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, ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...