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APSEC
2006
IEEE
16 years 20 days ago
An Approach of a Technique for Effort Estimation of Iterations in Software Projects
The estimation of effort and cost is still one of the hardest tasks in software project management. At the moment, there are many techniques to accomplish this task, such as Funct...
José Antonio Pow-Sang, Enrique Jolay-Vasque...
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
117views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2006»
16 years 19 days ago
Offering Differentiated Services in Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Multicast
In traditional overlay multicast network, all peers are treated as equal regardless of their importance and contribution to the network. In this paper, we consider that each user ...
Kan-Leung Cheng, Xing Jin, S.-H. Gary Chan
CRYPTO
2005
Springer
103views Cryptology» more  CRYPTO 2005»
16 years 4 days ago
Pebbling and Proofs of Work
We investigate methods for providing easy-to-check proofs of computational effort. Originally intended for discouraging spam, the concept has wide applicability as a method for co...
Cynthia Dwork, Moni Naor, Hoeteck Wee
GECCO
2005
Springer
141views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
16 years 4 days ago
Local and global order 3/2 convergence of a surrogate evolutionary algorithm
A Quasi-Monte-Carlo method based on the computation of a surrogate model of the fitness function is proposed, and its convergence at super-linear rate 3/2 is proved under rather ...
Anne Auger, Marc Schoenauer, Olivier Teytaud
VLSM
2005
Springer
16 years 2 days ago
A Gradient Descent Procedure for Variational Dynamic Surface Problems with Constraints
Abstract. Many problems in image analysis and computer vision involving boundaries and regions can be cast in a variational formulation. This means that m-surfaces, e.g. curves and...
Jan Erik Solem, Niels Chr. Overgaard