—Caches are commonly employed to hide the latency gap between memory and the CPU by exploiting locality in memory accesses. The cache performance strongly influences a system’...
Equivalence checking is a classical verification method determining if a finite-state concurrent system (protocol) satisfies its desired external behaviour (service) by compari...
Symmetry reduction holds great promise to counter the state explosion problem. However, currently it is “conducting a life on the fringe”, and is not widely applied, mainly du...
This paper describes the architecture of costa, an abstract interpretation based cost and termination analyzer for Java bytecode. The system receives as input a bytecode program, (...
Elvira Albert, Puri Arenas, Samir Genaim, German P...
An important class of queries is the LIKE predicate in SQL. In the absence of an index, LIKE queries are subject to performance degradation. The notion of indexing on substrings (...