Efficient search for inputs causing high floating-point errors

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 43-52

  Chiang, Wei Fan ^a   Gopalakrishnan, Ganesh ^a   Rakamarić, Zvonimir ^a   Solovyev, Alexey ^a  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

Floating point error estimation methods; Guided search; Sequential and parallel programming

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE TESTING; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; ERRORS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MODULAR ROBOTS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

ERROR ESTIMATES; ESTIMATION METHODS; FLOATING POINT ERRORS; GUIDED SEARCH; HEURISTIC SEARCH ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC SEARCH METHODS; PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATIONS; PROGRAM UNDERSTANDING;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 84950148280     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2555243.2555265     Document Type: Conference Paper

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