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TPDS
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
Maximizing Service Reliability in Distributed Computing Systems with Random Node Failures: Theory and Implementation
—In distributed computing systems (DCSs) where server nodes can fail permanently with nonzero probability, the system performance can be assessed by means of the service reliabil...
Jorge E. Pezoa, Sagar Dhakal, Majeed M. Hayat
GECCO
2007
Springer
124views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Origin of bursts
The phenomenon of particle bursts, a well-known feature of PSO is investigated. Their origin is concluded to lie in multiplicative stochasticity, previously encountered in the stu...
Tim Blackwell, Daniel Bratton
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Convergence analysis of consensus-based distributed clustering
This paper deals with clustering of spatially distributed data using wireless sensor networks. A distributed low-complexity clustering algorithm is developed that requires one-hop...
Pedro A. Forero, Alfonso Cano, Georgios B. Giannak...
DSD
2008
IEEE
166views Hardware» more  DSD 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
Pearson - based Analysis of Positioning Error Distribution in Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract—In two recent contributions [1], [2], we have provided a comparative analysis of various optimization algorithms, which can be used for atomic location estimation, and s...
Stefano Tennina, Marco Di Renzo, Fabio Graziosi, F...
CP
2004
Springer
14 years 23 days ago
Heuristic Selection for Stochastic Search Optimization: Modeling Solution Quality by Extreme Value Theory
The success of stochastic algorithms is often due to their ability to effectively amplify the performance of search heuristics. This is certainly the case with stochastic sampling ...
Vincent A. Cicirello, Stephen F. Smith