In a preliminary part of this paper, we analyze the necessity of randomness in evolution strategies. We conclude to the necessity of ”continuous”-randomness, but with a much m...
Visual notations are pervasive in circuit design, control systems, and increasingly in mainstream programming environments. Yet many of the foundational advances in programming la...
This paper addresses two problems: “What are the appropriate methods for evaluating information systems?” and “How do we measure the impact of ambient information systems?...
Xiaobin Shen, Peter Eades, Seok-Hee Hong, Andrew V...
On our ongoing research on variability analysis, two major drawbacks have been identified: a) the lack of an effective tracing from the rationale to the selected variant, and b) t...
— This paper describes work in progress to extend component models to support Master-Worker applications and to let them to be executed on Grid infrastructures. The proposed appr...