A huge discrepancy between theory and practice exists in one popular application area of functional programming--spreadsheets. Although spreadsheets are the most frequently used (...
Martin Erwig, Robin Abraham, Steve Kollmansberger,...
In the domain of software engineering, the use of software components is now a well established approach. However, it raises problems about the dynamic adaptation of these compone...
Christophe Sibertin-Blanc, Philippe Mauran, G&eacu...
Software agents offer a promise to change electronic commerce trading by helping traders to purchase products based on their interests and preferences. E-commerce systems are incr...
Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are stochastic search methods that mimic the natural biological evolution and/or the social behavior of species. Such algorithms have been developed ...
Recent research on compact genetic algorithms (cGAs) has proposed a number of evolutionary search methods with reduced memory requirements. In cGAs, the evolution of populations is...