Test case prioritization assigns the execution priorities of the test cases in a given test suite. Many existing test case prioritization techniques assume the fullfledged availability of code coverage data, fault history, or test specification, which are seldom well-maintained in realworld software development projects. This paper proposes a novel family of input-based local-beam-search adapti...

Introduction Hundreds of thousands of Canadians regularly sustain soft tissue injuries best suited for physiotherapy intervention, but many of these Canadians live in rural areas—away from the urban centres where most physiotherapists practice. This chapter describes two threads of work to address this problem: first, explorations of teleconferencing technologies to enable physiotherapy “visits...

Solid State Drives (SSDs) are a moving target for system designers: they are black boxes, their internals are undocumented, and their performance characteristics vary across models. There is no appropriate analytical model and experimenting with commercial SSDs is cumbersome, as it requires a careful experimental methodology to ensure repeatability. Worse, performance results obtained on a give...

The O-GEHL branch predictor has outperformed other prediction schemes using the same set of benchmarks in an international branch prediction contest, CBP-1. In this paper, we present the analysis results on each of the OGEHL branch predictor tables and also on the optimal number of predictor tables. Two methods are subsequently proposed to help increase the O-GEHL prediction accuracy. The first...

The renormalization group is the cornerstone of modern theory universality and phase transitions, a powerful tool to scrutinize symmetries organizational scales in dynamical systems. However, its network counterpart particularly challenging due correlations between intertwined scales. To date, explorations are based on hidden geometries hypotheses. Here, we propose Laplacian RG diffusion-based ...

Explorations of emerging urban spatial futures increasingly depend on the empathetic interweaving broad political ideals with grounded democratic involvement. The collaborative planning paradigm (CP) and participatory action research (PAR) have thus gained traction globally, since they centralise meaningful involvement those lived experiences local environment. Building upon this, we argue that...