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NSDI
2007
15 years 7 months ago
WiDS Checker: Combating Bugs in Distributed Systems
Despite many efforts, the predominant practice of debugging a distributed system is still printf-based log mining, which is both tedious and error-prone. In this paper, we present...
Xuezheng Liu, Wei Lin, Aimin Pan, Zheng Zhang
QEST
2010
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Reasoning about MDPs as Transformers of Probability Distributions
We consider Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) as transformers on probability distributions, where with respect to a scheduler that resolves nondeterminism, the MDP can be seen as ex...
Vijay Anand Korthikanti, Mahesh Viswanathan, Gul A...
GAMEON
2009
15 years 2 months ago
Explorations in Player Motivations: Game Mechanics
This article, assuming that player motivations are the outcome of continuous player-environment interactions, applies the needs framework of Murray (1938) to a computer game and i...
Barbaros Bostan, Ugur Kaplancali
ATAL
2007
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Modelling the provenance of data in autonomous systems
Determining the provenance of data, i.e. the process that led to that data, is vital in many disciplines. For example, in science, the process that produced a given result must be...
Simon Miles, Steve Munroe, Michael Luck, Luc Morea...
ICIP
2002
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Content-based image retrieval using stochastic paintbrush transformation
Herein, we propose a new content based image retrieval method. The novelty of our approach lies in the applied image similarity measure : Unlike traditional features like color, t...
Zoltan Kato, Xiaowen Ji, Tamas Sziranyi, Zoltan To...