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Improving genetic algorithms performance via deterministic population shrinkage
Juan Luis Jiménez Laredo, Carlos Fernandes, Juan Julián Merelo +1
Despite the intuition that the same population size is not needed throughout the run of an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA), most EAs use a fixed population size. This paper presents an…
What is a good doge? Analyzing the patrician social network of the Republic of Venice
J. J. Merelo-Guervós
The Venetian republic was one of the most successful trans-modern states, surviving for a millennium through innovation, commercial cunning, exploitation of colonies and legal stab…
Agile (data) science: a (draft) manifesto
Juan Julián Merelo-Guervós, Mario García-Valdez
Science has a data management problem, as well as a project management problem. While industrial-grade data science teams have embraced the agile mindset, and adopted or created al…
Tropes in films: an initial analysis
Rubén Héctor García-Ortega, Pablo García Sánchez, Juan J. Merelo-Guervós
TVTropes is a wiki that describes tropes and which ones are used in which artistic work. We are mostly interested in films, so after releasing the TropeScraper Python module that e…
Power laws in code repositories: A skeptical approach
Bartolomé Ortiz, J. J. Merelo-Guervós
Software development as done using modern methodologies and source control management systems, has been often established as an example of self-organization, with code growing and…
Overview of PicTropes, a film trope dataset
Rubén H. García-Ortega, Juan J. Merelo-Guervós, Pablo García Sánchez +1
From the database DBTropes.org, we have created a dataset of films and the tropes that they use, which we have called PicTropes. In this report we provide the descriptive analysis…