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ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Designing Self-Assembly for 2-Dimensional Building Blocks
In this paper we present a genetic algorithm-based approach towards designing self-assembling objects comprised of square smart blocks. Each edge of each block can have one of thr...
Ying Guo, Geoff Poulton, Philip Valencia, Geoff Ja...
STEP
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
On Analysis of Design Component Contracts: A Case Study
Software patterns are a new design paradigm used to solve problems that arise when developing software within a particular context. Patterns capture the static and dynamic structu...
Jing Dong, Paulo S. C. Alencar, Donald D. Cowan
MIDDLEWARE
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Toward a standard ubiquitous computing framework
This paper surveys a variety of subsystems designed to be the building blocks from which sophisticated infrastructures for ubiquitous computing are assembled. Our experience shows...
Martin Modahl, Bikash Agarwalla, Gregory D. Abowd,...
GECCO
2004
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
A Competitive Building Block Hypothesis
This paper is concerned with examining the way in which rooted building blocks grow in GP-like systems. We hypothesize that, in addition to the normal notion of co-operative buildi...
Conor Ryan, Hammad Majeed, R. Muhammad Atif Azad
CF
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
An architectural framework and a middleware for cooperating smart components
In a future networked physical world, a myriad of smart sensors and actuators assess and control aspects of their environments and autonomously act in response to it. Examples ran...
Antonio Casimiro, Jörg Kaiser, Paulo Ver&iacu...
GECCO
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Probing for limits to building block mixing with a tunably-difficult problem for genetic programming
This paper describes a tunably-difficult problem for genetic programming (GP) that probes for limits to building block mixing and assembly. The existence of such a problem can be ...
Jason M. Daida, Michael E. Samples, Matthew J. Byo...
IPSN
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
eBlocks - an enabling technology for basic sensor based systems
—We describe the development of a set of embedded system building blocks, known as eBlocks. An eBlock network can be viewed as a basic form of sensor network that can be develope...
Susan Cotterell, Ryan Mannion, Frank Vahid, Harry ...
ICANN
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
HYDRA: From Cellular Biology to Shape-Changing Artefacts
The HYDRA work provides insight into the exploitation of holistic behavioural and morphological adaptation in the design of new artefacts. The potential of the new design principle...
Esben Hallundbæk Østergaard, David J....
FPL
2005
Springer
114views Hardware» more  FPL 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
Measuring and Utilizing the Correlation Between Signal Connectivity and Signal Positioning for FPGAs Containing Multi-Bit Buildi
As the logic capacity of FPGA increases, there has been a corresponding increase in the variety of FPGA building blocks. From a mere collection of the conventional logic blocks, F...
Andy Gean Ye, Jonathan Rose
AIME
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Design Patterns for Modelling Guidelines
It is by now widely accepted that medical guidelines can help to significantly improve the quality of medical care. Unfortunately, constructing the required medical guidelines is ...
Radu Serban, Annette ten Teije, Mar Marcos, Cristi...