It is generally accepted that early determination of the stakeholder requirements assists in the development of systems that better meet the needs of those stakeholders. General s...
An architectural aspect is a concern that cuts across architecture ty units and cannot be effectively modularized using the given abstractions of conventional Architecture Descript...
This paper presents an application of a DL reasoner to the optimization of an object-relational query language. Queries containing aggregate functions are difficult to optimize be...
Partitive set families are families of sets that can be quite large, but have a compact, recursive representation in the form of a tree. This tree is a common generalization of PQ...
In this paper, we present a framework that supports experimenting with evolutionary hardware design. We describe the framework’s modules for composing evolutionary optimizers an...