Most computer science educators hold strong opinions about the “right” approach to teaching introductory level programming. Unfortunately, we have comparatively little hard ev...
Jaime Spacco, Jaymie Strecker, David Hovemeyer, Wi...
This paper presents Vacuum Packing, a new approach to profile-based program optimization. Instead of using traditional aggregate or summarized execution profile weights, this ap...
Ronald D. Barnes, Erik M. Nystrom, Matthew C. Mert...
Despite recent developments in higher-level middleware for the Grid supporting high level of ease-of-programming, hurdles for widespread adoption of Grids remain high, due to (1) ...
A term t is called a template of terms t1 and t2 iff t1 = t1 and t2 = t2, for some substitutions 1 and 2. A template t of t1 and t2 is called the most specific iff for any template...
Peter E. Bulychev, Egor V. Kostylev, Vladimir A. Z...
Although program faults are widely studied, there are many aspects of faults that we still do not understand, particularly about OO software. In addition to the simple fact that o...