This paper studies fitness inheritance as an efficiency enhancement technique for genetic and evolutionary algorithms. Convergence and population sizing models are derived and compared with experimental results. These models are optimized for greatest speed-up and the optimal inheritance proportion to obtain such a speed-up is derived. Results also show that when the inheritance effects are con...

Multiple Inheritance is the ability of a class to have more than one base class (super class). In a language where multiple inheritance is supported a program can be structured as a set of inheritance lattices instead of (just) as a set of inheritance trees. This is widely believed to be an important structuring tool. It is also widely believed that multiple inheritance complicates a programmin...

Ontology is the explicit representation of domain concept model. It can well express the complicated relationships between objects. Since formal ontology is the foundation of domain knowledge sharing and reusing, the formal ontology and associated concepts are stated in this paper. Previously research on ontology construction is high-cost and time-consuming, a new method of building ontology us...

This paper discusses the restructuring of inheritance hierarchies of classes and introduces a method of restructuring multiple hierarchies of class inheritance, which removes duplicated methods and creates inheritance hierarchies without overridden methods while preserving the behavior of objects. This paper formulates a restructuring problem for 0–1 integer programming and presents a network-b...

Inheritance is the main theme of schema design for the object-oriented software and object-oriented database. This notion supports the class hierarchy design and captures the is-a relationship between a class and its subclass. It contributes to good properties of modularity, reusability and incremental design Cox86][Meyer88]. self-inheritance. Unfortunately, for a class hierarchy with cyclic in...

This paper contains the consideration of inheritance mechanism in such knowledge representation models as object-oriented programming, frames and object-oriented dynamic networks. In addition, inheritance within representation of vague and imprecise knowledge are also discussed. New types of inheritance, general classification of all known inheritance types and approach, which allows avoiding i...

Although spreadsheets can be argued to be the most widely-used end-user programming languages today, they are very limited compared to other programming languages, supporting only a few built-in types and offering only primitive support for code reuse. The inheritance mechanisms of object-oriented programming might seem to offer help for the latter problem, but incorporating these mechanisms in...

Inheritance as a programming language mechanism can be used to achieve several di erent goals, both in terms of expressing relationships between components and in terms of de ning new components \by di erence" from existing ones. For de ning new component implementations in terms of existing implementations, there are several approaches to using \code inheritance." Black box code inheritance al...