Garbage collection yields numerous software engineering benefits, but its quantitative impact on performance remains elusive. One can compare the cost of conservative garbage col...
We consider the problem of finding officially unrecognized side effects of drugs. By submitting queries to the Web involving a given drug name, it is possible to retrieve pages co...
Carlo Curino, Yuanyuan Jia, Bruce Lambert, Patrici...
Sampling has been successfully used to identify performance optimization opportunities. We would like to apply similar techniques to check program correctness. Unfortunately, samp...
Abstract With n servers that independently fail with probability of p < 0.5, it is well known that the majority quorum system achieves the best availability among all quorum sys...