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ISCAPDCS
2004
13 years 10 months ago
A VFSA Scheduler for Radiative Transfer Data in Climate Models
Scheduling and load-balancing techniques play an integral role in reducing the overall execution time of scientific applications on clustered multi-node systems. The increasing co...
S. P. Muszala, Gita Alaghband, Daniel A. Connors, ...
SBACPAD
2004
IEEE
144views Hardware» more  SBACPAD 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Improving Server Performance on Transaction Processing Workloads by Enhanced Data Placement
Modern servers access large volumes of data while running commercial workloads. The data is typically spread among several storage devices (e.g. disks). Carefully placing the data...
Juan Rubio, Charles Lefurgy, Lizy Kurian John
AAAI
2000
13 years 10 months ago
Dynamic Representations and Escaping Local Optima: Improving Genetic Algorithms and Local Search
Local search algorithms often get trapped in local optima. Algorithms such as tabu search and simulated annealing 'escape' local optima by accepting nonimproving moves. ...
Laura Barbulescu, Jean-Paul Watson, L. Darrell Whi...
AAAI
1998
13 years 10 months ago
Highest Utility First Search Across Multiple Levels of Stochastic Design
Manydesign problems are solved using multiple levels of abstraction, wherea design at one level has combinatorially manychildren at the next level. A stochastic optimization metho...
Louis I. Steinberg, J. Storrs Hall, Brian D. Davis...
AAAI
1994
13 years 10 months ago
Case-Based Acquisition of User Preferences for Solution Improvement in Ill-Structured Domains
1 We have developed an approach to acquire complicated user optimization criteria and use them to guide iterative solution improvement. The eectiveness of the approach was tested ...
Katia P. Sycara, Kazuo Miyashita