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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...
FAST
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Pergamum: Replacing Tape with Energy Efficient, Reliable, Disk-Based Archival Storage
As the world moves to digital storage for archival purposes, there is an increasing demand for reliable, lowpower, cost-effective, easy-to-maintain storage that can still provide ...
Mark W. Storer, Kevin M. Greenan, Ethan L. Miller,...
GECCO
2008
Springer
117views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
CrossNet: a framework for crossover with network-based chromosomal representations
We propose a new class of crossover operators for genetic algorithms (CrossNet) which use a network-based (or graphbased) chromosomal representation. We designed CrossNet with the...
Forrest Stonedahl, William Rand, Uri Wilensky
JSAC
2008
140views more  JSAC 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Optimality and Complexity of Pure Nash Equilibria in the Coverage Game
In this paper, we investigate the coverage problem in wireless sensor networks using a game theory method. We assume that nodes are randomly scattered in a sensor field and the goa...
Xin Ai, Vikram Srinivasan, Chen-Khong Tham
TWC
2008
201views more  TWC 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
A Novel Algorithm for Multipath Fingerprinting in Indoor WLAN Environments
Abstract--Positioning in indoor wireless environments is growing rapidly in importance and gains commercial interests in context-awareness applications. The essential challenge in ...
Shih-Hau Fang, Tsung-Nan Lin, Kun-Chou Lee