We consider a variant of the classic multi-armed bandit problem (MAB), which we call FEEDBACK MAB, where the reward obtained by playing each of n independent arms varies according...
The notion that certain procedures are atomic provides a valuable partial specification for many multithreaded software systems. Several existing tools verify atomicity by showing...
Database systems support recovery, providing high database availability. However, database applications may lose work because of a server failure. In particular, if a database serv...
Roger S. Barga, David B. Lomet, Thomas Baby, Sanja...
We address the problem of replaying an application dialog between two hosts. The ability to accurately replay application dialogs is useful in many security-oriented applications,...
James Newsome, David Brumley, Jason Franklin, Dawn...
Masaccio is a formal model for hybrid dynamical systems which are built from atomic discrete components (di erence equations) and atomic continuous components (di erential equation...