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ASWEC
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Improving Usability of Software Refactoring Tools
Post-deployment maintenance and evolution can account for up to 75% of the cost of developing a software system. Software refactoring can reduce the costs associated with evolutio...
Erica Mealy, David A. Carrington, Paul A. Strooper...
IWPC
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A Comparative Study of Three Program Exploration Tools
Programmers need tools to help explore large software systems when performing software evolution tasks. A variety of tools have been created to improve the effectiveness of such e...
Brian de Alwis, Gail C. Murphy, Martin P. Robillar...
CEC
2009
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Parallel global optimisation meta-heuristics using an asynchronous island-model
Abstract— We propose an asynchronous island-model algorithm distribution framework and test the popular Differential Evolution algorithm performance when a few processors are ava...
Dario Izzo, Marek Rucinski, Christos Ampatzis
GECCO
2009
Springer
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15 years 9 months ago
Evolving soft robotic locomotion in PhysX
Given the complexity of the problem, genetic algorithms are one of the more promising methods of discovering control schemes for soft robotics. Since physically embodied evolution...
John Rieffel, Frank Saunders, Shilpa Nadimpalli, H...
EPS
1998
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Complete Classes of Strategies for the Classical Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
The Classical Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma (CIPD) is used to study the evolution of cooperation. We show, with a genetic approach, how basic ideas could be used in order to gen...
Bruno Beaufils, Jean-Paul Delahaye, Philippe Mathi...