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FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Distance Oracles for Sparse Graphs
Abstract— Thorup and Zwick, in their seminal work, introduced the approximate distance oracle, which is a data structure that answers distance queries in a graph. For any integer...
Christian Sommer 0002, Elad Verbin, Wei Yu
GECCO
2009
Springer
103views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
Why evolution is not a good paradigm for program induction: a critique of genetic programming
We revisit the roots of Genetic Programming (i.e. Natural Evolution), and conclude that the mechanisms of the process of evolution (i.e. selection, inheritance and variation) are ...
John R. Woodward, Ruibin Bai
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
134views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
DRAM errors in the wild: a large-scale field study
Errors in dynamic random access memory (DRAM) are a common form of hardware failure in modern compute clusters. Failures are costly both in terms of hardware replacement costs and...
Bianca Schroeder, Eduardo Pinheiro, Wolf-Dietrich ...
SOUPS
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Sanitization's slippery slope: the design and study of a text revision assistant
For privacy reasons, sensitive content may be revised before it is released. The revision often consists of redaction, that is, the “blacking out” of sensitive words and phras...
Richard Chow, Ian Oberst, Jessica Staddon
HICSS
2007
IEEE
181views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2007»
14 years 4 months ago
A Methodology to Evaluate Agent Oriented Software Engineering Techniques
Systems using Software Agents (or Multi-Agent Systems, MAS) are becoming more popular within the development mainstream because, as the name suggests, an Agent aims to handle task...
Chia-En Lin, Krishna M. Kavi, Frederick T. Sheldon...