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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...
WSDM
2009
ACM
176views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
The web changes everything: understanding the dynamics of web content
The Web is a dynamic, ever changing collection of information. This paper explores changes in Web content by analyzing a crawl of 55,000 Web pages, selected to represent different...
Eytan Adar, Jaime Teevan, Susan T. Dumais, Jonatha...
RECONFIG
2009
IEEE
182views VLSI» more  RECONFIG 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Scalability Studies of the BLASTn Scan and Ungapped Extension Functions
BLASTn is a ubiquitous tool used for large scale DNA analysis. Detailed profiling tests reveal that the most computationally intensive sections of the BLASTn algorithm are the sc...
Siddhartha Datta, Ron Sass
ICRA
2007
IEEE
132views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Heterogeneous Leg Stiffness and Roll in Dynamic Running
— Legged robots are by nature strongly non-linear, high-dimensional systems whose full complexity permits neither tractable mathematical analysis nor comprehensive numerical stud...
Samuel Burden, Jonathan Clark, Joel Weingarten, Ha...
KBSE
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Testing concurrent programs using value schedules
Concurrent programs are difficult to debug and verify because of the nondeterministic nature of concurrent executions. A particular concurrency-related bug may only show up under ...
Jun Chen, Steve MacDonald