… LT Watson’s work was supported in part by NSF grant MCS 8207217, Control Data
Corporation grant 84V101, and AFOSR grant 850250. SC Billup’s work was supported in part by …

Digital libraries (DLs) are complex information systems and therefore demand formal foundations
lest development efforts diverge and interoperability suffers. In this article, we propose …

… and Burkhardt [39], Mejia [28], and Watson [82]. There are three primary algorithn~c … [49]
CY WANG AND LT WATSON, Squeezing of a viscous fluid between el/iptic plates, Appl. …

Genetic algorithms with elitist selection based on cloning a best single individual (SI) from
one generation to the next are popular, but generalized elitist selection (GES) procedures …

The design of composite structures against buckling presents two major challenges to the
designer. First, the problem of laminate stacking sequence design is discrete in nature, …

Surrogate-based optimization proceeds in cycles. Each cycle consists of analyzing a number
of designs, fitting a surrogate, performing optimization based on the surrogate, and finally …

… Giirdal and LT Watson, Derivative based approximation for … Giirdal, RT Haftka and LT
Watson, Improved genetic algorithms … Narducci, RT Haftka and LT Watson, A coarse grained …

Probability one homotopy algorithms are a class of methods for solving nonlinear systems
of equations that are globally convergent with probability one. These methods are …

A complete mathematical treatment is given for describing the topographic primal sketch of
the underlying gray tone intensity surface of a digital image. Each picture element is …

In this article, we elaborate on the meaning of quality in digital libraries (DLs) by proposing
a model that is deeply grounded in a formal framework for digital libraries: 5S (Streams, …