The focus is on black-box optimization of a function f : RN R given as a black box, i. e. an oracle for f-evaluations. This is commonly called direct search, and in fact, most meth...
Watching television is usually a shared experience allowing family or friends that share the same viewing interests to watch, comment and enjoy programs together. The interaction p...
There are a number of frameworks for modelling argumentation in logic. They incorporate a formal representation of individual arguments and techniques for comparing conflicting arg...
This paper introduces a method of constructing random number generators from four of the basic primitives provided by FPGAs: Flip-Flips, Lookup-Tables, Shift Registers, and RAMs. ...
We consider the problem of diagnosing performance problems in distributed system and networks given end-to-end performance measurements provided by test transactions, or probes. C...