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WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Stochastic Approximation with Simulated Annealing as an Approach to Global Discrete-Event Simulation Optimization
This paper explores an approach to global, stochastic, simulation optimization which combines stochastic approximation (SA) with simulated annealing (SAN). SA directs a search of ...
Matthew H. Jones, K. Preston White
ICIP
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
3d Scalable Lossless Compression Of Medical Images Based On Global And Local Symmetries
We recently proposed a symmetry-based scalable lossless compression method for 3D medical images using the 2D integer wavelet transform and the embedded block coder with optimized...
IEEEPACT
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Whole-program optimization of global variable layout
On machines with high-performance processors, the memory system continues to be a performance bottleneck. Compilers insert prefetch operations and reorder data accesses to improve...
Nathaniel McIntosh, Sandya Mannarswamy, Robert Hun...
GECCO
2008
Springer
164views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
Genetic algorithms with local search optimization for protein structure prediction problem
This paper presents a new Genetic Algorithm for Protein Structure Prediction problem in both 2D and 3D hydrophobichydrophilic lattice models, introduced in [1]. Our algorithm evol...
Igor Berenboym, Mireille Avigal
ICDCS
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Locality-Aware Cooperative Cache Management Protocol to Improve Network File System Performance
In a distributed environment the utilization of file buffer caches in different clients may vary greatly. Cooperative caching is used to increase cache utilization by coordinatin...
Song Jiang, Fabrizio Petrini, Xiaoning Ding, Xiaod...