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ANSS
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Performance Enhancement by Eliminating Redundant Function Execution
Programs often call the same function with the same arguments, yielding the same results. We call this phenomenon, “function reuse”. Previously, we have shown such a behavior ...
Peng Chen, Krishna M. Kavi, Robert Akl
CLIMA
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Speculative Abductive Reasoning for Hierarchical Agent Systems
Answer sharing is a key element in multi-agent systems as it allows agents to collaborate towards achieving a global goal. However exogenous knowledge of the world can influence e...
Jiefei Ma, Krysia Broda, Randy Goebel, Hiroshi Hos...
IR
2011
12 years 10 months ago
Modeling score distributions in information retrieval
We review the history of modeling score distributions, focusing on the mixture of normal-exponential by investigating the theoretical as well as the empirical evidence supporting i...
Avi Arampatzis, Stephen Robertson
IEEEPACT
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Fast Track: Supporting Unsafe Optimizations with Software Speculation
The use of multi-core, multi-processor machines is opening new opportunities for software speculation, where program code is speculatively executed to improve performance at the a...
Kirk Kelsey, Chengliang Zhang, Chen Ding
HPCA
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Speculative synchronization and thread management for fine granularity threads
Performance of multithreaded programs is heavily influenced by the latencies of the thread management and synchronization operations. Improving these latencies becomes especially...
Alex Gontmakher, Avi Mendelson, Assaf Schuster, Gr...