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Supercomputing and grid computing on the verification of covering arrays

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Avila George, H.; Torres Jimenez, J.; Rangel Valdez, N.; Carrión Collado, AA.; Hernández García, V. (2012). Supercomputing and grid computing on the verification of covering arrays. Journal of Supercomputing. 62(2):916-945. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-012-0763-0

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Título: Supercomputing and grid computing on the verification of covering arrays
Autor: Avila George, Himer Torres Jimenez, Jose Rangel Valdez, Nelson Carrión Collado, Abel Antonio Hernández García, Vicente
Entidad UPV: Universitat Politècnica de València. Instituto de Instrumentación para Imagen Molecular - Institut d'Instrumentació per a Imatge Molecular
Universitat Politècnica de València. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación - Departament de Sistemes Informàtics i Computació
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Resumen:
The Covering Arrays (CAs) are mathematical objects with minimal coverage and maximum cardinality that are a good tool for the design of experiments. A covering array is an Nxk matrix over an alphabet v s.t. each Nxk subset ...[+]
Palabras clave: Covering array , Combinatorial testing , Supercomputing , Grid computing
Derechos de uso: Cerrado
Fuente:
Journal of Supercomputing. (issn: 0920-8542 )
DOI: 10.1007/s11227-012-0763-0
Editorial:
Springer Verlag (Germany)
Versión del editor: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11227-012-0763-0
Código del Proyecto:
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/CONACYT//58554/MX/Calculo de Covering Arrays/
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/CONACyT//51623/
Descripción: The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11227-012-0763-0
Agradecimientos:
The authors thankfully acknowledge the computer resources and assistance provided by Spanish Supercomputing Network (TIRANT-UV). This research work was partially funded by the following projects: CONACyT 58554, Calculo de ...[+]
Tipo: Artículo

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