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Who Are You Calling a Squirt?

Lonidamine (LND) is a new anti-cancer drug which interferes with the energy-yielding processes of tumour cells without affecting DNA replication. A total of 69 previously untreated patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) entered this study. LND was given orally as a single agent at doses ranging from 450 to 900 mg day-' until tumour progression (2 to > 1,402 days). Partial responses (P...

Calling All Agents, Where Are You?

We believe the next step in the application of agent technology to the Internet is the massive population of the Internet with software agents functioning in a wide range of capacities: information ltering, information brokering, commerce, negotiation, and so on. In such an environment, a means to eeectively locate relevant agents for relevant tasks is indispensable. In this paper, we examine i...

Who are you?

Who Are You?

M any security mechanisms, including authorization, depend on the proper handling of identity, but it’s hard to get right. To understand why, we must examine, fundamentally, what identity is. One traditional answer is that an identity is a name. That’s unsatisfactory, for several reasons. First, a name points to an object—an entity—but is not itself that object. Second, authentication is needed...

Who Are You?

Most automatic recognition systems are focused on recognizing, given a single mug-shot of an individual, any new image of that individual. Most verification systems are designed to authenticate an identity provided by the user. However, the previous work rarely focus on the problem of detecting when a new individual, i.e. an unknown one, is present. The goal of the work presented in this paper ...