Abstract: We present a formal framework to talk and reason about dependable systems. The framework is based on three distinct classes of (system specification) properties we call s...
Zinaida Benenson, Felix C. Freiling, Thorsten Holz...
Abstract. The technique of hyper-programming allows program representations held in a persistent store to contain embedded links to persistent code and data. In 1994, Connor et al ...
Evangelos Zirintsis, Graham N. C. Kirby, Ronald Mo...
This paper describes a form of dynamical computational system--4he ant colony---and presents an ant colony model for continuous space optimisation problems. The ant colony metapho...
Mostexisting decision tree systemsuse a greedyapproachto inducetrees -- locally optimalsplits are inducedat every node of the tree. Althoughthe greedy approachis suboptimal,it is ...
Constraint management plays an important role in design applications where constraints re ect design restrictions and design decisions. ECA rules are a widely used mechanism to enf...