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GECCO
2005
Springer
232views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
A hardware pipeline for function optimization using genetic algorithms
Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are very commonly used as function optimizers, basically due to their search capability. A number of different serial and parallel versions of GA exist. ...
Malay Kumar Pakhira, Rajat K. De
SIGMETRICS
2011
ACM
140views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2011»
12 years 11 months ago
On the stability and optimality of universal swarms
Recent work on BitTorrent swarms has demonstrated that a bandwidth bottleneck at the seed can lead to the underutilization of the aggregate swarm capacity. Bandwidth underutilizat...
Xia Zhou, Stratis Ioannidis, Laurent Massouli&eacu...
SIAMSC
2011
142views more  SIAMSC 2011»
13 years 3 months ago
Efficiency Based Adaptive Local Refinement for First-Order System Least-Squares Formulations
Abstract. In this paper, we propose new adaptive local refinement (ALR) strategies for firstorder system least-squares (FOSLS) finite element in conjunction with algebraic multi...
J. H. Adler, Thomas A. Manteuffel, Stephen F. McCo...
CORR
2008
Springer
175views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Energy Aware Self-Organizing Density Management in Wireless Sensor Networks
Energy consumption is the most important factor that determines sensor node lifetime. The optimization of wireless sensor network lifetime targets not only the reduction of energy...
Erwan Le Merrer, Vincent Gramoli, Anne-Marie Kerma...
PVM
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Communication Target Selection for Replicated MPI Processes
Abstract. VolpexMPI is an MPI library designed for volunteer computing environments. In order to cope with the fundamental unreliability of these environments, VolpexMPI deploys tw...
Rakhi Anand, Edgar Gabriel, Jaspal Subhlok