We propose an approach to design mobile agent applications for content-based multimedia information retrieval or electronic commerce on the Internet. The specific mobile agents of interest are called adlets, which are mobile agents carrying the metadata of various kinds of multimedia documents. Adlets autonomously travel from site to site on the Internet, advertising its contents and interactin...

This paper represents a technique for finding optimal paths with multiple indexes in a graph. Up to the present time, all optimal paths have been determined upon one index, say, distance for which an evaluation method exists. In this paper firstly we define multiple indexes for each edge in such a way that anyone can treat the factor for assigning an optimal path. Here, we use Data Envelopment ...

Limited information and observations indicate that there are some significant amounts of hardwood residue resources now available in the Central Coast area. Experience gained from man­ aging and marketing eastern hardwoods is considered as our basis for dealing with western hardwood problems. Inventory of the oak resource is discussed as a preliminary requirement for management. In ad­ dition, ...

Prediction-of-use (POU) games [Robu et al., 2017] address the mismatch between energy supplier costs and the incentives imposed on consumers by fixed-rate electricity tariffs. However, the framework does not address how consumers should coordinate to maximize social welfare. To address this, we develop MPOU games, an extension of POU games in which agents report multiple acceptable electricity ...

be independent multivariate observations , where the x i 's are known vectors, B; and are unknown, being a positive deenite matrix. The calibration problem deals with statistical inference concerning and the problem that we have addressed is the construction of conndence regions. When the same set of y i 's are used to construct conndence regions for a sequence of possibly diierent parameter ve...

The context of use in which users are carrying out their interactive tasks is continuously submitted to an evolution in the user population, the computing platforms used for the tasks, and the physical environment in which users are living. This evolution process raises a need for extending traditional task modelling to support multiple contexts of use simultaneously. To address this problem, t...

Many naturally occurring categories vary across multiple stimulus dimensions (e.g. size, color, texture). When humans categorize multidimensional stimuli on the basis of a single dimension this has been taken to indicate use of a rule that could be verbalized. Sorting on the basis of all the stimulus dimensions (‘overall similarity’ or ‘family resemblance’) has been taken to indicate a more bas...

BACKGROUND Natalizumab, a humanized monoclonal antibody raised against alpha4 integrins, is approved for treatment of active relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) in adult patients. OBJECTIVE To determine the safety, effectiveness, and tolerability of natalizumab use in pediatric patients with MS. DESIGN Case report. SETTING Center for MS in childhood and adolescents, Göttingen, G...