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PPOPP
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
An efficient transactional memory algorithm for computing minimum spanning forest of sparse graphs
Due to power wall, memory wall, and ILP wall, we are facing the end of ever increasing single-threaded performance. For this reason, multicore and manycore processors are arising ...
Seunghwa Kang, David A. Bader
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Master usability scaling: magnitude estimation and master scaling applied to usability measurement
Master Usability Scaling (MUS) is a measurement method for developing a universal usability continuum based on magnitude estimation and master scaling. The universal usability con...
Mick McGee
CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A context-aware experience sampling tool
A new software tool for user-interface development and assessment of ubiquitous computing applications is available for CHI researchers. The software permits researchers to use co...
Stephen S. Intille, John Rondoni, Chuck Kukla, Isa...
POPL
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Program verification as probabilistic inference
In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for proving the validity or invalidity of a pre/postcondition pair for a program. The algorithm is motivated by the success of the algori...
Sumit Gulwani, Nebojsa Jojic
POPL
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A fixpoint calculus for local and global program flows
We define a new fixpoint modal logic, the visibly pushdown ?-calculus (VP-?), as an extension of the modal ?-calculus. The models of this logic are execution trees of structured p...
Rajeev Alur, Swarat Chaudhuri, P. Madhusudan