Individuals do not have complete information about the environment and therefore they face a trade-off between gathering information (exploration) and gathering resources (exploitation). Studies have shown individual differences in components of this trade-off but how stable these strategies are in a population and the intrinsic drivers of these differences is not well understood. Top marine pr...

We introduce a new method for triggering vulnerabilities in deep layers of binary executables and facilitate their exploitation. In our approach we combine dynamic symbolic execution with fuzzing techniques. To maximize both the execution path depth and the degree of freedom in input parameters for exploitation, we define a novel method to assign probabilities to program paths. Based on this pr...

Terms such as exploitation, exploration, intensification and diversification are routinely employed in the metaheuristic literature to explain empirical runtime performance. Six prevalent views on exploitation and exploration are identified in the literature, each expressing a different aspect of these notions. The consistency and meaningfulness of these views are substantiated by their deducib...

1. The Funding System 2. The Old Rules: Sharing Publicly Funded R&D with the Public 3. The New Rules: Promoting Innovation Through Autonomy of and Responsibility for Intellectual Property Exploitation a) Model Rules for subsidized R&D of Industry (i) Autonomy and Exclusivity (ii) Responsibility for Protection and Exploitation b) Equal Treatment of Public Research Organizations (PROs) c) Specifi...

Do firms balance exploration and exploitation in their alliance formation decisions and, if so, why and how? We argue that absorptive capacity and organizational inertia impose conflicting pressures for exploration and exploitation with respect to the value chain function of alliances, the attributes of partners, and partners’ network positions. Although path dependencies reinforce either explo...

History shows that problems that cause human confusion often lead to inventions to solve the problems, which then leads to exploitation of the invention, creating a confusion-invention-exploitation cycle. Robotics, which started as a new type of universal machine implemented with a computer controlled mechanism in the 1960’s, has progressed from an Age of Over-expectation (1960-86), a Time of N...

The SEPIA system allows creating assistance systems that meet technical assistance needs. In this paper, we aim at the exploitation of SEPIA in the educational context by confronting it to pedagogical assistance needs. This exploitation shows the limitations in the SEPIA system: complex description of rules by pedagogical designers, lack of domain knowledge. Therefore, we present our patterns t...

This study investigates the effects of information technology on exploration and exploitation in organizational learning. We extend an earlier computational model of organizational learning and introduce learning between individuals through three distinct mechanisms: face-to-face exchange, IT-enabled communication support, and knowledge repositories. Each of these mechanisms has a distinct effe...

A stage-based simulation model is used to investigate the effect of exploitation on theoretical populations representing long-lived elasmobranch and teleost species with different life-history strategies. A comparison is made between the effect of exploitation on the elasmobranch ‘k-strategists’ and other teleost species that are ‘rstrategists’. We demonstrate the effects of stage-based exploit...

As the web expands exponentially, the need to put some order to its content becomes apparent. Hypertext categorization, that is the automatic classification of web documents into predefined classes, came to elevate humans from that task. The extra information available in a hypertext document poses new challenges for automatic categorization. HTML tags and linked neighbourhood all provide rich ...