With advancing semiconductor technology and exponentially growing design complexities, predictability of design tools becomes an important part of a stable top-down design process...
This paper studies —from the perspective of efficient computation— a type of competition that is widespread throughout the plant and animal kingdoms, higher education, politic...
Leslie Ann Goldberg, Paul W. Goldberg, Piotr Kryst...
Thousands of users are streamlining their Web interactions through user scripts using special weavers such as Greasemonkey. Thousands of programmers are releasing their scripts in ...
Business processes play a central role in the reorganization of a company and the (re)design of the respective information system(s). Typically the processes are described with the...
One common characterization of how simple hill-climbing optimization methods can fail is that they become trapped in local optima - a state where no small modi cation of the curren...