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GECCO
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2010
Springer
Crowding is a technique used in genetic algorithms to preserve diversity in the population and to prevent premature convergence to local optima. It consists of pairing each offsp...
ISLPED
2006
ACM
14 years 6 days ago
2006
ACM
Process variations will increasingly impact the operational characteristics of integrated circuits in nanoscale semiconductor technologies. Researchers have proposed various desig...
EOR
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
We consider the problem of accurately measuring the credit risk of a portfolio consisting of loans, bonds and other financial assets. One particular performance measure of interes...
TOG
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
This paper introduces a simple and robust progressive global illumination algorithm based on photon mapping. Progressive photon mapping is a multi-pass algorithm where the first p...
CDC
2010
IEEE
13 years 1 months ago
2010
IEEE
We examine distributed time-synchronization in mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks. The problem is to estimate the skews and offsets of clocks of all the nodes with respect to an arb...