Urban design is a creative task that demands the balancing of issues from multiple domains such as architecture, zoning laws, traffic planning, and others. As such, classic design ...
Abstract - The paper describes how a formal model of selfadaptation [Angeline, 1995] can be expressed in terms of Cultural Algorithms. A particular form of self-adaptation concerns...
Presence-absence (0-1) observations are special in that often the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Here we develop an independent factor model, which has the unique...
The Region-Connection Calculus (RCC) is a well established formal system for qualitative spatial reasoning. It provides an axiomatization of space which takes regions as primitive...
This paper is concerned with design, implementation and verification of persistent purely functional data structures which are motivated by the representation of natural numbers us...