Recent studies [13, 18] have shown that clearing schemes are efficient multi-modal optimization methods. They efficiently reduce genetic drift which is the direct reason for prema...
— The subject of the present investigation is Population-based Adaptive Systems (PAS), as implemented in the NEW TIES platform. In many existing PASs two adaptation mechanisms ar...
The need of having a Passage Retrieval (PR) system for Arabic texts is due essentially to our aim to build an Arabic Question Answering (QA) system in our research team. We have ch...
Application scheduling studies on large-scale shared resources have advocated the use of resource provisioning in the form of advance reservations for providing predictable and de...
While it is possible to accurately predict the execution time of a given iteration of an adaptive application, it is not generally possible to predict the data-dependent adaptive ...