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ICAC
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Applying genetic algorithms to decision making in autonomic computing systems
Increasingly, applications need to be able to self-reconfigure in response to changing requirements and environmental conditions. Autonomic computing has been proposed as a means...
Andres J. Ramirez, David B. Knoester, Betty H. C. ...
IPSN
2004
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Backcasting: adaptive sampling for sensor networks
Wireless sensor networks provide an attractive approach to spatially monitoring environments. Wireless technology makes these systems relatively flexible, but also places heavy d...
Rebecca Willett, Aline Martin, Robert Nowak
FOCS
2007
IEEE
16 years 28 days ago
Adaptive Simulated Annealing: A Near-optimal Connection between Sampling and Counting
We present a near-optimal reduction from approximately counting the cardinality of a discrete set to approximately sampling elements of the set. An important application of our wo...
Daniel Stefankovic, Santosh Vempala, Eric Vigoda
CPAIOR
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Online Stochastic Reservation Systems
This paper considers online stochastic reservation problems, where requests come online and must be dynamically allocated to limited resources in order to maximize profit. Multi-k...
Pascal Van Hentenryck, Russell Bent, Yannis Vergad...
IWCMC
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Dynamic trust establishment in emergency ad hoc networks
This paper proposes a dynamic trust establishment protocol that enables the nodes of an ad hoc network to establish security associations among each other in a distributed and pee...
Christos A. Papageorgiou, Konstantinos Birkos, Tas...