An efficient fork/join application should maximize parallelism while minimizing overheads, and maximize locality while minimizing contention. However, there is no unique optimal implementation that best resolves such tradeoffs and failing in balancing them may lead to fork/join applications suffering from several issues (e.g., suboptimal forking, load imbalance, excessive synchronization),...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2019 ; 2019INFO008.
The main goal of a static type system is to prevent certain kinds of errors from happening at run time. A type system is formulated as a set of constraints that gives any expression or term in a program a well-defined type. Besides detecting these kinds of errors, a static type system can be an invaluable maintenance tool, can be useful for documentation purposes, and can aid in generating ...
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This chapter covers different approaches to policy evaluation for assessing the causal effect of a treatment or intervention on an outcome of interest. As an introduction to causal inference, the discussion starts with the experimental evaluation of a randomized treatment. It then reviews evaluation methods based on selection on observables (assuming a quasi-random treatment given observed...
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In: Granular Matter, 2014, vol. 16, no. 5, p. 627-640
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In: Acta Mechanica, 2014, vol. 225, no. 8, p. 2227-2237
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In: Computing, 2014, vol. 96, no. 4, p. 279-292
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018 ; 2018INFO008.
Task granularity, i.e., the amount of work performed by parallel tasks, is a key performance attribute of parallel applications. On the one hand, fine-grained tasks (i.e., small tasks carrying out few computations) may introduce considerable parallelization overheads. On the other hand, coarse-grained tasks (i.e., large tasks performing substantial computations) may not fully utilize the...
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In: Computer Science - Research and Development, 2013, vol. 28, no. 2-3, p. 185-192
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In: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2013, vol. 17, no. 2, p. 229-239
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In: Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2011, vol. 168, no. 12, p. 2289-2323
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