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2011
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A Scheduling Framework That Makes Any Disk Schedulers Non-Work-Conserving Solely Based on Request Characteristics
Exploiting spatial locality is critical for a disk scheduler to achieve high throughput. Because of the high cost of disk head seeks and the non-preemptible nature of request serv...
Yuehai Xu, Song Jiang
FASE
2011
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Automated Learning of Probabilistic Assumptions for Compositional Reasoning
Probabilistic verification techniques have been applied to the formal modelling and analysis of a wide range of systems, from communication protocols such as Bluetooth, to nanosca...
Lu Feng, Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, David Parker
FASE
2011
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Testing Container Classes: Random or Systematic?
Abstract. Container classes such as lists, sets, or maps are elementary data structures common to many programming languages. Since they are a part of standard libraries, they are ...
Rohan Sharma, Milos Gligoric, Andrea Arcuri, Gordo...
FASE
2011
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Type-Safe Evolution of Spreadsheets
Abstract. Spreadsheets are notoriously error-prone. To help avoid the introduction of errors when changing spreadsheets, models that capture the structure and interdependencies of ...
Jácome Cunha, Joost Visser, Tiago L. Alves,...
FASE
2011
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Theoretical Aspects of Compositional Symbolic Execution
Given a program and an assertion in that program, determining if the assertion can fail is one of the key applications of program analysis. Symbolic execution is a well-known techn...
Dries Vanoverberghe, Frank Piessens
FASE
2011
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
An Empirical Study on Evolution of API Documentation
With the evolution of an API library, its documentation also evolves. The evolution of API documentation is common knowledge for programmers and library developers, but not in a qu...
Lin Shi, Hao Zhong, Tao Xie, Mingshu Li
EXPERT
2011
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Grid Monitoring and Market Risk Management
—With the rapid development of the electricity market, both grid and market operations need to be carefully coordinated and monitored in real time. This paper focuses on system m...
Yufan Guan, Mladen Kezunovic
EWSN
2011
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Opportunistic Packet Scheduling in Body Area Networks
Significant research efforts are being devoted to Body Area Networks (BAN) due to their potential for revolutionizing healthcare practices. Energy-efficiency and communication re...
Kumar Shashi Prabh, Jan-Hinrich Hauer
EWSN
2011
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Prediction Accuracy of Link-Quality Estimators
Abstract. The accuracy of link-quality estimators (LQE) is missioncritical in many application scenarios in wireless sensor networks (WSN), since the link-quality metric is used fo...
Christian Renner, Sebastian Ernst, Christoph Weyer...