Power system defensive islanding is an efficient way to avoid catastrophic wide area blackouts, such as the 2003 North American Blackout. Finding defensive islands of large-scale ...
Wenxin Liu, Li Liu, David A. Cartes, Ganesh K. Ven...
A new efficient MRF optimization algorithm, called FastPD, is proposed, which generalizes -expansion. One of its main advantages is that it offers a substantial speedup over that ...
Skeletal parallel programming enables us to develop parallel programs easily by composing ready-made components called skeletons. However, a simplycomposed skeleton program often l...
Efficient inter-thread value communication is essential for improving performance in Thread-Level Speculation (TLS). Although several mechanisms for improving value communication ...
Antonia Zhai, Christopher B. Colohan, J. Gregory S...
The population size in evolutionary computation is a significant parameter affecting computational effort and the ability to successfully evolve solutions. We find that population...