporate the ability to push data out to clients (i.e., dissemination) in addition to having clients pull data from servers. One key issue that distinguishes such dissemination-based information systems (DBIS) from more traditional ones is communications asymmetry. Asymmetry arises in many new applications due to bo...

t b a In 1978 the fırst multi-site mental health epidemiologic study in theU.S. reported thatmore than 50%of community respondents with depressive disorders were treated exclusively within the primary care system. As a result, primary care was labeled the “de facto mental health system” for Americans with the more prevalent but less severe mental health disorders. Subsequent research over the n...