Evolution can favor organisms that are more adaptable, provided that genetic variation in adaptability exists. Here, we quantify this variation among 230 offspring of a cross between diverged yeast strains. We measure the adaptability of each offspring genotype, defined as its average rate of adaptation in a specific environmental condition, and analyze the heritability, predictability, and gen...

Adaptability evaluation of software systems is one of the key concerns in both software engineering and requirements engineering. In this paper, we present a formal and systematic approach to evaluate adaptability of software systems to requirements in enterprise business applications. Our approach consists of three major parts, that is, the common modeling method for both business realms and s...

The successful use of patterns in a software development organization depends on a number of issues. One such issue is the classification of patterns in a manner supportive of the organization’s model of software development. In modern reuse–based organizations adaptability of software products is a capital issue. Given this context, this paper discusses the issues and rationale for pattern cla...

This paper presents an adaptive and adaptable system and its evaluation. The system is based on a commercial spreadsheet application and provides adaptation opportunities for defining a user– and task–specific user interface (new menu entries and key shortcuts for subrouting names and parameters, changing default parameters). The development following a design–evaluation–redesign approach has s...

In [Kiczales et al. 97], aspects are defined as properties that affect the performance or semantics of the components in systemic ways. Systemic characteristic of aspects implies that they can be considered as concepts. The term performance is a special case of the general term quality. Other quality examples are adaptability and reusability. From this point of view, aspects are concepts which ...

In a software system, dynami adaptability is the ability for dynami adaptation on runtime environments. A software system with dynami adaptability an adapt itself to the hanges of runtime environments by hanging its own behavior in dynami & exible way. We have proposed a software model with dynami adaptability named DAS and its des ription language named LEAD++. We an use LEAD++ as a s ript lan...

the stability of ten winter safflower cultivars and lines was evaluated in three different environmental conditions in karaj, isfahan and darab in iran, a randomized complete block design with 4 replications over three years (1995, 1996 and 1997). simple analysis of variances of grain and oil yields from each experiment showed significant differences among the genotypes. after conducting a homo...

So far, the main focus of research on adaptability in multiagent systems (MASs) has been on the agents’ behavior, for example on developing new learning techniques and more flexible action selection mechanisms. In this paper, we introduce a different type of adaptability in MASs, called time management adaptability. Time management adaptability focuses on adaptability in MASs with respect to ex...