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1993
15 years 7 months ago
Minimizing Complexity in Cellular Automata Models of Self-Replication
Understanding self-replication from an information processing perspective is important because, amongother things, it can shed light on molecular mechanismsof biological reproduct...
James A. Reggia, Hui-Hsien Chou, Steven L. Armentr...
ATAL
2005
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Modeling exceptions via commitment protocols
This paper develops a model for exceptions and an approach for incorporating them in commitment protocols among autonomous agents. Modeling and handling exceptions is critical for...
Ashok U. Mallya, Munindar P. Singh
VLDB
2005
ACM
118views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
15 years 11 months ago
Selectivity Estimation for Fuzzy String Predicates in Large Data Sets
Many database applications have the emerging need to support fuzzy queries that ask for strings that are similar to a given string, such as “name similar to smith” and “tele...
Liang Jin, Chen Li
LISA
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Devolved Management of Distributed Infrastructures with Quattor
In recent times a new kind of computing system has emerged: a distributed infrastructure composed of multiple physical sites in different administrative domains. This model introd...
Stephen Childs, Marco Emilio Poleggi, Charles Loom...
AC
1998
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Cellular Automata Models of Self-Replicating Systems
Abstract: Since von Neumann's seminal work around 1950, computer scientists and others have studied the algorithms needed to support self-replicating systems. Much of this wor...
James A. Reggia, Hui-Hsien Chou, Jason D. Lohn