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2000
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches
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...
BRAIN
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Data Explosion, Data Nature and Dataology
The essence of computer applications is to store things in the real world into computer systems in the form of data, i.e., it is a process of producing data. Some data are the reco...
Yangyong Zhu, Ning Zhong, Yun Xiong
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Communication as information-seeking: the case for mobile social software for developing regions
In this paper, we describe several findings from a multi-year, multi-method study of how information and communication technologies have been adopted and adapted in Central Asia. ...
Beth E. Kolko, Emma J. Rose, Erica J. Johnson
DPPI
2003
ACM
16 years 2 days ago
Only when miss universe snatches me: teasing in MMS messaging
When new technology is adopted to everyday life, existing patterns of behavior relevant to the application are transferred to this new media. In this process, some things will als...
Esko Kurvinen
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FECS
2010
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15 years 4 months ago
Teaching Robotics to Freshman Students
This paper describes the experience of teaching robotics at the freshman level, from the conception of the project through the offering of a computer science seminar in robotics, h...
Pedro Diaz-Gomez, Johnny Carroll