Extractors are functions which are able to "extract" random bits from arbitrary distributions which "contain" sufficient randomness. Explicit constructions of ...
This paper studies the following question: given an instance of the propositional satisfiability problem, a randomized satisfiability solver, and a cluster of n computers, what i...
This paper introduces an adaptive parallel pipeline pattern which follows the GRASP (Grid-Adaptive Structured Parallelism) methodology. GRASP is a generic methodology to incorpora...
Differential Evolution (DE) is a novel evolutionary approach capable of handling non-differentiable, non-linear and multi-modal objective functions. DE has been consistently ranked...
In this paperweconsidertheproblemof schedulingdifferentclasses of customerson multiple distributed serversto minimize an objective function basedon per-classmeanresponsetimes.This...