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KBSE
2007
IEEE
16 years 29 days ago
Nighthawk: a two-level genetic-random unit test data generator
Randomized testing has been shown to be an effective method for testing software units. However, the thoroughness of randomized unit testing varies widely according to the settin...
James H. Andrews, Felix Chun Hang Li, Tim Menzies
ASIACRYPT
2003
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Generalized Powering Functions and Their Application to Digital Signatures
This paper investigates some modular powering functions suitable for cryptography. It is well known that the Rabin encryption function is a 4-to-1 mapping and breaking its one-wayn...
Hisayoshi Sato, Tsuyoshi Takagi, Satoru Tezuka, Ka...
CORR
2006
Springer
95views Education» more  CORR 2006»
15 years 6 months ago
Optimal Distortion-Power Tradeoffs in Gaussian Sensor Networks
We investigate the optimal performance of dense sensor networks by studying the joint source-channel coding problem. The overall goal of the sensor network is to take measurements ...
Nan Liu, Sennur Ulukus
ECCC
2011
183views ECommerce» more  ECCC 2011»
15 years 1 months ago
Extractors and Lower Bounds for Locally Samplable Sources
We consider the problem of extracting randomness from sources that are efficiently samplable, in the sense that each output bit of the sampler only depends on some small number d ...
Anindya De, Thomas Watson
SDM
2012
SIAM
312views Data Mining» more  SDM 2012»
13 years 9 months ago
Drought Detection of the Last Century: An MRF-based Approach
Droughts are one of the most damaging climate-related hazards. The late 1960s Sahel drought in Africa and the North American Dust Bowl of the 1930s are two examples of severe drou...
Qiang Fu, Arindam Banerjee, Stefan Liess, Peter K....