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Crowdsourcing Literal Review

Our user feedback framework requires some robust techniques in order to tackle the scalability issue of schema matching network. One approach is employing crowd-sourcing/human computation models. Crowdsourcing is one of cutting-edge research areas which in ...

2014

Achieving Efficient Work-Stealing for Data-Parallel Collections

Martin Odersky, Aleksandar Prokopec

In modern programming high-level data-structures are an important foundation for most applications. With the rise of the multi-core era, there is a growing trend of supporting data-parallel collection operations in general purpose programming languages and ...

2013

Thymio II, a robot that grows wiser with children

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Fanny Riedo, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier

Thymio II is a small robot developed for education. It aims at offering a wide public the possibility to understand the basics of robotics and programming. To achieve this, it aims at being appealing to a large age range and serve as a medium for several t ...

IEEE2013

Functional synthesis for linear arithmetic and sets

Viktor Kuncak, Mikaël Mayer, Philippe Paul Henri Suter, Ruzica Piskac

Synthesis of program fragments from specifications can make programs easier to write and easier to reason about. To integrate synthesis into programming languages, synthesis algorithms should behave in a predictable way—they should succeed for a well-defin ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2013

Optimizing Data Structures in High-Level Programs New Directions for Extensible Compilers based on Staging

Martin Odersky, Tiark Rompf, Nada Amin, Vojin Jovanovic, Manohar Jonnalagedda

High level data structures are a cornerstone of modern programming and at the same time stand in the way of compiler optimizations. In order to reason about user or library-defined data structures, compilers need to be extensible. Common mechanisms to exte ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2013

Software verification and graph similarity for automated evaluation of students' assignments

Viktor Kuncak

Context: The number of students enrolled in universities at standard and on-line programming courses is rapidly increasing. This calls for automated evaluation of students assignments. Objective: We aim to develop methods and tools for objective and reljab ...

Elsevier2013

A Programming Workshop using the Robot "Thymio II": The Effect on the Understanding by Children

Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Fanny Riedo

Robots are both fascinating objects for the general public and devices whose conception, understanding and pro- gramming involve many fields. This unique combination makes them an ideal tool for introducing science and technology to children. This paper pr ...

IEEE2012

It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

James Richard Larus

The end of Dennard scaling and the imminent end of semiconductor feature scaling means that software systems and applications will no longer benefit from 40% per annum performance increases, a continually rising tide that lifted all boats. Future software ...

Springer2012

Robust Software Partitioning with Multiple Instantiation

Daniel Kuhn, Wolfram Wiesemann

The purpose of software partitioning is to assign code segments of a given computer program to a range of execution locations such as general-purpose processors or specialist hardware components. These execution locations differ in speed, communication cha ...

2012

Jet: An Embedded DSL for High Performance Big Data Processing

Martin Odersky, Tiark Rompf, Vojin Jovanovic, Stefan Ackermann

Cluster computing systems today impose a trade-off between generality, performance and productivity. Hadoop and Dryad force programmers to write low level programs that are tedious to compose but easy to optimize. Systems like Dryad/LINQ and Spark allow co ...

2012

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