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SIGIR
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Partial collection replication versus caching for information retrieval systems
Abstract The explosion of content in distributed information retrieval (IR) systems requires new mechanisms to attain timely and accurate retrieval of unstructured text. In this pa...
Zhihong Lu, Kathryn S. McKinley
ISER
2004
Springer
142views Robotics» more  ISER 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Design and Modeling of a Selective-Actuation XYZ Flexure Parallel Mechanism
This paper presents the design of a selective-actuation flexure parallel mechanism that can provide three independent translational motions. The mechanism can be used as an ultra p...
Huy-Hoang Pham, I-Ming Chen
CCCG
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Optimal Polygon Placement
Given a simple polygon P with m vertices and a set S of n points in the plane, we consider the problem of finding a rigid motion placement of P that contains the maximum number of...
Prosenjit Bose, Jason Morrison
GECCO
2005
Springer
131views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
EA models and population fixed-points versus mutation rates for functions of unitation
Using a dynamic systems model for the Simple Genetic Algorithm due to Vose[1], we analyze the fixed point behavior of the model without crossover applied to functions of unitation...
J. Neal Richter, John Paxton, Alden H. Wright
WSC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Clarifying CONWIP versus push system behavior using simulation
This research examines the performance of CONWIP versus "push" workload control in a simple, balanced manufacturing flowline. Analytical models and simulation experiment...
S. T. Enns, Paul Rogers