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...
Software defects, commonly known as bugs, present a serious challenge for system reliability and dependability. Once a program failure is observed, the debugging activities to loc...
The movement to multi-core processors increases the need for simpler, more robust parallel programming models. Atomic sections have been widely recognized for their ease of use. T...
Bill McCloskey, Feng Zhou, David Gay, Eric A. Brew...
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...
The number and the importance of web applications have increased rapidly over the last years. At the same time, the quantity and impact of security vulnerabilities in such applica...