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Copyright (©) 1999–2010 R Foundation for Statistical Computing. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is...

Agent user interfaces pose a number of special challenges for interface designers. These challenges can be formulated as a series of issues which must be addressed: understanding, trust, control, distraction, and personification. We examine each of these in turn and draw recommendations for designers in dealing with each of the issues as well as for the overall design of an agent interface base...

Health data that appears anonymous, such as DNA records, can be re-identified to named patients via location visit patterns, or trails. This is a realistic privacy concern which continues to exist because data holders do not collaborate prior to making disclosures. In this paper, we present STRANON, a novel computational protocol that enables data holders to work together to determine records t...

Web search engines are composed of a large set of search nodes and a broker machine that feeds them with queries. A location cache keeps minimal information in the broker to register the search nodes capable of producing the top-N results for frequent queries. In this paper we show that it is possible to use the location cache as a training dataset for a standard machine learning algorithm and ...

We present sufficient conditions on an energy landscape in order for the associated gradient flow to exhibit slow motion or “dynamic metastability.” The first condition is a weak form of convexity transverse to the so-called slow manifold, N . The second condition is that the energy restricted to N is Lipschitz with a constant δ ¿ 1. One feature of the abstract result that makes it of broader i...

In a dynamic model of originate-to-distribute lending, we examine whether reputation concerns can incentivize a bank to monitor loans it has sold. Investors believe that banks with fewer recent loan defaults are more likely to monitor (“have higher reputation”). In equilibrium, banks monitor more and retain a smaller loan fraction when their reputations are high. Monitoring is harder to sustain...

administration (http://nordman.lbl. gov/docs/nano.pdf). It must have at least one load or sink of power—which could be electricity storage—and at least one gateway to the outside. Electricity sources aren’t part of the nanogrid, but a source often will be connected only to a single nanogrid. Figure 1 illustrates a simple nanogrid structure. All power flows are accompanied by communications— eit...

This experience paper describes newsblaster.com, a commercial document management system that facilitates exchange of news worthy documents between two user communities: a) editor of newspapers and magazines who seek to publish articles, and b) member companies who want to disseminate information such as new product o erings, product recalls, alliances with other companies, etc. We focus on the...