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BCSHCI
2007
15 years 7 months ago
HCI and creative problem-solving at Lancaster
The Creative Problem-Solving Research Group (CPSRG) at Lancaster University is a collaboration between psychologists and computer scientists conducting research into creativity, p...
Thomas C. Ormerod, Linden J. Ball, Alan J. Dix, Co...
CEC
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Comparing parameter tuning methods for evolutionary algorithms
Abstract— Tuning the parameters of an evolutionary algorithm (EA) to a given problem at hand is essential for good algorithm performance. Optimizing parameter values is, however,...
Selmar K. Smit, A. E. Eiben
VLDB
1995
ACM
149views Database» more  VLDB 1995»
15 years 10 months ago
Managing Intra-operator Parallelism in Parallel Database Systems
Abstract: Intra-operator(or partitioned) parallelism is a well-established mechanism for achieving high performance in parallel database systems. However, the problem of how to exp...
Manish Mehta 0002, David J. DeWitt
ECIS
2000
15 years 7 months ago
An Empirical Study of System Development Method Tailoring in Practice
Little research has been conducted to date on the specific topic of the tailoring of systems development methods. Two related research areas--contingency factors research and metho...
Brian Fitzgerald, Nancy L. Russo, Tom O'Kane
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
145views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Provenance and scientific workflows: challenges and opportunities
Provenance in the context of workflows, both for the data they derive and for their specification, is an essential component to allow for result reproducibility, sharing, and know...
Susan B. Davidson, Juliana Freire