Planning and scheduling of testing activities play an important role for any independent test
team that performs tests for different software systems, developed by different development …

The search for spontaneous pattern formation in equilibrium phases with genuine quantum
properties is a leading direction of current research. In this paper, we investigate the effect of …

A variant of the Ford–Johnson or merge insertion sorting algorithm that we called four Ford–Johnson
( 4 FJ, for short) is presented and proved to execute exactly the same number of …

Software testing is an important activity of the software development process, and its automation
(specially of test data generation) has been a burgeoning interest of many researchers […

… (de Abreu 2020b). What might be defined as spatial displacement (what Stephen Greenblatt
[1983: 224 – 25] calls “psychic mobility”) in Aristotelean and Renaissance theater, might in …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a hybrid meta-heuristic based on genetic
algorithms (GAs), simulated annealing, variable neighborhood descent and path relinking for …

Including test activity in the software’s lifecycle requires it to be planned, so that the time and
resources to be spent can be estimated. However, estimating test effort is still an unexplored …

Introdução: As intoxicações provocadas por drogas ocorrem com frequência em animais de
companhia e, muitas das vezes estão relacionadas a medicamentos de uso humano. …

In a world where software system is a daily need, system dependability has been a focus of
interest. Nowadays, web-based systems are more and more used and there is a lack of …

This study proposes an implementable approach involving nonlinear model predictive
control (NMPC) with economic objectives for optimizing the production of an electrical …