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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...
ICCAD
2004
IEEE
147views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2004»
14 years 4 months ago
Interval-valued reduced order statistical interconnect modeling
9, IO]. However, unlike the case with static timing, it is not so easy We show how recent advances in the handling of correlated interval representations of range uncertainty can b...
James D. Ma, Rob A. Rutenbar
CORR
2010
Springer
180views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Dependability in Aggregation by Averaging
Abstract. Aggregation is an important building block of modern distributed applications, allowing the determination of meaningful properties (e.g. network size, total storage capac...
Paulo Jesus, Carlos Baquero, Paulo Sérgio A...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
138views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Rao-Blackwellized particle filtering for probing-based 6-DOF localization in robotic assembly
This paper presents a probing-based method for probabilistic localization in automated robotic assembly. We consider peg-in-hole problems in which a needle-like peg has a single p...
Yuichi Taguchi, Tim K. Marks, Haruhisa Okuda
MOBIHOC
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Predict and relay: an efficient routing in disruption-tolerant networks
Routing is one of the most challenging open problems in disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs) because of the shortlived wireless connectivity environment. To deal with this issue, r...
Quan Yuan, Ionut Cardei, Jie Wu