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EDBT
2000
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Persistent Client-Server Database Sessions
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...
ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Failures of the VCG mechanism in combinatorial auctions and exchanges
The VCG mechanism is the canonical method for motivating bidders in combinatorial auctions and exchanges to bid truthfully. We study two related problems concerning the VCG mechan...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
ECAI
2006
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Cheating Is Not Playing: Methodological Issues of Computational Game Theory
Abstract. Computational Game Theory is a way to study and evaluate behaviors using game theory models, via agent-based computer simulations. One of the most known example of this a...
Bruno Beaufils, Philippe Mathieu
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
143views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
Test-driven learning in early programming courses
Coercing new programmers to adopt disciplined development practices such as thorough unit testing is a challenging endeavor. Test-driven development (TDD) has been proposed as a s...
David Janzen, Hossein Saiedian
POPL
2005
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Mutatis mutandis: safe and predictable dynamic software updating
Dynamic software updates can be used to fix bugs or add features to a running program without downtime. Essential for some applications and convenient for others, low-level dynami...
Gareth Stoyle, Michael W. Hicks, Gavin M. Bierman,...