Safe is a first-order eager functional language with facilities for programmer controlled destruction and copying of data structures. It provides also regions, i.e. disjoint parts...
Javier de Dios, Manuel Montenegro, Ricardo Pe&ntil...
Dynamic software updates can be used to fix bugs or add features to a running program without downtime. Essential for some applications and convenient for others, low-level dynami...
Gareth Stoyle, Michael W. Hicks, Gavin M. Bierman,...
Abstract. Many long-lived and distributed systems must remain available yet evolve over time, due to, e.g., bugfixes, feature extensions, or changing user requirements. To facilit...
We define a type system for COWS, a formalism for specifying and combining services, while modelling their dynamic behaviour. Our types permit to express policies constraining dat...
Alessandro Lapadula, Rosario Pugliese, Francesco T...
The analogy between types and contracts raises the question of how many features of static type systems can be expressed as dynamic contracts. An important feature missing in prio...
Arjun Guha, Jacob Matthews, Robert Bruce Findler, ...