As the basic sciences become increasingly information-intensive, the management and use of research data presents new challenges in the collective activities that constitute schola...
Computer science faculty must attract and retain students by offering innovative courses that spark student interest, yet still teach core, computer science concepts. These effort...
Mark W. Bailey, Clark L. Coleman, Jack W. Davidson
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...
Abstract. Technological advances in experimental and computational molecular biology have revolutionized the whole fields of biology and medicine. Large-scale sequencing, expressio...
In this paper, we address the problem of inverse procedural modeling: Given a piece of exemplar 3D geometry, we would like to find a set of rules that describe objects that are s...