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ITICSE
1997
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
A genetic algorithms tutorial tool for numerical function optimisation
The field of Genetic Algorithms has grown into a huge area over the last few years. Genetic Algorithms are adaptive methods, which can be used to solve search and optimisation pro...
Edmund K. Burke, D. B. Varley
ACSE
1996
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Collaborative hypermedia education with the VIENA classroom system
VIENA Classroom is a collaborative hypermedia education system which is a component of the Virtual Interactive Environment for Workgroups (VIEW), a collaborative environment based...
Werner Winiwarter, Osami Kagawa, Shin'ichi Konomi,...
FOCS
1993
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
A Tight Lower Bound for k-Set Agreement
: Weprove tight bounds on the time needed to solve k-set agreement, a natural generalization of consensus. We analyze this problem in a synchronous, message-passing model where pro...
Soma Chaudhuri, Maurice Herlihy, Nancy A. Lynch, M...
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ACMSE
1992
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Disk performance enhancement through Markov-based cylinder remapping
A scheme for disk subsystem performance enhancement that is based on (virtual) cylinder remapping is proposed. A natural workload on a real system is measured, and statistical tes...
Robert Geist, Darrell Suggs, Robert G. Reynolds, S...
FOCS
1990
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Uniform Memory Hierarchies
We present several e cient algorithms for sorting on the uniform memory hierarchy UMH, introduced by Alpern, Carter, and Feig, and its parallelization P-UMH. We give optimal and ne...
Bowen Alpern, Larry Carter, Ephraim Feig