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POPL
2007
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Program verification as probabilistic inference
In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for proving the validity or invalidity of a pre/postcondition pair for a program. The algorithm is motivated by the success of the algori...
Sumit Gulwani, Nebojsa Jojic
PODS
2006
ACM
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14 years 10 months ago
Data exchange: computing cores in polynomial time
Data exchange deals with inserting data from one database into another database having a different schema. We study and solve a central computational problem of data exchange, nam...
Georg Gottlob, Alan Nash
ICFP
2005
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Acute: high-level programming language design for distributed computation
Existing languages provide good support for typeful programming of standalone programs. In a distributed system, however, there may be interaction between multiple instances of ma...
Peter Sewell, James J. Leifer, Keith Wansbrough, F...
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Money, glory and cheap talk: analyzing strategic behavior of contestants in simultaneous crowdsourcing contests on TopCoder.com
Crowdsourcing is a new Web phenomenon, in which a firm takes a function once performed in-house and outsources it to a crowd, usually in the form of an open contest. Designing ef...
Nikolay Archak
EVOW
2010
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Parameter Tuning of Evolutionary Algorithms: Generalist vs. Specialist
Abstract. Finding appropriate parameter values for Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) is one of the persistent challenges of Evolutionary Computing. In recent publications we showed how...
Selmar K. Smit, A. E. Eiben