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SOMET
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Automated Design Improvement by Example
The high cost of software maintenance could potentially be reduced by automatically improving the design of object-oriented programs without altering their behaviour. We have const...
Mark O'Keeffe, Mel Ó Cinnéide
GECCO
2006
Springer
158views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
15 years 10 months ago
Exploring network topology evolution through evolutionary computations
We present an evolutionary methodology that explores the evolution of network topology when a uniform growth of the network traffic is considered. The network redesign problem is ...
Sami J. Habib, Alice C. Parker
IROS
2007
IEEE
114views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
16 years 1 months ago
Design and control of a second-generation hyper-redundant mechanism
— We present a refined, second-generation design, construction and integration, of a compact hyper-redundant snakelike robot, called “Woodstock.” This robot has substantial a...
H. Ben Brown, Michael Schwerin, Elie A. Shammas, H...
PVLDB
2008
89views more  PVLDB 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Constrained physical design tuning
Abstract Existing solutions to the automated physical design problem in database systems attempt to minimize execution costs of input workloads for a given storage constraint. In t...
Nicolas Bruno, Surajit Chaudhuri
CEFP
2005
Springer
16 years 15 days ago
Exploiting Purely Functional Programming to Obtain Bounded Resource Behaviour: The Hume Approach
This chapter describes Hume: a functionally-based language for programming with bounded resource usage, including time and space properties. The purpose of the Hume language design...
Kevin Hammond