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PPOPP
2003
ACM
14 years 11 days ago
Hybrid dynamic data race detection
We present a new method for dynamically detecting potential data races in multithreaded programs. Our method improves on the state of the art in accuracy, in usability, and in ove...
Robert O'Callahan, Jong-Deok Choi
ESOP
2003
Springer
14 years 10 days ago
A Tail-Recursive Semantics for Stack Inspections
Security folklore holds that a security mechanism based on stack inspection is incompatible with a global tail call optimization policy. An implementation of such a language may ha...
John Clements, Matthias Felleisen
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 20 days ago
Improving reinforcement learning function approximators via neuroevolution
Reinforcement learning problems are commonly tackled with temporal difference methods, which use dynamic programming and statistical sampling to estimate the long-term value of ta...
Shimon Whiteson
ECCC
2011
282views ECommerce» more  ECCC 2011»
13 years 1 months ago
Almost k-wise vs. k-wise independent permutations, and uniformity for general group actions
A family of permutations in Sn is k-wise independent if a uniform permutation chosen from the family maps any distinct k elements to any distinct k elements equally likely. Effici...
Noga Alon, Shachar Lovett
GECCO
2008
Springer
122views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Evolving machine microprograms
The realization of a control unit can be done using a complex circuitry or microprogramming. The latter may be considered as an alternative method of implementation of machine ins...
Pedro A. Castillo Valdivieso, G. Fernández,...