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GECCO
2005
Springer
125views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
16 years 23 days ago
Schema disruption in tree-structured chromosomes
We study if and when the inequality dp(H) ≤ rel∆(H) holds for schemas H in chromosomes that are structured as trees. The disruption probability dp(H) is the probability that a...
William A. Greene
ISAAC
2004
Springer
102views Algorithms» more  ISAAC 2004»
16 years 18 days ago
Polynomial Deterministic Rendezvous in Arbitrary Graphs
Abstract. The rendezvous problem in graphs has been extensively studied in the literature, mainly using a randomized approach. Two mobile agents have to meet at some node of a conn...
Dariusz R. Kowalski, Andrzej Pelc
WSNA
2003
ACM
16 years 15 days ago
Analysis on the redundancy of wireless sensor networks
Wireless sensor networks consist of a large number of tiny sensors that have only limited energy supply. One of the major challenges in constructing such networks is to maintain l...
Yong Gao, Kui Wu, Fulu Li
PODS
2010
ACM
232views Database» more  PODS 2010»
16 years 10 days ago
Optimal sampling from distributed streams
A fundamental problem in data management is to draw a sample of a large data set, for approximate query answering, selectivity estimation, and query planning. With large, streamin...
Graham Cormode, S. Muthukrishnan, Ke Yi, Qin Zhang
FOCS
2002
IEEE
16 years 6 days ago
Protocols and Impossibility Results for Gossip-Based Communication Mechanisms
In recent years, gossip-based algorithms have gained prominence as a methodology for designing robust and scalable communication schemes in large distributed systems. The premise ...
David Kempe, Jon M. Kleinberg