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GECCO
2003
Springer
142views Optimization» more  GECCO 2003»
14 years 2 months ago
Revisiting Elitism in Ant Colony Optimization
Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) has been applied successfully in solving the Traveling Salesman Problem. Marco Dorigo et al. used Ant System (AS) to explore the Symmetric Traveling S...
Tony White, Simon Kaegi, Terri Oda
EUC
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
On the Effects of Bandwidth Reduction Techniques in Distributed Applications
Communication optimization plays an important role in building networked distributed applications. In this paper, we systematically evaluate four bandwidth reduction algorithms, n...
Hanping Lufei, Weisong Shi, Lucia Zamorano
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
stdchk: A Checkpoint Storage System for Desktop Grid Computing
— Checkpointing is an indispensable technique to provide fault tolerance for long-running high-throughput applications like those running on desktop grids. This paper argues that...
Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Sudharshan S. Vaz...
ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Letting loose a SPIDER on a network of POMDPs: generating quality guaranteed policies
Distributed Partially Observable Markov Decision Problems (Distributed POMDPs) are a popular approach for modeling multi-agent systems acting in uncertain domains. Given the signi...
Pradeep Varakantham, Janusz Marecki, Yuichi Yabu, ...
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Adaptive Calibration for Fusion-based Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract—Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are typically composed of low-cost sensors that are deeply integrated with physical environments. As a result, the sensing performance of...
Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Xue Liu, Jianguo Yao, Zhao...