A hitherto unquestioned assumption made by all methods for integrity checking has been that the database satisfies its constraints before each update. This consistency assumption ...
In September of 1998, the College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth piloted an innovative, integrated, first-year curriculum. It dramatically changed 31 ...
Paul J. Fortier, Emily Fowler, Raymond N. Laoulach...
Because of the increasing dominance of interconnect issues in advanced IC technology, placement has become a critical step in the IC design flow. To get accurate interconnect inf...
A model was introduced in [Fraga97] for integrating replication techniques in heterogeneous systems. The model adopts a reflective structure based on the meta-object approach [10]...
Lau Cheuk Lung, Joni da Silva Fraga, Carlos Mazier...
A technique for the credible modelling of economic agents with bounded rationality based on the evolutionary techniques is described. The genetic programming paradigm is most suite...