Testing of embedded cores is very difficult in SOC (system-on-a-chip), since the core user may not know the gate level implementation of the core, and the controllability and obse...
Performance analysis and capacity planning for e-commerce sites poses an interesting problem: how to best characterize the workload of these sites. Tradition al workload character...
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When evaluating a heuristic for a combinatorial problem, randomly generated instances of the problem may not provide a thorough exploration of the heuristic's performance, an...