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The idea of quantum annealing (QA) is a late offspring of the celebrated simulated thermal annealing by Kirkpatrick et al. [1]. In simulated annealing, the problem of minimizing a certain cost (or energy) function in a large configuration space is tackled by the introduction of a fictitious temperature, which is slowly lowered in the course of a Monte Carlo or Molecular Dynamics simulation...
Feature models are used to describe common and variable properties of families of related software systems referred as SPL (Software Product Line). Every program in an SPL is identified by a unique and legal combination of features called feature configuration. There is no formal semantic for describing a feature model and no standard tool for building and validate a feature configuration. In this...
Set the date range to filter the displayed results. You can set a starting date, ending date or both. You can enter the dates manually or choose them from the calendar.