Speech communication consists of three steps: production, transmission, and hearing. Every step inevitably involves acoustic distortions due to gender differences, age, microphone...
How long are the phone calls of mobile users? What are the chances of a call to end, given its current duration? Here we answer these questions by studying the call duration distri...
Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Leman Akoglu, Christos Fa...
This paper reveals the surprising result that a single-parent non-elitist evolution strategy (ES) can be locally faster than the (1+1)-ES. The result is brought about by mirrored s...
Dimo Brockhoff, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen, Dirk ...
The design and implementation of a software system is often governed by a variety of coding conventions, design patterns, architectural guidelines, design rules, and other so-call...
Johan Brichau, Andy Kellens, Sergio Castro, Theo D...
Feature-Oriented Software Development provides a multitude of formalisms, methods, languages, and tools for building variable, customizable, and extensible software. Along differe...