Several recent studies have found only a weak relationship between the performance of a retrieval system and the "success" achievable by human searchers. We hypothesize ...
Flash memory is a storage medium that is becoming more and more popular. Though not yet fully embraced in traditional computing systems, Flash memory is prevalent in embedded syst...
Commodity file systems trust disks to either work or fail completely, yet modern disks exhibit more complex failure modes. We suggest a new fail-partial failure model for disks, ...
Vijayan Prabhakaran, Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, N...
Abstract: Lazy computation is not new in model-based diagnosis of active systems (and of discreteevent systems in general). Up to a decade ago, diagnosis methods for discrete-event...
Pietro Baroni, Gianfranco Lamperti, Paolo Pogliano...
Both simulated annealing (SA) and the genetic algorithms (GA) are stochastic and derivative-free optimization technique. SA operates on one solution at a time, while the GA mainta...
Mostafa A. El-Hosseini, Aboul Ella Hassanien, Ajit...