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UML
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Representing and Applying Design Patterns: What Is the Problem?
Design patterns embody proven solutions to recurring design problems. Ever since the gang of four popularized the concept, researchers have been trying to develop methods for repre...
Hafedh Mili, Ghizlane El-Boussaidi
AMAI
2006
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Symmetric approximate linear programming for factored MDPs with application to constrained problems
A weakness of classical Markov decision processes (MDPs) is that they scale very poorly due to the flat state-space representation. Factored MDPs address this representational pro...
Dmitri A. Dolgov, Edmund H. Durfee
WSC
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Foundations of Validating Reusable Behavioral Models in Engineering Design Problems
We present a conceptual framework for validating reusable behavioral models. The setting for this work is a modern product development environment in which design is performed by ...
Richard J. Malak, Christiaan J. J. Paredis
GECCO
2004
Springer
166views Optimization» more  GECCO 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
An Effective Chromosome Representation for Evolving Flexible Job Shop Schedules
As the Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (or FJSP) is strongly NP-hard, using an evolutionary approach to find near-optimal solutions requires effective chromosome representatio...
Joc Cing Tay, Djoko Wibowo
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Low cost prototyping: part 2, or how to apply the thinking-aloud method efficiently
Customer satisfaction with regard to user interfaces becomes increasingly more important and is, eventually, decisive for the selection of systems within a competitive market. End...
Andreas Holzinger, Stephen Brown