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MASCOTS
2001
13 years 9 months ago
Performing File Prediction with a Program-Based Successor Model
Recent increases in CPU performance have surpassed those in hard drives. As a result, disk operations have become more expensive in terms of the number of CPU cycles spent waiting...
Tsozen Yeh, Darrell D. E. Long, Scott A. Brandt
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Program comprehension as fact finding
Little is known about how developers think about design during code modification tasks or how experienced developers' design knowledge helps them work more effectively. We pe...
Thomas D. LaToza, David Garlan, James D. Herbsleb,...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Comparing the use of tangible and graphical programming languages for informal science education
Much of the work done in the field of tangible interaction has focused on creating tools for learning; however, in many cases, little evidence has been provided that tangible inte...
Michael S. Horn, Erin Treacy Solovey, R. Jordan Cr...
CAV
2010
Springer
239views Hardware» more  CAV 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
Universal Causality Graphs: A Precise Happens-Before Model for Detecting Bugs in Concurrent Programs
Triggering errors in concurrent programs is a notoriously difficult task. A key reason for this is the behavioral complexity resulting from the large number of interleavings of op...
Vineet Kahlon, Chao Wang
NIPS
1993
13 years 9 months ago
Using Local Trajectory Optimizers to Speed Up Global Optimization in Dynamic Programming
Dynamic programming provides a methodology to develop planners and controllers for nonlinear systems. However, general dynamic programming is computationally intractable. We have ...
Christopher G. Atkeson