Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
Spyware infections are becoming extremely pervasive, posing a grave threat to Internet users’ privacy. Control of such an epidemic is increasingly difficult for the existing def...
— MPSoC is evolving towards processor-pool (PP)-based architectures, which employ hierarchical on-chip network for inter- and intra-PP communication. Since the design space of PP...
Abstract: Social virtual worlds such as Second Life are digital representations of the real world where human-controlled avatars evolve and interact through social activities. Unde...
To carry out work assignments, small groups distributed within a larger enterprise often need to share documents among themselves while shielding those documents from others'...
Sergej Zerr, Elena Demidova, Daniel Olmedilla, Wol...