Envisioning the healthcare technology of tomorrow requires one to break from the mainstream and explore alternative approaches to develop accessible, ubiquitous diagnostic tools. In the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), despite considerable improvements in imaging quality and speed, the underlying technology remains remarkably unchanged compared to the first generation scanners that em...

This paper describes a simulated annealing algorithm to compute k connected graphs that minimize a linear combination of graph edge cost and diameter Repli cas of Internet information services can use graphs with these properties to propagate updates among themselves We report the algorithm s performance on and connected node graphs where edge cost and diame ter correspond to physical distance ...

The cost of high-performance parallel platforms prevents parallel processing techniques from spreading in present applications. Networks of Workstations (NOW) exploiting oo-the-shelf communication hardware, high-end PCs and standard communication software provide much cheaper but poorly performing parallel platforms. In our NOW prototype called GAMMA (Genoa Active Message MAchine) every node is...