Grid applications often need to distribute large amounts of data efficiently from one cluster to multiple others (multicast). Existing methods usually arrange nodes in optimized t...
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
Two broad classes of memory models are available today: models with hardware cache coherence, used in conventional chip multiprocessors, and models that rely upon software to mana...
John H. Kelm, Daniel R. Johnson, William Tuohy, St...
The National Airspace System (NAS) is designed to accommodate a large number of flights over North America. For purposes of workload limitations for air traffic controllers, the a...
Amitabh Basu, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Girishkumar S...
There is a number of recent research lines addressing complex negotiations in highly rugged utility spaces. However, most of them focus on overcoming the problems imposed by the c...