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SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
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An Analytic Behavior Model for Disk Drives with Readahead Caches and Request Reordering
Modern disk drives read-ahead data and reorder incoming requests in a workload-dependent fashion. This improves their performance, but makes simple analytical models of them inade...
Elizabeth A. M. Shriver, Arif Merchant, John Wilke...
FTRTFT
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
On the Need for Practical Formal Methods
A controversial issue in the formal methods community is the degree to which mathematical sophistication and theorem proving skills should be needed to apply a formal method. A fun...
Constance L. Heitmeyer
SIGGRAPH
1996
ACM
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Automatic Reconstruction of B-Spline Surfaces of Arbitrary Topological Type
Creating freeform surfaces is a challenging task even with advanced geometric modeling systems. Laser range scanners offer a promising alternative for model acquisition--the 3D sc...
Matthias Eck, Hugues Hoppe
ASPLOS
1989
ACM
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Architecture and Compiler Tradeoffs for a Long Instruction Word Microprocessor
A very long instruction word (VLIW) processorexploits parallelism by controlling multiple operations in a single instruction word. This paper describes the architecture and compil...
Robert Cohn, Thomas R. Gross, Monica S. Lam, P. S....
POPL
1989
ACM
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How to Make ad-hoc Polymorphism Less ad-hoc
raction that a programming language provides influences the structure and algorithmic complexity of the resulting programs: just imagine creating an artificial intelligence engine ...
Philip Wadler, Stephen Blott