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GECCO
2005
Springer
108views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
15 years 8 months ago
Some theoretical results about the computation time of evolutionary algorithms
This paper focuses on the computation time of evolutionary algorithms. First, some exact expressions of the mean first hitting times of general evolutionary algorithms in finite...
Lixin X. Ding, Jinghu Yu
COMBINATORICS
2004
102views more  COMBINATORICS 2004»
15 years 3 months ago
Satisfiability and Computing van der Waerden Numbers
In this paper we bring together the areas of combinatorics and propositional satisfiability. Many combinatorial theorems establish, often constructively, the existence of positive...
Michael R. Dransfield, Lengning Liu, Victor W. Mar...
APPROX
2009
Springer
137views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2009»
15 years 10 months ago
Testing Computability by Width Two OBDDs
Property testing is concerned with deciding whether an object (e.g. a graph or a function) has a certain property or is “far” (for some definition of far) from every object w...
Dana Ron, Gilad Tsur
SIROCCO
2000
15 years 4 months ago
Cooperative computing with fragmentable and mergeable groups
ABSTRACT: This work considers the problem of performing a set of N tasks on a set of P cooperating message-passing processors (P N). The processors use a group communication servi...
Chryssis Georgiou, Alexander A. Shvartsman
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
On Computing Compression Trees for Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks
We address the problem of efficiently gathering correlated data from a wireless sensor network, with the aim of designing algorithms with provable optimality guarantees, and unders...
Jian Li, Amol Deshpande, Samir Khuller