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IEEEHPCS
2010
15 years 5 months ago
An FPGA design for the stochastic Greenberg-Hastings cellular automata
The stochastic Greenberg-Hastings cellular automaton is a model that mimics the propagation of reaction-diffusion waves in active media. Notably, this model undergoes a phase tran...
Nikolaos Vlassopoulos, Nazim Fatès, Hugues ...
ISSE
2010
15 years 5 months ago
A second look at Faster, Better, Cheaper
“Faster, Better, Cheaper” (FBC) was a systems development methodology used by NASA in the 1990s. While usually a deprecated practice, we find that, with certain caveats, it is...
Oussama El-Rawas, Tim Menzies
SAB
2010
Springer
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How to Pick the Right One: Investigating Tradeoffs among Female Mate Choice Strategies in Treefrogs
Two main theories of female mate choice, that females either pick the best from the n closest males (best-of-n) or the closest with some minimum quality (min-threshold), make diffe...
Matthias Scheutz, Jack Harris, Sunny K. Boyd
IAT
2010
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Continuous Double Auction in Grid Computing: An Agent Based Approach to Maximize Profit for Providers
Economic models are found efficient in managing heterogeneous computer resources such as storage, CPU and memory for grid computing. Commodity market, double auction and contract-n...
S. M. Aminul Haque, Saadat M. Alhashmi, Rajendran ...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Towards optimally efficient field estimation with threshold-based pruning in real robotic sensor networks
Abstract-- The efficiency of distributed sensor networks depends on an optimal trade-off between the usage of resources and data quality. The work in this paper addresses the probl...
Amanda Prorok, Christopher M. Cianci, Alcherio Mar...