Milgram’s experiment (1967) demonstrated that there are short chains of acquaintances between individuals, and that these chains can be discovered in a greedy manner. Kleinberg ...
User interruptability has become an important topic of study in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). However, automatically determining the availability of users is still problematic....
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Jun Yan, Ning Liu, Gang Wang, Wen Zhang, Yun Jiang...
The Cross-Entropy (CE) method is a modern and effective optimization method well suited to parallel implementations. There is a vast array of problems today, some of which are hig...
Gareth E. Evans, Jonathan M. Keith, Dirk P. Kroese
Distributed simulation is desired in many industries to support analysis and decision making for complex and integrated problems. Interoperating commercial simulation packages usi...