Abstract. The heavy-tailed phenomenon that characterises the runtime distributions of backtrack search procedures has received considerable attention over the past few years. Some ...
Dynamic UML models like sequence diagrams (SD) lack sufficient formal semantics, making it difficult to build automated tools for their analysis, simulation and validation. A commo...
Marouane Kessentini, Arbi Bouchoucha, Houari A. Sa...
The verification of industrial systems specified with CSP often implies the analysis of many concurrent and synchronized components. The cost associated to these analyses is usu...
Marisa Llorens, Javier Oliver, Josep Silva, Salvad...
The value for decision making of high-quality postsolution analysis of decision-supporting models can hardly be overestimated. Candle-lighting analysis (CLA) takes this notion ver...
Major Bill Branley, Russell Fradin, Steven O. Kimb...
We present in this work a wide spectrum of results on analyzing the behavior of parallel heuristics for solving optimization problems. We focus on evolutionary algorithms as well ...