In this paper we introduce Ant-Q, a family of algorithms which present many similarities with Q-learning (Watkins, 1989), and which we apply to the solution of symmetric and asymm...
As we enter the era of petascale computing, system architects must plan for machines composed of tens or even hundreds of thousands of processors. Although fully connected network...
Shoaib Kamil, Ali Pinar, Daniel Gunter, Michael Li...
This paper introduces a novel genetic algorithm strategy based on the reuse of chromosomes from previous generations in the creation of offspring individuals. A number of chromoso...
This paper proposes a clustering method SOMAK, which is composed by Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) followed by the Ant K-means (AK) algorithm. The aim of this method is not to find an...
Jefferson R. Souza, Teresa Bernarda Ludermir, Lean...
—p-Cycles have been proposed for preprovisioned 1 : N protection in optical mesh networks. Although the protection circuits are preconfigured, the detection of failures and the ...