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WSC
2004
14 years 11 months ago
On Using Monte Carlo Methods for Scheduling
Monte Carlo techniques have long been used (since Buffon's experiment to approximate the value of by tossing a needle onto striped paper) to analyze phenomena which, due to ...
Samarn Chantaravarapan, Ali K. Gunal, Edward J. Wi...
CGF
2004
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14 years 10 months ago
Simulating and Modeling Lichen Growth
This paper presents a system for modeling lichens and simulating their propagation and growth in a virtual scene. Lichens colonize almost every substrate in nature and play an imp...
Brett Desbenoit, Eric Galin, Samir Akkouche
EACL
1993
ACL Anthology
14 years 11 months ago
Tuples, Discontinuity, and Gapping in Categorial Grammar
This paper solves some puzzles in the formalisation of logic for discontinuity in categorial grammar. A ‘tuple’ operation introduced in [Solias, 1992] is defined as a mode of...
Glyn Morrill, Teresa Solias
COCOA
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Scaling, Renormalization, and Universality in Combinatorial Games: The Geometry of Chomp
: We develop a new approach to combinatorial games (e.g., chess, Go, checkers, Chomp, Nim) that unveils connections between such games and nonlinear phenomena commonly seen in natu...
Eric J. Friedman, Adam Scott Landsberg
METRICS
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Experiences from Conducting Semi-structured Interviews in Empirical Software Engineering Research
Many phenomena related to software development are qualitative in nature. Relevant measures of such phenomena are often collected using semi-structured interviews. Such interviews...
Siw Elisabeth Hove, Bente Anda