Established simulation techniques require quantification of relevant aspects of the entity whose behaviour is being investigated. The data expressing the quantification provides a ...
Many combinatorial problems require of their solutions that they achieve a certain balance of given features. In the constraint programming literature, little has been written to s...
A common form of prior knowledge in economic modelling concerns the monotonicity of relations between the dependent and explanatory variables. Monotonicity may also be an important...
Performance and workload modeling has numerous uses at every stage of the high-end computing lifecycle: design, integration, procurement, installation and tuning. Despite the trem...
In the context of software maintenance, legacy software systems are continuously re-engineered in order to correct errors, provide new functionality, or port them into modern plat...