Design by Contract is a design methodology that promotes software reliability and reusability by requiring each component module to have a well-specified interface and leaves a mo...
Phillip L. Nico, Clark Savage Turner, Kimberly Kno...
Some initiatives towards Future Internet, e.g., GENI, DARPA’s Active Networks, argue the need for programmability of the network components. Some other initiatives extend this w...
Vagan Y. Terziyan, Dmytro Zhovtobryukh, Artem Kata...
Objects often define usage protocols that clients must follow in order for these objects to work properly. Aliasing makes it notoriously difficult to check whether clients and i...
eConference is a text-based conferencing tool that supports distributed teams in need for synchronous communication and structured discussion services. Other than offering communi...
— Implementing shared memory consistency models on top of hardware caches gives rise to the well-known cache coherence problem. The standard solution involves implementing cohere...