Abstract. The World Wide Web (WWW) was originally designed to handle relatively simple files, containing just text and graphics. With the development of more advanced Web browsers...
Exotic semirings such as the “(max, +) semiring” (R ∪ {−∞}, max, +), or the “tropical semiring” (N ∪ {+∞}, min, +), have been invented and reinvented many times s...
This paper studies Genetic Programming (GP) and its relation to the Genetic Algorithm (GA). GP uses a GA approach to breed successive populations of programs, represented in the ch...
The problem of merging multiple sources of information is central in many information processing areas such as databases integrating problems, multiple criteria decision making, e...
Software helps people fulfill their goals, but development tools lack understanding of those goals. But if development tools did understand how software artifacts relate to higher...