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NETWORKING
2008
15 years 7 months ago
On the Social Cost of Distributed Selfish Content Replication
We study distributed content replication networks formed voluntarily by selfish autonomous users, seeking access to information objects that originate from distant servers. Each us...
Gerasimos G. Pollatos, Orestis Telelis, Vassilis Z...
AC
2006
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Web Testing for Reliability Improvement
In this chapter, we characterize problems for web applications, examine existing testing techniques that are potentially applicable to the web environment, and introduce a strateg...
Jeff Tian, Li Ma
ESE
2008
112views Database» more  ESE 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
"Cloning considered harmful" considered harmful: patterns of cloning in software
Literature on the topic of code cloning often asserts that duplicating code within a software system is a bad practice, that it causes harm to the system's design and should b...
Cory Kapser, Michael W. Godfrey
TOMACS
2002
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15 years 5 months ago
Simulating heavy tailed processes using delayed hazard rate twisting
Consider the problem of estimating the small probability that the maximum of a random walk exceeds a large threshold, when the process has a negative drift and the underlying rand...
Sandeep Juneja, Perwez Shahabuddin
VLDB
2007
ACM
128views Database» more  VLDB 2007»
16 years 10 days ago
A genetic approach for random testing of database systems
Testing a database engine has been and continues to be a challenging task. The space of possible SQL queries along with their possible access paths is practically unbounded. Moreo...
Hardik Bati, Leo Giakoumakis, Steve Herbert, Aleks...