Genetic algorithms (GAs) often require many iterations for convergence. If the cost for the analysis of each laminate is high, then GA optimization becomes infeasible due to the large amount of CPU time required. A genetic ...

The Metrics Group of Virginia Tech has been studying the object oriented paradigm and how it relates to software maintenance and software reusability in an attempt to make programmers more productive. Software reuse is the ...

There is a growing demand for real-time collaborative applications through the World Wide Web. New techniques are required for real-time applications to perform well in the face of changing network conditions that often ...

The present study proposes a detection technique for delaminations in a laminated composite structure. The proposed technique optimizes the spatial distribution of harmonic excitation so as to magnify the difference between ...

Sufficient experience has been gained over the last decade in simulation model validation, verification, and testing (VV&T) to establish basic principles and its characteristics. This paper presents 15 principles of ...

The weak shock theory developed by Cramer (1994) is used to derive explicit solutions for the evolution of one-dimensional weakly, nonlinear, weakly relaxing heat pulses in rigid conductors. Formulas and differential ...

Maximum G Edge-Packing (EPack-sub G) is the problem of finding the maximum number of edge-disjoint isomorphic copies of a fixed guest graph G in a host graph H. This paper investigates the computational complexity of ...

We present Sluice, a framework for constructing collaborative, interactive, modular visualization environments (CIMVEs) for use on the World Wide Web. Sluice supports using Java to build modules that create, manipulate, ...

This paper describes the design and implementation of a remote process instantiation mechanism which is consistent with the Linda paradigm and semantics of the EVAL operation, and which uses shared data space as the medium ...

The overall workshop goals were: 1) to define those digital library parameters which especially influences issues of access to, retrieval of, and interaction with information; 2) to identify key problems which must be ...