How and why does software evolve? This question has been under study since almost 40 years ago, and it is still a subject of controversy. In the seventies, Meir M. Lehman formulat...
Web Services (WSs) are the W3C-endorsed realization of the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Since they are supposed to be implementation-neutral, WSs are typically tested blac...
—A Search Support Engine (SSE) is implemented based on the basic principles of Information Retrieval Support Systems (IRSS) and Information Seeking Support Systems (ISSS). An SSE...
Entanglement is a complexity measure for directed graphs that was used to show that the variable hierarchy of the propositional modal µ-calculus is strict. While graphs of entangl...
A very undesirable behavior of any heuristic algorithm is to be stuck in some specific parts of the search space, in particular in the basins of attraction of the local optima. Wh...
Daniel Cosmin Porumbel, Jin-Kao Hao, Pascale Kuntz