MiDataSets: Creating the conditions for a more realistic evaluation of iterative optimization

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4367 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 245-260

  Fursin, Grigori ^a   Cavazos, John ^b   O'Boyle, Michael ^b   Temam, Olivier ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

ITERATIVE OPTIMIZATION; MIDATASETS; PERFORMANCE-CRITICAL APPLICATIONS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 38149032804     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69338-3_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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