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CORR
2006
Springer
160views Education» more  CORR 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
On Conditional Branches in Optimal Search Trees
A commonly used type of search tree is the alphabetic binary tree, which uses (without loss of generality) "less than" versus "greater than or equal to" tests ...
Michael B. Baer
SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
187views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 1998»
13 years 12 months ago
An Analytic Behavior Model for Disk Drives with Readahead Caches and Request Reordering
Modern disk drives read-ahead data and reorder incoming requests in a workload-dependent fashion. This improves their performance, but makes simple analytical models of them inade...
Elizabeth A. M. Shriver, Arif Merchant, John Wilke...
HYBRID
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Towards Procedures for Systematically Deriving Hybrid Models of Complex Systems
Abstract. In many cases, complex system behaviors are naturally modeled as nonlinear differential equations. However, these equations are often hard to analyze because of "sti...
Pieter J. Mosterman, Gautam Biswas
IROS
2007
IEEE
127views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Dynamic redistribution of a swarm of robots among multiple sites
Abstract— We present an approach for the dynamic assignment and reassignment of a large team of homogeneous robotic agents to multiple locations with applications to search and r...
Ádám M. Halász, M. Ani Hsieh,...
WINE
2009
Springer
199views Economy» more  WINE 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Externalities in Keyword Auctions: An Empirical and Theoretical Assessment
It is widely believed that the value of acquiring a slot in a sponsored search list (that comes along with the organic links in a search engine’s result page) highly depends on ...
Renato Gomes, Nicole Immorlica, Evangelos Markakis