This paper presents results of a study of the effect of global variables on the quantity of dependence in general and on the presence of dependence clusters in particular. The pa...
David Binkley, Mark Harman, Youssef Hassoun, Syed ...
A Software Product Line (SPL) is a family of programs. Testing an SPL is a challenge because the number of programs to examine may be exponential in the number of features. Howeve...
Chang Hwan Peter Kim, Don S. Batory, Sarfraz Khurs...
: Monetary incentives are often considered as a way to foster contributions to public goods in society and firms. This paper investigates experimentally the effect of monetary ince...
Neurons in the nervous system display a wide variety of plasticity processes. Among them are covariance based rules and homeostatic plasticity. By themselves, the first ones tend...
Achieving high performance on today’s architectures requires careful orchestration of many optimization parameters. In particular, the presence of shared-caches on multicore arch...