The state of the practice in object-oriented software development has moved beyond reuse of code to reuse of conceptual structures such as design patterns. This paper draws attenti...
We present HOMER, an observational-equivalence model checker for the 3rd-order fragment of Idealized Algol (IA) augmented with iteration. It works by first translating terms of the...
Virtual classes are class-valued attributes of objects. Like virtual methods, virtual classes are defined in an object's class and may be redefined within subclasses. They re...
Spatial logics have been used to describe properties of treelike structures (Ambient Logic) and in a Hoare style to reason about dynamic updates of heap-like structures (Separatio...
A lightweight logical approach to race-free sharing of heap storage between concurrent threads is described, based on the notion of permission to access. Transfer of permission be...
Richard Bornat, Cristiano Calcagno, Peter W. O'Hea...