In this paper we present a continuous surface model to describe the interconnect geometric variation, which improves the currently used model for better accuracy while not increas...
The scalability of future massively parallel processing (MPP) systems is being severely challenged by high failure rates. Current hard disk drive (HDD) checkpointing results in ov...
Xiangyu Dong, Naveen Muralimanohar, Norman P. Joup...
This paper investigates the role of humor in non-task oriented (topic restriction free) human-computer dialogue, as well as the correlation between humor and emotions elicited by i...
Pawel Dybala, Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Ken...
Reference counting is a widely-used resource management idiom which maintains a count of references to each resource by incrementing the count upon an acquisition, and decrementing...
Michael Emmi, Ranjit Jhala, Eddie Kohler, Rupak Ma...
Many researchers claim that crosscutting concerns, which emerge in early software development stages, are harmful to software stability. On the other hand, there is a lack of effec...