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EPOS
2006
15 years 6 months ago
Talking about ABSS: Functional Descriptions of Models
How much of the literature on social simulation is about modelling for modellers? Conversely, how much of the literature is directly about the world in which we live
Scott Moss
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CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Being watched or being special: how I learned to stop worrying and love being monitored, surveilled, and assessed
This paper explores the relationship between display of feedback (public vs. private) by a computer system and the basis for evaluation (present vs. absent) of that feedback. We e...
Erica Robles, Abhay Sukumaran, Kathryn Rickertsen,...
123
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GECCO
2007
Springer
183views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
15 years 8 months ago
Distribution replacement: how survival of the worst can out perform survival of the fittest
A new family of "Distribution Replacement” operators for use in steady state genetic algorithms is presented. Distribution replacement enforces the members of the populatio...
Howard Tripp, Phil Palmer
131
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FOCS
2005
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
How to Pay, Come What May: Approximation Algorithms for Demand-Robust Covering Problems
Robust optimization has traditionally focused on uncertainty in data and costs in optimization problems to formulate models whose solutions will be optimal in the worstcase among ...
Kedar Dhamdhere, Vineet Goyal, R. Ravi, Mohit Sing...
164
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POPL
1989
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
How to Make ad-hoc Polymorphism Less ad-hoc
raction that a programming language provides influences the structure and algorithmic complexity of the resulting programs: just imagine creating an artificial intelligence engine ...
Philip Wadler, Stephen Blott