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2000
Springer
14 years 1 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...
SPAA
1997
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Efficient Detection of Determinacy Races in Cilk Programs
A parallel multithreaded program that is ostensibly deterministic may nevertheless behave nondeterministically due to bugs in the code. These bugs are called determinacy races, an...
Mingdong Feng, Charles E. Leiserson
MOBISYS
2010
ACM
14 years 13 days ago
CrowdSearch: exploiting crowds for accurate real-time image search on mobile phones
Mobile phones are becoming increasingly sophisticated with a rich set of on-board sensors and ubiquitous wireless connectivity. However, the ability to fully exploit the sensing c...
Tingxin Yan, Vikas Kumar, Deepak Ganesan
USENIX
2008
14 years 13 days ago
A Multi-Site Virtual Cluster System for Wide Area Networks
A virtual cluster is a promising technology for reducing management costs and improving capacity utilization in datacenters and computer centers. However, recent cluster virtualiz...
Takahiro Hirofuchi, Takeshi Yokoi, Tadashi Ebara, ...
AIMS
2008
Springer
14 years 3 days ago
Entwined Influences of Users' Behaviour and QoS: A Multi-model Approach
In distributed, dynamic networks and applications, such as Peer-to-Peer (P2P), users'behaviour and quality of service/quality of experiment1 are known to influence each other....
Julien Siebert, Vincent Chevrier, Laurent Ciarlett...