We present an adaptive work-stealing thread scheduler, ASTEAL, for fork-join multithreaded jobs, like those written using the Cilk multithreaded language or the Hood work-stealing...
Kunal Agrawal, Charles E. Leiserson, Yuxiong He, W...
Missing or imprecise requirements can lead stakeholders to make incorrect assumptions. A "Not a Problem" defect report (NaP) describes a software behavior that a stakeho...
This paper describes QUEM, a method for assessing the skill level of a knowledge-based system based on the quality of the solutions it produces. QUEM is demonstrated by using it t...
Given the inevitable trends towards increasing complexity of software-intensive systems, many future software-intensive systems will be ultra-large scale (ULS). Radical scale-up o...
Richard P. Gabriel, Rick Kazman, Linda M. Northrop...
This paper develops a model of an electrical power system, with its inherent embedded communication system, for the purpose of studying the characteristics of power system measure...