Most modern compilers operate by applying a fixed, program-independent sequence of optimizations to all programs. Compiler writers choose a single “compilation sequence”, or ...
L. Almagor, Keith D. Cooper, Alexander Grosul, Tim...
Processors have traditionally been designed for the worst-case, resulting in designs that have high yields, but are expensive in terms of area and power. Better-than-worst-case (B...
This paper studies —from the perspective of efficient computation— a type of competition that is widespread throughout the plant and animal kingdoms, higher education, politic...
Leslie Ann Goldberg, Paul W. Goldberg, Piotr Kryst...
One common characterization of how simple hill-climbing optimization methods can fail is that they become trapped in local optima - a state where no small modi cation of the curren...
—The ability of a web service to provide low-latency access to its contents is constrained by available network bandwidth. It is important for the service to manage available ban...