Abstract. This paper uses a framework drawn from work in the philosophy of science to characterize the concepts of program correctness that have been used in software engineering, ...
Recently, several studies taking into account the ability for a gene to be absent or to have some copies in genomes have been proposed, as the examplar distance [11, 6] or the gene...
We propose a biologically and physically plausible model for ants and pheromones, and show this model to be sufficiently powerful to simulate the computation of arbitrary logic cir...
Executable acceptance testing allows both to specify customers’ expectations in the form of the tests and to compare those to actual results that the software produces. The resul...
In this paper we use Z to capture the requirements for an ‘intuitive’ menu navigation system as a series of conjectures that should hold. We use those requirements to investiga...