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POPL
2007
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Program verification as probabilistic inference
In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for proving the validity or invalidity of a pre/postcondition pair for a program. The algorithm is motivated by the success of the algori...
Sumit Gulwani, Nebojsa Jojic
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EUROPAR
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Experiences Understanding Performance in a Commercial Scale-Out Environment
Abstract. Clusters of loosely connected machines are becoming an important model for commercial computing. The cost/performance ratio makes these scale-out solutions an attractive ...
Robert W. Wisniewski, Reza Azimi, Mathieu Desnoyer...
IAT
2010
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Getting What You Pay For: Is Exploration in Distributed Hill Climbing Really Worth it?
Abstract--The Distributed Stochastic Algorithm (DSA), Distributed Breakout Algorithm (DBA), and variations such as Distributed Simulated Annealing (DSAN), MGM-1, and DisPeL, are di...
Melanie Smith, Roger Mailler
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IAT
2006
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Generic Command Interpretation Algorithms for Conversational Agents
AbstractThis paper focuses on human-machine communication with intelligent agents, it proposes a generic architecture with an algorithm for natural language (NL) command interpreta...
Laurent Mazuel, Nicolas Sabouret
GBRPR
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Texture Segmentation by Contractive Decomposition and Planar Grouping
Abstract. Image segmentation has long been an important problem in the computer vision community. In our recent work we have addressed the problem of texture segmentation, where we...
Anders Bjorholm Dahl, Peter Bogunovich, Ali Shokou...