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WOSP
2004
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Early performance testing of distributed software applications
Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...
Giovanni Denaro, Andrea Polini, Wolfgang Emmerich
ESA
2004
Springer
129views Algorithms» more  ESA 2004»
15 years 8 months ago
Contraction and Treewidth Lower Bounds
Edge contraction is shown to be a useful mechanism to improve lower bound heuristics for treewidth. A successful lower bound for treewidth is the degeneracy: the maximum over all ...
Hans L. Bodlaender, Arie M. C. A. Koster, Thomas W...
OOPSLA
2004
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Finding and preventing run-time error handling mistakes
It is difficult to write programs that behave correctly in the presence of run-time errors. Existing programming language features often provide poor support for executing clean-u...
Westley Weimer, George C. Necula
VLDB
2004
ACM
118views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
15 years 8 months ago
On the performance of bitmap indices for high cardinality attributes
It is well established that bitmap indices are efficient for read-only attributes with low attribute cardinalities. For an attribute with a high cardinality, the size of the bitma...
Kesheng Wu, Ekow J. Otoo, Arie Shoshani
PLDI
2003
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Compile-time dynamic voltage scaling settings: opportunities and limits
With power-related concerns becoming dominant aspects of hardware and software design, significant research effort has been devoted towards system power minimization. Among run-t...
Fen Xie, Margaret Martonosi, Sharad Malik