We have designed a maximum likelihood fitter using the actor model to distribute the computation over a heterogeneous network. The prototype implementation uses the SALSA program...
Wei-Jen Wang, Kaoutar El Maghraoui, John Cummings,...
Abstract— Framework design is a multifaceted endeavor undertaken to promote reuse of software within a family of related applications. Traditional approaches involve either the e...
We provide sufficient conditions that formally guarantee that the floating-point computation of a polynomial evaluation is faithful. To this end, we develop a formalization of ...
The notion of aspect is important as a systematic approach to the representation of cross-cutting concerns and the incremental additions of new functionalities to an existing syst...
We argue that the failure to separate the concerns in CS1 is the leading cause of difficulty in teaching OOP in the first year. We show how the concerns can be detangled and prese...