: Entities in engineering design databases need to evolve in both structure and behavior. Such a need is not well addressed by object-oriented data models based on the class concep...
Abstract. One of the most severe problems related to database evolution is how to reflect in the data level the changes that have occurred in the conceptual schema of a database. T...
Fault Tolerance is an increasing challenge for integrated circuits due to semiconductor technology scaling. This paper looks at how artificial evolution may be tuned to the creat...
We propose a set of metrics for measuring the semantic implications of changes during ontology evolution. Our metrics focus on the changes of classes and associated axioms or annot...
The hourglass concept has been undisputable ruler of networking visions on the last years. As network evolution is now a hot topic, this article aims to reflect on this concept, h...