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EVOW
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Staff Scheduling with Particle Swarm Optimisation and Evolution Strategies
The current paper uses a scenario from logistics to show that modern heuristics, and in particular particle swarm optimization (PSO) can significantly add to the improvement of sta...
Volker Nissen, Maik Günther
COMPLEX
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
On General Laws of Complex Networks
By introducing and analyzing a renormalization procedure, Song et al. [1] draw the conclusion that many complex networks exhibit self-repeating patterns on all length scales. First...
Wenjun Xiao, Limin Peng, Behrooz Parhami
EDBT
2010
ACM
155views Database» more  EDBT 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
Reducing metadata complexity for faster table summarization
Since the visualization real estate puts stringent constraints on how much data can be presented to the users at once, table summarization is an essential tool in helping users qu...
K. Selçuk Candan, Mario Cataldi, Maria Luis...
FSTTCS
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The effect of girth on the kernelization complexity of Connected Dominating Set
In the Connected Dominating Set problem we are given as input a graph G and a positive integer k, and are asked if there is a set S of at most k vertices of G such that S is a dom...
Neeldhara Misra, Geevarghese Philip, Venkatesh Ram...
STOC
2010
ACM
227views Algorithms» more  STOC 2010»
14 years 3 months ago
On the Round Complexity of Covert Computation
In STOC’05, von Ahn, Hopper and Langford introduced the notion of covert computation. In covert computation, a party runs a secure computation protocol over a covert (or stegano...
Vipul Goyal and Abhishek Jain