Actor programs consist of a number of concurrent objects called actors, which communicate by exchanging messages. Nondeterminism in actors results from the different possible orde...
Steven Lauterburg, Rajesh K. Karmani, Darko Marino...
Following the agile philosophy that all core features of a system need an automated test harness, performance requirements also need such a check when they are essential for the s...
Recent years have seen increasing interest in automatic metrics for the evaluation of generation systems. When a system can generate syntactic variation, automatic evaluation becom...
We have measured the performance of transactional remote invocations over three commonly used transports: IIOP, SOAP/HTTP, and JBoss Remoting. In the IIOP case, our transactional ...
Web search engines crawl the web to fetch the data that they index. In this paper we re-examine that need, and evaluate the network costs associated with data acquisition, and alt...
Nick Craswell, Francis Crimmins, David Hawking, Al...