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ICDCS
2012
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Towards Optimal Capacity Segmentation with Hybrid Cloud Pricing
—Cloud resources are usually priced in multiple markets with different service guarantees. For example, Amazon EC2 prices virtual instances under three pricing schemes — the su...
Wei Wang, Baochun Li, Ben Liang
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ICALP
2009
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
The Number of Symbol Comparisons in QuickSort and QuickSelect
Abstract We revisit the classical QuickSort and QuickSelect algorithms, under a complexity model that fully takes into account the elementary comparisons between symbols composing ...
Brigitte Vallée, James Allen Fill, Julien C...
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IJAC
2006
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15 years 3 months ago
Evaluation Properties of Symmetric Polynomials
By the fundamental theorem of symmetric polynomials, if P Q[X1, . . . , Xn] is symmetric, then it can be written P = Q(1, . . . , n), where 1, . . . , n are the elementary symmet...
Pierrick Gaudry, Éric Schost, Nicolas M. Th...
ALIFE
1998
15 years 3 months ago
Evolutionary Body Building: Adaptive Physical Designs for Robots
Creating artificial life forms through evolutionary robotics faces a “chicken and egg” problem: learning to control a complex body is dominated by problems specific to its s...
Pablo Funes, Jordan B. Pollack
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SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Building scalable software systems in the multicore era
Software systems must face two challenges today: growing complexity and increasing parallelism in the underlying computational models. The problem of increased complexity is often...
Hridesh Rajan