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ICFP
2005
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
High-level views on low-level representations
This paper explains how the high-level treatment of datatypes in functional languages--using features like constructor functions and pattern matching--can be made to coexist with ...
Iavor S. Diatchki, Mark P. Jones, Rebekah Leslie
SIGCOMM
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Minimizing churn in distributed systems
A pervasive requirement of distributed systems is to deal with churn — change in the set of participating nodes due to joins, graceful leaves, and failures. A high churn rate ca...
Brighten Godfrey, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica
CLUSTER
2003
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A Performance Monitor Based on Virtual Global Time for Clusters of PCs
Debugging the performance of parallel and distributed systems remains a difficult task despite the widespread use of middleware packages for automatic distribution, communication...
Michela Taufer, Thomas Stricker
ISAAC
1998
Springer
99views Algorithms» more  ISAAC 1998»
14 years 2 months ago
On the Multiple Gene Duplication Problem
Abstract. A fundamental problem in computational biology is the determination of the correct species tree for a set of taxa given a set of possibly contradictory gene trees. In rec...
Michael R. Fellows, Michael T. Hallett, Ulrike Ste...
SIGLEX
1991
14 years 1 months ago
Presuppositions and Default Reasoning: A Study in Lexical Pragmatics
Explaining how the meaning of words relate to the meaning of the utterance in which they are used is of utmost importance. The most common approaches view the meaning of an uttera...
Robert E. Mercer