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POPL
2007
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Preferential path profiling: compactly numbering interesting paths
Path profiles provide a more accurate characterization of a program's dynamic behavior than basic block or edge profiles, but are relatively more expensive to collect. This h...
Kapil Vaswani, Aditya V. Nori, Trishul M. Chilimbi
POPL
2007
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Program verification as probabilistic inference
In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for proving the validity or invalidity of a pre/postcondition pair for a program. The algorithm is motivated by the success of the algori...
Sumit Gulwani, Nebojsa Jojic
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POPL
2004
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Simple relational correctness proofs for static analyses and program transformations
We show how some classical static analyses for imperative programs, and the optimizing transformations which they enable, may be expressed and proved correct using elementary logi...
Nick Benton
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
213views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
16 years 2 months ago
Dictionary-based order-preserving string compression for main memory column stores
Column-oriented database systems [19, 23] perform better than traditional row-oriented database systems on analytical workloads such as those found in decision support and busines...
Carsten Binnig, Stefan Hildenbrand, Franz Fär...
SIGMOD
2006
ACM
232views Database» more  SIGMOD 2006»
16 years 2 months ago
To search or to crawl?: towards a query optimizer for text-centric tasks
Text is ubiquitous and, not surprisingly, many important applications rely on textual data for a variety of tasks. As a notable example, information extraction applications derive...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Eugene Agichtein, Pranay ...