The paper presents approaches to the validation of optimizing compilers. The emphasis is on aggressive and architecture-targeted optimizations which try to obtain the highest perf...
Lenore D. Zuck, Amir Pnueli, Yi Fang, Benjamin Gol...
Computer system designers often evaluate future design alternatives with detailed simulators that strive for functional fidelity (to execute relevant workloads) and performance fi...
Automatic cost analysis has interesting applications in the context of verification and certification of mobile code. For instance, the code receiver can use cost information in o...
In a component-based development approach system integration generally implies the packaging and deployment of a group of software components on hardware units, possibly hiding th...
Industrial applications often require failure analysis methods working non-destructively, enabling either a rapid quality control or fault isolation and defect localization prior ...