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WCRE
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Understanding Feature Evolution in a Family of Product Variants
Existing software product variants, developed by ad hoc reuse such as copy-paste-modify, are often a starting point for building Software Product Line (SPL). Understanding of how ...
Yinxing Xue, Zhenchang Xing, Stan Jarzabek
DAGSTUHL
1996
13 years 11 months ago
A Uniform Approach for Compile-Time and Run-Time Specialization
As partial evaluation gets more mature, it is now possible to use this program transformation technique to tackle realistic languages and real-size application programs. However, t...
Charles Consel, Luke Hornof, François No&eu...
COORDINATION
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Problem Frames: A Case for Coordination
Abstract. We show how principles of separation of Coordination from Computation can be used to endow the Problem Frames approach to problem analysis with representation schemes. Th...
Leonor Barroca, José Luiz Fiadeiro, Michael...
CEC
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Natural Evolution Strategies
— This paper presents Natural Evolution Strategies (NES), a novel algorithm for performing real-valued ‘black box’ function optimization: optimizing an unknown objective func...
Daan Wierstra, Tom Schaul, Jan Peters, Jürgen...
IWPSE
2005
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Languages evolve too! Changing the Software Time Scale
Humans will have to live with software for a long time. As demonstrated by the Y2K problem, computer professionals used a wrong time scale when thinking about software. Large soft...
Jean-Marie Favre