Abstract. Today’s large-scale computing systems are deployed in open, changing and unpredictable environments. To operate reliably, such systems should be able to adapt to new ci...
Abstract. In the last years, extending OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) systems with spatial and temporal features has attracted the attention of of the GIS (Geographic Informa...
Abstract A (general) preferential entailment is defined by a “preference relation” among “states”. States can be either interpretations or sets of interpretations, or “c...
Abstract The performance of stochastic optimisers can be assessed experimentally on given problems by performing multiple optimisation runs, and analysing the results. Since an opt...
Viviane Grunert da Fonseca, Carlos M. Fonseca, And...
Abstract. The exploitation of the physical characteristics has already been demonstrated in the intrinsic evolution of electronic circuits. This paper is an initial attempt at crea...