Abstract—The distributed nature and large scale of MapReduce programs and systems poses two challenges in using existing profiling and debugging tools to understand MapReduce pr...
The process of extracting useful knowledge from large datasets has become one of the most pressing problems in today’s society. The problem spans entire sectors, from scientists...
We present a new method for multi-object segmentation in a maximum a posteriori estimation framework. Our method is motivated by the observation that neighboring or coupling objec...
The well-known problem of state space explosion in model checking is even more critical when applying this technique to programming languages, mainly due to the presence of complex...
The goal of testing is to discriminate between multiple hypotheses about a system--for example, different fault diagnoses--by applying input patterns and verifying or falsifying t...