This note examines the utility of pseudorandom variables (prv) in Global Search and Optimization (GSO) using Central Force Optimization (CFO) as an example. Most GSO metaheuristics are stochastic in ...

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Researchers have successfully used a quantum algorithm to solve a complex century-old mathematical problem long considered impossible for even the most powerful conventional supercomputers. The ...

High-quality random number generators are required for various applications such as cryptography, secure communications, Monte Carlo simulations, and randomized algorithms. Existing pseudorandom ...

[IEEE ICASSP 2021] "A fast randomized adaptive CP decomposition for streaming tensors". In 46th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing, 2021.

A NetworkX implementation of Label Propagation from a "Near Linear Time Algorithm to Detect Community Structures in Large-Scale Networks" (Physical Review E 2008).

A basic problem in distributed computing has to do with assigning unique labels — that is, names or addresses — to network elements. Some approaches to solving this problem include using static ...

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