Lazy programs are beautiful, but they are slow because they build many thunks. Simple measurements show that most of these thunks are unnecessary: they are in fact always evaluate...
Abstract-Unstructured text represents a large fraction of the world's data. It often contain snippets of structured information within them (e.g., people's names and zip ...
Daisy Zhe Wang, Eirinaios Michelakis, Joseph M. He...
The European project COMSON (Coupled Multiscale Simulation and Optimization in Nanoelectronics) is a Marie Curie RTN project that involves five partners from academia and three fr...
Giuseppe Ali, Eleonora Bilotta, Lorella Gabriele, ...
Multiple description coding (MDC) has emerged as a powerful technique for reliable real-time communications over lossy packet networks. In its basic form, it involves encoding a me...
We present a simple and efficient entropy coder that combines run-length and Golomb-Rice encoders. The encoder automatically switches between the two modes according to simple rul...