We explore the meanings of the terms as "structure," "behavior," and, especially, "function" in engineering practice. Computers provide great help in...
This paper focuses on parallel query optimization. We consider the operator problem and introduce a new class of execution strategies called Linear-Oriented Bushy Trees (LBTs). Co...
Genetic programming is an automatic method for creating a computer program or other complex structure to solve a problem. This paper first reviews various instances where genetic p...
John R. Koza, Martin A. Keane, Jessen Yu, Forrest ...
Knowledge-based engineering and computational intelligence are expected to become core technologies in the design and manufacturing for the next generation of space exploration mi...
The last few years have seen the development of a new calculus which can be considered as an outcome of the last decade of various researches on (higher order) term rewriting syst...