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ECAL
2007
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
How Does Niche Construction Reverse the Baldwin Effect?
Deacon [1] considers that the reverse Baldwin effect can be one of the major forces in language evolution. The reverse Baldwin effect is essentially a redistributional process of g...
Hajime Yamauchi
GECCO
2008
Springer
123views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
On hopeful monsters, neutral networks and junk code in evolving L-systems
This paper investigates L-system evolution through experiments with a simulation platform of virtual plants. The conducted simulations vary the occurrence probability of terminal ...
Stefan Bornhofen, Claude Lattaud
JLP
2008
108views more  JLP 2008»
15 years 3 months ago
Composition mechanisms for retrenchment
Abstract. Retrenchment is a flexible model evolution formalism that arose as a reaction to the limitations imposed by refinement, and for which the proof obligations feature additi...
Richard Banach, Czeslaw Jeske, Michael Poppleton
ICSE
2003
IEEE-ACM
16 years 3 months ago
On the Uniformity of Software Evolution Patterns
Preparations for Y2K reminded the software engineering community of the extent to which long-lived software systems are embedded in our daily environments. As systems are maintain...
Evelyn J. Barry, Chris F. Kemerer, Sandra Slaughte...
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
249views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
15 years 3 months ago
Worry-free database upgrades: automated model-driven evolution of schemas and complex mappings
Schema evolution is an unavoidable consequence of the application development lifecycle. The two primary schemas in an application, the client conceptual object model and the pers...
James F. Terwilliger, Philip A. Bernstein, Adi Unn...