Niyogi and Berwick have developed a deterministic dynamical model of (E-)language change from which they analytically derive logistic, S-shaped spread of a linguistic variant through a speech community given certain assumptions about the language learning algorithm, the linguistic environment, and so forth. I will demonstrate that the same assumptions embedded in a stochastic model of (E-)langu...

The increasing adoption of process-aware information systems (PAISs), together with the variability of business processes (BPs), has resulted in large collections of related process model variants (i.e., process families). To effectively deal with process families, several proposals (e.g., C-EPC, Provop) exist that extend BP modeling languages with variability-specific constructs. While fosteri...

12 13 Coastal changes on sandy shorelines are continuous and occur at diverse spatial and 14 temporal scales. Gaining knowledge on beach change processes increases our capability 15 to manage risks affecting the increasing population living in coastal areas, especially 16 shoreline erosion. Processes and factors involved in mediumand short-term beach 17 changes depend on the morphological and d...

Change impact analysis (CIA) is a specialized process of program comprehension that investigates the ripple effects code change in software system. In this paper, we present boosting way for via mapping historical change-patterns to current CIA task cross-project scenario. The reflect coupling dependencies between changed entities set. A traditional tool (such as ImpactMiner) outputs an initial...