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JASIS
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Blind men and elephants: What do citation summaries tell us about a research article?
The old Asian legend about the blind men and the elephant comes to mind when looking at how different authors of scientific papers describe a piece of related prior work. It turns...
Aaron Elkiss, Siwei Shen, Anthony Fader, Güne...
IMC
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Sampling biases in network path measurements and what to do about it
We show that currently prevalent practices for network path measurements can produce inaccurate inferences because of sampling biases. The inferred mean path latency can be more t...
Srikanth Kandula, Ratul Mahajan
EMSOFT
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Volatiles are miscompiled, and what to do about it
C's volatile qualifier is intended to provide a reliable link between operations at the source-code level and operations at the memorysystem level. We tested thirteen product...
Eric Eide, John Regehr
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Why do developers neglect exception handling?
In this paper, we explore the problems associated with exception handling from a new dimension: the human. We designed a study that evaluates (1) different perspectives of softwar...
Carsten Görg, Hina Shah, Mary Jean Harrold
AGP
1994
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
What the Event Calculus actually does, and how to do it efficiently
Kowalski and Sergot's Event Calculus (EC) is a formalism for reasoning about time and change in a logic programming framework. From a description of events which occur in the...
Iliano Cervesato, Luca Chittaro, Angelo Montanari