Data-parallel programs are both growing in importance and increasing in diversity, resulting in specialized processors targeted at specific classes of these programs. This paper ...
Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Stephen W. Keckler, Wil...
This paper describes the methods used in Empire, a tool to detect concurrency-related bugs, namely atomic-set serializability violations in Java programs. The correctness criterion...
Nicholas Kidd, Thomas W. Reps, Julian Dolby, Manda...
ScriptEase is a tool that allows authors with no programming experience to create interactive stories for computer role-playing games. Instead of writing scripting code manually, ...
Maria Cutumisu, Duane Szafron, Jonathan Schaeffer,...
Historically, compilers have operated by applying a fixed set of optimizations in a predetermined order. We call such an ordered list of optimizations a compilation sequence. This...
Keith D. Cooper, Devika Subramanian, Linda Torczon
Model checkers search the space of possible program behaviors to detect errors and to demonstrate their absence. Despite major advances in reduction and optimization techniques, s...
Matthew B. Dwyer, Sebastian G. Elbaum, Suzette Per...