First Workshop on Biologically Inspired
Solutions to Parallel Processing Problems
Steering Committee:
Peter Fleming, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Frank Hsu, Fordham University
Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California
Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida - Gainsville
Hartmut Schmeck, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
H.J. Siegel, Purdue University
Les Valiant, Harvard University
Program Committee:
Ishfaq Ahmad, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
David Andrews, University of Arkansas
Prithviraj Banerjee, Northwestern University
Juergen Branke, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Jehoshua (Shuki) Bruck, California Institute of Technology
Sajal Das, University of North Texas
Hesham El-Rewini, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Afonso Ferreira, CNRS, LIP-ENS, France
Ophir Frieder, Florida Tech.
Eileen Kraemer, Washington University in St. Louis
Mohan Kumar, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Richard Lipton, Princeton University
John H. Reif, Duke University
P. Sadayappan, Ohio State University
Assaf Schuster, Technion, Israel
Franciszek Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Peter M.A. Sloot, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ivan Stojmenovic, Ottawa University, Canada
Weiping Zhu, University of Queensland, Australia
Program:
An Evolutionary Approach to Multiprocessor Scheduling of Dependent Tasks
Roman Nossal
A fault-tolerant parallel heuristic for assignment problems
E-G. Talbi, J-M. Geib, Z. Hafidi, D. Kebbal
Locality Optimization for Program Instances
Claudia Leopold
Using the BSP Cost Model to Optimise Parallel Neural Network Training
R.O. Rogers, D.B. Skillicorn
A Parallel Evolutionary Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Heterogeneous Fleet
Luiz S. Ochi, Dalessandro S. Vianna, Lucia M.A. Drummond, Andre O. Victor
Scheduling Tasks of a Parallel Program in Two-Processor Systems with use of Cellular Automata
Franciszek Seredynski
Evolving Processes and Evolution Schedulers for Concurrent Scheduling Controls and Parallel Evolutionary Computation
Tzilla Elrad, Jinlong Lin
Artificial Neural Networks on Reconfigurable Meshes
Jing-Fu Jenq, Wing Ning Li
Multiprocessor Scheduling Using Mean-Field Annealing
Shaharuddin Salleh, University of Technology Malaysia, Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Western Australia
Computing with evolving proteins
J.L. Fernandez-Villacanas, J.M. Fatah, S. Amin
Replicated Shared Object Model for Edge Detection with Spiral Architecture
Xiangjian He, Tom Hintz, Ury Szewcow
A Molecular Quasi-random Model of Computations Applied to Evaluate Collective Intelligence
Tadeusz Szuba
Meta-heuristics for Circuit Partitioning in Parallel Test Generation
C. Gil, J. Ortega, A.F. Diaz, M.G. Montoya