One common characterization of how simple hill-climbing optimization methods can fail is that they become trapped in local optima - a state where no small modi cation of the curren...
Abstract. leanK is a "lean", i.e., extremely compact, Prolog implementation of a free variable tableau calculus for propositional modal logics. leanK 2.0 includes additio...
Abstract. XML provides a natural mechanism for representing semistructured and unstructured data. It becomes the basis for encoding a large variety of information, for example, the...
Message passing is a very popular style of parallel programming, used in a wide variety of applications and supported by many APIs, such as BSD sockets, MPI and PVM. Its importance...
In program debugging, finding a failing run is only the first step; what about correcting the fault? Can we automate the second task as well as the first? The AutoFix-E tool au...
Yi Wei, Yu Pei, Carlo A. Furia, Lucas S. Silva, St...