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ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The Role of Collective Reproduction in Evolution
To look for an answer to the puzzle of why complexity may increase, this paper looks to the major evolutionary transitions – a recurring pattern where individuals give up their r...
John Bryden
ECAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Slime Mould and the Transition to Multicellularity: The Role of the Macrocyst Stage
The transition from unicellular to multicellular organisms is one of the mysteries of evolutionary biology. Individual cells must give up their rights to reproduction and reproduce...
John Bryden
ECAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Comparative Reproduction Schemes for Evolving Gathering Collectives
This research investigates an evolutionary approach to engineering agent collectives that accomplish tasks cooperatively. In general, reproduction and selection form the two corner...
A. E. Eiben, Geoff Nitschke, Martijn C. Schut
DAIS
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Software Connectors and their Role in Component Deployment
To support rapid software evolution, it is desirable to construct software systems from reusable components. In this approach, the architecture of a system is described as a collec...
Dusan Bálek, Frantisek Plasil
DEXAW
2006
IEEE
117views Database» more  DEXAW 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Schema Repository for Database Schema Evolution
The paper presents a schema repository, an original repository containing different kinds of database schemas. The repository is part of a multidisciplinary approach for schema ev...
Hassina Bounif, Rachel Pottinger