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...
Systems that can immediately react to their inputs may suffer from cyclic dependencies between their actions and the corresponding trigger conditions. For this reason, causality an...
The notion of a program slice, originally introduced by Mark Weiser, is a fundamental operation for addressing many software-engineering problems, including program understanding,...
Humans know how to reason based on cause and effect, but cause and effect is not enough to draw conclusions due to the problem of imperfect information and uncertainty. To resol...