Quantitative Methods for Design of Benchmark Suites
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In this paper we present black-box models of work-load diierence and use them to develop quantitative methods for the design of benchmark suites. The proposed design methods (the method of optimum subsets , and the method of optimum weights) combine a new concept of program space coverage functions, and the criteria of completeness, redundancy, density, and granularity of benchmark suites.
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