To minimize the performance advantage of specialized hardware, a proof of work (PoW) algorithm must achieve device binding by targeting specific features of existing general-purpose hardware. This is ...

1 Shanghai Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Computing, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. 2 School of Computer Science and Engineering, Guangzhou Institute of Technology, Guangzhou, China. 3 ...

As the world moves towards industrialization, optimization problems become more challenging to solve in a reasonable time. More than 500 new metaheuristic algorithms (MAs) have been developed to date, ...

Algorithms are pre-defined, self-contained sets of instructions designed to execute diverse functions, and they have been around for longer than you might expect. From ancient Babylon to the present ...

This project provides an efficient in-memory B-tree implementation in pure Swift, and several useful sorted collection types that use B-trees for their underlying storage. Map<Key, Value> implements a ...

Constraint-satisfaction problems arise in diverse application areas, including software and hardware verification, type inference, static program analysis, test-case generation, scheduling, planning, ...