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EATCS
2000
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13 years 9 months ago
A New Zero-One Law and Strong Extension Axioms
One of the previous articles in this column was devoted to the zero-one laws for a number of logics playing prominent role in finite model theory: first-order logic FO, the extens...
Andreas Blass, Yuri Gurevich
ICDE
2006
IEEE
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14 years 11 months ago
Laws for Rewriting Queries Containing Division Operators
Relational division, also known as small divide, is a derived operator of the relational algebra that realizes a many-to-one set containment test, where a set is represented as a ...
Ralf Rantzau, Christoph Mangold
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Serializing instructions in system-intensive workloads: Amdahl's Law strikes again
Serializing instructions (SIs), such as writes to control registers, have many complex dependencies, and are difficult to execute out-of-order (OoO). To avoid unnecessary complexi...
Philip M. Wells, Gurindar S. Sohi
CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A robust descriptor based on Weber's Law
Inspired by Weber's Law, this paper proposes a simple, yet very powerful and robust local descriptor, Weber Local Descriptor (WLD). It is based on the fact that human percept...
Jie Chen, Shiguang Shan, Guoying Zhao, Xilin Chen,...
CAL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Corollaries to Amdahl's Law for Energy
—This paper studies the important interaction between parallelization and energy consumption in a parallelizable application. Given the ratio of serial and parallel portion in an...
Sangyeun Cho, Rami G. Melhem