The genetic programming (GP) paradigm is a new approach to inductively forming programs that describe a particular problem. The use of natural selection based on a fitness ]unction...
Abstract. Heterogeneous specification becomes more and more important because complex systems are often specified using multiple viewpoints, involving multiple formalisms. Moreover...
Abstract. Model-driven development is a field within software engineering in which software artifacts are represented as models in order to improve productivity, quality, and cost ...
As a first step in the larger project of charting the ontology of computer programs, we pose three central questions: (1) Can programs, hardware, and metaprograms be organized into...
The paper argues, that a direct formalization of the way common sense thinks about the numerical identity of enduring entities, requires that traditional predicate logic is develo...