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WSC
1997
13 years 7 months ago
WITNESS Simulation Software: A Flexible Suite of Simulation Tools
Over time, simulation tools have found use in most manufacturing enterprises. Due to the increased flexibility and openness of the tools available today, simulation can now begin ...
Pam Laney Markt, Michael H. Mayer
IEE
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
Software evolutionary dynamics modelled as the activity of an actor-network
The pressures which act on a software system over its life from inception to retirement are many and varied. It is an important goal in considering software evolvability to unders...
Paul Wernick, Tracy Hall, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
ISPW
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Simulating the Structural Evolution of Software
As functionality is added to an ageing piece of software, its original design and structure tends to erode. The underlying forces which cause such degradation have been the subject...
Benjamin Stopford, Steve Counsell
ALIFE
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Self-Evolution in a Constructive Binary String System
We examine the qualitative dynamics of a catalytic self-organizing reaction system of binary strings that is inspired by the chemical information processing metaphor. A string is ...
Peter Dittrich, Wolfgang Banzhaf
AAAI
2004
13 years 7 months ago
VModel: A Visual Qualitative Modeling Environment for Middle-School Students
Learning how to create, test, and revise models is a central skill in scientific reasoning. We argue that qualitative modeling provides an appropriate level of representation for ...
Kenneth D. Forbus, Karen Carney, Bruce L. Sherin, ...