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Social Networks and Interactions in Cities
We examine how interaction choices depend on the interplay of social and physical distance, and show that agents who are more central in the social network, or are located closer to the geographic center of interaction, choose higher levels of interactions in equilibrium. As a result, the level of interactivity in the economy as a whole will rise with the density of links in the social network and with the degree to which agents are clustered in physical space. When agents can choose geographic locations, there is a tendency for those who are more central in the social network to locate closer to the interaction center, leading to a form of endogenous geographic separation based on social distance. Finally, we show that the market equilibrium is not optimal because of social externalities. We determine the value of the subsidy to interactions that could support the first-best allocation as an equilibrium and show that interaction effort and the incentives for clustering are higher under the subsidy program.Social networks; urban-land use; Bonacich centrality
Scheduling multiple divisible loads on a linear processor network
Min, Veeravalli, and Barlas have recently proposed strategies to minimize the
overall execution time of one or several divisible loads on a heterogeneous
linear network, using one or more installments. We show on a very simple
example that their approach does not always produce a solution and that, when
it does, the solution is often suboptimal. We also show how to find an optimal
schedule for any instance, once the number of installments per load is given.
Then, we formally state that any optimal schedule has an infinite number of
installments under a linear cost model as the one assumed in the original
papers. Therefore, such a cost model cannot be used to design practical
multi-installment strategies. Finally, through extensive simulations we
confirmed that the best solution is always produced by the linear programming
approach, while solutions of the original papers can be far away from the
optimal
Multi-criteria scheduling of pipeline workflows
Mapping workflow applications onto parallel platforms is a challenging
problem, even for simple application patterns such as pipeline graphs. Several
antagonist criteria should be optimized, such as throughput and latency (or a
combination). In this paper, we study the complexity of the bi-criteria mapping
problem for pipeline graphs on communication homogeneous platforms. In
particular, we assess the complexity of the well-known chains-to-chains problem
for different-speed processors, which turns out to be NP-hard. We provide
several efficient polynomial bi-criteria heuristics, and their relative
performance is evaluated through extensive simulations
Bayesian computation for statistical models with intractable normalizing constants
This paper deals with some computational aspects in the Bayesian analysis of
statistical models with intractable normalizing constants. In the presence of
intractable normalizing constants in the likelihood function, traditional MCMC
methods cannot be applied. We propose an approach to sample from such posterior
distributions. The method can be thought as a Bayesian version of the MCMC-MLE
approach of Geyer and Thompson (1992). To the best of our knowledge, this is
the first general and asymptotically consistent Monte Carlo method for such
problems. We illustrate the method with examples from image segmentation and
social network modeling. We study as well the asymptotic behavior of the
algorithm and obtain a strong law of large numbers for empirical averages.Comment: 20 pages, 4 figures, submitted for publicatio
Rational extensions of the quantum harmonic oscillator and exceptional Hermite polynomials
We prove that every rational extension of the quantum harmonic oscillator
that is exactly solvable by polynomials is monodromy free, and therefore can be
obtained by applying a finite number of state-deleting Darboux transformations
on the harmonic oscillator. Equivalently, every exceptional orthogonal
polynomial system of Hermite type can be obtained by applying a Darboux-Crum
transformation to the classical Hermite polynomials. Exceptional Hermite
polynomial systems only exist for even codimension 2m, and they are indexed by
the partitions \lambda of m. We provide explicit expressions for their
corresponding orthogonality weights and differential operators and a separate
proof of their completeness. Exceptional Hermite polynomials satisfy a 2l+3
recurrence relation where l is the length of the partition \lambda. Explicit
expressions for such recurrence relations are given.Comment: 25 pages, typed in AMSTe
Social Networks and Interactions in Cities
We examine how interaction choices depend on the interplay of social and physical distance, and show that agents who are more central in the social network, or are located closer to the geographic center of interaction, choose higher levels of interactions in equilibrium. As a result, the level of interactivity in the economy as a whole will rise with the density of links in the social network and with the degree to which agents are clustered in physical space. When agents can choose geographic locations, there is a tendency for those who are more central in the social network to locate closer to the interaction center, leading to a form of endogenous geographic separation based on social distance. Finally, we show that the market equilibrium is not optimal because of social externalities. We determine the value of the subsidy to interactions that could support the first-best allocation as an equilibrium and show that interaction effort and the incentives for clustering are higher under the subsidy program.social networks, urban-land use, Bonacich centrality
Checkpointing algorithms and fault prediction
This paper deals with the impact of fault prediction techniques on
checkpointing strategies. We extend the classical first-order analysis of Young
and Daly in the presence of a fault prediction system, characterized by its
recall and its precision. In this framework, we provide an optimal algorithm to
decide when to take predictions into account, and we derive the optimal value
of the checkpointing period. These results allow to analytically assess the key
parameters that impact the performance of fault predictors at very large scale.Comment: Supported in part by ANR Rescue. Published in Journal of Parallel and
Distributed Computing. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1207.693
Reclaiming the energy of a schedule: models and algorithms
We consider a task graph to be executed on a set of processors. We assume
that the mapping is given, say by an ordered list of tasks to execute on each
processor, and we aim at optimizing the energy consumption while enforcing a
prescribed bound on the execution time. While it is not possible to change the
allocation of a task, it is possible to change its speed. Rather than using a
local approach such as backfilling, we consider the problem as a whole and
study the impact of several speed variation models on its complexity. For
continuous speeds, we give a closed-form formula for trees and series-parallel
graphs, and we cast the problem into a geometric programming problem for
general directed acyclic graphs. We show that the classical dynamic voltage and
frequency scaling (DVFS) model with discrete modes leads to a NP-complete
problem, even if the modes are regularly distributed (an important particular
case in practice, which we analyze as the incremental model). On the contrary,
the VDD-hopping model leads to a polynomial solution. Finally, we provide an
approximation algorithm for the incremental model, which we extend for the
general DVFS model.Comment: A two-page extended abstract of this work appeared as a short
presentation in SPAA'2011, while the long version has been accepted for
publication in "Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
Tiled QR factorization algorithms
This work revisits existing algorithms for the QR factorization of
rectangular matrices composed of p-by-q tiles, where p >= q. Within this
framework, we study the critical paths and performance of algorithms such as
Sameh and Kuck, Modi and Clarke, Greedy, and those found within PLASMA.
Although neither Modi and Clarke nor Greedy is optimal, both are shown to be
asymptotically optimal for all matrices of size p = q^2 f(q), where f is any
function such that \lim_{+\infty} f= 0. This novel and important complexity
result applies to all matrices where p and q are proportional, p = \lambda q,
with \lambda >= 1, thereby encompassing many important situations in practice
(least squares). We provide an extensive set of experiments that show the
superiority of the new algorithms for tall matrices
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