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ECCV
2006
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Image Specific Feature Similarities
Abstract. Calculating a reliable similarity measure between pixel features is essential for many computer vision and image processing applications. We propose a similarity measure ...
Ido Omer, Michael Werman
SIGCOMM
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Systematic topology analysis and generation using degree correlations
Researchers have proposed a variety of metrics to measure important graph properties, for instance, in social, biological, and computer networks. Values for a particular graph met...
Priya Mahadevan, Dmitri V. Krioukov, Kevin R. Fall...
DSN
2000
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
On the Quality of Service of Failure Detectors
ÐWe study the quality of service (QoS) of failure detectors. By QoS, we mean a specification that quantifies 1) how fast the failure detector detects actual failures and 2) how we...
Wei Chen, Sam Toueg, Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera
SJ
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Analyzing the Resilience of Complex Supply Network Topologies Against Random and Targeted Disruptions
—In this paper, we study the resilience of supply networks against disruptions and provide insights to supply chain managers on how to construct a resilient supply network from t...
Kang Zhao, Akhil Kumar, Terry P. Harrison, John Ye...
GECCO
2006
Springer
132views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
14 years 12 days ago
"Optimal" mutation rates for genetic search
Using a set of model landscapes we examine how different mutation rates affect different search metrics. We show that very universal heuristics, such as 1/N and the error threshol...
Jorge Cervantes, Christopher R. Stephens