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Tobacco smoking, a major risk factor for coronary heart disease, stroke, peripheral vascular disease, cancer and other diseases, 1 is estimated to cost the australian community $31.5 billion per annum, 2 and was responsible for more than 15 500 australian deaths in 2003. 3 Overall, Australian smoking rates have declined since the 1950s, with daily smoking among patients aged 18 years and over d...

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FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE SCHOOL OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE Doctor of Philosophy by Sarvapali Dyanand Ramchurn In this thesis, we propose a panoply of tools and techniques to manage inter-agent dependencies in open, distributed multi-agent systems that have significant degrees of uncertainty. In particular, we focus on situations in which agents are involved in repeate...

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An ad hoc wireless LAN is a collection of wireless mobile nodes dynamically forming a temporary network without the use of any pre-existing network infrastructure or centralized administration. Due to its distributed nature, flexibility, robustness and ease of installation, ad hoc wireless LAN has greatly increased the scope for research in wireless communications. Since there is no defined str...

DNA Computing: A Research Snapshot

Kalpana Mahalingam Indian Institute of Technology 31.