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NIPS
1996
13 years 9 months ago
Why did TD-Gammon Work?
Although TD-Gammon is one of the major successes in machine learning, it has not led to similar impressive breakthroughs in temporal difference learning for other applications or ...
Jordan B. Pollack, Alan D. Blair
ICPP
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Solving Large, Irregular Graph Problems Using Adaptive Work-Stealing
Solving large, irregular graph problems efficiently is challenging. Current software systems and commodity multiprocessors do not support fine-grained, irregular parallelism wel...
Guojing Cong, Sreedhar B. Kodali, Sriram Krishnamo...
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Why do developers neglect exception handling?
In this paper, we explore the problems associated with exception handling from a new dimension: the human. We designed a study that evaluates (1) different perspectives of softwar...
Carsten Görg, Hina Shah, Mary Jean Harrold
ISER
1999
Springer
147views Robotics» more  ISER 1999»
13 years 12 months ago
Experimental Validation of Physics-Based Planning and Control Algorithms for Planetary Robotic Rovers
: Robotic planetary exploration is a major component of the United States’ NASA space science program. The focus of our research is to develop rover planning and control algorith...
Karl Iagnemma, Robert Burn, Eric Wilhelm, Steven D...
ASPLOS
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Producing wrong data without doing anything obviously wrong!
This paper presents a surprising result: changing a seemingly innocuous aspect of an experimental setup can cause a systems researcher to draw wrong conclusions from an experiment...
Todd Mytkowicz, Amer Diwan, Matthias Hauswirth, Pe...