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ENTCS
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
Modular Checkpointing for Atomicity
Transient faults that arise in large-scale software systems can often be repaired by re-executing the code in which they occur. Ascribing a meaningful semantics for safe re-execut...
Lukasz Ziarek, Philip Schatz, Suresh Jagannathan
CEC
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Beating the 'world champion' evolutionary algorithm via REVAC tuning
Abstract-- We present a case study demonstrating that using the REVAC parameter tuning method we can greatly improve the `world champion' EA (the winner of the CEC2005 competi...
Selmar K. Smit, A. E. Eiben
BMCBI
2008
105views more  BMCBI 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
A Bayesian method for calculating real-time quantitative PCR calibration curves using absolute plasmid DNA standards
Background: In real-time quantitative PCR studies using absolute plasmid DNA standards, a calibration curve is developed to estimate an unknown DNA concentration. However, potenti...
Mano Sivaganesan, Shawn Seifring, Manju Varma, Ric...
ICFP
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Effective interactive proofs for higher-order imperative programs
We present a new approach for constructing and verifying higherorder, imperative programs using the Coq proof assistant. We build on the past work on the Ynot system, which is bas...
Adam J. Chlipala, J. Gregory Malecha, Greg Morrise...
PLDI
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Detecting Inefficiently-Used Containers to Avoid Bloat
Runtime bloat degrades significantly the performance and scalability of software systems. An important source of bloat is the inefficient use of containers. It is expensive to cre...
Guoqing Xu, Atanas Rountev