In evolving systems, the topological characteristics of population structure have a pronounced impact on the rate of spread of advantageous alleles, and therefore affect selective...
Bid-based Genetic Programming (GP) provides an elegant mechanism for facilitating cooperative problem decomposition without an a priori specification of the number of team member...
Reasoning about program equivalence is one of the oldest problems in semantics. In recent years, useful techniques have been developed, based on bisimulations and logical relation...
Software designs decay over time. While most studies focus on decay at the system level, this research studies design decay on well understood micro architectures, design patterns...
The focus of this chapter is to review what is known about free and open source software development (FOSSD) work practices, development processes, project and community dynamics,...