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CSCW
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
API peer reviews: a method for evaluating usability of application programming interfaces
API usability tests in the lab are time and resource intensive, thus allowing a relatively small percentage of the API namespace to be evaluated. We describe a group-based usabili...
Umer Farooq, Dieter Zirkler
CEC
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Optimization of the sizing of a solar thermal electricity plant: Mathematical programming versus genetic algorithms
— Genetic algorithms (GAs) have been argued to constitute a flexible search thereby enabling to solve difficult problems which classical optimization methodologies may find ha...
Jose M. Cabello, Jose M. Cejudo, Mariano Luque, Fr...
IWPC
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Reading the documentation of invoked API functions in program comprehension
Comprehending an unfamiliar code fragment requires an awareness of explicit usage directives that may be present in the documentation of some invoked functions. Since it is not pr...
Uri Dekel, James D. Herbsleb
IPPS
2007
IEEE
16 years 27 days ago
Software Tools for Performance Modeling of Parallel Programs
This paper presents a framework based on a user driven methodology to obtain analytical models of MPI applications on parallel systems in a systematic and easy to use way. This me...
Diego Rodriguez Martínez, Vicente Blanco P&...
PACS
2004
Springer
141views Hardware» more  PACS 2004»
15 years 12 months ago
Energy-Aware Data Prefetching for General-Purpose Programs
There has been intensive research on data prefetching focusing on performance improvement, however, the energy aspect of prefetching is relatively unknown. Our experiments show th...
Yao Guo, Saurabh Chheda, Israel Koren, C. Mani Kri...