systems are commonly abstracted as collections of interacting components. This perspective has lead to the insight that component behaviors can be defined separately from admissi...
Connectors are used to realize component interactions in component systems. Apart from their primary function, which is mediating the communication, their implementation can also s...
It is well known that the performance of a program can often be improved by means of program transformation. Several program transformation techniques, eg. partial evaluation, wor...
Using models in different contexts poses major integration challenges, ranging from technical to conceptual levels. Independently of each other developed model components cannot b...
Recombination in the Genetic Algorithm (GA) is supposed to enable the component characteristics from two parents to be extracted and then reassembled in different combinations