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MASCOTS
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Black-Box Performance Modeling for Solid-State Drives
—Flash-based Solid-State Drives (SSDs) have become a promising alternative to magnetic Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) thanks to the large improvements in performance, power consumption,...
Shan Li, H. Howie Huang
MASCOTS
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Exploiting Concurrency to Improve Latency and throughput in a Hybrid Storage System
—This paper considers the problem of how to improve the performance of hybrid storage system employing solid state disks and hard disk drives. We utilize both initial block alloc...
XiaoJian Wu, A. L. Narasimha Reddy
ALIFE
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Modeling Social Learning of Language and Skills
We present a model of social learning of both language and skills, while assuming—insofar as possible—strict autonomy, virtual embodiment, and situatedness. This model is built...
Paul Vogt, Evert Haasdijk
ALIFE
2010
13 years 3 months ago
The Utility of Evolving Simulated Robot Morphology Increases with Task Complexity for Object Manipulation
Embodied artificial intelligence argues that the body and brain play equally important roles in the generation of adaptive behavior. An increasingly common approach therefore is to...
Josh Bongard
ALIFE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
Exploring the Operational Characteristics of Inference Algorithms for Transcriptional Networks by Means of Synthetic Data
The development of structure-learning algorithms for gene regulatory networks depends heavily on the availability of synthetic data sets that contain both the original network and ...
Koenraad Van Leemput, Tim Van den Bulcke, Thomas D...
ALIFE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
Natural or Internal Selection? The Case of Canalization in Complex Evolutionary Systems
Using biological examples and theoretical arguments, the case is presented for extending the notion of natural selection to include internal selection in order to account for the e...
Alexander Riegler
TRIER
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Polynomial Constants are Decidable
Constant propagation aims at identifying expressions that always yield a unique constant value at run-time. It is well-known that constant propagation is undecidable for programs w...
Markus Müller-Olm, Helmut Seidl
TRIER
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Precise Interprocedural Dependence Analysis of Parallel Programs
It is known that interprocedural detection of copy constants and elimination of faint code in parallel programs are undecidable problems, if base statements are assumed to execute...
Markus Müller-Olm
TRIER
2002
13 years 4 months ago
A Piecewise-Deterministic Model for Brownian Motion
In the present paper, the classical Brownian motion of a particle suspended in an homogeneous liquid is modeled as a piecewise
Lothar Breuer