The use of pointers presents serious problems for software productivity tools for software understanding, restructuring, and testing. Pointers enable indirect memory accesses thro...
Abstract: Combinatorial property testing, initiated formally by Goldreich, Goldwasser, and Ron in [Goldreich et al. (1998)] and inspired by Rubinfeld and Sudan in [Rubinfeld and Su...
This paper discusses the impact of the hierarchical master-worker paradigm on performance of an application program, which solves an optimization problem by a parallel branch and ...
We describe a new course designed to introduce engineering students to computational thinking. One of the most significant challenges in teaching an introductory-level applied co...
A linear pseudo-Boolean constraint (LPB) is an expression of the form a1 · 1 + . . . + am · m ≥ d, where each i is a literal (it assumes the value 1 or 0 depending on whether a...