This paper describes a new method of evolution that is named Transplant Evolution (TE). None of the individuals of the transplant evolution contains genotype as in Grammatical Evolution (GE). Each individual of the transplant evolution contains the phenotype in the tree structure. Reproduction methods as crossover and mutation work with parts of phenotypes (sub-trees). The hierarchical structur...

Studies of software evolution have long tried to understand the interplay between the software itself and its developers. Such studies usually require extensive tool support due to large and complex data that need to be collected, processed, and analyzed. Although several tools have been proposed, they often provide limited support to studying software evolution by considering technical and soc...

The teaching of evolutionary theory represents one of the most exciting challenges for science teachers. The learning of the main principles of biological evolution and, more particularly, the origin of human species could be influenced by the socio-cultural environment. Our preliminary investigation among final year students of high schools located in both the centre and outlying area of the c...

Evolution is one of the major issues affecting system dependability as well as engineering activities and environments. The most common understanding considers evolution as a phenomenon that needs to be avoided. By contrast this paper takes into account evolution as a necessary feature of computerbased systems. This paper reviews a taxonomy of evolution identifying a conceptual framework to ana...

I must congratulate the organizers for choosing this important topic for deliberation in this seminar. I have great pleasure in mentioning that the theme of the Report on Currency and Finance 2004-05, prepared by the staff of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), is also that of evolution of Central Banking in India (RBI, 2005a). In going through the process of compilation of the Report, I have foun...

This report investigates Requirements Evolution for computer-based systems. Although practitioners and researchers recognise the problem, there has been little research effort in investigating models of Requirements Evolution. This is due to lack of long term evolutionary data and models to analyse them. This report takes into account Requirements Evolution for computer-based systems and invest...

Frequency-dependent selection may favour the evolution of mixed reproductive strategies, resulting in polymorphic life-histories within a population. Here I explore the theoretical and ecological possibilities for evolution of mixed reproductive strategies in two minimal age-structured life-history models. The first model addresses evolution of delayed maturity (i.e., competition between annual...