We discuss tournaments in terms of their efficiency as probabilistic mechanisms that select high-quality alternatives ("players") in a noisy environment. We use two crit...
Developers of highly configurable performanceintensive software systems often use a type of in-house performance-oriented "regression testing" to ensure that their modif...
Cemal Yilmaz, Arvind S. Krishna, Atif M. Memon, Ad...
Real-time applications often have mixed hard and soft deadlines, can be preempted subject to the cost of context switching or the restart of computation, and have various data dep...
In this paper we investigate the utilization of nondedicated, opportunistic resources in a desktop environment to provide statistical assurances to a class of QoS sensitive, soft ...
Background: Microarray measurements are susceptible to a variety of experimental artifacts, some of which give rise to systematic biases that are spatially dependent in a unique w...
High-Seng Chai, Terry M. Therneau, Kent R. Bailey,...