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FECS
2006
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13 years 9 months ago
Student Projects in Computer Networking: Simulation versus Coding
In this paper, we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using network simulators to teach networking concepts versus having students write programs. The authors have experie...
Leann Christianson, Kevin Q. Brown
PPOPP
2012
ACM
12 years 3 months ago
Better speedups using simpler parallel programming for graph connectivity and biconnectivity
Speedups demonstrated for finding the biconnected components of a graph: 9x to 33x on the Explicit Multi-Threading (XMT) many-core computing platform relative to the best serial ...
James A. Edwards, Uzi Vishkin
CONSTRAINTS
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Design of Financial CDO Squared Transactions Using Constraint Programming
We give an approximate and often extremely fast method of building a particular kind of portfolio in finance, here called a portfolio design (PD), with applications in the credit ...
Pierre Flener, Justin Pearson, Luis G. Reyna, Olof...
RAS
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Direct programming of a central pattern generator for periodic motions by touching
Much of the literature shows that Central Pattern Generators (CPGs) are a good approach for generating periodic motions for legged robots. In most of the presented works the numer...
Fabio Dalla Libera, Takashi Minato, Hiroshi Ishigu...
ACSE
2000
ACM
14 years 4 days ago
Here, there and everywhere - on the recurring use of turtle graphics in CS1
The Logo programming language implements a virtual drawing machine—the turtle machine. The turtle machine is well-known for giving students an intuitive understanding of fundame...
Michael E. Caspersen, Henrik Bærbak Christen...