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- ArticleNovember 2023
Accelerated Genetic Algorithm with Population Control for Energy-Aware Virtual Machine Placement in Data Centers
AbstractEnergy efficiency is crucial for the operation and management of cloud data centers, which are the foundation of cloud computing. Virtual machine (VM) placement plays a vital role in improving energy efficiency in data centers. The genetic ...
- short-paperJune 2022
Desaparecidxs: characterizing the population of missing children using Twitter
WebSci '22: Proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022June 2022, Pages 185–190https://doi.org/10.1145/3501247.3531589Missing children, i.e., children reported to a relevant authority as having “disappeared,” constitute an important but often overlooked population. From a research perspective, missing children constitute a hard-to-reach population about which little is ...
- research-articleJanuary 2021
The Properties of Information in the Digital Urban Environment
Scientific and Technical Information Processing (SPSTIP), Volume 48, Issue 1Jan 2021, Pages 21–29https://doi.org/10.3103/S0147688221010032AbstractThe concepts of the digital urban environment, digital society, and information are clarified on the basis of Russian and foreign research. The historical aspect of the emergence of digital city projects is described. The properties and ...
- research-articleJune 2020
How to identify the roots of broad research topics and fields? The introduction of RPYS sampling using the example of climate change research
Journal of Information Science (JIPP), Volume 46, Issue 3Jun 2020, Pages 392–405https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551519837175Since the introduction of the reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS) method and the corresponding programme CRExplorer, many studies have been published revealing the historical roots of topics, fields and researchers. The application of the ...
- research-articleJanuary 2020
Similarity detection method of abnormal data in network based on data mining
Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems: Applications in Engineering and Technology (JIFS), Volume 38, Issue 12020, Pages 155–162https://doi.org/10.3233/JIFS-179390With the continuous progress of network technology, some abnormal data are often confused in network data flow, which affects network security. In order to grasp the abnormal degree of abnormal data in networks and detect the similarity of abnormal data, ...
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- research-articleOctober 2019
Understanding the Attention Demand of Touch and Tangible Interaction on a Composite Task
ICMI '19: 2019 International Conference on Multimodal InteractionOctober 2019, Pages 319–328https://doi.org/10.1145/3340555.3353723Bimanual input is frequently used on touch and tangible interaction on tabletop surfaces. Considering a composite task, such as moving a set of objects, attention, decision making and fine motor control have to be phased with the coordination of the two ...
- research-articleAugust 2019
Exponential slowdown for larger populations: the (µ + 1)-EA on monotone functions
FOGA '19: Proceedings of the 15th ACM/SIGEVO Conference on Foundations of Genetic AlgorithmsAugust 2019, Pages 87–101https://doi.org/10.1145/3299904.3340309Pseudo-Boolean monotone functions are unimodal functions which are trivial to optimize for some hillclimbers, but are challenging for a surprising number of evolutionary algorithms. A general trend is that evolutionary algorithms are efficient if ...
- research-articleJanuary 2019
Mapping Missing Population in Rural India: A Deep Learning Approach with Satellite Imagery
- Wenjie Hu,
- Jay Harshadbhai Patel,
- Zoe-Alanah Robert,
- Paul Novosad,
- Samuel Asher,
- Zhongyi Tang,
- Marshall Burke,
- David Lobell,
- Stefano Ermon
AIES '19: Proceedings of the 2019 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and SocietyJanuary 2019, Pages 353–359https://doi.org/10.1145/3306618.3314263Millions of people worldwide are absent from their country's census. Accurate, current, and granular population metrics are critical to improving government allocation of resources, to measuring disease control, to responding to natural disasters, and ...
- articleSeptember 2018
Models of Two-Stage Mutual Best Choice
Automation and Remote Control (ARCO), Volume 79, Issue 9September 2018, Pages 1722–1731https://doi.org/10.1134/S0005117918090151In this paper, we develop and study a game-theoretic model of mutual choice with two types of agents (groups) as follows. Each agent wants to make a couple with another agent from the opposite group. In contrast to classical best-choice models, two ...
- research-articleJuly 2018
Fast algorithm for fair comparison of genetic algorithms
GECCO '18: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation ConferenceJuly 2018, Pages 913–920https://doi.org/10.1145/3205455.3205511Since numerous genetic algorithms (GAs) are developed every year, GA researchers need a fast algorithm to fairly compare their performances. In this paper, we formalized the performance metric and listed three algorithms to find the right population size ...
- research-articleApril 2017
Mosquito larval habitat model: a complete climate-driven approach
ADS '17: Proceedings of the Agent-Directed Simulation SymposiumApril 2017, Article No.: 6, Pages 1–12In biological modeling, accurate modeling of the life cycle of an organism needs to account for the complexity of the organism, as well as the interactions between the organism and its environment. Mosquitoes are an organism commonly modeled as a vector ...
- short-paperSeptember 2016
Surveys in Software Engineering: Identifying Representative Samples
ESEM '16: Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and MeasurementSeptember 2016, Article No.: 55, Pages 1–6https://doi.org/10.1145/2961111.2962632Context: The representativeness of samples in Software Engineering primary studies is still a great challenge, mainly when identifying available sources for establishing adequate sampling frames, characterizing subjects and stimulating their ...
- research-articleJuly 2015
Terminating Distributed Construction of Shapes and Patterns in a Fair Solution of Automata
PODC '15: Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed ComputingJuly 2015, Pages 37–46https://doi.org/10.1145/2767386.2767402In this work, we consider a solution of automata similar to Population Protocols and Network Constructors. The automata, also called nodes, move passively in a well-mixed solution and can cooperate by interacting in pairs. During every such interaction, ...
- articleMarch 2015
Dynamics of Welfare of the Population of a Country
Cybernetics and Systems Analysis (KLU-CASA), Volume 51, Issue 2March 2015, Pages 291–302https://doi.org/10.1007/s10559-015-9721-1The author shows that there is a limit in economy at which the rate of growth of GDP becomes less than the rate of growth of welfare; and to maintain current welfare, the population decreases by birth rate decrease. In post-industrial economies, the ...
- ArticleJanuary 2015
Reconstructing a Large-Scale Population for Social Simulation
MECS '15: Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Control SystemsJanuary 2015, Pages 390–393The advent of social simulation has provided an opportunity to research on social systems. More and more researchers tend to describe the components of social systems in a more detailed level. Any simulation needs the support of population data to ...
- short-paperSeptember 2014
Modeling climate-dependent population dynamics of mosquitoes to guide public health policies
BCB '14: Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health InformaticsSeptember 2014, Pages 380–389https://doi.org/10.1145/2649387.2649415More than 2.5 billion people, over 40 percent of the global population, live in areas with a high risk of contracting dengue fever, a fatal disease, spread by the mosquito Aedes aegypti. Due to global warming, the spread of dengue is increasing, and ...
- research-articleSeptember 2014
Towards a framework to support large scale sampling in software engineering surveys
ESEM '14: Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and MeasurementSeptember 2014, Article No.: 48, Pages 1–4https://doi.org/10.1145/2652524.2652567Context: The low quality and small size of samples in empirical studies in software engineering hamper the interpretation and generalization of their results. Therefore, enlarging sample sizes and improving their quality represent an important research ...
- research-articleSeptember 2014
Sampling improvement in software engineering surveys
ESEM '14: Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and MeasurementSeptember 2014, Article No.: 13, Pages 1–4https://doi.org/10.1145/2652524.2652566Context: Small and non-probabilistic samples represent relevant issues when discussing the external validity of empirical studies in Software Engineering. Goal: To investigate alternatives to improve the quality of samples (size, heterogeneity and level ...
- research-articleJuly 2014
Simple and efficient local codes for distributed stable network construction
PODC '14: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computingJuly 2014, Pages 76–85https://doi.org/10.1145/2611462.2611466In this work, we study protocols so that populations of distributed processes can construct networks. In order to highlight the basic principles of distributed network construction we keep the model minimal in all respects. In particular, we assume ...
- articleJuly 2014
Modeling the Dynamics of Age-Structured Polycyclic Population of Biological Cells on the Parameterized Set of Algebraic Functions
Cybernetics and Systems Analysis (KLU-CASA), Volume 50, Issue 4July 2014, Pages 578–593https://doi.org/10.1007/s10559-014-9646-0We use the analytical approach and numerical modeling to analyze the dynamics of the population of biological cells based on the polycyclic age-structured model. We reduce the initial---boundary-value problem for transport equation to the Volterra ...