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2000
Springer
15 years 3 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...
FAST
2008
15 years 1 months ago
Pergamum: Replacing Tape with Energy Efficient, Reliable, Disk-Based Archival Storage
As the world moves to digital storage for archival purposes, there is an increasing demand for reliable, lowpower, cost-effective, easy-to-maintain storage that can still provide ...
Mark W. Storer, Kevin M. Greenan, Ethan L. Miller,...
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GECCO
2008
Springer
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15 years 21 days ago
CrossNet: a framework for crossover with network-based chromosomal representations
We propose a new class of crossover operators for genetic algorithms (CrossNet) which use a network-based (or graphbased) chromosomal representation. We designed CrossNet with the...
Forrest Stonedahl, William Rand, Uri Wilensky
JSAC
2008
140views more  JSAC 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
Optimality and Complexity of Pure Nash Equilibria in the Coverage Game
In this paper, we investigate the coverage problem in wireless sensor networks using a game theory method. We assume that nodes are randomly scattered in a sensor field and the goa...
Xin Ai, Vikram Srinivasan, Chen-Khong Tham
TWC
2008
201views more  TWC 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
A Novel Algorithm for Multipath Fingerprinting in Indoor WLAN Environments
Abstract--Positioning in indoor wireless environments is growing rapidly in importance and gains commercial interests in context-awareness applications. The essential challenge in ...
Shih-Hau Fang, Tsung-Nan Lin, Kun-Chou Lee