Multiple dispatch – the selection of a function to be invoked based on the dynamic type of two or more arguments – is a solution to several classical problems in object-orient...
Peter Pirkelbauer, Yuriy Solodkyy, Bjarne Stroustr...
Enterprise search is challenging for several reasons, notably the dynamic terminology and jargon that are specific to the enterprise domain. This challenge is partly addressed by...
Mapping data to parallel computers aims at minimizing the execution time of the associated application. However, it can take an unacceptable amount of time in comparison with the ...
Nashat Mansour, Ravi Ponnusamy, Alok N. Choudhary,...
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...
Scheduling for speculative parallelization is a problem that remained unsolved despite its importance. Simple methods such as Fixed-Size Chunking (FSC) need several ‘dry-runs’...