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IPPS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A Powerful Direct Mechanism for Optimal WWW Content Replication
This paper addresses the problem of fine-grained data replication in large distributed systems, such as the Internet, so as to minimize the user access delays. With fine-grained d...
Samee Ullah Khan, Ishfaq Ahmad
NIPS
1993
13 years 8 months ago
Using Local Trajectory Optimizers to Speed Up Global Optimization in Dynamic Programming
Dynamic programming provides a methodology to develop planners and controllers for nonlinear systems. However, general dynamic programming is computationally intractable. We have ...
Christopher G. Atkeson
DAC
2000
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
METRICS: a system architecture for design process optimization
We describe METRICS, a system to recover design productivity via new infrastructure for design process optimization. METRICS seeks to treat system design and implementation as a s...
Stephen Fenstermaker, David George, Andrew B. Kahn...
CEC
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Gradient estimation in global optimization algorithms
Abstract— The role of gradient estimation in global optimization is investigated. The concept of a regional gradient is introduced as a tool for analyzing and comparing different...
Megan Hazen, Maya R. Gupta
ESCIENCE
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Grid-Enabling an Efficient Algorithm for Demanding Global Optimization Problems in Genetic Analysis
Abstract. We study the implementation on grid systems of an efficient algorithm for demanding global optimization problems. Specifically, we consider problems arising in the geneti...
Mahen Jayawardena, Sverker Holmgren