The concept of the core group of developers is important and often discussed in empirical studies of FLOSS projects. This paper examines the question, “how does one empirically ...
Kevin Crowston, Kangning Wei, Qing Li, James Howis...
Sampling has been successfully used to identify performance optimization opportunities. We would like to apply similar techniques to check program correctness. Unfortunately, samp...
Two of the most commonly used models in computational learning theory are the distribution-free model in which examples are chosen from a fixed but arbitrary distribution, and the ...
Abstract A Martian who arrived on Earth today would surely conclude that computing and communications security are in a crisis situation. The popular media as well as technical pub...
It is important that long running server programs retain availability amidst software failures. However, server programs do fail and one of the important causes of failures in ser...