— We consider the problem of finding the relevant named entities in response to a search query over a given text corpus. Entity search can readily be used to augment conventiona...
The investigation of a software system prior to a modification task often constitutes an important fraction of the overall effort associated with the task. We present Suade, an Ec...
This paper describes a method for improving the final accuracy and the convergence speed of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) by adapting its inertia factor in the velocity updati...
We introduce the Consensual N-Player Prisoner’s Dilemma as a large-scale dilemma. We then present a framework for cooperative consensus formation in large-scale MAS under the N-P...
Refactoring aims to improve the quality of a software systems’ structure, which tends to degrade as the system evolves. While manually determining useful refactorings can be cha...