Standard tournament selection samples individuals with replacement. The sampling-with-replacement strategy has its advantages but also has issues. One of the commonly recognised i...
Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang, Peter Andreae, Mark Jo...
A large number of the MAC protocols proposed for establishing wireless sensor networks are based on the 802.11 standard. The trade-off in these protocols is the control packet ov...
We present patterns for expressing dependability requirements, such as confidentiality, integrity, availability, and reliability. The paper considers random faults as well as cert...
As the accuracy of conventional classifiers, based only on a static partitioning of feature space, appears to be approaching a limit, it may be useful to consider alternative appro...
Software architects have techniques to deal with many quality attributes such as performance, reliability, and maintainability. Usability, however, has traditionally been concerned...