Abstract. Most technologically useful materials possess polycrystalline microstructures composed of a large number of small monocrystalline grains separated by grain boundaries. Th...
K. Barmak, M. Emelianenko, Dmitry Golovaty, David ...
This paper describes a study in the evolution of distributed cooperative behavior, specifically leader election, through digital evolution and group selection. In digital evoluti...
David B. Knoester, Philip K. McKinley, Charles Ofr...
Software systems should consist of simple, conceptually clean software components interacting along narrow, well-defined paths. All too often, this is not reality: complex compon...
We examine the problem of how to ensure behavioral consistency of an object-oriented system after its schema has been updated. The problem is viewed from the perspective of both t...
A build system breathes life into source code, as it configures and directs the construction of a software system from textual source code modules. Surprisingly, build languages a...