Criticality and parallelism in combinatorial optimization

Science

Volumn 271, Issue 5245, 1996, Pages 56-59

  Macready, William G ^a   Siapas, Athanassios G ^b   Kauffman, Stuart A ^a  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0030569684     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.271.5245.56     Document Type: Article

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