Though many tools are available to help programmers working on change tasks, and several studies have been conducted to understand how programmers comprehend systems, little is kn...
The "direct product code" of a function f gives its values on all k-tuples (f(x1), . . . , f(xk)). This basic construct underlies "hardness amplification" in c...
Russell Impagliazzo, Valentine Kabanets, Avi Wigde...
To an unappreciated degree, research both in operating systems andtheirprogramminglanguageshasbeen severely hampered by the lack of cleanly reusable code providing mundanelow-leve...
Bryan Ford, Kevin Van Maren, Jay Lepreau, Stephen ...
Within a long-term distributed systems project we repeatedly stumbled across the well-known yet difficult question to either implement from scratch or comprehend and adapt existin...
Non-negative tensor factorization (NTF) has recently been proposed as sparse and efficient image representation (Welling and Weber, Patt. Rec. Let., 2001). Until now, sparsity of t...