In this paper, we address the issue how a computing system can coach people in doing progressive muscle relaxation exercises. Such a system could help many people in dealing with their stress-related problems like poor sleep. We develop a formal model of progressive muscle relaxation, provide examples of typical instantiations of the model and identify how different coaching activities have the...

background : chemotherapy is an important treatment for cancer, yet some of its side effects are serious and painful. many patients with cancer suffer from psychiatric disorders that most likely result from therapeutic drugs or mental strategies to cope with their illness. progressive muscle relaxation is one of the cost effective, self-help methods that promotes mental health in healthy partic...

We are interested in solving time dependent problems using domain decomposition method. In the classical methods, one discretizes first the time dimension and then one solves a sequence of steady problems by a domain decomposition method. In this paper, we study a Schwarz Waveform Relaxation method which treats directly the time dependent problem. We propose algorithms for the viscous Shallow W...

A non-overlapping domain decomposition algorithm combining boundary element method with meshless local Petrov-Galerkin method is presented for solving the boundary value problem with discontinuous coefficient in this paper. The static relaxation parameter is employed to speed up the convergence rate. The convergence range and the optimal value of static relaxation parameter are studied, but the...