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WSC
2007
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Spatial emergence of genotypical tribes in an animat simulation model
We observe the spontaneous emergence of spatial tribes in an animat agent model where simple genetic inheritance is supported. Our predator-prey model simulates a flat-world of a...
Kenneth A. Hawick, Chris Scogings, Heath A. James
NSDI
2008
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Paper Rating vs. Paper Ranking
Within the computer-science community, submitted conference papers are typically evaluated by means of rating, in two respects: First, individual reviewers are asked to provide th...
John R. Douceur
NSDI
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Freezing More Than Bits: Chilling Effects of the OLPC XO Security Model
In this paper, we discuss Bitfrost, the security model developed by the One Laptop Per Child project for its XO laptop computers. Bitfrost implements a number of security measures...
Meredith L. Patterson, Len Sassaman, David Chaum
WSC
2007
15 years 9 months ago
New greedy myopic and existing asymptotic sequential selection procedures: preliminary empirical results
Statistical selection procedures can identify the best of a finite set of alternatives, where “best” is defined in terms of the unknown expected value of each alternative’...
Stephen E. Chick, Jürgen Branke, Christian Sc...