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FM
2001
Springer
130views Formal Methods» more  FM 2001»
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Towards a Topos Theoretic Foundation for the Irish School of Constructive Mathematics
The Irish School of Constructive Mathematics (M♣ c ), which extends the VDM, exploits an algebraic notation based upon monoids and their morphisms for the purposes of abstract mo...
Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh
ISSAC
2001
Springer
123views Mathematics» more  ISSAC 2001»
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A probabilistic algorithm to test local algebraic observability in polynomial time
The following questions are often encountered in system and control theory. Given an algebraic model of a physical process, which variables can be, in theory, deduced from the inp...
Alexandre Sedoglavic
IPPS
1999
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A Structured Approach to Parallel Programming: Methodology and Models
Parallel programming continues to be difficult, despite substantial and ongoing research aimed at making it tractable. Especially dismaying is the gulf between theory and the pract...
Berna L. Massingill
AOSD
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Tribe: a simple virtual class calculus
Beginning with BETA, a range of programming language mechanisms such as virtual classes (class-valued attributes of objects) have been developed to allow inheritance in the presen...
Dave Clarke, Sophia Drossopoulou, James Noble, Tob...
GECCO
2007
Springer
124views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
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Fitness-proportional negative slope coefficient as a hardness measure for genetic algorithms
The Negative Slope Coefficient (nsc) is an empirical measure of problem hardness based on the analysis of offspring-fitness vs. parent-fitness scatterplots. The nsc has been teste...
Riccardo Poli, Leonardo Vanneschi