Most game programs have a large number of parameters that are crucial for their performance. While tuning these parameters by hand is rather difficult, efficient and easy to use ge...
We present an automatic skew mitigation approach for userdefined MapReduce programs and present SkewTune, a system that implements this approach as a drop-in replacement for an e...
YongChul Kwon, Magdalena Balazinska, Bill Howe, Je...
A modular program analysis considers components independently and provides succinct summaries for each component, which can be used when checking the rest of the system. Consider ...
Automatic tools for finding software errors require a set of specifications before they can check code: if they do not know what to check, they cannot find bugs. This paper presen...
Ted Kremenek, Paul Twohey, Godmar Back, Andrew Y. ...
We introduce a new theoretical derivation, evaluation methods, and extensive empirical analysis for an automatic query expansion framework in which model estimation is cast as a r...