This paper defines the basic notions of local and non-local tasks, and determines the minimum information about failures that is necessary to solve any non-local task in message-p...
Carole Delporte-Gallet, Hugues Fauconnier, Sam Tou...
Applications that use collections of very large, distributed datasets have become an increasingly important part of science and engineering. With high performance wide-area networ...
Object-oriented programming techniques have been used with great success for some time. But the techniques of object-oriented programming have been largely confined to the single a...
Abstract. A formal, representation-independent form of a memetic algorithm-a genetic algorithm incorporating local search--is introduced. A generalisedform of N-point crossover is ...
This paper presents an automatic method of creating surface models at several levels of detail from an original polygonal description of a given object. Representing models at var...