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PPSN
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches
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...
FTCS
1998
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13 years 9 months ago
How Fail-Stop are Faulty Programs?
Most fault-tolerant systems are designed to stop faulty programs before they write permanent data or communicate with other processes. This property (halt-on-failure) forms the co...
Subhachandra Chandra, Peter M. Chen
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Mining models of human activities from the web
The ability to determine what day-to-day activity (such as cooking pasta, taking a pill, or watching a video) a person is performing is of interest in many application domains. A ...
Mike Perkowitz, Matthai Philipose, Kenneth P. Fish...
PPOPP
1997
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
LoPC: Modeling Contention in Parallel Algorithms
Parallel algorithm designers need computational models that take first order system costs into account, but are also simple enough to use in practice. This paper introduces the L...
Matthew Frank, Anant Agarwal, Mary K. Vernon
CGF
2004
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13 years 7 months ago
Implicit Visualization and Inverse Modeling of Growing Trees
A method is proposed for photo-realistic modeling and visualization of a growing tree. Recent visualization methods have focused on producing smoothly blending branching structure...
Callum Galbraith, Lars Mündermann, Brian Wyvi...