Communications of the ACM
Research Archive
The Research archive provides access to all Research articles published in past issues of Communications of the ACM.
February 2018
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Technical Perspective: Building Bug-Free Compilers
What to do about buggy compilers? The authors of "Practical Verification of Peephole Optimizations with Alive" give us a compelling and practical answer.
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Practical Verification of Peephole Optimizations with Alive
We created Alive, a domain-specific language for writing correct peephole optimizations and for automatically either proving them correct or else generating counterexamples.
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Technical Perspective: Designing Algorithms and the Fairness Criteria They Should Satisfy
"Which Is the Fairest (Rent Division) of Them All?" focuses on the problem of rent division, and stands out in the variety of techniques applied to arrive at a solution.
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Which Is the Fairest (Rent Division) of Them All?
What is a fair way to assign rooms to several housemates, and divide the rent between them? We develop a general algorithmic framework that enables the computation of solutions in polynomial time that optimize a criterion of …