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PGGA: A predictable and grouped genetic algorithm for job scheduling
This paper presents a predictable and grouped genetic algorithm (PGGA) for job scheduling. The novelty of the PGGA is twofold: (1) a job workload estimation algorithm is designed to estimate a job workload based on its historical execution records, (2) the divisible load theory (DLT) is employed to predict an optimal fitness value by which the PGGA speeds up the convergence process in searching a large scheduling space. Comparison with traditional scheduling methods such as first-come-first-serve (FCFS) and random scheduling, heuristics such as a typical genetic algorithm, Min-Min and Max-Min indicates that the PGGA is more effective and efficient in finding optimal scheduling solutions
Correlations of chaotic eigenfunctions: a semiclassical analysis
We derive a semiclassical expression for an energy smoothed autocorrelation
function defined on a group of eigenstates of the Schr\"odinger equation. The
system we considered is an energy-conserved Hamiltonian system possessing
time-invariant symmetry. The energy smoothed autocorrelation function is
expressed as a sum of three terms. The first one is analogous to Berry's
conjecture, which is a Bessel function of the zeroth order. The second and the
third terms are trace formulae made from special trajectories. The second term
is found to be direction dependent in the case of spacing averaging, which
agrees qualitatively with previous numerical observations in high-lying
eigenstates of a chaotic billiard.Comment: Revtex, 13 pages, 1 postscript figur
Spreading Speed, Traveling Waves, and Minimal Domain Size in\ud Impulsive Reaction-diffusion Models
How growth, mortality, and dispersal in a species affect the species’ spread and persistence constitutes a central problem in spatial ecology. We propose impulsive reaction-diffusion equation models for species with distinct reproductive and dispersal stages. These models can describe a seasonal birth pulse plus nonlinear mortality and dispersal throughout the year. Alternatively they can describe seasonal harvesting, plus nonlinear birth and mortality as well as dispersal throughout the year. The population dynamics in the seasonal pulse is described by a discrete map that gives the density of the populationat the end stage as a possibly nonmonotone function of the density of the population at the beginning of the stage. The dynamics in the dispersal stage is governed by a nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation in a bounded or unbounded domain. We develop a spatially explicit theoretical framework that links species vital rates (mortality or fecundity) and dispersal characteristics with species’ spreading speeds, traveling wave speeds, as well as and minimal domain size for species persistence. We provide an explicit formula for the spreading speed in terms of model parameters, and show that the spreading speed can be characterized as the slowest speed of a class of traveling wave solutions. We also determine an explicit formula for the minimal domain size using model parameters. Our results show how the diffusion coefficient, and the combination of discrete- and continuous-time growth and mortality determine the spread and persistence dynamics of the population in a wide variety of ecological scenarios. Numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the theoretical results
Universal statistics of wave functions in chaotic and disordered systems
We study a new statistics of wave functions in several chaotic and disordered
systems: the random matrix model, band random matrix model, the Lipkin model,
chaotic quantum billiard and the 1D tight-binding model. Both numerical and
analytical results show that the distribution function of a generalized Riccati
variable, defined as the ratio of components of eigenfunctions on basis states
coupled by perturbation, is universal, and has the form of Lorentzian
distribution.Comment: 6 Europhys pages, 2 Ps figures, new version to appear in Europhys.
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