Multiparty interactive coding allows a network of n parties to perform distributed computations when the communication channels suffer from noise. Previous results (Rajagopalan and Schulman, STOC ’94) obtained a multiparty interactive coding protocol, resilient to random noise, with a blowup of O(log(∆ + 1)) for networks whose topology has a maximal degree ∆. Vitally, the communication model in...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to improve communication skills and knowledge of bioethics of last year medical students doing clerkship and to evaluate the effectiveness of using workshops for this purpose from students’ point of view, in order to continue such programs in future. methods: after ethical approval for the study a two-day workshop on teaching effective communication s...

When implemented in a concurrent language, a window system can be concise. If its client programs connect to the window system using an interface defined in terms of communication on synchronous channels, much of the complexity of traditional eventbased interfaces can be avoided. Once that interface is specified, complex interactive programs can be assembled, not monolithically, but rather by c...

In this video presentation we demonstrate the STARS platform for realizing computer augmented tabletop games within a smart Roomware® environment. STARS dynamically couples multiple types of interaction devices such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) or headsets with an interactive game table. STARS augmented tabletop games provide a number of features like dynamic game boards or private com...

The paper explores the effect of customer satisfaction with online supporting services on loyalty to providers of an offline core service. Supporting services are provided to customers before, during, or after the purchase of a tangible or intangible core product, and have the purpose of enhancing or facilitating the use of this product. The internet has the potential to dominate all other mark...

This paper aims at bridging the gap between the assumption of reliable channels by fault-tolerant distributed algorithms and the weak reliability of feasible communication channels. We deene a new kind of communication channels which we call Stubborn channels. Stubborn channels are easily implementable over a connectionless network layer and, although weak, the reliability guarantees ooered by ...

Biological neural systems encode and transmit information as patterns of activity tracing complex trajectories in high-dimensional state spaces, inspiring alternative paradigms processing. Heteroclinic networks, naturally emerging artificial systems, are networks saddles space that provide a transparent approach to generate via controlled switches among interconnected saddles. External signals ...

We give a notation and a logical calculus for the description and deductive manipulation of dynamic networks of communicating components. We represent such nets by hierarchical systems of recursive equations for streams. We give logical rules that describe the communication within a net and the dynamic creation of components, channels and rearrangement of the net structure. Such net transformat...

Cyber-optimists are hopeful that the development of interactive services, new channels of communication, and efficiency gains from digital technologies will contribute towards revitalizing the role of government executives in representative democracies, facilitating communications between citizen and the state. In contrast cyber-pessimists express doubts about the capacity of governments to ada...