Challenging the implicit reliance on document collections, this paper discusses the pros and cons of using query logs rather than document collections, as self-contained sources o...
Abstract. Stochastic Local Search (SLS) is a simple and effective paradigm for attacking a variety of Combinatorial (Optimization) Problems (COP). However, it is often non-trivial...
Macroprogramming—the technique of specifying the behavior of the system, as opposed to the constituent nodes—provides application developers with high level abstractions that a...
Animesh Pathak, Luca Mottola, Amol Bakshi, Viktor ...
Abstract. As software systems become bigger and more complex, software developers need to cope with a growing amount of information and knowledge. The knowledge generated during th...
We explore a homeostatic approach to program execution in computer systems: the “concentration” of computation services is regulated according to their fitness. The goal is to...