ing information on body area networks

ing Interactions Based on Message Sets Svend Frr 1 and Gul Agha 2. 1 Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303 2 University of Illinois, 1304 W. Springfield Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801 Abs t rac t . An important requirement of programming languages for distributed systems is to provide abstractions for coordination. A common type of coordination requires reactivity in ...

bounded scope dialogue with the user in order to collect his suggestions about the structure and content of the texts to be su~mmrized, and his requirements on the summary to be generated. This information is embedded in two different frameworks called working_ text schema and working summmar~, schema which contain the user's suggestions and requirements, respectively. The schemas will constitu...

This paper investigates an algebraic approach for simplifying belief networks. A network with a simple structure permits eecient probabilistic inference while it preserves probabilistic orderings. A simpliied network introduces extra independence relations to reduce the interconnectivities among the random variables in the network, and thus the cost of probabilistic inference.

ing captures information about the cable itself: its document number, source, date, etc. Indexing captures information about the entities described in the cable: their names, dates of birth, locations, etc. The result of the abstracting and indexing process is a set of index records about the entities that were described in a cable. When a cable has been abstracted and indexed, its index record...

Although Current Awareness Service (CAS) is a term of recent origin in the vocabulary of special librarians and information specialists a search for its definition or what it stands for leaves one confused. This can be not iced from Guha [1) when he says "it is difficult to draw a sharp line of demarcation between a current awareness service and any other type of indexing and abstracting servic...

We present work on the automatic generation of short indicative-informative abstracts of scientific and technical articles. The indicative part of the abstract identifies the topics of the document while the informative part of the abstract elaborate some topics according to the reader's interest by motivating the topics, describing entities and defining concepts. We have defined our method of ...

We report on our study of a corpus of abstracts and parent documents to determinate which structural parts of the parent document are used to extract useful information for an abstract. The results give us a sound basis for automatic abstracting of research articles. Our method for automatic abstracting, called selective analysis, is intended to produce user-oriented abstracts which are indicat...