The Java language description is unusual in that it de nes the e ect of interleaving separate compilation and source code modi cations. In Java, certain source code modi cations, such as adding a method to a class, are de ned as binary compatible. The Java language description does not require the re-compilation of programs importing classes or interfaces which were modi ed in binary compatible...

The explanation of how and why firms succeed or fail is a recurrent research challenge. This is particularly important in the context of technological innovations. We focus on the role of historical events and decisions in explaining such success and failure. Using a case study of Nokia, we develop and extend a multi-layer path dependence framework. We identify four layers of path dependence: t...

In this paper, the problem of finding the optimal collision free path for a mobile robot, the path planning problem, is solved using an advanced evolutionary algorithm called memetic algorithm. What is new in this work is a novel representation of solutions for evolutionary algorithms that is efficient, simple and also compatible with memetic algorithm. The new representation makes it possible ...

BiCIKL is an European Union Horizon 2020 project that will initiate and build a new starting community of key research infrastructures, establishing open science practices in the domain biodiversity through provision access to data, associated tools services at each separate stage along entire cycle. provide methods workflows for integrated harvesting, liberating, linking, accessing re-using su...

being one of the major research fields in the robotics discipline, the robot motion planning problem deals with finding an obstacle-free start-to-goal path for a robot navigating among workspace obstacles. such a problem is also encountered in path planning of intelligent vehicles and automatic guided vehicles (agvs). traditional (exact) algorithms have failed to solve the problem effectively s...

As a standard operating backdrop in the United Kingdom, for more than decade austerity has become an increasingly dominant logic as to how policing can be delivered and (re)configured do ‘more with less’. Yet beyond simple rationalisation of public line market principles, complex long-standing trajectory underpins relations between police commercial ‘others’ set within this climate. With guidin...

Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) are emerging as competitive and reliable techniques for several optimization tasks. Juxtapositioning their higher-level and implicit correspondence; it is provocative to query if one optimization algorithm can benefit from another by studying underlying similarities and dissimilarities. This paper establishes a clear and fundamental algorithmic linking between part...