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PPSN
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches
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...
ISCC
2006
IEEE
134views Communications» more  ISCC 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
A Proposed Framework for Calibration of Available Bandwidth Estimation Tools
Examining the validity or accuracy of proposed available bandwidth estimation tools remains a challenging problem. A common approach consists of evaluating a newly developed tool ...
Joel Sommers, Paul Barford, Walter Willinger
SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Sinfonia: a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems
We propose a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems. Our approach does not require dealing with message-passing protocols—a major complication in existing distri...
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Arif Merchant, Mehul A. S...
SIGCOMM
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Understanding the network-level behavior of spammers
This paper studies the network-level behavior of spammers, including: IP address ranges that send the most spam, common spamming modes (e.g., BGP route hijacking, bots), how persi...
Anirudh Ramachandran, Nick Feamster
GECCO
2007
Springer
177views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Takeover times on scale-free topologies
The topological properties of a network directly impact the flow of information through a system. In evolving populations, the topology of inter-individual interactions affects th...
Joshua L. Payne, Margaret J. Eppstein