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ASIAN
1999
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Ant Colony Optimization for the Ship Berthing Problem
Abstract. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a paradigm that employs a set of cooperating agents to solve functions or obtain good solutions for combinatorial optimization problems. ...
Chia Jim Tong, Hoong Chuin Lau, Andrew Lim
SIGGRAPH
1997
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Metropolis light transport
We present a new Monte Carlo method for solving the light transport problem, inspired by the Metropolis sampling method in computational physics. To render an image, we generate a...
Eric Veach, Leonidas J. Guibas
AIME
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Data-Efficient Information-Theoretic Test Selection
We use the concept of conditional mutual information (MI) to approach problems involving the selection of variables in the area of medical diagnosis. Computing MI requires estimate...
Marianne Mueller, Rómer Rosales, Harald Ste...
DEBS
2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
SpiderCast: a scalable interest-aware overlay for topic-based pub/sub communication
We introduce SpiderCast, a distributed protocol for constructing scalable churn-resistant overlay topologies for supporting decentralized topic-based pub/sub communication. Spider...
Gregory Chockler, Roie Melamed, Yoav Tock, Roman V...
EPEW
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
An Efficient Counter-Based Broadcast Scheme for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
In mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), broadcasting plays a fundamental role, diffusing a message from a given source node to all the other nodes in the network. Flooding is the simpl...
Aminu Mohammed, Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, Lewis M. Mack...