An Optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in a Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment
Conference Proceeding
Liu, X., & Liu, Q. (2017)
An Optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in a Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment. In Proceedings of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) and IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), (128-131). https://doi.org/10.1109/cse-euc.2017.208
Hadoop is a famous distributed computing framework that is applied to process large-scale data. "Straggling tasks" have a serious impact on Hadoop performance due to imbalance...
Mobile Multicast Route Optimisation
Conference Proceeding
Romdhani, I., Munoz, J., Bettahar, H., & Bouabdallah, A. (2006)
Mobile Multicast Route Optimisation. In IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2006. ICC '06, 1977-1983. doi:10.1109/icc.2006.255060
The multiparty nature of multicast applications presents new challenges for Mobile IP users. Unfortunately, when a multicast receiver is mobile, it will experience additional ...
The impact of routing schemes on group communication throughput in scalable networks.
Conference Proceeding
Al-Dubai, A. (2008)
The impact of routing schemes on group communication throughput in scalable networks. In Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE international parallel & distributed processing symposium, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2008.4536490
Multicast communication has been a major avenue for many studies in interconnection networks. However, such a communication pattern has been studied under either limited opera...
Extensions to a memetic timetabling system.
Conference Proceeding
Paechter, B., Cumming, A., Norman, M. G., & Luchian, H. (1996)
Extensions to a memetic timetabling system. In R. Burke (Ed.), Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, 251-265. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61794-9_64
This paper describes work in progress to increase the performance of a memetic timetabling system. The features looked at are two directed mutation operators, targeted mutatio...
Minimization of incompletely specified mixed polarity Reed Muller functions using genetic algorithm.
Conference Proceeding
Al-Jassani, B. A., Urquhart, N. B., & Almaini, A. E. A. (2009)
Minimization of incompletely specified mixed polarity Reed Muller functions using genetic algorithm. https://doi.org/10.1109/12.67320
A New and efficient Genetic Algorithm (GA) based approach is presented to minimise the number of terms of Mixed Polarity Reed Muller (MPRM) single and multi output incompletel...
A refinement calculus for the development of real-time systems.
Conference Proceeding
Chen, Z., Cau, A., Zedan, H., Liu, X., & Yang, H. (1998)
A refinement calculus for the development of real-time systems. In 5th Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC '98, 61. https://doi.org/10.1109/APSEC.1998.733588
We present a calculus which can transfer specifications
to objects for the development of real-time systems. The
object model is based on a practical OO development
technique—...
A scalable plane-based broadcast algorithm for 3D-Mesh networks
Conference Proceeding
Al-Dubai, A., Ould-Khaoua, M., & Mackenzie, L. (2002)
A scalable plane-based broadcast algorithm for 3D-Mesh networks. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Euromicro Conference on Parallel,Distributed and Network-Based Processing (Euro-PDP’03), 149-156. doi:10.1109/empdp.2003.1183581
Broadcast algorithms for wormhole–switched meshes
have been widely reported in the literature. However,
most of these algorithms handle broadcast in a sequential
manner and do...
Using a conceptual data language to describe a database and its interface
Conference Proceeding
Mitchell, K., Kennedy, J., & Barclay, P. J. (1995)
Using a conceptual data language to describe a database and its interface. In C. Goble, & J. Keane (Eds.), Advances in Databases: Proceedings [of the] 13th British National Conference on Database - BNCOD13, 1995 (101-119). https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0000543
We propose a conceptual approach to defining interfaces to databases which uses the features of a fully object oriented data language to specify interface objects combined wit...
An efficient adaptive broadcast algorithm for the mesh network
Conference Proceeding
Al-Dubai, A., & Ould-Khaoua, M. (2001)
An efficient adaptive broadcast algorithm for the mesh network. In Eighth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'01), 83-90. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPADS.2001.934805
Most existing broadcast algorithms proposed for the mesh do not scale well with the network size. Furthermore, they have been mainly based on deterministic routing, which cann...
Real-time construction of aircraft landing schedules using an evolutionary algorithm
Conference Proceeding
Urquhart, N. (2006)
Real-time construction of aircraft landing schedules using an evolutionary algorithm. In M. Cattolico, M. Keijzer, M. O. Neill, & C. M. Ryan (Eds.), Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)https://doi.org/10.1145/1143997.1144309
This poster investigates the use of Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) to optimise solutions to the Dynamic Aircraft Landing Problem (DALP). The approach adopted here uses an EA to...