The paper introduces a model of massively parallel computation based on broadcast synchronous agents. It consists of a collection of uniform automata which evolve synchronously. Each agent may observe the state of any other agent via broadcast communication, but it is not aware of the identity of the other agents. A Broadcast Automata based System (BAS) is presented as a new approach to the dev...

We consider the problem of generic broadcast in asynchronous systems with crashes a problem that was rst studied in Roughly speaking given a con ict relation on the set of messages generic broad cast ensures that any two messages that con ict are delivered in the same order messages that do not con ict may be delivered in di erent order In this paper we de ne what it means for an implementation...

Vehicular ad hoc network is an emerging new technology and a promising platform for the intelligent transportation system. The most important application of VANET is disseminating emergency messages to warn drivers in case of dangerous events. The core technique relies on the design of a broadcast scheme. In this paper, we propose a hybrid intelligent broadcast algorithm for alert message disse...

In this paper we propose a new reliable, low-power and low-cost platform for a building automation system, BAS, which is suitable to be used as a single platform for all appliances of a building. Furthermore today’s platforms for building automation do not focus on low-energy consumption of the platform itself. The costs are also quite high and the installation has limited flexibility and needs...

This paper describes a spoken document retrieval (SDR) system for British and North American Broadcast News. The system is based on a connectionist large vocabulary speech recognizer and a probabilistic information retrieval system. We discuss the development of a realtime Broadcast News speech recognizer, and its integration into an SDR system. Two advances were made for this task: automatic s...

We provide a general framework for constructing identitybased and broadcast encryption systems. In particular, we construct a general encryption system called spatial encryption from which many systems with a variety of properties follow. The ciphertext size in all these systems is independent of the number of users involved and is just three group elements. Private key size grows with the comp...

The inability to incorporate manure into permanent pasture leads to the concentration of nutrients near the soil surface with the potential to be transported off site by runoff water. In this study, we used rainfall simulations to examine the effect of broiler chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) litter application method and the runoff timing on nutrient and E. coli losses from tall fescue (Fest...