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IPPS
2007
IEEE
16 years 22 days ago
A Comparative Study of Parallel Metaheuristics for Protein Structure Prediction on the Computational Grid
A comparative study of parallel metaheuristics executed in grid environments is proposed, having as case study a genetic algorithm, a simulated annealing algorithm and a random se...
Alexandru-Adrian Tantar, Nouredine Melab, El-Ghaza...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
16 years 22 days ago
Adaptive Distributed Database Replication Through Colonies of Pogo Ants
We address the problem of optimizing the distribution of partially replicated databases over a computer network. Replication is used to increase data availability in the presence ...
Sarah Abdul-Wahid, Razvan Andonie, Joseph Lemley, ...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
16 years 22 days ago
Reconfigurable Architecture for Biological Sequence Comparison in Reduced Memory Space
DNA sequence alignment is a very important problem in bioinformatics. The algorithm proposed by Smith-Waterman (SW) is an exact method that obtains optimal local alignments in qua...
Azzedine Boukerche, Jan Mendonca Correa, Alba Cris...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
16 years 22 days ago
Self Adaptive Application Level Fault Tolerance for Parallel and Distributed Computing
Most application level fault tolerance schemes in literature are non-adaptive in the sense that the fault tolerance schemes incorporated in applications are usually designed witho...
Zizhong Chen, Ming Yang, Guillermo A. Francia III,...
IROS
2007
IEEE
193views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
16 years 21 days ago
Analyzing gaussian proposal distributions for mapping with rao-blackwellized particle filters
Abstract— Particle filters are a frequently used filtering technique in the robotics community. They have been successfully applied to problems such as localization, mapping, o...
Cyrill Stachniss, Giorgio Grisetti, Wolfram Burgar...