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2000
Springer
15 years 1 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...
PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Helper locks for fork-join parallel programming
Helper locks allow programs with large parallel critical sections, called parallel regions, to execute more efficiently by enlisting processors that might otherwise be waiting on ...
Kunal Agrawal, Charles E. Leiserson, Jim Sukha
FPGA
2010
ACM
232views FPGA» more  FPGA 2010»
14 years 10 months ago
High-throughput bayesian computing machine with reconfigurable hardware
We use reconfigurable hardware to construct a high throughput Bayesian computing machine (BCM) capable of evaluating probabilistic networks with arbitrary DAG (directed acyclic gr...
Mingjie Lin, Ilia Lebedev, John Wawrzynek
TEC
2008
115views more  TEC 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Function Approximation With XCS: Hyperellipsoidal Conditions, Recursive Least Squares, and Compaction
An important strength of learning classifier systems (LCSs) lies in the combination of genetic optimization techniques with gradient-based approximation techniques. The chosen app...
Martin V. Butz, Pier Luca Lanzi, Stewart W. Wilson
TCS
2002
14 years 9 months ago
Process algebra for performance evaluation
This paper surveys the theoretical developments in the field of stochastic process algebras, process algebras where action occurrences may be subject to a delay that is determined...
Holger Hermanns, Ulrich Herzog, Joost-Pieter Katoe...