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SIGCOMM
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Minimizing churn in distributed systems
A pervasive requirement of distributed systems is to deal with churn — change in the set of participating nodes due to joins, graceful leaves, and failures. A high churn rate ca...
Brighten Godfrey, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica
MOBICOM
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
On k-coverage in a mostly sleeping sensor network
Sensor networks are often desired to last many times longer than the active lifetime of individual sensors. This is usually achieved by putting sensors to sleep for most of their ...
Santosh Kumar, Ten-Hwang Lai, József Balogh
LION
2007
Springer
192views Optimization» more  LION 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
Learning While Optimizing an Unknown Fitness Surface
This paper is about Reinforcement Learning (RL) applied to online parameter tuning in Stochastic Local Search (SLS) methods. In particular a novel application of RL is considered i...
Roberto Battiti, Mauro Brunato, Paolo Campigotto
EVOW
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Finding Gapped Motifs by a Novel Evolutionary Algorithm
Background: Identifying approximately repeated patterns, or motifs, in DNA sequences from a set of co-regulated genes is an important step towards deciphering the complex gene reg...
Chengwei Lei, Jianhua Ruan
CVPR
1998
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Interactive Sensor Planning
This paper describes an interactive sensor planning system that can be used to select viewpoints subject to camera visibility, field of view and task constraints. Application area...
Ioannis Stamos, Peter K. Allen