The present paper deals with the averagecase complexity of various algorithms for learning univariate polynomials. For this purpose an appropriate framework is introduced. Based on it, the learnability of univariate polynomials evaluated over the natural numbers and of univariate polynomials defined over finite fields is analyzed. Our results are manifold. In the first case, convergence is meas...

Context: Search-based software testing promises to provide users with the ability to generate highquality test cases, and hence increase product quality, with a minimal increase in the time and effort required. One result that emerged out of a previous study to investigate the application of search-based software testing (SBST) in an industrial setting was the development of the Interactive Sea...

A simulation-based comparison scheme for on-chip communication networks is presented. Performance of the network depends heavily on the application and therefore several test cases are required. In this paper, generic synthesizable 2-dimensional mesh and hierarchical bus, which is an extended version of a single bus, are benchmarked in a SoC context with five parameterizable test cases. The res...

This paper considers substantive and methodological issues that are raised by the deployment of Goethe’s notion of the Urphänomen in the work of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin. The paper is exploratory. I employ Goethe’s idea, and his approach to empirical observation and theory more generally, to examine affinities and contrasts between the methodology of Simmel and Benjamin. Like Goethe, bo...

ASPERA is a case based reasoning application that generates poetry versions of texts provided by the user. The cases on its case base consist of a sentence of prose (used as retrieval key) associated with a corresponding poem fragment (used as starting point for the solution). Each case includes information about how the words in the prose text are related to the words in the poetry solution. T...

BACKGROUND Investigation of household contacts exposed to infectious tuberculosis (TB) is widely recommended by international guidelines to identify secondary cases of TB and limit spread. There is little data to guide the use of contact investigations outside of the household, despite strong evidence that most TB infections occur outside of the home in TB high burden settings. In older adolesc...

In this paper, we investigate an original way to deal with the problems generated by the limitation process of high-order finite volume methods based on polynomial reconstructions. Multi-dimensional Optimal Order Detection (MOOD) breaks away from classical limitations employed in high-order methods. The proposed method consists of detecting problematic situations after each time update of the s...

Cloud computing provides an innovative technology that enables Software as a Service (SaaS) to its customers. With cloud computing technologies, a suite of program understanding tools is suggested to be deployed in a cloud to aid the generation of test cases for software testing. This cloud-enabled service allows customers to use these tools through an on-demand, flexible, and pay-per-use model...

Most previous research comparing innovation activity in the manufacturing and service sectors has taken insufficient account of the variation in the intensity and nature of innovation activity within those sectors. We address this question using a simple sectoral split and applying it to manufacturing and the business services sector. The results indicate that in some respects there is greater ...

Resource sharing is an important aspect how cost savings in cloud computing are realized. This is especially important in multi-tenancy settings, where different tenants share the same resource. This paper presents an approach to merge two application topologies into one, while on the one hand preserving the functionality of both applications and on the other hand enabling sharing of similar co...