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EVOW
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Staff Scheduling with Particle Swarm Optimisation and Evolution Strategies
The current paper uses a scenario from logistics to show that modern heuristics, and in particular particle swarm optimization (PSO) can significantly add to the improvement of sta...
Volker Nissen, Maik Günther
GVD
2004
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15 years 8 months ago
Database Caching: Analysis of Constraint-based Approaches Exemplified by Cache Groups
Caching is a proven means to improve scalability and availability of software systems as well as to reduce latency of user requests. In contrast to Web caching where single Web ob...
Andreas Bühmann, Theo Härder
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
From garments to gardens: negotiating material relationships online and 'by hand'
From home improvement to scrapbooking, leisure activities performed “by hand” increasingly involve digital tools. In turn, software and devices to support handwork are prolife...
Elizabeth Goodman, Daniela Rosner
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SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
Lightweight object specification with typestates
Previous work has proven typestates to be useful for modeling protocols in object-oriented languages. We build on this work by addressing substitutability of subtypes as well as i...
Kevin Bierhoff, Jonathan Aldrich
SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
Leveraging field data for impact analysis and regression testing
Software products are often released with missing functionality, errors, or incompatibilities that may result in failures, inferior performances, or user dissatisfaction. In previ...
Alessandro Orso, Taweesup Apiwattanapong, Mary Jea...