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ICCS
2005
Springer
16 years 8 days ago
Effectiveness of Vaccination Strategies for Infectious Diseases According to Human Contact Networks
A ‘contact network’ modeling infection transmission comprises of nodes (or individuals) that are linked when they are in contact that possibly transmits an infection. We here s...
Fumihiko Takeuchi, Kenji Yamamoto
CEC
2009
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Conformity and network effects in the Prisoner's Dilemma
— We study the evolution of cooperation using the Prisoner’s Dilemma as a metaphor of the tensions between cooperators and non-cooperators, and evolutionary game theory as the ...
José María Peña, Enea Pestela...
IEEEPACT
1999
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
The Effect of Program Optimization on Trace Cache Efficiency
Trace cache, an instruction fetch technique that reduces taken branch penalties by storing and fetching program instructions in dynamic execution order, dramatically improves inst...
Derek L. Howard, Mikko H. Lipasti
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
On statistical analysis and optimization of information retrieval effectiveness metrics
This paper presents a new way of thinking for IR metric optimization. It is argued that the optimal ranking problem should be factorized into two distinct yet interrelated stages:...
Jun Wang, Jianhan Zhu
GECCO
2010
Springer
173views Optimization» more  GECCO 2010»
15 years 10 months ago
The baldwin effect in developing neural networks
The Baldwin Effect is a very plausible, but unproven, biological theory concerning the power of learning to accelerate evolution. Simple computational models in the 1980’s gave...
Keith L. Downing