Mechanical systems, of the kinds which are of interest for qualitative reasoning, are characterized by a set of real-valued parameters, each of which is a piecewise continuous fun...
Product lines need decision models that guide the derivation of product variants satisfying specific requirements. In dynamic product lines, whose requirements vary during runtime...
Gunnar Brataas, Svein O. Hallsteinsen, Romain Rouv...
abstraction heuristics, notably pattern-database and merge-and-shrink heuristics, are employed by some state-ofthe-art optimal heuristic-search planners. The major limitation of t...
Diffusion processes taking place in social networks are used to model a number of phenomena, such as the spread of human or computer viruses, and the adoption of products in `vira...
In this paper we study, for the first time explicitly, the implications of endowing an interested party (i.e. a teacher) with the ability to modify the underlying dynamics of the ...
Zinovi Rabinovich, Lachlan Dufton, Kate Larson, Ni...