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CSB
2003
IEEE
152views Bioinformatics» more  CSB 2003»
14 years 2 months ago
A Parallel Genetic Algorithm for Physical Mapping of Chromosomes
Physical map reconstruction in the presence of errors is a central problem in genetics of high computational complexity. A parallel genetic algorithm for a maximum likelihood esti...
Suchendra M. Bhandarkar, Jinling Huang, Jonathan A...
CLUSTER
2001
IEEE
14 years 21 days ago
Parallel Standard Cell Placement on a Cluster of Workstations
In this paper we report experiences on a parallel implementation of a standard cell placement algorithm on a cluster of myrinet connected PCs. The proposed algorithm is based on a...
Faris H. Khundakjie, Patrick H. Madden, Nael B. Ab...
ICCTA
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Covering a Set of Points in a Plane Using Two Parallel Rectangles
We consider the problem of finding two parallel rectangles, in arbitrary orientation, covering a given set of n points in a plane, such that the area of the larger rectangle is m...
Chandan Saha, Sandip Das
VLDB
1998
ACM
138views Database» more  VLDB 1998»
14 years 1 months ago
TOPAZ: a Cost-Based, Rule-Driven, Multi-Phase Parallelizer
Currently the key problems of query optimization are extensibility imposed by object-relational technology, as well as query complexity caused by forthcoming applications, such as...
Clara Nippl, Bernhard Mitschang
AAMAS
2007
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Parallel Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation
In this paper, we investigate the use of parallelization in reinforcement learning (RL), with the goal of learning optimal policies for single-agent RL problems more quickly by us...
Matthew Grounds, Daniel Kudenko