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CEC
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Evolving modular neural-networks through exaptation
— Despite their success as optimization methods, evolutionary algorithms face many difficulties to design artifacts with complex structures. According to paleontologists, living...
Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Stéphane Doncieux
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
169views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
15 years 10 months ago
The impact of instructor initiative on student learning: a tutoring study
In the quest to find instructional approaches that benefit student learning, engagement, and retention, evidence suggests providing students with hands-on practice is a worthwhile...
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, Michael D...
IUI
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Fewer clicks and less frustration: reducing the cost of reaching the right folder
Helping computer users rapidly locate files in their folder hierarchies has become an important research topic in today’s intelligent user interface design. This paper reports o...
Xinlong Bao, Jonathan L. Herlocker, Thomas G. Diet...
MIDDLEWARE
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
On the benefits of decomposing policy engines into components
In order for middleware systems to be adaptive, their properties and services need to support a wide variety of application-specific policies. However, application developers and ...
Konstantin Beznosov
VLUDS
2010
138views Visualization» more  VLUDS 2010»
14 years 4 months ago
Finite Element Analysis for Linear Elastic Solids Based on Subdivision Schemes
Finite element methods are used in various areas ranging from mechanical engineering to computer graphics and bio-medical applications. In engineering, a critical point is the gap...
Daniel Burkhart, Bernd Hamann, Georg Umlauf