This paper considers importance sampling as a tool for rare-event simulation. The focus is on estimating the probability of overflow in the downstream queue of a Jacksonian two-n...
Denis I. Miretskiy, Werner R. W. Scheinhardt, Mich...
—Automatic and advanced merging algorithms help programmers to merge their modifications in main development repositories. However, there is little support to help release maste...
The penetration of cellular networks worldwide and emergence of smart phones has led to a revolution in mobile content. Users consume diverse content when, for example, exchanging...
Machigar Ongtang, Kevin R. B. Butler, Patrick Drew...
Human languages evolve continuously, and a puzzling problem is how to reconcile the apparent robustness of most of the deep linguistic structures we use with the evidence that the...
Animesh Mukherjee, Francesca Tria, Andrea Baronche...
Bug reporting/fixing is an important social part of the software development process. The bug-fixing process inherently has strong inter-personal dynamics at play, especially in h...
Philip J. Guo, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagap...