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EATCS
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Nature is not only a source of minerals and precious stones but is also a mine of algorithms. By observing and studying natural phenomena, computer algorithms can be extracted. In...
ISAAC
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
Abstract. The Parallel Disks Model (PDM) has been proposed to alleviate the I/O bottleneck that arises in the processing of massive data sets. Sorting has been extensively studied ...
CEC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
— We present an ant-based algorithm for spatially sorting objects into an annular structure. The model is minimal, as it requires only stochastic ant behaviour coupled with a phe...
TC
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Abstract. The Parallel Disks Model (PDM) has been proposed to alleviate the I/O bottleneck that arises in the processing of massive data sets. Sorting has been extensively studied ...
CORR
2007
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2007
Springer
There is a growing body of work on sorting and selection in models other than the unit-cost comparison model. This work treats a natural stochastic variant of the problem where the...