Abstract. Local search algorithms have been very successful for solving constraint satisfaction problems (CSP). However, a major weakness has been that local search is unable to de...
Abstract. Combinatorial auctions are an important e-commerce application where bidders can bid on combinations of items. The problem of selecting the best bids that cover all items...
Abstract. This paper explores using information about program branch probabilities to optimise reconfigurable designs. The basic premise is to promote utilization by dedicating mo...
Abstract. Transactions are commonly described as being ACID: Allor-nothing, Consistent, Isolated and Durable. However, although these words convey a powerful intuition, the ACID pr...
Andrew P. Black, Vincent Cremet, Rachid Guerraoui,...
Abstract—In a young field, such as Mining Software Repositories (MSR), there is always a call for benchmarks so that researchers can compare their results against others. Thus i...
Abram Hindle, Israel Herraiz, Emad Shihab, Zhen Mi...