Abstract: The abstract syntax and static semantics of UML, the widely-used generalpurpose graphical modeling language, have been standardized in a four-layer metamodeling framework...
In Software Product Lines (SPLs), product configuration is a decision-making process in which a group of stakeholders choose features for a product. Unfortunately, current configu...
The efficient similarity search in metric spaces is usually based on several low-level partitioning principles, which allow filtering of non-relevant objects during the search. I...
Abstract--Real-time systems are subject to temporal constraints and require a schedulability analysis to ensure that task execution finishes within lower and upper specified bounds...
Current mainstream Evolutionary Algorithms (EA) are based on the concept of selection, encapsulated in the definition of a fitness function. Besides selection, however, the natur...