Most database query optimizers use cost models to identify good query execution plans. Inaccuracies in the cost models can cause query optimizers to select poor plans. In this pap...
The ongoing trend of increasing computer hardware and software complexity has resulted in the increase in complexity and overheads of cycle-accurate processor system simulation, e...
Seongbeom Kim, Fang Liu, Yan Solihin, Ravi R. Iyer...
Witnesses and counterexamples produced by model checkers provide a very useful source of diagnostic information. They are usually returned in the form of a single computation path ...
Robert Meolic, Alessandro Fantechi, Stefania Gnesi
Bugs in kernel-level device drivers cause 85% of the system crashes in the Windows XP operating system [44]. One of the sources of these errors is the complexity of the Windows dr...
Thomas Ball, Ella Bounimova, Byron Cook, Vladimir ...
This paper presents a new method to identify and rank the bottlenecks in a manufacturing system. The proposed method is based on performance related data that are easy to capture,...