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PODC
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
The cost of fault tolerance in multi-party communication complexity
Multi-party communication complexity involves distributed computation of a function over inputs held by multiple distributed players. A key focus of distributed computing research...
Binbin Chen, Haifeng Yu, Yuda Zhao, Phillip B. Gib...
GPCE
2011
Springer
13 years 3 days ago
Comparing complexity of API designs: an exploratory experiment on DSL-based framework integration
Embedded, textual DSLs are often provided as an API wrapped around object-oriented application frameworks to ease framework integration. While literature presents claims that DSL-...
Stefan Sobernig, Patrick Gaubatz, Mark Strembeck, ...
ICSE
2011
IEEE-ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Pragmatic prioritization of software quality assurance efforts
A plethora of recent work leverages historical data to help practitioners better prioritize their software quality assurance efforts. However, the adoption of this prior work in p...
Emad Shihab
CORR
2010
Springer
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14 years 12 hour ago
Online Learning: Random Averages, Combinatorial Parameters, and Learnability
We develop a theory of online learning by defining several complexity measures. Among them are analogues of Rademacher complexity, covering numbers and fatshattering dimension fro...
Alexander Rakhlin, Karthik Sridharan, Ambuj Tewari
TCS
2002
14 years 2 days ago
Complexity measures and decision tree complexity: a survey
We discuss several complexity measures for Boolean functions: certi cate complexity, sensitivity, block sensitivity, and the degree of a representing or approximating polynomial. ...
Harry Buhrman, Ronald de Wolf
BC
1998
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14 years 4 days ago
Evidence of phase transitions in heart period dynamics
Complexity measures of non-linear dynamics are a useful tool for quantifying observed stretching, folding, scaling and mixing processes in the Takens-reconstructed state space of h...
Henrik Bettermann, Peter Van Leeuwen
JC
2007
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14 years 10 days ago
Error linear complexity measures for multisequences
Complexity measures for sequences over finite fields, such as the linear complexity and the k-error linear complexity, play an important role in cryptology. Recent developments ...
Wilfried Meidl, Harald Niederreiter, Ayineedi Venk...
CCS
2008
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Is complexity really the enemy of software security?
Software complexity is often hypothesized to be the enemy of software security. We performed statistical analysis on nine code complexity metrics from the JavaScript Engine in the...
Yonghee Shin, Laurie Williams
ICSE
2010
IEEE-ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Measuring complexity, effectiveness and efficiency in software course projects
This paper discusses results achieved in measuring complexity, effectiveness and efficiency, in a series of related software course projects, spanning a period of seven years. We ...
Wilson Padua
GD
1998
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Framework for Drawing Planar Graphs with Curves and Polylines
We describe a unified framework of aesthetic criteria and complexity measures for drawing planar graphs with polylines and curves. This framework includes several visual properties...
Michael T. Goodrich, Christopher G. Wagner