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EVOW
2010
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Parameter Tuning of Evolutionary Algorithms: Generalist vs. Specialist
Abstract. Finding appropriate parameter values for Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) is one of the persistent challenges of Evolutionary Computing. In recent publications we showed how...
Selmar K. Smit, A. E. Eiben
WSDM
2009
ACM
191views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Generating labels from clicks
The ranking function used by search engines to order results is learned from labeled training data. Each training point is a (query, URL) pair that is labeled by a human judge who...
Rakesh Agrawal, Alan Halverson, Krishnaram Kenthap...
WIKIS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Herding the cats: the influence of groups in coordinating peer production
Peer production systems rely on users to self-select appropriate tasks and “scratch their personal itch”. However, many such systems require significant maintenance work, whic...
Aniket Kittur, Bryan A. Pendleton, Robert E. Kraut
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Measurement Manipulation and Space Selection in Network Coordinates
Internet coordinate systems have emerged as an efficient method to estimate the latency between pairs of nodes without any communication between them. However, most coordinate sy...
Cristian Lumezanu, Neil Spring
SASO
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Novel Mathematics-Inspired Algorithms for Self-Adaptive Peer-to-Peer Computing
This paper describes, and evaluates benefits of, a design methodology to translate certain mathematical models into the design of novel, self-adaptive, peer-to-peer (p2p) distrib...
Steven Y. Ko, Indranil Gupta, Yookyung Jo