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AOSD
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
"Program, enhance thyself!": demand-driven pattern-oriented program enhancement
Program enhancement refers to adding new functionality to an existing program. We argue that repetitive program enhancement tasks can be expressed as patterns, and that the applic...
Eli Tilevich, Godmar Back
GECCO
2011
Springer
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13 years 7 days ago
Evolution of reward functions for reinforcement learning
The reward functions that drive reinforcement learning systems are generally derived directly from the descriptions of the problems that the systems are being used to solve. In so...
Scott Niekum, Lee Spector, Andrew G. Barto
OSDI
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Cooperative I/O: A Novel I/O Semantics for Energy-Aware Applications
In this paper we demonstrate the benefits of application involvement in operating system power management. We present Coop-I/O, an approach to reduce the power consumption of devi...
Andreas Weissel, Bjórn Beutel, Frank Bellos...
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Finding programming errors earlier by evaluating runtime monitors ahead-of-time
Runtime monitoring allows programmers to validate, for instance, the proper use of application interfaces. Given a property specification, a runtime monitor tracks appropriate run...
Eric Bodden, Patrick Lam, Laurie J. Hendren
BMCBI
2011
13 years 11 days ago
A Novel And Well-Defined Benchmarking Method For Second Generation Read Mapping
Background: Second generation sequencing technologies yield DNA sequence data at ultra high-throughput. Common to most biological applications is a mapping of the reads to an almo...
Manuel Holtgrewe, Anne-Katrin Emde, David Weese, K...