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2000
Springer
15 years 10 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...
HUC
2010
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
UBI challenge workshop 2010: real world urban computing
This workshop promotes ubiquitous computing research in authentic urban setting, with real users and with sufficient scale and time span. We first motivate why such research is im...
Timo Ojala, Jukka Riekki
COMPUTER
2002
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15 years 6 months ago
A Practical Architecture for Reliable Quantum Computers
wever, by using a simple model of abstract building blocks: quantum bits, gates, and algorithms, and the available implementation technologies--in all their imperfections.7 The bas...
Mark Oskin, Frederic T. Chong, Isaac L. Chuang
AMC
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
Existence and computation of short-run equilibria in economic geography
The new economic geography literature provides a general equilibrium framework that explains the emergence of economic agglomerations as a trade-off between increasing returns at...
Nicos G. Pavlidis, Michael N. Vrahatis, P. Mossay
IPPS
2010
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Supporting fault tolerance in a data-intensive computing middleware
Over the last 2-3 years, the importance of data-intensive computing has increasingly been recognized, closely coupled with the emergence and popularity of map-reduce for developin...
Tekin Bicer, Wei Jiang, Gagan Agrawal