In safety-critical systems, certain safety constraints must be satisfied before an operation can be performed. Such constraints typically depend on the state of the system at the ...
This paper explores the application of multiobjective Genetic Algorithms (mGAs) to rural land use planning, a spatial allocation problem. Two mGAs are proposed. Both share an unde...
Keith B. Matthews, Susan Craw, Stewart Elder, Alan...
An increasing number of mission-critical, embedded, telecommunications, and financial distributed systems are being developed using distributed object computing middleware, such a...
Balachandran Natarajan, Aniruddha S. Gokhale, Shal...
Though overriding as a single and default mode of inheritance is adequate for most knowledge bases, a large class of applications naturally requires several inheritance modes and ...
Future middleware platforms will need to be more configurable in order to meet the demands of a wide variety of application domains. Furthermore, we believe that such platforms wil...