This paper presents the main concepts of the IST Project FAIN "Future Active IP Networks" [10], a three-year collaborative research project, whose main task is to develo...
Alex Galis, Bernhard Plattner, Jonathan M. Smith, ...
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
Virtual environments (VEs) are a broad multidisciplinary research area that includes all aspects of computer science, virtual reality, virtual worlds, teleoperation and telepresenc...
Donald P. Brutzman, Michael R. Macedonia, Michael ...
Mapping problem-space features into solution-space features is a fundamental configuration problem in software product line engineering. A configuration problem is defined as g...
The solution of continuous and discrete-time Markovian models is still challenging mainly when we model large complex systems, for example, to obtain performance indexes of paralle...