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USENIX
1996
14 years 11 months ago
A Performance Comparison of UNIX Operating Systems on the Pentium
This paper evaluates the performance of three popular versions of the UNIX operating system on the x86 architecture: Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. We evaluate the systems using fre...
Kevin Lai, Mary Baker
TSMC
2010
14 years 4 months ago
Probabilistic Model-Based Diagnosis: An Electrical Power System Case Study
Abstract--We present in this paper a case study of the probabilistic approach to model-based diagnosis. Here, the diagnosed system is a real-world electrical power system (EPS), i....
Ole J. Mengshoel, Mark Chavira, Keith Cascio, Scot...
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ISSTA
2012
ACM
13 years 2 days ago
Cooperative types for controlling thread interference in Java
Multithreaded programs are notoriously prone to unintended interference between concurrent threads. To address this problem, we argue that yield annotations in the source code sho...
Jaeheon Yi, Tim Disney, Stephen N. Freund, Cormac ...
BMCBI
2006
194views more  BMCBI 2006»
14 years 9 months ago
Novel metaheuristic for parameter estimation in nonlinear dynamic biological systems
Background: We consider the problem of parameter estimation (model calibration) in nonlinear dynamic models of biological systems. Due to the frequent ill-conditioning and multi-m...
Maria Rodriguez-Fernandez, Jose A. Egea, Julio R. ...
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ECP
1997
Springer
128views Robotics» more  ECP 1997»
15 years 1 months ago
SINERGY: A Linear Planner Based on Genetic Programming
In this paper we describe SINERGY, which is a highly parallelizable, linear planning system that is based on the genetic programming paradigm. Rather than reasoning about the world...
Ion Muslea