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...
Volunteer Computing (VC) is a paradigm that takes advantage of idle cycles from computing resources donated by volunteers and connected through the Internet to compute large-scale...
Kinetic models for biochemical systems often comprise a large amount of coupled differential equations with species concentrations varying on different time scales. In this paper w...
Data center networks encode locality and topology information into their server and switch addresses for performance and routing purposes. For this reason, the traditional address...
Kai Chen, Chuanxiong Guo, Haitao Wu, Jing Yuan, Zh...
Abstract--Current implementations of BitTorrent-like P2P applications ignore the underlying Internet topology hence incur a large amount of traffic both inside an Internet Service ...
Chen Tian, Xue Liu, Hongbo Jiang, Wenyu Liu, Yi Wa...