— To optimize makespan and reliability for workflow applications, most existing works use list heuristics rather than genetic algorithms (GAs) which can usually give better solut...
Segmentation of medical images is challenging due to poor image contrast and artifacts that result in missing or diffuse organ/tissue boundaries. Consequently, this task involves ...
We address performance issues associated with simulationbased algorithms for optimizing Markov reward processes. Specifically, we are concerned with algorithms that exploit the re...
Abstract— In many energy-rechargeable wireless sensor networks, sensor nodes must both sense data from the environment, and cooperatively forward sensed data to data sinks. Both ...
Chun Zhang, Jim Kurose, Yong Liu, Donald F. Towsle...
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) technique proved its ability to deal with very complicated optimization and search problems. This paper proposes a new particle swarm variant whi...