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GECCO
2003
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Enhancing the Performance of GP Using an Ancestry-Based Mate Selection Scheme
The performance of genetic programming relies mostly on population-contained variation. If the population diversity is low then there will be a greater chance of the algorithm bein...
Rodney Fry, Andrew M. Tyrrell
PODS
2010
ACM
232views Database» more  PODS 2010»
14 years 23 days ago
Optimal sampling from distributed streams
A fundamental problem in data management is to draw a sample of a large data set, for approximate query answering, selectivity estimation, and query planning. With large, streamin...
Graham Cormode, S. Muthukrishnan, Ke Yi, Qin Zhang
FOCS
2002
IEEE
14 years 19 days ago
Protocols and Impossibility Results for Gossip-Based Communication Mechanisms
In recent years, gossip-based algorithms have gained prominence as a methodology for designing robust and scalable communication schemes in large distributed systems. The premise ...
David Kempe, Jon M. Kleinberg
SIGMETRICS
2010
ACM
214views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2010»
14 years 15 days ago
Distributed sensor network localization from local connectivity: performance analysis for the HOP-TERRAIN algorithm
This paper addresses the problem of determining the node locations in ad-hoc sensor networks when only connectivity information is available. In previous work, we showed that the ...
Amin Karbasi, Sewoong Oh
INFOCOM
2000
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
Broadcast Disks with Polynomial Cost Functions
— In broadcast disk systems, information is broadcasted in a shared medium. When a client needs an item from the disk, it waits until that item is broadcasted. The fundamental al...
Amotz Bar-Noy, Boaz Patt-Shamir, Igor Ziper