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...
Although the best processor design for executing a specific workload does depend on the characteristics of the workload, it can not be determined without factoring-in the effect o...
With the development of inexpensive storage devices, space usage is no longer a bottleneck for computer users. However, the increasingly large amount of personal information poses ...
— It has been clear since 1988 that self-propagating code can quickly spread across a network by exploiting homogeneous security vulnerabilities. However, the last few years have...
David Moore, Colleen Shannon, Geoffrey M. Voelker,...
The pervasiveness of location-acquisition technologies (GPS, GSM networks, etc.) enable people to conveniently log the location histories they visited with spatio-temporal data. T...