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SYNTHESE
2011
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Underdetermination, realism and empirical equivalence
Are theories ‘underdetermined by the evidence’ in any way that should worry the scientific realist? I argue that no convincing reason has been given for thinking so. A crucial ...
John Worrall
SYNTHESE
2011
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Models and the locus of their truth
If models can be true, where is their truth located? Giere (e.g. 1988) has suggested an account of theoretical models on which models themselves are not truth-valued. The paper su...
Uskali Mäki
TAPAS
2011
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Speed Scaling for Energy and Performance with Instantaneous Parallelism
Abstract. We consider energy-performance tradeoff for scheduling parallel jobs on multiprocessors using dynamic speed scaling. The objective is to minimize the sum of energy consu...
Hongyang Sun, Yuxiong He, Wen-Jing Hsu
TIT
2011
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Redundancy-Related Bounds for Generalized Huffman Codes
— This paper presents new lower and upper bounds for the compression rate of binary prefix codes optimized over memoryless sources according to various nonlinear codeword length...
Michael B. Baer
TKDE
2011
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Experience Transfer for the Configuration Tuning in Large-Scale Computing Systems
—This paper proposes a new strategy, the experience transfer, to facilitate the management of large-scale computing systems. It deals with the utilization of management experienc...
Haifeng Chen, Wenxuan Zhang, Guofei Jiang