Elegant object-oriented software design via interactive, evolutionary computation

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1797-1805

  Simons, Christopher L ^a   Parmee, Ian C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elegance; interactive evolutionary computation (IEC); software design

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; DESIGN ELEMENTS; ELEGANCE; EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING; FITNESS FUNCTIONS; INTERACTIVE EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION; MULTI OBJECTIVE; OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE DESIGNS; SOFTWARE DESIGNERS; SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENTS; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS;

CALCULATIONS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84871829092     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2012.2225103     Document Type: Article

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