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SIGGRAPH
1998
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Realistic Modeling and Rendering of Plant Ecosystems
Modeling and rendering of natural scenes with thousands of plants poses a number of problems. The terrain must be modeled and plants must be distributed throughout it in a realist...
Oliver Deussen, Pat Hanrahan, Bernd Lintermann, Ra...
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EPS
1997
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Modeling Speculators with Genetic Programming
In spirit of the earlier works done by Arthur (1992) and Palmer et al. (1993), this paper models speculators with genetic programming (GP) in a production economy (Muthian Economy)...
Shu-Heng Chen, Chia-Hsuan Yeh
PPSN
2000
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches
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...
IM
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Business-Driven Optimization of Policy-Based Management solutions
— We consider whether the off-line compilation of a set of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) into low-level management policies can lead to the runtime maximization of the overall ...
Issam Aib, Raouf Boutaba
SODA
2008
ACM
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On distributing symmetric streaming computations
A common approach for dealing with large data sets is to stream over the input in one pass, and perform computations using sublinear resources. For truly massive data sets, howeve...
Jon Feldman, S. Muthukrishnan, Anastasios Sidiropo...