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...
Shrinking process technologies and growing chip sizes have profound effects on process variation. This leads to Chip Multiprocessors (CMPs) where not all cores operate at maximum f...
Major Bhadauria, Vincent M. Weaver, Sally A. McKee
Operator-based programming languages provide an effective development model for large scale stream processing applications. A stream processing application consists of many runtim...
Xiaolan J. Zhang, Sujay Parekh, Bugra Gedik, Henri...
In a class of games known as Stackelberg games, one agent (the leader) must commit to a strategy that can be observed by the other agent (the follower or adversary) before the adv...
Praveen Paruchuri, Jonathan P. Pearce, Janusz Mare...
In the complex, dynamic domain of Air Traffic Control (ATC) many unexpected events can happen during the execution of a plan. Sometimes these disruptions make the plan infeasible ...