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CADE
2002
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Gradual Approach to a More Trustworthy, Yet Scalable, Proof-Carrying Code
Abstract. Proof-carrying code (PCC) allows a code producer to associate to a program a machine-checkable proof of its safety. In the original approach to PCC, the safety policy inc...
Robert R. Schneck, George C. Necula
VL
2008
IEEE
160views Visual Languages» more  VL 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
How designers design and program interactive behaviors
Designers are skilled at sketching and prototyping the look of interfaces, but to explore various behaviors (what the interface does in response to input) typically requires progr...
Brad A. Myers, Sun Young Park, Yoko Nakano, Greg M...
IWMM
2007
Springer
122views Hardware» more  IWMM 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Overlooking roots: a framework for making nondeferred reference-counting garbage collection fast
Numerous optimizations exist for improving the performance of nondeferred reference-counting (RC) garbage collection. Their designs are ad hoc, intended to exploit different count...
Pramod G. Joisha
FPCA
1995
13 years 8 months ago
How Much Non-Strictness do Lenient Programs Require?
Lenient languages, such as Id90, have been touted as among the best functional languages for massively parallel machines AHN88]. Lenient evaluation combines non-strict semantics w...
Klaus E. Schauser, Seth Copen Goldstein
SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Attested append-only memory: making adversaries stick to their word
Researchers have made great strides in improving the fault tolerance of both centralized and replicated systems against arbitrary (Byzantine) faults. However, there are hard limit...
Byung-Gon Chun, Petros Maniatis, Scott Shenker, Jo...