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GECCO
2007
Springer
181views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
Exploring selection mechanisms for an agent-based distributed evolutionary algorithm
In this paper we propose an agent-based model of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) which extends seamlessly from concurrent single-host to distributed multi-host installations. Since ...
A. E. Eiben, Marc Schoenauer, Juan Luís Jim...
HIPC
2003
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Dynamic Load Balancing for I/O-Intensive Tasks on Heterogeneous Clusters
1 Since I/O-intensive tasks running on a heterogeneous cluster need a highly effective usage of global I/O resources, previous CPUor memory-centric load balancing schemes suffer ...
Xiao Qin, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu, David R. Swanson
EMNLP
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Scaling Textual Inference to the Web
Most Web-based Q/A systems work by finding pages that contain an explicit answer to a question. These systems are helpless if the answer has to be inferred from multiple sentences...
Stefan Schoenmackers, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld
FOGA
2011
13 years 20 days ago
On the movement of vertex fixed points in the simple GA
The Vose dynamical system model of the simple genetic algorithm models the behavior of this algorithm for large population sizes and is the basis of the exact Markov chain model. ...
Alden H. Wright, Tomás Gedeon, J. Neal Rich...
SOSP
2001
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Anticipatory scheduling: A disk scheduling framework to overcome deceptive idleness in synchronous I/O
Disk schedulers in current operating systems are generally work-conserving, i.e., they schedule a request as soon as the previous request has finished. Such schedulers often requ...
Sitaram Iyer, Peter Druschel