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EATCS
2002
13 years 10 months ago
2002
Nature is not only a source of minerals and precious stones but is also a mine of algorithms. By observing and studying natural phenomena, computer algorithms can be extracted. In...
ISAAC
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2005
Springer
Abstract. The Parallel Disks Model (PDM) has been proposed to alleviate the I/O bottleneck that arises in the processing of massive data sets. Sorting has been extensively studied ...
CEC
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
— We present an ant-based algorithm for spatially sorting objects into an annular structure. The model is minimal, as it requires only stochastic ant behaviour coupled with a phe...
TC
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
Abstract. The Parallel Disks Model (PDM) has been proposed to alleviate the I/O bottleneck that arises in the processing of massive data sets. Sorting has been extensively studied ...
CORR
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Springer
There is a growing body of work on sorting and selection in models other than the unit-cost comparison model. This work treats a natural stochastic variant of the problem where the...