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...
Extracting information from data, often also called data analysis, is an important scienti c task. Statistical approaches, which use methods from probability theory and numerical a...
Bernd Fischer 0002, Johann Schumann, Thomas Pressb...
Rapid increases in computing and communication performance are exacerbating the long-standing problem of performance-limited input/output. Indeed, for many otherwise scalable para...
Phyllis Crandall, Ruth A. Aydt, Andrew A. Chien, D...
Several recent trends have changed the usage and users of schemas beyond those of a database administrator’s tool for describing database contents. Distribution of computing pow...
Subjective quality perception studies with human observers are essential for multimedia system design. Such studies are known to be expensive and difficult to administer. They req...