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ALIFE
2000
13 years 7 months ago
Pattern Formation and Optimization in Army Ant Raids
Army ant colonies display complex foraging raid patterns involving thousands of individuals communicating through chemical trails. In this article we explore, by means of a simple ...
Ricard V. Solé, Eric Bonabeau, Jordi Delgad...
BC
2000
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13 years 7 months ago
Legged insects select the optimal locomotor pattern based on the energetic cost
The gait transition in legged animals has attracted many researchers, and its relation to metabolic cost and mechanical work has been discussed in recent decades. We assumed that t...
Jun Nishii
ECOWS
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Towards Optimized Data Fetching for Service Discovery
The advent of Service Oriented Architecture makes services the most flexible, platform-independent choice for exposing and integrating business functionality across a network. Ho...
Maciej Zaremba, Tomas Vitvar, Matthew Moran
ISCAS
2006
IEEE
73views Hardware» more  ISCAS 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Rate-distortion optimization for fast hierarchical B-picture transcoding
— an efficient rate-distortion (R-D) optimal method for transcoding hierarchical B-pictures is proposed in this paper. A new R-D model is presented for fast transcoding hierarchi...
Huifeng Shen, Xiaoyan Sun, Feng Wu, Shipeng Li
VLDB
1993
ACM
99views Database» more  VLDB 1993»
13 years 12 months ago
Control of an Extensible Query Optimizer: A Planning-Based Approach
III this paper we address the problem of controlling the execution of a query optimizer. We describe a control for the optimization process that is based on planning. The controll...
Gail Mitchell, Umeshwar Dayal, Stanley B. Zdonik