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ECOOP
2012
Springer
11 years 8 months ago
Static Detection of Loop-Invariant Data Structures
As a culture, object-orientation encourages programmers to create objects, both short- and long-lived, without concern for cost. Excessive object creation and initialization can ca...
Guoqing (Harry) Xu, Dacong Yan, Atanas Rountev
ECOOP
2012
Springer
11 years 8 months ago
An Analysis of the Mozilla Jetpack Extension Framework
Abstract. The Jetpack framework is Mozilla’s newly-introduced extension development technology. Motivated primarily by the need to improve how scriptable extensions (also called ...
Rezwana Karim, Mohan Dhawan, Vinod Ganapathy, Chun...
ECOOP
2012
Springer
11 years 8 months ago
Inference and Checking of Object Ownership
Ownership type systems describe a heap topology and enforce an encapsulation discipline; they aid in various program correctness and understanding tasks. However, the annotation ov...
Wei Huang, Werner Dietl, Ana Milanova, Michael D. ...
ECOOP
2012
Springer
11 years 8 months ago
Evaluating the Design of the R Language - Objects and Functions for Data Analysis
R is a dynamic language for statistical computing that combines lazy functional features and object-oriented programming. This rather unlikely linguistic cocktail would probably ne...
Floréal Morandat, Brandon Hill, Leo Osvald,...
ECOOP
2012
Springer
11 years 8 months ago
Enhancing JavaScript with Transactions
Abstract. Transcript is a system that enhances JavaScript with support for transactions. Hosting Web applications can use transactions to demarcate regions that contain untrusted g...
Mohan Dhawan, Chung-chieh Shan, Vinod Ganapathy
ECOOP
2012
Springer
11 years 8 months ago
Object Initialization in X10
X10 is an object oriented programming language with a sophisticated type system (constraints, class invariants, non-erased generics, closures) and concurrency constructs (asynchron...
Yoav Zibin, David Cunningham, Igor Peshansky, Vija...
JMLR
2012
11 years 8 months ago
Noise-Contrastive Estimation of Unnormalized Statistical Models, with Applications to Natural Image Statistics
We consider the task of estimating, from observed data, a probabilistic model that is parameterized by a finite number of parameters. In particular, we are considering the situat...
Michael Gutmann, Aapo Hyvärinen
JMLR
2012
11 years 8 months ago
Max-Margin Min-Entropy Models
We propose a new family of latent variable models called max-margin min-entropy (m3e) models, which define a distribution over the output and the hidden variables conditioned on ...
Kevin Miller, M. Pawan Kumar, Benjamin Packer, Dan...
JMLR
2012
11 years 8 months ago
Active Clustering of Biological Sequences
Given a point set S and an unknown metric d on S, we study the problem of efficiently partitioning S into k clusters while querying few distances between the points. In our model...
Konstantin Voevodski, Maria-Florina Balcan, Heiko ...