Researchers from Brazil's Universidade Estadual de Campinas used a computer simulation to confirm paleontologist Stephen J. Gould's prediction that it is evolutionarily advantageous for cicadas to emerge at intervals lasting a prime number of years.
Campbell’s Law states that any time a quantitative metric is used to make policy decisions effecting the people involved, that metric will lose its correlation with the actual performance you’re trying to measure. To quote Campbell himself: The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to [...]
Call for Papers
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33rd IARCS Annual Conference on
Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS)
December 10-14, 2013
IIT Guwahati, India
Scope
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Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and
unpublished research in any area of Theoretical Computer Science or
Foundational aspects of Software Technology. Representative areas
include, but are not limited to:
* Algorithms and data structures, including
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