The quality of a programming language itself is only one component in the ability of application writers to get the job done. Programming languages can succeed or fail based on th...
The goal of testing is to discriminate between multiple hypotheses about a system--for example, different fault diagnoses--by applying input patterns and verifying or falsifying t...
Despite the recent advances in planning with MDPs, the problem of generating good policies is still hard. This paper describes a way to generate policies in MDPs by (1) determiniz...
This paper proposes an architecture for optimized resource allocation in Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)-based cloud systems. Current IaaS systems are usually unaware of the ho...
Abstract. With the rapid development of fast data acquisition techniques, 3D scans that record the geometric and photometric information of deformable objects are routinely acquire...