Managing a connection between two hosts in a network is an important service to provide in order to make the network useful for many applications. The two main subproblems are the management of serial incarnations of a connection and the transfer of messages within an incarnation. This paper investigates whether it is necessary for connection management protocols to retain state information acr...

The world is estimated to still be home to 7,000 human languages. While some have recently gone extinct and many more are under pressure, researchers are increasingly keen to preserve this remarkable and unique aspect of human cultural history and explore how they have evolved. Analyses of the sounds and meanings of the words in different languages have led researchers to create 'evolutionary t...

Generally, when genetic programming (GP) is used for function synthesis any valuable experience gained by the system is lost from one problem to the next, even when the problems are closely related. With the aim of developing a system which retains beneficial experience from problem to problem, this paper introduces the novel Node-by-Node Growth Solver (NNGS) algorithm which features a componen...

eCAM seemed to have arrived at the right time, 2004, when there was a growing need for populations to understand the biological basis of health and to take charge. Before the pharmaceutical industry dawned, humans did for themselves as best they could. Their innovations were limitless despite the sparse or even non-existent biotech instruments and MD’s prescriptions. Yet their potions, incantat...