Deciding what to branch on at each node is a key element of search algorithms. We present four families of methods for selecting what question to branch on. They are all informati...
This paper presents a survey and an analysis of the XQuery benchmark publicly available in 2006 -- XMach-1, XMark, X007, the Michigan benchmark, and XBench -- from different persp...
We introduce a new abstract system, called the truth system. In the truth system, a process deduces a true value, with high probability, from an incoming stream of both true and fa...
We report the results of a survey about the software faults encountered during the testing phases in evolving a large real-time system. The survey was done in two parts: the rst pa...
The SHRIMP cluster-computing system has progressed to a point of relative maturity; a variety of applications are running on a 16-node system. We have enough experience to underst...
Matthias A. Blumrich, Richard Alpert, Yuqun Chen, ...