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CE
2007
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13 years 9 months ago
Pedagogical approaches for technology-integrated science teaching
The two separate projects described have examined how teachers exploit computer-based technologies in supporting learning of science at secondary level. This paper examines how pe...
Sara Hennessy, Jocelyn Wishart, Denise Whitelock, ...
PPSN
2000
Springer
14 years 18 days 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...
SIGMETRICS
2002
ACM
105views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2002»
13 years 8 months ago
Modeling and analysis of dynamic coscheduling in parallel and distributed environments
Scheduling in large-scale parallel systems has been and continues to be an important and challenging research problem. Several key factors, including the increasing use of off-the...
Mark S. Squillante, Yanyong Zhang, Anand Sivasubra...
MASS
2010
161views Communications» more  MASS 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
Mode switch - Adaptive use of delay-sensitive or energy-aware communication in IEEE 802.15.4-based networks
Abstract--We propose "mode switch", an adaptive loadsensitive solution that supports both an energy-efficient operation mode for transmitting normal sensor data and an Qo...
Feng Chen, Xiaoyu Tong, Edith Ngar, Falko Dressler
TELSYS
2002
131views more  TELSYS 2002»
13 years 8 months ago
Call Blocking Performance Study for PCS Networks under More Realistic Mobility Assumptions
Abstract. In the micro-cell-based PCS networks, due to the high user mobility, handoffs occur more frequently. Hence, the classical assumptions, such as the exponential assumptions...
Helen Zeng, Yuguang Fang, Imrich Chlamtac