Abstract. The availability of commodity multiprocessors offers significant opportunities for addressing the increasing computational requirements of optimization applications. To...
Hybrid algorithms combining local and systematic search often use nondeterminism in fundamentally different ways. They may differ in the strategy to explore the search tree and/o...
A key difficulty in the maintenance and evolution of complex software systems is to recognize and understand the implicit dependencies that define contracts that must be respecte...
Adaptive information systems typically exploit knowledge about the user’s interests, preferences, goals etc. to determine what should be presented to the user and how this presen...
An important question that must be addressed in a coherent computing curriculum is which programming environments to use across the curriculum. For Java, currently the most widely...