Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology provides the means to track any object, any time, anywhere with Electronic Product Codes (EPC). A major consequence of this techno...
Partitioning and global scheduling are two approaches for scheduling real-time tasks on multiprocessors. Though partitioning is sub-optimal, it has traditionally been preferred; t...
Anand Srinivasan, Philip Holman, James H. Anderson...
In recent years the power of Grid computing has grown exponentially through the development of advanced middleware systems. While usage has increased, the penetration of Grid compu...
Gregor von Laszewski, Andrew J. Younge, Xi He, Kum...
The effects of neutrality on evolutionary search have been considered in a number of interesting studies, the results of which, however, have been contradictory. Some researchers ...
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...